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,300 Walk 20 Miles for Those Who Can South Jersey's March of Dimes Walkathon Tops Goal By $2,800 1 the Sunday Walkathon. "We felt the publicity given the Philadelphia Walkathon might have hurt us," said Mrs. Dreager who was hoping for 3,000 runners. South Jersey residents should walk in the local event, she said, so their pledges go to the Southwest New Jersey chapter. The local chapter provides funds for two Mardi of Dimes Clinics in the area the Genetic Counseling Center in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden, and the Physical Therapy Clinic in the Rancocas Valley Hospital, Willingboro as well as to individual fort bv six South Jersey men to walk 60 miles from Camden to Margate for the March of Dimes was just that ambitious.

Five of the six developed severe foot blisters about halfway through the hike and had to call it quits. George Naame, 42, of 23 S. Washington Margate the only one who finished the trip said his comrades made a valiant effort but "the blisters started to tear and they risked getting them infected." "They had enough wind, it was only their feet (that stopped them)," said Naame, who is an accomplished amateur runner. By AL NEW Courier-Post Staff MORE THAN 1.300 South Jersey residents mostly junior and senior high school students took part in the third annual March of Dimes Walkathon Sunday at the Echelon Mall. Rosemary Dreager.

executive director of the Southwest New Jersey Chapter of the March of Dimes, said $27,800 was pledged $2,800 over the expected goal and over twice last year's total of $13,000. "The kids were fantastic," Mrs. Dreager said. "I've seen other Walkathons where the kids were irritable and cranky, but South Jersey kids are the best in the world." SATURDAY'S ambitious ef Don Devon. 25 S.

LeCato Audubon. Devlin, who "runs about 10 miles a day," is a member of the Pope Paul VI High School track team. Most of the marchers, however, completed the round trip from and to the mall in five to six hours after the 9 am. starting time. Robbie Friedner, 17, a cerebral palsy victim, did his 20 miles in five hours.

The senior at Cherry Hill West High School who was unable to walk until he was four years old has undergone long years of therapy to lead a relatively normal life. "He wasn't even tired," said his mother Mrs. Harriett Friedner. of 502B Chapel Manor Apartments. "He wanted to know if he could double his pledges (of over $8 a mile) if he did it again." THE MARCHER with the most money pledged was Eileen Specter, of 25 Knoll Lane.

Cherry Hill. She collected $240 for the chapter. A couple of kids even skated the whole 20 miles." Mrs. Dreager noted. Numerous community groups helped make the Walkathon a success, she said.

Several local businesses contributed refreshments for the hot, weary hikers. Voorhees Township and Gibbsboro police assisted by picking up staggers and two local units of the National Guard provided water trucks and a "pooped" truck for those who couldn't finish. Three rock bands from local high schools provided entertainment to the returning hikers who sat on the grass and on top of parked cars shoes off. CROUPS from nearly every junior and senior high school in Camden County participated in THE FASTEST time for the 2fmile "walk" was two hours and ten minutes turned in 'by More Fun Than a Skein Of Yarn 4 V' COURIER-POST COURIER-POST, Camden, N.J., Monday, April 29, 1974 Scroti Front Page 19 IF YOU were to give a party, Robert Barry is someone you might want to invite. Barry is a 52-year-old Pennsylvanian with the deep baritone voice of a radio announcer, which is what he has been for much of his life.

Today, he is general sales manager of Red Lion radio station WGCB. But Barry's hobbyhorse, which he says is close to becoming a full-time job, is flying saucers. Or, as they are more properly called, Unidentified Flying Objects. You get him started and Barry can go on for hours, reeling off one eerie and intriguing saucer story after another. He gathered them during the 17 years he spent intensively investigating UFOs since he was news director of an Olean, N.Y., radio station and became intrigued by a UFO landing in Texas.

And last year, Barry teamed up with an old associate and fellow spellbinder, the Rev. Carl Mclntire of Collingswood. Unbeknownst to many. Mclntire has been a somewhat unlikely believer in flying saucers since the early 1950s when the pilot of an airplane on which he and his wife were travelling spotted a saucer and took some very clear photographs of it. And Mclntire somehow found within the confines of his rigid Presbyterian theology room for the belief that the UFOs are manned by alien, intelligent beings come to snoop on earthlings, So Mclntire.who has devoted most of his life to ferretting out strange and alier menaces of earthly origin which most cannot see, and Barry, who is religiously a fundamentalist Christian, formed the Twentieth Century UFO Bureau.

IN A FEW SHORT months, the Bureau produced a 32-page illustrated booklet, "Visitors from Outer Space," free to anyone writing the UFO Bureau, Collingswood, N.J., 08108. A press run of almost exhausted, a second publication is now being prepared and a book is in the planning stages. Furthermore, Barry has travelled as far as Toronto to give elaborate slide presentations and seminars which regularly draw standing-room-only audiences. It's obvious why, because Barry brings some pretty convincing and intriguing evidencs and witnesses to his programs. For example, there's the former Air Force man who was one of more than a dozen Air Force witnesses to a UFO landing on Mitchell Air Force Base in New.

York State in 1956. "This, man, whom I interviewed last October, was returning to the barracks about midnight. He had just passed a hangar when the whole area lit up bright as day, the light drawing 10 to 12 other men out. The ship was the saucer-shaped kind, with portholes, and it kept getting brighter until the portholes could no longer be seen. "It sat there until finally, it silently lifted up, slowly, hovered a while and then shot straight up until it disappeared.

