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WILDWOOD SOLONS are busy scooping up conventions and trade shows that no longer wish to visit Atlantic City due to casino gaming. Convention Hall Director Earl Oatrander ha& penciled in late April dates for'a tentative 3-day National Stamp Show. It is sponsored by the South Jersey Stamp Club and it seems the stamp enthusiasts don't care for the gaming atmosphere. . He has also put in a bid for a conclave of "Gen. Claire Chennaut's celebrate^ Flying Tigers of* World War II in ChinaBurma India. Monday wrestling will return to the Wildwood hall for the Summer and the, Royal Hannefprd Circus is negotiating for a month long engagement to enhance the family resort ' image. • • •' ^OT SO LONG ago, restauranteur Al Kurti was crossing Park Blvd. with some homemade pies mode by his wife Mary. Sad to say, he was knocked down by.a bicyclist. The bicyclist was knocked spoheless and Al was knocked speechless. As a result, a waggish friend has posted this sign outside his restaurant: BICYCLISTS CAUTION: PIE CROSSING. EVEN IN THE days when he was starring in Hollywood's Bye, Bye Bir die. name pop singer Bobby Rydell's favorite getaway retreat has been his Montgomery Ave. home in Wildwood. With the advent 6f the casinos, he’s getting to spend more time in his adopted home area rather than so much international travel. He's host of a 26-week Vyiety show from the Tropicaha. In addition, he has landed a co-star foie with Chad Everett in a new NBC-TV series. Gannon. MD. Casino. A pilot will be aired in the fall with the series scheduled to start next January. In a previous go-round, Chad Everett's Dr. Joe Gannon was one of TV's more popular figures TO BETTER compete with other island fast food outlets. Traa Corporation or Northfield is adding a drive-through facility to their MacDonald’s outlet on the entrance road to the Wildwoods. Due to the weather, completion and opening dates are unknown. • • i HANDICAPPED by the smallest promotion budget in local history, city tub thumper Joe Stamilf is trying every possible-single to get the resort in the public eye against the* ferocious casino competition. He hosted location scout Doug Kenny who is seeking locations for the filming starting in mi^-Marcfi of Eddie and the Cruisers. ' The film tells the story of a 1962 rock group that attempts to re-form fn 1982 Famous names will be starred and the director is Marty Davison, who directed TV’s Three's Com pany star John Ritter in Hero At Lar^e NBC Sports World starts airing in the first week of February for 26 weeks. Golden Gloves footage hosted by Sugar Ray Leonard and filmed in Wildwood, Phoenix and Atlanta. WE SELDOM praise polititians but we must doff our

chapeaux to Wildwobd's well supervised system of 750 parking meters which have increased in annual income from $38,000 to the current $206.00Q. This is a valuable relief to the taxpayer. On the other hand, the Crest services stem to be slipping. Garbage collections are lagging and side streets have been in hazardous and deplorable condition during the recent storms.

Mews Notes from ' \ v ) The Wildwoods C.V. Mathis at large

WE AIJ. KNOW what a prodest part Cape MayCounty has always played in any state affairs at Trenton so locals felt goose pimples of pride'when local Realtor R6man Osadchurk was selected to sing at the

Inaugural of Gov Tom Kean, Osadchuk started his singing career as choir member at Hanover Park High School. He later attended the world renowned Westminister Choir College

in Princeton and was .a featured. member of the famous touring choir on national tours. He graduated with, a degree in Music Hewas granted a'full scholarship at the mecca of music students. Philiy s Curtis Institute of Music. HE APPLIED “ for the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. After reaching the finals in this national competition. he was offered a contract tosing at the most prestigious operahouse in

the world and to tour with Metropolitarr Opera Studio He also appeared many times in concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra When he married and started to raise a family, he made the major decision to forgo the promising operatic an*d concert career involving constant^ travel and settled down in Wildwood on an equally .promising career in real estate'.

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