May 1946 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

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^ >plef Resort Athletes
Own Problems Conquer Middle
| best Javelin throw.
The track team will be inactive
I until next Wednesday when lt will
I entertain pitman, one of the best
I teams In South Jersey, on the lo-
leal field
A«MnA*«rt»HomeKeytoB*h.vicHir
Sweep Dual Track
inning* and 1 The other major factor Slickers, TakmNotm
u time of year; la almost at hand
•mart alecs from the cities invade
n City with the idea that they can
[away with infractions of the law and
taste that they wouldn't dream of
at home—just because this
community. Regarding- us as
", and convinced that they are con-
r a favor upon us by coming to the
they display ail utter disregard
' ~' i ofwSauct. .
V V> remind them that
do without their pat-
• behave themselves;
__r._ a police department
be IMT tough and a.police
• dander is easily aroused and
hesitate to lay on with a
, _ whtn the offense eeems to
tit
, SnnuMra,
[Pointer from the Ppmt
before Ocean Cfty created its
Center, it prided itself justly
for having served
noun of duty. * * *
A charter was presented to the
new local Civil Service Association
Council, at ceremonies In city hall.
_ younfstari happy and active along
Much more can, and no doubt will, be
.•i, however. Rev. A. Lynn Oongloff'i
Immestion to the Kiwanis Club last week
|th»t a Teen Town Council be organised.
In that youth can solve its own problems
Ithnufh a government of its own, seems
Imctical in the light of the outstanding
••pen achieved by the Teen Towners in
ly» former home city, Paulsboro.
I Despite all that Ocean City has done,
•ft might profitably take a lesson from its
•Nritaltaed, energetic neighbor across the
Itay, Somers Point.
I The Point's business men gave a ban-
Imet last Thuisdny night to merrrben of
I boys' and girls' athletic teams that the
Iboiiness men foater. The heart-warming
lifWr packed the Golf Club's dining room,
land it left no doubt in the minds of the
I badness men's young guests that the
I hopes of the future are all in them,
| The Point, sparked by Mayor Chap-
Inum and Police Captain Bill Morrow, has
lihrewdly divined that athletics are — or
Isksald be — closest to the hearts of
Ijoungute, and that they therefore can
I bat be reached through that medium.
I Hence, Somers Point has assumed an
I enviable place in South Jersey's athletic
Immanent.
f Call for Cancer Fund
It is not too late to contribute to the
(illy important cancer fund. Ocean
Rhys quota is $600, andj it will be shame-
[Ntf we don't subscribe it fully.
Cancer is an insidious enemy that can-
be ignored—by any of BSt for no
fly Is immune. It can tind doe» «trike
•crimlnately, without warning,
the cancer fund drive is designed to
I (Kite a "war chest" with which to cure
\*my already stricken, and to carry on
ireh. Research already has saved
of thousands of lives- some day
M,
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Bobble Harbaugh won two first
places and a second place in a kite
flying contrst staged at the Re-
creation Center. Oene Mills won
second honors. • • *
City public works men were Indig-
nant after tomebody stole five of
the 100 small willow trees just
planted to help beautify the trash
dump along Bay av.
• * •
Chris Delcorio, •upplee milk
salesman, wen »210 In prlie money
In a company contest for sales of
special products.
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Local high school students parti-
cipated in a program at the Eastern
Mimic Educators' Conference in At-
lantic city.
10 TEAKS AGO
Mrs Rosalie T Howe was the
speaker at a Mother's Day meeting
of the W.O.T.U. at the home of
Mrs, Leroy VanOllder.
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The Commuters Olun wai happy
over news that the railroad planned
to install screens on coach win-
daws, to keep out insects and dirt,
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Women could buy new spring
coats for SI3.M, silk hosiery for 74
cents, rayon undies for II cents, at
a sale at Blatts'. And men's white
shirts were SB cents. 1 for $X
mm*
Harry I. Oorryell, retired Phila-
delphia plumber, waa found dead in
his summer home after having been
overcome by gas while repairing a
heattr.
• • •
Harry F, Btanton was re-appolnt-
ed publicity director and John E,
Boswell city solicitor, until the end
of the year,
ft VEABS AOO'
ROPES MM WOK HOT
(Cap* Kay BUr and Wan)
A major advance In the long ef-
fort of coutal areas to have the
federal government share in the
cost of beach protection was made
recently when the Rivera and Har-
bora Committee of the House of
Representatives reported favorably
on a bill providing that the gov-
ernment shall pay one-third of
the east of Congresslonally-approv-
ed projects.
While the bill must be passed by
the House and the Senate and ap-
proved by President Truman be-
fore it becomes law, the recent ac-
tion of the committee, which has
liven the problem of beach erosion
much study in recent months, holds
forth real hope for favorable action.
