Neosho News from Neosho, Missouri • Page 7

Neosho Sunday News Sunday, July Sunday Morning Report District Deaths w. F. Loudenslager Coriflllff UUM Elsie F. Conduff. 74, Route Faycttevillc.

formerly of the area died William Frank Loudenslager, 54, Alton, died Saturday at the West Plains, Mo. Memorial Hospital. Mr. Loudenslager was born in Business Briefs Rocky Comfort man critical Municipal Court Two are dead area for a number of years. He Mrs.

Conduff was bom Aiig the former Theresa Spiva 1889 in the state of Missouri She ni who rviws tod lived in the area all of her Hfe ri surv rs are -five fte was a member of the First ht two SISters Assembly of God Churdi of Miami er Services will be held at 10 a.m. Surviving are thiw sntis inhn vices win oe neia at a.m. Cka "chart? ChUr Fayetteville, and Floyd, PraS Grove, Uiree daughters, Mrs. Sip 1 PV i Pniif Cemetery, near Stella, Ruby Patlon, Lamont, Mrs. Edna Petty, Bakersfield, Calif, and Mrs.Pearl Rogers, El Cerrito, one brother.

Ellis Bryant, Wayndotte, three sisters, Mrs. Jessie Costilow, Lamont, Mrs. Bessie Griffin, Wyandotte, Okla. and Mrs. Bertha Morris, Arvin, grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

Services will be announced by the Campbell-Biddlecome Funeral Home of Seneca. ErisL King En's L. King, 50, died Thursday at University Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Mrs. King was born in Neosho.

She was the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lee Liles. Surviving are her husband, Edward E. King; a daughter, Miss Pamela Long; and three stepchildren, Barbara Goldhardt and Mark and Kevin King, all of Columbus.

Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Gahanna Community Church in Columbus. George S.Tompkins Services for George Shepard Tompkins, 51, Noel, who died at 11:20 p.m. Thursday at St. John's Medical Center, Joplin, after a long illness, will be held at 2:30 p.m.

today at the Noel Methodist Church. The Rev. Chester Garver will officiate and burial will be in the Noel Cemetery under the direction of the Ozark Funeral Home. Mr. Tompkins was born Dec.

7, 1922, in the state of Arizona and had lived in the Noel area 44 years. He was safety director and coordinator for Winston Industries. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War and was a retired first lieutenant and company commander in the National Guard. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Noel Kiwanis Club.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ruth Tompkins; a son, Dennis, Route 2, Noel; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Davis, Joplin, and Mrs. Brenda Westfall, Miami; his mother, Mrs. Estella Tompkins, Southwest City; five brothers, Everette, Lawrence and Henry, all of Southwest City, Cecil, Gardner, Kan.

and Harold, Noel; three sisters, Mrs. Relta McGomery, Fairbanks, Alaska, Mrs. Bessie Furlow, Concord, and Miss Margaret Tompkins, Denver, Colo, and three grandchildren. direction of the Clary Funeral Home of Alton. Hospital Notes SALE MEMORIAL ADMITTED: July 12 Kathryn Greninger, Diamond Elmer Geller Stella Ruth Galey, 321 S.

Wood Mary McCarthy, 123 W. Grand Joseph Simunek, Granby Goldie Gilmore, 326 S. Lafayette Mary Evinger, Rt. 5 Ella Sitler, Granby DISMISSED: July 12 Roy Carnes, Rt. 5 Albert Smith.

925 Flower Box Lane Ethel Phillips, Rt. 6 Tammy Conner, 230 Hillcrest Emma Himmel, 419 College Marvin Patterson, 1420 Jonathan Grace DeLap, Anderson Joseph Farney, Granby Gerald Butts, Anderson Fred Woodward, Stella MIAMI BAPTIST Miami, Okla. ADMITTED: July 12 Charles Cook, Anderson ST. JOHN'S Joplin ADMITTED: July 12 Susan Finnestad, Noel DISMISSED: July 12 Beatrice Nodler, Neosho Bradley Reed, Neosho Betty Chandler, Lanagan GRAVETTE MED. CENTER Gravette, Ark.

DISMISSED: July 12 Clyde Bartee, Noel Eddie Gravette, Noel JANE CHINN MEMORIAL Webb City ADMITTED: July 12 Allie Moore, Neosho OAK HILL Joplin ADMITTED: July 12 Kenneth Arehart, Seneca DISMISSED: July 12 Mary Laine, Neosho FREEMAN Joplin DISMISSED: July 12 Mrs. Raymond Flora, Wheaton CARDWELL MEMORIAL Stella ADMITTED: July 12 Kate Cummings, Fairview LeiciJ Wiley, StelJa DISMISSED: July 12 Janet Reams, Lanagan Patricia Hall, Goodman Steven Otten, Neosho Melvin Tishner, Rocky Comfort Carrie Schlueter and daughter, Goodman ST. IX)UIS A Rocky Comfort man, John Edward Love, 21, was reported in critical condition Saturday in a Creve hospital following a car-truck accident in St. Louis County, about 4:30 a.m. Friday, and an Alton, III, man was killed in the accident.

