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2B Monday, August 21, 1989 OZARKS The News-Leader Team investigates Joplin explosion Experts, employees probe blast at powder plant that killed two, injured six First-degree murder trial opens today for Lampe man tion team finds. The team will be given as much time as needed, he said. "We haven't put a timetable on it," he said. "It could be a day or two, or weeks." Because the explosion was in a building separated from other plant operations, other work at the plant will continue today, Fisher said. Atlas, located 5 miles east of Jopj- lin, employs -about 400 fi GETTING IT CORRECT By Mike Penprase The News-Leader JOPLIN A team investigating an explosion at the Atlas Powder plant gathered Sunday in preparation to trying to determine what caused the blast, plant manager Jerry Fisher said.

The explosion on Friday killed two employees. The investigating team is made up of Atlas employees and outside explosives experts, Fisher said. Company officials have been unable to contact the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about sending investigators, he said. "We have attempted to contact OSHA and have not been able to." The agency will be contacted today, he said. Fisher said the blast investigation team was waiting for one mem ber to arrive later Sunday before starting its work.

The team will center its investigation on the cast primer operation where an explosion Friday killed two workers. The dead men were identified as Thomas Walters, 43, Joplin, and James Kelly, 33, Carthage. Six other workers were injured in the explosion that took place outside the buiding. The fatal explosion was the second at the plant this year. On March 22, an explosion in a reactor building where ammonium nitrate is made injured two workers.

Friday's explosion occurred when employees were pouring a molten blasting agent known as Pentolite into a mold, company officials said. Fisher said Sunday a determination of what caused the explosion will depend on what the investiga By Sara B. Hansen Our BransonLakes Bureau GALENA Jury trial for a Lampe man charged with first-degree murder is scheduled to begin today in Stone County Circuit Court. Marvin Yocum, 45, will face charges of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in connection with the Jan. 6 shooting death of Larry Dale Gideon at Betty's Tavern in Reeds Spring.

Stone County Prosecutor Mark Rundel is seeking the death penalty in the case. The only other penalty for a first-degree murder conviction is life in prison without parole. Yocum, who is represented by Springfield attorney Devon Sherwood, is free on $125,000 bond. Witnesses testified during a preliminary hearing in February that they saw Yocum shoot Gideon, 35, of Reeds Spring, several times while in the tavern. Dr.

James Banner, who performed the autopsy, testified Gideon was shot five times. Three bullets went through his body and two remained lodged in his upper body. The fatal bullet entered Gideon's back and went through his left lung, Banner said. Regina Lynn Marshall of Aurora, who went to the tavern with Yocum, testified at the hearing that Yocum was mad because Gideon had been staring at him. Gideon also had stared at other people in the bar, she said.

Sherwood declined to discuss his strategy for the trial, but said his client acted in self-defense. Sherwood anticipates the trial will take at least three days. Efforts to reach Rundel Sunday for comment were unsuccessful. The trial had been scheduled for June 13, but was postponed to August because of the Stone County Fair. Holding the jury trial at the same time as the fair would have triggered security risks and parking problems for the 36 potential jurors, Rundel earlier said.

The carnival was set up on three sides of the courthouse and booths and other fair events are on the fourth side, leaving no parking. The News-Leader strives for accuracy and fairness. We will correct any errors or misunderstandings created by stories, headlines and photographs. Readers may request a correction by calling the metro editor at 836-1199. day or night.

Paid announcements are arranged through southwest Missouri funeral home directors. Obituaries CountryQuilts, cabinets sell at Springfield antique show Si FROM PAGE IB Vince Augenstein of Stockton has found that certain colors, as well as certain items, are popular. Green is the "in" color, Augenstein said. "Last year, it was blue," Augenstein said. "This year, it is green.

Everything is going to green." Although some items rise and fall in popularity, other items, such as jewelry, retain their appeal. "People ask for the items they are most interested in, and I have sold quite a bit of jewelry," said Iris May of Springfield. Low-priced items also continue to sell well. People who come to antique shows are bargain hunters, said Jean Anderson of Ozark. "People like anything that's cheap until you get to the real collectors," Anderson said.

