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1 The News-Leader ACROSS THE OZARKS Friday, October 11, 1991 3B OREGON COUNTY JASPER COUNTY Department engineers responded by developing several alternatives and making plans to have engineers from the University of Missouri conduct studies near the cave. Hospital to hold annual Pumpkin Run Man dies after car runs off road ALTON A 79-vear-old man died after a one-vehicle- JOPLIN The 10th annual Pumpkin Run, sponsored by St. John's Regional Medical Center and the Joplin Road Runners will be held Saturday. Events featured at the Pumpkin Run include a five mile run and two mile walkrun beginning at 9 a.m. at St.

John's gazebo, and a one-mile Fun Run for children starting at 9:15 a.m. on the parcourse. Awards will be given to the top finishers in five age categories. All children participating in the Fun run will receive accident on U.S. 160, 17 miles eust of Alton.

Uede Jacobs, of McMinniville, lost control of his car, causing it to run off the road, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. The vehicle struck an embank- ment, and Jacobs was thrown from the car, the patrol said. Jacobs was taken by helicopter to Ozarks Medical Center in West Plains where he was pronounced dead on arrival, the patrol said. The accident occurred at 11 a.m. Wednesday.

Jacobs was not wearing a seat belt, the spokesperson said. PHELPS COUNTY Brothers held on marijuana charges ROLLA Phelps County sheriffs deputies have arrested two brothers on drug-related charges. Ronald J. Isbell, 30, and Steve E. Isbell, 34, were arrested Wednesday after deputies served a search warrant at their residence on Phelps County 53 north of Rolla, a sheriffs department spokesperson said.

The men were arrested for manufacturing marijuana CHRISTIAN COUNTY Benefit to aid son of wreck victim HIGHLANDVILLE A benefit will be held Saturday to raise money for the son of a Nixa woman killed in an Oct. 3 car accident. The Portia Powell Memorial Benefit was organized by friends of the 25-year-old woman, said Debbie Montgomery. "The money will be presented to her husband for her 22-month-old son," she said. The event will begin at 6:30 p.m.

at L.A. Hawg Motorcycle Service. Two local groups will provide musical entertainment. There is a $5 donation to attend the benefit. Anyone wishing to muke a donation of cash or items to be auctioned can contact Montgomery at 869-6447 or 335-2250.

L.A. Hawg is located north of Branson off U.S. 160. GREENE COUNTY Road work near Crystal Cave OK'd A plan to relocate a portion of Greene County near Crystal Cave north of Springfield has been approved by the State Highways and Transportation Commission. It appears the plan approved by the commission last Friday in Jefferson City will result in some effect on the environment near the cave.

As a result, members of the SpringfieldGreene County Environmental Advisory Board said they will follow the project's progress. The highway commission approved a modified plan that will relocate Greene County mile north of Greene County WW south to Greene County KK to lessen right-of-way acquisition, said Willis Graven, engineer for District 8. In addition, a plan to close the road during construction was approved. Earlier this year, landowners along the highway and, the cave's owners raised concerns about the environmental effect of the project on the area. The commission's approval means the department can proceed with detailed planning for the project, with right-of-way acquisition to begin in 1992.

HENRY COUNTY NBC program to feature abduction CLINTON A television crew from "Unsolved Mysteries" is in this Henry County community recreating the April 1990 abduction of Angela Hammond. The film crew arrived Wednesday and will remain in Clinton through Saturday. "Unsolved Mysteries," televised on KYTV, Channel 3, Telecable 12, will seek clues to the disappearance of Hammond. She was last heard from about 11:10 p.m. on April 4, 1990, when she called her boyfriend, Rob Shafer, from a pay telephone in the parking lot of a closed grocery store in Clinton.

Hammond, 20, described a truck circling the parking lot. The two became alarmed when it stopped in front of the telephones. After hearing Hammond scream, Shafer dropped the phone and raced his truck toward the store only seven blocks from his house. Along the way, he passed another truck heading in the opposite direction and reportedly heard Hammond scream his name. In an attempt to turn his truck around, Shafer destroyed the transmission and was unable to give chase.

