Crash Claims Life of 'Amazing Young Man' from Gainesville
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Gainesville team wins ShowMe Games! SEE PAGE 2 Ozark COunTy 75¢ GAINESVILLE,Times Mo. www.ozArkcouNtytimes.coM wEdNESdAy, JuLy 31, 2019 Three perish in head-on collision on Highway 5 north Crash claims life of ‘amazing young man’ from Gainesville A search warrant executed July 22 at John Bass’s residence in Caulfield turned up 98 grams of pure crystal methamphetamine. Ozark County Sheriff’s deputies estimate the street price of the drug somewhere around $20,000. Search warrant yields meth with street value estimated at $20,000 A Caulfield man is in the Ozark County Jail for traf- ficking methamphetamine after officers found approxi- mately $20,000 worth of meth at his residence when a July 22 search warrant was executed there. Officers also reportedly found empty bags, metric scales and other paraphernalia commonly used in processing and sell- John Bass ing meth. John William Bass, 52, faces charges of traf- ficking drugs and receiving stolen property. He was arrested July 24, and a bond-reduction hearing was scheduled to be held Tuesday before Associate Judge Raymond Gross. Results of that court appearance were not available at press time. According to the probable cause statement in the case prepared by Ozark County Sheriff’s Deputy Cpl. Curtis Dobbs, officers executed a Rachel Klessig says her son Danial, shown here with newborn brother Reuben, search warrant on the Bass house at 1988 Gene born earlier this year, was always helpful and kind to his eight siblings. “I’ve found Bean Drive in Caulfield in connection with infor- all these pictures of him snuggling his baby siblings, every one of them as they mation that Howell County officers obtained dur- came along,” she said. Danial, 21, died Friday evening in a vehicle crash on ing a burglary case in their county. Highway 5, a mile away from his family’s home at Jersey Knoll Farm off County According to the report, the Howell County Road 837. A husband and wife from Higginsville also died in the crash. officers contacted Ozark County officers on July 19 after they received a report of a burglary in By Sue Ann Jones, [email protected] Caulfield. The missing items included hand tools, a welder, a single-axle trailer, a tractor battery, On a Saturday three years ago, best friends Sherri Means and tackle boxes, fishing equipment, chainsaws, a tall Corinthia Fleet were walking around Silver Dollar City, and the sub- battery charger, stereo, rings and other jewelry and ject of grandchildren came up. numerous other household items. “Soon enough, you’ll be a grandma,” Corinthia told Sherri, the Two days later, a person arrested on an unrelat- mother of an 18-year-old daughter named Azelin. ed Ozark County warrant told officers he or she “You have to have a man for that,” Sherri answered with a chuckle. had information regarding burglaries in Howell “Well, hopefully, the Lord will bring the perfect young man to the County. church someday,” Corinthia replied encouragingly, referring to the After signing a Miranda warning waiver, the tiny Sovereign Grace Fellowship congregation in Mountain Home, arrested individual told Dobbs that he or she was Arkansas, where both women are members. with a friend July 19 when the friend met with The next day, Sunday, Ozark County’s Klessig family attended Bass at his residence in Caulfield. During the services at that little Mountain Home church for the first time, with meeting, the arrested individual said, the friend eldest son Danial, then 18, and his younger brother, Jacob, walking Danial Klessig gave Bass several items taken from a residence in through the door ahead of their parents and other siblings. Howell County in exchange for an “eight ball,” or Corinthia and Sherri’s jaws dropped. “I didn’t mean the Lord would do it the next day!” an eighth of an ounce of methamphetamine. Corinthia whispered to Sherri. The arrested person told the officers that he or In such a small congregation, Danial and Azelin quickly discovered each other, and before she had witnessed Bass exchanging meth for stolen long, it was obvious to those around them that they were attracted to each other. goods on several occasions, and that both the sto- Azelin’s dad, Trent Means, seeing what was happening, took what he calls “preemptive len items and the drugs were kept at See DANIAL KLESSIG, Page 18 the Bass house. At 6 p.m. Mon- day, July 22, Ozark County ‘We were nervous as all get-out’ 417-679-4641 officers executed www.ozarkcountytimes.com a search warrant that included per- Silvey recalls watching anxiously as mission to search the residence, structures and his project sent man to moon in 1969 vehicles located at the house. In one room, three medi- By Sue Ann Jones um-sized baggies [email protected] Copyright Ozark County Times containing a white crystal substance, Theodosia resident H. K. Silvey watched some of last week’s obser- empty baggies, a vance of the 50th anniversary of the first lunar landing. “But, you know, it metric scale and was kind of old news,” he said Monday with a chuckle. other parapherna- That nonchalant attitude was the polar opposite of how Silvey felt 50 lia were seen on years ago as American astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and top of a dresser. A Michael Collins blasted off for the moon. m e t h a m p h e t - “Oh, boy, did we watch it all. I’ve never been on pins and needles so amine field-test- long in my life,” Silvey said, recalling that time. “From the time it launched ing device indi- until them boys got back and dropped into the ocean and they picked them cated the white up, we was holding our breath the whole time.” substance was Silvey was nervous and excited because he had helped build the Saturn meth. On a non- V booster that lifted the astronauts into space in July 1969. In fact, on the certified scale, the moon today, attached to the lunar module Eagle that was left behind when three bags had a those first lunar astronauts returned to Earth, is a list of the names of those total weight of who worked on the Apollo 11 project – including Silvey’s. approximately 3.4 It’s a source of pride for the boy who grew up in Longrun and attended ounces, which the one-room school there before graduating from Gainesville High School equates to a total in 1952. of over 98 grams. After high school, Silvey, who will be 86 in September, went to work Dobbs writes for Boeing building B-47 aircraft in Wichita, Kansas. “I worked in the nose in his report, “The section installing electrical wiring. Then I got transferred to the flight line m e t h a m p h e t - doing systems check-outs and modifications,” he said. amine recovered Boeing transferred him to Walker Air Force Base near Roswell, New Mexico, where he stayed about two years. “I kept trying to get transferred See METH, photo courtesy of Elaine Burnett Page 7 See MOON LANDING, Page 7 H. K. Silvey Page 2 • OZARK COUNTY TIMES • Wednesday, July 31, 2019 Count on us, two generations of the Wallace family, born and raised in Ozark County, to handle all your insurance needs. WALLACE INSURANCE AGENCY LLC LIFE. AUTO. FARM. HOME. COMMERCIAL. 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Yet out and very cautiously John quickly threw the Jeep With satellite imagery, another half-mile north, it waded to the other side. It into reverse (I’ve never seen available through Google Editor’s note: Part 2 of crossed back to the west looked OK to me, so I start- him move that fast before). Earth, it’s possible to see The Old Salt Road, pub- bank at Sand Rock Crossing, ed across behind him.