"They are the ones who have studied and are willing to pay." People who want to become collectors should start with good antiques, Anderson said. "The value is always there, and it is going to increase," she said. The show, which started Saturday, attracted 70 dealers, most of them from the Midwest. The Springfield Collectors Club holds two antique shows a year to raise money for charities. In 1988, the club donated $11,200 to Springfield area organizations.

The club's executive board will decide which charities will receive proceeds from the weekend show, club president Frances Sutter said. Eleven people started the club in 1971. The members meet once a month for programs on antiques. The club's 1989 spring show will be March 24-25 at the University Plaza Trade Center. "It grows on you," Sutter said.

"You become addicted." K.C. police double arrests for domestic violence The Associated Press KANSAS CITY Kansas City police are arresting more than twice as many people for domestic violence this year since adopting a more active policy to deal with family abuse. Lt. Col. Richard Fletcher, head of the police investigative bureau, said Saturday that officers are averaging 450 arrests a month for domestic assault, up from an average 178 arrests before the new policy.

The Kansas City policy, which preceded a similar new law to go into effect across Missouri this month, allows police to initiate a charge of assault without requiring the victim to sign a complaint. KillingFour charged with murder FROM PAGE 1B Beckwith was traveling through Montana after leaving Iowa, where he had visited relatives. "He met them on the highway and hooked up with them," Thompson said. "He befriended them and they killed him. I have no explanation for it, other than they wanted his money." Beckwith was killed between Winston and Townsend, at a scenic turnout near Canyon Ferry Lake, Thompson said: "The mountains are in the background, and the lake's right there.

It's really a pretty place." The killer fired five shots from a revolver and stole $200 and some traveler's checks. Beckwith's body was found the morning of July 25. Two hours earlier, his truck was found burning near Dillon, about 150 miles distant. A nationwide police bulletin has been issued for Milinovich and Duncan. Thompson said his only concern now is arresting the two men, one of whom allegedly fired the fatal shots.

"Sooner or later, they'll turn up," Thompson said. "I just hope it's sooner. I want to get them off the road before they do this to someone else." his wife Delia Warinner, Springfield, one son W.R. Palmer Jr, Altha, two grandsons; and a great-grandchild. Services will be at 7 p.m.

Monday In Greenlawn Funeral Home North with the Rev. Dus-tln Cooper officiating. Graveside services will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Kansas City, Kan.

Visitation will be after 4 p.m. today in the funeral home. Lucille Elizabeth Payne BOISD'ARC Lucille Elizabeth Payne, 80, Bois D'Arc, died at 3 a.m. Saturday in Ash Grove Nursing Home after a long illness. Mrs.

Payne was a homemaker and longtime resident of the Bois D'Arc area, having moved there in 1946 from Washington. She was a member of the Baptist Church and former member of The Order of Eastern Star, Oklahoma City, Okla. She was preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth S. Payne, October 26, 1969. She is survived by a daughter, Mary Lucille Kilburn, Bois D'Arc; a son, Kenneth S.

Payne, Springfield; six grandchildren; 12 greatgrandchildren; and four step great-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 P.m. Tuesday in Wilson-Brim-Daniel Chapel, Ash Grove, with the Rev. Bob Johnson officiating. Burial will be in Ash Grove Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Judy Eisenhour Stover REEDS SPRING Judy Eisenhour Stover, 35, Fort Smith, formerly of Reeds Spring, died at 5:48 a.m. Saturday in a Fort Smith hospital from apparent complications suffered during surgery. Mrs.

Stover was a member of The New Life Tabernacle. She is survived by her husband, Jerry Stover, Fort Smith; one son, Richard Elder, Reeds Spring; two daughters, Rita Elder and Maria Stover both of the home; her parents, Harold Sr and Mary Eisenhour, Reeds Spring; two brothers, Harold Eisenhour Jr, Kansas City, Roy Eisenhour, Springfield; a sister, Rosemary Youngblood, Reeds Spring; a paternal step-grandmother, Eva Eisenhour, Reed Springs; and several nieces and nephews. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday In Stumpff Chapel South, Kimberling City, with the Rev. R.J.

Moorehead officiating. Burial will be in Yocum Pond Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. DAILY RECORD (Adams), 728 W.

