Wilbert 'Wib" Statler funeral notice
Don Pritchard @ 11:31 am CT

A funeral will be held Monday, August 11th, 2008 for 81-year-old Wilbert "Wib" L. Statler of Perryville, who died Friday, August 8th at Perry County Memorial Hospital.

He was born September 29, 1926 in Perry County, the son of Robert F. and Nola E. (Luckey) Statler, who both preceded him in death.

He married Bertie L. Welker on October 9th, 1948. She survives in Perryville.

He is also survived by two daughters and sons in law: Mary Lou and Robert H. Hagan of Perryville and Kathy Marie and Darrell W. Hobbs of Perryville; two granddaughters, Kerry Northcutt and Kasey Hobbs and two great grandchildren, Kalynn and Owen Northcutt.

He was also preceded in death by five brothers: Ralph Lloyd, Virgil and Ray Statler and Brady Carson and two sisters, Marie Lix and Olive Carson and one infant sister.

He was a quality control fieldman for the Perryville Cheese Plant from 1951 until its closing in the late 1980's.

He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, VFW Post No. 4282, AmVets Post No. 94, American Legion Post No. 133 and United Commercial Travels Insurance, all in Perryville. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and served in the Marines. He was a founding member and a retiree after 39 years from the Perryville Army National Guard unit.

Visitation will be 4-8 p.m. Sunday, August 10th and 6:30-10 a.m. Monday, August 11th at the Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville. A VFW wake will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday.

A funeral for 81-year-old Wilbert L. "Wib" Statler of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. Monday, August 11th at the Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville. The Rev. Craig King will officiate. Burial will be in the Home Cemetery with military graveside services by VFW Post No. 4282 and the Delta Team.

Memorials may be made to the Home Cemetery.

Ste. Genevieve County primary election results
Don Pritchard @ 10:37 pm CT

STE. GENEVIEVE -- Some Ste. Genevieve County voters went to the polls, most stayed home. County Clerk Kay Basler expected only a light turn out in Ste. Genevieve County. The total turned out to be 15 percent or 1,769.

Only two contested races were on the ballot, both on the Democratic primary.

Incumbent Second District County Commissioner Ray Gettinger defeated challenger John H. Donze 468-215 or 68.52 percent to 31.48 percent. Gettinger faces no opposition in the November election.

In the race for the Democratic nomination for Public Administrator, Mary Jo Ramer defeated Brad Fisher 731 to 496 or 59.58 percent to 40.42 percent. Ramer will face the incumbent, Republican Rob Huelskamp in the November election. He was unopposed in the Republican primary.

Here is how Ste. Genevieve voters cast their ballots for statewide candidates:

Republican Governor: Sarah Steelman 229, Kenny Hulshoff 224. Scott Long had 21 and Jennie Sievers had four.

Democratic Governor: Jeremiah W. (Jay) Nixon 1,014, and Daniel Carroll 198.

Libertarian Governor: Andrew W. Finkenstadt, one.

Republican Lieutenant Governor: Peter Kinder (I) 356, Paul Douglas Sims 61 and Arthur Hodge Sr. 36.

Democratic Lieutenant Governor: Sam Page 337, Michael E. Carter 215, Mary Williams 162, Richard Charles Tolbert 146, Becky L. Plattner 142, and C. Lillian Metzger 74

Libertarian Lieutenant Governor: Teddy Fleck one.

Republican Secretary of State: Mitchell (Mitch) Hubbard 374;

Democratic Secretary of State: Robin Carnahan (I) 1,093

Libertarian Secretary of State: Wes Upchurch, one.

Republican Treasurer: Brad Lager 364

Democratic Treasurer: Clint Zweiful 418, Mark Powell 369, Andria Danine Simckes 190 and Charles B. Wheeler 120.

Republican Attorney General; Mike Gibbons 377.

Democratic Attorney General: Margaret Donnelly 392, Chris Koster 377, Jeff Harris 300 and Molly Williams 87.

Democratic Third District Congressman: Russ Carnahan (I) 1,088

Republican Third District Congressman: John Wayne Tucker 154, Chris Sander 152, Paul Ertmann 41 and Greg Zotta 32

Libertarian Third District Congressman: Kevin C. Babcock one.

Republican Third District State Senator: Kevin Engler (I) Republican 425

Democratic Third District State Senator: Dennis Riche 982.

Democratic 104th District State Representative: Joe Fallert Jr. (I) 996. No opposition in November.

Republican 106th District State Representative: Steven Tilley (I) 116. No opposition in November.

In uncontested county races:

Democratic 1st District Commissioner: Garry Nelson (I) 496. No opposition in November.

Democratic Sheriff: Gary Stolzer (I) 1,119. No opposition in November.

Democratic Assessor: Linda Wagner 1,098. No opposition in November.

Democratic Coroner: Leo "Chipper" Basler Jr. (I) 1,137. No opposition in November.

Democratic Surveyor: Gerald "Duck" Bader (I) 1,115. No opposition in November.

Republican Public Administrator: Rob Huelskamp (I) 382. Will face Democratic Mary Jo Ramer in November.

Morning news
Don Pritchard @ 6:17 am CT

Due to technical problems we are unable to go "on the air" from the Ste. Genevieve news room this morning. Here are the stories you would have heard on the air:

STE. GENEVIEVE -- The Ste. Genevieve Fire Department is on the scene of a fire at Mississippi Lime Company. The call to the Peerless Rotary Plant came in at 5:26 a.m.

PERRYVILLE -- Two Perryville teens suffered minor injuries in a traffic crash early this morning on Highway 51 in Perry County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 18-year-old George D. Anderson and 19-year-old Cody A. Glenn were taken to Perry County Memorial Hospital.

