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2B Thursday, November 12. 1987 OZARKS The News-Leader VeteransOzarkers remember wars on Veterans Day Chemical spill forces dozens to flee 2 Springfield warehouses "I mean, it wasn't like shooting at targets or wild animals. You're being fired on, and you have to fire back." Clark was a foot soldier; he uses the word "grunt." A black man, he doesn't remember much racism in the trenches, though he's since heard that many blacks saw battle before their white counterparts. He was wounded, flown to Japan and sent back to Vietnam. Clark became bitter on his return from Vietnam.

"We were used for a purpose, and when we came back, they said, 'We've got new people to he says. "We were their dogs. It was degrading to me. It was heartbreaking." Clark knew little of the outcry against Vietnam until he came ployees along with about 20 workers at Ozark Automotive were evacuated from their workplaces while authorities cleaned up, said Springfield Arson Investigator Kent Turner. A9 a precautionary measure, Springfield fire officials outfitted themselves in protective clothing before entering the building.

The remaining chemical was placed in a protective recovery barrel and will be shipped to a hazardous waste disposal site, Turner said. Officials said Tuesday's mock accident aided them in handling the spill at Van Waters and Rogers. "It appears that our emergency response plan worked really well today," Chadwick said Wednesday. "It was a very minor situation, but every time you work with hazardous chemicals you have a potentially dangerous situation. You can never be too prepared." Chadwick said.

Phosphorus trichloride is highly explosive when mixed with water, he said. The chemical apparently reacted with moisture on the floor. "The workers thought they had it contained, so we weren't notified as soon as we probably should have been," Chadwick said. Fire officials were notified about 20 minutes after the spill occurred by an employee from Ozark Automotive Distributors, 223 S. Patterson Ave.

Workers there spotted a cloud of smoke coming from an air vent at Van Waters and Rogers. Bob Fitzgerald, branch manager of Van Waters and Rogers, said his employees are trained in handling chemical spills. Phosphorus trichloride, which has a variety of uses, can be found in gasoline additives and plasticiz-ers, he said. Because the chemical can irritate the skin, throat and nose in humans, the company's eight em Schools slate parent-teacher conference week By Connie Farrow The News-Leader More than two dozen workers were evacuated from two Springfield warehouses Wednesday after a hazardous chemical spill. The accident came one day after Springfield officials tested their emergency response plan in a drill at Syntex Agribusiness Inc.

Wednesday's spill occurred about 9:30 a.m. at Van Waters and Rogers 220 S. Barnes when a forklift punctured a 55-gal-lon metal drum containing phosphorus trichloride, said Battalion Fire Chief Don Chadwick. About 10 gallons of the highly corrosive chemical seeped onto the floor of the warehouse and distribution center. An employee immediately threw a chemical absorbent on the spill and was able to contain it, but humidity inside the building had caused it to form a cloud of smoke, Fires destroy A fire early Wednesday morning destroyed a house northeast of Springfield, firefighters said, while a fire late Tuesday cause moderate damage to a long-closed motel at Forsyth.

The house on Farm Road 227 north of Greene County was fully involved in flames by the time volunteers with the Pleasant View and Strafford fire departments arrived shortly after 4:20 a.m. "We could see the glow from the fire when we were several miles away, so we weren't surprised to arrive and find it engulfed in flames," Pleasant View Fire Chief John Saunders said. Saunders said two men were living in the two-story, frame home. This is parent-teacher conference week in the Springfield Public Schools, and elementary school report cards for the first quarter will be handed out. Conferences have been scheduled throughout the week, but most will be tonight and during the day Friday in Springfield elementary, junior and senior high FireCabinet-making shop burns System Computer to monitor Springfield schools house, damage Their names were not available.

Saunders said the two men apparently were awakened by the fire and escaped unharmed. However, they lost all their possessions in the blaze. Saunders said the fire apparently started upstairs. But he said the extent of damage prevented firefighters from determining the cause. The fire in Forsyth, meanwhile, was considered suspicious.

Damage to the Shady Rest Motel on U.S. Highway 160 was moderate, Ron Correll, chief of the Central Taney County Fire Protection District, said Wednesday. Firefighters were called just after 11:15 p.m. Tuesday to fight the Board President Thorn Field. And with the security system, much theft and damage will be prevented, reducing the amount of money the district must pay in deductibles in making claims, board member Jackie McKinsey said.

