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dr. r', 'Wmt vv -vyr Vv'-vv -1-ry, Hr r. V- -J i at (' t- 1 1 i By LORI GERLOFF Staff Writer. VISITORS TO HAUNTED, HOUSE head, for exit as they seek relief from Black and White Room where a strobe light is employed to make all mqvement appear to be in slow motion on film. It's a crisp autumn evening.

A full, 'milky moon hangs suspended with a few puffs of clouds 'to the midst of darkness.1 The streets are empty and all is stilL The eerie silence is suddehljr pierced byun-nerving screams of term that chill the spines of creatures lurking in the shadows. Campus Life Is at it again. For the fourth consecutive Halloween season, the Haunted House, billed as Halloweens terrify-: mg experience, is being sponsored and produced by Youth for Christ Campus Life of the greater Long Beach area. i Located at the cornier of South and Orange, the Haunted House is a single-story structure rented from ft. rooms, two special effects rooms and two mazes, and features strange characters and monsters staged with special lighting and sound effects.

Plans! for this year's Haunted House began in June, and actual construction was completed in' only four weeks by Goehner, his staff and 100 college The finished product includes a graveyard, a swamp-zoom with a moving bridge, black and white room with strobe lights, a wolfman and headless monsters. The purpose of foe Haunted House is to provide a wholesome (evening of activity for teen-agers at a( time traditionally, vandalism and loitering are high among young people," explained Goehner. 23,000 people were frightened by last years Haunted House tour, and Campus Life netted $16,000 from foe effort. Goehner hopes to have visitors a 'PROCEEDS FROM tours will go directly to the Campus Life program and pay staff salaries. Youth for Christ Campus Life is an interdenominational, youth program designed to present Christian living to from 15 area high schools.

The Campus life staff, comprised of seven salaried members and 60 volunteers, is involved in counseling high school students and sponsoring camps, conferences and city-wide events. Youth for Qirist is an international. organization with wane 250 Church'." DRACULA, Leo Rubio, gets face makeup put on by And Cervantes before going to post in Campus Life Haunted.Iftjuse, PUBLIC TOURS of the spooked dwelling will be? conducted Umight and Saturday night, again Monday through Oct 28 and Oct 30 and 31. The Haunted House-opens at 7 p.m. and tours cost 11.50.

Children under 12 must.be1 accompanied 'by, a parent Don Goehner, executive' director, of Campus Life, described the tour: Although the exit to the bouse is only about 35 feet from the entrance, guests will have walked the equiva-1 lent, of an entire city block by the time they've completed the tour." to her red, white and blue Wonder Woman in foe space of a single comic-book picture. She was a princess, the only daughterof Quern ruledover the The spirit of Athena appeared before the queen -and told her: American liberty and freedom must be preserved! You must send (her) your strongest and wisest Amazon foe finest of your Wonder Women! for America, the last citadel of democra- cy. and of equal rights for women, needs yoart help!" And so off went the princess, embarking on a c- reer of derring-to that continues to this day, monthly. 1 Wonder Women's finest years, in foe opinion or- -her dose were in foe forties, before Mar- ston died and foe strip passed into other hands. By CAROLYN MeDOWELL NEW YORK As lovely as Aphrodite as wise as Athena 'with the speed of Mercury and foe strength of Herculei she is known only as Wonder Woman The comic-book' heroine of schoolgiils in the 1940s, foe female equivalent of Superman and BaU manWonder Woman will soon step from foe pages' of the comic book" and appear as -foe heroine of a text-and-picture book, sandwiched between fendmst essays by Gloria Steinem andlDr.

Phyllis Chesler, a psychologist. "Wonder Woman is strong and she's'good and she's a valid role-model for girl children." said Joanne Edgar, who sparked foe Wonder Woman, renaissance with a recent article in Ms. Magazine, Now Holt. Rinehart A Winston has assembled 160 pages of. -vintage comics and will publish them next month under the title Wonder Woman.

Iris Freelaader opened ker Park Estates home for the afternoon, daring wUek.PfayIBS Tarman was honored for her dedication to the Sandlarks Christmas Fantasy. She has donated aa entry every year for 16 years. Last year she won Best Amateur award. While we are oa the subject, foe Fantasy hill be. held at the Elks Club agate this year.

