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2 Wednesday. July 30. 1980 Philadelphia Daily News 11 er plant at the camp was completely worn out, that the mess hall was a "mess" and that everything, in general, was in disrepair. Most harmful of all, Mann told reporters, was that camp labor was provided by 50 inmates from the House of Correction who were watched over by four armed guards. "That isn't the proper sort of environment for children," said Mann.

Mann said, the name "Camp Happy" was wrong. He said it should have been called "Camp A new city-run Camp Happy for underprivileged children opened in the Poconos in 1952. Later, the name was changed to Camp William Son of Camp Sad Green closes camp: Page 1 "enn. tne requirement that only the children of low-income families could go was removed and an effort was made to to achieve a racial mix of campers. A few years ago, during an 18-year run of good press, the camp in the Poconos was described in an editorial as one of the city's "crown jewels." Last week, the first i i flies floating in it by the time we got to it.

1 remember older kids who threatened to break our body parts if we didn't hand over our nickels and dimes. I wrote that in a column last week. I hated Camp Happy. Joe Markey told me yesterday I had it wrong about the camp. He said it was a lot worse than I remember.

"The counselors beat the hell out of us," said Markey. "As soon as we got off the bus, they made us take showers, and they beat us with towels. We had welts all over our bodies." Markey was a couple of years behind me at St. Gabriel's parochial school. As an adult, he has been able to convince most reporters he should be known as "The Lord of Tasker." As a kid in the neighborhood, he was "Stinky." "We didn't have mattresses," said Markey of Camp Happy.

"We slept on straw ticks. If you did anything wrong, the counselors waited until you were in the dining hall, and they'd make you stand in front and have all the other kids point at you and yell, 'Goof, "I must have been goof 11 of the 14 days we were there." he said. "It's funny 1 wasn't called 'Goofy' instead of The newspaper stories on Camp Happy said underprivileged kids were selected as campers by parochial and public schools and by chest clinics. I don't remember being selected; Looking back, it was more like being sentenced. But Markey remembers more details than I do.

He said it got so bad at the camp once that he and his brother Monk and a kid named Marty McDonough staged a break. Mayor Samuel here we stand to welcome you once more to come to camp and watch us play. It's you we all adore. Children's song at Camp Happy in the 1940s and early 'SOs Mayor Bernard Samuel showed up at the camp once every summer to give underprivileged children a chance to personally thank him for the city's gift to them of sun and fresh air and decent food for a change. At least that's the way it was written in the newspaper stories of the time about Camp Happy.

The newspaper stories on the camp go back a lot further than Mayor Samuel's days, all the way back to the 1920s. The name of the mayor might have changed from time to time in the stories. The campers never changed. They always arrived at camp with "thin faces pinched by too little to eat at home" and "pallid from unhealthy exposure to tuberculosis." They always left as conquerors of TB, bronzed from the sun and "bright with childish de-light." And each camper, according to a newspaper report one year, left weighing an average of 3.569 more pounds than when he or she arrived. I was at Camp Happy when I was 8 or 9 years old.

I don't remember it the way the newspapers reported it. I remember eating cereal for breakfast that had been set out the night before and had dead They were picked up by cops as they walked across the Tacony-Palmyra Bridge. Markey said they were easy to spot because they were wearing the camp uniform of khaki shirts and short pants. They were returned by the cops to Camp Happy so they could get more sun and fresh air and decent food and learn the words to the song they would sing to Mayor Samuel if they knew what was good for them. Markey said the people who worked in the kitchen at Camp Happy were convicts.

"They probably wouldn't have let prisoners from Holmesburg do it," he said. "They must have been from the House of Correction." I wondered just a little here if Markey hadn't allowed a couple of bad memories to twist his facts. So last night, 1 looked through the old clippings. The first negative stories I could find about Camp Happy appeared in newspapers in 1952, 31 years after the camp opened. It was in 1952 that Fredric R.

