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Crest S&L Loans Put At $10. 7M WILDWOOD CREST - The Crest Savings and Loan Association granted 165 new mortgages totaling $10,700,000 in Cape May County during 1985, it was announced by Lucy Walker, president, at the annual meeting. Total assets are now more than $36 million and savings gains were over $6 million. Crest Savings is one of the oldest in the area, having been in continuous operation since 1919. The association is a member of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York and the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation.

SIC Will Get Study Report SEA ISLE CITY - The completed Governor's Management Improvement Report on the city will be presented to the mayor and commissioners at the commission meeting Tuesday. Feb. 11. The report will be presented by the Management Team and Steering Committee. Copies will be available to the public at that time.

I — jersey cape historically | By John Merrill

Punting in the Cape is not associated historically with high school football. Rather, it is a term used to designate the professional killing of waterfowl for sale at city markets. The gun used by these professional hunters < known as market hunters* was called a punt gun. It was more like a homemade cannon. rather than today's hunting shotgun. It was the ultimate waterfowl killer, and was a legal hunting tool until being outlawed in 1918. ACTUALLY, a punt gun could be considered any hunting gun that was too heavy to be handled by one

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person and had to be fired with the gun resting on a stand of some type. The length of the gun varied from six feet to those over 12 feet. Many of the longer punt guns used in the county were constructed of seamless high pressure steam pipe and mounted on the how of a punt boat (skiff*. Bags of sand. oats, hay. or sea grass were used to soften the gun's recoil. FIRED AT waterfowl sitting in the cays and marshes of the Cape or fired soon after the birds took to flight, often as many as 30 birds were killed with one shot Most market hunters had daily quotas placed upon them, so by using a punt gun. these daily quotas could be met. Game was so plentiful that many local hunters supplied the waterfowl demands of meat markets in the larger cities, especially Philadelphia BY THE TURN of the century. Cape May saw many residents supplementing their incomes as market hunters With the advent of the automatic shotgun, punt guns slowly disappeared as the favorite weapon for market hunters, yet could still be found in use within the county With the punt guns boom ing and the rapid fire of the automatic shotguns echoing throughout the marshlands, the once plentiful waterfowl resources were being depleted at an astounding rate. BY I9IK, the United States Federal Fur. Fish, and Wildfowl Service outlawed the use of the punt gun. and New Jersey established limits and restrictions on waterfowl hunting Few people have seen a Cape May County punt gun, and fewer still own one Those familiar with these - deadly hunting tools, can look at them and remember how the marshes of Cape May County once fed the demand for waterfowl for the city of Philadelphia and how a homemade cannon was used to accomplish this taiL (ed NOTE Merrill teaches social studies at Lower Cape May Regional High School and has lived in the county since I97S. If you're interested in a partic ular historical item, write him care of this newspaper. P.O. Box 430. Cape May Court House. NJ 08210.)

Murphy Co. Revamped MCKEESPORT, PA - Restructuring of the G. C. Murphy Co. headquarters management group in ! McKeesport, Pa., along with realignment of the M company's variety store | districts, has been competed for the start of fiscal 1986, Charles H. Lytel, president announced today. The local G. C. Murphy store at 3211 Pacific Ave . Wildwood, is one of 144 G. C. Murphy Co. variety stores and 60 restaurants which will continue to operate undc management direction from McKeesport, as a whollyowned subsidiary of Ames Department Stores, Inc., Rocky Hill. a. Ames acquired the 381 -store Murphy Company in 1985 and is operating the r Murphy's Mart discount fetores, along with their Ames Department Stores, from their Rodfy^ill headquarters. \

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