Sep 1985 - On-Line Newspaper Archives of Ocean City

The Sentthel-Ledger
opinions
Arts Center
subterfuge
To the untrained eye, the old school building
housing the Ocean City Cultural Arts Center and
the Historical Museum looks perfectly safe. Apparently
it took close looking in unexposed areas
by even trained eyes to determine the second
and third floors of the structure were so unsafe,
or potentially unsafe, that the Arts Center had to
vacate the premises.
Looks certainly can be deceiving.
And so, it seems, can the actions of city officials.
While they have been talking for months
about the need for new facilities for the two institutions,
nothing concrete was taking place except
for the confusion of reports containing con.
flirting statements on the building's condition.
Then, all of a sudden on Sept, 11 comes word
from the city, that things are so unsafe with the
upper portion of the building that the Arts Center
has to leave, "It's such a shock because we
didn't realize the building was that unsafe —
which our engineering reports didn't reveal,"
said Eunice Bell, Center director, in disbelief,
^Sehoed Helen Kroesser, president of the
Museum: "I don't understand it. Knowledgeable
people keep telling us that the building is safe."
iSfhis latest flurry of activity occurs following a
-summer full of rumors that lurking behind the
scenes are forces intent on having the old school
knocked down to make way for still more condominium
development in Ocean (condo) City.
•\'l feel we need a direct explanation from the
mayor,", said Kroesser. Hers Is a statement with
much validity. The mayor, on behalf- of the city,
should indeed issue a public statement on just
where.th^ city stands when it comes to the Arts
' Center aijd Museum — and on the building that's
been their home after serving as a school
building for generations of Ocean City people.
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1 Historic Museum and tbe tots?
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Friday, September 20,1985
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features
Friday, September 20,1985
Page Five Section Two
He sailed around the world to prove a theory
No sailor had accomplished iMs feat btfore, but Marvin Creamer, through skill, knowledge and luck, did
Editor, Sentinel-Ledger: I and all were evicted.
am a French girl who arrived This is unbelievable! Jft
in yoilr beautiful island In May I fust say, Mr. MaVor,
June. Hie three months that I how could you let this t&p?
have lived here have been pen? Please do somethmgJo*
beautiful and a wonderful the great cause! Only you lM
experience. I've met many do it Say, and give the woMI
people iflio were kind 'and Let me .return next y*a>
helpful in your,land. There with my mother and fattier
was even an outstanding story (my father \B an-archlteW*
written about me In your Let them see the Arts CeWeY
paper. I learned to love the old and Museum as I OrstiNw
houses and the quaint It! It is a handsome strucWreV
structure of many buildings. Please, don't make "*&
I am leaving your country mistake and demolish °tWI
now and my intentions were to outstanding building, ftnd
return and make my home most of all, don't mak#£
here. Upon leaving on Friday,. mistake and have to look
I visited the Cultural Arts
Center to say farewell to a
good friend, and how sad It
was — ttils wonderful old
structure was being vacated
-1 By PAULA 8CHWENK
. fteuttael.Udger /
Correspondent
does a man choose to
ground the world? Better
does a man choose to
J
the world without
on navigational tn-
"
and say, 'Tm sorry!
I bid you adieu.
Chambray.'Fnike
vials
Civilians saved
the day; where
were authorities?
Editor, Sentinel-Ledger: On from west tq.«astibat
Sunday, Sept. 8 we had a fast- them many minutes to
moving, powerful thunder land. One other young
storm at about 1:30 pjn. At his robber raft continued
me beach oh «th Street then blown seaward. Our next
were several yg young men who neighbor _ called the
hd had diffllt difflcnlty getting tti back, bk to to Ctty emergency services-'ll
shore: two In their robber lifeguards, the police,'ai
rafts; one on a wind surfer. Bescne Squad, and the Col)
The winds were so Guard. Nobody came. After'tt
least 30 minutes passed;
The Tabernacle Association should practice what it preaches
Editor, Sentinel-Ledger:
*„' T ^ ^ ^ f i : ProWWUon prohibition of of buying or or Bttle little pious pious casuistry. casuistry. Sunday's certain thlnu will urn. t» .rf-u-, o-«n «,,««] »h,,«. _ it »«.. t« »H. f»F Fur years I have enjoyed the
Sunday's certain things wfD
,
selling on the Sabbath.
ttttle to me whether Ocean spousal abuse — It seems to
preaching and music at the
For several years now permitted to be sold and
Worse than the misin-
CItyis "open" or "closed" on me that those who are coin-
Tabernacle. But that's as far
during the Sunday services, bought Hymn books and tape
terpretation of the Intent of
Sunday because my un- mttted to Jesus Christ and his
aa It goes! The Aug. 30 half-
the chaplain gives his recordings are not included on
the founding father* la the
derstanding of Christianity way of life have more to be
page ad in The Sentinel-
"Mmmerda!" for cassette thatllst
double standard practiced by
has little to do with tbe do's concerned about than, the
Ladfttr and Sunday morning's
tape recordings of the ser- The question 14 therefore,
the Tabernacle ltaeH. I
and don't's approach to the of open or>tdosed
eopleto wintfaeTb
**«hJ tawed jt Jongjtme
> pulpit by the
yraitlpt
thepewanfftotumtbemlnat
It wts not too many years ago the end of service. TOs. order
ftat the Tabernacle placed cud clearly Indicates that
ft* lake brothers to flip In new hymnals to tbe pews and etch tape costs £ JO and that
their graves.
