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The Lebanon Cassidy & Wendy Now at... Walk-ins Welcome! 532-6100 www.lebanondailyrecord.com 229 W. Commercial, Lebanon Volume 69, Number 72 Daily Record WEDNESDAY 50 cents MARCH 26, DEATHS You need to read today’s Leb a non Daily Record 2014 Erma Mayes • Community news Pages 5-7 Helen Sue Roberts See Page 2 & 4 GOOD Frances Stewart REA SONS • Legal notices Page 4 Dale Douglas 4 Shadel’s Colonial/Lebanon • Jackets get hot in Florida Page 3 Shirley Buck Fraker/Marshfi eld www.holmanhowe.com • Brakes fail to stop train Page 12 www.lebanondailyrecord.com Low attendance at fi nal meeting Lake of the Ozarks LOCLG regional planner presents data Council of Local Governments Re- By Fines Massey gional Planner Andy The Daily Record Have a comment? Draper speaks about [email protected] Go to www.lebanondailyrecord.com Laclede County’s While the first few meetings dedi- hazard mitigation plan cated to forming a hazard mitigation “I was kind of preparing more for while Laclede County plan were met with questions and some Tea Partiers, so I wanted to make Presiding Commis- criticisms from citizens opposed to sure we outlined some benefi ts (to hav- sioner Danny Rhoades receiving federal money, the Lake of ing the plan),” Draper said Monday and Eastern Commis- the Ozarks Council of Local Govern- night at the Laclede County Offi ce of sioner Joe Pickering ments' final meeting was sparsely Emergency Management. listen. Monday night’s attended. The main contention with detractors is meeting at the Laclede Expecting opposition, LOCLG Re- the availability of federal funds that the County Offi ce of Emer- gional Planner Andy Draper prepared a county will now be able to apply for once gency Management long list of reasons why Laclede County the hazard mitigation plan is fi nalized. was the fi nal meeting needs a hazard mitigation plan, but with For some though, especially many area for coming up with a plan. only a handful of people, who seemed schools, the possibility of grants to help to be in favor of the plan, attending the build safe rooms, which could double LDR photo meeting, he was able to zoom through See ‘Meeting’/ page 4 Fines Massey his presentation. Iowa Rd. Filings come to a bridge close for August to stay 2 county races are contested closed From LDR Staff Have a comment? Tuesday was the fi nal day Go to www.lebanondailyrecord.com Structure slated for to fi le for the August primary election, and there are now ■ Circuit Clerk: Wanda replacement this year two contested races for county Tyre offi ces. ■ County Clerk: Glenda From LDR Staff Incumbent Danny Rhoades Mott The Laclede County Com- will face challenger John Carr ■ Treasurer: Jean Cook mission announced Tuesday for the Republican nomination ■ Prosecuting attorney: Jon morning that the bridge over for presiding commissioner, Morris the Dry Auglaize Creek on and Lynn Stowe, the incumbent, ■ Collector: Steve Picker- Iowa Road is closed until a will face Rebecca R. Hamilton ing new structure can be built. for the Republican nomination ■ Associate Circuit Court A truck went off of the side for recorder of deeds. judge Division 3: Steve Jack- of the bridge Monday after- LDR photos/Kelly Morgan There are no other contested son noon, which prompted county Nancy Pugh, left, consults with RosaLee Warren, right, about the cardigan she is knitting. races and only Republican ■ Associate Circuit Court The women are part of a group, the Nifty Needlers, who gather weekly at the Lebanon-Laclede offi cials to contact engineers incumbent candidates. The fol- judge Division 4: Larry Win- County Library to hone their knitting skills. Anyone wanting to join the group is encouraged to with the Missouri Department lowing is a list of incumbents frey Jr. of Transportation to see if the contact the Nifty Needlers at 532-2148. who are uncontested in the See ‘Filings’/ page 4 structure were safe for traffi c. primary: Laclede County Western Commissioner Jack Glenden- Niftily knitting the afternoon away ning told The Daily Record A DAY TO HONOR VETS Tuesday that MoDOT’s inspec- tion has determined that the Flags billow bridge should be closed. in the wind Glendenning also said he Tuesday at did not feel the incident with the Veter- the truck caused the damage, ans' Memo- nor did the bridge’s condition rial at the cause the accident. Kenneth E. “MoDOT inspected it last Cowan Civ- year, then we had a lot of fl ood- ic Center in ing after that, so they thought it Lebanon. would be best just to close it,” Mayor Lyle Anderson Glendenning said. has desig- While the bridge will cause Betsy Scoby, left, works on a baby afghan during a nated today an