Hammond has not been seen or heard from since that night. Shafer and members of Hammond's family hope this segment will give them clues to her whereabouts, as well as the identity of her abductor. Efforts to reach producer Tim Rogan, who was in Clinton, or other members of the show were unsuccessful Thursday. It was not known when the segment would be televised. a pumpkin.

The entry fees are $8 and $3 for the children's Fun Run. To register, call St. John's Center for Health at 625-2457. LACLEDE COUNTY Lebanon man arraigned in killing LEBANON A Lebanon man was arraigned Thursday on a second-degree murder charge in the death of a man whose body was discovered in a wooded area near Stoutlund. Robert Lee Bransford, 37, appeared before Associate Circuit Judge James Moore with his public defender, Charles Moreland, a court clerk said.

He was ordered to appear again at 1:30 p.m. on Oct. 21 to set a preliminary hearing date. The charge stems from the death of John Ray Ravel-lette, 35, California, whose badly decomposed body was found Sunday by children. It's believed Ravellette died Aug.

18, Coroner Max Pickering said. Authorities have not released a cause or motive for the death. Bransford continued to be held Thursday in the Laclede County Jail in lieu of $100,000 bail. and possession of more than 35 grams of marijuana, the spokesperson said. Officers found 35 marijuana plants and a quantity of processed marijuana at the residence, the spokesperson said.

Two handguns also were seized. Ronald J. Isbell's bail was set at $50,000. Steve E. Isbell's bail was set at $40,000.

The brothers are being held in the Phelps County Jail in lieu of bail. ort I Across the Ozarks is compiled from staff and wire reports. To report regional news, call The News-Leader regional editor at 836-1283 or 1-800-695-1808. 3,000 voice cable TV opinions in week Funds for Ozarks highways reduced in new House bill include a wide range of opinion local cable service, she said. TeleCable vice president and gen-, eral manager Jerry Rutherford was unable to comment on the survey Thursday.

Yendes said the responses will entered into a data base for tabulation. So far, the main problem in con-ducting the survey is to make sure everyone who wants one gets one, she said. Some people who live in apart" ments or other dwellings where the landlord gets the CU bill want their" own surveys to return. Those people can contact City Hall for a copy, Yendes said. tiating a cable television franchise and studying future cable needs.

A decision to include return postage on the questionaires likely has helped encourage people to respond, she said. Based on a bulk postal rate of 31 cents per questionaire, the city would spend $18,000 if all the questionaires are returned. At the current return rate, it's possible one-third of the questionaires will be returned, she said. "We had no idea so many people would think they were important and mail them back," she said. While several of the survey respondents commented on TeleCable rates, it appears the responses will By Mike Penprase The News-Leader Springfield residents are taking the opportunity to express their feelings about cable television service in a survey being conducted by the city, an assistant city attorney said Thursday.

In the week since the first batch of surveys went out in Springfield City Utilities bills, City Hall has gotten about 3,000 responses back, Nancy Yendes said. As part of an effort to gauge attitudes about TeleCable of Springfield and cable television overall, the city will insert 60,000 question-aires in CU bills, she said. Yendes has been working with city committees involved in renego ate resources available." "I like what they're saying they're going to do, but I'm not happy with the extension of the two-and-a-half-cent tax," said Hancock. "I still think that we can come up with a bill without a tax increase or the extension of another tax that was scheduled to expire in 1995." Because the bill would extend part of a gas tax increase he voted against last year, Hancock said he would vote against the new legislation. "I have said that I will not vote for any tax increase until such time as I see a national emergency, and see the Congress start reducing the waste, fraud and mismanagement," Hancock said.

"I haven't seen that. "So, therefore, I see no alternative but to keep my word to the people of southwest Missouri and vote against it." Emerson, who supported the original bill even with its additional five-cent tax, said he likes the new bill even better. "I'm happy when we can work it out without new taxes," he said. "I read the items of vital concern to me and am satisfied we're being treated very equitably and fairly. I think it's an excellent bill." Emerson and Hancock are members of the House Public Works Committee, which will meet next Tuesday to vote on the new version of the bill.

