Conservation of the Dred Scott Papers - Released from Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan

Conservation of the Dred Scott Papers Dred Scott petitioned the St. Louis Circuit Court for his freedom in April 1846. Although he briefly won freedom on the basis of his former residence in Illinois and Wisconsin territory, appeals to the Missouri Supreme Court by his owner Irene Emerson returned him to slavery in 1852. His advocates refused to accept the decision as final. In 1854, a new freedom suit was filed in the United States Circuit Court in St. Louis, but a federal jury upheld the Missouri ruling. Dred Scott appealed that decision to the United States Supreme Court. By now the case had moved from being a routine freedom suit to a case of enormous importance because of the national debate over the fate of slavery in the western territories acquired from Mexico. On March 6, 1857, after eleven years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court denied Dred Scott his freedom, claiming that neither free blacks nor slaves had rights in the United States and Congress had no right to prevent the spread of slavery. The inflammatory pro-slavery decision proved one of the most controversial ever made by the United States Supreme Court. The Dred Scott case had brought the country to the brink of civil war In November 1999, at the request of the St. Louis Circuit Court, the documents from the original 1846 case were brought to the Office of the Secretary of State for conservation treatment. The Archives Division has the state's only publicly-funded conservation laboratory, which treats the most significant documents from the State Archives and other government offices in Missouri. The following pages describe the conservation treatment of the Dred Scott papers. After treatment, the papers were returned to the St. Louis Circuit Court. All the documents in the case have been digitized by Washington University and are available at http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/   Most of the documents had been treated before, probably in the 1930s under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Sheets of thin tissue had been adhered to both sides of the documents, with thicker paper patches applied to areas of weakness and loss. The adhesive used was probably a starch paste, and proved to be soluble in water. In addition, most of the documents had paper labels with identifying information applied over the tissue.      The majority of them were in relatively good condition. A few were ragged and badly torn, but most of them just had a few edge tears, primarily in the areas where they had been previously folded. The fact that almost all of the tears in the documents were under the tissue suggests that the documents suffered very little damage after the WPA had treated them.   After careful examination, testing and assessment of the different treatment options, the conservators decided that the labels, tissue and paper reinforcements should be removed. Although the tissue was very thin, it did make the documents more difficult to read. Removing the tissue would both improve the legibility of the documents and allow us to perform some other treatments that would be beneficial. This photo shows a document from which the tissue has been removed. We've laid the tissue back over part of the document to show the contrast.   Surface cleaning is often one of the first steps in paper conservation, especially if the treatment will involve water. This is because loose dirt, which can often be easily removed before the document gets wet, can work its way into paper fibers to become difficult or even impossible to remove afterwards. We used vinyl erasers to reduce the surface dirt on the documents that had not had tissue applied to them. To remove the tissue, we placed each document between sheets of spun polyester for support and immersed it in a bath of deionized water and calcium hydroxide. The calcium hydroxide was added to the water to raise the pH of the bath to a mildly alkaline level. This was done only after careful testing of all inks to make certain they were insoluble in water. When the adhesive had softened, we removed the documents from the bath and carefully removed the tissue, paper patches and identification labels. The residual adhesive was reduced with damp cotton balls.   After the tissue and adhesive were removed from both sides, we placed the documents in a fresh bath for about an hour, with periodic water changes during that time. This bath helped to remove some of the soluble acids from the paper, which would help prolong the life of the documents. After washing the documents, we lightly pressed them by hand between pieces of clean, dry blotter to remove some of the water. We then laid the documents between layers of wool felts, placing sheets of spun polyester between the felts and the document to prevent the paper from sticking to the felts as it dried. A light piece of Plexiglass on top kept the materials flat as they dried overnight.   