Apr 1966 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

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MR, 31, 1966
CITY IN '66
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Popular Surf ing Center
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A. RANDOLPH POM
HOWAftO g, f TAHTTOM
CHAJN.U K. THUfttTOM
iOMW •.TOWNIMO
FLOYD «. TOWMI1WU
A acme* svftr i* not a begin.
me. he m a "gremmJe.' 1 Surfers
don't run over each otters' bards.
is called a
"diat. " A surfer doesn t wait for
a Wg wave he waJtt far a "heavy. "
A "wtpagyt" m wfcn a surfer falls
ofl tte board through no fault of
Ms own.
Hanging five" mm that the
•«*er has five ton hang.ng over
the side of fte h«iH Hanging
ten" ««• thai afl ten trjes are
over me side and the surfer is
m p»# ianmi nf tailing off it
He (Jtusift watch his rep
• Buggtes" are swfing shirts.
wtieii are writ ejerlusively by
members ol the surfjof IM. They
are made of a burSap.Uke maternal
and stitched together with a sturdy
TMI OCIAN CITY HHTINM-J.IP08H THI OCIAN CITY SINTINIL-LIBQIft
COLD WEATHER SPORT
Surfing is a sport not neeesgarijy
confined to surnmer.
Here a surfer ride* *
"heavy" m the Ocean City
surf in the dead of winter.
He is kept warm by tJ
_ Bf^^WHPn^^W
his body,
began to daaffMr so dW «urf
nding. In the mad era of the
UB0« the sport was revived in
Hawaii by the common people and
spread rapidly to Australia. Hew
Zealand South Africa, Puru, and
the Mediterranean.
ta I 1 * "f y • i9W * *** *****
"wHf'CfiaM "frf'the United Sute»
and has spread slowly to the cast
becoming a favorite pasnSme on
fte Outer Banks of G»pr HaMu
where the swells roll in unhindered
from a usually turbulent am.
Originmlly a spwt of pnnce*. AOVICi TO PLYtM
•waii. Nobif ikmiUf* raked
mmm, Bv^tock. and even tracts
of land on a single wave Surfbwutte
at Hat one wm made nt
*wd aod weighed about 150
Am 4h* rayal famine* of Hawaii
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Jut fidbi Mokftf and
port an the bay side of mm ta
in *»• shape of a "T" with two
intersecting runways or hadkv
stoips. H(»ww, in JtltrtWLe to
home owners of the cmml-eHy
distrwi. piifitB must follow a fH^t
•pattern from the law til ft) aiwaii
Mnp. This system toepa virtaMUy
all tow-flyBig aircraft tram —*
ever the buitt-up
ta ST
Iron Cross
Is Symbol
Of Surfers
Every movement brings with it
songs and symbol* that make it
distinrt trtm other group*, yet also
offer a meant of conformity withta
the movement.
One such movement (and it Is
Indeed a movement) that has
adopted more man its share of
songs and symbols to the sufer
movement Radio stations all along
the East Coast drone about'"The
Lonely Surferi; or how about hop.
ping m your wood and going on a
surfing safari,*'
More recently surfers have
switched from sound symbols to
sight symbols, and many now sport
a replica of the German Iran
Crom. or Malta** crass, when they
put on fhetr baggies and stag in
the heavies.
Some surfer* have adopted the
eross as a symbol hoi of surfing and •
their boards andd
surf wagons, or I
hang around their ar neck*. I
Why snfen woukf ehoew
Matter cross as a symbol is hard
to understand. The croas represents
at Mm st TV-
a dark and even degrading segand
level, giving the _, _ . _ , _ . — ^ ^ _ _ _ _
ment of history dating to bftore me
tote Thm Surfers Rush Seaward At Bathing Hours Come fo An End At 14th St. birth of Oirist.
Initially tte cross was an instru*
mf Is turned over to the •urf boards and sports cars.
10 in tte morning
The surfer provides traction for
merit of punishment in ancient
The •uftoard weigh* fn*n 25
Mfling. tbe
the board by rubbing the standing
Rome. After the crueffMon of
to IB pnndi, and range from
= evening daylight
•urfaoe vigorously with wax be-
Chnst. thf croM became • holy
favorite time for the
eight to 10 feet and come in several fore starting his rides. Without
symbol to the new Christ)*. relidifferent
widths. The size and this preparation, it is most diffl.
