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PRESS NEWS' J-OUR?,/AL
(USPS 088-820) Vol. No. XV, New Series No. 30 Canton, Missouri 63435 Thursday, July 25, 1985
/
Lewis County Deputy Jerry Callow. front, and Juvenile
POSed with a pick-up load d harvested marijuana. Law
7S-IO0 marijuana plants Tuesday afternoon from a
Officials harvest Canton River Heritage
marijuana crop
by_Dan $teinbeck
IIIII I
For the third time in two years,
Lewis County Sheriff's Department
officials harvested illegal anarijuana
crops for several hours Tuesday
afternoon.
Deputy Sheriff Jerry Callow said
there was evidence the 75-100
estimated plants, each five to six feet
tall, have been cultivated and were
wild plants.
"There was some (chicken) wire
around them. You could tell they had
been weeded when we first started to
watch them in April," he said.
The plants were discovered behind a
cornfield south of LaBelle by an
sought by the cultivators, because of
chemistry in the plant that would have
been mature for hashish, a derivative
of .marijuana.
Callow, fellow deputy Fred Daugh-
try, Juvenile Officer Steve Waters, and
two members of the Missouri State
Highway Patrol spent several hours
driving around the scattered locations
in the field collecting the plants.
Callow said the plants had an
estimated street value of $1,500 each.
The State Patrol said Operation Cash
Crop 85 is still in effect. People may
use this program to call a toll free
number to report marijuana plants.
The number is 1.B00-BAD-WEED (or
). All calls are kept eonfiden-
anonymous farmer, who tipped off law. tial.
enforcement officials. The law officials
had been watching the plants since
then, looking for the cultivator(s), and
finally decided to harvest the plants
before the planter(s) came back and
retrieved the marijuana.
Callow said in another month, the
plants would have reached the peak
The marijuana collected Tuesday
was expected to be destroyed by fu'e at
an undisclosed place and time.
A police harvest last year of
marijuana netted a similar amount of
the illegal weed near Williamstown. An
earlier one near Durham did not net as
much of the illegal weed.
Culver-Stockton academic
divisions reorganized
Days this weekend
City-wide sales and a number of
activities will compose River Heritage
Days this weekend in Canton.
The festivities begin Thursday with
horseshoe pitching in Central (Bicen-
tennial) Park, Bingo in the park, and a
fmhing derby at the Canton riverfront.
These events will continue Friday and
Saturday.
Both bingo and horseshoes will be 2-4
p.m. each day and the fishing derby
runs until noon Saturday.
A quilt display and contest will join
the Friday activities, with entries on
exhibit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
Canton Legion Hall.
A kiddie pet parade will kick off
events Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and will
be followed at 10 a.m. by frog jumping,
egg toss, and a tcycle race and other
kiddie events.
Also at 10 a.m. is the first of two
official open houses of half-century
businesses in Canton. Lewis County
Motor Company begins their open
house at 10 a.m. and Canton State
Bank begins theirs at 1 p.m.
Bicycle races for eighth graders and
younger, and ninth through twelth
graders will begin at 1 p.m. at Culver-
Stockton College track. A canoe race
from Canton to LaGrange will begin at
2 p.m. at the Canton riverfront.
Neck medals will be awarded for all
events, except the car display, at 4
p.m. at the park. The Canton Athletic
Association hog roast will begin at the
Hampton Lane Ball Park shortly aftra-.
Other foods and crafts will be
available for purchase during the
festivities.
Many of the Canton merchants are
having special River Heritage Days
bargains to be reviewed by the public.
Canton Chamber merchant members
will have cards available for the
members of the shopping public. Each
person eligible may fill as many cards
as they want, but each customer may
receive only one card or validation
sticker of that business per visit.
Cards and stickers will be available
only during the days of the River
Heritage promotion, and only to those
18 years or older.
Each customer must try to get as
many of the M merchant stickers on
the card as possible by vlsiti the
various businesses. Those that collect
all of them have a chance to enter the
completed cards in a drawing for one
of 10 prices of $100 River Heritage
Bucks, spendable at any Cha
business through August. Cards drawn
that do not have all merchant stickers
will be awarded the percentage of the
River Heritage Bucks based on the
percentage number of card spots
filled.
A drawning of the names will be held
Aug. 3 at 2:30 p.m. in Central Park for
the winning cards.