The important thing about H. B.
2033 Is that it would establish the
principle of federal responsibility
for beach protection upon becoming
law. That, In reality, U what New
Jersey and other coastal areas have
long sought, for it would pave the
way for federal participation in
the costs of protective works,
Ahead lies the task of rounding
up support for the bill to bring It
before the Home and Senate and
to push its passage through both
Houses,
mm in tHrtj itim
> «oatf nuay
There are those In Washington
who contend that the Government
does not have to balance its budget
or eventually to broke—their ans-
wer to "deficit spending".
In other words, they claim that
it's all right for the Oovemment
to spend more money than it takes
in. and to borrow the difference by
Increasing the BUbiie debt.
The public dent, they will tell
you, is not a burden like a private
deb^^'we owe this money to our-
•elves," they assert, "and we ni
need pay it back. It makes no
ferenee how big the public debt
the public debt? That does have
to be paid every year, whether or
not a single dollar of the debt it-
self is ever repaid.
This year the li
the public debt will amount
billion •— " — '••
will spend for all p ^
year. Its as much as (Bte.wtaflB
government Bujet •jnouatod te In
Spring comes the hard way to
Manhattan.
pushed — as what NTfawker
isn't? — it arrives full-blooming.
(In the farmlands and valleys of
home it comes slowly, with the
peeper-frogs piping and the faint
blush of green on the hillsides.)
Mr, John D. Rockefeller, our well-
known oil man. hag hauled in S.OOO
tulips and hyacinths and planted
them blossoming around the wint-
er's skating pond in his Center—
(the Radio City of the hinterland)
Mrs, M, O'Houlihan. wi|p of the
prominent loth av. butcher in Hell's
Kitchen, buys a red geranium from
peddler and waters it
her fir* escape.
_ up from the sub-
way through the sidewalk gratings.
In the roaring tunnels below, the
ear cards display bathing beauties
and sun-tan lotions Instead of win-
ter's cough remedies.
Kids snoot marbles in the gut-
ters; cats, lacking fences and al-
Strolllng troubadours, serenade be-
The Real Estate Board decided
that all "for sale" signs of individ-
ual agents would be removed from
local property to Improve appear-
ance of the resort.
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Qeorge Hegel, a resident of
Houseboat Row Just beyond the Bth
It. bridge, was killed when his car
overturned,
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John Castaldl was awarded a *2.-
430 contract by the city to Install
concrete sidewalks and curbs on
Ocean av,, opposite the high school.
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A charter was presented to tin
local unit M the Patrolmen's Bene-
volent Association.
New incubator
'Mother 1 Beats Hen
Virtually eliminating any slip
between the ovum and the pip,
a gpectal electric thermostat
which will maintain incubator
temperature within one degree
of a selected point run bean
perfected by A Minneapolis
manufacturer.
Does much better than a hen.
they sny. cutting mortality rate
among baby chicks by afford-
ing uniform temperature.
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Spring In Manhattan.
Your Oross.romds Correspondent.
CARL HELM
OF THtWtZK. I Forum and Agm* 'Era
NOT EVERYONE WHO
SOWS. BEATS
(WiMwood Leader)
These are the days of hopeful la-
bor for amateur gardeners. Spurred
on by visions of fresh vegetables
from the bask yard many of UI
have already planned what in war
days we called victory gardens, In
those days the feeling of patriotism
urged us on. Today we are urged
on by the knowledge that in other
lands beyond the sea people an
starving, and so if we can supply
some foodstuff for ourselves we feel
that we are doing a noble act in-
deed. <
But one should give this back
yard gardening idea a second
thought. Unless we know some-
thing of gardening, unless ire arc
certain by experience that the seed
we sow will grew into something we
can eat, perhaps we had better not
waste the seed but send it to those
countries where people are hungry
enough to give their gardens the
intelligent and Industrious atten-
tion a garden requires.
WHEN IS 'EVENTUAIXY*?
(Cape May County Qasette)
it has been only a few month*
since state Highway Commissioner
Spencer Miller, Jr., told the Cape
May County Chamber of Commerce
that work on the southern end of
the new state-long parkway would
start simultaneously with the op-
erations on the northern end.
On Monday, when Governor
Walter m Edge signed the parkway
bill, Commlitsloner mnw ,,ni
quoted by the Associated Rest as
saying that the route, starting at
Route 6 In Clifton and extending
south via Bloom field. East Orange.
Cranford and WoodbrWge, "even-
tually will be extended te Cape
May, at the southern Up et the
state,"
Probably everyone in Cape May
County will be glad if, some year)
the cornnuMioners decided to be
more explicit.