To mend the tears and losses, we used Japanese tissue adhered with wheat starch paste. Narrow strips of light tissue were used for the tears. Where there were holes or losses in the document, we tore a heavier piece of Japanese paper to fit the size and shape needed, then pasted it out and applied it to the area around the loss.   We applied the new mends to the back of the documents, so they would be as inconspicuous as possible. After the mends were dry, the next step was to humidify and flatten the documents. The documents were placed on a piece of Goretex™ , which is a very dense material that will only let water pass through it as a vapor. Under the Goretex™ was a damp blotter to provide the moisture, and on top was a sheet of polyester film to hold the moisture in. Water vapor moves through the Goretex™ to the document, gently relaxing paper fibers. After the documents had relaxed, they were positioned between sheets of spun polyester and dry blotters and placed in a press overnight.ed The last step in the treatment was to encapsulate each document. This is a process in which a piece of thin polyester film is placed on each side of a document, then the two pieces are sealed together outside the edges of the document. Encapsulation provides physical support during handling and gives some protection from dirt and air pollutants. Unlike lamination, however, this procedure is completely reversible, since the pieces of polyester film are only sealed to each other - not adhered to the document.   The treatment of the Dred Scott  documents took approximately two months to complete, after which they were returned to the St. Louis Circuit Clerk's Office. Digital copies of the documents can be viewed at the Washington University website at http://library.wustl.edu/vlib/dredscott/.  For further information on conservation and preservation, call (573) 526-3866. -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com

Journalists & Bloggers: Mutual Incomprehension by Tracy Thompson, June 13, 2008

Published: Commitee of Concerned Journalists http://www.concernedjournalists.org/commentary_and_research/talking_journalism CCJ Traveling Curriculum [1] trainer and contributing writer Tracy Thompson [2] is a former Washington Post and Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter and the author of two books:  The Beast: A Journey Through Depression [3] and The Ghost in the House: Motherhood, Raising Children, and Struggling with Depression [4]. She blogs regularly here [5]. On my first day of my first job as a newspaper reporter, at a small weekly newspaper in suburban Atlanta, I showed up for work and was given an assignment to go interview somebody. I got in my car and drove away, and as I did so I was struck by a momentous insight: I was now a journalist. It was magical. Only 24 hours before, I'd been an unemployed English major; now I was suddenly a bona-fide seeker of truth, defender of the First Amendment and exposer of wrongdoing. Who knew it was so easy? Actually, as I soon found out, it was a little more complicated than that – but these days, the blogging universe seems to be full of people having similarly magical transformations. One minute they're blogging; the next minute they're slapping their foreheads like the guy who coulda had a V-8: "Hey!" they exclaim. "I am a journalist!" As a professional journalist myself (meaning … what? "A person who regularly gets paid by media organizations for converting observations into words" is the best definition I can come up with), I agree wholeheartedly that blogging can be journalism. In fact, it can be first-rate, ahead-of-the-pack journalism; some of the best journalism we've seen in recent years has come from bloggers. But defining where blogging becomes journalism is tricky, as two examples from the past month show. Heather Armstrong is a Salt Lake City Web designer and mother who is known to millions of women around the world as Dooce [6] – which is the title of the blog she and her husband, Jon, have published since 2001. Armstrong has become the goddess of mommybloggers; her profane, occasionally moving and often caustically funny observations about life as the mother of a 4-year-old daughter have won her a devoted following. She's also earned a minor place in history as the inadvertent creator of a new word in the English language: When she was fired six years ago from her job at a Los Angeles-based Web design firm for posting some, shall we say, irreverent comments about her co-workers, "dooced" instantly became the new term for "getting canned for blogging about the office." (Her advice to bloggers still drawing a paycheck: "Be ye not so stupid" – but for anybody who wants to go out in a blaze of glory, I recommend "The Proper Way to Hate A Job," posted on Dooce shortly before Armstrong's former boss invited her to tour the company's Executive Departure Lounge.) "Mommyblogger," you would think, is the antithesis of "journalist." As labels go, it is patronizing and dismissive – an indirect reflection, in my view, of the fact that in this culture, the tough work of raising children gets lots of lip service but very little actual respect. When "The Today Show" did a segment on mommybloggers on May 13, co-anchor Hoda Kotb made little air quotes as she said the word, as if to telegraph, "Isn't that cute?"  