Mann, then the recreation commissioner, was trying to convince the city it should acquire land in the Poconos to use as a replacement for Camp Happy on Torresdale Avenue. The newspapers reported, with Mann's help, that the odors and summer heat of the city were harmful to children; that the camp had always been overcrowded; that the cabins were too small, that they were, in fact, like "Nazi stormtrooper that the campers had never had mattresses to sleep on; that the boil Samuel newspaper stories appeared about charges of abuse of children by counselors and other campers at Camp William Penn. The charges were made by parents who said they were told of the abuse by their children. In 31 years, something like 60,000 kids spent part of their summers at the old Camp Happy. Not once in all of that time was there a single report in a newspaper of a complaint made by a camper to his parents.

Other than the time they were used by a city official, newspapers might have brushed against the truth about Camp Happy just once. That's when they printed nothing. "Our parents wouldn't have believed us if we did complain," said Joe Markey. Larry McMullen's column appears Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays. test Had Affairs kf 5 A i eft Mania MitcheLson.

legal hands Karulyn RoteiKtill fifth place? Pete Rosei divorce prospect Rose Divorce Enters Big League? NEW YORK (UPI) Most of the 106,000" women responding to a Cosmopolitan magazine survey say they have seduced a man at least once and a majority of the married women admit they have had an extramarital affair, the magazine says. The survey results, to appear in the September issue of Cosmopolitan, were released Monday. They included replies from women whose ages ranged from under 18 to middle age, from all regions of the country. Of those surveyed, 45 percent said they were married or living with a lover. Sixty-nine percent said their sex lives were satisfactory.

Of these, 67 percent were unmarried. Of the married respondents, 54 percent said they have had extramarital affairs. Among other findings, 82 percent of all respondents said they had seduced a man at least once. THE MAGAZINE SAID women were anxious to answer the survey, noting that "the readers literally had to rip the magazine apart to separate the questionnaire from it" Some of the results were amusing for example, 55 percent said had they made love on their lunch hour at least once. Asked if they had slept with a man on the first date.

69.4 percent said they had at least once, and 47.4 per- Sperm prevents Page 8 cent said they had slept with more than one man in the same day. Twenty percent said they had made love with more than one person at the same time. Of those under 18, 62 percent said they had sex with a man for the first time before age 16. Almost none of the women surveyed had an orgasm the first time they made love, but 70 percent said they usaally or always have one now OVER 60 PERCENT said they preferred the traditional position for making love. Almost half, 48.3 percent, said they liked foreplay to last up to 30 minutes; 36.1 percent said 5 to 15 minutes.

Almost 23 percent said they use no birth control at all, and 24.9 percent of those having sex at least once a day said they used nothing. Twenty-five percent of those responding said they had an abortion. Twenty-six percent said they had been raped or sexually molested. Of these, 45.9 percent said it was done by a friend, 33.3 percent said by a stranger and 22.2 percent said by a relative. Twenty-one percent said they had a lesbian experience, with SO percent of these saying it came before the age of 10.

declined to confirm that he would represent Rose in a divorce. He wouldn't even confirm that a divorce suit was pending. But Karolyn, 38, filed suit for divorce on Sept. 11, 1979, in Cincinnati just days after emerging from a hospital for treatment of a blood clot in her leg. Rose reportedly never telephoned her during her hospital stay.

She defended him publicly, saying he was busy. Reached at Veterans Stadium before last night's game. Rose declined comment "It's all in legal hands." he said. Karolyn could not be reached for comment with him. Mitchelson, who is perhaps most famous for the Lee Marvin "palimo-ny" case, and who commands hefty fees for his services, said he has not been retained as yet.

But he said he had spoken with Mrs. Rose "several times" and that "1 expect to see her in California soon." MITCHELSON SAID AN action for divorce was already on file in Cincinnati where Rose once played for the Reds and where Karolyn now lives. However, Mitchelson declined to speak about details of the case. Rose's attorney, Reuven Katz of Cincinnati, declined to discuss what be called "personal matters" and also By JOY McINTYRE Karolyn Rose who once said she ranked fifth in her husband Pete's life after baseball, their two children and his Rolls Royce has consulted with famed Los Angeles divorce lawyer Marvin Mitchelson about seeking an end to her 16-year marriage to the Phillies' first baseman. Mitchelson, who is known in legal circles as the "Founder of the Million Dollar Divorce" and as "The Women's Lawyer" for his role in representing the unhappy wives of wealthy men.

said yesterday from his Los Angeles office that Karolyn had Jalked over prospects of divorce.