It then must be approved by the House Ways and Means Committee, which has exclusive jurisdiction over taxes, and be scheduled for debate by the House Rules Committee. Public Works Committee Chairman Robert Roe, said House Speaker Tom Foley, told him he wants to debate and vote on the bill next Thursday. Roe's original bill was sidetracked when the Ways and Means Committee demanded that last year's gas tax increase be extended along with the new gas tax increase to provide more money for reducing the budget deficit "Frankly, I will be surprised if there is more than minimal opposition on the floor," Emerson said. By Keith White Our GNS Capital Bureau WASHINGTON Federal funds earmarked for Ozarks highway projects would be scaled back under a newly proposed House transportation bill but all still would be included. House Public Works Committee leaders Thursday unveiled their latest proposal to finance highway and mass transit construction throughout the country to replace a $153.5 billion bill that stalled in August.

The reason: Too many House members objected in August to the proposed five-cent-per-gallon increase in the federal gasoline tax that committee members had used to finance their original bill. 2 This latest proposal would finance $151 billion in highway and mass transit improvements over a six- year period, rather than the five years the original bill covered. It would still rely on increased gas tax revenue extending 2.5 cents of the 5-cent increase approved last fall as part of the budget agreement. The new bill also requires House members to reduce the amount of money earmarked for their pet highway projects by at least 30 percent. Among the cuts: The $31 million earmarked under the old bill for expanding U.S.

65 from Springfield south to Branson is reduced to $16.7 million. Instead of the $50 million in the original bill for expanding U.S. Route 71 from Joplin south to Ar-! kansas, only $4.2 million would be earmarked in the new one. Similar reductions would be made in proposed money for U.S. 60 from Willow Springs to Cape Girardeau and U.S.

63 south of Rolla. However, none of the cuts should cause any seri-ous delays because state officials are planning to expand all those highways to four lanes, said Reps. Mel Hancock, R-Springfield, and Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau. "Basically, everything is going to get done," said Emerson. "It's just that there will not be the immedi Murder witness sentenced on reduced charge By Chris Sifford The News-Leader The man described as the key witness in a 1989 Springfield murder case was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for hindering dent and threats against a grocery store clerk in June.

Roseman's attorney, Scott Pope, argued that his client should be placed on probation because of his cooperation with prosecutors and his poor health. Roseman has diabetes and also relies on an oxygen machine, Pope Judge Don Bonacker rejected Pope's arguments and sentenced Roseman to the maximum penalty of five years in the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City. Jerry Dyer in Ken's Pawn Shop, 1544 N. National Ave. Prosecutors agreed to reduce the charge after Roseman agreed to testify against Jimmy Dale.Casteel, 38, of Rogersville.

Casteel pleaded guilty in June to two counts of second-degree murder. He was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Greene County Prosecutor Tom Mountjoy said Thursday that Roseman should be denied probation because of an alleged shoplifting inci- lop Nto, ST. PAUL UNITED METHODIST 413 E. Walnut Springfield, MO Iraper lecture prosecution.

Lillard Roseman, 48, Springfield, pleaded guilty to the charge in August in Greene County Circuit Court. He originally was charged with second-degree murder in connection with the August 1989 murders of Sterling Grant Perry and Boyfriend arrested in woman's death The Associated Press GENEVIEVE A Far-mington woman was fatally shot early Thursday, and her boyfriend was in custody, authorities said. tThe woman, Trade Lawson, 22, was shot once in the head about 2:30 aim. at her home just east of Far-mington, Ste. Genevieve County Sheriff Robert McKlin said.

She was pronounced dead at the scene. -Her boyfriend, William Perkins, 29, was arrested at the scene and later charged with first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a firearm, McKlin said. who also lived at the home, told officers that Lawson was accidentally shot when a gun he tossed onto the kitchen table misfired. He was being held Thursday in the county jail on $106,000 bond, McKlin said. Re-cycle your old bike with an ad in The News-Leader Classifieds.

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