Sep 1978 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

PAGE 4 — SECTION THREE
Champions of the Women's College League are (I to r) Stephanie Vanderslice,
Jane Schoener, Beth Simpson, Captain Debbie Hudson, Ellen
Scroggs.a nd Agnes McGlade.
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oj Ocean City
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ATTENTION
AAUW Lecture Series Ticket Holders
the first lecture
THOMAS HOVING
will be held 1 week early.
THURS. SEPT. 14th 8:15
at the Mainland Regional High School
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Htis column of questions
and answers on federal tax
matters is provided by the
New Jersey District Office
of the U.S. Internal
Revenue Service and is
published as a public
service to taxpayers. Hie
column answers questions
most frequently asked by
taxpayers.
Q. Our basement flooded
recently and one of the items
totally damaged was an old
trunk with the family historical
records, scrapbook, and pictures
in it. All these paper items
are irreplaceable. How do I
determine the amount
deductible as a casualty loss for
these items?
A. There is no way, for
federal tax purposes, to attach
a dollar'amount to-"sentimental
value." like any other
item that is destroyed as a
result of a casualty loss, only
the loss of fair market value is
deductible, and this will vary
with items you describe. If, for
example, you had an original
photograph or letter signed by a
prominent person (a president,
for example), it may have
considerable fair market value.
In such a situation you should
contact a professional appraiser.
Items with no fair
market value (although sentimentally
valuable) would,
in turn,- warrant no deduction.
OCEAN CITY (N.J.) SENTINEL-LEDGER
Support your local poet
• ByMARKSOIFER
Ardella Van Scholck, former Ocean City resident, has Just
published a book of poetry, "Ocean City High Tide." It
contains many poems that will have meaning to those of us
who love the shore area.
The book is available at the Mini Mushroom Mart, 700
block of Asbury Av., for $2.5^ Following is a poem from the
collection: - ' ^
OCEANWAVES
like a cat -
Pouncing and counter-batting at its prey
Rubbing its body sensuously
Around your flanks -
Purring with rising crescendo,
Until the daws are felt -
Then spitting-hissing-growling.
Untamed beauty
Turning into savage fury.
Ocean waves -
That play with man's safe havens •
Like a cat.
Ardella Van Schoick
ALMIGHTHAND
Empty beaches -
Stripped of life by driving rain
Savage seas
Attack the seashore sand
White capped waves -
Painted by the whistling wind
Guided by
The Almighty Hand.
Sun burned beaches
Yearningfor the coolness of the ocean's tough
Gulls soar above the blistering sand -
Glistening jettys stand alone
Protecting shore lines with
The Almighty Hand.
Silent beaches -
Put to sleep by darkened skies
life retreats -
To cool and dampened sand -
White it awaits another dawn -
Coming from
The Almight Hand
THE SEA
Calm;
Waves so gentle -
Caressing the limbs
' Of a human
Longing for
Rough tides.
Turbulence;
An ocean
Making demands
As it lashes out
In triumph
At the frailty of man.
CM. King
Gladys Ford
Pittsburgh
CHANGING
Sometimes I wonder as I look to the sky
S»uldl even begin to give ltfea try .... , . . .-
SometimesIll start things and think they'rejutt right
But something goes wrong and confuses my sight
I struggle inside about what I should do
Why is it that everything Just won't come through?
I ask people questions but get no remark
And the emptiness inside grows deep and dark
But then in an instant a flame bursts within
And I know a new way has fought to begin
And then with that sparkle so strong and bright
It's always sunny day and night.
Shelly Barbour, 15
80NGTO8ING
Let me be like the birds on wing.
On all seasons and changes having a song to sing.
Meeting the blue skies and gray of every day
With a song of mirth, showing the worldmy worth
Serene when the clouds come, the storm approaches
For come it will.
Let others storm at their fate,
like a bird, I'D meet mine with courage and a
Chrip. Not of woe but of hope.
Rose Marie Gallagher
Send your poems for publication to Support Your Local
Poet in care of this newspaper.
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SCHNECK'S
CRAFTS & HOBBIES
working, non-profit citizens'
group in charge of the
celebration.
