12,1995 USPS 402420 THIRTY-FIVE CENTS Your Town Arsonists Arrested for Belmar Harbor Commission Ready Pages Series of Fires in Ocean Grove
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Serving Our Loyal Readers Since 1875 “3TZZ0 TN ‘MdWd AfcinaSb ■3AW 133Id OOS a n onand vtawd Ahinasw Z6/T3/SI 9TT0 I I VOL. CXX NO. 2 TOWNSHIP OF NEPTUNE, N.J. THURSDAY, JANUARY 12,1995 USPS 402420 THIRTY-FIVE CENTS Your Town Arsonists Arrested For Belmar Harbor Commission Ready pages Series Of Fires In Ocean Grove Officials Sworn In. Firemen Answer Three Calls In Four Hours Aionmouth County Left - Fire Ocean Grove - The fire significantly more damage to page 10 raging at tent alarms were heard Tuesday the two tents located there structure on night on three separate oc and much of the interior of Bradley Beach IBooks Bethany Block. casions. Each instance her the tents and personal prop alded fires in the historic tent To Summer season Below - erty was destroyed. district of Ocean Grove, for pages Fireman The third fire occurred at tunately unoccupied in the inspect 14 Front Circle at 10:20 P.M. winter. A total of six tents E.H. Stokes and Wash damage after were affected by the fires, ington Fire Companies and Former Members subduing but only three really suffered the Neptune Police were at Honored In Neptune blaze. significant fire damage. the scene and patrolled the page? Fire Chief Herb Deuchar area. Shortly after the told The Times that the first second fire, the police ar alarm sounded at 6:11 P.M. rested two suspects. Thom for a fire at 2-3 Mt. Zion Way. as Joseph Milani, age 18, of Firemen who investigated at 17 New York Avenue, and a the scene determirjed that juvenile from Asbury Park the fire was suspicious and were charged with four ♦hat dry leaves had been counts of aggravated arson ignited. $ince the fire was set and were remanded to the underneath the tents, most detention center in Freehold. of the damage was to the The two suspects when floor and supports, but there questioned denied setting probably was damage as the fires, but witnesses iden well to the plumbing'System. tified them as being seen Flames were seen leap loitering in the area. There ing around the bottom edges are no suspects currently of the tent, but firemen charged with the third fire. responded in time and the PtI. Ken Whritenour and Ptl. fire did not proceed too far Richard Blades were the along the walls. arresting officers. Leading The second fire was re ported at 8:07 P.M. at 5 Continued on Page 4 Bethany Block. This fire did Page 2 Reader ^ D A IL Y ^ SAt S ^ O O B AH Seats ^ & SUN ^ ■ ------------- THE------------- Stock £ s £ u J t MAIN STREET* BRADLEY BEACH THE KING HAS RETURNED! Turns THE ^ PARAMOUNT RE-BORN Barber JLIONKING oy Denise Herscel have pronounced us dead. The revitalization of As M o n d a y Is D a te N Ie b t But I just want to say to bury Park has begun. This them, 'No, we are not dead, past Sunday a milestone we are back." took place as the city cele As Sunday's attendance brated the reopening of its record proved with nearly historical Paramount Theater, one thousand present and once home to thousands of ticket sales totalling $22,000 concert, movie, vaudeville at press time. and Theater-goers. For the The nearly sixty-five past 18 months, the monu year-old theater opened its mental theater has lay amidst doors on July 11, 1930 as ruin, the victim of fire and pari of Sam Katz's Publix code violations. Now, with Theater chain. It was a gala the aid of $1 million dollars evening with 1600 seats and utilized for repairs and refur an array of stars in atten bishing, and the help of dance including Fredric Youth United for Christ Mass Choir of Asbury Park dedicated city employees March, Ginger Rogers, Car The first performers at the new Paramount. and volunteers, the landmark ole Lombard, Nancy Carroll, theater has received a Ed Wynn and Charles "Bud second chance at survival, Concert Reveiw dy" Rogers. There was a 40 breathing life into the city’s Above - foot by 27 foot stage, 15 Arts & Lifestyles much needed waterfront de Guests arrive at the dressing rooms, and hun velopment. page 12 Paramount. dreds of pounds of structural "For the city, the re Left - Asbury Park steel used in the construc opening was like a long Councilman Angelo tion of the theater. The Paramount Re-Opens overdue blood transfusion," Chinnici, Event Master The first film shown at said Asbury park Mayor Pat A Pictorial of Ceremonies, onstage the Paramount theater was with Asbury Park Mayor ricia Candiano, "Asbury Park "Love Among the Million Patricia Candiano. suffers from a bad reputa ''*'arp Eye of The Times aires," starring Clara Bow. tion. We hear it is not safe; jaTan n . 