Opening night by reservation only but the next night, Nov. 30th. pubHe is cordially Invited. For the price of a dollar, you can see a million dollar spectacular. If you are clever, talented, artistic and wilUag to take hours tf your' time to make and donate, aa arrangement for fob year, get in tench with Dorothy (Mrs.

Leo) NeaL' Bqck lathe luncheon. st Marybetb Bailey, who mahagea Naplet Nureety and Garden Shop Showed foe gals how to make and care for those aU-the-rage-terrariiuns. Hostess crew for foe day included Edith Bindley, JUST HOURS off a plane from an Hawaiian idyll, Marie Todd surprised her husband. Bill, with a birthday dinner and 40 guests. Invitations were sent and arrangements made, before the Todds left on their trip but even with advance planning, the last minute, top-secret details were numerous and harrowing.

But when Bifi walked in the door on the birthday every detail was perfect from the antheriums hand carried on foe plane, for Marie) to foe huge birthday. cake centering puffet: table and the guesU were properly hidden away. Among those hiding were Dr. Mac: and Roth Todd, Dr. Vera and Eldred Brickey, their apn, Vera Jr, and his wife, Pat (foe Todds daughter), Don and JUl Wallace, Bill and Margaret Wallace, Dr.

Bob ana Martha Schumacher, Week and Marjorie Morgan, Dr. Bob and Marjorie Albright, Roger and Norma Dunn, Jerry and Helen' Cassidy, Dr. Bob and Betty Frankenfeld and Jim and Mary Willingham. Also foe Todds other daughter, came home from UCLA for the occasion. Special plaudits go to Chrisi Todd.

age 9. She discovered foe secret of foe surprise party and gave an academy award winning performance keeping it. A If we had all read more about Wonder Woman and less about Dick and Jane, the new wave the feminist revolution might have less pain-, fully and sooner. Miss Steinemwrites in ker introductory essay. 1-.

V. 1 vWonder Woman symbolizes many of foe values of the womens cultare that feminists are now trying to introduce into the mainstream: strength and self-reliance for women, sisterhood and mutual support among women, peacefulness and esteem for human life, a diminishment both of masculine aggression and of foe belief that violence is the only way of solving conflicts. 7, RIGHT FROM the beginning, she had many use lul skills. As Miss Steinem recalls: being an Amt-' zon, she had a head start, (through) training, jtf reek-style contests of dexterity and speed with tor Amazon sisters. This beautiful Amazon did have some fantastic' gadgets to help her: an invisible plane carried, her through dimension of time and apace, a golden' magic lasso and bullet-proof bracelets.

Bat she Jiad to get to the plane, throw foe lasso with accurfri': ey and be agile enough to catch bullets on the steeH enclosed s'-r itr In the war years. Wonder Woman spent much ot, her time defending the United States from foe Axis. VShe is the only female comic strip character that is an individual female in her own Miss; Edgar observed to an interview, and foe things said were so fantastic': the whole thing was depend--ing on yourself and your own strengths. The book, which will be priced at $195, is being: edited st Holt by Marian Wood. It has been desinatr ed a Ms.

book, end Holt executives say that Ms. Magazine is to share in the royalties and Jean Ingham. NOTES ON foe younger set A brand-new freshman at Goucher College in Towson. Md. is.

Lakewood graduate, Nancy Turner, daughter of foe James Turners; THE OBJECT of all this admiration burst upon the American scene in 1941: the creation of a psy-j i chologist named William Moulton Marston, using foe pen name Charles Moulton. After comparing tor to Aidmodite and Hercules, Marston outlined the, origins of foe broad-shoulder- ed, bteck-haired young woman who could strip down ANDCLOSER to hame Tom Lyons of Long Beach City Callage received a check from Abigails (women's committee of Long Beach Commanity Playhouse) to farther Us work as a theater arts student. "HARVEY; Wallbaagert made a return engage- -meat at the Sandlarks (Long Beach AaxiHary far the Childrens Heme Society) fall taacheon far associate members. i 9: -r v-. d' -x fi i' i 9 5 4 7 x-' S' I fl- if I..