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Sunday, April 30, 2000, COLUMBIA DAILY TRIBUNE, Columbia, Mo. FOR THE RECORD OBITUARIES Ruth Staat Ruth Boley Staat 82, of Columbia died Friday, April 28, 2000, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Services are 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 3, at Memorial Funeral Home. Burial will be at 3:30 p.m.

Wednesday in Combs Cemetery in Luray. Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 2, at the funeral home. Mrs. Staat was born July 11, 1917, in Luray to George and Clara Harkness Boley.

She was a lifelong member of the Methodist Church, most recently the Missouri United Methodist Church in Columbia. She was a 50-year member of Athena Rebekah Lodge of Columbia, a 50-year member of the Thomas Walters Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a 25-year member of the American Business Women's Association and a lifetime member of the Boone Hospital Center Auxiliary. Survivors include two daughters, Ann Hunt of Kansas City, and Sue Gross of Hallsville; three grandchildren; and seven great dren. She was preceded in death by two husbands, Carroll Wickham and Edwin Staat. Anna Davis Anna Marguerite Davis, 87, of Barry, and formerly of Centralia, died Friday, April 28, 2000, at Barry Community Care Center in Barry.

Graveside services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, May 1, at Riggs Cemetery in Riggs with the Rev. Chris Combes, pastor of Payson Southern Baptist Church in Payson, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Fenton Funeral Chapel in Centralia. Mrs.

Davis was born Feb. 16, 1913, in Kansas City to Arthur and Lydia Wallace. She married Harvey Davis on March 7, 1962, and he preceded her in death. Survivors include nieces and nephews. Howard Mongler Howard G.

Mongler, 77, of Mexico, died Saturday, April 29, 2000, at Boone Hospital Center in Columbia. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Monday, May 1, at Auxvasse Cemetery with the Rev. Gary Pillischafske officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Arnold Funeral Home in Mexico.

Mr. Mongler was born Feb. 18, 1923, in Moline to Carl and Elva Allen Mongler Sr. He married Mae Moyle on Oct. 22, 1946, in Mexico, and she survives.

He operated Howard's Market and had worked for the federal government in the Crop Insurance Division. He also had worked for Callaway Nuclear Plant in Fulton. He was a U.S. Navy veteran, serving from 1942-45. He was a member of Sunrise Christian Church and the American Legion.

Survivors also include a daughter, Gail McHatton of Mexico; a brother, Robert Mongler of Moberly; a halfbrother, Carl Mongler Jr. of Mexico; a sister, Ruth Clark of the state of California; a half-sister, Barbara Jones of Centralia; and four grandchildren. A sister preceded him in death. Memorials are suggested to the Children's Therapy and Early Education School. MODOT to install sensors near bridge The Missouri Department of Transportation will install temperature sensors on eastbound Interstate 70 near the Missouri River bridge in Cooper County beginning Tuesday.

The lanes will be restricted to one lane during daylight hours. The sensors will collect atmospheric information and will include pavement and subsurface sensors to better determine what is occurring on the highway. The data will be evaluated from a remote site to determine when to apply anti-icing materials. Ellis Fischel events focus on pain Ellis Fischel Cancer Center will host a weeklong "Pain as the Fifth Vital Sign" campaign to raise awareness of pain assessment and management in patient care. Guest speakers, informational skits and discussions will take place in the lobby of Ellis Fischel, 115 Business Loop 70 W.

The "Haven't Got Time for the Pain" skits will be performed at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. tomorrow. Ask the Nurse booths will be open from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. tomorrow through Wednesday.

Written, audio, video and computer-assisted learning materials about pain will be available. Anita McGill, a renowned physical therapist will speak to the staff on Wednesday and Thursday about non-pharmacologic pain treatment. East end of Stadium off-limits to parking Columbia police want people to stop parking their cars at the eastern end of Stadium Boulevard before carpooling elsewhere to work, and they'll be issuing tickets to make sure they get their way. The short stretch of Stadium Boulevard that extends east of Highway 63 for years has served as a makeshift commuter parking lot. Lyn Woolford, east district traffic officer with the Columbia Police Department, said in a prepared statement that officers have periodically been summoned to the area because parked cars have caused obstructions or hazards by blocking the intersection with Cinnamon Hill Road, which extends north from the area.

The Missouri Department of Transportation recently notified police of a problem with unattached transport trailers being parked on the terminus for days at a time. The trailers blocked "Road Closed" barricades, giving no notice of the dead end to drivers who are unfamiliar with the area. An ordinance is already in place prohibiting parking at the site. Police said they will begin issuing tickets tomorrow. Notices of their plans have been placed on windshields of cars parked in the area over the past two weeks.

