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Be (Mrs. Ronald) ShisSler. 425 99th St and Ruth and Eugene Fisher. 10117 Jrd Ave., all life-long friends, gave a joint cocktail party Jan 16 As always if was a re^l smasher and since we had . planned to have four friends from CMCH do their dipping with us that night the -hospitable threesome asked them along as well. • The new faces were cordially w elcomed by thereg ular group (that's one of the things *e love most about this community) and Be Shissler's importation . of King ' Crabmeat from Haddonfield, was ’coif • sumed faster than goldfish disappeared at Colleges in the frivolous'40's. None of us have - ever seen glamorous Viki (Mrs. Duke) Wear when she wasn't scintillating, but. - now she's on the -zenith ^Duke is floating around on a cloud top. Their son Doug and his wife Maria Wear of Georgetown, D.C., have just presented them with their first grandchild. Seven'and a half-lb. Stephanie was bom Jan. 14 at Georgetown Hospital and we.’U bet Viki and Duke, who think nothing of commuting between their homes in Stone Harbor and Stamford, Conn., have already lyora tracks in the road to Georgetown. STONE HARBOR'S ’ Chamber of Commerce January dinner meetfng at Benny’s was highlighted by . the naming ,of winners of ihi? year's chamber con.est for best Christmas Lighting of homes and grounds. Judges were: Mr. and Mrs John McVey and Mr. & Mrs. Russell Simon, all of CMCH. Winners they chose in three catagories

were: Best doorway —-1st, Mr. and Mrs David Priggemrier, 2nd, . ThopiasHersh, honorable mention, Thomas S. Hutchinson. Best grounds. 1st. Lee Jones; 2nd, Stanley Casper, honorable mention, Louis Baichmann. Best overall — 1st, W'aiVen Buckingham; 2nd. John Signor.'hoporabie mention. Polly Struthers. First and 2nd place winners wtmi commemorative pewter service plates. Following awards of prizes by. Jim Fisher, chamber president, the regular meeting took place Principal speaker was Mayor''’Arden Hand, who delivered a state-of-the-borough message. He . said, in short : Residents are to be congratulated and thanked for their, cooperation in the trash source-se-paration plan whiqh can result only in financial betterment for the borough. The sale of a small parcel of land at 81st Street, west of 3rd Avenue, to MUA for a sewage pumping station is about to be-concluded. The building will be housed in a Cape Cod style edifice, similar to the pumping sta = tion on 80th Street and be almost noise and odor-free. A consultant has been obtained to determine an equitable rate and basis for MUA • sewage treatment/ charges to commence in 1985. A PUBLIC meeting will be held in June of this year to present the consultant's suggestions. The mayor urged all residents to attend this meeting and express their feelings on the matter. Approximately 290 sodium vapor street lights will be installed in the residential zone These lights should afford better lighting and greater cost

-Cape May County « ALMANAC

MOOS PHASES/POSITIONS The Moo'l l nf/ect on the Tide /•I greoteit when cloteet to Earth (in perigee) and when in direct'’ alignment with Sun t earth (full * new aiton ptuuei) On and About thete datei. low presiure intern* and/or itrong wind*

. TIpE TABLE Computed /or Cape May City beachfront. foe other area*. *ee Correction Time*

DATE

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LOW

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CORRECTION TIMES Compute approximate time* of high A low water for your area by adding or subtracting the /allowing.number of minutes for each tide phase in the Tide Tabi# L ^ LOW f . HUM Grtfat Egg Hifbar Inlet Mims C plus lb OceftMhly (»th Si Bridge) , plus 35 plus 22 Carson Inlet 'bodge:'" - p)ut 21 plus? SA Isle City ' (Ludlim Tharo Bridge: plus 66 ^ plus 43 Sea Isle City Beach minus 2 n minus 21 Townsend Inlet - plus 21 plus 4 Seven Mile Beach plus 15 f 0 Stone Harbor i Great Channel Bodge > piusti plus 40 Hereford inlet > Angleaea t plus 19 o Wildwood Beach

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West Wildwood

(Grassy Channel bodge plus 46 piUsC Cape May Harhor ptus 1 minus 4 Five Fathom Bank plus 11 ' __ plus 1

