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FRIDAY | JULY 13, 2012
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Nixon
vetoes
health
bill
PBS program brings Amazon Army back to life
Notable
Legislation would have
expanded exemptions
from insurance policies
covering birth control
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. —
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon vetoed legislation Thursday that
would have expanded religious and moral exemptions
from insurance policies covering birth control, thus avoiding a potential conflict with a
new contraception policy put
forth by President Barack
Obama’s administration.
Nixon said he supports religious and ethical exemptions
from contraception coverage
that already exist in Missouri
law. But he said the new bill
could have extended those
exemptions to insurance
SEE VETO, 10A
Two more
charged
in slaying
Kylie Collier makes her entrance as she’s filmed by Jim Kelly, with Sunflower Journeys, on Thursday at Pittsburg High School.
Area women are being sought for this morning’s filming of a simulated Amazon Army march. Sunflower Journeys, a Public
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Broadcasting Service program, will film and produce a show about the historic 1921 march.
Marching on
Want to be
Amazon?
Local woman leads effort
BY ANDRA BRYAN STEFANONI
[email protected]
Joplin police now believe
there was a single burglary
with five suspects present in
the home of Jacob Wages
when he was shot and killed
in the early morning hours of
July 6.
The Jasper County prosecutor’s office consequently has
filed murder charges against
two men who have been in
custody since Sunday on burglary charges.
FRANKLIN, Kan. — On a
rural Southeast Kansas road
in December 1921, thousands
of wives, daughters, mothers,
sisters and sweethearts of
striking coal miners marched
in protest against unfair labor
practices.
The march made national
headlines and is considered
by historians to have played a
significant role in America’s
labor history, women’s history and Southeast Kansas heritage.
In the decades that followed,
however, it faded from the
public’s memory.
SEE CHARGES, 10A
SEE MARCH, 2A
BY JEFF LEHR
[email protected]
TODAY
Concrete T-walls ring the secure compound where Pittsburg
State University Professor Dean Cortes lived during a monthlong visit to Baghdad in Iraq, where he taught business workshops for Iraqi business professors. COURTESY | PITTSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY
No athletic shoes allowed
BY ANDRA BRYAN STEFANONI
[email protected]
EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is the caption that ran under this
historic photograph in December 1921 in The New York
Times: “The women’s army of Kansas on the march: The
wives and daughters of the striking coal miners of the Pittsburg District go on the warpath to oust the strikebreakers, invading the mines and scattering the workers with a red-pepper attack. New York Times, Sunday section, Dec. 25, 1921.”
PHOTO COURTESY OF ARMY OF AMAZONS, LINDA O’NELIO KNOLL
The Amazon Army will
march again this morning on
a rural road in Capaldo.
Area women are being invited to participate in the simulated march, which is being
organized to be videotaped by
Sunflower Journeys.
The Public Broadcasting
Service program, based out of
Topeka, is producing a show
SEE AMAZON, 2A
PSU professor teaches
colleagues in Baghdad
BY EMILY YOUNKER
[email protected]
PITTSBURG, Kan. — Dean
Cortes, an economics professor at Pittsburg State University, recently returned from a
monthlong stint in Baghdad,
where he worked with local
business professors to help
improve the quality of education in a post-Saddam Hussein
Iraq.
“The Iraqi people I met
there were very kind, and
they only wanted the best for
SEE IRAQ, 10A
Future programs?
UPON HIS RETURN last month from
Baghdad, Dean Cortes said he is looking into the possibility of faculty exchange agreements between Pittsburg
State University and interested universities in Iraq.
JAKOB HOCKMAN, of
Joplin, a recent graduate of Thomas Jefferson
Independent Day
School, is one of 72 students chosen for the
2012 class of Honors
College Fellows at the
University of Arkansas.
Hockman plans to be a
biology
major in the
J. William
Fulbright
College of
Arts and
Sciences.