Love was a passenger in a tractor-trailer unit driven by William Randolph Crawford, 27, Route 5, who received only minor injuries. Another passenger in the truck, Patricia Lee Popp, 18. Shawno, was treated at the Mr. and Mrs. Bill Powell, Neosho, have purchased the Smith Boarding Home at 419 N.

College and will take over operation of the home Monday, it was announced Saturday. The home was purchased from Mr. and Mrs. 0. H.

Smith, who plan to retire. The home will be operated by Mrs. Powell, who is a nurse and has been employed for the past two years as assistant to the director of hospital and released, nurses at Oak Hill Hospital in Dead on arrival at Joplin. County Powell is a lieutenant on the Neosho Police Force, where he has been employed for the past six years. Mrs.

Powell said the home has 15 tenants at the present time and it will soon be licensed by the state under a new law which requires licensing of all boarding homes. She said the main difference between a nursing home and a boarding home is that boarding home tenants are all ambulatory and able to care for themselves. St. Louis Hospital was Allen C. Johnston 64, Alton, 111., a passenger in a car driven by Mary Louise McCord, 55, also of Alton.

Mrs. McCord was treated and then released at the Creve Cour Hospital. According to the highway patrol, the accident occurred when the McCord car, southbound on 1-244, was struck in the left rear by the tractor-trailer unit, also southbound. Both vehicles overturned and slid off the west shoulder into a ditch. Cook Construction of Neosho, owned by Jim Cook, has been named a "Butler Builder" by Butler Manufacturing producer of pre-engineered building systems and components.

The company is located at 212 N. Neosho Boulevard. The firm will sell and construct Butler buildings, in the commercial, industrial and institutional fields. Newspapermen elected to state posts Two Newton County newspapermen were elected to posts with the Democratic Editors of Missouri at the annual summer meeting of the organization in Jefferson City Friday. Richard Bush, editor of the Neosho Daily News, was elected vice president of the organization while Bill Howsmon, editor and publisher of the Seneca News- Dispatch, was elected to the group's board of directors.

Mike Sell, of the Monroe City News, was named president of the editor's group. Featured on the program at the meeting were former U. S. Senator Frank Briggs; Dick Nacy, executive director of the Missouri Democratic Committee; and Mike Hobbs, immediate past president of the Missouri Young Democrats. COLLEGE YOU CAN'T START TOO EARLY to save for your child's education.

And we'll help you build your fund. All through the years we'll add generous earnings to your savings and compound them daily. Let us set up a college savings plan for you HO W. NEOSHO BUILDING LOAN ASSN. Reports June tax collections PINEVILLE-McDonald County Treasurer Pansy Lynn has reported receipt of $4,016.60 in taxes collected during June.

The taxes are deposited into the following funds: Special road and bridge $370.83, county revenue $608.18, library $81.07, school district $2,574.36, junior college $382.16. Mrs. Lynn also reported receipt of the following fees: Recorder $1,015.80, Magistrate court $186, jury fund $47.90, Probate Court $79.84, prosecuting attorney $342.50, county clerk $36.90, and sheriff $315.25. McDonald County has also received $18,825 in revenue sharing funds for the fourth quarter of the last fiscal year. Piaster claim has been audited A disaster claim, submitted by the Village of Silver Creek in Newton County has been audited by Missouri State Auditor John D.

Ashcroft and sent to the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. Silver Creek Village submitted a claim of $7,788.28 for expenditures incurred in performing approved work after last year's floods and high winds. Ashcroft's audit recommends the reimbursement as approved. The final decision will be made by the Office of Emergency Preparedness which will review the claim. South Side Square Neosho 451-0429 Noel aldermen hire dogcatcher NOEL The board of aldermen at Noel have approved appointment of -Lonnie Huckaby as part-time dogcatcher for the city of Noel.

The appointment was approved last week at a regular meeting of the board. The council will receive monthly reports on activities of the dogcatcher. In other action, the council voted to appoint Robert Evenson as city attorney for an annual retainer's fee of $250 plus $25 per hour for court work, and the salary of the city clerk and bookkeeper was raised by $15. Purchase of 250 feet of fire hose was approved. Two granted venue change Charles Michael Hawkins, 22 and Clinton Dixon, 21, both of Granby have been granted a change of venue to Newton County Circuit Court on charges of drunk and disorderly in public after a disqualification of the judge motion was filed in Newton County Magistrate Court.