Cape May Paint

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McCne Shoal

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Delaware Bay

Bayshare Channel ' Bay-Cana.' Junction: plus 31 plus 36

Miami Beach

pluaTS plus 71 Dermis Creek Entrance plus* plus64' Brandywine Shoal Light Plus 77 plus 32

control. The new, pinkish* lighting effects wHi hopefully all be in working order by the end of '84. Eventually the whol^ community will be similarly lighted . Final decisions have yet to be made,on the 96th Street Bridge. When it will be closed is still anybody's guess. However,. it > will presumably be reopened in April of '84 until repairs resume The 104th Street bridge restoration should also be finished in April, of the current year. Sales of property on 122nd Street should provide some tax relief. Any increase in taxes will, hopefully, be tied to national inflation. Mayor Hand urged' all chamber members to attehd meetings of the Planning Board, the Zoning Board, and Brough Council to help them make informed decisions, taking into consideration the wishes of their constituents. TWO OF. THE island’s MDBs (most' desirable hacheiorf) have just returned from a week in Hawaii surfing on the big rollers. The experience should give them a big edge over the other surfers in local contests this summer. Speros Koktonos and .George Kerstetter are the two unfortunates who missseven days of this magnificent, bracing ather — some athletes will make any sacrifice to improve their skills. AL WKSTHSfF. ’ who has worked tirelessly for the betterment of this com : munity, has been spending exhausting hours and days at Burdette Tomlin Hospital undergoing the myriad medical tests •devised to tell us that we feel awful and, sometimes, even why. We’re sure he’d enjoy getting a card telling him you’re thinking of him. On-'Monday we were given a choice by our spouse: "Get your hair done or I’ll book the first flight for Reno.” We called Mary Petosa of Mary & Michael iw Beauty Shop at 9727 3rd A-enue, and went over, that mpming. We learned that many of our close friends are her customers and she was coiffing one of them while l. was there, Bonelle Douglass, an owner of the Gate House Flower Shop. Bonnie usually arrives like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve with beautiful plants from my children. This year, the first Christmas we’ve spent down here, no plants because the kids were all in Mexico and Bonnie wondered why I was being neglected. We also learned that Jessie (Mrs. Harry) Strofameti was recovering from a bad fall which left her looking like the survivor of three rounds with Joe Louis. While Mary was doing 0’ir hair we noticed a snapshot of baseballer Pete Rose having his hair done by an attractive woman, Betty Hugitt, who’s Mary’s sister. We don’t want to sound vain'but we think Mary made us look prettier than Betty beautified Pete.

GOING OVERSEAS — K. Wade Dickinson, second from left, and Mr. and Mr*. Stanley Baj. third and fourth from left, won trips to Zurich. Switzerland, and London, England, respectively, in the Cape May County Savings & Loan •'Grand Eye-Opening Sweepstakes." Tliere were about 10,000 entries and 4,060 of them won epupons for Egg McMuffins at McDonald's. At left is Herb Hornsby, the financial institution's president; right. George M. James, chairman of the boanl. who drew the winning entries. Lighthouse Ideas Sought —-—-

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proposed to recoup the costs of restoring and maintaining the structure .During its Nov. 10 meeting, however, the Cape May PoiQt Civic Club, which includes 52 of the borough's 250 permanent residents, unanimous’;-opposed. MAC’S plan and urged local officials to do the same. Arguing that more tourists through The Poirit wouk further clog its streets with unwanted traffic and threaten the environmente'ly sensitive dunes and nearby wildlife sanctuaries, the civic club complained last month that, “the general public would be forced to p4y to visit what is now a public structure." “It wouldn't bring anything (good) to The Point, Cecile Jarvis, dub treasurer and wife of Borough Commissioner Walter Jarvis, said then. The whole thing is, Cape May and its very active city manager want to extend their tourist season (at the Point’s expense)." “TTiat just simply is not true,” Beitel had countered. “The lighthouse is in quite serious jeopardy of. becoming abandonee ” He said Cape May State Park, which adjoins the lighthouse (both of them in Lower Township rw the Cape May Point border) currently draws 250,000 tourist a year. IF TOURISM THREATENS the local en vironment. Beitel noted, that threat has existed. Although the public is able to view the lighthouse free of charge now. he added, sightseers can not tour the historic towerhec^use admittance is prohibited "Our thinking is somewhat along the line of running trolleys from Cape May...,” the former MAC president said last month. With more than 30 tourists aboard each vehide, traffic and parking congestion would be proportionately reduced, he observed “It wouid be a tough case to prove, ip my opinion,'' Beitel had said, referring to opposition based on assertions that traffic to the liglV house would increase to an unbearable levd. Opponents of MAC’S plan didn’t have to prove anything, though, when asking the Coast Guard to take a cautious look at the . proposal.' A Hughe! Street property owner in Cape May,' who was twice stationed at the local Coast Guard base.'Ramsden said last mon'Ja that he was “familiar with the players nvolved” in the lighthouse lease

dispute.