Besides, McKinsey said, the security system "assures the safety of some of our school personnel who may be in a building at night." Neely said the total cost of the fire alarm and security system will be $160,000 to $180,000 in equipment and labor. Had they not been combined, the cost would have been more like $300,000, he said. The energy management program will start in six buildings four elementary schools, a junior high school and a senior high school. The buildings have yet to be chosen. The state will pay $138,000 for the equipment needed and the district will provide the labor to install it.

By the time the security and fire system is completed in the spring, it will have taken about two years to do although most buildings already are hooked up, Neely said. It's taken this long because not closed motel blaze at the motel, which had been closed 18 years, the chief said. The motel was undergoing remodeling. State fire marshal's investigator Bill Zieres of Springfield termed the blaze suspicious after determining it started in a shower stall, Correll said. Damage to the one-story building was concentrated in roof rafters and joists, Correll said.

Firefighters had the fire under control about 15 minutes after the alarm was sounded, but remained on the scene until about 2 a.m. Wednesday cleaning up the site, the chief said. There were no injuries, Correll said. all the money could be allocated from the budget at once, Neely said, and the task simply is a time-consuming one. He said that three district maintenance electricians have done most of the work on the project John Tolliver, Odell Wilson and Lloyd Oleson along with other jobs as well.

"I think that we're on course," Field said. Eventually, Neely said he would like to add a maintenance management program to the centralized system to provide monitoring of the district's large pieces of equipment, such as boilers and refrigerator units. He has no cost estimate for that. "If a big walk-in freezer in a high school is getting above a certain temperature, it will just automatically notify us," he said. "We'll know a boiler is off line before we start feeling the cold in the building." And his office would better be able to keep track of where maintenance and repair workers are working and will know sooner when equipment is fixed and ready to use again.

FROM PAGE 1B He commanded soldiers barely out of their teens. He gave them statistics to show that anyone who survived the "first few fire fights" was likely to live. "They learned when to duck, when to dig," Forsyth says. "But there's no way to tell you about the horrors of war. You just have to experience it." Forsyth, 63, doesn't want another war, only more pride in America.

But he was disappointed at the lack of flags flying in Springfield on Veterans Day 1987. He sees a lack of patriotism on the part of many people. "Do people really care? Do you care for your country, for what we've got?" he asks. "We put a price tag on everything today. You can't buy patriotism.

You can't buy freedom. "I'll fight anyone that belittles our country, our flag. I think this country is worth fighting for, even with all of our faults. The day it isn't, we'd better just give it up." Abe Clark leans on his crutch and listens to the speeches at Springfield National Cemetery. He was wounded in Vietnam but doesn't talk much about it.

He brushes aside questions with a slight smile and the words, "I'm fortunate compared to others." Clark was a Marine who volunteered in 1966. Vietnam beckoned the following year. "I was terrified at first," he says. Woman hospitalized after being hit by car A young Springfield woman was hospitalized Wednesday after she was struck by a car, police said. Peggy Hunter, 19, was listed in fair condition Wednesday night at St.

John's Regional Health Center. Springfield police said the accident occurred shortly before 8 a.m. in the 1300 block of West Nichols Street. Hunter was struck by an east-bound car driven by Tammy Fields, 22, of Springfield. Fields and a witness said Hunter stepped off the curb onto the street.

DAILY RECORD BIRTHS ARMSTRONG, Chris and Lisa (Jones), Niangua, a girl, 3:09 a.m. Nov. 10, Cox South. ARNDT, Tim and Jolyn (Capps), 1327 N. Lyon, a girl, 10:09 p.m.

DEATH NOTICES Kenneth K. Carroll LEBANON Services for Kenneth K. Carroll, 68, OTallon, formerly of Laclede County, will be at 1 1 a.m. Friday in Colonial Chapel. Burial will be in McBride Cemetery in Laclede County.

Mr. Carroll died at 7:30 a.m. Tuesday in Barnes Hospital, St. Louis. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m.

today in the funeral home. Julia M. Carter EL DORADO SPRINGS Services for Julia M. Carter, 63, El Dorado Springs, will be at 10 a.m. Friday in Hackleman Chapel.

