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4B ST. JOSEPH, NEWWRESS. TUESDAY, MARCH 1.1983 Accident finding ends murder charge Missouri Light turnout seen in K.C. mayor vote Kansas Body found in burned car spurs probe Birdwell stated at his preliminary hearing that Mrs. Thomas threatened him with a gun when he went to her home on an errand Oct 7.

He-said they scuffled and the gun went off. Dake said dismissal of the charge, which carries a possible death penalty, has the support of Zeb Thomas, the victim's husband. Birdwell has been free on (100,000 bond. Classified ads are written of the people, by the people and for the people-they're fpr you! SEDALIA, Mo. (AP) An investigation which indicated the Oct.

7 fatal shooting of a west-central Missouri woman was an accident has prompted Pettis County authorities to drop the capital murder charge against the woman's son-in-law, according to county prosecutor Ken Dake. The charge against Scotty Dean Birdwell, 27, of LaMonte, was dropped Monday, Dake said. A thorough investigation showed the fatal shooting of Peggy Thomas, 47, also of LaMonte, was "a tragic accident," Dake said. KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) The weather forecast, with sunny skies and highs in the 60s, was ideal, but election officials still expected a light turnout for today's mayoral primary.

Incumbent Mayor Richard Berkley and challengers Charles B. Wheeler, a former mayor, and Joe Serviss, a city councilman, spent much of Monday attempting to woo undecided voters, conducting interviews with the media and readying plans to get voters to the polls. Although only one of them is expected to face the favored Berkley in the general election. Wheeler and Serviss have planned a joint victory party after the results of today's primary. The city charter calls for non-partisan elections, yet party affiliation has become part of the 1983 campaign.

Serviss is promoting himself as "the" Democrat in the race, while Wheeler claims he is a Truman-style Democrat. Berkley, who four years ago became the city's first Republican mayor since the 1920s, criticizes his two main opponents for dragging party affiliation into the ra The two candidates who receive the most votes in the primary square off in the general election March 29. Branda Bash, a director of the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners, says she expects no more than 40 percent of the 181,439 registered voters south of the Missouri River to vote Tuesday. Kansas City has some 39,000 eligible voters in Clay and Platte counties, but officials expect only a 30 percent turnout. Berkley has been burdened with recent scandals in the Water Department and the Public Works Department.

Still, he has received endorsements from several major political groups. Wheeler, who was mayor of Kansas City from 1971-79, has conducted a low-key campaign and has spent little money promoting his candidacy. Serviss has taken on Berkley in the city council battles during the last four years, and relishes the thought of going one-on-one with the mayor in the general election March 29. A fourth candidate is Bob Kutchko, an avowed socialist who realizes he is the dark horse in the race. Kutchko advocates jobs for all, taxes on corporate profits, the nationalization of big business and health care and the end to nuclear proliferation.

KANSAS CITY. Kan. (AP) Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found Monday in the trunk of an abandoned, burned-out car. The body was found when officers forced open the trunk after the vehicle was towed from a Kansas City. parking lot, said Lt.

Michael Dailey. Firefighters extinguished a blaze in the rear seat of the car about 10:30 Search fails to turn ST. LOUIS (AP) Police using floodlights to inspect the premises have failed to find the head of young girl whose decapitated body was found in the basement of an abandoned building. The search of the three-floor building commenced late Monday in a building on the north side which once held 24 apartments. The girl, believed to be between the ages of 8 and 11, had been dead at least two days, police said.

Homicide detectives said the girl, clad only in a yellow sweater, had her hands tied behind her back and most likely was slain elsewhere because of an absence of blood near her body. Two men looking for a piece of pipe found the body at mid-afternoon, police said. The discovery prompted a scouring of the neighborhood by Sailor lost following NORFOLK, Va. (AP) A sailor is presumed lost at sea after a Navy helicopter crashed into the Indian Ocean with 12 people aboard, the Navy said today. A search for Radioman Chief Petty Officer Larry J.

Wilson, of Fredonia, was suspended about 10 p.m. EST Monday, said Lt. Cmdr. Tom Connor, a Navy spokesman. The other 11 people were rescued immediately after the crash at 7:55 a.m.

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Cook, 34, of Cedar Lake, acquired the crutches after he suffered a broken pelvis, a broken ankle and massive internal injuries early Aug. 1 when he was struck by a car near Fredonia in southeast Kansas. The driver of the car has not been found. The unemployed maintenance man and a companion, Jim Witke, 40, of Lansing, 111., began walking from the Chicago area July 1, hoping to raise money for diabetes research. They had covered more than 800 miles before the accident occurred, and had hoped to reach San Francisco in five months.

The accident put Cook in a Wichita hospital for six weeks, and it took four months of recuperation at his home before attempting to finish the journey. Cook and Witke hitchhiked to Wichita to resume the walk Feb. 17. It took 11 days to cover the 120 miles from Wichita to Greensburg, compared to the 40-mile days they averaged before the accident. Bid rigging case ends in mistrial Classified 9th and Edmond Sts.