Also read Tracy Thompson on the nature of blogging at Jay Rosen's PressThink [7]. Armstrong is articulate and Web-savvy, and the subject of mommyblogging – while it's not the "new" phenomenon "The Today Show" breathlessly made it out to be – is a fascinating example of what happens when technology intersects with the genetically encoded female need to network. There's a business angle too: Mommyblogging promises to become a hugely profitable venue for connecting advertisers with consumers. But Armstrong could hardly get a word in edgewise, thanks to the steady stream of inane questions from Kotb and Gifford, who seemed to be having trouble wrapping their minds around the whole "blogging" concept. "Why do you want it all out there?" [8] "Is it all moms out there in your blogosphere?" "Are you concerned that it will live on forever?" From the look on her face, Armstrong seemed to be trying to decide if she was being made the victim of some kind of nationally televised practical joke, or if Kotb and Gifford were refugees from "The Lawrence Welk Show." By conventional standards, the two pieces of highly priced NBC talent were the journalists on the set that day – well, okay, Kotb was; Gifford is an entertainer – but in my book Armstrong holds the stronger claim to the label. Dooce has a distinctive voice and irreverent wit; it's also, thanks to Armstrong's design background, a good place to keep abreast of the latest thing in what's cheap and cool, from water bottles to sticky notes. As William Safire once said, "The house of journalism has many rooms," and I would classify Armstrong as a lifestyle columnist. Dooce is not a place you'd go to learn about global warming or the latest crisis in the Mideast, but nobody ever said we all had to be Seymour Hersh. As for Kotb and Gifford – well, the No. 1 job of a journalist is to find news. The mere existence of mommyblogs is not news, and whatever interesting insights anyone might have had on this phenomenon never saw the light of day, thanks to Kotb's and Gifford's weird unfamiliarity with the subject. Gifford even announced that she didn't like computers. As Armstrong later commented, "Probably not a good idea to have someone afraid of computers interviewing someone about their job using computers." Yeah. I'd say so. Example No. 2 came on May 18, when BlogHer [9], a Web site devoted to blogs written by women, scored a coup by snagging an interview with Barack Obama [10]. The interview was conducted by Erin Kotecki Vest, a former Los Angeles radio station reporter, who managed to get a whole 10 minutes of camera time with the candidate. The interview generated a ton of rave reviews from loyal BlogHer readers and contributors, and when I talked to Kotecki Vest later, she told me that she was "very pleased with the outcome." And to an extent, it was an achievement just for a blogger to have gotten her foot in the door. Mainstream political reporters don't give bloggers a lot of respect. Kotecki Vest said that she sometimes has to borrow a press pass from a friendly credentialed reporter to get into news conferences, and at first BlogHer's request for an interview from Obama and McCain were countered by offers to make the candidates' wives available, perhaps on the erroneous assumption that the ladies would enjoy an old-fashioned recipe swap. "We had to do some education," Kotecki Vest said. (McCain has since agreed to an interview, she added; the Clinton campaign has not.) Still, the interview itself left me distinctly underwhelmed. It consisted of Kotecki-Vest reading a list of prepared questions submitted by members of the BlogHer community – a textbook example of why interview questions should never be entrusted to a committee. They ranged from the Softball Lob ("What are you going to do to help soldiers in need?") to the nonsensical ("Will you work to end the Iraq war before the election, and if so, how?" – as if that were not a logistical and political impossibility). There were no follow-ups. There was nothing even remotely capable of eliciting a word from the candidate that was not already on the campaign Web site or engraved in boilerplate campaign rhetoric. Kotecki Vest's girlish giggle and body language, moreover, telegraphed that this encounter was what political operatives would call "low threat." And Obama knew it  because he was clearly phoning it in. He never even bothered to sit up straight. Afterward, Kotecki Vest offered her reaction to the interview on her personal blog, QueenofSpain: "Inside the car we shut the doors, turned to look at each-other, and screamed our ever-loving