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^ews Notes from The Wildwoods Charles V. Mathis

"USA Today" is often sold out at county boxes. Besides its vivid reporting and vibrant odor, staffers usually pick Cape May and Wildwood for resort features above all other U.S. resorts. Among those to get-the “cover man" treatment in color is long time Wildwood boardwalk tycoon Al Gluck of the Grandview Gift Shop Al has received mail and phone calls from all over the nation about his feature. Even the chief of Coppertone suntan lotions called him after he revealed that his suntn lotion racks hold over 2,000 bottles and that he sells as many as 10,000 bottles of

Coppertone. Americans spend $200 million on suntan lotions annually. . The only objection Al had to the feature was a description of himself as cigar chomping Al Gluck. But even his wife. Gene, agrees the adjectives were apt. Al and Gene first came to Wildwood during World War Two as part of the' Navy Airport. They lament that more natives have not taken advantage of

operating Boardwalk businesses. They tour the national gift shows ancKAl seems to sense which fads will be the big summer season sellers. BEACH LOVERS the world over share common problems. In his column, “The Light View,” Andy Rooney wrote this after a visit to Bermuda: “Beaches all over the world are littered with ugly, indestructible plastic jugs and bottles and bottles and chunks of Styrofoam. They dominate the sand more than the seaweed. What the world needs is a plastic bottle that dissolves after six njonth." Many Audubon Society bird watchers stay at the Grand Hotel. They made a depressing discovery, ecologically speaking — a bird’s nest interlaced with flip top can lid rings!

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SOMETIMES the powers-that-be lack showmanship — as witness the ugly, squat water towers in Wildwood and Sea Isle City. A Sea Isle lady suggests these be repainted as giant beach balls, worthy of the Jolly Green Giant. The eyesores would then qualify as photography subjects and conversation pieces. Sad to say, even stodgy industrialists have' more pizzazz than politicians. Honolulu’s Dole ' pineapple water tank is painted to look like a giant pineapple. Dixie Cup Companies’ Brampton, Ont., Canada plant water tank Is made to look like .a huge Dixie Cup. General Electric’s water tank at Owensboro, Ky., is designed to look like one of the electronic tubes manufactured there.

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When Will Fitzpatrick was Wildwood public relations director he sent out questionnaires asking how the resort might improve One lady wrote in to request that city solons put diapers on the sea gulls

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