May 1979 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

PAGE 20 — SECI'ION TWO OCEAN CITY (N.J.) SENTINEL-LEDGER THURSDAY. MAY 17,
After March of '62 storm
Sea Isle City celebrates rebirth with annual Skimmer Weekend *
SEA ISLE CITY —This
resort's 13th Annual Skimmer
Weekend will be held Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, June
22, 23 and 24 to officially
launch the summer season.
The fun-filled weekend
includes events for all ages.
Skimmer Weekend was
originally held as part of the
dedication of the then onemile-long
promenade which
was built on a double rock and
timber bulkhead to protect a
wide area devastated during
the March 6 and 7 storm of
1962.
Declared a disaster area by
the state and federal
governments, Sea Isle City
had retreated in some areas
as much as a block from the
onslaught of the ocean.
A vast area laid in waste
and a redevelopment agency
was created to help rebuild
the city. With the investment
of only a little more than
Pholo by Curtli Studio
These solar panels on a building in the Oak Ridge Campground in
Palermo will totally heat a HO.OOO-gallon pool and showers and will
provide 60 percent of the heat for the building. The owner expects* the
$12,000 unit to pay for itself within five years.
Big powerboats dominate show
A full range of powerboats,
including a large group of 40
fool and more, will dominate
the Annual Gardner's Basin
In-The-Water Boat Show in
Atlantic City, May 24-28.
"We are extremely pleased
with the number of larger
boats on display," said show
Producer Webb Allen. "The
big boats are the ones that
draw the visitors. They're the
ones everyone wants to see.
It's probably because large
yachts are a goal or an end to
many people who are striving
against the odds to someday
be able to afford one.
"That's not to say that only
lookers come to the shows,"
Allen was quick to add.
"Dealers like to bring in the
big boats because they know
that shows sell boats, even big
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ones. At the Miami International
Boat Show in Feb
ruary, one company - sold
three $750,000 yachts."
Of the boats in the 40-foot
range and over, two are from
South Jersey manufacturers.
One is a 40-foot Ocean Yachts
Trawler made in Lower Bank
outside of Egg Harbor. The
other is a 40-foot Jersey
Cruiser, built along the
Delaware River.
One of the largest vessels
in the show so far is a 45-foot
Carlcraft houseboat: Two
unique Blue Water Yacht
Cruisers will be displayed,
along with a 40-foot Trojan
and 42-foot DeFever Trawler
Yacht.
More Jersey boats highlight
those in the 30 to 40-foot range.
They come from Silverton
Marine in Toms River and
include a 34-fbot Silverton and
a 34-foot Mainship. Another
large houseboat at the show is
the 38-foot Gibson.
For those interested in
performance boats, there will
be a pair of 29-foot Haras and
for fishermen, a . trio of
aquasports and a Marko
Center Consoles.
Finally for those who desire
something unique, there are a
a pair of 24-foot SeaCamper
Cruiser Campers, a boat
designed to be as at home in
the water as it is in any RV
campground.
The show officially opens
Thursday, May 24, with a
press and VIP day. It is open
to the public Friday through
Monday, May 2S-2B from 10
a.m. to 7 p.m. Admission is $4
for adults and $1.50 for
children under 12.
For further information,
contact Webb Allen,
producer; Marex, Inc. 208
Gunpowder Rd., Mays
Landing, 08330, or call (215)
567-0689.
Schnitzler honored
Frederic Schnitzler, 1222
Central Av., a member of
Morgan-Ranck Post 137
American Legion, has been
named Cape May County
Legionnaire of the Year.
A citation to this effect was
presented to Schnltxlrr at a
recent meeting in Wiklwood
by New Jersey Department
Commander Anthony Lori
and Cape May County
Commander George Rapp.
Schnitzler has been •
member of the American
Legion since its inception in
1919 and is one of Cape May
County's most active and
devoted legionnaires.
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May 17 thro 23
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$50,000 from the city, the
various levels of government
then embarked on a multimillion-dollar
project which
has been cited by many as the
rebirth of the island.
Today, one apartment in the
Spinnaker Condominium is
worth as much as three times
the city's original investment
and there are more than 190
units plus promenade shops
and the Commodore Club.
Skimmer Weekend,
therefore, marks a time for
Sea Isle City to celebrate and
look forward to even better
times as the memories of 1962
gradually fade.
John Sweatlock, president
of the Greater Sea Isle City
Chamber of Commerce, and
Mayor Dominic C. Raffa said
the Chamber and city will
again co-sponsor the
festivities.
Al Zurawski, one of the
Williams
'kidna
originators of Skimmer
Weekend and for three years
a president of the Chamber of
Commerce, has been selected
by Sweatlock and Raffa to
again serve as chairman of
the 1979 program.