During the Middle Agra the
tte ttfecuanfc at the weight of the board depends, na- cult for even the mom. expert
was carried by the Cru-
go ofi duty, the turally on the size and weight of surfer to keep the board under
sadrm The Germanic Knight of
MM* bagta to dMtcr the tide tte wrier. The board has to Hi his feet during the ride.
mr Teutcinic ttxfc* then picked up
on the tneb, nt an hour the surfer or tte tint step in the
the symbol and changed it into a
The activity has developed into
preitt Mack cross on a white field,
i sf tte aurflng beach- full enjoyment of tte sport is miss- a papular spectator sport. When
I with young
ed.
tte surfers are on the waves, a
the furfrunner of the kind used on
large gallery at spectators usually
Nan aircraft.
are lined along the boardwalk
Dunng the years of HitUr'i Third
rmiUng cheering the riders to feat*
Reich the black cross was associ-
1966 of daring.
ated with the German swaiitiiia, but
the oU Oman mw was still,
The city government hu named
(•tfjfurtrt! of irwiition idena
committee of cinaena to help the
«1th fte German military
mufmm to organize the sport here
The German »rnm was
hi Ocean City, The committee
a national lymbol. while the
Seashore Buik
ttis year organised a summer
awut:ka was meri-ly a ^mbol of
weekly surfing tournament which
me Nazi party.
was conducted in Mo halves and
The us*
in December staged a Polar Bear
nd Loan Associ
Tournament in whk* the surfers
used wet suits to protect aganst
RfftMTH STRUT PHONE W-0150 tte freezing water Thus it is that
• 105*
TOW fo
Sanrfcw
^ort here in Ocean CJty.
The surfer* have their
•*** has ban qu»ckly
f tte MM 1MB wto hne
the walk nuJ every Mme die
surfers appear on the Joeal scene
1 of th;% irowt by mirter*
as a symbol of rebellion « nit cspetially
apprapriate If appears to
be only a means of KVntifyinn with
fte surfSnK set The inrtrd and
MR ur nw mmmm
cnmn ptThapR rash a shadow on
the spurt iUi-lf,
Mimt of ttriay's surfers are too
young to kmocikte the cram with
th«. Nazis and World War II How.
WIT. manj 1 adults who an 1 cnutal
of the turfing set remember well
mow dark days just 20 yean ago.
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Lifeguards
Are Taught
Lifesaving
Ocean
muade
through m rtprcua,
ttmchlng. head p
nay can be-
oom* memberm of the Ocaan Oty
Beach Patrol.
The object of lifeguard aAool la
to train and tort candidate* for
rookie posMani on the Beach Patrol.
The school was begun thro*
yean ago by Beach Pajwl Captain
George Lafferty, and is designed
to produce the best aUaraund
men for the available openings
on the patrol. Laut summer
there were 100 applicant* lor the
21 open psaWam on the force at
that time.
The school is conducted in two
diviBlons, one toe Ocean aty nmdent
a^ksntt and tte ojhff Iv
alt-rf.town applicants. The programs
and method of testing are
exactly the nme for both groups,
but the out-of-town school runs one
day longer because of the cumbersumv
size id the group.
Competition consists o< a quartermile
swim out and back, followed
by instruction on how to set up a
bfat-h stand and how to place the
Weboat and oars on the beach,
tm* dryland ingtruction is followed
by a simulated rescue with a
can buoy. Half thi* squad arts an
VK tuns and the other half as resc-uera.
The victims are brought to
the beach, and various methods of
artificial respiration are practiced,
Finally a boat drill is heM to teach
candidates the proper methods of
handling a lifeboat.
Grading is dene on a point basis
as determined by Captain Lafferty
and his lieutenants Competition is
tough and only one out of every
fiair men makr-s thr- beach patrol.
This nu*y he fine «rf the
why Oti'an City'l Deacht«s are
safe.
HANDIING TB1 CAN BOUT — WBal t» mm fttral
lieutenant (right) is explaining to a pair of rookie lifeguards
could save a life, possibly the rookte's We, iomeday.
The neophyte guards are being shown how to handle
can bouys.
SOUTH JERSEY CHAMPS — The Ocean City Beach
Patrol last summer won the South Jersey Lifeguard Cham,
pionship on the talents of these three young men. Center
is swimming champ Dick Thieler, flanked by champion
crewmen Hans Gieseck deft) and Bob Schneider.
V
OCBP So. Jersey Lifeguard Champs
The Siuth Jersey Lifeguard title
WHS n-tiirn.i! to its ruttunil habitat
T and Hans Gii-socke and
mm kirtK Ihrk ThieliT last Auf^ist
at the .vxiili Ji-rs*->' LLfcguard
ChampMmshipH at Marble.
•Hk 1 niituml habitat is, at tturm,
Ovun City where the liical iquad
his hitii ;it l