Burial will be Sunday in Carter Cemetery, Sweet Springs, W.Va. Mrs. Carter, a homemaker, died Tuesday in her home. Visitation will be at 7 p.m. today in Hackleman and Sons Funeral Home.

Etta Corwlne CHADWICK Services for Etta Corwine, 94, Chadwick, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Chadwick Baptist Temple. Burial will be in Chadwick Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Harris Funeral Home, Ozark. Mrs. Corwine died at 9:33 a.m.

Tuesday in the home of a daughter in Springfield. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Irkle DeMalre LAMAR Services for Irkle De-Maire, 74, Lamar, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Lamar First Christian Church.

Burial will be in Iantha Cemetery, west of Lamar, under the direction of Lohmeyer-KonanU Funeral Home. Mrs. DeMaire, a retired clerical worker, died at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday in her home. Ida M.

Dixon OZARK Services for Ida M. Dixon, 87, Ozark, will be at 10:30 a.m. today in Adams Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Weaver Cemetery, north of Ozark. Mrs.

Dixon, a homemaker, died Sunday in Ozark Nursing and Care Center after a long illness. Henry Earl Hagebusch PIERCE CITY Services for Henry Earl Hagebusch, 93, Pierce City, will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Lakin Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Dry Valley Cemetery, west of Pierce City. Mr.

Hagebusch, a retired nurseryman, died at 3:30 a.m. Wednesday in St. Vincent's Hospital, Monett. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home.

home. He made the effort to learn more about the reasons for the war. "It grieved me greatly when I learned it was basically a political war," he says. "I found out I was only there because of politics." Clark, now 41, glances at the hundreds of simple white stones marking the graves of war dead. Some bear only numbers; those graves are occupied by "unknown soldiers." "I'm now glad I went, although I didn't feel that way right away," he says.

"We've got a lot of skeletons in the closet yet about the war, but we're bringing some of them out now. That's good. "Maybe that's the only way we're going to teach people about it." schools. There will be no school Friday because of the many parent-teacher conferences slated. Grade cards will be given to parents at the elementary school conferences.

Junior and senior high school grade cards will be sent home with students on Nov. 20. from doing much to stop it. Additional fire trucks were called from the Strafford and Wil-lard fire departments. Firefighters remained on the scene late Wednesday night to control the remaining blaze.

Bill Farr, an investigator with the state fire marshal's office, said the fire was started by the recently installed exterior wood furnace. He said the fan that circulates the heated air from the furnace into the business was shut off and the stove was stoked with wood by the last employee who left the business. This caused the metal wall next to the furnace to overheat and the wooden studs in the wall caught fire. PRINCIVALU, William and Mari (Sharp), Conway, a girl, 6:45 p.m. Nov.

10, Springfield General. SCHERFF, Roger and Cheryl (Cook), Brookline, a girl, 4:27 a.m. Nov. 6, Springfield General. VESTAL, Jimmy and Patti (Pender), Niangua, a girl, 12:59 p.m.

Nov. 8, St. John's. WALLACE, Earl and Rhonda (Goodwyn), Route 4, Springfield, a girl, 6:06 p.m. Nov.

10, Cox South. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home. Arvella Thompson ELKLAND Services for Arvella Thompson, 81, Elkland, will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Elkland Christian Church.

Graveside services and burial will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in Evergreen Cemetery, Red Oak, Iowa. Mrs. Thompson, a homemaker, died at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Springfield General Hospital.

Local arrangements are under the direction of Barber-Edwards-Arthur Funeral Home, Marshfield. Fred S. Thompson EL DORADO SPRINGS Graveside services for Fred S. Thompson, 89, El Dorado Springs, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Holsapple Cemetery, near Collins.

Burial will be under the direction of Hackleman and Sons Funeral Home. Mr. Thompson, a retired farmer, died Monday in Cedar County Memorial Hospital. Visitation will be at 6 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Ha C. Tucker MOUNTAIN GROVE Services for Ila C. Tucker, 71, Mountain Grove, will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in Craig Hurtt-Bradley Chapel. Burial will be in Hill-crest Cemetery.

Mrs. Tucker, a homemaker, died Tuesday in Cox Medical Center South, Springfield. Harry Jewell Venable Sr. Services for Harry Jewell Venable 95, Springfield, will be at 2 p.m. today in Gorman-Scharpf University Chapel.