Skimmer Weekend was
selected as the name for the
happy celebration because it
usually comes around
Father's Day, which this year
is June 17, and the first day of
Summer, June 21. It marks
the time of year when men of
bygone years put aside their
winter or felt hats and donned
the light-weight or straw bats,
known as "skimmers"
because of their ability to
catch a breeze and take flight,
with children in eager pursuit
to return and claim a penny
reward from the owner for
retrieving it.
Zurawski said that besides
scores of Chamber of Com-
Sentinel-Ledger
sports columnist Tom
Williams was "kidnapped"Wednesdaymorning
by the
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American Heart
Association, right in the
middle of his radio
program over WOND.
Williams did not
present his sports
program yesterday
afternoon and indications
are that he
will not be released until
a $10,000 ransom has
been received by the
Heart Association.
Tom Williams
WOND immediately enlisted the aid of Chris Ford,
star basketball player of the Boston Celtics; Pete Rose,
Larry Bowa and Tim McCarver of the Phillies; and
Ocean City's Laurie Berchtold, the reigning Miss New
Jersey. They have been urging listeners to contribute as
much as they can.
Contributions can be dropped at the emergency
headquarters in the Shore lull, at any Traa Family
McDonald's restaurant or in one of the many "Heart
Hostage" cannisters distributed throughout the area.
Pledges may be phoned in to 041-8035. The Heart
Assodatton also twlca^duwt they have PhuUeaj '
and other prizes that wfll be auctioned off over 1
There is abo live entertainment planned in Shore MaO.
Williams, whose column and other stories in this
week's paper were submitted before the "kidnap
has sent a few phone messages to indicate that!
not been harmed.
"I hope you can raise that $10,000," he said, "because
it will not only help me return but could also prevent
others from suffering more serious heart attacks."
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COLORS:
Bone and
Whit*
merce officials and members;
Mayor Raffa, Commissioners
William J. Kehner and An-
drew J. Bednarek, have
pitched in to help make the
weekend a success.
Kehner said Police Chief
Robert Campbell,' Capt.
Camille D'Intino; Lifeguard
Capt. Tom McCann and the
entire beach patrol, and
members of the police and
fire departments will be
ready to lend assistance.
Bednarek will have public
works crews where and when
needed under the direction of
.city Superintendent Joseph
LaRosa and Foreman Butch
Fox.
Mayor Raffa traditionally
serves as official greeter and
host to visiting officials, news
media personnel and other
guests during the weekend.
Zuraw8kJ said some of the
major events for this year'« :
program are the annual barhop
night, a boat and marina^
show, promenade flea (oHfj
sea) market, an art show,:
Skimmer Weekend fishing
contest, family boat cruises,airplane
sightseeing rides and:
a lifeguard demonstration.:
Arrangements are beingmade
for band performancefjL
and other events, ZurawakJp
said.
Road repairs are slated
By TIM FAHERTV
Sea Isle City's spring
paving and road reconstruction
program began in
early May, a program which
is expected to improve the
condition of almost every
street in the city by the end of
the year.
The streets which will not
be worked on as part of this
program, according to Andrew
Previtti and John R.
Walker of the city'B
engineering firm, are those
which are already in very
good shape, or those which
need so many utility lines laid
beneath them that it would not
be practical to coyer them
now.
The project is part of a
$800,000 capital improvements
program passed
this year as a bonding issue by
the commission. The bond
provided for two types of
street improvements: Over
$78,000 for paving and over
$282,000 for "oil and stone
covering. Both contracts were
awarded to the same bidder,
McCarthy Paving of Cape
May Court House.
In March, Walker had
raised the doubt as to whether
or not the contractor would be
able to get the gravel
necessary for the bulk of the
project, oil and. stone
covering.
There isa scarcity of gravel
and, according to Gerald A.
Barrett, vice president of
McCarthy Paving, it may
effect the ability of local firms
to perform gravel paving.
"We may have to cease
bidding (for gravel Jobs) in
(he future," Barrett said,
adding that his firm is on a
limiting quota system with a
quarry 100 miles away.
When asked if he felt confident
that stone could be
secured for the Sea Isle City
Job, be said. "No, but we're
doing our best to get it."
Barrett said bis firm has been
hauling stone since December
in anticipation of this project.
"The ecologists won't let us
dig local stone," he said. "It's
a serious problem."
At a March 26 commission
meeting, angry residents told
the commissioners that they
did not want an oil and sand
covering on their streets, an
alternative that had been
suggested if stone was not
available.
A list ct the streets to be
worked on has been <
by the engineers. Walker:
p hri that the list 1 t
flexible and subject to-'
change, especially since*
McCarthy's bid came In.
substaptially lower than,
estimates, making possibliP
work on more streets. : •
Paving will bedone on parts'
of 11 streets in the resort,:
Including; • '_
- Pleasure Av. from 53rd to:
41st sts.; :-
-42nd, 43rd, 44th, 45th, 46th^
48th, 49th and 52nd sts. frons?'
the promenade to Central Av.,"
and : :
• 50th and 51st sts. from
Pleasure Av. to Landis Av.
