DEATHS Continued from Page A8 KENTUCKY FUNERALS BLACKFORD Birdie Taylor, 95, services 1 p.m. today at Vanover Funeral Home in Clay, burial in Blackford Cemetery. Friends may call from 8 a.m.t to service time today at the funeral home. HAWESVILLE Tula S. Sinclair, 94, services 2 p.m.
today at Gibson Son Funeral Home, burial in Memory Gardens Cemetery. ILLINOIS Maggie Scroggins SHAWNEETOWN, Ill. -Maggie Scroggins, 83, died at 12 p.m. Sunday at her son's home in Granite City. She was a member of Leamington Social Brethren Church.
Surviving are a son, Leon G. of Granite City; a sister, 1 Lela Elliott of Equality; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Wright-Vickery Funeral Home, with burial in Leamington Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday at the funeral home. Stanley Boyd ALLENDALE, Ill. Stanley Boyd, 82, died at 3:20 p.m. Sunday at Wabash General Hospital in Mount Carmel. Surviving are a daughter, Rosalie Muckway of Michigan City, five sons, Joseph of Orio, Billy and Jackie, both of St.
Francisville, David of Allendale and Danny of Marysville, Ohio; two sisters, Mildred Wilson and Rowena Fife, both of Lawrenceville; 20 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Ingram Funeral Home in Allendale, with burial at Wabash Cemetery in Orio. Friends may call from 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Thelma Cobb McLEANSBORO, Ill. Thelma Cobb, 77, formerly of Mount Vernon, died at 1:20 a.m. Sunday at Casey Care Manor in Mount Vernon. She was a retired restaurant manager. Surviving are two sisters, Virginia Rippley of Marion and June Cameron of Mulberry Grove; and two brothers, Riley Edens of Poway, and Richard Edens of St.
Louis. At the request of the deceased, the body has been donated to science. Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at West Salem United Methodist Church in Mount Vernon. Gholson Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
Elbert Escue BELLEVUE, Ill. Elbert Jack Escue, 69, of Bellevue, formerly of Benton, died Sunday at Proctor Hospital in Peoria. He retired in 1978 after 30 years with Caterpillar Inc. in Morton. A World War II Army veteran, he was a member of the American Legion Post 280 in Benton.
Surviving are his wife, Norma; two sisters, Doris Jean Schultz of Benton and Velma Joyce Escue of Denver, two brothers, Jesse W. of Joliet and James C. of Denver. Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Hobbs-Johnson Funeral Home in Benton, with burial The Evansville Courier Tuesday, December 14, 1993 A9 Election worker's overtime request rejected in Masonic and Oddfellows Cemetery in Benton, where military rites will be observed by American Legion Post 280.
Friends may call from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Davis-Fulton Funeral Home in Bartonville and from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday at HobbsJohnson Funeral Home. Ellis Foster ELLERY, Ill. Ellis E.
Foster, 88, of Carbondale, formerly of Ellery, died at 12:35 a.m. Monday at Rosewood Care Center in Alton. Surviving are two daughters, Barbara Brotherton of Alton and Marilyn White of Peoria; a sister, Dorothy Williams of Lakeland, six grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Services will be at 1 p.m Wednesday at Ingram Funeral Home, with burial in Graceland Cemetery, both in Albion. Friends may call one hour before service time Wednesday at the funeral home.
Erma Cooper CARMI, Ill. Erma L. Cooper, 86, died at 1:30 a.m. Monday at her daughter's residence in Decatur. Surviving are her husband, Walter Cooper; two daughters, Jo Ellen Alsup and Roberta S.
Haws, both of Decatur; a half brother, Edgar Stafford of Monticello; three grandchildren; and three great grandchildren. Her first husband, Lloyd Kuykendall, died in 1954. Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Campbell Funeral Chapel, with burial in Kuykendall Cemetery. Friends may call after 11 a.m.
Wednesday at the chapel. Bryan Simmons liam Simmons, the infant son of Crystal Simmons of Marion, died shortly after birth at 5:20 p.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis.
Surviving, in addition to his mother, are a sister, Amber Simmons at home; a grandmother and stepgrandfather, June and Calvin Glenn of Marion; a great -grandmother, Lillie Simmons of Marion; four aunts; and three uncles. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at Mitchell-Hughes Funeral Home, with burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Poordo. Friends may call from 1 to 2 p.m. today at the funeral home.
MARION, Ill. Bryan Wil- ILLINOIS FUNERALS BELLE RIVE Bart Eblen, 61, services 2 p.m. today at Harre Funeral Home in McLeansboro, burial in Douglas Cemetery at Broughton. GRAYVILLE Elba Schuh, 89, services 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Sturm Funeral Home in Grayville, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Fortney United Methodist Church. PALESTINE Frank G. Mefford, 93, services 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Goodwine Funeral Home, burial in Oak Grove Cemetery near Palestine. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today and until service time Wednesday at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Crawford County Historical Society or Palestine Preservation Projects Society. ROBINSON Dorothy Adeline Groom, 82, graveside services 1 p.m.
Wednesday at Robinson New Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today and until service time Wednesday at Pulliam Funeral Home in Robinson. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society. By STACEY NEWSOME Courier staff writer Vanderburgh County Commissioners Monday night turned down an election official's request for overtime pay for the extra hours she worked during the Nov.