When Culver-Stockton College stu- chairman and anticipate that this
dents return to Canton in September, arrangement will allow Culver-Stock- COU N'FYWI DE
they may find a bit of a surprise ton to make optimum use of its
waiting for them in their academic teaching resources, 'said Reuling.
T 11 1 area of study. A reorganization of the Dr. James Walter, professor of
e er' in rehearsa college's five academic divisions over education, is the only change in
is in its "Gypsy Love Song."
of a successful "The Fortune Teller" is being
Riverboat directed by Bruce Spielbauer, with
through Michael Kramme assistant director,
dates and Todd Leftwich technical director.
nights s. The Golden Eaglemusic director, Jf
...... :ekerson, will sing a role in the
production, and piano accompaniment
will be by Rosemary Lloyd, who
accompanied for last year's production
of "The Merry Widow."
Others featured in the show include
Todd Leftwich, in a major singing role,
Carol Kendrick, Bruce Spielbauer, and
Chad Dobbs.
• Reservations for "The Fortune
Teller" may be made by phoning
288-5273.
underway
"The Fortune
Herbert
Will open for a
Ist. Carol
be featured as
and the
to include
Victor Herbert
SUch favorites
Tramp', and
the summer has consolidated the
divisions into only four areas: fine
arts, humanities, natural and behav-
ioral sciences, and applied arts and
sciences.
Walter S. Reuling, dean of the
college, said several rteme 6Fen-
rags prompted college officials to
rethink the academic organization.
"We looked at the nature of each
division and tried to decide what
helpful relationships would develop
with certain faculty members working
together," said Renling.
"I look forward to working with the
new division structure and the new
division heads. He will chair the Canton Historical Society to meet
division of applied arts and sciences.
under the division of fine arts; history,
sociology, English, foreign languages,
religion and philosophy, and journal-
ism make up the humanities division;
and biology, chemistry, math, physics,
computer science, and psychology are
classified as the natural and behavior-
al sciences.
Walter has been a member of the C-SC The Canton Chapter of the Lewis 7:30 p.m.
faculty since 1977. County Historical Society will hold its The meeting will be at the
, Education, physical education, and regular meeting on Tuesday', Aug. 6, at Senior Housing.
:liness administration are incl .......... ......... ,o, ............... .,
-*'On of * applied ar a ....................... '' .......... ..... " ..... ....
sciences; music, art and theatre fall Lewistown clubs to h01d blood drive
The Lewistown Lioness Club and of I and 6 p.m.
Beta Sigma Phi sorority are sponsor- The blood drive will be conducted at
ing a community blood drive to be held Highland High School, Highway 6,
on Monday, July 29, between the hours Ewing. No appointment necessary.
LaGrange receives *381,000
Development Grant
essor appointed
degree in May from North Texas State
University in Denton. He received his
master of music degree from North
Texas State in 1982, and his bachelor of
music and bachelor of music education
degrees from Central Missouri State
University in Warrensbarg in 1976.
For the past two years, Ring has
been teaching at North Texas State
University as a teaching fellow. He has
also taught music to high school and
grade school students.
He has won several honors for his
compositions. He is a member of the
American Society of University Com-
posers, the National Association of
Jazz Educators, and the Music
Education National Conference.
has been
of music
He will
th fall.
aPpointment,
of the college,
us from an
in graduate
State"
composi-
well for
within
experience
we look
of
groups
of music
"Competition for these funds have
been great and Mayor Lloyd Gantt,
Water Superintendent Robert Farr, the
city council, and Fred Starnes,
Gardner-Denver plant manager, are
all to be congratulated on their united
dfort and hard work to see that this
grant 'has become a reality," said
Fretwell.
Representative Estil V. Fretwell
(D-First District) has announced the
approval of a $381,000 Industrial
Development Grant for the City of
LaGrange.
The funds are designed to aid in the
creation of new and expanded
industries and will be used for
additional water storage for the city.
Highland senior pictures Aug. 8
Senior pictures of the Highland High proofs are returned.
School class of 1986 will be taken at the Seniors will be notified by mail of
school beginning Aug. 8. A $10 deposit their appointment time or they can
is required at the time of the sitting, contact the Highland school office for
The deposit will be refunded when all more information.