"It had not been tracked by radar when it landed, probably because it came in too low, but it was tracked when it took off," Barry relates. Another sighting particularly impressed Barry, because he was one of the persons who saw the objects. "It was in Olean in 1958, on the occasion of a birthday party we were having for my 13-year-old daughter in our back yard. "At the time I was news director of station WMNS and also the town's Civil Defense director. At about 9 p.m.

the phone rang. It was someone who said there was an airplane in trouble coming to Olean and we should watch for it. "NO SOONER THAN I had told my wife about the call here came three tre-, mendous, round UFOs right overhead they were a brilliant white and absolutely silent, travelling northeast, towards Buffalo. "After they had passed over our house, they came to a stop and hovered, and shot out red fireballs which went out before they touched ground. After they shot out the fireballs, they started again and continued out of sight." Barry admits he does not know where the UFOs come from, but he's convinced they are solid, metallic and directed, if not manned, by intelligent, extra-terrestrial beings.

HE RELATES THEM to Biblical prophecies of the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ, such as Luke 21:11: "And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven. "Scientists believe that there are 100 million inhabited planets in our Milky Way galaxy alone, and there are untold numbers of galaxies," Barry says, cavalierly mixing science and myth. "Perhaps these UFOs are manned by beings who come from similar worlds to ours, or worlds where there is no sin. Because God tossed Lucifer and the fallen angels down here where we are, the earth, not up there in the heavens, is the logical place for sin to be introduced." Photos by Wayne Phillips SUNNY spring Sunday brings Joan Fetzko, 20, of Audubon outdoors to tackle gardening chores and determined to help pet cat Sheldon (above) prances toward rake. Sheldon proves to be bit of a hindrance (left), coming between gardening tools and greenery.

Blaze Suspicious City Hall Notes Destroys Courtroom A A A suspicious fire in Camden reports and notes dating back City Hall yesterday, which to 1967, could complicate ap-destroyed court stenographers' peals of a number of criminal Passage Predicted For Gambling Bill TRENTON (UPI) Assemblyman Vincent 0. Pel-lecchia, D-Passaic, was confident he had enough votes today for passage of a measure aimed at bringing casino gambling to the state of New Jersey. The gambling measure Assembly Concurrent Resolution 128 was one of the key pieces of legialation facing lawmakers as they recon-vpnpd Also on the agenda and civil trials. Records of testimony in "thousands of cases" were damaged or destroyed in the fire, and appeals in both criminal and civil casss could be affected, according to Harry Bateman, chief court stenographer. The majority of the cases are closed; recent records were stored in fireproof involved which were stored in paper cartons are closed; more recent records, stored in fireproof steel filing cabinets and in a safe, were not damaged.

The records from U.S. District Court, New Jersey Superior Court and Camden County Court were transferred to the sixth-floor room three weeks ago from the court stenographers' previous quarters on the fourth floor. The fire, which broke out shortly before 1:30 p.m., occurred during the 11:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. visiting hours at the Camden County Jail, which is the corridor from the records room.

Harry (Bamey) Tracy, who is in charge of security in the courthouse-municipal building, said that anyone is jail visiting hours. New Jersey State Police and the Camden fire werearshal's office today, investigating the blazeM The fire broke out in room 602, which until recently was the office of the Camden County Prosecutor. It was discovered at 1 29 p.m. and was declared under control at 1:55 p.m., according to Batallion Cheif Kenneth Penn. While Penn would not attribute the fire to arson, he noted that when firemen arrived, they found a door to the office open.

Since the office was not in use Sunday, the door should have been locked. The fire originated in the action of the subdivided room where the records are stored. i wV 1 1 Byrne remains firm in his stand that he will veto any legislation allowing gambling in cities other than Atlantic City. The so-called "right to sue bill," sponsored by Assemblyman Edward H. Hynes, D-Bergen, was in danger last week of being diluted with amendments.

One would have removed from the bill a clause allowing citizens the ability to sue potential polluters. It was opposed strongly by organized labor and the building industries in the state. Byrne has said he wanted New Jerseyans to be able to sue potential polluters, and called late last week for passage of the measure as soon as possible. As the Assmebly Judiciary Committee held public hearings on Pellecchia's bill last week, the assemblyman spoke with Attorney General William F. Hyland about "outside influence" on his measure.

"I feel that the state of Nevada and the racketeers from New Jersey and New York have a tremendous amount at stake. Their empire is about to crumble and they are going to put every dollar they can into fighting this referendum," he said. "I asked Mr. Hyland to be on the alert, especially to monies coming from any source. He said he would do everything he possibly an Assembly vote on a bill giving New Jerseyans the right to sue polluters of the environment.

As the legislature reconvened, Pellecchia predicted his gambling bill would receive more than an estimated 55 votes already lined up. It needed 48 to pass in the Assembly. "I honestly believe it is going to go through and it is about time," Pellecchia said. "Once it passes it will immediately get over to the Senate. "We've counted noses there too and we believe we have the votes there too." Once passed by both houses, the bill will go to Gov.

Brendan T. Byrne, who has said he would sign the measure, which will allow a public referendum on gambling to appear on the November ballot. If the residents of the state decide they want casinos, enabling legislation will be drawn up. It is at this point where Byrne has laid down a major ground rule. Caurler Posl Photo by Jack Wolfer SCOROIED notes of court stenographers are among debris of suspicious tire which damaged room on sixth floor of City Hall in Camden yesterday..