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Now, the news team that covers the first local news in the Ozarks.
News Team 33 at 5.30.
With Ralph Hipp.
Donna Klein.
Sports director Tom Mast.
Meteorologist Ron Hurst.
And call for action reporter Sarah Overstreet.
And now, News Team 33 at 5.30.
Two Springfield men are in court at this hour answering charges of first degree murder.
Good evening, I'm Ralph Hipp.
And I'm Donna Klein.
Welcome to News Team 33.
Our Todd Johnson has just returned from the courthouse in Webster County.
And joins us now with the tales of what may soon be two murder trials.
Todd?
Well, Donna, preliminary hearings gave us the first chance today to find out about the events that led up to the death of William Price back on May 17th.
Price's body was found near the Findlay River in southern Webster County.
Two men, 31-year-old Danny Ray Waller and 44-year-old John Joseph O'Connor, are charged with first degree murder.
At their preliminary hearings today, Webster County prosecutor Don Cheever revealed that police found an empty gun cartridge that matches the caliber of the murder weapon on Waller when he was arrested.
Waller and O'Connor were picked up by Springfield police about two hours after Price's body was found.
They were driving Price's pickup truck at the time, and Waller had a cigarette lighter and two pocket knives that belonged to the victim in his possession.
Now testimony continues in their preliminary hearings at this hour.
Prosecutor Don Cheever tells us that he will call more than 10 witnesses before the night is over.
It will then be up to Judge Max Knutes to determine if there is enough evidence for the two men to stand trial for murder.
Todd, we had heard that a third accomplice may be involved in Price's death.
Where does that theory stand now?
Well, Donna, that's the biggest mystery.
The witnesses say they saw three men with Price that night at the Findlay River.
It made it take a trial for one of these two men before we finally find out who that third mystery person is.
All right, thank you very much for that update, Todd.
And Todd, I had the update on the latest of the death of a Springfield man last month.
What about another man? Will Johnny Lee Wilson ever get his day in court?
We are still waiting for an answer.
The 23-year-old Aurora man spending life in prison says he did not kill his neighbor Pauline Martz.
Our Doug Aronson is in Joplin at Wilson's hearing and has his phone report.
Well, if only Johnny Lee Wilson knows for certain whether he murdered Pauline Martz.
In a courtroom full of his friends and family, he said he didn't do it.
When then asked by his attorney, Dee Wampler, why are you here, Wilson replied, I don't know.
Wilson would say, I don't know or I don't remember several more times.
He said he didn't understand his constitutional rights that entitled him to a trial.
He said he didn't understand why he pleaded guilty.
When asked why he signed statements saying so, again he said, I don't know.
Wilson is mildly mentally retarded. He has an IQ of about 70.
But Wilson says he isn't crazy. He told prosecuting attorney Scott Surferman he's normal.
Surferman, however, presented Wilson's own photos of nude women as evidence
and related the evidence back to a psychiatrist exam conducted when Wilson was a boy.
The results of the exam showed Wilson could develop sexual homicidal tendencies.
It was discovered that Martz was tied up before she was murdered.
Other witnesses taking the stand today included Wilson's grandmother, Nellie Maples.
She backed Wilson's story, even accounting for where he was the day of the murder.
Here's the bottom line. Wilson says he is innocent.
His attorney, Wampler, says Kansas inmate Chris Brownfield committed the murder.
But Wilson was forced into making the confession since he didn't understand the laws.
But the prosecution says the evidence is there that Wilson killed Martz based upon the doctor's exam,
Johnny's lifestyle, and his signed confession.
Surferman asked Wilson if he knew right from wrong and truth from lies. Wilson said he did. Ralph?
Okay, thank you, Doug.
Our Doug Aaronson in Joplin and Doug will have more on the court proceedings in Joplin tonight on Newsnight at 10.
An insurance agent of Nevada, Missouri, is pleaded guilty to a fraudulent scheme
that cost Boatman's First National Bank of Kansas City almost $4 million.
Steven S. Benner made the plea yesterday before U.S. District Judge Elmo Hunter.
Judge Hunter has ordered a pre-sentence investigation for Benner.
The governor charges that Benner submitted false premium agreements to the Kansas City bank. Benner is free on bond.
And today was the third day in federal court for the former mayor of Sparta.
Dennis Short is on trial for putting a pipe bomb in the truck of his wife's former lover.
Back in March, Short had already been convicted on the same charge, but a federal court ruled Short deserved another trial.
The U.S. District Judge said the jury had been influenced by evidence that should not have been admitted in the first trial.
That evidence implied Short had tried to harm his wife's lover once before. Short and his wife have reconciled.
Eureka Springs mischievous mayor Richard Schenninger is explaining his latest trick.
He is posing nude in the Arkansas Times magazine.