heads off like teenagers. … I love that after I interviewed the man who very well could make history I could tell you this story, and scream and cry. Years ago I could never have done that." "Years ago," it turns out, referred to Kotecki Vest's former identity as a radio reporter, a job she gave up when she had her first child five years ago. So, I asked her, did you conduct the Obama interview as a journalist or as a blogger? The latter, she answered – but on her blog she referred to what she was doing as "citizen journalism." In her former life, Kotecki Vest told me, her idea of a journalist was a person who reported the news, without bias. Today, she said, citizen journalism "is about throwing off old traditional journalist chains and being able to say all the things you could never in a million years say before. It's very freeing." But that's not a function of new media versus old media, is it? I asked. I mean, newspapers have always had columnists; surely journalism with a dose of opinion is not a ground-breaking concept. "That, to me, was never journalism," she replied. Op-ed writing and columns? "It was not reporting. It was not being unbiased reporter. That was never an option even when I was a traditional journalist… I was always more of the school of thought that once your opinion entered in it, you were done." That's going to come as a shock to the Pulitzer folks, who award a prize each year for a category called "commentary" to people who certainly think of themselves as journalists – but aside from that, it betrays a basic failure to understand that "unbiased" is not synonymous with "neutral." And while there are certainly a slew of irresponsible columnists out there, I never knew of a first-rate columnist who didn't do as much reporting as a "regular" reporter, if not more. Opinion journalism does not confer a free pass to cherrypick facts and bloviate at will; it's a form of persuasive writing that, to be truly effective, owes its ultimate devotion to the facts, especially the inconvenient ones. If what I saw in the BlogHer interview is "citizen journalism," then this term is an oxymoron. As a veteran journalist I know once said, anybody can be a journalist, but not everybody is one. A journalist would have prepared for an interview with a presidential candidate by doing a whole lot of reading – days of it, maybe weeks of it. She would not have limited herself to a list of questions created by a committee months earlier, a formula that practically guarantees you won't break any news. Most importantly, she would not, as Kotecki Vest did, endorse the candidate she was interviewing before the interview (or react like a teenybopper with her first crush). I'm all for transparency in political reporting in terms of revealing the influences that shape one's view of the world and the issues that matter most to you, but there's no way you can pledge your support to a specific candidate and cover that person at the same time. Some things in life come down to either-or, and this is one: Either the reader comes first, or the candidate. Period. The line where blogging and journalism meet is interesting and unmapped terrain, and those who traverse it are going where no man (or woman) has ever gone before. This is a useful metaphor because history tells us that explorers tend to get into trouble when they think they know more than they do, or when they stop learning anything new. When professional journalists get all weirded out by this Internet thing-y called a "blog," and when bloggers anoint themselves as journalists without even a rudimentary grasp of what it is journalists do all day, the resulting mutual incomprehension can be a rich subject for comedy. But the ultimate result is sad: an increasingly misinformed and hyper-partisan public. -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com

Steelman makes a campign funding run at Hulshof - by Kit Wager

Steelman makes a campaign funding run at Hulshof Published Kansas City Star 7/29/08 With less than a week until the primary, Kenny Hulshof has dominated fundraising among Republican candidates for governor. But Sarah Steelman more than matched him during July by lending her campaign an additional $200,000. Hulshof, the six-term congressman from Columbia, reported taking in $241,013 since June 30, bringing his total to $2.6 million. He reported spending $961,869 as the campaign heated up, leaving him with $426,772 on hand. Steelman, the state treasurer, reported taking in $130,202, which she supplemented with the $200,000 loan. That brought her total fundraising to $1.57 million plus $700,000 in personal loans. That allowed her to spend $538,563 in July and still have $503,318 on hand. Democratic candidate Jay Nixon, the attorney general who faces only token opposition, saw his fundraising slow to $92,344. But Nixon, who ran a 60-second television ad recounting his boyhood in the Jefferson County town of De Soto, spent $953,190 in July. It left him with $2.89 million