European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pace 12 the stars and stripes tuesday March 18, 1986 faces v places reportedly dead Sirica w/7/ stiff consider petitions from press dispatches senior . District judge John Sirica described As now dead in a newspaper report says to anyone who wants to file new petitions in the watergate Case i m very much  the new York times in a report sunday that convicted watergate burglar Frank Sturgis Hopes new Evi Dence will Lead to the reopening of his Case referred to the spectacular disclosures in Sirica s court room that eventually brought Down president Richard Nixon. In a Story from Miami the newspaper said Sturgis s attorney described a Legal petition he planned to file to reopen the Case. The report said the petition will also assert that the presiding trial judge in or. Sturgis s Case John j. Sirica now dead coerced or. Sturgi Sirica and his co defendants into guilty pleas the  a chuckling Sirica reached by Telephone at his Washington Home said i m very much alive. I Haven t seen that Story but somebody made a mistake. Thank god i m alive to talk to you on the phone said Sirica who had triple coronary bypass surgery in october 1984. When the Story was read to Sirica he said Tell them that whatever they want to file in the Sturgis cases m very much  since retiring As chief judge of the . District court for the District of Columbia Sirica has continued to serve on senior status and has presided Over other watergate court actions. An editor on the National desk of the times in new York who asked not to be identified said we made an error and we Are running a correction in monday s edition. Sirica will celebrate his 82nd birthday wednesday. W. A. Fhe hip wader Safe Send in your entry now to the worst Road in West Virginia contest at Kincheloe w.va., and you could become the proud owner of a new pair of hip waders. No Purchase is necessary to enter the contest launched by two women in Central West Virginia. Gabriele Hoover and Dale Ream of Kincheloe on the Harrison Lewis county line say they already have received nearly 40 entries. Some of the entries listed a single Road with multiple signatures. The two women say they began the contest As a joke and included Only roads in a nine county area in Central and North Central West Virginia but the contest has been expanded to include the entire state. The Winner will receive a new pair of hip length wading boots useful for slogging through enormous potholes. When beavers talked some folks say Money talks but to the Mountain men who roamed the West in the Early 1800s, Beaver talks. At least so says linguist . Dillard who in his Book american talk notes that trappers came up with their own form of English with vocabulary reflecting life in a rugged terrain. The Mountain Man s language was Rife with references to beavers says Dillard. When a trapper asked another whose Beaver you earning he was asking who the Man s employer was. Dillard says a trapper tradition was to receive Beaver pay either in pelts or in an amount equal to their Worth. Expressions also emerged from efforts at catching the animal. Most Beaver traps had a 5-foot Chain with a float stick attached. The Mountain Man placed the trap in a Stream and drove the stick into its bed. Sometimes a Beaver would Knock the trap free. Then the Mountain Man would have the laborious Job of searching the water s surface for the float stick. That s the Way the stick floats became equivalent to that s the Way the cookie  a Beaver analogy also was used to describe the Man hit by illness death or love. Dillard says the afflicted was known As a gone  bottle unites Georgia boy Eire the Luck of the Irish and a Champagne bottle have brought together a Georgia boy whose ancestors came from the Emerald Isle and a retired Farmer from county Cork. The two became acquainted after a note crossed the Atlantic Ocean in a Champagne bottle Ryan Cody 13, of Stone Mountain ga., threw overboard during a Caribbean cruise three years ago. Two years later Corneli us Bohane 67, found the bottle As he was walking along the Shore on his farm. He wrote to Cody. Saturday night the pair dined together in Miami and prepared to set sail on a free seven Day Caribbean cruise sunday thanks to Carnavale cruise lines which offered to bring them and their families together on a St. Patrick s Day trip. This is the first time Ever that Carnavale is aware of that one of these has been found and responded to said Tim Gallagher a spokesman for the Miami based company. Thousands of bottles containing letters Are thrown Over Board Carnavale ships every year according to Gallagher As part of activities arranged for children on cruises. Kelly Riding in the rain the weather fit the song but entertainer Gene Kelly refused to do singing in the rain As he led a glittery but rain soaked St. Patrick s Parade Down a Green carpeted Emerald mile of Beverly Hills Calif. Kelly wearing an overcoat Rode in the Back seat of a covered antique car. The Parade sunday included 15 floats 50 horses antique cars and bands. Parade spokeswoman Gail Block had said Kelly was pre pared to do singing in the rain " but asked about that Kelly snapped and declined further comment. Kelly no no no candidates for a few laughs a photo James Roosevelt or. Left and Joseph Kennedy ii right take the joking in stride As Massachusetts Senate president William Bulger shows them a mock up of a newspaper during an annual St. Patrick s Day roast in Boston sunday. 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