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2SC Mar. 5, 1985 The St. Charles Post Sections Of Several Roads In County Closed By Flooding Howell Road and Mats on also are closed, the Highway Patrol said. Officials with the county Office of Emergency Preparedness said that flooding had not caused any major problems over the weekend. "We're watching it, of course, but so far, so good," a spokesman said.

The Missouri River at St. Charles was just at flood stage of 25 feet Monday, according to the National Weather Service. It is expected to crest at 31 feet Friday, spokesmen said. The Mississippi River at Alton was at 25.2 feet Monday, slightly more than four feet above flood stage. Sections of several roads in St.

Charles County were flooded Monday because of recent heavy rains, authorities said. County Engineer Joe Nichols said that all of Greens Bottom Road, and parts of Alta Villa, Carmel Woods, Firma, Dalbow, Grafton Ferry and Peruque Creek roads were impassable because of high water. The state Highway Patrol said that Missouri Highway north of Missouri Highway 94, and Missouri Highway off Highway 94 South, are closed. Highway 94 North at West Alton and Highway 94 South between Armed Man Takes $300 From Gas Station ft JF Ns Poison Control Kits Are Offered Free Free poison control kits will be offered by St. Luke's Health Center in Wentzville during National Poison Prevention Week March 1 8-24.

The week is designed to focus attention on the prevention of accidental poisoning of children. The kits include Mr. Yuk stickers with the telephone number of a poison control center, brochures giving tips about poison, an ounce of ipecac and a St. Luke's Health Center card and telephone sticker listing the name of the health center's pharmacist and the pharmacy's phone number. The kits can be pick ed up in the health center's emergency room or pharmacy.

Ipecac is a substance used to induce vomiting. The health center is at 1101 East South Service Road off U.S. Highway 40 and southeast of Interstate 70 in Wentzville. For more information on the use of ipecac or on poison prevention, call the health center at 327-7363 or 441-3088. Fire Destroys House; Picnickers Suspected Late night picnickers may have set the fire Sunday that destroyed an 80-year-old farmhouse on Hackman Road, a spokesman for the St.

Charles County Sheriff's Department said. The spokesman said that packages of hot dogs and marshmallows were found near the burning house, 2455 Hackman Road. The fire was discovered about midnight Sunday, the spokesman said. The house was vacant and was owned by Dan Lewis of St. Charles County, authorities said.

The Sheriffs Department is investigating the incident. Deadline Wednesday For Vote Registration Wednesday is the registration deadline for St Charles County residents wanting to vote in the April 2 district and municipal elections. People who want to register can do so during regular business hours at the St. Charles County clerk's office in the County Administration Building, 118 North Second Street, St. Charles; the city halls of St.

Peters, O'Fallon, Lake Saint Louis and Wentzville; any public school; or any branch of the St. Charles City-County Library District. An armed man wearing a green ski mask robbed Don's Amoco Station and Car Wash of about $300 Friday night, spokesmen for the St. Charles County Sheriffs Department said. The spokesmen said that the masked man walked into the station, at 1980 Missouri Highway 94 South, Scuffle From page one Monday afternoon.

Mrs. Ladwig said she discovered about 4:30 p.m. Friday that treasurer's office records were still in the auditor's office. The two offices are across the hall from each other in the County Administration Building, 118 North Second Street, St. Charles.

County Treasurer Theodore M. Peterson a Republican who took office Jan. 1, and Nichols, a Democrat who has held office for two years, have been involved in a disagreement over the adequacy of the records Peterson inherited. Peterson had left early Friday. When Mrs.

Ladwig went to retrieve records from Nichols about 4:30 p.m. Friday, she said, auditor's office personnel warned her that an audit was in progress, and the records should not be removed from Nichols' possession. Mrs. Ladwig said she saw a box of records, picked them up and returned them to the treasurer's office vault for safekeeping over the weekend. She Scholars From page one Westminster Drive, St.

Charles. Linda Scheffer, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ben V. Scheffer, 821 Longview Drive, St.

Charles. ST. CHARLES WEST Kurt M. Bumby, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

Ronald A. Bumby, 2960 Westborough Drive, St. Charles. Barbara J. Romberg, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. James M. Romberg, 408 Hunters Ridge, St. Charles. ST.

DOMINIC Jeff Vomund, the son of Mr. and Obituaries Odell Mitchell Jr.St. Charles Post Pet Of The Week This dachshundspaniel puppy is available for adoption at the St. Charles Humane Shelter, 2501 North Main Street. She is black and brown.