Glenwood, a boy, 2:14 p.m. Aug. 19, Cox South. DEFFENDERFER, Jimmy Joe and Julie (King), 2055 E. Cherry, Apt.

3, a boy, 3:43 p.m. Aug. 18, St. John's. EVERTT, Thomas and Sandra (Simpson), 841 W.

Valley, a boy, 10:43 a.m. Aug. 19, a girl, 10:44 a.m. Aug. 19, Cox South.

FICHER, Eddie and Nancy (Smith), 3710 N. Old Buffalo a girl, 7:35 a.m. Aug. 18, St. John's.

MURPHY, Cathy, 901 E. Bluff a girl, 4:16 a.m. Aug. 3, St. John's.

RAETZ, Alan and Susan (Grant), 2236 S. Laurel, a girl, 11:59 p.m. Aug. 19, Cox South. SMALL, Dale and Susan (Hawkins), Weaubleau, a girl, 3:26 p.m.

Aug. 19, Cox South. SMALL, Steven Dwayne and Debra K. (Mercado), 1337 E. Lynn, a boy, 12:15 p.m.

Aug. 18, St. John's. BIRTHS BUSSARD, Tiffany, 4461 S. Mead-owlark, a girl, 4:42 a.m.

Aug. 19, Cox South. CREAGER, Derek and Cathleen active member of the First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Knial Kissee, in 1959. Survivors include her son, Knial B.

Kissee, Sparta; a daughter Adeline Robertson, Lakewood, a brother, Lester Gann, and a sister, Pauline Farwall, both of Ozark; six grandchildren, six great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews and other relatives; and a host of friends. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Harris-Colonial Chapel, Ozark. Burial will be in Sparta Cemetery. The casket will be closed at all times.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Willaxd Walter Marsh Willard Walter Marsh, 82, Springfield, died at 11:40 a.m. Saturday in Americana-Fremont Nursing Home. A resident of Springfield for many years, he was a retired truck driver for Hutchens Metal Products and was a volunteer bus driver for the Springfield Council of Churches for five years.

He was reared in the Baptist faith. He is survived by his wife, Josephine "Jo" Marsh, of the home; three brothers, Mark and Hadley, both of Springfield, and Allen, Aurora; and several nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Greenlawn Cemetery with the Rev. Kay Mills officiating.

Burial will be under direction of Gorman-Scharpf University Chapel. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m.v today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Southwest Missouri. Mary Belle Moss Mary Belle Moss, 69, Springfield, died at 1:30 a.m. Sunday in Springfield Health Care Center.

She was a retired nurse and member of South Haven Baptist Church. She was born Aug. 11, 1920, in Ford-land, to William Fredrick and Georgia Lou Cock-ran Litty. In 1956, she married Aaron J. Moss Sr, who preceded her in death July 10, 1985.

She is survived by two sons; a daughter; two brothers; a sister; nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchrildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Greenlawn North Chapel. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be after 3 p.m.

today in the funeral home. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Southwest Mo. or Green County Baptist Missions. Pearl E. Palmer Pearl E.

Palmer, 84, Springfield, formerly of Branson, died at 7:20 a.m. Sunday in Heritage Manor. She was a homemaker and memeber of the Methodist Church. She was born July 17, 1905, in St. Louis to Ora E.

and Nora Bell Warinner. She was preceded in death by her husband, W.R. Palmer Sr. She is survived by two sisters. Gladys Sevehla, Fort Bragg, and Christine Trush, Festus one brother, Charles and 1 989, in Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo.

He was 10 years old. He attended the Developmental Center In Springfield and the Greene Valley School for the Handicapped. He is survived by his parents, Lawrence and Michelle Tucker, and a brother, Mitchell, all of the home in Springfield; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hansen, Auburn, his paternal grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. John Randolph Tucker, Kansas City; his maternal greats grandmother, Mrs. Ma-ble Hansen, Minneapolis, and his paternal great-grandf mother, Mrs. Marie Wy" art, St. Joseph.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Unity Christ Church with the Rev. J. Douglas Bottorff officiating. Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in Ra-gan-Thieme North Chapel. Memorial contributions may be made to Boatmen's Bank, Glen-stone Branch, for the" Tucker family. Genevieve Vinyard Taylor Genevieve Vinyard Taylor, 74, died Friday evening in St. John's Regional Health Center after a short illness.

