Herald & Lantern 18 April '84

IT'S SPRING and the Now England fishing fleet used to fill our harbors for the mackerel run, now in progress. In the Gay Nineties, party boat fishing bowed in with 5 cent bowls of chowder or large tankards of beer. A roving

wine tender dispensed brew and kept a tally of his sales with a black crayon on his white 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 more elegant. Captain Jim Cichitti is 'awaiting delivery of his $600,000 double deck, tripleengined. heated miniQueen Mary from Louisiana. It has such niceties as color TV, a full gallery and a mini-video arcade. Winter limes, he plans to long line for tilefish, swordfish and other denizens of the Gulf Stream offshore Summer nights, he'll use it to take 150 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 the Rum Runners lived in Wildwood. William Pflaumer owns the nation's ninth-largest brewery that grosses $215 million. His brewery 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 private, canoe-filled lake, which is surrounded by his 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 Nino's, where they heat up the ovens every morn to make homemade Italian Breads for

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Meehan's daughters is married to Crest realtor Charles Daniels. Famed film star Mickey Shaughnessy starts his Senior Citizens shows series at Nino’s with the

Skip Finch band.

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We were saddened to hear that illness had befallen Joseph Sciarro Sr. over this past winter Good news is that Joe is feeling much better as he recovers from his stroke. Joe and his wife Marie have been part of the Wildwood business community’s bedrock for the past 39 years as proprietors of Dorn's Restaurant at Burk and Pacific. Further good news is that the restaurant will be open in 1984 (opening Friday. April 20, in facti under the direction of Joe Sciarro Jr. and Joe Sr.’s son-in-law. Joe Rayau4kas. This will Ix? Joe Jr.'s first year back 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 RjOLLER SKATES ALLOWED." Asbury Park used to have this Boardwalk sign: "NO BICYCLE RIDING DOGS ALLOWED ON BOARDWALK" FORMER WILDWOOD commissioner Wilbur Ostrander out of the 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 Contention Hall, on the site of N.J. Warehouse Sales. Face-lifting construction begins any minute. Snuffy Smith spark-plugging a drive for a Crest shopping mall from Cardinal to Rosemary Roads on New Jersey. Assemblyman Chinnaci, who never had a bill passed in the legislature, did obtain grants from N.J. Highway Dept, to restore his home town Bridgeton business district with cobblestone sidewalks, parks, open air cafes (cities receive air right fees for these!) et all. Chiarella’s set to reopen. Pete Rose. Frankie Avalon and Bobby Rydell were among its diners last season. Avalon has many local relatives. Axelson & Johnson Seafood Market and A & J. Blue Claw Crab restaurant on the Cape side of the Crest bridge about to get a liquor license. A NEW BANK would like to use part of the Penalty Box block as a bank building. Club has had Jh financial times...DiDonato builders moving ahead with the Diamond Beach condos next to the Coast Guard base. Environmentalists and a heavy work load had temporarily derailed the massive project, but it’s "now back on line.” Bravo to the U.S. Coast uard Electronics Engineering base. While solons and motels were destroying the Crest dune barrier line prior to the storm of '62, the Coast Guardsmen were busy installing picket fences, bulkhead jetties and other 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 that civilians would destroy thi# barrier while the service would seek to build up the barriers. Mopeds 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 McCall justifiably proud of the facelifting of Crest Little League Park. Rich green 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 award jacket will find your scribe a willing recipient... Oil companies are keep-

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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 industry spies 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 dry hole. The well off Wildwood will be down 16.000 feet by mid-May. If Shell finds oil hereabouts, the company will devise new methods of recovering it. since oil has never been brought up

from such depths.

Shell spokesman Rich Hansen says, "We have a good five years to decide how we're going td produce

it off Wildwood." He says the technology is here. 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.

Gmncil 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, antf 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 t^x-deductable donation by calling the council at 465-2282 in its Crest Haven offices.

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NANCV BAILEY, secretary, for the Lower Township (Elementary) Board of Education, reports no surprises from its reorganization meeting Jast week. Joseph Wagner was reelected pxpsident; Ralph Bakley was reelected vice president. Bailey was reappointed secretary, Wade Cooper, township treasurer, was reappointed district treasurer. Alan I Gould, president of Burdette Tomlin Memorial Hospital, was reappointed board solicitor, and James MacDonald was reappointed district architect. Wagner, board members Barbara Robinson and Terrance Brown were sworn in for their latest terms in office. The three incumbents won reelection April 3 in a field of four candidates. THE LTE BOARD also posted its schedule of regular meetings in Lower township Consolidated School, Cold Spring, through April, 1985. The board will meet at 8 p.nv on the following 1984 dates: April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, Aug. 15, Sept. 19. Oct. 17. Nov. 21. Dec. 19. Next year: Jan. 16, Feb. 20, March 20, and April 17. LOWER CAPE MAY Regional Board of Education also reelected its president and vice president to new terms, Paul B. Lundholm and Freeman S. Douglass,respectively. Board members Arelene MacDonald and Mirian E. Reeves were sworn into their second terms during last week's reorganization meeting and David Robinson took the oath as a new board member, replacing Ruth T. Billmeyer who moved from the district. The board meets at 8 p.m: on the fourth Thursday of the month in the Lower Cape May Regional High School library, off Route 9. Erma. Cindy Schebal of North Cape May, a student at Richard M. Teitelman (Middle) School, Erma, was named by the United States Achievement Academy as its 1984 United States National Award winner in art. She was nominated by art teacher Mary Louise Walter based on her "academic performance; interest and aptitude, leadership qualities; responsibility; enthusiasm; motivation to learn and improve; citizenship; attitude and coope'rative spirit; dependkbility..!” According to the academy, "this award is a prestigious honor very few students can ever hope to attain. In fact, the academy frecognizes less than 10 percent of all American high school students." Cindy will be listed in the academy’s official year-