They are scheduled to appear in circuit court at 1 p.m. April 12. Both are currently free on bond of $250 each. They are charged with disturbing the peace of Granby residents and being drunk and disorderly on July 6. Magistrate Court PINEVILLE The following cases were heard before Judge Ross Rhoades in Magistrate Court for McDonald County: Robert Dean Dell, speeding, fined $25 and costs.

Thomas Neil Steeles, driving while intoxicated, sentenced to 10 days in jail, paroled for one year, and fined $100 and costs. William Randy Bentley, trespassing, fined $25 and costs. Cindy Bentley, trespassing, fined $25 and costs. Robert E. Elliott, trespassing, fined $25 and costs.

James L. Burrows, trespassing, fined $25 and costs. Archie Clyde Crowe, trespassing, fined $25 and costs. Minnie Geraldine Boyd, no operator's license, fined $5 and costs. Ervin Dale Banks, careless and imprudent driving, fined $30 and costs.

Charles Ray Payton, careless and imprudent driving, found not guilty. John Terrence Brady, driving while intoxicated, sentenced to 30 days in jail, paroled for one year; out of state driver's license, fined $5 and costs. Richard Erickman, disturbing the peace, dismissed upon payment of costs. Gary A. Pibble, disturbing the peace, dismissed upon payment of costs.

Robert Lee Pfluger, speeding, fined $18.75 and costs. Preston Carl Smear, careless and imprudent driving, fined $17.25 and costs. Lynda D. Vance, 126 Summit View, driving without operator's permit, $15 bond forfeited. Roger Clement, 1005 S.

Lafayette, disobeying a stop sign, $15 bond forfeited. Mabel McGlenskey. Joplin, drunk in public, $25'bond forfeited. Richard H. Hull, 801 Spencer speeding, $10 bond forfeited.

Judy A. Day. Route 4, speeding. $10 bond forfeited. Kathleen 1106 S.

High, speeding, $10 bond forfeited. Shirley Moore. 406 Crestwood speeding, $10 bond forfeited. Christopher Padley, Route 4, speeding, $10 bond forfeited. William Divine, Williams Apartments, speeding, $10 bond forfeited.

Larry Lankford, 717 Delaware, speeding, $10 bond forfeited. Eight homes without power for three hours About eight homes in the vicinity of the 1000 block of Benton Ave. were without electricity for about three hours early Saturday morning. The power went out at 4:15 a.m. and was restored about 7:10 a.m.

by workers of the Empire District Electric who replaced a small transformer which served the homes. A spokesman said that apparently the transformer was overloaded due to use of air conditioners during the hot weather. Firemen called to extinguish fire JOPLIN, Mo, (AP) Two Neosho Fire Department persons are dead following a was cnHed to extinguish a grass shooting incident termed a incident termed a fire at 8:3 P' Friday on the murder-suicide by Joplin police. Wsco Railroad right-of-way in the Investigators said Lcroy Wock Neosho Boulevard. Rowe, shot Kathleen McGee, 46, in the back at his home Friday night and then shot himself in the head.

The woman was found dead in the home Friday night, and Rowe died at a Joplin hospital Saturday morning. Police said they knew of no motive for the shooting. A .22 caliber rifle was found in the There was no damage. Marriage licenses home and was murder weapon, Births Mr. and Mrs.

Edward Greninger, Diamond, announce the birth of a daughter, Margo Melissa, at Sale Memorial Hospital, July 12. She weighed 6 4 ozs. PINEVlLLh; Marriage licenses have been issued to the following persons by Charles E. Hall. McDonald County recorder: Edmond Erwin Clark and the apparent Marbara Mae Avery, both of officers said.

Springdale, Ark. Harold Leslie Bashaw and Armenia Marie Benton, both of Pineville. David Leon Parsons, Anderson and Vela E. Ferryman, Noel. Ronald Lee Davis, Siloam Springs, and Rosemary West, Westville.

Police probe Neosho thefts Neosho police are investigating the theft of several items from the home of Claudlne Fry, 306 Coler sometime last week, Taken from the home were a radio, an electric alarm clock, seven pairs of boys' jeans, and a photo album. Mrs. Fry said she had been away from the home four days, and the items had been taken during that time. Police are also investigating the theft of a 10-band portable radio from Mills Hardware. The radio was taken from the store sometime during the past two weeks, police said.

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