European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 10, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Saturday. May 10, 1986 the stars and stripes Page 9 Missouri Tennessee prepare for Washington Missouri and Tennessee will hold primary Csc Lions for Federal stale and county officials Ina gust. Military members and their families can obtain information on voting procedures for both Stales by requesting a 1986-87 voting assistance guide from unit voting ets Sis acc officers. Civilians May obtain this information at any . Embassy or consulate ,. The following information ii provided by the Federal voting assistance office in the Pentagon. If local assist Ance t not available overseas voters May Contact the Federal voting assistance program director room 18457, Pentagon Washington d.c., 20301, or Auto on 215-0663 or commercial 202 695-0663, Missouri holds its primary elections aug. 5. Races for one us Senate Seal nine . Representative scats All 163 state House of representative scats 17 even numbered Senate scats slate auditor 12 circuit court judges county commissioners and presiding commissioners circuit court clerks county clerks recorder of deeds prosecuting attorney collector of Revenue county treasurer and firs class county auditors arc to be decided in the election. Missouri waives registration for members of the . Armed forces or merchant Marine and i hair spouses and dependents and overseas citizens voting under the Over seas citizens voting rights act. These voters need Only submit a Federal Post can application to the election authority in their county of voting residence not earlier than 70 Days nor later than the elections 86 a Imp a pm a a wednesday before the election in a Ter to obtain a Pri Mary election ballot Absentee voters will receive a primary ballot Only a second Post card must be submitted for the general elec Tion nov. 4. Overseas citizens voting under the overseas citizens voting rights act Wilt receive a Federal ballot Only unless they request a stale registration form and submit it to the county election authority not in Lehman 27 Day prior to the election. The Tennessee primary election is scheduled for aug. 7. Absentee voters who Are members of the . Armed forces or merchant Marine and their spouses and dependents and other residents of Tennessee temporarily residing outside the United states or overseas citizens voting under inc overseas citizens voting rights act May waive registration. They can apply directly for a primary and general election ballot by submitting a single Federal Post card application to the county election commission in their county of voting residence. The Post card must be received by the commission not earlier than 90 Days or later than seven Duys prior to the election and the voter must Mark on the Post card that tic wishes ballots for both the primary and the nov. 4 general election. Overseas citizens arc eligible for Federal elections Only. Absentee voters must specify party affiliation on the Post card application in order to receive a primary election ballot. Tennessee residents will elect nine us. Representatives 99 stale legislators 17 slate senators governor Public service commissioner and county offices of sheriff trustee Road superintendent circuit and county court clerks and county commissioners. Hanau Pup a reaches of by Charlie Boyden Munich Bureau. Hausen. Germany it took 94 words and 25 rounds before a Stem faced sex try grader finally cracked a smile after correctly spelling add Cidale to win the euro Pean spoiling championship Terry Muise representing Portfield elementary school in Hanau outlasted Vero Nica Carman of Nuernberg elementary school and 11 other department of defense dependent schools regional winners in the fourth annual spelling Bee sponsored by the european Congress of american parents teachers and students and by encyclopedia Britannica. Muise maintaining a serious Demeanour throughout the hour Tong Competition thursday did not crack a smile but had Many in the crowd of nearly 200 smiling As be asked word caller Linda Willis 26 times May i please have a definition Aducci dual is an adjective that describes leaves that do not fall from Trees such As those on evergreens. After earning his Victory and finally breaking into a Grin the youngster explained his technique. If i did t understand the word then maybe the definition would help me re member Muise said the Victory which carries with it a set of encyclopedias did not come easy the youngster worked every Day for weeks pre paring for the spelling a sometimes As much As five hours a Day proud mom ha7el Muise said. How dots he fed about All that work a paid off Muise said. The spelling Bee began with 13 pupils ranging from the fourth through sixth grades. Three went Down in the first round and three More in the second round. Other spellers dropped in the fourth fifth seventh and ninth rounds. In the Lois round the showdown began Between the girl from Nuernberg and the boy from Hanau the deadlock lasted 15 rounds with ten Sion growing steadily among the crowd As the Odds seemed to grow in difficulty. Adults could be heard whispering i can t even say it much less spell it then the spell was broken when Veronica missed on que Erencia which is an area in an Arena fhe beef taken by a Ball for a defensive stand in a bullfight. Under tie breaker rules Muise had to correctly spell that word plus one More. Mulic after asking for definitions did just that. The other