book, circulated nationally. SISTER MARITA CELINE, principal of St. Raymond school, Villas, announces* that registration for new students and re-registration of all pupils will be held in the school library May 7-11 from 9-11:30 a.m., and from 7-8:30 p.m. May 8 and May 10. A $35 registratidn fee is required. CORRECTION — Retired Federal Workers, Chapter 1197 of Villas meet the second Thursday of every month at 1 p.m. in the Joseph Millman Center, Bayshore Road, Miami Beach — not on Tuesdays as was reported here April 4. REMINDER - The Gardening by the Sea Club will celebrate Arbor Day by planting a Bradford pear tree 10 a.m. April 27 at Township Hall, Bayshore Road, Villas. REMINDER - The Lower Township Taxpayer’s Association plans a Candidates’ Night, 7 o’clock, May 2, at Lower Township Consolidated School, Seashore and Ferry Roads, Cold Spring. Seventeen candidates for township council have been invited to present their views during the public forum. REMINDER - Township Committee is scheduled to vote on the township s $5,132,200 budget for 1984 during its regular meeting 7:30 p.m. Monday. Introduced March 12, the budget was pared from the original version that projected a total of $5,792,278. The revised version projects "not one penny increase to the local purpose tax,’’ Mayor Peggie Bierberbach noted last month. TOWNSHIP ZONERS approved six hardship variances for construction of single family houses on undersized lots during their April 3 meeting. The variances were issued for lots on Fishing Creek, New England, Cliffside, Mistletoe, Cardinal and Holly roads. JEANNETTE O’MAY of the Villas Fishing Club sent us this account of members' good times in Florida this winter. One hundred VFC members and buddies dropped anchor in the Sunshine State this winter and Mother Nature was kinder weatherwise than last year. The annual picnic at Fort DeSoto park attracted 48 clubbers and cronies: Helena and George McKelvey, Mae and Art McKee, Gertrude and John Anglin, Elsie and Warren Kipp, Sue and Howard Weir, Mae and Ed Erickson, Fran and Ed Scheffler, Nora and Hank Letherland, Dottie and Frank Kelso, Cass and Bill Murphy, Ronnie and Elwood Hesson, Anne and Walt Lewandowski, Arlene and Ed Koenig, Peg Fitzmaurice, Jim Carroll, Mickey Dee and Pete McCaffery, Dot and Ernie Ade, Kay and Frank Uhlein, Daniel and Florence Lucera, Helen and Walt Walsh, Warren and Naomi Waldman, Fran and Ab Brown, Helena and

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Fluff Shore, Lucille and Gil Judd and Jeannette and Scotty O’May. We really missed the gang from Fort Myers: Edith and Harry Helverson and granddaughters, Betty and Jim Brown, Dot and Don Griffin, Dot and John Witt, Peg and Ray Slatter, Maryann and Tom Hanna, Betty and Joe Harkins, Ray Egoff, Gloria and Bud Beardsley, Marge and Ray Gaynor, Phyllis and George Devinney, Joe Flynn, Nan Sweeaey, Lillian and Lou Coyle, and Frannie and Walt Fritz. The Fritzes snuck up for a short visit at Indian Shores, where Sis and Lef-

ty Gavin and Martha and Clark Lare stayed in March. Cass and Bill Campbell and Marion and Charlie Schradnek were over at the Beach, and Marie and Bill Daniels have settled in Spring Hill. Ann and Russ Winsett are still at Rainbow Village and next season the Lethermans will reside there too. We welcome Emile and _Betty Schuster to our ’midst. When Jim Carroll moved to larger quarters in Keystone Park, John Anglin called fellow ham operator Emile about it, and he came down pronto and purchased No. 117. Rose and Herb Guttman

check into Key Largo on the east coast each season. We lost a good buddy this year. Mike McCoy suffered a stroke while at Siesta Key with his wife Helen, Tess and Charlie Lanigan. He and Helen returned home where he died on March 10. There were some scary moments when Alex Stewart had to be taken to the hospital with heart failures he and Carolyn were staying in Largo. Then. Peg Fitzmauricc spent nine days in Medical Center with a cardiac problem, and Gert Anglin had something happen to her eye. Fortunately, this trio seems to be coming along OK. Highjinks happened every Thursday dt Fran and Ab Brown's on Indian Shores. (Jack Hogan says he’ll be back for more of the same next year!) One day, 24 of as helped the

Browns celebrate their 51st wedding anniversary and Superbowl Sunday was equally memorable. Other highlights: Going to The Dogs proved very popular (if not profitable) for many: Moqriay Gulf for Guys at Hall of Fame: Jam sessions at Gulfport and Hank's Seabreeze, Dinerdances at local Elks and Moose; meandering at the fhalls and Wagon Wheel; picnics and cocktail parties "just because." Add Happy Hours at Chief Charley’s and Brown Derby, elegance at The Islander and SuperRibs at Spoto's (and lunch or dinner for 40 cents in silver coins at The Bank.) There's no denying we're the greatest (non(fishing club in the world. The spirit of camaradie and caring never ceases. We hope the Lord will let us do it all again next year.

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