12, 1995 o a g e 15 Vol.120, No.2 F & it is not clean. Our critics Continued on Page 6 PAGE 2 THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1995 C t) e ® ( m e s Stock Broker Turns Barber My by Richard Gibbons Answer Ocean Grove made extensive improvements to its infra by Billy Graham structure in 1895. Ocean Grove firemen fought one of the worst fires in DEAR DR. GRAHAM; Does the Bible say that some day the district in 1895. the world will end? From what I can tell life on this planet The Ocean Grove Auditorium installed a handsome is going to continue for a long, long time, unless we poison organ in 1895. the environment or something. - W.R. One of Ocean Grove’s largest hotels, the Majestic, was DEAR W.R.: The Bible does say that at some time in the erected in 1895. future life on this planet as we now know it will come to an end. "By the same word the present heavens and earth are It was a busy year. reserved for fire" (2 Peter 3:7). However, there are several The above items and many more were culled in a re things we need to remember about this statement. search into the history of the Grove of 100 years ago. The First, the Bible makes it clear that no person knows when Auditorium was celebrating its first anniversary that year and this will take place. (That’s one reason why you shouldn’t was still the talk of the East as the thousands came to wor believe the predictions of those who say the world must ship services, concerts and conventions. end definitely by the year 2000, for example). Jesus said, “No on knows about that day or hour, not even the angels President Ellwood Stokes admitted in his annual report in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. Therefore near the end of 1895 that since the Auditorium had been keep watch, because you do not know on what day your completed, "some felt like saying ‘let us stop and rest.’" Lord will come" (Matthew 24:36,42) No way, said he. His next challenge was to move up Second, the world will not end one second before God "further rungs of the ladder" leading to a GO LDEN JUBILEE intends for it to happen! The future is in God's hands, and in 1919 and "even further summits." that includes the time when He will bring our present era to an end. Ocean Grove was the total community, with its own But there is the third truth; The end of the world will not water, electric and sewer utilities. The Camp Meeting chose be an end - but a beginning! When Christ comes again Left to Right - Ron A. Kacsmar, brother, Ron C. Kacsmar, that year 1895 to build all-new electric and water stations. He will establish His Kingdom and usher in an era of peace father, George Moffet, councilman, Janet Macinnes, Feeding off the various artesian wells, the water station was and justice. “But in keeping with his promise we are look CouncUwoman, Paul Kacsmar, owner, Steve Schneler, capable of delivering 1,711,720 gallons per day - far more ing forward to a new heaven and a new earth, the home or righteousness" (2 Peter 3:13). mayor, George DeNardo, councilman, and Robert Schmidt, than the needs of those days, when daily consumption was friend. The future is in God’s hands; history as we know it may about 285,000 gallons. The investment in the new facilities end tonight - or a million years from now. But there are After 7 years of the brokerage business. Paul Kacsmar amounted to more than $43,000.00. signs that the time is much sooner rather than later. Are said "enough!". "It was a great educational experience, At the beginning of the year, there was still a note for you ready for that day? Have you trusted Christ as your Savior? If not, don't be caught unprepared but give your but it was time to move on to bigger and better things." $3,000.00 outstanding as s result of the cost of the new Auditorium built in 1894. Many pledges had proved uncol life to Him today. says Paul. But why a barber shop? "Actually, it was basic lectible, but by season’s end more than $1,000.00 had "MY ANSWER" column is brought to you by St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, Ocean Grove economics that made the decision for me," Paul explains, come in to reduce that shortfall. "about ten years ago the state changed the requirements, W e’re getting long here. Next week we’ll get back to making it extremely difficult for men to become barbers.