Vol. 23 - No. 4
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1,000th Hindenburg Passenger Recalls Memories Lighthouse International Film Festival Kicks Off Page 5.
Community News! Don’t miss what’s happening in your town. Pages 10-15.
Letters To The Editor Page 8.
From Your Government Officials Page 9.
Doctor Izzy Resisting Hearing Help Page 18.
Dear Pharmacist Page 19.
Inside The Law Page 27.
Classified Ads Page 24.
Wolfgang Puck Page 31.
–Photos courtesy Springs Close Family Archives Left, a platter made out of duralumin, the same metal used to build the Hindenburg’s support structure, was given to Anne Springs Close’s mother for being the 1,000th passenger. Right, Anne Springs Close, her mother Frances Ley Springs and brother Sonny after arriving in Lakehurst, New Jersey on the Hindenburg airship in 1936. By Sara Grillo L A K E H U R ST – Powdered milk, a glass smoking booth and jigsaw puzzles. That’s how childhood Hindenburg passenger Anne Springs Close might sum up her three-and-a-half-day journey on the German airship 81 years ago.
Close was only 10 years old when she set foot on the 804-footlong airship after spending the summer of 1936 in Germany with her family. Her father, a pilot in World War 1 who was an ace for first the British then the Americans, flew back home
on the German Zeppelin that July. He then sent her mother, Frances Ley Springs, a cablegram that said it was perfectly safe – bring the family! “My mother went and bought five tickets, and somehow she got ticket number 1,000,” said Close, adding that they
made a little “to do” about it in Frankfurt, presenting her mother with a platter made out of duralumin, the same lightweight aluminum metal used in the Hindenburg support structure. It was the Hindenburg’s last flight that summer. (Passenger - See Page 4)
Bobby Rydell Talks About Second Chances At Toms River Library
By Bob Vosseller TOMS RIVER – Susan Toms of Forked River spent a few hours at the Toms River branch of the Ocean County Library on May 7 awaiting the arrival of her idol, singer, actor and more recently, author, Robert Ridarelli, better known
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as “Bobby Rydell.” Toms had first met the performer in 1965 at the Suntan Hotel in Wildwood Crest, N.J. “I was 17 at the time,” Toms said while looking at a poolside photograph of Rydell and her. (Rydell - See Page 21)
Taxes Down In Manchester
By Jennifer Peacock MANCHESTER – Mayor Kenneth Pal mer provided details to the p r o p o s e d 2017 municipal budget that was adopted at the May 8 council meeting. T he ave r age –Photo by homeowner, whose Jennifer Peacock house is valued at $158,500, will see Mayor Kenneth Palmer their municipal tax discusses the township bill decrease, from budget. $1,031.20 to $1,031.04. That’s the lowest tax rate residents have seen since 2013. The total budget is $33,906,697, an increase of $781,903 from last year’s budget of $33,124,794.63. The local tax levy will see a decrease of $76,381.70, from last year’s $21,246,283.15 to this year’s $21,169,901.45. “This budget allows to continue investing in Manchester’s infrastructure by continuing our (Budget - See Page 4)
Hindenburg Tragedy Remembered During 80th Anniversary Ceremony
By Bob Vosseller LAKEHURST – It happened 80 years ago but it remains a point of local fascination and is seen by many as a turning point in aeronautical engineering. It put the borough and Ocean County on the global map. Several hundred people came out to remember the event which took the lives of
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36 people involved with the final flight of the DLZ -129 Hindenburg. Military personnel, public officials, historians and those simply curious came out on the evening of May 6 to the grounds of the Lakehurst Naval Air Station where the explosion and crash occu r red eight decades ago. A (Ceremony - See Page 26)
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