The
Honors College
Fellowship provides
$50,000 over four years
to cover tuition, room
and board, books and
the purchase of a computer.
The fellowship can
also be combined with
other scholarships and
grants.
The fellowship is
highly competitive:
More than 500 high
school students from
across the country
applied this year. To
qualify, students must
score at least 32 on the
ACT exam and have a
3.8 grade point average.
The rigor of applicants’
high school course
work, their letters of
recommendation and
community involvement are also considered.
Do you know someone who
deserves mention in
“Notable”? Send an email to
[email protected]
or call 417-627-7281.
Today’s outlook
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Spotlight
AFTER THE INSTALLATION of
lights at a racetrack south of
Stone’s Corner, night races
were launched in June 1932.
The Globe reported that “night
greyhound racing was inaugurated at the quarter-mile oval
track north of Joplin by the
Joplin Greyhound Racing association last night with a ninerace program. A good crowd attended despite a rain early last
night.”
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OBITUARIES
THE JOPLIN GLOBE | FRIDAY, JULY 13, 2012
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COURT | FIRE
FROM STAFF, AP REPORTS
Judge orders owner
of business to stand
trial in tax case
The owner of a Joplin medical services business waived
his right to a preliminary
hearing Thursday on charges
that he failed to file withholding tax returns with the state
and failed to pay withholding
taxes.
Kamendra N. Mishra, 64,
waived the hearing in Jasper
County Circuit Court and was
ordered bound over for trial by
Associate Circuit Judge
Richard Copeland. The judge
set the defendant’s initial appearance in a trial division for
July 27.
Mishra is accused of failing
to file withholding tax returns
and failing to pay withholding
taxes for Greater Missouri
Medical Pro-Care Providers
for several months off and on
since the business began operating in 2001 at 2121⁄2 W. Fifth St.
A probable-cause affidavit alleges that the resulting criminal tax liability of the business currently stands at
$675,605.12.
Firefighters douse
blaze at company;
no injuries cited
der investigation, Stammer
said.
Thermal Engineering International is a manufacturer of
tube and shell heat exchangers.
Fire damages
home in Joplin;
no injuries cited
Overheating of an electrical
circuit is believed to have been
the cause of a fire Wednesday
The Joplin Fire Department morning that caused minor
damage to a house in Joplin.
was called to extinguish a fire
The Joplin Fire Department
Thursday in an exhaust filter
responded to an 11:13 a.m. reat Therman Engineering International at 2702 W. Ninth St. port of a fire at 127 S. Jackson
Keith Stammer, public infor- Ave. and found light smoke
coming from the attic of the
mation officer for the Joplin
single-story residence.
Fire Department, said fireFire Chief Mitch Randles
fighters responding to the 5:44
said in a news release that the
p.m. call found light smoke
fire was brought under control
coming from an exhaust filter
within half an hour and extinfor grit blast at the south end
guished by 11:50 a.m. The ownof the plant.
er and occupant, Kim
The fire was brought under
Marston, was home at the
control by 6:05 p.m., he said.
No injuries were reported. The time, but no injuries were recause of the fire remained un- ported, Randles said. Fire
damage was confined to some
insulation and electrical
wiring in the attic, he said.
Oil truck driver burned
when vehicle ignites
DUNCAN, Okla. — An oil
tanker truck driver has suffered second-degree burns after his vehicle caught fire in
Duncan.
Police Chief Danny Ford
said the truck was backing up
when it hit an above-ground
tank and a spill and fire ensued Thursday. Ford said the
driver suffered second-degree
burns and was flown by medical helicopter to a hospital in
Oklahoma City.
The driver’s name wasn’t
immediately released, and
Ford said the name of the business wasn’t immediately available.
Ford said a nearby church
and a rural water office were
evacuated for a time, but the
fire was located in an industrial area and not close to any
homes.
