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Historical June 1989 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Parkview is languishing under The Mummy’s Curse.
The mummy in this case is Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid.
While repaving its streets, the subdivision violated Cheops Law.
This law reads: No Construction Project is Ever Finished On Time or Within Budget.
The Parkview agents got a good price for the materials to perform this longoverdue task and Parkview is well within budget as a result.
To compensate for this money saving, it seems as if Cheops’ ghost is determined to mess with the time schedule for the project. Mechanical breakdowns, weather, and bad karma have plagued the work crews.
The Residents became Restless; Washington was finally recapped on May 24, after five tries. Let’s hope that Old Man Cheops will now be content to let the work continue without hindrance. I hope you had a chance to read in the Post-Dispatch a fine article about Jerry Hunter, who has been nominated as chief counsel for the National Labor Relations Board.
The article was incorrect in one respect, however. Jerry is not a resident of Jefferson City; he and his wife Yvonne and their two children have lived in the 62XX block of Washington for quite some time. Now, it appears that instead of living on Washington, the Hunters will be living in—or at least around—Washington (D.C.).
We wish him best of luck on this appointment.
The Hunter’s good news is bad news for this paper, I am afraid. Yvonne Hunter is on the board of directors for this paper, so we are losing more than just some fine neighbors. Nesby Moore, Jr. of 62XX McPherson has been appointed by the Governor to the Police Board. Despite the promotion, we get to keep this neighbor and we wish him all success.
It may seem strange to see the Governor appointing people to the St. Louis Police Board; this system was set up around the beginning of the Civil War.
The proSouthern governor and legislators made this arrangement in order to weaken the pro-Union St. Louis power structure.
Dan Shea and Kathleen Williams (61XX Kingsbury) are recovering from playing their parts in the SDCC melodrama by taking a trip to England and Ireland. “Tis said that Dan has some literary research to perform, but we suspect his inquiries will be more along the line of determining the vapor characteristics of Tullamore Dew.
While Dan and Kathleen are languishing in the land of warm beer, Bob and Jean Ducker (& children) will be in Florida, ascertaining whether it is hotter and muggier that good ol’ St. Lou: They’ll be back at 61XX Kingsbury by the time you read this. Peter and Mary Schmit of 61XX McPherson have been harboring a French exchange student, one Blandine Fremaux. Ms. Fremaux just returned from a visit to Washington D. C. with her school’s Closeup Club to see how Congress allegedly functions. Alas, she will return to France in June. Let’s hope that what she tells the folks back in to Patrie about D.C. won’t damage NATO.
We will all miss Blandine, as her father is a champagne manufacturer and her care packages did not exactly contain cookies!
Congratulations to David Garin of 61XX Westminster.
He has been named as the Interim Director of the brand-new UMSL Center for Science and Technology.
The Center provides training and research opportunities to area industries, as well as lectures and workshops on current technology-oriented issues to the general public. Bill Horner of 61XX Westminster has joined AJF Trailer Leasing.
He will be working in marketing and operations. AJF leases reconditioned trailers nationwide and they’re big; I was astounded to note how many semitrailers on the road sport AJF mudflaps.
One of the roughest aspects of this column is trying to keep track of the Hoefels, of 61XX Mc Pherson. Gene & Dolores Hoefel spent last August en route to France, where they stayed from September to December in Paris on sabbatical.
While in Paris they managed to squeeze in trips to most of Western Europe ‘south of Denmark. January through March were spent visiting long-lost friends in Costa Rica.
They then visited St. Louis (“Really exotic?”, says Delores) long enough to marry off their oldest son, then it was north to Minnesota and the family farm in Wisconsin.
They finally returned home for keeps at the end of April. Joe and Betty Botz (61XX Kingsbury) recently returned from a Caribbean cruise, a 40th wedding anniversary present from their seven children. I hope my gang is reading this.
The Botz’s will become in-laws again this year. Daughter Susan is committing matrimony in September. Ottie’s Corner: Officer Edwards had a relatively peaceful May.
He did manage to become involved in a rather neat car theft scenario.
During the recent street repair work in Parkview, many of the residents simply parked behind their homes in the alley. Ottie observed a car cruising suspiciously around one of these parked cars.
He turned on his bubble gum machine and the stranger took off, but not before Edwards was able to see that the car had been hotwired.
While calling for City Police backup, he set off in pursuit.
This was no mean feat, considering that the only thing slower than his Chevette “cruiser” is a Yugo. Anyhow, he managed to corner the culprit down a dead-end street, so the thief abandoned the car and took off on foot.
This fugitive was easy to catch; to fool a license check he had substituted the plates off of his own car. Ottie confronted the thief in a lineup and used a classic ploy to identify the suspect. Edwards simply walked up to the thief and fantasied what he would have done to the car thief, had he been the one to make the arrest. Stung, the thief blistered the air with a retort that clearly gave him away.
As if our culprit were not in enough trouble, it turned out that the stolen car belonged to a member of the staff of Judge Michael Hart, of 62XX McPherson. Ottie loves to point out that many criminals are real pros at digging themselves in deep, but this guy is our Loser of the Month. I just realized that this is my last column until after the summer. Whew!
After doing this for three months, I am incredibly impressed by Lisa Horner, who held down this spot for many years. I would also like to thank her ten bushels (that’s the biggest number I know of in Italian) for her help in getting started and her encouragement since. I am also indebted to my wife Mary for helping me find stories, proofreading, and letting me know when I’m going off the deep end.
Last, but not least, I need to thank the Editor and Boss, Sue Rothschild, for giving me the chance to do this column, for her light-handed editorial touch, and for those extended deadlines! Have a wonderful summer, everyone.
As my Anglo/German in-laws would say: For Bitters or Wurst, we’ll see you in the Fall.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, June 1989.
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