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A 1 4 Asbury Park PressFriday, May 29, 1 992 2 eagle chicks banded in tracking program 'Knurl' puts N. J. speller in knots 1 1 i TV, have been hunting nearby on the Delaware Bay Shore. The nest here is the second-oldest in the state and has produced at least two chicks since 1989, Niles said. Zoologists also took blood samples from the eaglets and examined the birds before returning them to the nest, he said.

A similar outing at Bear Swamp in Cumberland County ended with disappointing results Tuesday after Niles discovered an eagle nest there missing its 7-week-old chick. Experts believe the eaglet was snatched by an owl. A chick nesting at Stow Creek in Cumberland County was banded earlier this month, Niles said. Two other sites in Gloucester and Salem counties produced chicks this year but those birds were also lost to predators. The bald eagle, the nation's symbol, is making a comeback in New Jersey after becoming nearly extinct, partly because of DDT contamination.

The state assumed management of their protection in 1982 after the eagles failed produce a single chick during a three-year period. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DENNIS TOWNSHIP Zoologists successfully banded two bald eagle chicks at a state forest, a day after declaring the oldest active nest in New Jersey a failure. The 7-week-old chicks, believed to be females, were retrieved Wednesday from their 50-foot-high perch here in a pond pine tree in Belleplain State Forest, said Larry Niles, a principal zoologist with the state's Endangered and Nongame Species Program. Aluminum identification bands were placed on both of the eaglets' legs, Niles said. The bands will help zoologists monitor the chicks after they leave the nest, he said.

Niles said he feared a second setback Wednesday for the state's bald eagle restoration program. The adult birds, who usually squawk and swoop when humans approach, were conspicuously absent, he said. "It was a little scary at first," Niles said. "We thought the nest was empty until we got right up to it." Niles said the adult birds may Asbury Park Press Jason Freudenberger, East Brunswick Township, made it to the seventh round of the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee yesterday. i By MARGARET DALEY PRESS STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON The judges at the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee tap a single note on a small dome-shaped bell to signify a misspelled word.

It's a gentle sound, somewhere between a "Ping" and a "Ding." But the sound falls hard on the ears of the young spellers, who wince, hang their heads or shrug their shoulders in defeat. For Jason Freudenberger, the East Brunswick Township 13-year-old who made his third and final appearance in the spelling bee, the dreaded sound of the bell came yesterday afternoon in the seventh round after he misspelled knurl (a small knob or protuberance). The eighth-grader spelled it with a instead of a k. "I knew it had a silent letter. Otherwise it would be too easy," said Jason as he munched a pretzel just moments after he left the stage in the ballroom of the Capital Hilton Hotel.

It's ironic what a difference a silent letter can make! Still, Jason outdid himself this year. His goal was a modest one to survive the fourth round, where he met defeat the last two years. In round four, Jason's face broke into a rare smile on stage when he heard his word: notoriety. Piece of cake. In rounds five and six, he faced incoherence and masochistic without flinching.

Jason received a $100 cash prize for surviving six rounds. He was one of two New Jersey contestants among the final 25 spellers. The other was a Princeton eighth-grader, Gwyneth Connell. The champ of the 65th annual spelling bee was Amanda Goad, a 13-year-old from Richmond, who defeated the last of her 226 competitors by correctly spelling lyceum in the 15th round of the two-day bee. She takes home $5,000 in first-place prize money.

Jason said he will probably add his prize money to his allowance. His mother, Carol, who has accompanied her son to all three bees, said the experience has been wonderful for him. Comparing the three spelling bees, Mrs. Freudenberger said this year's contest was more humane than the last two. Spellers who made it to the fourth round did not face the "killer" words that usually start to surface then, she said.

Dr. Alex J. Cameron, the bee's pro-nouncer for the last 12 years, said he also sensed that the words this year "were moving up in difficulty at a more gradual rate." But words like sorbefacient, opsi-math, lousicide and harumph were tough enough to eliminate 53 spellers in round four, 21 in round five and another 25 in round six. Cameron said assessing the difficulty of a word is a troublesome task. "Words that the audience gasps at the kids knock off effortlessly," he said.

fourth-grader managed to remain bri stage long after most of the "big kids" were kindly led off. UIo TonM tnOr tim ucuuci una ycai, jdauu luun mai- place for the third straight year at the Asbury Park Press's eighth annual spelldown, the regional competition for the bee. In that contest, the eighth-grader competed against 133 other champion spellers from Ocean In the end, it often comes down to the luck of the draw. This year, an eighth-grader from New Orleans ticked off dementia in the fifth round and then told the judges, 'My mom would have killed me if I missed that word." His mother, a psychologist, made up a list of words she uses in her work, including dementia, for her son to study from. Then there are the kids who seem to spell in some other realm altogether.

Like the 10-year-old boy from San Francisco who was an "avid reader at three," according to his bio in the spelling bee guide. Spelling words like breviloquent and asphyxiated without missing a beat, the Monmouth and Middlesex counties! Jason will not be eligible to compete in next year's spelldown since the com petition is for students in second to DIRT BUSTERS Power Washing Renovations 364-4519 eighth grades. The Associated Press contributed to this story. ADD NEW LIFE TO YOUR Restores like new your: Floors, Cement Sidewalks, Pools, Brick Patios, Decks, Cedar Shakes Vinyl Siding "Waterproofing also available" i i i ii i ii i Call For Your Free Estimate I DIRT BUSTERS I 908-364-4519 $2000 OFF I I I PRESERVE THE LIFE OF YOUR Reason To Seal Coat Reduces long term maintenance costs Protects against gas, oil salt damage Seals pavement from weather damage Prevents oxidation Beautifies the pavement COSTS ONLY ncukJIce PENNIES prq. ft I rower wasnmg or aeai uoating With This Ad I Call Now For Pre-Season Prices DDBDuKl with Right Dress Licorice Root Mulch Jin POSTURE SERIES Last longer, looks better than ordinary mulches.

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