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SPORTS WORLD NEWS CLASSIFIED ADS Albany DcmocraMOcralD FRIDAY, MARCH 16. 1DOO 15 or A 1 I i 'dt' I V7V- -v. 1 I 3 I x. jfW' i pt K'i I I I South Albany's Southern Belles will dance tonight to 'Fame, The purple with chartreuse and red sequins, have erseii "Space" as the theme of their routine They will dam to Pure Knergy With seven first sear dancers on the team, the Huskiel tes have had a year of building, coach Jean Taylor said "I'm having a good time with the team this year we may do better than people anticipate." List year the Sweet Hume team took second place in state competition among schools in the Class AA division. Southern Belles, coach Jan Vandehey describes her team as "electrifying.

They have a way that says 'Look at me, I'm great!" The electricity just dazzles off their feet." The Belles, who will be costumed in red and silver, will fiance to music following the theme, Fame, The Dream." West Albany's Hi Steppers will stage "The Wedding of the Decade" when they Like the floor in Portland The team, which will be costumed in fuchsia and white, will compete in a specially division that features performances in which props, sets and costume changes may be included. List year they took sixth place in the state championships. Bringing the performance together has Ixvn a joint effort of parents and West Albany students, coach Carol Canfield said. Parents built the wedding chajvl and wood shop students built the tiered wedding cake for the team's projis. "It's taken hundreds of hours hevond the time the girls put into practices," Canfield said.

By MARY PARKINSON Albany Democrat Horokl Three mid-valley dance and drill teams will take their glitter and talent to state dance and drill championships that start tonight. The Southern Belles of South Albany High School and the Huskiettes of Sweet Home High School will be at McNary High School; 505 Sandy Drive N. in Kalem for competition Saturday and Sunday. West Albany Hi-Steppers will enter specialty division competition in Portland Monday. The Southern Belles are scheduled to compete in the first round of Class AAA small group division tonight at ti.

the team took first place in the competition last year. For the Huskiettes, who compete in the Class AAdivi-sion, first round competition will begin at 10 a Saturday. The final rounds in Salem will begin at 5 p.m. Saturday. Tickets to each round are $3 and may be purchased at the door.

Competition for West's Hi-Steppers logins at 6 Monday at the Memorial Coliseum Finals will begin at fi Tuesday. Tickets on Monday are for students and $4 for adults; on Tuesday they will lie $1 for students, for adults. The dance and drill championships, which draw teams from throughout the state, are sponsored by the Oregon School Activities Association and Bank. The Sweet Home Huskiettes, costumed in iridescent Heralds Tony Ovsrmin Teri Jackson and Derek Hews stand atop a wedding cake in Hi-Steppers routine. Mid-valley teams Following are the names ot mid valley high school dance and drill team members.

South Albany High School Southern Belles: Tonya Baker, Desiroe captain Marcee BroadAell, Missy Castillo, captain and all state candidate Heidi Daily, Jenny Davidson, Sicely -Donaldson, Darcy Geller, Mmdy Gill, Carmen Gutierrez, Jill Jensen, Erica Jones, captain and all-state candidate Eun-Hui Kim, captain Kea McClanahan, Stacie Meagher, all state alternate candidate Leah Oxford, Jamie Pugh, Amy Reed, Jennifer Schulie, Becky Shetka. Missy Shindler, Rebecca Warner. Sweet Home High School Huskiettes: Jeni Barton, Brenda Buzzard, all state candidate Lynn Dirksen, Katie Gourley, Kim Johnson, Crystal Mellson, Marcie Miner, Dawn O'Leary, Trina Picke't, all-state candidate Karen Potter, Conna White, Bridgett Woodard. West Albany High School Hl-Steppers: Accursia Baldassano, Kali Carter. Pon Dunshee, Sharmane Dutcher, Cortney Edwards, Carrie God-des, Trma Hunt, line captain and all stale candidate Teri Jackson, Amie Kau, Rachel McLennan, team captain Stacey Radlord, line captain and all state candidate Becky Pitsch, Mona McGill, Derek Hows, and team manager Brandi Meade The Sweet Home High School Huskiettes will compete in Salem Saturday.