Burial will be in Maple Park Cemetery. Mr. Venable, a retired business teacher, died Tuesday in Americana-Fremont Health Care Center. Other deaths Here are notices of recent deaths of present or former residents of south-'west Missouri. More details will be published when information is made available by funeral directors.

Ida ML Jacobs, 50, Springfield, died at 9:55 a.m. Wednesday in St. John's Regional Health Center. Arrangements will be announced by Ayre-Goodwin Funeral Home. Sam A.

Malone, 83, Springfield, died at 10:20 a.m. Wednesday in Mercy Villa. Arrangements will be announced by Greenlawn Funeral Home South. Sam Dempsey Porter, 80, Washburn, died at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday in his home.

Arrangements will be announced by Williamson-Cassville Funeral Home. Floyd L. Reed, 91, Springfield, died at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday in St. John's Regional Health Center.

Arrangements will be announced by Ayre-Goodwin Funeral Home. FROM PAGE1B and his brother shut the garage door. A few minutes later, the first volunteer firefighters from Pleasant View and Ebenezer arrived on the scene. John Saunders, Pleasant View fire chief, said the building was heavily involved in fire when they arrived. "Fire had burned through the roof on the north side and it was burning all the way across the roof in the center of the building.

Flames were shooting 30 to 40 feet into the air," Saunders said. John Matney, Ebenezer fire chief, said the fire was extremely hot. It spread quickly through the building, preventing firefighters Nov. 10, Cox South. BARNETT, Larry and Donna (Ledbetter), Lebanon, a girl, 8:50 a.m.

Nov. 10, Cox South. CREECH, Bradley and Robin (Colten), Niangua, a girl, 12:06 a.m. Nov. 8, Springfield General.

CUMMINGS, Donald and Wynne (Fossett), Route 1, Ozark, a girl, 6:40 a.m. Nov. 10, Cox South. DART, Daniel and Charlene (Gregory), Monett, a girl, 8:39 p.m. Nov.

10, Cox South. Georgia L. Hawley BUFFALO Services for Georgia L. Hawley, 80, Route 3, Buffalo, will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in Montgomery-Viets Chapel.

Burial will be in Church Grove Cemetery, south of Buffalo. Mrs. Hawley, a former schoolteacher, died at 2:05 p.m. Tuesday in her home. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Friday in the funeral home. Stella Anne Henderson URBANA Services for Stella Anne Henderson, 93, Urbana, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in Cantlon Funeral Chapel, Buffalo. Burial will be in Memorial Gardens of Memory, Buffalo. Mrs.

Henderson, a homemaker, died at 5 a.m. Wednesday in St. John's Re-gional Health Center, Springfield. Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

Clare A. Ingram GOLDEN Services for Clare A. Ingram, 73, Golden, will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Prugh's Chapel, Burlington, Iowa. Burial will be in Aspen Grove Cemetery, Burlington.

Mr. Ingram, a retired maintenance supply company owner, died at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday in his home after a long illness. Local arrangements are under the direction of Axley's Culver Chapel, Cassville. Florence Miller LINN CREEK Services for Florence Miller, 82, Route 1, Linn Creek, will be at 1 p.m.

Saturday in Hedges Funeral Home, Camdenton. Burial will be in Dale Blair Cemetery, Camdenton. Mrs. Miller, a homemaker, died at 12:50 a.m. Wednesday in Lake of the Ozarks General Hospital, Osage Beach.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday in the funeral home. Bernlce Opsal BUFFALO Services for Bemice Opsal, 82, Buffalo, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Montgomery-Viets Chapel. Burial will be in Mount Olive Cemetery, south of Buffalo.

Mrs. Opsal, a retired motel operator, died at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday in St. John's Regional Health Center, Springfield. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m.

today in the funeral home. Carl E. Peterson WAYNESVILLE Services for Carl E. Peterson, 66, Route 1, Waynesville, will be at 10 a.m. Friday In Richland First Christian Church.

Burial will be in Swede Cemetery, near Richland, under the direction of Colonial Chapel, Richland. Mr. Peterson, a retired farmer, died Wednesday In Truman Veterans Hospital, Columbia. Announcements are arranged through southwest Missouri funeral directors. FROM PAGE 1B ized monitoring project is to keep better tabs on the district's physical plant spread out over more than 138 square miles among 70 buildings, including 53 elementary, junior and senior high schools.

