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People Section Saturday, August 13, 1083 WBM vmWA mm Fingerprinting for children In cooperation with the Adam Walsh Foundation, lUh dine will be offering fingerprinting for children, tW Wednesday and Saturday, from 1 to 4 p.m., through Auout Bring your children, and their to the Children's Department of Burdines, Melbourne. L11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111W bssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssbH sbbbbbbbbbbbbMIsBS MBBBaftsiyillllllsesaesw 'iIjeK IBBjjjBBPWPaWB1; fjCJMJpSroaJBypBeP PW TODAY Photo by Mlchool R. nm If Mark It Personal Ruth Bell Smith Easy to eat on stamps for a week I know It's been a couple of week since Agriculture Secretary John Block's grand experiment to demonstrate the adequacy of $58 In food stamps to feed a family of four for seven days. But the questions are still hammering in my head. Did the Blocks make sandwiches out of sliced cheese that was part of their publicized shopping list totaling Did they just slap a piece of cheese between two hunks of bread or did they add lettuce or tomato and mayo? And If so, did they compute the cost of those items or just figure what the heck', they were already in the fridge? Did they put mustard on their baloney? Did they flour the beef roast they bought and brown it in shortening? It had to be a pot roast because nobody on a $58 budget could swing an oven roast that one could get a fork Into.

When they brought the meat home from the store, took it out of the plastic wrapper and turned it over, did they perhaps discover that gristle and bone made up a greater percentage of the poundage than they had suspected? Did they then have to add a few extra carrots or potatoes to make up for the difference, and did that throw the whole week out of kilter? What about the extras? I wonder if the hamburger was made Into a casserole and If the added noodles and cream of mushroom soup came with the week's' shopping allowance or if they were, already on the shelf? If the1 hamburger was made Into patties, were they eaten on buns with held over ketchup or served a la 'chopped steak with vegetables or a salad? By any chance, did Mrs. Block wind up with smaller patties than she had anticipated, as I sometimes do when the fat and water are drained from the plain old hamburger in my broiler pan? And what would she have done with the stuff if the stove had been shut off for lack of utility payments? Did she or Mr. Block add sugar to their coffee and tea? Was there toast for breakfast and was It spread with margarine? Was the chicken cooked with salt and pepper and maybe even a piece of onion or a stalk of celery? Were all these things totaled into the cost for the week? If the Block's daughter had had a male friend instead of a female friend as a table guest all week, would Mrs. Block have had to cut down on her own to allow for the Increased requirements of a larger person? Suppose Mr. Block had become ill and the doctor had said he must avoid fats and be on a strict diet.

Could Mrs. Block have substituted the one chicken, for the beef, the hamburger, the peanut butter and the cheese? If the Block daughter had been a small child with different nutritional needs for 'growing, would she have gotten enough fresh fruits and green leafy vegetables, wholegrain cereals and breads, eggs, mik, If the Blocks had conducted this experiment for seven weeks instead of seven days, would keeping up with the unexpected or unplanned ever have put them behind? Would they ever have bogged down In the constant calculations and time required to live that way from month to month? We'll never know, of course. But thinking of the experiment, I somehow keep remembering the time when my husband and I ran out of groceries and money simultaneously at school one year. Oh, there was food in the house, and a check was expected the. next day, but we knew that eating until then would require ingenuity.

We had no meat or vegetables, but we trusted that we'd find something that would tide us over. Out of everything We decided on peanut butter sandwiches but discovered we had no bread or crackers. I found a little cereal in the bottom of the box but' remembered that we were out of milk. Someone had left a bunch of fresh rhubarb on our doorstep the day before, but we couldn't even cook that yet. We had no sugar.

"Could we make some pancakes?" asked my husband hopefully, holding up a bottle of syrup. "No flour," I grinned wryly. We munched on the dry cereal and ate a couple of spoonfuls of peanut butter. And then we looked up some friends and borrowed enough money for two hamburgers and a couple of milkshakes. There's no comparison, of course, to the difficulties of families on food sumps.

But that's the point. None of us can know what that' like if we haven't done it over the long haul. while $54.14 may have bought enough food for the Blocks foe a week, would it continue to cover the staples that have to be replenished, the occasional diet related health problems, and the special needs of growing children? What, precisely, does "adequate" mean? Enough to prevent starvation for one week or enough to maintain healthy, productive or potentially productive citizens? None of lis can tie too smug about our capacity to "make it" on the other fellow's budget unless we've HAD to do it. It "Coma mom Your Me Simon comedy at On 6um Dinner Theater. 8.

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725447S. 727 3814. Linda Wolfe, left, is being interviewed by WTGL's Evie and Mark Ostrander WTGL to broadcast a birthday bash By JUNE STRANER TODAY Wrltar Cocoa's WTGL, TV 52, the Good Life Christian television station, will celebrate its first birthday from 9 10 p.m. Tuesday with a live show, "The Good Life." Bal loont and birthday cake will be available for Brevard viewers at its headquarters at 26 Forrest Ave. On Thursday and Friday, it will open hew Orlando studios to point out the station's success and growth in Central Florida in its first year of operation.