'Space' will be their theme. First rule on spelling: If you're uncertain, look it up Jous life In the Sharon, Pa Herald, a per explain why he sports nter umlertooK to thought it un.nerearv alwavs to locate a local THE ARiUR Af-T JAMES Vi KILPATRICK LJL I Back, in December, a classified ad appeared in the West Palm Beach i Post. It offered for sale a 'selery gretn" sofa, a "vaccuum cleaner," and best of alt, a "French Preven-tial double bed." Ah, tne. Evidently the person who wrote the ad, or the person who took it over the telephone, had no idea how to spell "celery," "vacuum" and "Provincial." The misdemeanant failed to follow the first rule on the road to becoming a good speller. Rule No.

1 is. if you aren't CERTAIN about the spelling, look it "up Rule No. 2 is, learn to be uncertain. We haven't talked about spelling since last fall, and it's time to have another go at this elementary aspect of the writer's art. If your term paper, your book review, your short story or your feature article is marred by" misspellings, believe me, most teachers and editors will be impressed.

They will be badly-impressed. A reader in Roseburg, last year sent along a newsletter from School Distnct No. 4. her An ep'voto'tiy. ma'am, is not an appeasing proci-dure This pa-; the L'lS Vegas iNev.J He1, lew Journal provided a feature on unusual Vuletide carls This card, in try pitch form, depicted three scenes." How come the writer didn't feel a twinge of uncertainty'' The word is "triptych I kind of I ked this misspelling from the Review Journal It came in a Umk review of a "concise yet spritelv written treatise on personnel law The reviewer wanted "sprightly, but there's something charming about especially treatise on personnel law A writer for tbe Hat ago Tribune turned out a ry on Ireland He wenlto an in i i a-1 I.Mind an inscription 'ihi'i'-d iiiio the mantel Now, "chule" iia.sthe ring of a splendid Dickensian verb, but the verb he wanted was "'chiseled.

A writer for Scnpps Howard went to ia the town that actress Kim Bas- inger txiught. Some residents work in a factory, some farm, and "some subsist in a brand of gentile poverty." That's genteel poverty, if sou please. U't's keep religion out of Thinking of Georgia: The Augusta Chronicle carried a story about Hurricane Hugo last SeptemlHT. In the fishing village of McClellan-ville, "a dozen shrimp trollers were tossed out of the harbor." Shrimpers don't troll; they trawl. In South Carolina, it's a Southern trawl Enough for now.

Accurate spelling truly is an important skill for anyone who wants seriously to write. It's not the be-all and end-all, of course Other skills count for more -such as having something to say worth saying. 1 But many readers never will get to' the message they get detracted ah, distracted along the way. Kilpatnck writes (or the Vnivcral Press Syndicate. high school: "Since our readers already know where Hickory High School is located, it is superfulous to say, 'Hickory High School.

Her mitage." i For any youngsters reading this column, the word 'superfluous', means un necessary or excessive, An example of superfluous: 'many, many, many i I'sing a dictionary," brother, is not a superfluous practice. Medical terms have a way of throwing lazy wrders. The Portland Oregnman last year; carried a story alxmt an athlete who suffered a "subarchnoid heniorrh.ie.'' He wanted "arachnoid." referring So the dei.catc membrane of the ar, i i. In t.e Cleveland" Plain lealer. we i read of a woman who had given birth to a buy child when an adoption agency came to call.

"She wa still in the hospital, her still throbbing, and her ht.nr.-nes still haranguing The fifth graders at Fullerton IV presented a "practically perfect, poiniently prepared patriotic musical." The alliteration was great, but alas, the word is "poignantly" In Indiana, a college newspaper supplement called "Campus I'SA" carried a helpful article on spelling tips: "Some words lent themselves to tricks called pneumonics The more ridiculous the pneumonic, Use better." Those tricks are mnemonics, friend. You should have looked it up Those who write about the language live a i.