Stories from Wednesday, August 8, 2012

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Butler County Sheriff Mark Dobbs won the Republican nomination by a margin of nearly 3,000 votes or 68-28 percent over his main challenger, Ed Strenfel, in Tuesday's primary election. "I am relieved it is over," the happy sheriff said as he celebrated with his supporters at Maya's. "Now I can concentrate more thoroughly on keeping Butler County citizens safe."...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor Two Republican county officials won primary election contests Tuesday and will be elected to new terms on Nov. 6 because no Democrats filed to run against them. Jeff Darnell defeated Mark Allen Keeney by only 198 votes to win the Republican nomination for Western District commissioner...

By SARABETH WALLER Staff Writer Neelyville R-IV voters rejected a $0.275 tax levy Tuesday that would have funded improvements to both the Neelyville and Hillview campuses. The measure required a simple majority but failed 308-352, 46.7 percent to 53.3 percent...

Two Advance, Mo., men, Republican Dennis Fowler and Democrat Ryan William Holder, will compete in the Nov. 6 general election for state representative in House District 151 which includes Stoddard County and part of Scott County. Fowler defeated Bob Thrower of Dexter, Mo., by only eight votes, 1,921 to 1,913, to win the Republican nomination in Tuesday's primary election while Holder defeated Gary Gaines of Dexter 891-692 to win the Democratic nomination...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

PBRMC has announced that Greg Carda, market COO, and Mark Johnson, CFO, will be leaving PBRMC to pursue new opportunities. Carda has accepted a position as chief operating officer at University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tenn., also a Health Management Associates facility...

By JOHN WILLEY Staff Writer Big is not always better. In the business of banking, there are "mega banks" with branches throughout the country that offer all types of services from access to Automatic Teller Machines (ATMs) to online banking via the Internet to banking through the use of cellphones...

By DAVID SILVERBERG Associate Editor With 62 years of banking experience, Ruth Scoggins decided to retire on her 80th birthday. Having worked at First Midwest Bank since it opened 48 years ago, Scoggins enjoyed Friday's retirement open house/birthday celebration planned by her co-workers...

Velta Gibbs Velta V. Gibbs 90 of Ocala, Fla., died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at Ocala Oaks in Ocala. Funeral arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service.

Hutchison is Top Producer Rhenda Hutchison has been named Top Producer for May at Poplar Bluff Realty, Inc. Hutchison has been a licensed real estate agent since 2005. She has served in many civic groups and organizations. Hutchison owned B.B.C. Market for 24 years, but currently is focusing on a career in real estate...

By PATRICK J. BUCHANAN "Apart from political maps of mankind, there are natural maps of mankind. ... One of the first laws of political stability is to draw your political boundaries along the lines of the natural map of mankind." So wrote H.G. Wells in "What Is Coming: A Forecast of Things to Come After the War" in the year of Verdun and the Somme Offensive...

By WALTER E. WILLIAMS In Europe, especially in Germany, hoisting a swastika-emblazoned Nazi flag is a crime. For decades after World War II, people have hunted down and sought punishment for Nazi murderers, who were responsible for the deaths of more than 20 million people...

By MONA CHAREN Scurrilous would be a step up for Harry Reid. If he were a Republican ... you know the drill. The word "McCarthyite" would be on everyone's lips and the thoroughly contemptible accusation --based (ha!) on an anonymous "investor" who supposedly phoned Reid --would be the story of the day. Reid's fetid slander, and not Romney's response, would preoccupy everyone interested in politics...

Earl Morrison DEXTER, Mo. -- Earl Morrison, 65, of Corinth, Miss., formerly of Dexter, Mo., died at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Southaven, Miss. Mr. Morrison was born on June 16, 1947 in Dyess, Ark. Mr. Morrison was a manager in food service and a veteran of the U.S. Navy...

