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IT'S SPRlNft and fhe New "England fishing fleet v used to fill our harbors for the matkerel run. now jn progress. In- the: Gay Nineties, party boat fishing bowed in with 5 cent bowls of chdwder or large • . tankards of beer. A'roving J A

wine tender dispensed brew and kept a tally of his sales with a black crayoq on his wjiite apron. At day's end. he would remove his apron and collect from the fisher folk. Even breweries seeing . how much beer was con-

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sumed on fishing charters began the party boat industry by buying several '.three-decker steamers and selling their wares on board. Iron sinkers and five clams were only 5 cents.

Nowadays, party boat fishing is ihore elegant "^1 Captain Jim Cichitti -is /'awaiting delivery of his $600,000 double deck, tripleen g i n e d . heated miniQueen Mary from Louisiana. It has such niceties as color TV. a full gallery and a mini-video arcade Winter times, he plans to long line for tilefish. swordfish and other denizens of the Gulf Stream offshore Summer nights, he'll use it to take 1$0 or so on a moonlight cruise to the casinos. It s called "Starlight", of course. BREWERS" INTEREST in the Jersey Shore has not waned — after all, the Prohibition King of Me Rum Runners lived in Wildwood. . William Pflaumer owns the nation's ninth-largest brewery that grosses $215 million. His brewer}' is Schmidt's, merged with Ortlieb's. ^He- maintains a 28-room mansion on a 227-acre estate, " Beer World" on the Delaware bayshore of Cape May county. His private swim pool faces his pri'vate. canoe-filled lake, which is surrounded by Ijis private .golf course, tennis courts and guest houses. Taverns that purchase his product get to frolic on a summer series-of picnics. Owners., bartenders., waitresses, et al. enjoy fantastic smorgasbords. barbeques and use of the fabulous estate and all its features, except the helicopter pad. Wildwood became a better place 14 years ago when Fishtown's Mr. and Mrs. Larry Meehan brought their brood of eight to the island. He was Neil's wine tender for 8 years and is - now with Nine's, where they heat yp the ovens every morn to make homemade Italian Breads for mealtimes. One of Meehan's daughters is married to Crest realtor Charles Daniels. Famed film star Mickey Shaugknessy starts his Senior Citizens shows series at Nino's with the Skip Finch band. • • •

s We were saddened to i- hear that illness had I befallen Joseph Sciarro Sr. j over this past winter Good i news is that Joe is feeling 1 much better as he recovers . 3 from his stroke. Joe and his" wife Marie have been part t of the Wildwood business community's bedrock for > the past 39 years as pro- > prietors of Dom's Restaurant at Burk and Pacific. Further good news is that the restaurant will ; be open in 1984 (opening Friday. April 20. in fact) under the direction of Joe i Sciarro Jr. and Joe £r.'s son-in-law. Joe Rayauskas. This will be Joe Jr.'s first year back at the restaurant in the past nine years or so. and we wish him and his brother-in-law well in their efforts, And of course we hope that Joe Sciarro Sr. continues to feel better and better. Sign seen all nite long in 7/Eleven: "NO SMOKING RiOLLER SKATES ALLOWED." Asburv PaN^_^ used to have this Boardwalk sign: "NO BICYCLE RIDING DOGS ALLOWED ON BOARDWALK" < FORMER WTLDWOOji commissioner Wiljrur Ostrander out oflhe hospital after a brief siege with high blood pressure. He's being mentioned for posts on the County Bridge Commission,, MUA and Delaware Bay Port Authority. Keep your eyes peeled for our early publication of the architect's drawings for the new North Wildwood Convention Hall, on the site of N.J. Warehouse Sales. Face-lifting construction i begins any minute. Snuffy Smith spark-plugging a I drive for a Crest shopping x < mall from Cardinal to i Rosemary Roads on New 1 Jersey. Assemblyman \ Chinnaci, who never had a r bill passed in the r legislature, did obtain f erants from N.J. Highway Dept. to restore his home I '.own Bridgeton business g district with cobblestone h sidewalks, parks, open air cafes (cities receive air ** right fees for these ! ) et all. Ii Chiarella's set to re- fa open. Pete Rose. Frankie ^ Avalon and Bobby Rydell HI were among its diners" last « ■reason. Avalon has many | 'ocal relatives. Axelson & F Johnson Spflfnnri Morl-n. *i Johnson Seafood Market *