Mrs. Taylor was a native of Poplar Bluff and had resided in Spring field for the past 50 years. She was a graduate of Central Methodist College, Fayette, Mo.J and a member of King's 1 Way United Methodist Church. Over the years, Mrs. Taylor was active in many community and charitable affairs and was a patron of the arts.

She was a musician and member of the SMMA Keyboard Group and Period Decoration Art Group. She was a life member of SMMA and the Museum of Ozarks History (Bentley House), and a former board member of the Spring- field Symphony and Springfield Girl's was also the founder of the Annual Snowflake Ball at Hickory Hills Country Club, where she was a member. Her hus- band, the late Roger H. Taylor, who was a well- known Springfield businessman, died In 1981. Survivors include her son, Roger H.

II, Topeka; four Emily Lincoln, Column' bia, Nancy Springfield, Carolyn Burridge, and Genevieve 'G-g' Metzger, Dallas, Tex-: as; two brothers, Lin Vinyard, Davenport, Iowa, and Dick Vinyard, .4 St. Louis; nine grandchil-. dren, John Lincoln, Alii- son and Rjchard Kerr, Alice, Claire, and Sarah Burridge, and Taylor, Genevieve, and Ryan Metzger. She is also survived by a close, person-. al friend.

Dr. Howard J. McAlhany, Springfield. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in King's Way United Methodist Church with the Rev.

Lee F. Soxman Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Hazelwood Cemetery under direction of Got- man-Scharpf University Chapel. The family has re-, quested that Memorials -be made, to the Springfield Symphony, 1536 E.

Division, 65802. Thomas Helm Baird Jr Thomas Helm Baird Jr, 69, Springfield, died at noon Saturday, Aug. 19, in his home. Thomas was born Cape Girardeau. He was married to Jodie Baird on Oct.

10, 1943, and he received his degree in Economics from the University of Missouri. He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Naval Reserves in 1940. Thomas served as a destroyer commander in both World War II and the Korean Conflict, and as the commanding officer of the local Naval Reserve Unit. He retired with the rank of commander.

He was, along with his stepfather Ralph Reed, the co-founder in 1947 of the Concrete Company of Springfield. In addition to Conco and Conco Quarries, his major business Interest was his role as Chairman of the Board of Mercantile Bank. Thomas was a past chairman and longtime leader and board member of the National Ready Mixed Concrete Association. He was a trustee of the First and Calvary Presbyterian Church. He was an active leader and participant in many civic projects and organizations throughout his life, including a long involvement in the activities of the Chamber of Commerce, which he served as president in 1962.

During that time he helped to attract industry to the community, which was one of his primary interests and pursuits from the 1950s-70s. His efforts were recognized in that he was one of the first recipients of the Springfield of the Year Award. He was also the past president of the Hickory Hills Country Club. He is survived by his wife, Jodie; two sons, Thomas H. Baird ill and Robert M.

Baird; four grandchildren, Allison, Thomas H. IV, Andrew and Nancy Kather-ine Baird; his sister, Phoebe Rice; and a sister-in-law, Katherine Miller. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Hazelwood Cemetery under direction of Gor-man-Scharpf University Chapel. Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m.

in First and Calvary Presbyterian Church with Dr. Jack Hart officiating. Memorial contributions may be made to the Community Foundation of Greene County, 901 St. Louis. Dema O.

Kissee SPARTA Dema O. Kissee, 84, Sparta, died at 10:45 p.m. Saturday in Cox Medical Center South from injuries re-cieved in an automobile accident Aug. 7, one mile west of Sparta on Hwy 14. She was a native of Sparta, born May 18, 1905 to Robert and Lunda Gann.

She a very Villa M. Brown, 78 CASSVILLE Services for Villa M. Brown, Cassville, will be at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday in Williams-Cassville Chapel. Burial will be in Oak Ridge Cemetery.

Mrs. Brown died at 5:10 p.m. Saturday in Bethany Hospital, Kansas City, after a long illness. Visitation will be after noon today in the funeral home. Diane Mary Chambers, 39 Services for Diane Mary Chambers, Springfield, will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday in Cherry Street Baptist Church. Burial will be in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Chambers died at 1:42 a.m. Friday in St.