And it should help the district prevent problems or at least catch them early and save money, officials said. "It makes a lot of sense," said Gary Jones, assistant director for building services with the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. "From what I know about those systems, I think it's a good investment." Although centralized monitoring systems are in use in school districts elsewhere in the nation, Jones said, Springfield appears to be the first in Missouri to try it on such a large scale. The computer equipment is located in the district's new General Services Center at 1458 E. Chestnut Expressway.

One savings from the program will involve keeping insurance rates under control, said School Obituaries Alice Androlewicz Alice M. Androlewicz, 79, Springfield, died at 6 a.m. Tuesday in Springfield Community Hospital. A former resident of St. Louis, she was a member of St.

Agnes Cathedral. She was the widow of Al Androlewicz, who died April of 1987. Survivors include a daughter, Mary A. Dulle, Springfield; three sons, Al Turners-vllle, N.J., John, Sacramento, and Tom, San Antonio, Texas; 10 grandchildren; and five greatgrandchildren. Funeral Mass will beat 10a.m.

Friday In St. Agnes Cathedral with the Revs. David Hulshof and Thomas E. Reidy officiating. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery under the direction of Gorman-Scharpf University Chapel.

Prayer services will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday In the funeral home. William Clark William G. "Bill" Clark, 62, Springfield, died at 5:40 a.m. Sunday in his home after a long Illness.

Born and raised In Springfield, he was the retired president and He with 1948. of served for 23 veteran serving the Corps. Heart was founders Camp, Lake. Reeves, and and preceded his Frances P.m. Klingner Rev.

In Klingner Jo be at Republic Church Kenneth Howard owner of the Kent-Clark Monument Co. became associated Kent-Clark in He was a member the Gate of Temple Lodge where he as secretary years. Bill was a of W.W.I as a reconnaissance scout with U.S. Marine While in Pacific Theater, he received four Purple citations. He one of the of Rice Table Rock Survivors include two sisters, Peggy Thurman, Springi-feld, and Betty Killeen, Texas; several nieces nephews.

He was in death by wife, Mary Clark. Services will be at 1 Thursday In Chapel with Earl Smith officiating. Burial will be Hazelwood Cemetery under direction of Mortuary. Anne Massey REPUBLIC Services for Jo Anne Massey, 60, Republic, will 1 p.m. Friday in First Baptist with the Revs.

Hull and Smith officiating. Burial will bejn daughters, Mrs. Janet Isenhower, Ash Grove, and Mrs. Shari Ann Baker and Mrs. Judy Lynn Harding, both of Springfield; a stepson, Ben Ayles-worth, Carlin, two stepdaughters, Mrs.

Coleen Toland and Mrs. Irene Co-burn, both of Winne-mucca, his parents, Ralph and Wilma Moore, Ash Grove; a sister, Mrs. Jo Ann Henderson, Winne-mucca, a brother, Walter Mack Moore, Springfield and 19 grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Birch Funeral Chapel, Ash Grove, with the Rev.

J.R. Perryman officiating. Burial will be in Ash Grove Cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. today in the funeral home.

Bernice Opsal BUFFALO Officiating at services for Bernice Opsal, 82, Buffalo, will be the Rev. Eugene Roberts. Mrs. Opsal died at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday in St.

John's Regional Health Center, Springfield. She was a retired motel operator. Survivors Include a sister, Ruby Farless, Buffalo; and nephews and nieces. Mount Olive Cemetery, McKinley, under the direction of Mea-dors of Republic. Mrs.

Massey died Tuesday In St. John's Regional Health Center, Springfield, after a long illness. She was a member of Republic First Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Monty Lee's Summit; her parents, Earl and Mae Laney, Republic; a brother, Ray Laney, Billings; and three grandchildren, Heather, Brian, and Steve. Contributions may be made to Republic First Baptist Church.

Stanley Moore ASH GROVE Stanley Moore, 51, Carlin, formerly of Ash Grove, died Nov. 5, 1987, In an Elko, hospital after suffering an apparent heart attack. A resident of Nevada for the past 20 years, he was a truck driver for the Al Park Petroleum Company and a member of the First Baptist Church of Ash Grove. Survivors include his wife, Violet, of the home; four sons, Stanley Carlin, Terry Wayne and Ronnie Joe, both of Springfield, and Jerry Ray, three.