on hand. In other races, Democrat Sam Page's campaign for lieutenant governor reported raising nearly three times as much as Republican incumbent Peter Kinder. Page raised $116,134 compared with $41,681 for Kinder. But Page, a state representative from St. Louis County, also spent almost twice as much — $152,941 — compared with $80,878 for Kinder, who maintained a small lead in cash on hand. In the hotly contested Democratic race for attorney general, state Sen. Chris Koster of Harrisonville raised $56,904 plus in-kind donations of $61,050. He reported spending $903,975. State Rep. Jeff Harris of Columbia reported raising $110,884 and spending $289,667. Rep. Margaret Donnelly of St. Louis County reported raising $69,001 and spending $529,276. Donnelly has lent her campaign $200,000. | Kit Wagar, kwagar@kcstar.com -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com

Liverpool Legends are in Branson to stay - Tri-Lakes Tribune

The Liverpool Legends are in Branson to stay July 23, 2008 Remember…they used to look like this! The Liverpool Legends are not only sound alikes to the Beatles, but also look very close to the real thing. From left to right are Greg George as Ringo Starr, Davey Justice as Paul McCartney, Marty Scott as George Harrison and Kevin Mantegna as John Lennon. The Starlite Theatre now belongs to four of the most familiar looking and sounding lads. The talented Liverpool Legends with their tribute to the Beatles, along with their additional accompanist, Bob Dobro, and their manager Louise Harrison (last name sound familiar?) are in Branson for the long run. The Liverpool Legends have been taking the strip by storm the last couple years winning the Branson Critics Award for Best Show and Best Band for 2006 and 2007. Their show is great, the guys are great, you can buy all kinds of Beatles and Liverpool Legends souvenirs in the theater lobby, and soon (hopefully spring of 2009 or even sooner,) the four, along with Louise, who is George Harrison's sister, will have established a new Beatles Museum for all to enjoy. Louise is even donating many personal items from her collection of Beatles memorabilia to help out in the effort. For years after the Beatles broke up, the whole world wished they would patch up their differences and get back together. However, after the slaying of John Lennon and the illness and death of George Harrison, everyone knew that was never going to happen. In Branson, however, the town of great music and great celebrity tributes, the Liverpool Legends are providing the spark that makes fifty and sixty somethings feel 17-years-old again, and brings audiences of all ages the pure essence which was "The Beatles." Liverpool Legends is comprised of four extremely loveable and talented impersonators who bring the Beatles back to life – at least it feels that way. Harrison's first pick when originating the Liverpool Legends, was to find someone who she felt comfortable with in the position of her brother George. When she saw Marty Scott and heard him play George's amazing guitar solos, she was sold. Marty has become a great friend and almost kin to her throughout their relationship with the band. In fact, a while back she introduced him to Sir Paul as her "new adopted baby brother!" Marty played George with the group American English, where Louise heard him play, an experience that brought her to tears with reflection of her little brother, George. Another previous member of American English and a great friend of Scott is Kevin Mantegna. He just happens to be the spitting image of John Lennon – not just in the way he looks, but also the clowning around, the voice, and his slight irreverence in his playful actions on stage. He plays his classic short scale Rickenbacker guitar, the piano and even the alarm clock during the show, and audiences are mesmerized at the resemblance to the slain Beatle. During a meeting where Harrison introduced Mantegna to Sir Paul McCartney, Paul even declared "Hey, that's You! I could spot John out anywhere! You make a great John!" Scott and Mantegna have been playing in bands together since they were young. When talking about Beatles music, he says "Good music is what makes you get well." Singing the famous Paul and John duets are left to right Davey Justice and Kevin Mantegna from the Liverpool Legends Tribute Band. They also play similar authentic instruments to make the experience one to remember. Playing Paul is Davey Justice, who has gained worldwide respect with his portrayal of the living legend. Justice has performed on five continents, solo and with many famous artists, such as the Grass Roots, Lovin' Spoonful, Spencer Davis, Andy Kim, America, Gary Lewis, The Buckinghams, Otis Day, Sha Na Na, Chicago, Peter Noone, The Moody Blues, Billy Idol, Sting, and Pete Best. Before joining the Liverpool Legends, he performed with the Beatles groups Yesterday and British Export (originally British Import.) He also performed with Legends in Concert in Las Vegas. Rounding