The project will also involve
reconstructing 180,000 squaflfc
yards of the city's streeflT
covering those streets and am
additional 80,000 square yards
of streets with three-eighth
inch stones. This will involve
some portion of about half of
the streets from 29th to 68th.
sts. and portions of all uj|
streets from 70th to 91st.
According to Previtti, most
of the work should be completed
before "the heart of the
summer," with the remainder
to be done in September.
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Out of controversy and into reality
Community center to open doors on
It's been halted by frustrating
governmental waffling and indecision.
By some politicians it's been
viewed as a convenient stepping stone
to higher office while to others it is an
enviable and needed community
asset.
It's been marked by both controversy
and positive enthusiasm and
very few people in Ocean City have
been neutral during its development.
Above all else, however, it is now a
reality.
On Monday, Memorial Day, at l
p.m. Ocean City residents will have
their first opportunity to tour the
Ocean City Community Center when
the 18th St. and Simpson Av. facility
opens its doors at l p.m. for a weeklong
open house celebration.
Tours of the facility iduring open
house week will be held, according to
program committee Chairman
Carolyn Murphy, between 1 and 4
p.m. on Monday and Saturday and
between 7 and 9 p.m. Tuesday
through Friday.
On Wednesday between 1 and 4
p.m., Mrs. Murphy reported, seniors
from the area can visit the center and
learn about the facility's planned
arthritic swim program.
The center was originally con-
An Ocean City High School student plays taps during last year's
Memorial Day service. For information on this year's service. For information
on this year's ceremonies, see section 2, page 20.
At tonight's meeting
Bus law change likely
Councilman Herbert J.
Brownlee has introduced a
new charter, bus ordinance
which may be able to evade
much of the opposition which
has met council's other attempts
to write a new law.
This is the latest in a small
series of ordinances that
council has been kicking
around, trying to improve the
city's control of charter
" before the summer
The existing orduumce has
j*sn ruled "too vagna" hi
court, and without some
" it i* feared that
win be ante to load,
unload and park anywhere m
•he dty. T
Brownlee'* version of a new
ordinance, which he introduced
at council's
wwkshuu meeting Tuesday,
wfll be brought up for first
reading tonight when eooBcfl
meets at 7:» m the ra-
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*"*" ff*HMf'. lSth St.
op; per-
.rtttajf for
In addition, the ordinance,
taken largely from Atlantic
City's charter bus
regulations, permits busses to
load and unload at private
business sites, such as motels
and restaurants, if the owner
of such a business acquires
permission from the dty derk
prior to having busses.
Brownlee said yesterday
that there is a general concensue
on council to adopt this
ordinance, largely because of
the possible shortage of
gasoline this summer.
"With gasoline shortages I
think there will be more and
more of the busses,"
Brownlee said, adding that
(he dty should make it as
easy a* possible for those
busies to come here.
The effective date of the
ordnance win be from July l
to the first Saturday after
Labor Day. The ordinance
wm also be m effect for the
Memorial Day weekend, but
wfll not- be passed m time to
affect tb* weekend this year.
Two etar lots, a* «b-ft.
between west and Asbary
an. and at asth ft. and
• a*r"
are «*•** •certain
if they are of sufficient size.
This revised ordinance is
expected to meet many of the
objections raised against its
immediate predecessor, a
proposed ordinance which
would have strictly limited
loading, unloading and
parking of charter- busses to
municipally owned lots.
That ordinance had come
under fire from private lot
owners John and Norm a
West, whose attorney,
Clement P. UsitsU, said he
would have filed suit against
the city, either to restrain the
enforcement of that ordinance
or for damages, if it had been
passed.
The Ocean City Hotel Motel,
and -Rest an rant Association
had also been worried about
that ordinance, according to
Councilman William 1J. Meis,
a past president of the
association. Members were
idtbat charter busses
to their hnttnwfa
e required to unload
blocks away in many cases.
Public BdationTbirectar
Mark Sotf er also bad voiced
some concern about the
fcabiHty of busses to unload
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•If they (teurtota)
ceived by the Ocean City Bicentennial
Horizons Committee and planning for
(he faculty was begun during the
country's celebration of lt*300th
birthday.
Planners have maintained!ran the
beginning that the,center would be
one of the few major projects
developed by horizons committees in
the country during the bicentennial
that would come to fruition and that it
to symbolically significant that the
faculty is being unveiled at the
teginning of this city's centennial
celebration. • !
The future of the community
center, however, hasn't always been
On Blue Cross
so bright.
In Juneof 1977, U.S. Rep. William J.
Husnes