Ocean City Tm Tough!
Now that
come ott tU«
(when John L. Lewi*
City MtaMMlM tta* haw Kept aoing ana'dctfcw-
Hm ftest-skai MMee far beyond the wIMaat pre-
war .dream. Mil lie turned out to pasture.
-IUe virility of the autOBBHto," aaya Keyatam
Automobile Cluto, -oontinue* te amae and oonfoond
the prophet, of dlsasttr wfto doWtetly warned that
the graveyards would have the (mains of most of
America'* car* 'ere the war bad Nn lta oowse."
,The siub Mttla out that «inoe 1M1 there ha*
been a loss of only 3,330,033 motor vahlolec from the
Ameriaui highway* leaving mfim^M stin operating
at the end of IMS. While glvlBf rationing mueta of
the credit for ear conservation. It point* out that
car owner* generally became more conscious of the
need for proper servicing and ear* to make the old
buggy last for the duration of the war and now. at
course, the duration of m» reeOBteratan uncertainty.
• • *
Another fact no doubt is that ear owners have
learned—to tjieir surprise, in many case*—bo* much
wear was built 1MB their pre-war model*, from
which they never would bavu toenefttted became
they would have teen traded in long ago for some-
thing ahinier with a. few new gadget*.
. Many a ear owner today can apeak wkli real
knowledge on such subjects as piston rings, brake
linings, under-lnlUtion of tins and re-capping; toe-
cause he baa teamed about them toy ergMteime
Fellow* we know who formerly traded In their earn
after 30 or 30 ttwisand mile* have had the motor*
overhauled and trie can ottarwlsei refurblsiied, end
they are «tlll clicking along at » thousand or more.
Wonder U the car manufaettmn have taken Into
ooDsMerMien, In their pimna (or enormous sales, the
fast that many a driver nay not trade In so often,
now that he hat found out how king hi* car will
really last,
PeHijlfe-—7*iWy»r# Curiou*
One curious quint dlipteyed by the public as
seen by the boys and girta of tbls nempaper. Is
that lt dearly love* to [vocrutlnate about getting
advertising or news to tte paper. ',
A person will teletfiBne ue eacttedly on a Moo-
day, ta say that be has snmrtMttg for that week's
War
tr
haw
corner*, to no
guing with a h
newspaper. To be
our opposttkn nnt 1
I like laat or fear
centMUon *
eminent
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Dividual*
the aune
. JeWL_
prove the ineaaan»«I]
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FOBACIwMf
Wordy _.^,
bute mneii to the ^ _
or to any people* *tpn|
ledge, to fact, takn« »1
opposition to another a
aague *crn* wtthoot faff
the haraogue and can M
U. Debating a take " -
wan helps it - '
Tn»i .
so plainly]
for two 4i
and em. ride on 1
and new* Is
ooltmudats and radio i
chronlole real hag
•Gnat's the lateet I can get it in?" he so fre-
quently aaka. )
"ROW soon wlU you have lt written?" we, in torn,
ask. "Oh, It's written now!"
"Well, then, why not give it to na now?"
"I suppose I can; I never thought of that-"
Bo then we get early copy out of Mm. But to
many a case, people who have material for the
paper on Monday wait until Wednesday, even Than-
day, and are terribly turprtsed and hut when ne
are unable to use M-, for the good reason tbat the
paper ha» gone to press.
The earlier we get it. the better We can treat
It, Remember thatl —
Smokers--They're Taboo
o el has
fF Dontr blame them.
tonn an "—entlel pabUe i
• • •
FIND THE SOOTHS
Of course there nract.
publishers who are unpafe.
writert who would atlran
iution If they eonld, bo«T
not the natkm's chief dan '
new* 1* really roMnad,
done by those who J '
those who print an
Let us know the truth I
truth will make u* free;
OUtk ' "
Tlhafs the w»y it Is with the commissioner*'
meeting room on the top floor of city hall.
The rosm recently w thoroughly renovated
with paint, vamieh sad Hand new carpet on the
floor—wrttti rug cushions under K. If w» pleaae!
Now Mayor Clyde W. Struble Is planning to in-
TOk. the old standing rule awMhttlac iiSMdng in
the rooB. Betfore the face-lifting project M launch-
ed, the rule ins rarely enforced, even though "No
BmoHnf" siens adorned the wmlls to silent mockny.
But the mayor and other officials agree that
ttey «oould take no chance* of having scan on the
newly-yanushed floors, or holes In the new carpet.
So the signs are going up afata-and tfals time
they'll mean what they say.
