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Ocean City Sentinel-Ledger
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THURSDAY. APRIL?'-1977
A warm welcome
Triis newspaper's annual Spring
Edition gives us an opportunity .to
introduce ourselves to a great many
people. " *
Hie Sentinel-Ledger is % years old
- this year - but it is our earnest effort
not to act our age. We try to combine
youthful enthusiasm with mature
journalistic judgement to produce a
complete home newspaper which is
worth buying and reading.
In the nine decades since, the Sen-
tinel-Ledger has evolved into a
thoroughly modern newspaper with a
modern offset printing plant. We are
proud that we have earned a place as a
community institution. >
Newspaper readership in Ocean City
follows a long-€stablished pattern. For.
national and international news most
people buy one or both of the
metropolitan newspapers published in
Philadelphia. For'local news people
buy the Sentinel.
This newspaper makes the earnest
effort to report all the news of our
community and nearby towns. This
accounts for the fact that so many
people on the mainland and summer
people living in nearby metropolitan
areas are regular Sentinel readers.
Editorially, the Sentinel-Ledger is
independent, taking for its basic policy
what we believe to be the greatest good
for the people of the community we
serve.
Small newspapers, just like the
large ones, receive their full share of
bouquets and brickbats We have won
a good many state awards for editorial
excellence. We have received plenty of
criticism. A great many people, we are
proud to say. swear by us. Others, and
sometimes it makes us proud, swear at
us. . • • . . • • • . ' '
Meanwhile, we continue our regular
job of news reporting in depth,
following a tradition now over nine
decades old.
If you visit Ocean City, we hope you
will become a Sentinel-Ledger reader.
We will do our best to keep you in-
formed of what goes on in this com-
munity.
Those on this newspaper's staff who
prepared this annual edition gained
new insight into the unique advantages
of our home town. We have so much to
be proud of, so much we tend to
overlook simply because we are so
familiar with our home community.
An hour or so reading the Spring
Edition is very likely to make the local
resident realize how fortunate he is to
be able tocall-Ocean City "home." It is
truly a wonderful place in which to
live, work and raise a family.
It is an axiom that word-of-mouth
advertising - the talk of those who are
satisfied with any product - is more
convincing than any other advertising.
This being true; it is an obligation of
all of us who live hero to "talk up" our
town. We should ^ consider it an
obligation to tell our friends and our
relatives who live, elsewhere how
much we like seashore living in
'America's Greatest Family Resort."
Please study the Spring Edition.
Think of the many advantages we have
as compared with those who must
spend their lives in other places.
Tell these people about our town.
You'll be doing them a genuine service
- and you will be helping Ocean City to
grow even more prosperous.
A worthwhile program
Hopefully by this summer visitors to
Ocean City will have seven new tennis
courts to play on and a new golf
driving range.
»> Contained in.-the. 1977 municipal
budget are funds tor the construction
of four new asphalt tennis courts for
the 34th st. playground and for the
resurfacing of three clay courts at the
6th st. recreation complex. Also
budgeted is $34,000 for a golf driving
range to be located adjacent to the
nine hole par three golf course at 26th
st. and Bay av.
Just three years ago the city con-
structed four tennis courts at 34th st.
Those courts and the ones at 6th st. are
in constant use most of the year. The
building of more courts will probably
not alleviate the overcrowding as
more and more people take up the
sport.
The golf driving range has been
criticized by some who consider the
construction of such a facility an
unneeded expense for the taxpayers.
While some criticism is un-
derstandable, critics should keep in
mind that a. fee will be charged for
using the range and in time the facility
should be turning a profit for the city.
Bids have been accepted for* con-
struction of the new tennis courts and
work is expected to begin in the very
near future on that protect. The golf
driving range will be built by city
workers and the land for that project
has already been filled and graded.
Ocean City's recreational facilities
and the recreation program itself are
the envy of most other communities in
this area. And the addition of the
tennis courts and driving range this
year are a guarantee that the city
government is committed to a con-
tinual upgrading of that program.
Well maintained recreational
facilities and an effectively operated
recreation program need not be ex-
pensive as so many taxpayers fear. In
addition it is an integral part of any
successful resort.