Woods Restaurant in operation
Woods Restaurant, located at the operate a business by the same name
site of the former Owl's Nest inKahoka.
Restaurant, opened for business The restaurant will feature breakfast
Monday in Canton. biscuits, a daily noon buffet, a
The restaurant is being run by Boyd Wednesday night buffet, a Friday
and Patty Woods of Kahoka, who also night buffet and a Sunday noon buffet.
I I I I Illllll Illllll
ather, record
s atCo. Fair
are
Week drew
the week.
Undoubtedly
mile on the
the fair,
of Combine
said most of
at the fair
wll. She
at this
Year's and
fair.
possible
to children
aad season
ttes were
includes
Illinois,
Now
Jma
Came the
the fair
were Buddy Davis who came from
Hanau, Germany, and Mike English
who came from Schwetzingen,-
Germany.
Other registration contest winners
were: oldest man attending, Robert
Freeman, 104, Prairie View Rest
Home (who signed his own name);
oldest woman, Ethel Sweet, 86,
LaBelle; family with most children,
Jr. McKenzie family, Lewistown, with
eight children present; longest mar-
ried couple, Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Bader, married Oct. 29, 1927; and most
recently married couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Gary Whitaker, LaGrange, married
July 12, 1955.
All registration winners, except the
longest and most recently married
couples received *5 cash prizes.
The Baders received a Sunday
dinner at the Golden Bell Inn in
LaBelle and the Whitakers received a
$20 slmpping spree at LaBeile Foods.
Mrs. Searle said one of the reasons
the Combine crash was such a draw
was extensive advertising in the
northeast quarter of the state, in
western Illinois, and in southeastern
Iowa.
Line of cars heading to fair
Traffic was backed up in the eastbound lane from Lewistown REA to the Lewis
County Fairlpmands. approximutely one mile. for the combine crash. The emwd
set a record fe a single fair event. Attendance was overall on the rise rids yur,
for nearly aUof the fair events. A host of tailers In the foregrmmd
temporary g for some of th.. exhibitors and booth employees. Addltimml
Lewis County Fair pictures are on pages 2C. 3C, and 4C.
fL373 L'IL D;PI'.
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i
PRESS NEWS' J-OUR?,/AL
(USPS 088-820) Vol. No. XV, New Series No. 30 Canton, Missouri 63435 Thursday, July 25, 1985
/
Lewis County Deputy Jerry Callow. front, and Juvenile
POSed with a pick-up load d harvested marijuana. Law
7S-IO0 marijuana plants Tuesday afternoon from a
Officials harvest Canton River Heritage
marijuana crop
by_Dan $teinbeck
IIIII I
For the third time in two years,
Lewis County Sheriff's Department
officials harvested illegal anarijuana
crops for several hours Tuesday
afternoon.
Deputy Sheriff Jerry Callow said
there was evidence the 75-100
estimated plants, each five to six feet
tall, have been cultivated and were
wild plants.
"There was some (chicken) wire
around them. You could tell they had
been weeded when we first started to
watch them in April," he said.
The plants were discovered behind a
cornfield south of LaBelle by an
sought by the cultivators, because of
chemistry in the plant that would have
been mature for hashish, a derivative
of .marijuana.
Callow, fellow deputy Fred Daugh-
try, Juvenile Officer Steve Waters, and
two members of the Missouri State
Highway Patrol spent several hours
driving around the scattered locations
in the field collecting the plants.
Callow said the plants had an
estimated street value of $1,500 each.
The State Patrol said Operation Cash
Crop 85 is still in effect. People may
use this program to call a toll free
number to report marijuana plants.
The number is 1.B00-BAD-WEED (or
). All calls are kept eonfiden-
anonymous farmer, who tipped off law. tial.
enforcement officials. The law officials
had been watching the plants since
then, looking for the cultivator(s), and
finally decided to harvest the plants
before the planter(s) came back and
retrieved the marijuana.
Callow said in another month, the
plants would have reached the peak
The marijuana collected Tuesday
was expected to be destroyed by fu'e at
an undisclosed place and time.
A police harvest last year of
marijuana netted a similar amount of
the illegal weed near Williamstown. An
earlier one near Durham did not net as
much of the illegal weed.
Culver-Stockton academic
divisions reorganized
Days this weekend
City-wide sales and a number of
activities will compose River Heritage
Days this weekend in Canton.
