Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-18
Around the Resorts
Hot Spell at Oceon City Puts Load on Ice Plant
o0% Of Business
In Cubes; Marlin
Catches Near 500
By William B. Cochran
spseiaI Correspondent Of The Star

speech correspondent ct The StuT
OCEAN CITY, Nd, July IT.
One Of this resorts most busting
businesses these steaming days
Is the Ocean City Ice q Coal Co.
Since outside the ice plant
the temperature registered In the
90s. coal was not the topic when
John p. Whaley. one Of the part
ners. was interviewed during the
recent super-hot spell.
This is the only ice plant here.
It supplies Ocean city with an
average Of 5000 tons Of block
ice and an equal amount Of ice
cubes and crushed ice per season.
AS Mr.. Wha1ey was being
questioned about the business,
car after car of resortites drove
up for bags Of ice cubes for soft
drinks. Beer sales in carry
away cartons were booming.
Massive 300-pound cakes of ice
were being pushed on trucks.
An ice cuber at the plant saws
large blocks into cubes for the
hotel and cafe trade.
On shing trips its the COM
pany's ice that Grams boat ice
chests to keep the catch sea fresh.
SportSmen pop their marlin
catch into the plants cold stor-
age until the trophy Is skinned
for the taxideFmist.
Commercial fishing outfits de-
pend on the plants ice for ship
ments.
The plants brine tanks regis
ter Is degrees. The room tenn
perature in the freezing room
registered "a the other day. as
Ocean City sweltered. Else
where there's a vast supply of
already frozen cakes. They
simmer pale lime color from
overhead electric lights. Bags Of
crushed ice in various sizes are
heaped in piles in the storage
rooms. The temperature there
is kept at a numbing % degrees.
In the old days, Mr.. Whaley
said, only block ice was sold.
Now 80 per cent of the business
is crushed ice and cubes.
Marlin Catches Neor 500
The marlin catches recorded
through July II totaled 465,
with about so per cent released.
The largest marlin recorded
to date is a 1882 FOUNDER
caught by William F. Lane,
Washington, on the Janet L,
Perry Simpson the skipper.
Planning to fish this week
end from boats chartered from
Capt. Talbot E. Bunting's docks
are: Col. Henry P. Carter, Ar
lington; DR.. William B. Hagan,
Mount Rainier; Edward C. Irby,
Alexandria; DR.. Raymond c.
Fields, Bethesda; Dean Mullican,
Silver Spring; w. C. Brecken-
ridge, Washington; Paul Sicily,
washington; N. w. Baxter,
Washington; Michael Ballos.
Takoma Park: Paul Null, Hy-
attsville. AS usual Osbourn
Owings, Washington realtor, will
be out for new conquests. He
caught the first billf1sh this
season.
Vernon Robey, Washington,
with his 5-pound, 9-ounce trout,
was one of the winners during
the second week of the Amateur
Fishing Contest. y The contest
with prizes for the best catch
is sponsored by the Ocean City
Mayor and City Council.
Resort Visitors
Among guests from Washing
ton this week end at Harrison
Hall are Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Eaton and family, Mrs. Marion
Duffy, Warren Price and E. j.
Brahm.
Recent guests at the Atlantic
Hotel included Howard B. Merz,
Mrs. Nell Skippon, Mrs. o. B.
Bowman, Milton M. Gross, Mo-
manned AL Yawer and Nazar Ell
Shawl, all from Washington;
Davis w. Morton, jr., Chevy
Chase, Md: William A. Macken-
zie, Falls Church; James Shan
non, Falls Church, and r. T.
Hutchinson, jr., Alexandria.
Recently at the Hamilton were
A. w. lansing. Arlington; Ed
ward Bucholz, Washington;
Ralph McAleer and children,
Washington, and Donald L. Fitz-
gerald, Falls Church.