DEATH NOTICES
MEMORIALS
In loving memory of
Oklahoma
David D. Moran
Edwin R. Williams
COMMERCE, Okla. - Edwin Ray Williams Sr., 67, a
Santa Fe Railroad employee,
passed away Wednesday,
July 11, 2012.
Services will be at 10 a.m.
Monday at Paul Thomas Funeral Home, Commerce.
Burial will be in G.A.R.
Cemetery, Miami, Okla. Visitation will be from 2 to 4
p.m. Sunday at the funeral
home.
MEMORIALS
Jan. 19, 1964 – July 13, 2010
We miss you very much.
Mom, Dad, Cheyenne,
Jack, Sis, Tami, LaDonna,
David and Leslie and
all your best buddies.
Charles (Blackfoot)
Chenoweth
Charles (Blackfoot)
Chenoweth, age 87, of Baxter
Springs, Kan., went to be
with Lord on July 9, 2012,
following a short illness.
Charles was born May 30,
Emma Lois Thompson
1925, in Laddonia, Mo., the
Emma Lois Thompson, 90, first of seven children, to the
Carthage, Mo., passed away
union of Wayne Chenoweth
July 11, 2012, at St. Luke's
and Dorcas (Harvey)
Nursing Center, Carthage.
Chenoweth.
Lois was born on April 27,
He served in the United
1922, in Carroll County, Mo., States Navy, as a gunner, on
to John and Elma Wallace
the USS Enterprise during
and was the eldest of eight
World War II, from 1943 ungrandchildren.
til 1946. He was a lifetime
She was the loving wife of
member of the USS EnterRev. Howard L. Tommy
prise Association.
woman in the Jackson County wasn’t accepting new mesThompson for 68 years and a
He drove as a line haul
sages Thursday.
prosecutor’s office, said the
member of the First United
driver with Yellow Freight
According to the probableprobable-cause statement in
Methodist Church,
for 30 years until he retired
cause statement, the mother
Benson’s case won’t be reCarthage. Lois was an inin 1991, and was a member
leased until he is arrested. On- told police she didn’t let the
valuable asset, in spirit, sup- of the Teamster Union for
port and labor, to her husgirl leave the house because
line court records don’t list a
over 40 years. He was a
band, his ministry and to
lawyer for Benson, and Benson the child is malnourished and
member of the Crossroads
the churches they served.
Christian Church, of Baxter
has not spoken publicly about she would “get in trouble if
She was a member of The
Springs.
someone saw her.”
the case or the charges.
United Methodist Women
He married Eliza Leona
After his initial interviews
and the PEO AP Chapter, an Burrows on March 17, 1951,
with police, he was released
organization dedicated to
in Gerald, Mo. She survives.
while authorities continued an
promoting educational opAdditional survivors ininvestigation that culminated
portunities for women and
clude two sons, Kenney
in the two counts of child enactively participated in
Chenoweth, of Joplin, Mo.,
The following are free death notices
dangerment.
these for many years.
and Charles D. Chenoweth,
“The first thing he did when
provided by the Joplin Globe.
She is survived by her hus- of Baxter Springs; and one
he got out of jail was to come
band, Tommy, of Carthage;
granddaughter, Sarah
over here,” Coppage said last
four children, Sue Miller, of Chenoweth, of Tucson, Ariz.
Florida, Barbara DaRe, of
month. “You could hear him
During his life he loved
Oregon, Shirley Bowman, of fishing, hunting and collectranting and raving because he
Charles A. Sparks
Greenwood, Mo., and Greg
ing coins and meeting and
was mad we were talking to
JOPLIN, Mo. - Charles
Thompson, of Carthage; two talking to people.
the press and the police and
Arnold Sparks, 87, passed
sisters, Elaine Cade, of MisPer his wishes, he will be
everything. I don’t care about
away Monday, July 9, 2012.
sissippi, and Ruby Land, of
cremated and his ashes
Memorial services will be
his anger because I believe he
spread across his beloved
at 3 p.m. Sunday at Kingdom Georgia; six grandchildren,
knew.
land where he loved spendHall of Jehovah Witness. Ar- 11 great-grandchildren; and
“He kept saying, ‘Why am I
a host of extended family
ing time.
rangements
are
under
the
supposed to give a damn about
and friends.
