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ANGLESEA’S Jimmy Kanp‘« colorful career Includes experiences as a pro boxer and football player. Jfowevcr. we bet you didn’t know his father, Andy Kane, was in charge of thd Mummers' Parade for 40 some years. • • • Couldn't afford Florida this winter’ Don't cry bitter. tears All sourcea indicate the weather has been rain.'rain and more, rain “A recent returnee from Mianti enjoyed two hours of stfnshinc during a five-day visit. ANYONE WHO watches TV at all must agree that it is chewing gum for the eyes’’ However, something new has t?ome along that gives a huge variety of TV station signals from satellites. Brian Stead installed one of these satellite dishes atop

Admiral West Motel for Gene Davalo*. There is another at Ed and Ayne Zaberer’s Anglesca home The futuristic looking dish has a diameter of about 10 feet. There are now 50,000 private dish antennas in use nation wide The local sprinkling of installations has not caused any comment or criticism. HOWEVER, in Cherry Hill, the* so-called “earth stations’’ are embroiled in law suits by those seeking to protect neighborhood . aesthetics. Manufacturers of the satellite dishes are aware of a movement in about a dozen areas in the U.S.A. to ban or restrict the use of the antennas through zoning ordinances. Did you know that President Reagan’s Director of Consumer Affairs, Mrs. Virginia Knauer, is a

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familiar figure and long time colonist in Sea Isle Citv? CREST ANTIQUE dealer Charlie MacDonald and six of his buddies have formed a “Lotto Gub.” Each week, they buy $20 worth of tickets apiece. As a result, they have 140 ticket chances weekly. So far, they're doing well. They hit a six bonus number for $1,695 and a bonus five number for $250. In addition, they are entered in a bonui^lrawing in six weeks with prizes of $100,000, $10,000 and eight $1,000 awards. Seventy are entered in this drawing so..

their chances are about 1 in 7. In a^difie^ttiey have hit four out of six bonus numbers three times for awards of $50 to $100. TOMLIN HOSPITAL cardiac wing nurse Kerry Harvey is the lovely bathing beauty seen on Channel 2 for Barbara Ann’s suntan beauty salon. THE CREST’S Jim Gcchitti has dispatched crew members of his paty boat fishing fleet to New Orleans. They will return with his 95-foot steel dragger, an ex-shrimper. His new acquisition will be used in the booming local squid industry year-round.

Foreign countries want all the squid they can get and it’s still plentiful off our shores. Despite strenuous objections from Crest colonists including neighborhood doctors, coaches and teachers, the Crest zoning board approved construction of a four-unit condominium for Cicchitti. Wayne Raff and Arthur Raff builders will build the condo on the former McNichols property in the middle of the block between Sweet Briar and Wisteria Roads on Park Boulevard. • • • SOUTH PHILADELPHIA Congressman Tom Fogllctta often visits Wildwood.- In fact, while he was enjoying Cozy Morley’s show' last season, his car was towed away, Congressional license plates and all.

Foglietta is a principal in an unlikely feud with South Philly-bom singer Eddie Fisher. It seems Foglietta, who was a member of the American delegation to the funeral of Princess Grace in Monaco, had told Fisher “not to worry” about getting the proper credentials to attend the funeral. Fisher made the trip but couldn’t get inside the palace. It made the singer so mad he reportedly cast his lot with Foglietta's political foe, Michael Marino. . • • • KEROSENE SALES are skyrocketing at island service stations. As you probably know, fuel oil is subject to k 40 percent markup. Its wholesale price of 85 cents per gallon reaches the consumer with an^ average retail price of $1.24 a gallon

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