European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 8, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes june two Heads Are rarer than one a photo Ron if Gill of miamis metro zoo takes a close look at a two headed Ball the zoo Bor rowed the Snake from a rare reptile company for a Florida lecture the which is about 2 months old and a foot has a strip of belly Scales along its it uses both Heads to stateside House votes 203202 to eliminate 31 corps of engineers projects Washington a the by a on vote has eliminated 31 army corps of engineers water cleaning out a traditional pork barrel that critics say has put political connections before a projects the dams and Harbor do openings were slashed thurs Day on a 203202 vote from a fiscal 1985 supplemental spending Bill As insurgents led by Bob Hung defeat on one of the houses most powerful old appropriations committee chairman Jamie it was a fight Between the old Way of doing things and the said one of a group of younger House members who say that a projects not a representatives should be the prime consideration during a funding the insurgents took aim on 31 projects that had been approved by whitens panel but had not been authorized by the Public works and transportation As required by the congressional budget left in the Bill were funds to begin 31 other corps projects that have been endorsed by Public works and four Bureau of reclamation projects previously authorized by the House Interior a foe of the scuttled Silvio r called the debate our annual performance of Roll ing out the pork Joe countered one mans pork barrel is another mans Edgars supported by Public works com Mittee Cut the spending proposed by Whitten from million to which Edgar says is enough to get the approved projects under the action left the estimated completion Cost of the surviving projects at about the future Price tag for whitens package was about thursdays tussle was another chapter in a congressional stalemate that has resulted in no new water project starts being voted into Law by Congress since the Long fight has pitted people like Edgar against a traditional system that has often seen projects approved in part because members were on the right committees or were friends with people who the younger members Are pushing for a Law that will require projects to be approved on the basis of need and with a greater share of costs being paid by areas directly the House passed a Bill to do that last but the legislation died in the Edgar said thursdays vote was the houses Way of lets get our system in order so that Only the worthy projects get he that the Victory could unravel later this year after the Senate passes its own supplemental appropriations Bill and the matter reaches a joint con Ference which could attempt to restore any or All of the chopped hard work pays off for Fop speller Washington a with the word the prayers of Balu the son of Indian were the 13yearold eighth grader from successfully spelled the six Tetter word to capture the National spelling Bee and win for the Honor culminated years of practising learning latin and greek Reading and it was his third attempt in the National con to gain the top Balu Defeated 167 other students and correctly spelled which runner up Kate of bad i was just really praying for a word that i knew or that i would be Able to said whose parents came to the United states from Southern India about 15 years at the Natarajan often speak their native according to but who was born in the United is definitely an Amer she besides English and the self confident Balu is studying Spanish and Hopes to become a doctor one his is an accountant with a management consulting Tanya of Kansas came in third in the sponsored by Scripps Howard newspapers she was forced out by the word Charles of another was knocked out by last years Amy of to was forced out in the seventh prize Money totalling was awarded to the Florida bars All shipments of mangoes from Mexico a Florida Lias stopped accepting shipments of mangoes from Mexico because of potential infestation by the mexican fruit the ban will continue while the department of agriculture investigates Mexico fumigation procedures state agriculture commissioner Doyle Conner it will remain in effect until Mexico can prove that the fruit snipped to Florida is free of fruit exported to the United states must be according to Federal live larvae from the fruit Fly were discovered at three locations in California last California earlier announced a ban on mexican life expectancy for men hits al time High at years new York a life expectancy in the United states increased slightly for men and remained the same for women in while the infant mortality rate fell to an al time according to the metropolitan life insurance life expectancy at birth for the total resident Popula Tion of the country was unchanged from according to a table to be published in the jul september Issue of the company quarterly statistical for life expectancy at birth increased by years to a record female newborns life expectancy remained the same at the company infant mortality fell to per lives Down from per in the mortality rate for infants has been on a steady decline since Clark nominated to command navys warfare systems Washington a rear Glenwood Clark has been nominated by president Reagan to become the first commander of the navys space and warfare sys tems the Pentagon the new command will be responsible for the development and acquisition of All space such As satellites used by the As Well As other control and communications systems needed for warfare and maritime the Pentagon assuming the Senate approves the Clark would also be promoted to the rank of vice government oks new drug to Aid chemotherapy patients Washington up a new drug containing the Active ingredient found in marijuana has received govern ment approval for use in alleviating the severe nausea and vomiting suffered by cancer patients undergoing chemo the government the new contains a synthetic form of delta9 the main psych Pac Tive chemical in the food and drug administration people have elected to die rather than go through the Rigours of some of it is really said Edward an Fra this the new drug is an the cancer fatality rate could go Down with fourth grader has Bright idea to help find fire extinguishers Texas a fire extinguishers in Beaumont will soon be Glimmer with fluorescent due to a safety precaution conceived by a fire chief Pete Shelton in a on Page letter to 8yearold Anjanette Stutes of i know fire extinguishers Are painted but they should be painted so if its dark you can see the Shelton liked the idea so much that the department will begin using 5inch adhesive fluorescent patches on the child said she came up with the idea while sitting in her fathers it was dark and i  see the fire i kept wondering that if the Van caught on no one could see the she said