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J by Kathleen Duffy J

If you've run out of trivia questions or have committed most of your Trivial Pursuit questions and answers to memory, you may want to use some of these New Jersey History Trivia Questions to supplement your games or for those final question rounds. Where was the 1903 silent film claasic The Great Train Mobbery shot? (Patersol, N.J., along the Lackawmnna Railroad tracks). In what New Jersey town did the Martians supposedly land in the famous Halloween Eve Orson Welles radio broadcast? (Grovers Mill, 1938). WHAT FAMOUS 19th Century showman organized a Grand Wild Buffalo Hunt in Hoboken, N.J., in 1843? (P.T. Barnum and 24,000 people came to Hoboken to witness the event, which was disastrous for those who attended. The buffalo calves ran wild among the crowd, who were forced to flee or climb trees. Several persons were injured, and one man was killed falling from a tree he had^climbed to escape in the panic.) The first boardwalk was constructed by Alex Boardman and opened in 1870. Where was it? (Atlantic City.) The first communications satellite was launched in 1962. It was designed and built by Bell Laboratories of Murray Hill. What was it called? (Teistar). JOSEPH DIXON invented and produced something which is found in virtually every home, school, and office. What is t it? (The modern, woodcased graphite pencil was first manufactured by him, and first mass-produced in Jersey City during the Civil War, when they became popular with soldiers.) What Newark-born writer, author of stories "The Blue Hotel" and "The Bride Comes to Yellow *Sky," is chiefly remembered for a famous novel of the Civil War? (Stephen Crane, author of The Red Badge of Courage .) Where was the first "drive-in" movie theatre located? (Camden, N.J.) Where was Pa u 1 Robeson, the black scholar, actor, singer, reformer and athlete, born? (Princeton, N.J.). , WHERE WAS America's first Indian Reservation? (The first officially constituted Indian reservation in this country was Brotherton, a tract of 3,284 acres at Edgepillock, Shamong Township, New Jersey. It was established

in 1758 by an act of the Legislature, and continued until 1801, when the remaining Lenni Lenape Indians were invited by a New York State group of Indians to join them on their land near Oneida Lake.) What professional baseball player from New Jersey served as a special agent for President Franklin Roosevelt during Word War II? (Moe Berg, who played for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Chicago White Sox, and Boston Red Sox, performed secret undercover assignments in Europe during the war. Berg, born in NYC, was raised in Newark and attended Princeton University.) WHERE AND when was the first baseball game played? (at Hoboken, N.J., in 1846.) Where was the famous duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton fought? (Weehawken, N.J., on July 11, 1804). What was the first National Historic Park established in the U.S.? (Morristown National Historic Park in 1933 by act of Congress commemorating Washington's winter encampments there ill 1777 and 1779.) , What famous gun was first manufactured in Paterson, N.J.? (The Colt Revolver. Samuel Colt chartered the Colt Patent Arms Manufacturing Co. in Paterson in 1836.) The first whiskey distilled in the U.S. was brewed in New Jersey. It is still produced today. What is it called? (Apple Jack, known as Jersey Lightning. ) A SINGER with the "Hoboken Four", got his start on the Major Bowes amateur radio hour in 1936. Today, he is called "Chairman of the Board" and is known worldwide for his music. Who is he? (Frank Sinatra) Congress voted to make a New Jersey city Capital of £he United States on Dec. 23, 1784. What city was this? (Trenton). New Jersey has a "birthday". What year was it born? (On June 23, 1664, the Duke of York presented a deed for the tract of land called "Nova Caesarea, or New Jersey" to Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. The name paid homage to Carteret's defense of the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel during the British Civil War.) These questions and their answers were compiled by the New Jersey Historical Society in a booklet entitled "New Jersey Trivia."

Joyride III By Libby Demp Forrest

A little sister break-danced in the dorm hallway. Two brothers wrestled on the hood of their parents' car.. It was homecoming weekend at #l's college and families were getting together again. The Hubby, #2 son, #3 step-daughter and I had gone to the football game looking for #1 son. We huddled on bleachers trying to keep warm, drinking coffee and hot chocolate, and munching hot dogs "Let's go sit on the other side of the field," The Hubby said. "The sun is on that side." "I'm not going to sit over there," said #2 son. "That's terrible to sit with the enemy." "IT'S JUST A football game," said The Hubby. "I don't want to sit there either," said ,3 step-daughter. "The boys are much cuter on this side of the field." I studied the floats looking for #1 son. He had phoned the day before and said he was going to stay up all night helpJ ing to decorate a float, but I had forgotten to ask which float. "You'd think a mother would know her own flesh and blood," I said as one float after another passed. I took a walk around the field to keep my toes from getting numb. I STUDIED EACH passing float, looking for #1 son. I had nearly reached the last float when I heard a kid call down, "Hi, Mom." I looked up and there was #1 son hanging onto a float dressed as a gangster. Dark shirt, white tie, dark glasses and a broad brimed hat. He threw down a pom pom. I picked it up and immediatealy felt twenty-five years younger. I shook it and waved it, and stuck it under my hat. That took off another five years. I ran back to the bleachers and reported to The Hubby that I had found #2 on the float. "I hope it's warmer up there than it is down here," said The Hubby. #2 had joined The Hubby on the enemy's side. "The cutest girls are over here," said #2. "That doesn't say much for school loyalty," I said. #1 JOINED US after the half time. "How come you guys are on this side of the field?" he asked. "Do you want to dome to the dorm and see my room?" • On the door to #1 's room were the names of his roo mates — "Psycho" — "Wierdo" — "Savage" — and of course, #1, "Stud". "I feel like I'm walking around in a comic book," I said, watching the little sister break-dance in the hallway. "What do you think homecoming weekend is anyhow?" asked #1 son.