and A & J. Blue Claw Crab ' restaurant on the Cape side of the Crest bridge about to get a liquor license. i A NEW BANK would like ~ ' ■ o use part of the Penalty / 3ox block as a bank f building. Club has had j ough financial ■ times... DiDona to builders i iare moving ahead with the / Diamond Beach condos L next to the Coast Guard H base. Environmentalists and a heavy work load had d . temporarily derailed the a massive project, but it's £ i "now back on line." W Bravo to the U.S. Coast ; Guard Electronics ft ; Engineering base. While Wcolons and motels were destroying the Crest dune 1 J , barrier line prior to the I storm of '62. the Coast V Guardsmen were busy installing picket fences, i J bulkhead jetties and other j devices to build up the

dunes to protect Uncle. Sam's valuable properties. Now, they have established three long sand dune ridge lines. The storm of '84 merely cut partially into the outermost dune line, with negligible damage to the important base. Odd tha^ civilians would destroy this barrier while the service would seek to build up the barriers. Moped's have damaged dunegrass and cut into the dunes in the crest but not enough to" permit the '84 storm waters to reach Pacific Avenue as they did in '62 without any dunes whatsoever. Comm. M c (' a I I justifiably proud of the facelifting of Crest Little League Park. Rich gree/i sod has replaced the shabby brown grass turf of yesteryear. The Joe Fulginitis of Rio Grande Avenue, are running out of wall space and mantlepiece area for son Gregory's many Grammy awards Greg has won as many solid gold Grammys as Michael Jackson, albiet it took him a bit longer to do it. Your "Variety-Herald-Shout" scribe will be eternally grateful for the blue satin Grammy awards jacket presented by Greg and his parents ""-We. hate to take it off to launder it - anyone "local" with an Acadmey or Emmy awapd jacket will find your '"Scribe a willing recipient... Oil companies are keeping an eagle eye on the copter fleet shuttling oil well drilling personnel out of the local airport. They suspect the prolonged, costly experiment may be reaching success. Offshore oil drilling will be with Cape May county for quite a while. Our oil industryspies tell us the drilling well below the ocean surface 100 miles off Wildwood will continue for years. Fortunately, it's well out of sight of beachgoers. The well off A C. was a drv hole. The well off Wildwood will be down 16.000 feet by mid-May. If Shell finds oil hereabouts, the companywill devise new methods of recovering it. since oil has never been brought up such depths. Shell spokesman Rich Hansen says, "We have a I good five years to decide ■ we're going to produce «

;. it off Wildwood." He says the technology is here. I Hansen thinks the technology of deep sea drilling used in the North Sea off England would also work here. Shell is only the leading explorer of many oil companies with leases on the ocean bottom off Cape May county and the MidAtlantic Coast. If it finds what it wants, the rest of the pack will follow to Wildwood. Environmentalists, beach and fishing lovers may cringe, . but Shell could be our only solution to the ferocious casino competition.

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Council on Alcoholism Reception COURT HOUSE - The Cape May County Council on Alcoholism will hold its annual legislative' breakfast and reception at the Whitebrier in Avalon Friday, April 27. Beginning at 9:30 p.m., the function is designed to familiarize area residents with issues relating to alcoholism and addiction and will feature speakers Riley Regan, director of the N.J. Division of Alcholism, and Assemblyman Guy Muziani. ♦Executive Director James Huber, Ph.D. says that the council, celebrating its first full year of service to the county, provides services in education, treatment, and advocacy. "Alcoholism and addiction are the third leading cause of death in the United States, though public awareness of the danger has not in the past been sufficiently publicized. The Breakfast is to familiarize the community with the services already provided and those yet needed," Huber says. Tickets are available for a tax-deductable donation calling the council at 465-2282 in its Crest Haven offices.

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