John's Regional Health Center after a short illness. Roscoe L. 'Rocky' Davis, 69 Services for Roscoe L. "Rocky" Davis, Springfield, will be at 1 p.m. today in Greenlawn North Chapel.

Burial will be in Brookline Cemetery. Mr. Davis died at 1:20 a.m. Saturday in St. John's Regional Health Center.

Norma J. Delp, 65 AVA Services for Norma J. Delp, Ava, will be at 3 p.m. today in Ragan-Thieme Chapel of Ava. Burial will be in Ava Cemetery.

Mrs. Delp died at 12:53 p.m. Friday in Cox Medical Center North, Willie O. Dodd, 86 GREENFIELD Services for Willie O. Dodd, Greenfield, will be at 2 p.m.

today in Greenfield Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery. Mrs. Dodd, a homemaker, died at 5:45 p.m. Friday in Dade County Memorial Hospital, Lockwood.

Gertrude E. Foley, 76 Graveside services for Gertrude E. Foley, Springfield, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Greenlawn Memorial Gardens under direction of Greenlawn Funeral Home North. Mrs.

Foley, a homemaker, died at 3:23 a.m. Sunday Cox Medical Center South. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday in the funeral home. Laura Hazel Hale, 82 LEBANON Services for Laura Hazel Hale, Lebanon, formerly of Crocker, will be at 10 a.m.

Tuesday in Palmer-Pickering Chapel. Graveside services will be at noon in Crocker Cemetery. Mrs. Hale died at 10:10 a.m. Sunday in Breech Medical Center.

Visitation will be today in the funeral home. Cleda Ann Jones, 71 AURORA Services for Cleda Ann Jones, Aurora, will be at 2 p.m. today in Union Ridge Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery under direction of Meadors Funeral Home, Clever. Mrs.

Jones died Friday after a long illness. Cassie A. Krull, 82 Services for Cassie A. Krull, Springfield, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday in Klingner Chapel, Burial will be in White Chapel Cemetery.

Mrs. Krull died at 8:15 p.m. Friday in Cox Medical Center North after a short illness. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Zellah E. Robblns, 83 NIXA Services for Zellah E. Rob-bins, Nixa, formerly of Mountain Grove, will be at 3 p.m. today in Craig-Hurtt-Bradley Chapel, Mountain Grove. Burial will be in Hillcrest Cemetery.

Mrs. Robbins died Friday in St. John's Regional Health Center, Springfield, after a long illness. Alice Fern Spellman, 82 Services for Alice Fern Spellman, Springfield, will be at 2 p.m. today in Klingner Chapel.

Burial will be in White Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. Spellman died at 8:50 a.m. Saturday in Cox Medical Center South after a long illness. Genevieve Vinyard Taylor, 74 Services for Genevieve Vinyard Taylor, Springfield, will be at 11 a.m.

Tuesday in King's Way United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Hazelwood Cemetery under direction of Gorman-Scharpf University Chapel. Mrs. Taylor died Friday in St. John's Regional Health Center after a short illness.

Norwood Tygart, 68 BOLD7AR Services for Norwood Tygart, Bolivar, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Butler Chapel. Burial will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery, southwest of Aldrich. Mr. Tygart, a farmer and stockman, died at 6:10 p.m.

Saturday in his home after a long illness. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Other Deaths Listed below are notices of recent deaths of present or former residents of southwest Missouri. More details will be published when information is available.

Chester Bowling, 68, Galena, died at 12:20 p.m. Sunday in Cox Medical Center South, Springfield. Arrangements will be by Greenlawn Funeral Home South, Springfield. Section credits WjgffiWTOWgffljWwi fs A i Page Design by: Chris Bentley Headlines by; Ed Peaco, Dick Shelton, Jim Larsen, Chris Bent-ley, Ronnie Roy, Julie McMahon Editing by: Ed Peaco, Dick Shelton, Jim Larsen, Chris Bentley, Ronnie Roy, Julie McMahon Obituaries, Death Notices: Chad Carter, Maudie Lawson Wiley N. Tucker Wiley N.

Tucker, Springfield, died Aug. 18,.