•SUNSHINE,’ better known as Karen Fox, clowns around with Ron Rickard, right, leader of the Christian Clowning Workshop, and Rev. Jerry Ruff, pastor of Sea Isle City United Methodist Church.

“...Where the Child Is in Each of Us”

By Boh Shiles SEA ISLE CITY — Clowning around was the name of the game here Saturday when more than 35 gathered at the United Methodist Church for a special workshop on Christian Clowning. "The clown comes from tl\e heart where the dhild is in each of us," Ron Rickard, workshop leader said, gesturing toward the various faces taking shape as the students busily applied their makeup. "We each live with different faces, and a new face can take us anywhere we want." The workshop, attended by some from as far away as Sicklerville and Woodlynne. included the history of Christian clowning, philosophy of clowning, art of mime expressionT^haracter and faces of clown typey costum^design. and application of BibltfstudiefT^ ACCORDING TO Richard, a member of the Mqstep's Clowns of Port Monmouth, clowning as a means of spreading the gospel has become extremely popular over the last 20 years.

"People relate to a clown." he explained, noting that a down doesn’t threaten because it has no power and appears vulnerable. "A down never takes, it only gives," he said, adding that the mime clown is such a success at spreading the gospel because, "what people see they remember, and what they hear they often forget." Amid laughter and enthusiasm that filled the hall, the leader, whose clown name is Corky, explained that people are drawn to clowning as a means of freeing themselves so as to be able to express their true feelings. "TO BE A CLOWN you have to leave "whoyou are ... For many the new face is a >;arto live an adventure." Rickard said \Thc face comes from the heart," he ccmtinued, noting that even the make up of clowns has religious significance He pointed to the white-face as symbolizing death, and the color applied over the white base as representing life in a new form (Page 16 Please)

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COURT HOUSE — Two bounty Jail inmates were injured in o jail fight. One of them, Frank Carpenter of Atlantic City, suffered severe neck and chest wounds. The other, Jon Jude Dunphy of Philadelphia, had a head injury. Thdy had pleaded guilty to robbing former Wildwood Mayor Charles Masciarella and then turned state's witnesses against James F. Sawyer of Ventnor who was convicted of burglary and weapons charges. Beach Fees CAPE MAY — Disturbed by visitors’ reactions to increased beach fees this summer, the city council here is considering alternatives for next year. A study will be made to determine the feasibility of reducing the weekly tag price from $4 to $3 and establishing a low cost beach tag. Santa s Problem WILDWOOD — They have a problem in this city about getting Sahta Claus into it. A promoter wants to transport him via helicopter, but Mayor Guy MUziani said that would violate city ordinances. Another Santa Claus is coming by fire truck. That’s legal, as long as the fire truck isn’t needed to put out a Wildwood fire. No one has yet suggested a sleigh. 7 Year Term ’ COURT HOUSE — A seven year prison term was given Frank Charles Hughes of Westville in Superior Court here for setting fire to a Wildwood apartment building in June. An accomplice, Gerald Joseph Liccio of Westville, received 14 years last month for his role. Shrimp Boats LOWER TOWNSHIP - The shrimp boats aren’t coming in Lower and Middle Townships. Police say a man has been taking shrimp orders at $75 a box from residents of these two towns and then has been disappearing with the money, never to return with the shrimp. Anyone with information should (fall Lower Township police at 886-2711 or Middle Township police at 465-7803. Nuclear Arms COURT HOUSE — A resolution calling for a bilateral freeze on nuclear arms was passed by the Board of Freeholders with the qualifying statement that the board "is resolved to support the best interests of our country." Freeholder Jack Bittner said: "I wouldn’t want (other na(F&gC 16 Please •

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THE GODSPELL CAST at Wildwood Catholic rehearses in preparation for Friday night s opener in the high school auditorium. North Wildwood. Show times are 8:15 Nov 19, 20, 21 and 24. See story inside. ——■— Gape May Version Saturday Night Live

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By JaroK Schaad Jr. RIO URANDE) — If you’re a smoker and get a special phone call tomorrow, the chances are you’ll Ik* a statistic / Tomorrow is the day of the iGreat American Smokeout, a lime when the American Cancer Society places special emphasis on kicking the smoking habit, a habit it pdTnts out contributes to at least 80 per cent.of lung capcer cases among those yho,polish off a pack or more a day A telephone survey will take place in Cape May County tomorrow by the county’s chapter of the American Cancer Society. Some 20 names will be selected at random out of the phone book and thp people called will be asked if they smoke, if they know abodt the day and if they plan to (Page 16 Please)

By Jacob Schaad Jr. AVALON — Every Saturday night for ^ four hours many Cape May County residents turn back their clocks as much as 50 years to a time when their home entertainment emerged from a box without pictures. For them it is Saturday Night Live, radio version, and it brings fond memories of radio shows that featured the music of such Big Bands as Glenn Miller, Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman and many more. It is a nostalgia trip for them, a time to relive an era when music was a temporary refuge from poverty and then war. THE KING OF NOSTALGIA in Cape May County is Dick Alliger and his program, "The Make Believe Ballrodfti," is — notice Because of the Thanksgiving holiday. look for next week’s issue at your favorite newsstand a day earlier, on Tuesday Nov. 23. Also, the news and advertising deadlines are being moved up one day, Nov. 17 for news, Nov. 18 for advertising.

the hottest radio show in this area. According to Arbitron, a polling company for radio stations, Alliger’s program over WWOC (FM stereo 94) has more than half the listeners of all the radio stations in Cape May County. Alliger. a native of Germantown. Pa. who later got his early radio training in Bucks County, has been collecting Big Band records since 1946. He has over 10,000 of them in his home in Strathmere, one of them a 1931 Isham Jones Victor recording. It is one of the most complete collections on the East Coast. Alliger’s show from 8 p.m. to midnight Is morf* than that of a disc jockey spinning records. He creates a live atmosphere o^ being present at such old favorite (jancing emporiums as the Glen Island Casino, the Mcadowbrook and New York’sr Hotel* Astor, from which big band broadcasts

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He, in fact, has created a fictitious bandleader, Hiram Chittcndom, to whom he makes comments, unanswered, of course, during his radio show. Hiram was "off the show" for three weeks and’Alliger wondered where he disappeared to. One listener wrote that she saw him in the Rio

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Dorn Worii MIDDLE TOWNSHIPS Mitch Nichols snares a pass while Ocean City’s Bill Bowman (No. II) moves up on him. The Red Raiders defeated Middle. 9-7 in strangest ’football game. Loss knocked Middle Township out of league championship. For details, see today’s inflUNtaHmnuK