European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes sunday october 20. 1985 competing pumpkins aspire to greatness from press disputed gee Mil f Harlie or own. When the treat pumpkin vim is inc pump in Fulda this halloween where does he come from me  Fri dirt far  in the fro in North Uherc the Atlantic Falls howl where the soil is Rich and the fertilizer abundant and where the pumpkin seeds re turn every Spring to spawn. I be Chines from Mii Scotia. Maine. Or Connecticut. There s some confusion you see. The great pump Kin in t Cut anti dried.   in the comic strip peanuts the Sharac lers of Charles sri jul await the arrival of the great pumpkin As the nights of october prow colder and youngsters everywhere prepare fur halloween when gho Ulics and ghost pics go abroad in the night. Ami every car also the International pumpkin association searches or the neatest great pumpkin in All the world. Hut this year the world pumpkin con federation Aho staged contest. And that s Why there Are two circa pumpkins. This year s International pumpkin association great pumpkin weighs 531 pounds. The monster grown in Nova Scotia by Michael Hodgson of hiker Phillips earned him and a trip to Hawaii during an International weigh in monday. Entrants were weighed at half Moon Hay Calif. Cir Loille Ohio Halifax Nam Scotia and Birmin Ham England. Meanwhile in Topsfield mass., Scoll Cully. 25. Of Sharon conn., won the confederation s title also monday with a 515.4-Pounder raised in j los world Hall farm where he works As assistant manager he pets a $100 Prie. Cully s pumpkin an Atlantic giant variety was grown from a seed propagated in Nova Scotia. It beat out 1.000 other entries at six fairs in the United Stales Canada and new zealand. Neither of the rival claimants to the great pump Kin title comes anywhere near the 612 pounds of 9k4 s Champion grown by Norman Gallagher of us Chelan Wash. Tackle turned tune maker Mike Reid the former Cincinnati bengals All pro defensive tackle has been honoured in Nash Ille As songwriter of the year by the am Riean society of composers authors and publishers. Asap lauded Reid who has been writing songs professionally for about five years for co writing five lop songs i never quite got Back from Loving you prisoner of the Highway show her still losing you and to  asap a performing rights organi action also honoured songwriters hoi David and Albert Hammond for to All the girls i be loved before the most performed country tune in 1984. Atm returns to television up photo 18-month-old Andrew Waterman ill atop a second place Winner at the world pumpkin weigh off in Cellini . Mary also will Star James Farantino John Aslin David Byrd Kalcy Sagal James Tollman and Carlene Walkins. The network said. The show and another comedy Foley Square Premier dec. 11. The Mary Tyler Moore show telecast by chs from 1970-77, was a huge Success in the ratings. It was a Tough audience Gallagher the any comic who ends his act by smashing fruits and vegetables ran into some trouble some fans who wanted to get into the act. The audience in Seal clinic nov. Started throwing glasses and bottles on stage at Gallagher As he was finishing his act. Gallagher had them tossed out of the showroom according to Jim Parsons Public relations executive for Caesars Tahoe. During his act Gallagher supplies ponchos for those in the front rows to protect them from flying fruits and vegetables. Monkey hear Monkey say monkeys talk and even gossip according to a san i Cro psychology professor who has eavesdropped on the conversations of apes Laught to communicate through american sign language. Roger fouls a professor at Central Washington University in Ellen Surg. Said apes usually speak in incomplete sentences like humans and talk about the same things As humans like grooming playing and getting along together. If the play gets rough Oil much  the giant biscuit required i 50 pounds of flour 6 pounds of sugar 2v Gallons of water and 9 Gallons of Buttermilk along with 16 country hams. Of it was real Good inroad Binl said. It was Brown just perfect ,. Just like  jitters got the Besto Groom the last Lime most of he wedding guests saw Pat Kobell he was on the Church floor saying he could not marry Calieri Viacom i. Fourteen months Laler they were his guests at a reception w Hyrc they saw a videotape of the Long delayed ceremony held in private earlier this month in Seattle. I wanted to give Cheri a reception Robill said monday. On aug. 25, 19x4. Hundreds of guests had filled is. James Cathedral where musicians were playing and the wedding party was taking last minute pictures. A of a sudden. Pal put his hands to his face fell to the floor and said he could t go through with it recalled Giacomini 26, an airline stewardess. Kobell a devout Catholic said he was having Trou ble choosing Between Giacomini and a vocation As priest. While Robell and Giacomini sorted things out her Mother took the guests to the reception. Fourteen months and a lot of soul searching later Kobell made up ins mind to change his i Don to i  the original guests were invited to View the video in the banquet room of a restaurant in pcs Monics a suburb South of Seattle where the couple makes their Home. R thu a 1 30 a Pion in Singer said paying or the $800 reception was inc least he could do to make up for backing out of the $10,000 wedding pillars and sense magazines8