To find out more, call 723-1 1 70. about 10:30 p.m., displayed a small-caliber handgun and demanded money. The attendant, John Wilson of St. Charles, and the station owner, Shirley Hewlett, also of St. Charles, handed over $300 in cash, authorities said.

The robber then fled on foot. No one was injured. said Nichols followed her into the treasurer's office a short time later and demanded return of the records. Nichols said that state law gives him unlimited access to such records during an audit. "I've warned that office about four times about my access to records," he said Monday.

Mrs. Ladwig said that she tried to block him from going into the vault, and got pushed hard into shelving at the rear of the vault. Nichols' version is more or less the same up to his attempted entry into the vault. "I walked over to the vault to get the records," he said. "She physically assaulted me by grabbing me and trying to drag me out of the vault, and picked up a stick and threatened me with it." Mrs.

Ladwig said that it was a yardstick, and she picked it up to defend herself from Nichols. Brenda Peterson, Peterson's wife, was in the treasurer's office at the time. It was she who called the Sheriffs Department. Mrs. William S.

Vomund, 1015 Vomund Road, St. Paul. ST. MARY'S Lisa Feldewerth, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Richard Feldewerth, 950 Peine Road, Flint Hill. WENTZVILLE Jennifer Austwick, the daughter of James Austwick of San Antonio and Janet Austwick of 612 South Linn Avenue, Wentzville. Jody Dick, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jan P.

Dick, 8 Leport Court, Lake Saint Louis. Surviving are his parents, Ron Day and Peggie Dorlaque of SL Charles; four brothers, Chris, Todd, Buff and Michael Dorlaque, all of the home; and his grandparents, Rose and Bob Scurlock of St. Charles. Memorials may be sent to the charity of the donor's choice. Mrs.

Bunce died Sunday at St. Joseph Health Center, St. Charles. She was a homemaker. Surviving are a brother, Roscoe A.

Fiedler of Orlando, and a sister, Sadie Drury of Kampsville, 111. Memorials may be sent to the American Heart Association. Charles, and from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday at St Paul. Miss Cannon died Saturday at St.

Joseph Health Center, St Charles, after a long illness. Surviving are her mother, Bertie Ann Clark of St Charles, and her sister, Gilberta Perkins of St Charles. Memorials may be made to the St Paul building fund. Of St. Charles and Patricia Gulledge, Karen McCoy and Carolyn DeLong, all of St Charles; two sons, James McGowan of Atlantic Beach, and Richard McGowan of St Louis; a brother, Audie Gulledge of St.

Louis County; and 12 grandchildren. Memorials may be made to the American Lung Association. taxpaying citizen. Screening, prevention, intervention and rehabilitation, he said, are expensive, but not nearly as expensive as waiting until emotional problems become acute. The federal government no longer supports these services.

According to Friends of Family and Youth Counseling, a local group supporting the proposition, one resident in 10 in the county is affected by alcoholism, one teen-ager in seven is affected by drug abuse, and one marriage in two ends in divorce. Last year, 2,500 individuals and families in the county, including 800 children and teen-agers, sought help at area community mental health centers for these and other problems causing Steven Nichole Day Dorlaque, 1 Month The funeral for Steven Nichole Day Dorlaque, age 1 month, of St Charles, will be at 2 p.m. today at the Baue Funeral Home Chapel, 620 Jefferson Street, St. Charles. Burial will be in St.

Charles Memorial Gardens. Steven died Sunday, apparently of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Rites For Daisie D. Bunce, 77, Of St. Charles Mental From page one intensive and expensive services available.

They are maintanance programs where people remain dependent" Wilson said. "The community also needs programs and services that offer an economical alternative to lifelong dependence community-based services where people are not parked, but are on the way somewhere else, to autonomy," he said. Wilson compared the costs of maintaining a patient with a serious mental illness, saying hospitalization averages $40,000 a year, $90,000 for acute care, while participation in a program here called Headway averages $12,000 a year and has as its goal returning the patient to the community as a functioning, Books From page one sophisticated book thief is presumably out to build his library at the taxpayers' expense, and often chooses high-priced reference books. Recent attempts have been made in the state Legislature to thwart this sort of book thief. The Missouri Library Association is behind a bill that is still in the local government committee of the Missouri House of Representatives.

