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The News-Leader ACROSS THE OZARKS Monday, July 3, 1989 3B CAMDEN COUNTY Hearing scheduled in sodomy case Ellen Jordan, parents' committee chairwoman for the group. They then will spend the rest of the trip in Paris, where they also may perform, she said. The choir, chaperoned by 25 adults, raised $40,000 this year to pay for the trip, Jordan said. Through fundraisers, the group collected $2,000 more than its goal, she said. The surplus was split among the students for follow at 8:30 p.m.

Reservations must be made by Wednesday by calling Gertrude O'Hare at (417) 637-2435 or Janet McClana-han at (417) 637-2225. Reservations can also be made by writing McClanahan at P.O. Box 344, Greenfield, MO. 65661. A payment of $10.50 should accompany the reservation to cover the cost of dinner and a donation for the theater ticket.

The opera house is located on Water Street on the city's square. GREENE COUNTY Nurse re-entry program offered The Ozarks Health Network, a 14-member hospital cooperative, is accepting applications for a registered nurse re-entry program for people interested in returning to the nursing profession. Theory instruction will last approximately three weeks, from July 10 through July 27. Class will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Monday through Friday at St. John's School of Nursing in Springfield. The clinical portion will begin afterwards, with length based on individual need. Clinicals will be completed at an Ozarks Health Network member hospital near your home. Tuition for the re-entry program should not exceed $200 and financial assistance is available.

A limited number of places are available. For more information contact network placement coordinator Melinda Pitman at (417)885-5351. LACLEDE COUNTY School choir leaves for London, Paris LEBANON The Lebanon High School Choir will leave Tuesday for an 11-day trip to London and Paris. They will perform in the Anglo International Music Festival in London. Fortv-two choir members will be competing with donated more than $700 to the Ronald McDonald House of the Ozarks in Springfield.

The money was earned through the park's 'Sneak Preview" promotion, according to a press release. Discount admission coupons for the theme park were distributed at participating McDonald's restaurants between April 22 and May 21. They were redeemable at Silver Dollar City during that same time period. A 50 cent donation then was given to the Ronald McDonald House for every coupon redeemed at the theme park. Open just over a year, the Ronald McDonald House of the Ozarks relies on donations for its operation.

The house is a home-away-from-home for the families of children who must receive treatment for serious illnesses at Springfield area hospitals and outpatient clinics. WEBSTER COUNTY Paramedics hire collection agency MARSH FIELD A Springfield collection agency has been hired to help Webster County Paramedics collect overdue bills. The Credit Bureau of Springfield will work to collect payment on select accounts referred by the county-owned ambulance agency, according to The Marshfield Mail newspaper. Webster County Paramedics currently has about $135,000 in accounts receivable, the newspaper reported. Most of the debt is more than 30 days overdue.

People who have overdue accounts will be notified in writing before having their account turned over to the collection agency, Janie Peak of WCP told the newspaper. Peak said some clients may wrongly believe the service was free because it is county owned. That, however, is not the case. To report news across the Ozarks, call The News- CAMDENTON A Sunrise Beach man charged with sodomy is scheduled for a preliminary hearing July 27 in Camden County Associate Court. Jim York, 32, wa8 arrested Wednesday, the Camden County Sheriffs Department said.

York is being held in the Camden County jail in lieu of $75,000 bail. CHRISTIAN COUNTY Red Cross elects new directors OZARK The Christian County Chapter of the American Red Cross recently elected new members to its board of directors. According to the Headliner newspaper in Ozark, new board members are: Rev. Ron Melton, chairman; Bonnie Stanton, vice chairman; Rev. Galen Pearcy, secretarytreasurer; Don Cobb, executive committee member; and Jean Bischel, executive committee member.

DADE COUNTY Greenfield plans holiday celebration GREENFIELD This Dade County community will celebrate the Fourth of July with music and fireworks. The celebration, sponsored by the Greenfield Chamber of Commerce, will start with musical entertainment at 5:30 p.m. in the city park. Fireworks will begin shortly after dark. In the event of rain, the celebration will be held Saturday at the same location.

