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Springfield Leader and Press from Springfield, Missouri • 23

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Springfield, Missouri
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Local inmcFiiu tuonmn avm 3b Grant enables deputies to go driving, shooting tCX I Zimmerman said. Les Reynolds, local representative of the council, helped in making the arrange nients. "We recognized we had a problem," Zimmerman said, noting that deputies' accidents increased last year although most of the crashes were the fault of the other drivers "But 1 taught defensive driving in Florida." Zimmerman said, "and we feel this is a very good course to instruct our deputies in bet ter defensive driving tech rlAMAtACUUSa Greene County sheriff's deputies are going to practice defensive driving and target shooting. After three months of work, grant was obtained through the Missouri Safety Council to provide 60 percent of the cost of the deputies' participation in the defensive driving program. Capl.

David Zimmerman aid today. Sheriff Mickey Owen will require all employees who drive county vehicles to complete the program. niques to defend themselves against the other driver Defensive driving classes will start Sept 17. Zimmerman said Instructors fur the sheriff's office target practice, to be held Sept and 7 at the police range near rul-bright pump station, will be Deputy Jim O'Neill. I.I ierry Perry and Juvenile Officer Dan Allie Don Yates will be the in struetor for the jail staff's shooting sessions tn be held Sepi 4 and 5 Armour gives you so p3 many deli- cious Lunch Meats so you Food industry should offset loss of manufacturing jobs Robert E.

O'Neal Jr. Murder suspect jailed A young capital murder suspect, sought since July, is being held without bail in the Greene County Jail. Associate Circuit Judge Don (lough act preliminary hearing for Sept. 14 tor Robert E. O'Neal Jr.

of Jo-plin. returned here Tuesday afternoon from Enid, Ok la when' he was arrested Saturday Hearing for a second suspect. John Boggs. 18, Jo-plin. who was apprehended in Texas two days after the killing, was set for today but was continued to Sept.

14 Boggs also is being held without bail The two are charged with capital murder in the July shooting of Ralph Roscoe Sharick. 7H. or rural Strafford They also are charged with first-degree burglary, stealing and armed criminal action in connection with the same crime. Sharick was found dead in a closet in the home of his son-in-law Dr. Larry Dowel I.

on (Ireene County DD can say "1 love you so many delicious ways. Use the coupon below and watch how hearty Armour lunch Meats tempt your family to the table to get the good food you know they need. Unemployment figures for August in Greene and Christian counties will show a slowdown in manufacturing because of the recession, an analyst predicted Much of the August slowdown, however, will be offset by increases in the food processing market, said Uoyd Banwart, analyst with the Springfield office of the Missouri Division of Employment Security. Banwart said that although he expects the manufacture of durable goods to show a drop in August because of the recession, processing companies usually nki thiv (oi eo to tot it fcRotin Save 20 on any size package of Armour Lunch Meat. increase personnel during the fall to keep up with harvests In releasing unemployment figures for July.

Banwart said unemployment increases normally are triggered by slowdowns in manufacturing, but that manufacturing wasn't af fected in July, when unemployment went up for the second month in a row Banwart said the local trend in unemployment is consistent with the slowdown in the national economy but that the local economy is not being affected as harshly as it is dent of the Christian Nationalist Crusade The foundation operates the Passion Play in Kureka Springs and the Christ of the Ozark statue. In his lawsuit. Morgan alleges that Robertson has taken control over Mrs. Smith and hat "usurped" the powers of the board. Morgan also saya that Robertson has gained control over all of the books and legal documents of the foundation and refuses to turn them over to the other officers and directors Also named as defend niTns itvvt ntt Suit seeks removals, records involving Smith Foundation hV: a a I rj Lj i 1 1 1 1 EUREKA SPRINGS.

Ark (AP) Roland Lee Morgan, nephew of the late krald L.K. Smith, has filed a lawsuit seeking the removal of Charles R. Robertson from the board of the Elna M. Smith Founda lion. The lawsuit also asks that the records of the foundation be audited.

Robertson, a former mayor of Eureka Springs, was an aid to Smith for 31 years and Is the secretary treasurer of the foundation Morgan is a member of the foundation and is presi (jtrdtliUl. lCi yr iv4. JDO I elsew here. Although unemployment remains below the state and national unemployment rate, Kanwart said, Greene and christian counties unemployment climbed from 3 2 percent in June to 3 5 percent in July The national unciiili ment figure for July was 5 7 and the state figure was 4 .1 Banwart said (irecne and Christian counties traditionally have been 0 5 percent to I percent lower than the stale figure and I 5 percent to 2 percent lower than the national average ants in the lawsuit are Don Hohe. a foundation employ cc.

Robertson daughter Darlene Smith of (ilendale. Calif and Dr James Tall of Milwaukee, Wis Morgan alleges that Kb ertson and Mrs Smith ap pointed the other three de fendants to the foundation board and that they did noi have the authority to make the appointments The lawsuit asks that the new members be restrained from participating in the hoard. that Robertson produce all the records and that the records be audited will love on anv size HaM'' I rl (disposable' diaper CZI I wm 3 urn MM BV 1 1 i i 25 5f SEMS J39 dry. Hereb Fire marshals check trailer Springfield fire marshals are continuing their investigation into a fire which destroyed a trailer located In the 2400 block of East Bennett Kire Marshal Dale Blttle said "there ta bo concrete evidence that an arsonist st-t the blase ill the trailer which served aa an office for the Killtan Construction to The fin- never threatened fuel storage tanks In the vicinity owned by Webster HI i. fireman at No 7 station said "Pf I I LLt 0k210T I mm jm.

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