Police noted that a MoDOT lot at the Highway AC interchange is appropriate for commuter parking. Trail work to begin; dedications planned The third phase of the Bear Creek Trail project is scheduled to begin Wednesday, weather permitting. The project includes construction of a 10-foot-wide granular trail along Bear Creek from East Garth Avenue and ending about 250 feet west of Range Line Road. The work should be finished by late spring; Garth Avenue will remain open to traffic. Also, on Saturday the city of Columbia and the Parks and Recreation Department will dedicate the first phase of the Hinkson Creek Trail and Westwinds Neighborhood Park.

When the Hinkson Creek Trail is completed it will link the Grindstone Nature Area to the MKT Trail. The first of three phases is about a mile long and extends from the Grindstone Nature Area to Capen Park. Two bridges, one crossing Grindstone Creek and the other crossing Hinkson Creek, are built to allow emergency vehicles and to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and flood-plain regulations. The second phase of the trail will begin in the summer and connect Capen Park to MU's Hinkson Field Recreation Area. The university will develop a trail from that point to the MKT trail.

Phase one construction began in October 1999 and was finished this month. The project cost was $420,137 and was funded by the city's quarter-cent sales tax and a $183,105 Surface Transportation Program grant. In 1981, the city bought land for Westwinds Neighborhood Park at 1132 Westwinds Drive for $29,713. It includes a picnic shelter, playground equipment, walking trail and half basketball court. The $83,000 project also was financed by the quartercent sales tax.

The trail will be dedicated at 9 a.m. and the park at 10 a.m. The public is invited. University patrols for drunk drivers University Police stopped 60 cars late Friday and early yesterday during a special enforcement effort dubbed Project SAFETY: Stopping Alcohol From Endangering Today's Youth. A grant from the Missouri Division of Highway Safety paid for the saturation patrol.

One driver was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and one for an alleged speeding violation. Police also issued 17 tickets for hazardous moving violations, four for seatbelt violations, one to a minor in possession of alcohol and one for driving while his or her license was suspended. Two people were arrested on outstanding warrants and one on suspicion of possessing drug paraphernalia. The enforcement occurred on streets through and around campus from 7 p.m. Friday through 3 a.m.

yesterday. WINNING NUMBERS Winning lottery numbers yesterday included: PICK 3 4-4-0 4 2-9-3-4 1-9-16-21-23-31 5 8-10-17-18-29 12-14-26-35-36 -37 THIS IS TIGER COUNTRY Brian W. Kratzer photo cowboy sold David left, of the Kansas City Children's Museum, and Erving Toeliner, retired owner of Toellner Oil Disney, vice-president chat yesterday after Disney won a bidding war for the landmark 20-foot MU Cowboy that has stood east of on Boonville Interstate 70 since about 1960. Disney paid $9,800 for the giant figure, which he plans to donate to the museum as a of a sculpture garden. "I bought this for the kids, for them to see something bigger than life, so they can try to centerpiece become something bigger," he said.

Disney brought applause from the auction crowd by outbidding a California developer who was bidding via cell phone and hoped to place the cowboy at the entrance of a new mall. Toellner, of Bunceton, has owned the commercial property where the cowboy stood since 1972. "We painted it the MU colors probably 10, maybe 15 years ago," he said. Made of fiberglass, the cowboy was manufactured in Venice, Callf. After mentioning his plans to donate the cowboy, folks quickly offered to help him dismantle and relocate it.

Brandeis graduate battles school BOSTON (AP) A former Brandeis University student who claims he was unfairly punished by the school after he was accused of rape is heading to Massachusetts' highest court in a case that will grapple with how much control colleges have over their disciplinary procedures. Colleges want to keep judges from meddling, while the student and civil liberties activists say the courts need to be involved to ensure fairness to students. The Supreme Judicial Court is to hear arguments tomorrow in the case of David Arlen Schaer, who was a 20-year-old junior when he was accused of raping a fellow student in her dorm room February 1996. He Nixon wants felon removed from ballot ST. LOUIS (AP) Missouri attorney general Jay Nixon has filed a lawsuit to prevent the name of a convicted felon from being placed on the Democratic ballot in the primary election.

ELECTION 2000 Edward Joseph Manley Ill wants to run for Jefferson County sheriff and therefore must have his name on the ballot before the primary election Aug. 8. But on July 30, 1980, Manley was convicted of assault with intent to kill in the stabbing of Louis Wayne DeRousse with a knife in 1978. He was sentenced to seven years in prison. State law prohibits anyone convicted of a felony from holding the office of sheriff.