Dinner-theater planned at opera house GREENFIELD The Dade County Community Theater will present a dinner-theater on Friday and Saturday at Greenfield's historic opera house. Dinner will be served from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on both evenings. The play, "A Signal for Miss Elizabeth," will spending money in Europe.

The trip cost $50,000 for the choir, with the students paying $12,000. Chaperones are paying their own way. Jordan said the most profitable fund-raisers were from booths at Hillbilly Days at Bennett Spring State Park. The choir raised $1,663 at its ice-cream booth and a fishing boat raffle at the Lebanon Rotary Club booth. STONE COUNTY Legion to burn worn, unusable flags KIMBERLING CITY Table Rock Post 637 of the American Legion will conduct a flag disposal ceremony for all worn and unserviceable flags at 6 p.m.

Tuesday in the Table Rock LakeKimberling City Area Chamber of Commerce parking lot. The ceremony will be an honorable disposal, by burning of unusable flags. The public is invited. Aldermen move meeting time for holiday KIMBERLING CITY The Kimberling City Board of Aldermen will not meet Monday as regularly scheduled because of the Fourth of July holiday. The board instead will meet at 7:30 p.m.

on July 10 in the city hall. A public hearing on the city's tax levy is set for 7:15 p.m. on July 10. The tax levy is set at .52 per $100 of value for personal property and real estate. Of that, .26 per $100 of value is for general revenue and .26 per $100 of value is for roads and streets.

TANEY COUNTY Theme park donates $700 to house BRANSON Silver Dollar City theme park has about 12 other choirs from several English speaking countries during their seven-day stay in England, said Leader regional editor at 836-1283. Union offers reward in firefiqhters' deaths ny in Congress earlier this year. Whitehead criticized Kansas City officials for not having set up a hazardous materials response team, and said the union's local had asked the city to set one up two-and-a-half years ago. Other groups that have contributed to the reward fund are the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Missouri Arson Hotline and an association of construction companies, according to Jim Graham, of the Kansas City Crime Commission. fighters sat stoically in the hotel meeting room where the news conference was held as Alfred K.

Whitehead, president of the firefighters union, announced the reward offer. "It's nice to know so many people care that much," Karen Oldham, the widow of firefighter Michael Oldham, said. Although a dispatcher had warned the firefighters who approached the blaze that explosives might be in the area, they were not told the specific location or the type of explosives, according to testimo 29 construction site blast that killed the firefighters. The explosion occurred after an arsonist ignited a fire where tons of explosives were stored in a trailer. The blast tore apart two fire trucks and was heard dozens of miles away.

"We have interviewed over 600 people during this investigation, but our leads have slowed down, the tips that have been coming in are infrequent," Joiner told a news conference. "We have not established the motive or the suspects." The family members of the dead fire The Associated Press KANSAS CITY Faced with a stalled investigation into the arson deaths of six firefighters, members of a firefighters union Friday posted a $30,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. The offer by the International Association of Fire Fighters brings the total reward offer to $51,000, said Kansas City Police Chief Larry Joiner. Police have come up empty-handed after spending thousands of hours hunting for the arsonists responsible for the Nov. Homosexuals rally in K.C.

to protest law against sexuality The Associated Press KANSAS CITY About 40 gay and civil -rights activists announced an effort Friday to repeal a Missouri law that prohibits sexual contact between people of the same sex. The rally, at the federal courthouse in Kansas City, was held on the third anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that consenting adults do not have a constitutional right to private homosexual conduct. The case involved a gay man arrested in his bedroom and charged under Georgia's sodomy law. Missouri is one of 25 states with laws criminalizing gay sex.

Fred Slough, a Kansas City lawyer and member of the National Lawyer's Guild, told the gathering that the guild was "in solidarity" with homosexuals and lesbians to "end bigotry against all people." Slough said the Missouri law punishes homosexuals "for the way they express love." "We need to build a consensus among democratic peoples that repeal of these laws is the right thing to do," Slough said. St. Louis man charged in wife's beating death He also hit her with the butt of a rifle several times, Hegger said. Hegger said an 11-year-old boy Nancy Johnston had been caring for witnessed the beating. The boy had been taken in last year after his mother disappeared and his father committed suicide, police said.