The festivities begin Thursday with
horseshoe pitching in Central (Bicen-
tennial) Park, Bingo in the park, and a
fmhing derby at the Canton riverfront.
These events will continue Friday and
Saturday.
Both bingo and horseshoes will be 2-4
p.m. each day and the fishing derby
runs until noon Saturday.
A quilt display and contest will join
the Friday activities, with entries on
exhibit from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the
Canton Legion Hall.
A kiddie pet parade will kick off
events Saturday at 9:30 a.m. and will
be followed at 10 a.m. by frog jumping,
egg toss, and a tcycle race and other
kiddie events.
Also at 10 a.m. is the first of two
official open houses of half-century
businesses in Canton. Lewis County
Motor Company begins their open
house at 10 a.m. and Canton State
Bank begins theirs at 1 p.m.
Bicycle races for eighth graders and
younger, and ninth through twelth
graders will begin at 1 p.m. at Culver-
Stockton College track. A canoe race
from Canton to LaGrange will begin at
2 p.m. at the Canton riverfront.
Neck medals will be awarded for all
events, except the car display, at 4
p.m. at the park. The Canton Athletic
Association hog roast will begin at the
Hampton Lane Ball Park shortly aftra-.
Other foods and crafts will be
available for purchase during the
festivities.
Many of the Canton merchants are
having special River Heritage Days
bargains to be reviewed by the public.
Canton Chamber merchant members
will have cards available for the
members of the shopping public. Each
person eligible may fill as many cards
as they want, but each customer may
receive only one card or validation
sticker of that business per visit.
Cards and stickers will be available
only during the days of the River
Heritage promotion, and only to those
18 years or older.
Each customer must try to get as
many of the M merchant stickers on
the card as possible by vlsiti the
various businesses. Those that collect
all of them have a chance to enter the
completed cards in a drawing for one
of 10 prices of $100 River Heritage
Bucks, spendable at any Cha
business through August. Cards drawn
that do not have all merchant stickers
will be awarded the percentage of the
River Heritage Bucks based on the
percentage number of card spots
filled.
A drawning of the names will be held
Aug. 3 at 2:30 p.m. in Central Park for
the winning cards.
When Culver-Stockton College stu- chairman and anticipate that this
dents return to Canton in September, arrangement will allow Culver-Stock- COU N'FYWI DE
they may find a bit of a surprise ton to make optimum use of its
waiting for them in their academic teaching resources, 'said Reuling.
T 11 1 area of study. A reorganization of the Dr. James Walter, professor of
e er' in rehearsa college's five academic divisions over education, is the only change in
is in its "Gypsy Love Song."
of a successful "The Fortune Teller" is being
Riverboat directed by Bruce Spielbauer, with
through Michael Kramme assistant director,
dates and Todd Leftwich technical director.
nights s. The Golden Eaglemusic director, Jf
...... :ekerson, will sing a role in the
production, and piano accompaniment
will be by Rosemary Lloyd, who
accompanied for last year's production
of "The Merry Widow."
Others featured in the show include
Todd Leftwich, in a major singing role,
Carol Kendrick, Bruce Spielbauer, and
Chad Dobbs.
• Reservations for "The Fortune
Teller" may be made by phoning
288-5273.
underway
"The Fortune
Herbert
Will open for a
Ist. Carol
be featured as
and the
to include
Victor Herbert
SUch favorites
Tramp', and
the summer has consolidated the
divisions into only four areas: fine
arts, humanities, natural and behav-
ioral sciences, and applied arts and
sciences.
Walter S. Reuling, dean of the
college, said several rteme 6Fen-
rags prompted college officials to
rethink the academic organization.
"We looked at the nature of each
division and tried to decide what
helpful relationships would develop
with certain faculty members working
together," said Renling.
"I look forward to working with the
new division structure and the new
division heads. He will chair the Canton Historical Society to meet
division of applied arts and sciences.
under the division of fine arts; history,
sociology, English, foreign languages,
religion and philosophy, and journal-
ism make up the humanities division;
and biology, chemistry, math, physics,
computer science, and psychology are
classified as the natural and behavior-
al sciences.
Walter has been a member of the C-SC The Canton Chapter of the Lewis 7:30 p.m.
faculty since 1977. County Historical Society will hold its The meeting will be at the
, Education, physical education, and regular meeting on Tuesday', Aug. 6, at Senior Housing.