Such-^s-is progresal
p^ss
ta oatutai* at
beoatue a lot of
ested In what tbese men i—y
say and do. If nUlngi fber 1
or opinion* they 1
people. If« their 1
STARVE IT OUT
—- Jo Serra's Low Down
"He's tall and very handsome and
very wonderful,"-Jj»na Turner, an-
neuncing marriage proposal of ra-
dio v,-p,
"YOU can't go on being a fool
forever," Barbara Rutton, Beny-
ing she wlU marry again,
• • •
"It was a MM of love at fl»t
sight," — Henry Ford, celebrating
Mth wedding anniversary.
"Oraameries simply cannot afford
PLEASE NOTE — The hens
fide name and address of the writ-
er most be published with every
letter that appears In this depart-
ment Short letter* mmmrtillnr
on any matter of local enrrent In-
terest are always weloome.—Edi-
tor.
WAB MOTHER'S *»O¥1"
GAVE HEM A BOOKS*
• Editor Sentinel-Ledger =~ Just a.
few lines to ask if you wU] put an-
other little piece in the paper for
WE'LL SAT IT FOR THEM
(Cape May County Times)
That the people of Strathmere
and Sea Isle City, as well u all
others, including many Ocean City
residents, who use the Corson's In-
let bridge, appreciate the efforts of
the Freeholders to put it in shape
for heavy vehicles before the start
of the summer season, gees without
saying.
At present the maximum gross
load of any vehicle using the bridge
is limited to three tons. When
strengthened, buses and trucks,
which must now detour to the
mainland, wlU be able to traverse
the span.
We know there are many folks
In this section who would like to
say "thank you" to the Freeholders
for pushing thf project to its pres-
ent stage.
so we'll say It for them.
You know, you dent find anybody much, who
Is concerned or excited about Socialism. It Is seep-
ing In at all the cracks taut nobody aterta himself.
Talk to 'em about it and they will look out the
window—or fiddle with the Hotter on their deak,
and change the subject. But they will pound the
table about England going Into coal mining and
putting politics In as cashier of the banks. Also,
about France and her Wong over the gas work*,
and electricity. But they want stay awake If you
tell 'em the VMJL Is headhV for the seme kind of
mess ,
Susie and I, we just been on a little trip to
the dty, I scurried around—-visited with a lota, peo-
pie—and Uke It waa there In Bane Just before they
finally burned down the town, everybody had a,
pocket-full of dinero, and tbe fun was on—nobody
gave a hoot beyond "what te the next dance."
And from our trip I deduct that there is natftf
weather ahead of us—for Ms; and little—if we dost
get over the notion Mat •octallsm Is wmettilng for
K ouwr guy to stew aSwrt-not us. It win not be
just the big people who will be earned •round by
an over-stoe and saftMM iort^nar fm the little
ill b AM th
tne
live
Just the same, poisoned news'
converts. And so long as
power wish to gain more pownM
campaign for collectivism nfl
carried on.
At Its souree Is the best
quiet the voice of socialist
Man. Men who hanker to
schools, control hospitals,
duction and eternally fix
ought to be put where their
Word and deed does not mass
—out of power. There Is a
Stop the flow of revenue
Treasury into the bands of
appointed "rulers". That will
Immediately and effectively to
the problem of ooUecUvlst
ganda.
With tli#i Prwu Warn'
7r
ship.
beys In Camden and one WAC.
boys in Mlllvllle and one) nurse.
In Pleasantvllle and one at Cape
May Court Rouse, and the rest of
them were from here, except my
nephew from New York. I sent him
boxes, and they had SO officers, and
I sent them 100 cigars.
I had 306 altogether, including
- nurses and v WACs snd one WAVE.
You all know her. Miss Jeanne
Stiles, who was a reporter for your
paper. The last I heard of her was
when she was leaving for overseas
and she sent me a card.
So you see I received Bowers from
Philadelphia and Camden and Mlll-
ville as well as Ocean. City boy*.
Please tell the boys to excuse me
for not saying what the present
wan. It waa a platform rocker and
was beautiful, covered with brocad-
ed satin. They knew lt would be a
great comfort to me as I am always
111. So If you wUl tell the boys! am
lorry I forgot to say what the pres-
ent was, I will be very grateful.
MRS. EDWARD LEES.
915 Asbury av.
Who Pays,For What?
WASHINGTON — To* ex-
tent of the OPA praftanda
far by tj. B.
an overse d aftMM io
people. It will be AM. the wople,
What thto eoun^ needs is a new Paul Revere.
And ridUi' wltti MM, he should have » pulchritod-
inous. inig:jattun* Hr-lty. That would alert »»-
100 per cent,
Tow» wltt tte tow JO
Science
we heaToTth. larg. ,
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taxpayer*-