Behind a rock, of course, at his favorite swimming spot.
Not everybody is taking the mayor's appearance lightly.
Alderman Susie Bell is chastising Mayor Schenninger in a letter she read to the other council members.
Bell says this is really a negative reflection on their city, and she's disappointed and disapproving.
Schenninger's photo will appear in next month's issue.
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Well, the drawing tonight, which you'll see on KSPR, is worth $16.5 million.
The last big prize was captured by an Army Sergeant in Washington, D.C.
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Despite the big dollar figures, some folks still believe in cherries.
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We have all heard warnings against participating in illegal mail order schemes.
But just ahead in our Call for Action report, Sarah Overstreet has an extra warning us,
or an extra warning, and she'll tell us how you could be punished just for taking part in an illegitimate operation.
Tom Nash will tell us about Wimbledon's first big upset,
and we'll find out what it's like to try out for the Atlanta Braves.
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We get a lot of calls to our call for action hotline from people wanting to know if those work at home businesses are legitimate.
Yesterday Donna, you'll remember we told our friends the story of a hurly woman who thought she might have found at least one way that was legitimate until she stopped getting paid.
Sarah Overschreit's here with part two of that story.
I remember that she was stuffing envelopes when we last left her.
Sarah, I thought it was a good deal Ralph and Donna, but not only did she stop getting paid, the bottom fell out of the whole venture.
Here's what happened.
Melanie Flood believed the envelope stuffing business she was part of was perfectly legal.
After all, the man who started the scam told her it was.
On the first thing that he sends you it says right there that there is a post code that says this is legal.
She was getting paid two dollars for each customer she managed to procure for the man who called himself John Wack until suddenly the check stopped coming.
Then she received a letter from John Wack explaining why.
First of all, I received a letter from him stating that they had shut him down.
Not to call. Phones were tapped. Don't ride. They were checking his mail and everything.
And then I tried to call just because I thought it was a hoax. Every time I tried to call his wife said he was either out of town or he had just left.
He wasn't available.
And that wasn't all she found out about John Wack and his so-called business.
What did the letter say from the postmaster?
That he had been shut down in December of 1987.
In other words, this wasn't the first time he'd been caught doing this.
Right.
Now that the postal authorities suspect he was doing it again after he signed a consent decree two years ago that he wouldn't, John Wack could be in big trouble.
The legal department of the Postal Service is investigating and if his business is proven to be an illegal company, he can receive up to five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.
Ouch. What about people who participate in the venture like Melanie? Could she be prosecuted on this?
Well, technically anyone who participates in an illegal business can be prosecuted and receive the same punishment.
It's rare that that happens. Usually those people stop when the Postal Service issues an order to stop.
If you have any questions about work at home businesses, let us help check it out before you try it.
We're KSPR Call for Action, 831-7944 and we'll be happy to hear from you.
Okay, Sarah. See you again tomorrow.
Call before you spend that money.
No kidding or before you get yourself in trouble.
Right. Good advice.
Thank you, Sarah.
Still ahead on News Team 33, Tom Mast will be back in the studio with sports.
But up next, meteorologist Ron Hurst has our forecast.
Ron?
Well done, and Ralph, the jet stream is going to keep our weather a little warm and muggy for a while.
Stay tuned. I'll have the complete forecast ahead.
First of all, let's take a look at today's Ozark Lake levels.
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As we're finding out, the problem with living in Texas and Louisiana is that when hurricane season rolls around or tropical storm season, it gets rough.
Awfully wet over there, Ron.
Boy, I'll tell you what, they've got puddles and puddles and rivers and lakes and streams. They've got it all down there.
We're going to show you some pictures here in a second so gather around the TV set.
Let's take a look at the current conditions outside in Springfield. We have mostly sunny skies.
The temperature stands at 85 degrees, humidity at 55 percent.
Winds are currently out of the northeast at 12 miles an hour. The barometer this afternoon is steady.
And as far as rain in Springfield, nothing over the past 24 hours.
Here's a look at live color enhanced Doppler radar for you this afternoon.
Still some showers continuing from about Macomb down towards Van Sant.
Looks like some showers just to the west of Pomona and right around Salem down in Fulton County.
Other scattered showers are dotted around the lakes area as well as you can see here.
By the way, there's a little westward movement on these storms at about five miles an hour.
As we've alluded to, very heavy rains continue in Louisiana.
Some places have received more than a foot of rain. Here are some totals.
Lake Charles, Louisiana, almost seven inches of rain. Baton Rouge, we're going to update that for you now.
A little over nine inches of rain. And the capital, Alexander, about two and a half inches of rain.
So some very heavy weather. Let's go ahead and take a look at some pictures.
Here's what it looks like in Louisiana right now.
You can see some fairly heavy flooding problems across much of the south.
