Speakout 4/21

Sunday, April 21, 2002

Why did the Standard Democrat not report the Friday armed robbery of U-Pump-It until the April 17 paper? The arrest was made a few minutes after the robbery. Why did it take so long to get it printed?

Reporters from the Standard Democrat made an attempt on Monday and Tuesday to get information on the robbery from Sikeston DPS, but Sikeston DPS did not release the information until April 16.

Where did Assistant Scott County Prosecutor Paul Boyd originally come from?

We called Boyd with your question. He was raised in Plattsburg and his father was sheriff of Clinton County from 1964-77. His mother retired as a district supervisor of liquor control in 1992 in Kansas City. He graduated in 1983 from Plattsburg High School, attended Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield from 1983-87 and attended the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School from 1987-90. He moved Scott County in 1996 as assistant prosecutor for the Scott County Prosecutor's Office. From March 1996 to December 1997 he was lead full-time assistant prosecutor in Scott County in charge of felony trial work. From December 1997 to July 2001 he was the Southeast Missouri Special Assistant State Prosecutor for prosecuting methamphetamine cases in 10 counties throughout the Bootheel. Since 2001, he returned to the Scott County Prosecutor's Office as lead assistant trial prosecutor for felony cases.

Tell me where I can take leaves and small limbs from my yard.

The Sikeston Compost Site is open at specified times for such waste. The site will be open from 8 a.m. until noon May 4; and from 7:30 to 11:45 a.m. and 1 to 3:30 p.m. on May 15.

In response to the person looking for a Beauty Control consultant, call me at (573) 649-3091 daytime or 649-3693 after 5 p.m.


To the person who is looking for Beauty Control, I sell that product. Call Lisa at 472-2345.


This is in response to the person looking for a Beauty Control representative in the Sikeston area. Call 1-800-421-2246 and the company in Carrollton, Texas, will assign you to a local representative.

Please, farmers. Be considerate and quit trying to farm the right of ways. Your machinery ruins the blacktop roads when you turn around on them for turning rows, and the tall corn at intersections obstructs our view.

I called earlier to see if there's anybody who works on Big Ben Clocks. If so, please put a number in SpeakOut.


Would you please put the man's name in the paper who fixes grandfather clocks? He lives in Bloomfield.

Call Edgar Kinser at (573) 568-4628.