He will truly be missed.
direction
of
Parker
Mortuwhat she do to her child? It’s
A memorial service in celary.
not mine.’”
ebration of Lois' life will be
She also said the couple had
held at the First United
Methodist Church, 617
a volatile relationship and she
South Main, Carthage, on
sometimes could hear them
Ruth E. D'Arcy
fighting next door. Her phone
MONETT, Mo. - Ruth Ellen Friday, July 13, at 11 a.m.
Rev. James Lee will officiD'Arcy, 89, a retired secretary, passed away Thursday, ate.
Memorial gifts are suggestJuly 12, 2012.
ed to the First United
Services will be at 2 p.m.
MARY ESTHER OSBORN JAEGER
Methodist Church,
Age 79, Columbus, Kan.
Saturday at Waldensian
Funeral Services 10 a.m. Friday
Carthage.
Presbyterian Church, MonDerfelt's Baxter Chapel, Baxter Springs
Arrangements are under
Burial: Quaker Valley Cemetery
ett. Burial will be in WaldenAlexander Howat, an immithe
direction and personal
sian
Cemetery,
Monett.
Visigrant miner who rose to lead
care of Knell Mortuary,
tation will be from 6 to 8
the area’s United Mine WorkCarthage.
p.m. Friday at BennettOnline condolences
ers of America, District 14,
Wormington Funeral Home,
may be expressed through
headed up labor disputes that
Monett.
www.knellmortuary.com
gained national attention. The
Marion Meyer
international president, John
WEBB CITY, Mo. - Marion
Lewis, ordered Howat to call
Meyer,
91, a retired secreoff the 1921 strike, but Howat
tary, passed away Wednesrefused and was expelled and
EMMA LOIS THOMPSON
day, July 11, 2012.
Age 90, Carthage, Mo.
ultimately jailed.
Graveside services will be
Memorial
Service Friday 11 a.m.
Kansas Gov. Henry Allen
at 11:30 a.m. Monday at HillFirst United Methodist Church, Carthage
stepped in, but was unable to
crest Cemetery, Mountain
For online condolences
get the miners to return to
Grove, Mo. Visitation will
and obituaries visit
www.knellmortuary.com
work. He asked 1,000 volunbe from 3 to 4 p.m. Sunday at
Parker Mortuary, Joplin.
teers to reopen the mines, and
because coal was in short supEmma L. Thompson
ply and the winter was cold,
CARTHAGE, Mo. - Emma
they did.
Lois Thompson, 90, passed
In response, thousands of
away Wednesday, July 11,
women marched to the mines
2012.
Dec. 12-14 to convince these
Memorial services will be
DORETHY C. WICKLUND
Age 93, Carthage, Mo.
“scabs” to lay down their tools. at 11 a.m. Friday at First
Service Friday 2 p.m.
Gov. Allen, in turn, sent the
United Methodist Church,
College Heights Christian Church, Joplin
ALBERTA M. HEDGCORTH POTEET
Age 83, Joplin
state militia — a machine gun
Carthage. Arrangements are
www.thornhill-dillon.com
Service Friday 10 a.m.
under the direction of Knell
attachment from Lawrence,
Parker Mortuary Chapel
Mortuary, Carthage.
1,200 rifles stockpiled at Hotel
GLENDA K. CRISP
Stilwell, and 1,000 deputized
Age 59, Joplin
Graveside Service Friday 3 p.m.
men to protect the peace.
Rosebank Cemetery, Mulberry, Kan.
