European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 06, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page 11 Arm Landers dear readers if you Are looking for a meaty i substantive column you can Stop i mine today. On the other hand if i you like to fool around with letters f and numbers and Odd bits of useless trivia you la enjoy today s nonsense. A Reader from Grandville mich., wrote that on a Don night he and a few friends went through an Atlas Hunting for cities and states with the most letters. They found three with 29 letters each South Williamson Pennsylvania Shaw Sheen Village Massachusetts and North Myrtle Beach South Carolina. I asked my readers if they could top that could they Ever from fort Worth Ann Tell Grandville to move Over. I found three cities and states that have 30 letters Wilmington Manor gardens Delaware White Island shores. Massachusetts and Bellefontaine neighbors Missouri  my Only found three other readers found dozens. Here they Are Rutherford College North Carolina Yellowstone National Park Wyoming Grandview Palos Verdes California Yosemite National Park California Charleston Heights South Carolina Little Switzerland North Carolina Hillsborough Center new Hampshire Chalybeate Springs North Carolina Stewartstown hollow new Hampshire Atlantic Chris Tian North Carolina mount pleasant Mills Pennsyl Vania West Greenwich Center Connecticut Wrightsville Beach North Carolina hot Springs National Park Arkansas Charleston Heights South car Olina South Connellsville Pennsylvania new West minister British Columbia. Sharp eyed readers turned up the following with 31 letters Bonnie Riggs Corners Massachusetts White Sulphur Springs West Virginia Green Sulphur Springs West Virginia Pennsylvania Furnace Penn Sylvania Buckhorn Crossroads North Carolina mount Vernon Springs North Carolina. These have 32 letters boiling Springs lakes South Carolina los ranches de Albuquerque new Mexico South International Falls Minnesota Washington court House Pennsylvania upper St. Clair town ship Pennsylvania Cape May county court House new Jersey. Thirty three letters Kings Canyon National Park California port of East Evan Highway Saskatchewan howards Grove Millersville Wisconsin Rocky Moun Tain National Park Colorado. The following have 34 letters West Stockbridg Center Massachusetts mount Rainier National Park Washington Crutchfield Crossroads North Carolina. Only one with 35 letters Guadelupe mountains National Park Texas. These have 36 letters Hillsborough lower Village new Hampshire and Hillsborough upper Village new Hampshire. Bruce g. Freeman of Woodland Hills. Calif., says the official name of los Angeles is Al Pueblo de la Reina do los Angeles California 39 letters. Sorry Bruce offi Cial names Don t count. Hundreds of readers said the official name of Rhode Island is Rhode Island and plantations. This does t count either now hear this from Brent b. Somers in los Angeles dear Ann Landers while looking for cities and states with Long names,1 ran into three with Only seven letters nay Ohio Ute Iowa and Low Utah. How about a contest for the cities and states with the fewest letters dear or. Somers take a hike pal. I m already Cross eyed from the mat and there s a ton i Haven opened. Gore me a break. Some Good news explained about la in the oct. 10 edition i replied to a letter to the editor from staff sol. Daniel Campbell of Augsburg. Staff sgt. Campbell was concerned that he and other soldiers were underpaid dislocation Al Lowance la for permanent change of station pcs moves made Between oct. 1, 1985, and dec. 19,1985. In my reply i explained How to compute the effective Date of orders Edo and that Edo is used to determine Many pcs entitlements. Here is a Good news update. The fiscal year 1990 authorization act contained authority to again increase la to two months Basic allowance for quarters bad. On nov. 9 that authority was granted for those travellers with Edo on after oct. I. Finance office shave begun using the new rates and Recomputing vouchers paid Between oct. I and receipt of authorization instructions. Command Public affairs offi cers have been provided More details on this and another oct. I change to computation of enlisted temporary duty toy vouchers. Sgt. 1st class Michael Donohue staff action officer of Corm he Usa eur Reader reacts to Book on military wives i read with interest the recent article entitled to Day s military  from the description in the Arti Cle it sounds like Lydia Sloan Cline s Book has the potential to be very helpful to individuals involved with the military whether Active duty members or spouses. When it becomes available in 1990 i intend Totake a look at the Book and possibly Purchase it. However in her discussion with the stars and stripes about her Book s attempt to dispel some mis conceptions of military life is. Cline managed to perpetuate a misconception namely the attitude about military matriarchs like the general s  indicated that generals wives tend to lose touch about some things and that the general s wife s experience does t always typify that of the average Mili tary  did is. Cline forget that most generals wives have accompanied their husbands up through the ranks and that they too have been acquainted with and continue to be acquainted with officer no and enlisted wives the average age of an Active duty general s wife is probably in the late 40s, which in the late 1980s does not exactly make her a Blue haired Fossil. Some of these women May be out of touch and imperious but then the same could undoubtedly be said of some first sergeant s and command sergeant major s wives. Like other military wives nowadays there arc Gener als wives who work who have children in Dodds schools who have concerns about the Quality of the produce in the commissary. More often than not. The general s wife is a person like you and me except that she enjoys some advantages As would the spouse of a comparable executive in the civilian world. But she also has additional responsibilities because of her Hus band s position. In the 1990s you Are More Apt to find the general s wife spending her time in a Board meeting attempting to improve your Community than pouring at a ladies Tea. It s time we All put the stereotypes of yesteryear Side. Hopefully in future interviews is. Cline can discuss her Book without justifying it by perpetuating hackneyed dated notions about the senior officer s wife. Name withheld Frankfurt West Germany pen pals i am 21 years Obj and i like listening to soft music writing to friends end raiding. 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