2 election. Alberta Matlock, election clerk, said she deserved overtime pay roughly $700 that she said was promised her through Gold Strike, the investor that funded November's special referendum. Voters in November approved riverboat gambling. Ms. Matlock said around $1,400 was allocated by Gold Dog sniffs at bus station; Spot check finds seven kilograms of marijuana By BYRON ROHRIG Courier staff writer City police drug dog Brodie sniffed out a Texas man's suitcase containing seven kilograms of marijuana during what detectives called a spot check for drugs Monday night at the Greyhound bus station Downtown.
Police later arrested the suitcase's owner and a Warrick County man on drug charges. Jailed late Monday were Raul Longoria, 48, of Pharr, Texas, and Ernest S. Hutcheson, 30, of 7600 Yankeetown Road in Newburgh. Canine officer Robbie Hahn said Brodie "indicated" the suitcase about 7:15 p.m. while police Strike for overtime pay for election employee's salaries.
She said she presented an overtime request to the Election Board and the County Council, both of which approved it. "Seven hundred dollars won't make or break anyone, it's the principle behind it," she said. County Commisioners, howev-. er, said she is not entitled to overtime pay because the $1,400 was allocated for items not included in the county's budget. Commisioners President Rick Borries said her salary is included in the county's budget, and the commissioners did not sign or approve a request for overtime.
"I guess she tried to work through something she feel she's entitled to," he said after the meeting. Ms. Matlock said she wasn't granted the overtime because she is a supervisor and supervisors do not get overtime. She said the commissioners may have been cautious because other supervisors would want overtime pay in the future. She said, however, she presumed her Election Day salary was exclusively with Gold Strike.
"I felt I was contracted out to Gold Strike Resorts," she said. In other business, the commissioners approved new computers out suitcase with pot two men arrested were inspecting the baggage and White said he patted down passenger areas of a St. Louis-to- the man identified as Hutcheson Evansville bus. and found he was carrying $2,898. Hahn said he identified Lon- White also found a scale ingoria as the owner from a tag on side the truck.
A later test of the case, but Longoria refused to residue found on the scale give police consent to search it. showed it had been used to weigh both marijuana and cocaine, poThirty minutes later, police lice said. followed a cab that Longoria The seven kilograms, or 15.4 boarded. pounds, of marijuana were found in the blue suitcase that LonIt traveled five blocks before it down at NW goria had refused to allow police was flagged Fourth and Bond to search, according to a probastreets by a ble-cause affidavit. man driving a white GMC truck, police said.
Officers later opened it after Longoria denied it was his, Longoria reportedly got into claiming there had been a bagthe truck and was driven to the gage mixup, police said. parking lot of the Merry-Go- Longoria being held was on a Round restaurant, 2101 N. Fares where he taken into $10,000 bond on a preliminary was custody by Detective Jeff Jones. felony charge of dealing marijuana. Officer Shawn White, in a Hutcheson's total bond was marked cruiser, then stopped $5,100 on preliminary charges of the truck at Morgan Avenue and dealing in cocaine and possesVilla Drive.
sion of marijuana. 35 cable firms get complaints By The Associated Press WASHINGTON Federal regulators questioned the rate policies Monday of 35 local cable TV operations, after consumers and local governments complained to the Federal Communications Commission. The FCC sent letters of inquiry to the local companies, demanding written answers to questions about pricing policies that might violate federal regulations. The commission sent letters to 16 other cable companies Nov. 17, giving them until the end of the week to respond.
Under new cable TV regulations, the government won't act against a cable company until it has a formal complaint from a subscriber or local government. More than 5,000 complaints have been filed since Sept. 29, FCC staff told the four-member FCC at its monthly meeting. PRICE SALE by ELNA 2.5 METAL elnita BUTTON Home HOLES Show Sale STRETCH BLIND HEM FREE ARM List $449.95 $19995 424- DAVCO 479 3528 8820 801 N. MAIN PLAZA EAST WEINBACH'S of course Don't sleep through this sale! off entire stock of Robes Pajamas Gowns Men's and Women's Houseshoes Dearfoams Totes Jiffies Hurry! If you snooze you lose.
Free Gift Wrapping Sorry, no other offers, coupons, or catalog coupons apply. Prior sales not subject to sale prices. VISA Lloyd Expressway Weinbach 476-1323 in the Vanderburgh County assessor's office to link township and county assessors. The computers, which are already installed in the offices, will not be operational until the commissioners decide upon software to perform property assessments. Borries said the commissioners will request proposals for software from Manatron, the system the offices currently use, and three other software companies approved by the state.
The commissioners may develop a proposal for the type of software they need by next week, Borries said. Statement won't be used in trial By The Associated Press HARRISBURG, Ill. State- ments reportedly made to police by a man accused of a shooting outside the Pulaski County courthouse will not be permitted in his trial, a judge ruled Monday. John Rose Jr. of Olmsted is charged with shooting former high-school teacher and basketball coach Wallace Bobo on Oct.
15 as Bobo walked out of the courthouse i in Mound City. A judge had just dismissed sexual abuse charges against Bobo involving one of Rose's daughters. Bobo, 57, has recovered from his wounds. An officer who helped arrest Rose said Rose admitted shooting Bobo with a pistol. "He indicated he had shot Mr.
Bobo," State Trooper Chris Chriswell testified in Saline County Circuit Court on Monday. Judge C. David Nelson ruled that, despite being given two warnings, Rose did not waive his rights for an attorney to be present. Rose, 49, is being held in the Williamson County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail. Rose is charged with attempted murder and armed violence.
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