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Officers checking the ownership of the car found the owner had been reported missing Saturday from Kansas City, Mo. City detectives, the Major Case Squad and the Wyandotte County Coroner examined the scene in an attempt to determine the victim's identity. up victim's head detectives to determine if any child had been reported missing. "We want people to try to remain as calm as possible," said homicide detective Sgt. Herb Riley.

Riley said the head of the young girl appeared to have been severed cleanly, perhaps with a large knife but admitted "that is only speculation. Police said the building where the body was found was abandoned in 1974. Following the discovery of the body, near panic seized the parents of some small children residing in the neighborhood, police said. Brenda Martin, 23, a resident of a building next to the delapidated structure where the grisly discovery was made, said neighborhood residents had no sense of anything being wrong until police arrived on the scene. helicopter crash Connor said the CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from Helicopter Combat Support Squadron Six at Norfolk Naval Air Station apparently experienced engine trouble and was forced to ditch 18 miles northwest of the island of Diego Garcia.

Connor said he believed all those aboard were Navy personnel. He said the helicopter was assigned to the auxiliary oiler USS Savannah and was transferring passengers when it crashed, Connor said. attorneys in the trial of Jerry Beachner, the vice president of Beachner Construction Co. of St. Paul, to read a one-sentence statement from the jury.

The statement said, "We the jury have not been able to agree and are to the point where further deliberations will not help." Saffels then called jurors into the courtroom and asked jury foreman Robert C. Martin, of Lawrence, if he saw any chance of a verdict. "No, sir, I do not," Martin replied. Saffels, clearly reluctant to declare a mistrial, asked Martin if there would be any benefit in reconvening the six-man, six-woman jury on Tuesday. "No, sir," Martin said as the defendant and several of his family members sat quietly listening.

"Very well," Saffels said. "The court at this time finds the jury cannot reach a verdict. A mistrial now exists and a mistrial is declared." Saffels told the jurors, who deliberated three hours Friday and six hours Monday, that "concientious minds often disagree and that's what I believe we have here." After the jury was dismissed, the defense filed a motion for acquittal, which Saffels took under advisement. Lawyers on both sides refused to make any comment on the trial's outcome. AT mini show Tom 30oO'H oo fytiiks love will never be the Mime.

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"I'm sorry for all the people who were betting on me. I'm sorry for letting them down like this," Cook said. "I'm upset because I couldn't complete the walk. I let a lot of people down. "My hip's about to kill me and it's getting worse.

I only walk a couple of hundred yards and it puts me out of breath." Cook said he was disappointed with donations and a lack of interest since they began walking again. "I thought I could do it every day, and I found out I couldn't," he said. "We wouldn't make it there until 1984. Plus we're not raising any Cook and Witke plan to head back to Wichita and earn some money before going home. Cook, however, has one more stop to make in Kansas.

He plans to propose to Karen Phelps, a Riverton woman he met while in the Baxter Springs area before the accident. "You don't propose when you're walking out," he said. "You propose when your coming in. improvements in departmental efficiency resulted in an 11 percent increase in revenue collections. King is also pushing a plan in the legislature to improve a system for detecting tax evasions.

Prosecution involving state tax returns will be up to prosecuting attorneys, King said. He identified the revenue department employees who were fired as two "middle-level management" employees and one "lower-level" employee of the department's office in Jefferson City. King said the violators who were dismissed failed to file a tax return or understated their income and stressed that the investigation by his department is only part of an ongoing computer tape check designed to catch cheaters. King said he could not, under federal law, name the fired employees pending possible prosecution. "An" employee of the state revenue department who is cheating on his income tax is like a police officer using stolen goods or a state lquor agent bootlegging whiskey," the director said.

of killing husband said her husband, Curtis, was unarmed when he was shot and killed by a 9mm pistol. "She was in no imminent danger of anything," he said. "This makes a mockery of people who do act in self-defense." Mrs. White's attorney said her husband had been an alcoholic who had terrorized and taunted his wife for years. "He's been telling her for months that he's going to kill her," said attorney Leonard J.

Frankel. "She is terrified, horrified." Mrs. White testified that the shooting had been triggered by a quarrel she and her husband about some antique furniture she had removed from the house. LAWN CRYPT for 2 burials, side by side. Includes vaults, bronie plagues with vase.

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"It is my information the Internal Revenue Service is checking those fired to determine if there's any federal criminal wrongdoing," King said Monday. "If we're going after tax cheaters, we better get our house in order first." A St. Louis newspaper, the Globe-Democrat, reported the firings by King in its editions today. Two employees of the Department of Revenue have been fired in recent weeks and a third is in the process of being notified," King told the newspaper. He said as many as six other employees are still under investigation.

King, a former aide to Gov. Christopher S. Bond, took over the revenue department last year after state Auditor James F. Antonio, sharply criticized failure of the state to collect back taxes. Last month, King announced that Wife judged guilty CLAYTON, Mo.

(AP) A Hazel- wood woman who testified she killed her husband because she feared for her life has been found guilty of manslaughter. Dorothy had been tried on a charge of second-degree murder for the May 24 shooting death of her husband. A jury in St. Louis County Circuit Court deliberated for about 10 hours Monday before returning the verdict about 11 p.m. The jury recommended a sentence of one year in county jail and psychiatric treat- ment for Mrs.

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