The stickers will be available
at Spence's Seafood, 10th St.
and Asbury Av., in limited
supply. So, if you see Clint, tell
him to hold one for you.
It's imperative that you be
first on your block to display a
centennial sticker. They are to
be the easy, peel away kind so
don't worry about having, to
scrape them off with a razor
blade in 1080.
Clint will also be chairman of
this year's "October's Twice As
Nice Celebration," an idea he
originally suggested four years
ago.
Laurie Berchtold easily fits
into the "All The Good Things
Wrapped Up In One" category.
Hie reigning Miss New Jersey
is a resident of Dory Dr. here
and will be leaving Sunday to
compete In the Miss America
Pageant.
A sign in front of city hall
reads: "Good Luck Laurie
Berchtold, Miss New Jersey,"
and we'll have a "send off
reception for her 1 to 3 p.m.
Saturday at the Music Pier,
sponsored by the Chamber of
Commerce and Retail Merchants
Association. You're
welcome to stop by and wish
Laurie well before her big week
at the pageant. Laurie Berchtold
buttons will also be
available. Be sure to get yours.
Laurie has appeared recently
at Night In Venice and the
city's Baby Parade; She has
made numerous TV and special
visits throughout the state. She
will reign as Miss New Jersey
through the spring of 1979. A
student at Glassboro, Laurie is
the reigning Miss Glassboro
State College and is majoring in
communications and public
relations.
The Martin Z. Mollusk
Lookalike Contest is entering
its sixth inglorious week with
entries still straggling in.
Among those claiming to bear
close resemblance to our
relatively famous crustacean
are "Roy Softback" Hunt of
Ocean City, "Tom Hardback,"
Secane, Pa., "C Batln," Turnserville,
Herman C. Sandwalker,
Collings Lake (who
climbs trees for Steve Schuck),
Harmony and Herman Evans,
Villas, and numerous others.
Winner will receive a Hermit
Tree Crab frisbee, film to
replace the roll used to take
entry photo and a weekend in
Ocean City next season.
Clint Campbell shows public relations
secretary, Josette Pileggi, the artwork for his
centennial bumper sticker which will be
available in about two weeks. The sticker will
read: "All the Good Things Wrapped Up into 100
Years, 1879-1979, Ocean City, New Jersey." The
stickers will sell for 50 cents with proceeds going
to the centennial committee.
The Concert Band of LaLu temple will present its IMh annual concert at the boardwalk Music Pier on Saturday at 8 p.m.
The band combines 87 yean of fine music with extensive travel throughout North America and la considered one of the
finest In fraternal bands. It is the first and oldest band In ahrinedom, organlxed October 18,1891. After the retirement of
conductor emeritus, Noble Frank A. Cianflone, the band elected Noble Charles P. Eltericb aa music director • conductor.
He became the sixth conductor in the band'* history. He has maskal exerlence which extends over many years as an instrumentalist
and conductor of community and fraternal organizations.
3212 Asbury Avenue
Dial 399-8433
Capital comments
By JAMES R. HURLEY
Assembly Minority Leader
Tbe authority of the governor
to delete specific spending
recommendations from the
state budget without the need to
veto the entire document gives
the chief executive a substantial
constitutional power,
but he possesses yet another
equally powerful weapon in his
dealings with the Legislature—
one given him by tradition and
custom, rather than by law or
the Constitution.
Unfortunately, the incumbent
governor has wielded this
power to undercut the
legislative process and avoid
the clear constituional mandate
that any bills he vetoes be
returned to the Legislature for
' action—either to override it or
sustain it.
While the Constitution
provides that bills passed by
the Legislature be presented to
the governor who then has 10
days to act, over the years a
custom has developed in which
the legislation is not presented
to the governor until he
requests it.
If be does not request the bill,
it Is not presented to him.
Thus, it is conceivable that a
bill approved by both houses of
the Leglslatureat the beginning
of the new session in 1978 could
lie gathering dust until the
session concludes at the end of
1979, a full two years.