:liness administration are incl .......... ......... ,o, ............... .,
-*'On of * applied ar a ....................... '' .......... ..... " ..... ....
sciences; music, art and theatre fall Lewistown clubs to h01d blood drive
The Lewistown Lioness Club and of I and 6 p.m.
Beta Sigma Phi sorority are sponsor- The blood drive will be conducted at
ing a community blood drive to be held Highland High School, Highway 6,
on Monday, July 29, between the hours Ewing. No appointment necessary.
LaGrange receives *381,000
Development Grant
essor appointed
degree in May from North Texas State
University in Denton. He received his
master of music degree from North
Texas State in 1982, and his bachelor of
music and bachelor of music education
degrees from Central Missouri State
University in Warrensbarg in 1976.
For the past two years, Ring has
been teaching at North Texas State
University as a teaching fellow. He has
also taught music to high school and
grade school students.
He has won several honors for his
compositions. He is a member of the
American Society of University Com-
posers, the National Association of
Jazz Educators, and the Music
Education National Conference.
has been
of music
He will
th fall.
aPpointment,
of the college,
us from an
in graduate
State"
composi-
well for
within
experience
we look
of
groups
of music
"Competition for these funds have
been great and Mayor Lloyd Gantt,
Water Superintendent Robert Farr, the
city council, and Fred Starnes,
Gardner-Denver plant manager, are
all to be congratulated on their united
dfort and hard work to see that this
grant 'has become a reality," said
Fretwell.
Representative Estil V. Fretwell
(D-First District) has announced the
approval of a $381,000 Industrial
Development Grant for the City of
LaGrange.
The funds are designed to aid in the
creation of new and expanded
industries and will be used for
additional water storage for the city.
Highland senior pictures Aug. 8
Senior pictures of the Highland High proofs are returned.
School class of 1986 will be taken at the Seniors will be notified by mail of
school beginning Aug. 8. A $10 deposit their appointment time or they can
is required at the time of the sitting, contact the Highland school office for
The deposit will be refunded when all more information.
Woods Restaurant in operation
Woods Restaurant, located at the operate a business by the same name
site of the former Owl's Nest inKahoka.
Restaurant, opened for business The restaurant will feature breakfast
Monday in Canton. biscuits, a daily noon buffet, a
The restaurant is being run by Boyd Wednesday night buffet, a Friday
and Patty Woods of Kahoka, who also night buffet and a Sunday noon buffet.
I I I I Illllll Illllll
ather, record
s atCo. Fair
are
Week drew
the week.
Undoubtedly
mile on the
the fair,
of Combine
said most of
at the fair
wll. She
at this
Year's and
fair.
possible
to children
aad season
ttes were
includes
Illinois,
Now
Jma
Came the
the fair
were Buddy Davis who came from
Hanau, Germany, and Mike English
who came from Schwetzingen,-
Germany.
Other registration contest winners
were: oldest man attending, Robert
Freeman, 104, Prairie View Rest
Home (who signed his own name);
oldest woman, Ethel Sweet, 86,
LaBelle; family with most children,
Jr. McKenzie family, Lewistown, with
eight children present; longest mar-
ried couple, Mr. and Mrs. D. M.
Bader, married Oct. 29, 1927; and most
recently married couple, Mr. and Mrs.
Gary Whitaker, LaGrange, married
July 12, 1955.
All registration winners, except the
longest and most recently married
couples received *5 cash prizes.
The Baders received a Sunday
dinner at the Golden Bell Inn in
LaBelle and the Whitakers received a
$20 slmpping spree at LaBeile Foods.
Mrs. Searle said one of the reasons
the Combine crash was such a draw
was extensive advertising in the
northeast quarter of the state, in
western Illinois, and in southeastern
Iowa.
Line of cars heading to fair
Traffic was backed up in the eastbound lane from Lewistown REA to the Lewis
County Fairlpmands. approximutely one mile. for the combine crash. The emwd
set a record fe a single fair event. Attendance was overall on the rise rids yur,
for nearly aUof the fair events. A host of tailers In the foregrmmd
temporary g for some of th.. exhibitors and booth employees. Addltimml
Lewis County Fair pictures are on pages 2C. 3C, and 4C.