inconvenience to Iowa as Operation Road travelers, there is a little meeting of the Nifty Needlers Tuesday. Above, the group members craft their projects. Iraqi/Endur- good news. ing Free- See ‘Bridge’/ page 11 dom Day in honor of the Teen hurt in nation’s mili- Myths, monsters and macabre tary veterans who served crash Monday Community Arts Lebanon Missouri to offer classes in folklore, legends in the con- From LDR Staff fl icts in Iraq A Lebanon teenager was From LDR Staff and fall, and an average class and Afghani- Halloween may take place Have a comment? injured in a one-vehicle wreck will include one to two guest Go to www.lebanondailyrecord.com stan. at 11:40 a.m. Monday on in the fall, but that doesn’t speakers. mean that you can’t scare Rogers explained that the LDR photo Route AA, 3 miles northwest and other places around. Kelly Morgan of Lebanon. yourself in the spring. class, which is in its second Community Arts year, will cover folklore Pythian Castle in Springfi eld, The Missouri State High- and places like that. And we way Patrol reports that Mari- Lebanon Missouri and legends from the state will hold the fi rst of of Missouri. talk about the Missouri his- ah F. Defreece, 19, the driver tory involved in these places of a southbound 2000 Jeep this season’s Mis- “A lot of people talk Operation Iraqi/ souri Myths, Mon- about local lore, like dif- and sometimes people will Cherokee, ran off the right start talking about the fact sters and Macabre ferent places that side of the roadway, came that in 1973 there were an ex- Enduring Freedom Day classes from 7 to 9 they’ve heard back onto the roadway and tremely high number of UFO ran off the left side. Her vehi- p.m. on April 4 at about or people From LDR Staff Simplicity Coffee, sightings in Missouri. Lebanon Mayor Lyle An- Have a comment? cle then struck a support cable that they’ve heard Go to www.lebanondailyrecord.com Tea and More at “It just goes over anything derson has followed the lead for a utility pole and came to about,” she said. kind of creepy that has to do rest in a private driveway. 200 W. Commer- “There used to be of Gov. Jay Nixon, designating cial St. with Missouri history,” Rog- great thanks to all those who Defreece was taken by a lot of people today as Operation Iraqi/En- According ers said. during Freedom Day in honor served in Operation Iraqi private vehicle to Mercy Hos- who would say, to CALM co- Rogers said that folklore of the nation’s military veter- Freedom, Operation Desert pital Lebanon with what the if you go over to ordinator Phyllis is an interesting lens through ans who served in the confl icts Storm and all future military op- patrol described as minor the Lonesome Hill, Rogers, the class will meet which to view Missouri his- in Iraq and Afghanistan. erations within the Iraq and Af- injuries. there was a lot of lore, every- tory. ghanistan regions,” Anderson’s The driver was not wear- the fi rst non-holiday Friday “The city of Lebanon wish- body thought it was haunted See ‘CALM’/ page 11 ing a seat belt. of every month in the spring es to acknowledge and express See ‘Veterans’/ page 11 Page 2 THE LEBANON (MO.) DAILY RECORD WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26, 2014 www.lebanondailyrecord.com CALENDAR DEATHS The Lebanon Daily Record DALE DOUGLAS 8 p.m. Thursday at Shadel’s Calendar of Events is open to Dale Douglas, 64, of Groves- Colonial Chapel. churches, civic groups, clubs, schools and other Lebanon- pring, died Monday, March 24, Memorials have been sug- area nonprofi t organizations. 2014, in Springfi eld. gested to one of the following: Calendar items may con- He was born Feb. 17, 1950, McBride Cemetery, Gardner tain the following informa- in Laclede County to Ivan P. Freewill Baptist Church, Gide- tion: event, date, time, place, and Lois C. Parker Douglas, on Bibles and donations may sponsoring organization and who preceded him in death. be left at or mailed to Shadel’s person to contact for more in- On Aug. 19, 1969, he mar- Colonial Chapel. formation (FFI numbers). The ried Brenda Yeager. Sign guest book at www. Calendar will be published according to space available. He was a dairy farmer and shadelscolonialchapel.com. a member of Gardner Freewill MARCH 23-26 Baptist Church. HILLCREST BAPTIST Survivors include his wife, CHURCH REVIVAL Brenda, of the home; two — 6:30 p.m. Evangelist: Bob Caldwell and worship daughters, Penny Archer and leader Greg Dixon. FFI: husband, Duane, of Leba- 532-6159. non, and Daleana Perez, of THURSDAY, MARCH 27 HELEN SUE ROBERTS Grovespring; six brothers, STITCH & RIP QUILT ERMA MAYES FRANCES STEWART Helen Sue Roberts, 74, Roger Douglas and his wife, GROUP — 5-9 p.m.