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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 28, 1953 BLYTHEVILLE (ARK.) COURIER NEWS PAGE FIVE Kiddies Put Bobo the Clown Back on Laugh- -Trail Again By MARY KAY FLYNN NEA Staff Correspondent (NEA) There's a real life smile once again under the of Bobo, the clown. Cub Scouts took over, 61-year-old Bobo (Clinton Floyd a very sad laugh maker. BOBO, NINA MAY AND SOME "LITTLE Left to right around Clinton Kocker arc Anthony Drew, Tammy Wellington, Dedra Drew, Pat Wellington and lemonade as Bobo, in his maroon and chartreuse clown suit, entertained in the "center ring." At one point Nina May, after doing tricks and sitting on Bobo's head, went out in the audience and licked nearly everybody's lace. When it was all over, Bobo had $24 to tide him over between telcvision, private party and public events engagements he hopes land.

"1 could cry for joy at what those little shavers have done for me," Bobo said, and you could hear his voice quiver. "In my drinking days I used to think the world owed me a living. But naw old Bubo's outlook on life is in tune with theirs." Bobo is enthusiastic about a new show he has in the making again featuring trained bullfrogs. "I'm coming back if I have to do it two' HUTCHINSON, Kans. grease-paint grin on the face Until a group of Hutchinson Kocher) was out of character For 14 years Bobo was one of P.

T. Barnum's top clowns. Then he hit the bottle and after that the skids. Five. years ago he put himsell "in hands of the Lord and Alcoholics Anonymous.

Then he started the road back. It almost too humpy until the youngsters took over and gave him new hope and courage, along with a grubstake for a comeback in show business. "It's shumeful the way I wasted my life," Bobo laments. "Now I want to get back and make up for those lost years I'd like to make people happy." While recuperating from his prolonged bout with the bottle, Bobo fashioned a successful clown act featuring trained dogs, horned toads and bullfrogs. Three years ago his trailer, with the aniburned.

dog, mals in it, Only one dog, Nina May. survived. After that, Hobo, Nina May and A newly acquired poddle hit the road, playing March of Dimes benefits for peanuts. The poodle eventually was traded for an old car for the trip io Pratt County, where Bobo spent his boyhood until he ran away and hooked up with a carnival at the age of 12. In Hutchinson, Boba tried in vain to get a job as a farm hand.

That's where the Cub Scouts came in. They decided to stage a benefit P. circus "the greatest show 012 earth" on the lawn of their den mother's home for the nice, sad clown. The kids didn't quite understand how a rollicking clown could have trouble. But they knew how it felt; to have a skinned knee and Bobo, they had heard, "bad a bad fall" but was picking himself up without a tear on his jolly face.

Ninety-four children, some with their parents, came to Bobo's benefit circus. tI was the lollipop set's version of the thing. An arch of blankets formed the "tent" entrance; the aisle was ed off with a garden hose, wrapped in crepe paper, and a string of Christmas lights hung over the brick patio where Bobo and Nina May performed. The sideshows featured "wild animals. A pet kitten was billed as the "wild Cal from Borneo." A bantam rooster was the "Bird of Paradise." A caged frankfurter was the "Hairless Dog." And mirror reflected peering "Wild Baboons." Hawkers sold popcorn, candy and Ricky and Demmy Drew.

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