spellers All winners in regional spelling bees were Nicole Aldrich Patch elementary school Stuttgart Rolando Carrascosa Vincnza Nlaly Mclinda Dan Dridge Baum older Alison French. Naples. Italy. Stella Hodgkins Ulm Taka Shi Ochi Oslo. Norway. Also Marcia Redwood Spang Dahlum Allison Schumpf. Mannheim Tony Shank  Kim sonata Alconbury England and Shawna Wol Clag shape Belgium. Heather Edwards from Ankara. Turkey was unable to attend the finals. Opossum stewing in classroom has school s fur flying new Bedford mass. A complaints that a vocational school teacher killed and slowed an opossum As part of a cooking class demonstration Are under investigation by the animal Rescue league Here its director says. David Medeiros executive director of the Rescue league said parents of students told him the female opos sum was killed and skinned before culinary arts students at greater new Bedford regional vocational technical High school and then cooked in a Stew. The superintendent of the school said two teachers allegedly involved have been fined in connection with the incident. Two individuals were fined. And it won t happen again said Jeffrey Riley. The school s superintendent director. He said he would have no further comment. Mary Elt ii Cranin a director of the school told the Standard tunes of new Bedford that school officials met wednesday with chef instructor Paul Amaral Medeiros and an official from the slate wildlife department. The butchering was done for leaching purposes fro time to Lime they la iry to do different Ings she told the paper. ". Opossum Hunting season ended Jan. 31, and trapping Eason ended feb. 28, according to the state wildlife department. Cronin said school officials were not aware there were limits on the taking of opossums. Environmental police it. Ray germ of the stale win life department said. One or iwo people were issued non Tim real  he would not elaborate. Medeiros wid one teacher was issued a non criminal a tattoos Tor trapping the animal on of season and the Sher for killing an illegally captured animal. Ltd Cironi said he received complaints from about six Yaremi and students. He said he is investigating whether there were violations of the stale bans on cruelly to am mat a i Rbt factions on the use of live vertebrate in Public schools. The Oxford English dictionary finally finished after 29 years London a yetis yuppies Yabba Sand Wim min Spiel uppity touchdown and Tandoori they re All in the fourth and final supplement of the Oxford English dictionary published thursday marking the end of a 29-year, 60,000-word Effort to bring the English language up to Dale. To finish is Bolh a Relief and a release from a kind of extraordinarily pleasant prison said editor Robert Burchfield. A supplement to the Oxford English dictionary volume in be to a contains 1.480 pages weighs around 14 pounds. Is nearly four inches thick and costs 1137,70 it defines about 13,500 words and starts with the word Sean ancient chinese plucked musical instrument with 25 strings. The last word is Vyrlan a tribe in the Northern Central area of the soviet Union. The times of London hailed it As the greatest English Book this Century. The Crown of a work started in Isis the last word for the present on the Queen s English dedicated with permission to the Queen the record of our language and. Pur  but Burchfield says it is America not England that is most influencing the evolution of the English Lan Guage. Our language is changing slowly and America is leading the Way now not Britain. I Don t see any thing particularly wrong with that. La s inevitable he said. The Oxford English dictionary published by the Oxford University press initially was conceived As a a volume work and took 70 years to Complete with the final volume published in 1928. A supplementary 13th volume was added in 933. Bui under the impetus of world War ii and postwar developments new words and usages emerged Ai an unprecedented rate so in 1958, Burchfield a new zealand born lexicographer now 63, undertook the task of editing four More supplements with definitions and derivations of about 60,000 words sometimes i wondered if i would Ever Complete the task Burchfield said everyday words such As soap opera tango and v frants for men s underpants arc recorded for the first time As Are yetis the so called abominable snowmen said to live in the Himalayas yuppies the Young Urban professionals and Timmin a term used by Mili Tant feminists to underline their separateness from men. -. Burchfield in his preface to the final supplement said the dictionary s original editors resisted including foreign words until they had become firmly entrenched in British use and some words were treated almost Tike illegal  but he said that in the four new supplements he has tried to list the vocabulary of All English speak ing countries and nol merely that of the United kingdom.1 hence the inclusion of such wants As Yabba a jamaican cooking vessel used by Weil Indian immigrants in Britain and Tandoori a spicy cooked meal dish brought by immigrants from India. Spiel is what salesmen give when trying to Ell some thing uppity is a colloquial usage meaning arrogant and touchdown is what planes and space shuttles make when they land. Also included Are such words As washroom slave Driver secret service Tuxedo show business Stetson slapstick and a Kellc which All have been around in american English for a Long Lime. Burchfield says he now plans a new venture a Book on English grammar