Marjorie Kinnard PIEDMONT, Mo. -- Marjorie H. Kinnard, 85, of Piedmont, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at Annapolis, Mo. Visitation will be from 6-9 p.m. at Ruegg Funeral Home Chapel in Piedmont, Mo. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in Yount Cemetery in Piedmont...

James Doughten CAMPBELL, Mo. -- James Thomas Doughten, 52, of Kennett, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at Twin Rivers Regional Medical Center in Kennett. Mr. Doughten was born on June 16, 1960, in Kennett. He worked for Steve Crow Construction/Electrician and Carpenter and was a member of the Emmanuel Baptist Church in De Soto, Mo...

For the third time since April 2011, Twin Rivers voters rejected a no-tax-increase bond issue Tuesday to fund a $3.5 million middle school at Broseley, Mo. The measure, requiring 57.14 percent for passage, only received 49.2 percent of the vote (672-695)...

For the third time since April 2011, Twin Rivers voters rejected a no-tax-increase bond issue Tuesday to fund a $3.5 million middle school at Broseley, Mo. The measure, requiring 57.14 percent for passage, only received 49.2 percent of the vote (672-695)...

Dessie Parrish Dessie E. Minton Parrish, 83, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Mrs. Parrish was born Sept. 6, 1928 in Mulenburg, Ky. She was a member of Pentecostal Holiness Church, and was a homemaker. Mrs. Parrish enjoyed spending time with her family, singing, sewing, cooking, fishing and making crafts...

Mac Hixson J.M. "Mac" Hixson, 88, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center. Mr. Hixson was born Aug. 21, 1923, in Charleston, Mo. He was a member of First Church of God, and had retired as a tax preparer at Desgranges Bookkeeping and Tax Service. ...

Frankie Lane Frankie Charles Lane, 49, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2012, at his residence. Mr. Lane was born June 17, 1963, in Dexter, Mo. He was an auto mechanic. He enjoyed fishing, working on cars, spending time with his family...

Loretta Wheeler DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Helen "Loretta" Wheeler, 59, of Doniphan, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. Wheeler was born March 23, 1953, in Matthews, Mo. She was a homemaker. Mrs. Wheeler attended West Point Pentecostal Church and enjoyed hunting, camping and being with her family, especially her grandchildren...

Florence Steward DONIPHAN, Mo. -- Florence Irene Casteel Steward, 89, of Doniphan, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at the Current River Nursing Center in Doniphan. Mrs. Steward was born May 14, 1923, in Doniphan. She had worked at Vitronic Manufacturing. Mrs. Steward had attended the Assembly of God Church for more than 50 years...

Wanna VanCleve Wanna L. VanCleve, 85, of Poplar Bluff, Mo., died Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, at her residence. Mrs. VanCleve was born Feb. 12, 1927 in Malden, Mo. She was a longtime resident of Poplar Bluff. She was a current member of the First Baptist Church. She was a founding charter member of Temple Baptist Church. She was an accomplished pianist and organist. She shared her musical gifts and talents by playing for both Temple Baptist Church and The First Baptist Church...

Marie Causey MALDEN, Mo. -- Flora Marie Causey, 93, of Bernie, Mo., died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, in Golden Living Center in Malden, Mo. Mrs. Causey was born Oct. 28, 1918, in Bethel Springs, Tenn. She was of the Baptist faith. On Aug. 21, 1935, she was married to Brady Causey in Bethel Springs, Tenn. He preceded her in death on July 11, 1998...

Velta Gibbs Velta V. Gibbs 90 of Ocala, Fla., died Tuesday, Aug. 7, 2012, at Ocala Oaks in Ocala. Funeral arrangements are pending with Cotrell Funeral Service.

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...

Producers are urged to report crop losses resulting from a weather-related disaster event within 15 days of the disaster or when the loss first becomes apparent, this includes crops covered by crop insurance, the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) and crops without insurance coverage, said Aaron Sandlin, Butler County USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) executive director...