Marilyn McCIoud, executive coordinator of the association, said the bill deals with the theft of books as well as all the materials that are available at films, records and microfilm, to name a few. The intent of the proposed legislation is not to "willy-nilly prosecute people," said Ms. McCIoud. "It is not Intended to intimidate the average library user with overdue books." It is, however, a procedure that will Burglary From page one taken from the auto body shop, were found in the car, police said. Clark suffered some minor lacerations in the accident police said.

He was arrested about 7:30 a.m. at his home, authorities said. Police said that Clark was on parole for a burglary conviction at the time of his arrest Sunday. Telephone Reassurance Program for shut-ins and older citizens. Retired Senior Volunteers Program.

Bridgeway Counseling Service for alcohol and drug-abuse treatment. Youth in Need, a residental group home for troubled teen-agers. Pathways, a psychiatric group home. A 24-hour emergency care through a crisis hot-line. Family and marital counseling.

Individual and group therapy. Services to victims of domestic violence or child abuse. Educational programs for groups targeted as at risk, such as single teen-age mothers. libraries will be built with the system already in place. Betty Schramm, assistant director in charge of library services for the St.

Louis County system, said that' many books had been recovered as people tried to walk out with them. In order for the St Charles County security system to be effective, there will be only one exit from the buildings. At Kathryn Linneman, the back door to the parking lot will now be locked. The door, which also serves as the entrance for the handicapped, has been unlocked in the past Now it will be wired with an alarm and used solely for handicaped access. Jim Brown, Linnemann Branch manager, has announced that anyone who is unable to walk to the Elm Street entrance should talk with a library staff member about special arrangements for handicapped access.

cojr disparii The funeral for Daisie D. Bunce, 77, of St Charles, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Baue Funeral Home Chapel, 620 Jefferson Street St. Charles. Burial will be in Indian Creek Cemetery, Indian Creek, 111.

Visitation is after 2 p.m. today at Baue Funeral Home. give the librarians some clout in trying to recover some of the vast number of lost library materials. In St. Louis County, that includes 47,000 books each year.

In Kansas City, 27,000 books are lost each year, and in St. Charles County, 13,000, according to the association's figures. "If you figure each book is worth a minimum of $10 that includes the value of a hard-back book plus staff time for processing that's quite a bit of money lost. The bill would right that," said Ms. McCIoud.

She said that representatives of the St. Louis Public Library system have reported that many lost and overdue books have already been returned, as patrons learned of the proposed legislation. Under the provisions of the bill, the library would first exhaust its normal avenues in notifying patrons that their books were overdue. At the end of that Funeral For Betty Dazarene Cannon, 63 emotional distress. Unless the proposition passes, supporters say, one out of every four of these will be turned away because of lack of funds.

Funds would be used to maintain or establish: Jane Crider Mental Health Center in St. Charles. West St. Charles County Mental Health Center in Wentzville. Headway, an apartment and rehabilitation program to return people with long-term psychiatric problems to the community.

Pinocchio, a screening and early intervention program for children in kindergarten through second grade who are at risk of developing behavioral, emotional and learning problems. procedure, the patron would be notified by certified letter that he was to be prosecuted unless the material were recovered within 30 days. If all these measures failed, and a person had outstanding library books valued at more than $150, he would be charged with a class felony. The penalty would be up to five years in prison or a fine of up to $5,000. At any point, if restitution is made, the charges would be dropped and the act would be termed an infraction.

"There are safeguards all along the way. We don't want to prosecute, we just want our material back," said Ms. McCIoud. St. Charles will not be alone with its new security system.

Since 1982, the St. Louis County Library has been installing a similar system that is now in place in six of its branches and on order for five more. Three new mi si i Kami cxiNrr (omuN or im sr iouis 1-800-392-7787 Circulation or Toll Free Circulation 6:00 7-00 7:00 The 105 N. Main Office hours: LkXis Hea? Yob! TheStCharlesPbst The funeral for Betty Dazarene Cannon, 63, of St Charles, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at St Paul United Methodist Church, Third and Franklin streets, St Charles.

Burial will be in Wesley United Methodist Cemetery, Wright City. Visitation will be after 1 p.m. today at Prinster Paul Funeral Home Chapel, 240 North Kingshighway, St Betty Jean Reed, 54, A memorial service for Betty Jean Reed, 54, of St Charles, will be at 5 p.m. today at the Baue Funeral Home Chapel, 620 Jefferson Street, St. Charles.

A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. today at Seven Holy Founders Catholic Church, Gravois and Tesson Ferry roads, in St Louis County. Mrs. Reed's body will be donated to Washington University. -Mrs.

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