"We have added a $16,000 satellite dish this year," said Brock Lesperance, station manager. The antenna allows TV 52 to relay live daily 700 Club programs to the station's potential of 300,000 viewers, who donate half its $60,000 monthly operating budget." The Good Life's television production sales, realized from paid spot advertising and programming for area churches, has more than doubled since August 16, 1982. The jump has been from $15,000 to this month's total of $36,000, according to Lesperance, an Orlando resident with.il years of broadcasting experience. The station doesn't stop at sales production, but began taping for Brevard's newest locally produced program, "52 and You," on Aug. 1.

i Although no starting date has been set, the half hour program will be sched uled weekly beginning later this month, he added. Its magazine format will feature hosts, the Rev. Evie and Mark Ostrander of Melbourne's Victory Christian Center, and a parade of local and well known Christian leaders and guests. Orlando's version of the new show will be hosted by the Rev. Jim Henry of First Baptist ChurcJiend Bastor Alex Clattenburg of Calvary AssemNof God.

In addition to rift hours of program ming per day, the station offers free telephone counseling to 506600 viewers monthly, a service Lesperance called the heart of Christian television. By calling phone numbers flashed along the bottom of their TV viewers receive prayers and guidance for healing, personal' problems and Spiritual deliverance dispensed by 40 trained volunteers. "Two weeks ago we ministered prayer for salvation to 15 people in one week. It was exciting," Lesperance said. Volunteer Herman Scambracks of Merritt Island directs Brevard's counseling center, located at TV.

52's Cocoa studio at 26 Forrest Ave. He also will head Operation Blessing, a new service of giving to the area's needy, which is associated with the 700 Club. In 18 months, the 28 year old Lesperance, has put 38,000 miles on his car traveling from Cocoa to Qrlando. He now 4 spends Tuesdays and Thursdays weekly In. his Brevard office and three days at the new Orlando facility overseeing local programming, two counseling centers and business offices at both locations.

Acquiring the Orlando studio recently was not a stroke of luck, but "a God's miraculous plan," said. Lesperance;) who added that every aspect of the sta lion's growth in us first year has proven that Brevardians need and can support local outlet. Popular evangelist K.J. Daniels, who produces his own half hour national weekly telecast, turned his fadhries over lo Good1 Life broadcasters. In turn, TV 52 will produce Daniels' program, plus a growing number of others, at the Orlando studio.

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is also involved with a new station His satellite to nome national network will draw television and radio programs from an orbiting satellite by 1 986 or '87. Kassis predicting the future. TVfi "I see people coming Into Cocoa, from aU over he countrJl'S produce quality communication package. They, fly to Omtt programs, see Brevard's beaches and space center and flv hom.rT. end result is the best for Christ.

I get sick to my stomach when I see a oneour Chrkrlif program using one camera. We should use the world's best to GoaV I believe in the blessed hope of Christ's return. iwhile Vrf occupying' until He comes." Kassis said. Ray Kassis' futuristic grasp barely tolerates the present as hl9! vast vision for Christian radio, and television enfolds from the National Christian Network's space age studios in Cocoa. ucV Although 'local viewers cannot yet see his programs, Kassis" equipment sends radio and television signals 21.000 miles into space Irom a gigantic aisn antenna at 1130 west King St.

to the RCA SatcomT satellite. The powerful sky eye then beams 24 hours of daily cable i programs, many of them live, to 3 or. 4 million North American 40,00050,000 backyard antennas and a fast growing number of commu. nal installations such as prisons and large apartment complexes. "With the Sheridan Radio Network (located in.

NCN's Cocoa facilities) accessing 100 American our microphone reaches 10 million people per week," he said. Sr Kassis' pioneer spirit appears when he speaks of tomorrow. Dis satellite to home national network will draw television and radio programs from an orbiting satellite directly to consumers' antennas by 1986 or '87. 1 NCN, ninth of 14 Federal Communications Commission (FOC" applicants, may receive its license for home satellite systems bV December. So far, eight have been granted, 37 year old Kassis Last year, the home concept met with opposition by the National' Association of Broadcasters, representing hundreds of local station's'' throughout the country, which would have to compete with the direct home signals.

There is room for both, decided the FCC, which gave a go ahead to the progressive individual receivers. Kassis, who owns Brevard radio station WWBC (1510 AMJ1 headquarted in NCN's facilities, also is involved with a new cable radio station, the second in the nation. Pre empted only by Chicago's WFMT classical music station, NCN's cable radio is considered experimental "It will have a little box atop a receiver," producing the finest quality stereo radio, he said. In his Cocoa studio, cable radio already in progress, "just waiting for people to realize its value," he said. 7f For Kassis, It is hard to wait.

Jn 1977; he said God gave hirsf4f complete vision for satellite networking. Since NCN's 1980 opening, he has carved his modernistic stiilej from a former bowling alley, "just like 'I saw in the vision." usfc technology's latest equipment, which carries a $3A milIion price ta? comparable to NBC and CBS," he said. "We are a service. We cost share our facilities." offering iroiwl tion. post production (editing) and selling the package to reliliousiod, secular customers.

NCN is a $3 million annual busincs u.Zi. V' i I fc 'M.