The boy had watched his father shoot himself, Hegger said. Johnston called police about 2:30 a.m. to report a sick woman, police said. Hegger said Timothy Johnston first blamed the beating on members of his motorcycle gang, the Saddle Tramps, but he later confessed to the crime. Johnston had been wearing heavy boots, Hegger said, and allegedly kicked and stomped on his wife so badly that all of her ribs were broken.

early Friday morning, said Lt. Harry Hegger of the city's homicide Police said the beating apparently began shortly after 1 a.m. Friday outside a south St. Louis bar. Either a neighbor or a bar patron called police, but by the time officers arrived, the Johnstons had left in a car.

The beating apparently continued after the Johnstons got home, and Timothy The Associated Press ST. LOUIS Police say a south St. Louis man charged with murder in his wife's death beat, kicked and stomped on her so hard all of her ribs were broken. Timothy Johnston, 28, was charged Friday with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of his wife, Nancy Johnston, 27. Officers found Nancy Johnston dead when they arrived at the couple's home K.C.

man hospitalized after pet python constricts him an ambulance when Ortiz fell to the ground. Officials are unsure whether Tina meant to harm Ortiz or just give him rif. 1 j.mmotmiJ. but was under observation to make sure circulation and oxygen flow were back to normal. Tina was taken into custody by Kansas City Animal Control officials and placed at an animal hospital.

The officials are uncertain what will become of the snake. Ortiz had the python wrapped around him and began squeezing, Ortiz's roommates said. They called "Our treatment at the scene was for a severe constricting injury," said Jerry Overton, executive director of Metropolitan Ambulance Services Trust. "When we arrived, the patient was in critical condition." Ortiz, 24, was taken to St. Luke's Hospital, where he was in satisfactory condition Saturday afternoon.

A hospital representative said Ortiz had not suffered internal injuries The Associated Press KANSAS CITY A man was hospitalized Saturday after his pet python wrapped its 15-foot body around him and started squeezing, cutting off the man's oxygen and blood flow. Tom Ortiz of Kansas City lost consciousness about 4 a.m. Saturday after Tina, his 50-pound-plus python, started to constrict him, officials said. a hug. Pythons are non-poisonous and crush their prey to eat.

Pythons usually do not attack humans if they are handled properly, said Larry Niederschulte, a ranger with the Jackson County Parks Department and an expert on snakes. BACK Police investigate disappearance of 3 in K.C. area Tell us what you think of arts in the Ozarks. Call REAL'S Back Talk Line anytime. 836-1254.

If we use your comments in the REAL section you'll receive a News-Leader mug. 836-1254 1 ML the night she was killed. Police said they want to question Grissom about the June 7 murder of Terri Maness, 25. And police found bank statements belonging to Rusch Saturday near an abandoned farmhouse in tine A. Rusch and Theresa J.

Brown, both of Lenexa, Kan. Butler, 24, has been missing since June 18. Rusch and Brown, both 22 and roommates, disappeared June 26. The next day, someone used Brown's card around 8 p.m. to withdraw $300.

Butler's cards also were used three times within two days of her disappearance to withdraw money. In other developments, police in Wichita said Saturday that Grissom had a date with a Wichita woman investigating the case. "We don't know anything about him other than the fact that the picture was taken," Keller said. "There was a malfunction in the time recorder and it took his picture. We are only looking for him to see if he saw anything.

He is not a suspect." Authorities hope the man could help them find Richard Grissom 28, who is wanted for questioning in the disappearances of Joan Marie Butler of Overland Park, and Chris Johnson County. The Associated Press OVERLAND PARK, Kan. Police investigating the disappearance of three suburban Kansas City women were looking for a man who was at a bank when one of the missing women's bank cards was used, a spokesman said Sunday. The man was photographed by an automatic camera at the Boatmen's Bank in Belton, said Detective Larry Keller of the Metro Squad, a group of police investigators from the Kansas City metropolitan area Grissom has not been charged in any of the disappearances but a fed eral warrant was issued for him on The News-Leader We Day Friday by the FBI for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution, Over land Park police said. "our name says it all We will be Open July 4th gggCT.

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