A lot of homes have had water damage. They've been sweeping it out and carrying it out in buckets.
Very tough to get around the state and it's going to continue off and on for the next 24 hours.
Satellite picture shows plenty of clouds too throughout the central plains.
And you can see just back into the Ozarks, we do have some frontal systems, but most of them are to the north.
And that's where it's going to stay over the next couple days.
By the way, here's what's left of Tropical Depression Allison.
And it's going to move west, so it's going to bring the rain with it.
86 degrees, the official high so far. 65 degrees on the morning low.
The jet stream continues to be on to the north. That's where all the warm weather is going to go.
And by Friday, while it's going to remain well to the north, high pressure is going to set up over the central plains.
Things are going to be very, very warm and muggy.
As you can see anywhere in the shaded area, it's going to be a hot one for the beginning of the holiday weekend.
Here's what the map looks like for tomorrow. Plenty of storms in the south.
High pressure controls our weather just afternoon and evening thunderstorms.
Let's get on with the forecast then for tonight. Partly cloudy skies.
We'll have some scattered storms. They'll be ending earlier.
Winds out of the east, a low temperature in the mid-60s.
In northwestern Arkansas, partly cloudy to variable clouds.
Winds will be out of the east at 5 to 10 miles an hour.
Look for some scattered storms as well as in Arkansas. Low temps are 65 to 67 degrees.
For tomorrow, we'll see some sunshine and a few clouds out there.
Don't forget about the afternoon, widely scattered thunderstorms there.
Winds will be out of the southeast at 8 to 15 miles an hour.
And daytime highs, once again, very warm, mid to upper 80s.
As we take a look at the next five days, here comes what we're going to turn the stove on.
That's what we're going to do. 90 by Saturday, 94 on Sunday.
Always a chance for a widely scattered afternoon and early evening thundershowers.
Okay, Ron. 94, we'll wait for it.
Pete Rose won again today in his legal maneuverings.
Tom Mast has an update next on News Team 33.
Rose may have won today, but is he really winning overall?
Details ahead.
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Tom, when it comes to the Pete Rose case, would you call this strike two for the commissioner?
They fouled one off. They got one left, I think.
Everybody, well Pete Rose is now batting two for two against baseball.
Sunday, he won in his bid to halt that meeting with Commissioner Bart Giamatti.
And today, again in his own ballpark more or less,
he won again as an Ohio appeals court rejected baseball's attempt
to nullify the temporary restraining order that Rose had obtained.
The appellate court said it had no legal standing in the matter
since the restraining order was not a judgment or a final order.
The next step for baseball, if they choose to take it,
would be now to go to the Ohio Supreme Court.
You know Pete Rose might be winning in the courts in this ongoing fight with baseball,
but he must certainly be losing with the fans.
Charles Thomas reports that the facts being revealed in that investigative report on Rose
cannot be helping his public image.
The 5,000 pages included copies of betting sheets, canceled checks,
and interviews with known gamblers and drug dealers,
associates of Pete Rose when he wasn't playing baseball.
To former bookmaker Ron Peters, Rose was a heavy gambler
who sometimes phoned to make big bets on baseball.
I'd give him all the teams and he would say,
yeah, give me the Reds for 2,000, give me the Mets for 1,500,
give me the Giants for 2,500 and so forth.
According to the commissioner's evidence, in 1987,
Pete Rose made 412 bets on baseball in three months,
and betting sheets reviewed by a gambling expert indicated Rose
bet nearly $600,000 on various sports in one 36-day period.
There was no evidence or testimony the Reds manager bet against his own team,
but his former friend Paul Jansen said Rose once said he might consider throwing a game
if his bet on it was large enough.
And Jansen testified Rose tried to get involved in the cocaine business,
an allegation attorneys for Rose called ridiculous.
After last night's game, the Reds manager declined to discuss
the newly revealed testimony and evidence and joked that he's reading it at a leisurely pace.
Okay, today is how I can read it. I looked at the pictures.
Charles Thomas, ABC News, Cincinnati.
Well, the Kansas City Royals have now dropped seven of their last ten
and three in a row, including that eight to nothing blanking by Seattle last night.
They still, however, remain just two and a half off the lead in the American League West,
and they are ten games over 500.
Tonight they're going to try to end the losing streak against the Mariners once again.
Mark Gubesaw takes the hill, opposing Gene Harris for Seattle.
The Cardinals now have their heads below the watermark.
That 4-2 loss to Philadelphia last night sent the Redbirds to 36 and 37 on the season.
They are now four and a half out in the East.
St. Louis hopes to snap the four-game losing streak tonight.
Joe McGrain faces off against Ken Howell for the Phillies.
A pair of day games in baseball this afternoon, both in the National League,
will go to the Astrodome down in Houston, where the Astros this afternoon
hosting the San Francisco Giants.