sold, on Sunday for 910, their cash or a check must ac-
•^True blue'* is the claim gold covered edition of the company the order. Is this not
being made by the current , •me to anyone who wanted to selling and buying on the
officers of .the Tabernacle. make the purchase. Ob sure, Lwd'sDay? :
Yet borne rule was never the the claim will be made mat It Is Interesting, indeed,
issue with tbe Lake brothers; they only took the order on that during the coming non-
rather the principle of a Sunday and didn't actually binding referendum on
religious observance of make the sale. But mat's a "open" or "modified closed"
Sunday which they interpreted
as a day of rest,
qiijet, worship, and prayerful
meditation. Included was the
1 '"
wind surfer, Tun BtDsIer<
his friend, Jim Me/
stopped the board and
orders for cassette ,tape to go out mto the surf af
recordings and whatever else young . - man .. who waa*^fn
ft chooses to sen In the future deepest trouble.
Monday throiigh "Satortay; Forty-five • minutes*
but never on Sunday! passed when an Ocean
Dr. Lloyd John OgOvie hit policeman *rrfved,'
e naD'on the headVins «thbstreetendfO
flftyape
morality, and you cannot burning Issue for Ocean City
^ytirmwi love.
is'supercilious In Ught'of the
With tbe problems that face many above named issues
or win the Tabernacle flaunt our world today — like world which have a life or death
itself and violate tbe law that hunger, apartheid, creeping
it claims to uphold? Communism, unemployment, The bottom line to my
WUl the double standard strained race relations, the concern Is that me Taber-
continue? Do as I say, not as I threat of nuclear war, teenage nacle ought to practice what it
do. "True blue"? That's a auldde, teenage pregnancy, preaches and bring Its own
Joke! More accurately, it is alcohol and drug addiction, commer"lal enterprises in
faded blue.
children who are abducted Une with the "True Bine"
Quite honestly, it matters and/ or molested, child and position it claims, by taking
Adding township to sewer line would make matters worse
It's not
the
> it's their
Howners!
1
H Editor, Sentinel-Ledger;
•\ f'My entire famity and I have
irner,ot.that property to step
to him to eventually try a their logical conclusion. He
„ ] a child, be learned the Journey on water around the decided to sail around the
ways of the setting sun fruui world without the aid of world, again relying solely on
" jfarmer Jather. He also navigational Instruments. - his observation of the
wired, books about his Creamer found that a boat dements, , ,
the Vikings, who could be steered by gauging at 1 was
m
JUS'at—
and
in time to '
Ocean (My exhausted young man
was in shock to haveybjm
checked out . • (^
- While observing residjjjm
and taxpayers In the i ' ^ ^
11 and take a sbort ssfl «ow and',;
then. r
Creamer, whose Incredible.
adventure has placed Urn ins
me history books, is '•"••'
effacing about bis
• *cr
when compUshment and
the Globe Star docked to
•wait repairs.
Creamer said his feelings
on the last hours of tbe 17month-Iong
trip were ntttersweeUHe
was elated to
hive proved his theories. Be
was sad to know be would
never attempt such a Journey
For now, Creamer Is
ptanntagtowriteabookonhta
experiences The Gfobe Star fat
br sale. At 09, the professor is
content to putter in his garden
:
The saDon of old used sed air our •'• :"
techniques," be shrugi^
3&«
4^ tfij
note:
Creowr, the vmrfd,
Jtonous digrtor,
mveand at the Ootan y
O*y Yacht qfr 'v
month
mantiit old, 1, ,
Urm tm awaiting a mwv
tramplme. of the recipients of the honors of the
v a dog lover and keep a
VbtttTmnot going to make
miserable because I
i a (tog.
at U the governing body
' i aty makes an ortbat
no dogs are
1 In Ocean City due to It
t a health hazard because
i habitual UwbreaklngT
y, many people could not
bare as r enormous dog population
here. But they'd be asking for
It!
My dog Is all I've got left of
my family, so naturally he
means much to me. I'd bate
the thought of being without
Mm, But I,also hate this
smelly, fly-drawing diseaseridden
and spreading,
careless habit of uncaring
humans; - - ,
The'dog is much more Intelligent
than his
there's' to
1 such speeds are tolerated. It
is a particularly dangerous
situation because the wont
offenders generally are In tbe
right-hand line, passing ears
In the center lane going only
moderately above the speed
limit
The traffic light at 24th
Street may have helped a
little, but already there have
been two accidents Involving
five cars since the lights were
toned on.
The police do a creditable
Job of stopping speeders
when, at infrequent Intervals,
they are stationed In this
area. There are so many
speeders that generally 'an
offender comes along within
five to 10 minutes of the time
the police car parks. Arrests
probably average four per
hour.
> Lack of sufficient
many time, did
"Wedon't want
policemen has been given as a
reason for tbe infrequency of
police Burvellance. This Is no
p i i
law- excuse for faiWtto enforce
those threats doubted ttwri.
breaking owner. , , , "';, laws designed to prevent
At that time Upper
•\ _ Olive Dougherty dangerous situations.
Township resJJied they would
OcQcnCtty However, when fines
need a treatment