Rx Health Walcht by Dr. Robert C. Beitman

The urinary tract is the subject of our next series of articles. One of our major systems for circulating body fluids, the importance of fluid processing and in- , take should not be taken for granted. From kidney disease to painful bladder infections to several forms of cancer, this bodily systems requires proper preventive medicine on your part to function at its best. WE WILL first consider how the urinary tract works, and then review each of the major disorders associated with it. These include bladder and kidney stones, tumors, cysts, infection, inflammation and injury. Some people erroneously believe that urine comes only from the fluids they drink. In fact, urine derives its fluids in a very complex way. After food is broken down ' in the digestive tract into energy substances, these then pass into the bloodstream to be utilized for energy. YOUR CELLS drain the energy substances of nutrition, leaving behind only waste particles, "body garbage" if you will. This waste material must be removed from the body, otherwise it acts like a poison, as it accumulates. The bloodstream carries the waste to the kidney's which work as filters to remove the waste and then combine it with excess water the system didn't need for the other functions.

This substance is called "urine". Liquid waste combines with water, allowing the body to shed it by urination. THE KIDNEYS are fascinating structures, filled with over a million tiny filtering units called "glomeruli". From each kidney a narrow muscular tube, the "ureter", carries the urine down to the bladder for temporary storage. Kidneys are located at the back of the abdomen, just above the waist, on each side of the spine. The bladder has flexible, elastic walls which expand as it fills with urine and contract to push the urine out. The bladder lies in the pelvis just behind the pubic bone. THE "URETHRA" is the tube through which the urine travels to leave our bodies from the bladder. As one might readily imagine, in women the urethra is quite short and totally internal, lying just in front of the reproductive organs. The male urethra is both internal and external, running through the penis and then into the body, total of some 10 inches. Semen also passes through the male urethra. Next week we will begin our discussion of urinary tract disorders. Health Watch is a public education product of the Cape May County Unit of the American Cancer Society of which Dr. Beitman is president elect.

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GIFT TO SCHOOL — Sister Joellen Marie, center, principal of St. Joseph's School, Sea Isle City, holds check for $360 donated to school by Police Benevolent Association Local 59. which was delivered by Patrolman Steven O'Connor of Stone Harbor, at j-ear. Left to right are students Joseph Worley, 7, son of Carol W or ley of Court House; Dan Spindler, son of Mr and Mrs. John Spindler of Stone Harbor; Denise LaManna, II, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vince LaManna of Stone Harbor, and Sarah Taylor. 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Taylor of Avalon.

From The Principal By Stanley Kotzen

| Principal, Lower Cape May Regional High School

Talking with Chris Marinozzi is not much different from talking with any other youngster who is a senior at Lower Cape May Regional. He is a better than average student who is a member of the National Honor Society and has a special interest in mathematics and computers. , Currently, he is working hard to make the Honor Roll with courses in calculus, physics, and advanced programming and he plans to go to college next year. CHRIS LIKES Pop Music, Top 40's variety. Dungeons and Dragons. and an occasional Saturday morning cartoon. J. R. Tolkien is his favorite author, and he comes to school dances occasionally on Friday night. He doesn't dance, and he never will, because he is wedded to a 270-pound electric wheelchair, — a victim of Amytonia Congenita, a congenital form of muscular dystrophy. Oh yes, and he never ' complains ! CHRIS' WORLD is more than a little different from yours and mine. With his father Eld Marinozzi and Betty Stankiewicz, he has lived in the Villas and been a student here since seventh grade"; According to him. Regional was a welcome change from Old Forge School for. the handica poped in Wallingford, Delaware County, Pa. where Chris spent the first six years of his schooling. Since moving here he has made and kept a close group of friends with whom heplaysthe fantasy/strategy game Dungeons and Dragons on a regular basis. The daily routine of his life, however, is the stuff of real courage. His loved ones prepare him for each day and help him into his chair. On school days the bus arrives with the elevator door and he is on his way. 1 AFTER SCHOOL and on i weekends his dad picks up

the chair and folds it into the car whenever the family goes ouL Wherever they go, Chris Ws his wheels. In school, he follows a , regular schedule and scoots through the halls as unobtrusively as possible. Instead of physical education he spends that class period tutoring four students in math. He is truly a wonder to behold, not because he is so special, but because he is so ordinary. If there ever was an embodiment of the triumph of mind over body. Chris Marinozzi is it. Whether his manner and approach to life comes from resignation or determination, his daily demeanor, his attitude toward school and his classmates and teachers, his good humor, all reflect a view of life that makes all of us who see him every day substantially richer. HE IS A treasured asset in this school because he goes about his business doing the best that he can, and he is a constant reminder to all of us that we spend too much time embroiled in complaining and pettiness. There is no way that you or I will ever know the brutal moments of anguish and despair that he and his family probably experience often, but that is because they don't want us to know. What it would be nice to know is where they get the stamina and how Chris has developed that will to face every day making all of those around him com for table with his presence. With him here, we can daily experience a triumph of the human spirit, and we can benefit from the sight and knowledge of a courage that transcends the relatively sballow nature of our own disap^ point men ts He puts things into perspective for us. It is ironic that with Chris Marinozzi's fragile little body rolling through our halls each day he enables each of us at Lower to stand a little taller.