Manley, 43, filed as a candidate March 7. He listed a Hillsboro address on his filing form but provided a phone number at the Super 8 Hotel in Pevely. A hotel spokeswoman said he had checked out. Discipline dispute claimed the sex was consensual, and was never criminally charged. But Brandeis suspended him from campus between May and August 1996, preventing him from working on a biomedical research project at a university lab.

Schaer tried to sue the school for damages, saying the disciplinary process was flawed, but a Middlesex Superior Court judge initially dismissed the case. In a ruling last September, the Massachusetts Appeals Court said Schaer should I be allowed to sue the school. Brandeis is challenging that idea. No column this week Tribune city editor Tony Messenger's column will TONY not appear this week. MESSENGER You can reach him at Trib Talk Call 815-1776 We want to express our deep appreciation for all the kindness shown at the death of our loved one.

The prayers, cards, calls, visits, flowers, food and every act of kindness helped us through a difficult time. God Bless each one. The Family of Richard A Phelps, Sr. 81525 NOTICE In today's Target newspaper supplement, the Terrace Patio Furniture: Table, Sling Chairs and Bar-Height Table and Swivel Chairs advertised will be available in limited quantities. Due to limited future shipments of these items we will not be able to guarantee rain checks.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. OTARGET heads to high court. "It's a very important case. It potentially affects all colleges and universities," Brandeis spokesman Dennis Nealon said. "What the university is looking for in this case is for the court to reassert the principle that has been in existence for decades and centuries that essentially says the courts don't belong in the business of internal judicial procedures at universities and colleges." But in briefs submitted to the court, Schaer's lawyers argued, "Schaer is seeking judicial intervention and evaluation of the process and substance of his discipline.

While the bases for intervention in the affairs of a private university are unsettled, it is clear that courts have and exercise that power." Schaer got additional support from the American Civil Liberties Union and the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education a nonprofit foundation set up to defend and sustain individual liberties at colleges and universities. They argued that "students who face serious sanctions in college and university disciplinary proceedings should be entitled to procedural safeguards that are commensurate with the possible sanctions and that are sufficient to insure that the ings are fundamentally fair." I wish to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the prayers, cards, phone calls, and concern during the illness and passing of my wife, Mary Louise McGee. A special thank you to Dr. Susan Johnson, Greg Robinson, Staff of Hospice, The Dodge Family, The Tudor Family, Bob, Jen and Cynthia, The Painter Family, Parkers Funeral Home, Terri and Beverly at Memorial Cemetary, VFW and Aux. Post 280.

Howard McGee 81027 John Leeper with his children in 1959. John Milburn Leeper of Columbia, Missouri passed away at the age of 81 at his home on April 24. A memorial service at Unitarian Universalist Church. 2615 Shepard Blvd. in Columbia will be held Saturday, May 6 at 2:00 pm.

No visitation is planned. He was born August 13, 1918 in Grove City, Ohio to Sigel Milburn Leeper and Grace Mandeville Leeper. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1940. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1941 to 1946, mainly as a flight instructor in Hutchinson, Kansas.

He was an airline pilot for Pan American Grace Airways in South America from 1946 to 1949, based in Santiago, Chile, where he married Anne Fifield Faries, an administrator at the U.S. Consulate, in 1947. He owned and operated San Pedro Boat Works in San Pedro, California, from 1949 to 1972. He built research vessel, the Beta, and explored natural wonders and sunken Spanish galleons in the Caribbean from 1972 to 1978. He founded Perche Hills Estates, just west of Columbia, in 1978, where he lived and farmed to the present.

With his grandchildren, he skied from the top of Aspen Mountain, Colorado, in April 1999, and kayaked the Current River, Missouri, in July 1999. He is survived by: David Reid Leeper, Palos Verdes, California son. Karin Anne Leeper Frohlich, Taos, New Mexico daughter. Eric John Leeper, Colorado Springs, Colorado son. Ximena Chacon Leeper, Colorado Springs daughter-in-law.

Adam Eric Leeper and Vanessa Anne Leeper, Colorado Springs grandson granddaughter. Brian Reid Leeper Lanton, Capetown, South Africa son. Leota Leeper Smith, Carson, California sister. Bonny Smith Botelo, Palos Verdes, California niece. Anita and Dana Botelo, Palos Verdes, California grand nieces.

In lieu of flowers, donations to the Unitarian Universalist Church of Columbia, or the charity of the donor's choice, are requested. PAID NOTICE 81141.