The women carried no
Visitation Friday 2:30 p.m. Until
Ronald L. McCarley
service time at the cemetery
weapons — nothing other than
ARCADIA, Kan. - Ronald
American flags and red pepper L. McCarley Sr., 63, a retired
CHARLES ARNOLD SPARKS
Age 87, Joplin
to throw in the eyes of the
Webb City Fire Department
Memorial Service Sunday 3 p.m.
scabs.
employee, passed away
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah Witness
2500 South County Lane 203
Reports show union guards
Wednesday, July 11, 2012.
SHERI KENNEDY
fired at the feet of the women,
Memorial services will be
Age 65, Carl Junction
MARION MEYER
Service 11 a.m. Friday
Age 91, Webb City
some pregnant and carrying
at 10 a.m. Monday at BathHedge-Lewis Chapel
Graveside Service Monday 11:30 a.m.
Naylor Funeral Home, Pittsyoung children, and arrested
Visitation 10 a.m. Friday at the Chapel
Hillcrest Cemetery, Mountain Grove, Mo.
burg, Kan. Visitation will be
Visitation Sunday 3-4 p.m.
49 of them on charges of unFamily
owned
and
operated
Parker Mortuary
from 9 to 10 a.m. Monday at
lawful assembly, assault and
For online condolences
the funeral home.
and obituaries visit
fourstatecremation.com
disturbing the peace.
www.hedgelewis.com
Simple Cremation · 417.825.4323
The event had significant
implications for labor unions,
Roberts said.
Mary Arbaugh
“It also demonstrated for the
GROVE, Okla. - Mary Arnation, and for history, that
baugh, 97, a homemaker,
women were just as tied to
passed away Wednesday,
coal mining as men.”
July 11, 2012.
The Sunflower Journeys
Graveside services will be
program will air sometime afat 10 a.m. Monday at G.A.R.
ter mid-September.
Cemetery, Miami, Okla. Visitation will be from 2 to 4
pm. Sunday at Brown-Winters Funeral Home, Fairland, Okla.
The following are paid memoriums
provided by family, friends and loved
ones.
Police seek boyfriend of woman accused of abuse
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
clined to comment outside the
courtroom.
Immediately after the girl’s
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The
discovery, Benson told police
boyfriend of Kansas City
he didn’t live in the apartment,
woman whose 10-year-old
and said that he often visited
daughter weighed just 32
pounds when she was rescued to see his 2- and 8-year-old
from a closet remained at large daughters, but hadn’t seen
Thursday, one day after he was their half-sister in about a
year, according to the probacharged with child endangerble-cause statement filed in the
ment.
Neighbors had long suspect- mother’s case.
Benson said that when he
ed Marcus R. Benson played
more of a role than he initially asked the mother about the 10year-old, she told him she was
claimed after a call to a 24with her aunt or in her room
hour child abuse hotline led
because she was in trouble. He
authorities to the family’s
said he never knew the mother
apartment June 22. Inside a
locked closet that reeked of
put the girl in the closet or “he
urine was the girl, weighing
would have done something
less than half of what a typical about it,” the probable-cause
child her age weighs.
statement said. But a couple
The girl’s mother, whom The days after the 10-year-old was
Associated Press isn’t naming discovered, longtime neighbor
to protect the girl’s identity,
Aishah Coppage said she was
was charged the next day with skeptical.
assault, child abuse and child
“I know he knew,” she said
endangerment. She has plead- last month, adding that he had
ed not guilty and waived the
keys to the apartment,
right to a preliminary hearing changed clothes there and was
always there when Coppage
during a court appearance
Thursday. Her attorney, public got off work.
Julie Hamilton, a spokesdefender Curt Winegarner, de-
DEATH NOTICES
Joplin
Missouri
MARCH: Women rallied for miners
FROM 1A
Until some 65 years after the
march, Linda Knoll, a Pittsburg teacher, was having
lunch with her grandmother,
Maggie O’Nelio, and read her
a poem from noted local historian Gene DeGruson, the
archivist at Pittsburg State
University’s Axe Library.