“We wifi not do anything until we’ve heard 'rom everybody and hear everybody’s point of view,” he had

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Another point of view was presented by the Cape May Point Taxpayers' Association, Walter Sachs, its president, confirmed last week. The association sent a letter to Ramsden, suggesting that the Coast Guard consider lease proposals from other organizations besides MAC. The Coast Guard agreed. Said Ramsden last week: “The issue is becoming very complicated and we want to make sure everyone is heard from. "THIf PARTICULAR LIGHT is not habitable and we don’t have the money to make it habitable.” he said earlier, summarizing the reason for lighthouse leasing

nationwide.

Since the end of World War II, The Point lighthouse has ceased to function as such. Its huge revolving light was removed and replaced by a smaller beacon, used mainly as a navigational aid for aircraft.While the Coast Guard performs routine maintenance on the homing device, it is too fir^ndally strapped to repair and

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maintain the 145-foot lighthouse tower.' It was built in 1859 to replace a 70-foot structure from 1823 whose-broken remains still mark its surrender to the sea. MAC was formed to restore and preserve architect Frank Furness’ classic Emlen Pbysick estate on Washington Street, Cape May. Because of its success with that project, the organization was approached with the idea of restoring and maintaining the lighthouse. Mts tease request was held “in abeyance*’ last-month while the Coast Guard reviewed a “prototype agreement*’ for operation of the Hudson City Lighthouse in New York by an historical organization there, Ramsden had explained. “It’s a way of preserving an historical structure without expending public funds,” he said of the Hudson City agreement which has been approved. AdB#ding to the Coast Guard request for proposals to preserve The Point lighthouse, “The Coast Guard is interested in such leasing to provide for local ... operation ... for the enjoyment of local citizens and visitors ..." THAT WORDING SEEMS U imply that .the Coast Guard wants the lighthouse to serve as a tourist attraction. But, said Ramsden, “the . enjoyment” could be limited to a mere view’. A “legitimate purpose," of a group leasing the lighthouse, can be to preserve it without allowing visitors inside, he confirmed. The Coast Guard will consider leasing the lighthouse on that basis, he added, “unless we get a large hue and cry*” That isn’t likely. MAC officers left a board meeting Saturday afternoon with “a strong consensus that MAC’S interest” in the lighthouse “is purely of a preservation nature,” Michael Zyckerman, the association director, reported. “They’ve decided, first of all, to continue exploring with the Coast Guard and our neighbors in Cape May Point, restoration of the lighthouse,” be said. Both The Point taxpayers’ association and its civic club were undecided.last week which organization, if either, would submit a proposal to preserve and maintain the lighthouse. But, “since restoration is our goal," Zuckerman added, "we will be willing to work jointly with any other group “Our goal,” he continued, “is to try to set up a public meeting with the taxpayers’ association and the tivic dub.” ‘ Do you. still intend to open it up for tourism?” he was asked. "THAT’S BULL integral with our proposal," he "replied, linking admission charge^ for lighthouse tourists with the estimated $40,000 in costs of restoring it. TLe only way, as we see it, to preserve it, would be to open i\up»to tourists.” Zuckerman regards lighthouse tours “as a means to an aid” of preserving the structure. But that position isn’t chiseled in stone, be stressed. If The Point organizations, or others for that matter, offer alternatives for financing the restoration and preservation, MAC would reconsider its tourist-related plan, the director added. He called “premature” any decision on whether MAC will proceed with its original lease proposal for the lighthouse. That determination awaits the outcome of talks with Point organization members, be said. “The only decision," he continued, referring to the MAC board .meeting, “was to continue our exploratory moves. We’ve committed ourselves to investigate the situation.”