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6B News-Leader Friday, November 21, 1997 Page edited by Laura Johnson; call 836-1199 after 5 p.m. Missouri NIXA LICENSE BUREAU SERVING SPRINGFIELD TOO! Patient told nurses about killing 214-A VILLAGE CENTER NIXA MO MV MARINE HOURS: M-F, 9 A.M. 5 P.M. DRIVERS LICENSE RENEWALS: M-F, 9 A.M. 5 P.M.

CALL FOR DRIVERS TESTING TIMES LOCATIONS Vpimn Wxrtn Fee Aqnf While on his deathbed, Bryant Squires allegedly talked about a -year-old girl's death. Squires, who also was suffering from complications of AIDS, died Sept 18, 1996. in St Louis. He was 37. His nurses did not immediately go to authorities because the stories he told were so horrible, they thought they couldn't be true, the source said.

Police learned of Squires' conver- sations with the nurses when St. Louis homicide detectives reopened the Dinwiddie case last year. Lowery said the new information was encouraging. "It's a promising lead," Lowery acknowledged. "It's just as promising as any of the others." The Associated Press ST.

LOUIS Florissant police Interviewed a nurse Thursday to follow up on information that a former patient had confessed to the 1993 killing of 9-year-old Angie Housman. Jungles 4 kids Ozark Square Due to a career change we are announcing the Closing of Jungles 4 kids. The Perfect Gift A A New You for Christmas Police was also trying to contact a second nurse who reportedly heard Bryant Squires confess before he died of cancer last year, said Florissant Police Chief Robert Lowery 25 entire Store Liquidation fn Increases Lose up to Large Holiday and Winter Inventory L-4 Metabolism Housman saie begins wea. nov. istn Store Hours M-F Sat 104 Angie had been raped, tortured and tied to a tree in the woods.

She died of exposure. The source said that after the kidnappers tied Angie to the tree they were scared off when somebody passed by. Investigators said they do not know the identity of Squires' alleged accomplice but they are confident they will find out. The accomplice could not have been Squires' close friend, Nathan D. "Danny" Williams, 37, because Williams was in prison at the time, serving a lengthy sentence for raping a child.

Squires told two nurses that he and Williams kidnapped Gina Brooks of Fredricktown in 1989. Gina's body was never found. She was 13. Squires is the prime suspect in Gina's death. He also said that Williams fatally stabbed a volunteer social worker, Laura Michele Dinwiddie, the source said.

Williams was 14 at the time of that killing. "Much of what the nurses have related from Squires has proven accurate and true," the police source said. AM Sales Final. Shoo early for the best selection" Decreases Appetite No Calorie Counting Increase Energy 25 lbs. by Christmas 2100 S.

Brentwood, Ste. Springfield, MO CALL NOW FOR FREE CONSULTATION maw'. mMmwm and Self-Esteem' No Pre-Packaged Food No Medical Fees 883-9339 head of the St. Louis area Major Case Squad. The St.

Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Squires said he and another man held the girl for several days after they kidnapped her. "He wanted to make his peace with God," a source told the newspaper, explaining why Squires allegedly talked about his crimes. Angie disappeared Nov. 18, 1993, after getting off a school bus one block from her home in St. Ann.

A hunter found her body on Nov. 27, 1993, in the Busch Wildlife Area in or Shots Lite IDEZA30LIC RESEARCH CENTERS WEIGHT LOSS SPECIALIST, News-Leader home delivery saves time and money. Call 836-1122 iccex www.computerren.com RENAISSANCE Republic Road National (417)882-7788 kolrIO News-Leader Invite you to Share the Joy! Share a Toy! The Greatest Joy: The Grateful Heart! Come, Share in Special Thanksgiving Services Sunday, November 23 8:30, 1 1:00 a.m.-Traditional; 9:45 a.m.-Contemporary Special Music by Orchestra, Bell Chancel Choirs When you donate new toys to Crosslines Toystore, you'll help provide a special Christmas morning fax for our neighbors in need. Please help Share the Joy Share a Toy this season! Wesley United Methodist Church 922 West Republic Road 883-1021 Drop off toys by December 17 ac nearby St. Charles County.

General, author win Truman award The Associated Press KANSAS CITY Author Tom Clancy and retired Army Gen. Frederick Franks, close friends for many years, have been named co-recipients of the 1998 Harry S. Truman Good Neighbor Award. Clancy and Franks will receive the awards from the Truman Foundation in Kansas City next May 8, the 114th anniversary of the late president's birth. Retired Army Col.

Roger H.C. Donlon of Leavenworth, who in December 1965 became the first American to win the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, will receive the Truman Silver Veteran's medal. The honors were announced Thursday by the Truman Foundation, formed in 1973 to honor each year a person or people in public life who have improved the community and the country through citizenship, patriotism, self-reliance and service. Past recipients include Gerald Ford, former Chief Justice Earl Warren, Nelson Rockefeller and Dr. Jonas Salk.

Clancy is the best-selling author of such military thrillers as "The Hunt for Red October," "Patriot Games" and "Clear and Present Danger." Franks, a four-star general, led one of the largest armored attacks in history as the commander of the VII Corps during Operation Desert Storm. He later became head of the Army's Training and Doctrine Command. The two became acquainted when Clancy, seeking to comfort a young friend who had lost a leg to cancer, asked a friend who was headed to the Persian Gulf to ask Franks to write to the boy. Franks had lost a leg in Vietnam and was the first amputee active-duty general since the Civil War. Franks responded from the Persian Gulf with a warm letter to Clancy's young friend, and the writer who lives in Maryland made it a point to thank Franks in person after the Gulf War.

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