Bottom of the first, Billy Doren rips one past Will Clark at first.
Gerald Young thought of stopping at third, but when the ball rolled deep enough to the outfield,
he easily scored. It was one to nothing. Astros.
Glenn Davis, watch him reach up. I mean, that thing was out of the strike zone,
but his double goes off the wall and left, scores Doren.
It's two to nothing, the Astros in front.
Then Ken Kameneti will come up for the Astros, and he will just keep things going in the first.
This RBI shot to right makes it three to nothing. You get the picture.
The Astros handled the Giants today, won it seven to three.
On the baseball scoreboard, Pittsburgh victorious at Wrigley today.
They went over the Cubs three to one, and again the Houston final over the Giants seven to three.
They finally have their first big upset at Wimbledon, and it happened today on the men's side.
The men's number 10 seed, Jimmy Connors, will not play further.
Dan Goldie out of California upset Connors today, winning the first set seven-six.
Then losing five-seven, but coming back to take it six-four-six-two.
The men's top seed, Yvonne Lindell, was a four-set winner today over Ronnie Bachman of Sweden.
The men's 11th seed, Brad Gilbert, was an upset loser.
On the women's side today, top seed Steffi Graf, number seven, Arantia Sanchez,
number eight, Pam Schreiber, number 11, Monica Sales, and number 12, Mary Jo Fernandez, were all winners.
It took them all just two sets to advance.
So Jimmy comes home to Belleville, Illinois, and we'll watch it on TV.
He could go to Hugh Hefner's wedding with his claimant wife.
Yeah, he probably has an invitation.
Okay, thank you, Tom.
We'll have more of baseball fever just ahead on News Team 33.
We'll go to a Major League tryout and find out how close some local players came to playing for the Braves.
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Two Springfield men remain in court at this hour waiting to find out if they must stand
trial for murder.
They are Danny Ray Waller and John Joseph O'Connor facing their preliminary hearings
today and with that story we begin our News Team 33 updates for you.
The two men are charged with first degree murder in connection with the recent shooting
death of William Price, May 17th in Webster County.
Price's body was found near the Finley River in the southern part of the county.
His proceedings will determine if there's enough evidence for Waller and O'Connor to
go on trial.
A man who wants a trial, Johnny Lee Wilson, is still in that Jasper County Circuit Court
Room for a second day and he wants to clear his name with those court proceedings.
Wilson had pleaded guilty to killing Pauline Martz back in 1986 but he's testifying at
today's hearing that he wants to prove to everybody that he did not kill the Aurora
woman.
On the world scene, the best known of the student leaders of Beijing's pro-democracy
demonstrators has escaped the country despite a very intense manhunt.
In this tape, Wu Ruoxi is vowing to continue the struggle for democracy and predicts the
downfall of China's current leadership.
Most boys dream about becoming famous sports figures when they grow up.
But there are a few who do pursue their dreams of becoming professional baseball players.
Photographer Greg Harrison shows us what it's like to try out for the big leagues as he
takes us to Mickey Owens Baseball Camp for the Braves Triumph.
A lot of people want to become baseball players.
Everyone's dreaming of being a baseball player so we're out here trying to see if we get
a shot.
Hopefully I'll get my chance today.
Okay, we're lined up.
All right, bring them on.
Let's see them are.
Go.
Good one now.
You got a race here.
You got a race.
Well, we're looking primarily for what makes champions and that's the guy who can run and
throw.
We're going to put radar guns on everybody and we're going to tell them when the day's
done what the average major leaguer throws at their position, what the average major
leaguer runs, and we're going to give them their numbers, what they threw on the radar
gun, what their running speeds were and so forth.
All right, three fastballs to start.
When they go home, they'll know where they are in relation to what the average major
leaguer will do at their position.
I think that even more than a scout's judgment means that those numbers mean more to that
player than what I tell them.
You know, baseball is more than just a sport in America.
It's a part of our way of life and everybody wants to be a major leaguer because in the
last hundred years that's all kids dream about is to be a major leaguer.
That's the American dream.
Hope a few of their dreams come true anyway.
You watch these movies that are out, Field of Dreams and all that and every guy, I mean
I would love to be a major league baseball player.
I could have gone to that, but I can't play baseball.
I do this instead.
Well, one quick reminder that news and weather updates are as close as your telephone.
We have teamed up with ByRide directories to give you the information you need no matter
what time of day or night.
Just dial 882-4488, key in one for news updates and key in two for Ron Hirsch's forecast.
Well thank you so much for joining us on this Wednesday.
I'm Donna Klein.
And I'm Ralph Hipp.
Hope you'll come back and join us for News Night at 10 o'clock.
And in the meantime, stay tuned to KSPR Springfield.
Coming up next is World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Bye for now.