With tongue in cheek
A visit here could
i
last for a lifetime
It's Spring, and in these
precincts that moans more t han
the simple rip of a not her leaf
from the 19T7 calendar Spring
does not arrive at our oc-
cupational diggings until a
certain time each April This.
despite the official calendar
The reason for our response
to the fabled Kies should be
obvious The Spring Fdition is
on the street It happens every
year, and our annual hiber-
nation ends only when our
major promoDonal edition of
the year is on the stand* and in
the mail.
The Spring Edition is a labor
of love for the suffers at the
Sentinel-Ledger In its 44th
annual distribution, the Spring
Edition u the largest and most
widely circulated Ocean City
promotion in print The Ocean
City Story U bang told this
week acMea the country-, and
here and there across the aoas
We naturally Ike to feel that
our Journalistic efforts in the
E Mtton of Ocean City as an
vacation spa are widely
dtaetntnated, even if not
wiwraalfcr appreciated We
win be happy to naafl a copy of
fat eetarnd 1*77 edition for
to impress
Meads and
with the
ef Ms la Ocean City
Merely telephone the Sentinel-
L) impressed Most of us are
never too impressed by
anything or anyone with which
or with uhom we an? doseiy
and continually associated. We
who have it accept rhe good life
as a matter of fact But then
some-ot you may remember
that one of your first
associations with Ocean Cty
was a copy ot the Spring
Edition sent to you by an Ocean
City friend to your former home
in some congested metropolis
somewhere. Since one good
turn deserws another, you can
send a copy of the '77 Spring
Edition to some of your "big
city" friends, introducing them
to the charms of Ocean City.
We have an associate in
Patterson. N J . who on every
opportunity proclaims that
North Jersey metropolis as
"The Garden Spot of the
Garden State." We don't wish
to challenge our friend's
assessment of his home town at
this point, but that statement
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1977 GUIDE TO OCEAN CITY. It's been traditional
for a number of years in the Spring Edition to present
the following feature. The N tk.HL
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6:30) p.m. - Berean Class
Spring banquet at Plymouth
Inn 6:45 p.m. • Church Visitation
Night.
WEDNESDAY
6:30 p.m. - Prayer Supper in
Fellowship Auditorium,
followed by prayer meeting
conducted by Pastor Wright.
8:45 p.m. -, Choir rehearsal
THURSDAY
7 p.m. - Gospel Service at
Atlantic City Rescue Mission
conducted by men of the church
FRIDAY
Friday Night Youth Groups:
7 p.m., Jet Cadets, conducted
by the Reddings, McCoys, and
Bromunds; 7:30 p.m. Alpha
Teens, conducted by Bob
Adams and Steve McElhemy;
8 p.m.. High School, conducted
by Ken Hart and Judy Jones.
SATURDAY
7:30 p.m. - Pinewood Derby,
in Fellowship Auditorium.
MAINLAND CHURCHES
SOMERS POINT
CALVARY INDEPENDENT
BAPTIST
9th st. and New York av.
9th0MMMX
THE UNITED PRESBTERIAN, U.S.A.
7th and Wesley Ave.
Sunday, April 24,1977
MINISTERS SUNDAY SCHOOL
William Radcliffe Allen 9:30a.m.
Raymond McAfee MORNING WORSHIP
Organist 11:00 a.m.
Jean Ridgway EVENING WORSHIP
7:30 p.m.
WEDNESDAY 7:30 p.m. - Bible Study,
FRIDAY-SATURDAY -Youth Programs
DIAL-A-RIDE for Church ft Sunday School
Transportation call 399-2611.
"Holding Forth the Word of Life
Philippians2:16
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SUNDAY
9:45 a.m. - Church School
11 a.m. - Morning Worship
7 p.m. - Evening Service
WEDNESDAY
7:30 p.m. - Midweek Service
ORTHODOX
PRESBYTEHAN
CHURCH
60912th Street,
399-7971
Where me Bible is Sincerely
Believed and Faithfully
taught.
Sunday Morning
Worship 11 A.M.
Visitors Always Expected!
9:30 A.M. & 11:00 A.M.
Dr. Wisznat Preaches
Life's Great Hours
Text II Corinthians 12:2-4
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8900 VENT NOR
PARKWAY
MARGATE
25 Denominations
Represented
5Mln. North
| of Ocean City
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