.And, any bills which have not
been called for by the governor
before the close of the two-year
session are subjected to the
pocket veto process which kills
the proposals without sending
them back to tbe Legislature
for action because the
Legislature which approved
them originally is no longer in
office.
This custom of holding bills
until the governor calls for
them dates from the days when
each session of the Legislature
lasted one year and when
nearly all major legislation was
approved in one or two
marathon year-end sessions.
"Twice as Nice/ 9 especially when
you can read about it twice a week,
in the Ocean City
ENTINEL-l/EDGER
In those days, it was not
uncommon for as many as 100
hula — many of them farreaching
— to win legislative
approval in a matter of a few
days.
Obviously, dumping this
number of bills on the governor
at one time would have created
an enormous burden and left
little or no time for an In-depth
study by the governor's legal
staff. Consequently, the custom
new of holding the bills until
the governor indicated he
wanted them sent to his office.
Today, however, the
Legislature is in a continuous
two-year session and the workload
is spread out over 12
months a year. A legislator is
aware, for instance, that he has
two years In which to work
toward winning approval of his
bill, rather than the relatively
few sessions as was the case
several years ago.
As a result, the work product
is spread out over a much
longer period of tune and the
problem of dumping hundreds
of bills onto' the governor at one
time Is effectively eliminated.
The custom, however, of
waiting for the governor to ask
for the bills remains.
The extent of the problem can
be seen in the action of the
governor this past March when
be exercised the pocket veto
over more than 80 bills, Including
such major proposals
as restoration of capital punishment,
silent meditation In the
public schools, and the
establishment of community
standards regulating the sale of
pornographic material.
There has been pending for
some time a proposed change In
the Assembly rules to require
that bills, after being approved
by the Legislature, be delivered
to the governor's office within
3D days If he does not call for
them before that time.
The adoption of the rules has
been stymied by the majority
party because of the governor's
opposition to this provision and
all efforts to resolve the
situation have been frustrated.
It Is, In my view, time for the
Legislature to reassert Its Independence
as a co-equal
branch of government and to
eliminate the anachronistic
practice which permits the
chief executive to amass
powers beyond bis constitutional
authority and to
further undercut the rightful
prerogatives of the Legislature.
Martin will, be featured in the
November Issue of New Jersey
Magazine but we can't tell you
what he'll be doing 'cause Irs a
secret. A photographer and
reporter from.the 100,000 circulation
publication spent an
afternoon Interviewing our
crab recently.
The Boardwalk Barbership
Singers of Atlantic County win
appear here tonight at 8 p Jn. at
the Music Pier, boardwalk and
Moorlyn Ter., admission 80
cents. Saturday, the Lu Lu
Temple Concert Band presents
it annual concert 8 p.m. at the
Music Pier, admission, free.
Orientation program set
POMONA—New students to
Stockton State College will be
greeted by a 10-week orientation
program of workshops
and seminars sponsored by the
Office of Student Services.
The program, called
"Pas8port,"lsnowinlts second
year. Over 145 programs will be
offered to acclimate students to
the college life style
academically and socially,
noted Peter Mercado, director
of Student Services.
Mercado pointed out that an
addition this year will be over
25career oriented workshops to
introduce students to the
college's 25 degree programs
and career opportunities in
those fields.
An averageof four workshops
per day will be offered Monday
through Thursday beginning
September 18. A special initial
orientation program will offer
18 workshops on everything
from taking notes to writing
papers Thursday, September 7.
"Passport has been made
possible through a tremendous
cooperativeefforton the part of
faculty members and staff,"
said Mercado. "It Is meant to
compliment tbe college's
academic advising efforts/'
Bach new student will
receive a "Passport Booklet"
this week listing all workshops
and when they are offered.
The student services director
said most of the "how
workshops, so popular
year, will be back again.
to"
last
"The courses are offered to
help students maximise
utilization of available
resources and to give them the
tools that will pf nM? them to
have a successful college
career," Mercado added.
Tbe workshops are groups
into four categories: career
fanning, basic study skills,
interest and «W11T and personal '
development.
Assisting Mercado wDl be
Susan Schuflacher, assistant
dtoector of «*nnrw pta w n