Called “Alien Women,” the
poem referred to the “Army of
Amazons.” It told the tale of
DeGruson’s mother’s participation in the march.
“My grandmother said, ‘I
was in that too; I was 17 years
old,’” recalled Knoll. “So I
started to research.”
Knoll’s research prompted
her to write a play, which has
since been performed numerous times at area folklife festivals. Her students became involved and in doing so earned
state honors in the National
History Day competition.
Kansas artist Wayne Wildcat
then created a mural based on
an iconic photograph of the
march that had been printed
in The New York Times. Today
it hangs in Pittsburg Public Library.
Now, a Public Broadcasting
Service producer wants to
share the story with the state.
It’s one every Kansan should
know, said Jim Kelly, with
Sunflower Journeys. He came
to Southeast Kansas on
Wednesday for two days of
filming interviews, historical
vignettes from Knoll’s play,
and a simulated march.
Sunflower Journeys also has
produced shows about Chicken
Mary’s and Chicken Annie’s,
and Pittsburg’s Hotel Stilwell
and Colonial Fox Theatre.
Son of marcher
JOE SKUBITZ, the young son of one
marcher, Mary Skubitz, would later
serve for 16 years as a U.S. representative and was instrumental in the passing
of the Federal Coal Mine Health and
Safety Act of 1969, the Black Lung Benefits Act of 1972, and the Black Lung
Benefits Reform and Revenue Act of
1977.
“One of our functions is to
teach Kansans about Kansas,”
Kelly said. “There are a lot of
things in this state that they
don’t know about, and they
should,” he said as he prepared to interview Knoll and
the current PSU archivist,
Randy Roberts, at the Miners
Hall Museum in Franklin.
The museum was a doubly
meaningful place in which to
conduct the interviews,
Roberts said, as it is on the site
of a former miners union hall,
and was the brainchild of a
handful of strong, determined
women.
During the interview,
Roberts shared the importance of the Amazon Army
both nationally and locally.
Strikes occurred at some 300
or so local mines in the 1890s,
and again in 1921. Thousands
of immigrants were working
the mines; many were injured
or lost their lives because of
the dangerous working conditions. They couldn’t count on a
steady paycheck, as they were
offered only 190 days of work
per year at low wages — about
65 cents per ton of coal they
mined by hand.
Life above ground was difficult too — particularly for the
women, Roberts said.
Kansas
Oklahoma
AMAZON: March to be re-created today
FROM 1A
length or longer, advised Amazon Army historian Linda
about the historic march.
Knoll, of Pittsburg.
Organizers say the more
“The older and less stylish,
participants for the simulated the better,” she said. For
march, the better: More than
footwear, participants are ad6,000 women and children
vised to wear simple shoes or
were a part of the original
ankle boots — no athletic
march, which took place over
shoes, heels or flip-flops.
three days in December 1921.
Filming will begin at 8:30
But if you want to join them, a.m.
you will need to play the part.
To get to the site, from the inThose who want to particitersection of U.S. Highway 69
pate in the simulated march
and State Park Corner (East
should wear a skirt and simple 590th Avenue), go west approxblouse or a dress that is knee
imately one mile. A brown
storefront building is on the
south side of the road.
“We will be filming near the
building and marching down a
country road nearby,” said
Knoll, who scouted out numerous locations in search of one
that would look historic
enough for the re-creation.
Questions?
CONTACT LINDA KNOLL, Amazon Army
historian, at 620-231-0499 or 620-8750419.
Bobbie D. Green
COLCORD, Okla. - Bobbie
Dean Green, 76, passed away
Tuesday, July 10, 2012.
Arrangements are under
the direction of Grand Lake
Funeral Home, Jay, Okla.
Thomas J. Jenkins
GROVE, Okla. - Thomas
James Jenkins, 64, passed
away Saturday, July 7, 2012.
Graveside memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Fort Scott National
Cemetery, Fort Scott, Kan.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Grand Lake Funeral Home, Grove.
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