The patrol says the crash happened when the southbound car Anderson was driving struck two cows which ran into the roadway in front of it. The car then traveled down a steep embankment striking a fence. The cows were killed.

The crash happened about 1 a.m. eight-tenths of a mile south of Perry County Road 712 North.

The patrol says both occupants were buckled up.

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports two arrests:

35-year-old Clyde E. Holland of Ironton was arrested at midnight this morning in Ste. Genevieve County. He is named in three Ste. Genevieve County warrants for failure to appear, speeding and improper motor carrier driver record. He was taken to the Ste. Genevieve County Jail.

41-year-old Brian N. McCain of Springfield, Alabama was arrested Wednesday afternoon at 2:03 in Perry County on a patrol charge of driving while intoxicated. He was taken to the Perry County Jail.

JEFFERSON CITY – Perry County Associate Commissioner Patrick Naeger has been elected Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan (MCHCP).

Naeger has served two terms on the board. Once as a legislator, and most recently appointed by Governor Blunt.

Naeger is the current District No. 1 County Commissioner in Perry County and a former state representative, representing Ste. Genevieve and Perry counties from 1995-2002. Naeger is president of Healthcare Mobility, Inc. and also the executive vice-president of a family owned pharmacy and health care equipment and Supply Company.

The Missouri Consolidated Health Care Plan is a quasi-governmental agency of the State of Missouri. It was established for the purpose of providing medical coverage for the employees, retirees and dependents of the state and other local governments. It currently covers over 103,000 state members as well as over 1,800 members of other local governments.

IN SPORTS

IN MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL ACTION...

ST. LOUIS -- The Cardinals fell to Milwaukee 3-0. The two teams play again tonight. Hear the game at 6:32 on B-93one.

KANSAS CITY -- The Royals lost to visiting Detroit 7-1. Kansas City plays Tampa Bay tonight.

CHICAGO -- Chicago downed visiting Texas 10-8. Chicago is off today and plays at Detroit Friday night.

CHICAGO -- The Cubs won at Arizona 10-6. Chicago plays Florida tonight.

STE. GENEVIEVE -- Two Ste. Genevieve youth will be competing in the USA Ozark Regional Championship in Carbondale this weekend.

12-year-old Natalie King and 11-year-old Kevin Douglas will then go directly to Michigan to compete in the AAU Junior Olympics in Detroit.

Nine-year-old Emily King will compete at the Southeast Missouri Swim Conference Championships on Saturday then head off for Detroit to compete in the Junior Olympic Games.

The two local swim teams: Ste. Genevieve's Stingrays and Perryville's Piranhas will join the other Southeast Missouri Conference teams in the conference meet in Jackson on Saturday.

Ste. Genevieve is coming off a fourth place finish and Perryville a sixth place finish in a six-team meet at Scott City Saturday.

DEMO DERBY RESCHEDULED
Bob Scott @ 9:47 pm CT

THE STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY FAIR BOARD HAS
ANNOUNCED THE DEMO DERBY POSTPONED
SATURDAY...DUE TO WEATHER...HAS BEEN
RESCHEDULED FOR 5:30 THIS SUNDAY EVENING
AT THE STE. GENEVIEVE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS.

City administrator, police chief out in Ste. Genevieve
Don Pritchard @ 11:58 am CT

STE. GENEVIEVE -- There has been a shake up at city hall in Ste. Genevieve.

City Administrator Richard "Dick" Herbel and Police Chief Dale Newman are no longer in their jobs.

Former City Administrator Herbel was not available for comment Friday, though he did send an email announcing his leaving city hall to his email correspondents.

Former Police Chief Dale Newman said he was cleaning out his office Friday and was somewhat glad that it finally happened after all the stress of wondering what was going to happen. Now he says he can get on with his life.

Officially there is no comment from city hall: City Clerk Pam Meyer says she is taking any phone calls that come in for the city administrator.

Mayor Dick Greminger said there would be no official statement from city hall until Monday.

City Clerk Pam Meyer said the city would release the information after the 72 hours permitted under the state's sunshine law.

Apparently the decision to remove the city administrator and police chief came during a closed meeting held following Thursday night's regular meeting of the board. There was no hint of the action to come during the meeting itself, though rumors of a possible change in the city hall leadership were rampant during the campaigns leading up to the April 8th election.

In fact one alderman, Larry Marler in the fourth ward, was chided by a city resident at an open meeting for allegedly telling people doing business with the city not to worry about what City Administrator Herbel told them because he wasn't going to be city administrator much longer.

Herbel, himself, told at least one person, that if the election went a certain way, his days of city administrator would be numbered.

Rumors of firings following the election were denied by one of the aldermanic candidates.

Reports of the shake up at city hall began making the rounds last night and by this morning Ste. Genevieve residents who were in Farmington said they heard the reports there.

But officially we will have to wait until Monday for details on the shake up and the search for a new city administrator and police chief.

Boil order lifted
Don Pritchard @ 12:35 pm CT

The boil order for residents of PCR 810 in Perry County is lifted.

Earthquake update
Don Pritchard @ 5:26 am CT

The U.S. Geological Survey has now confirmed the 5.4 earthquake centered near New Salem, Illinois at 4:36 a.m. CDT. The earthquake was five kilometers below the earth's surface. There are some reports of damage, broken windows and a report of Kingshighway in St. Louis being closed due to concrete chunks that fell from an overpass between Shawn and Vandeventer. There are no reports of damage in the Randolph County, Illinois; Perry County, Missouri or Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri area.