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MAIL TRIIUNC, MaW. Or. ThgrW.y, July 9, 19S9 5 t ,f ,.- Congressmen Vie In 'Bee'; Writer Says Girls Robbed By FRANK ELEAZER Washington-flJPD-Three con gressmen met three school girls in a spelling match and modestly ad mitted after- Li wards that the school girls had lost. This is to file a minor ity report. The girls were robbed. The eighth- w w . graders new in from California to take on the lawmakers after clobber ing directors of the Santa Rosa Chamber of Commerce. , The directors reportedly had made the mistake of complaining that kids these days are not learning to spell like they used to. "This proved to be true, and thank goodness for that. Those businessmen apparent ly couldn't spell fire sale. To ease their ' embarrass ment, they sic'ed their victors on Congress. They figured no doubt that with the kind of gobbiedygook they talk around here the lawmakers had forgotten all they ever knew about English. .Rep.: Clement Miller CD Calif.) was their first choice as a legislative sacrifice to the ffirl soelkne champs, a he ffirlm eot their start by win ning a three-county bee con ducted by the- Santa Rosa Press Democrat in Miller's eonsressional district. Miller couldn't very well say no, Anyway, yes Is one word every congressman learnt to spell right away. Miller looked wound for support and came up with a eaunle of obvious experts. Rene. Jeffery Cohelan CD- Calif.),: a former Fulbright scholar at Oxford, , and Ken Hechler flW.Va..V a Ph.D.. and former college professor who helped write speeches for Adlai E. Stevenson. The sdrls arrived for the contest unshaken and early. Miller was there, too, but his two experts were nowhere to be seen. They hurried in min utes late, and the word was they had been studying. .Tiom the outcome, It would be hard to say that. Hie photographers got things moving by asking the girls where they were from, and to spell it. : Mary McFarling, . 14, said her home is Ukiah. Carolyn S torts, 14, said she comes . from Gualala. Valerie Turner, IS, jave her town as Peta luma. Majority Would Rule Cohelan said on the panel shows he watches the contest ants get time to confer. Any way, he said . all decisions would be by majority vote. . ;The photogs said please run through some warmups while they shot the pictures. ;Then they got down to the contest. sMary handled s,l a ve r y, bachelor, grotesque, and chan delier without even trying. Valerie ran through scarce, committee, - involuntary, and embroidery. Carolyn got breakfast, discrepancy, gene sis, and laboratory, with no more than a sigh. ; Miller got safely through romance. He staggered on ag gravate, but got it right on the second try, in clear viola tion of rule 5, which said once is enough. He managed gullible and-moccasin. Licked on Mayonnaise Cohelan bandied .bicycle and crescent but was licked on Mayonnaise. He tried that close. ' ' : Hechler eased through available, geranium, abdomen and fallacious. On seismograph Carolyn rolled her eyes to the sky. tried C for a starter and was . ruled out under rule 5. Miller collapsed under ton sillectomy, Valery went down under tercentenary. Mary drew fictitious which she spelled like that. She was the only one in the room who seemed shocked when the judges said she was wrong. The official list, it was noted, spelled it ficticious. So Hechler was proclaimed winner. The girls left mildly crestfallen. And George Cof fey the UPI West Coast re porter, raced off to file the results to Ukiah, Gualala and Petaluma. 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