out the Liverpool Legends is Greg George as Ringo (Richard Starky.) Again, George is a dead ringer of his character, from the drumming style right down to the nose! No wonder he is known as the Ringo impersonator most in demand in the world. This is his third year with the band, and was a founding member of "1964 The Tribute" where his thousands of performances with that venue, even included several at Carnegie Hall. He also played his counterpart in a film Hard Day's Day. George has been making a living playing the drums since he was 12 years-old; has played with all types of bands over the years; and has been the warm-up act for many national acts such as Simon and Garfunkel, Peter and Gordon, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Real McCoys, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Vogues, and Sam The Sham and The Pharoahs. Between that, Gregg also found time to earn a B.A. degree in psychology. The show reflects several stages in the Beatles musical lives, all extremely well done, and all fun to share and remember.  They do a variety of songs from many of the albums, but since the show can't go on all night (even though the audience would like that to happen,) they may not play your absolute favorite. The best part is that they enjoy each other and interacting with each other. It is obvious in their enthusiasm during the show. They are musicians and they are actors. When asked if it is difficult to separate themselves from the parts they play, Scott explained that they are not delusional enough to think that they are really the Beatles. They get into their characters for the show, but leave that persona at the theater. None of them would reveal their ages, but Scott explained that as their characters, "they begin the show in their twenties and end in their thirties." When the members of a tribute band love the music they are performing, the tribute reflects that affection. Thus is the case with the wonderful Liverpool Legends. -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com

Branson accepts $1 bid and rejects $100,000 bid for Forsythe Street by Gary Groman

Branson accepts $1 bid and rejects $100,000 bid for Forsythe Street by Gary Groman published: Jul 27, 2008 Nine months after it tore up the road commonly called "Forsythe Street," TanStone Group, LLC appears to have purchased it, from the city of Branson for one dollar even though there was another bid offering $100 thousand for the same property. On or about July 3 the city of Branson published a notice "soliciting sealed proposals for the sale of real property commonly known as 'Forsythe Street.'" The property being sold was the property upon which Forsythe Street had been formerly located prior to its destruction by TanStone. A primary condition of the solicitation provided, "The best responsible bidder shall include as part of its proposal title in a form acceptable to the City for an alternate street right-of-way that provides equal or better street connectivity in the Branson street network in that area of the city (the 'Alternate Alignment'.)" Only two bids were received by the required 2:00 p.m. deadline on Tuesday, July 15, one from The TanStone Group LLC and the other from Patobin Enterprises. The TanStone proposal, in total said, "Mr. Miller, Per your request for proposal for the sale of the 'Forsythe Street' property, TanStone Group, LLC would like to submit a bid of one dollar ($1.00). As per the terms and conditions of sale, please find the attached right away exhibit that provides a better 'Alternate Alignment'. Kind regards, Chris DeJohn, The TanStone Group, LLC." The Patobin proposal proposed a purchase price of $100,000 and provided an "Alternate Alignment" starting at the junction of Green Mountain Drive and heading north along a 50 foot easement of Patobin property across a 40 foot access easement that Patobin has from TanStone to an intersection with Oak Creek Drive. From that point connectivity to Roark Valley Road, to the north, would be via Oak Creek Drive east to its junction with Forsyth Street. The Patobin proposal said, "This will allow an alternate street right-of-way-that provides better street connectivity in the Branson street network in that area of the city. Alignment with Green Mountain Drive will allow the placement of traffic signals on Highway 76 as had been the desired configuration previously announced by the city. The Alternate Alignment will also ensure access from the remaining property owned by Patobin Enterprises." In introducing the proposal at the July 22 work session meeting of the Branson Board of Aldermen, City Engineer David Miller said that the main provision was "The responsible bidder shall submit a title to the city for an alternate street right of way that provides equal or better street connectivity in the city's overall street system. So, in effect, we wanted an alternate road. We didn't say anything about price or anything. That was a term or condition of sale; a new road." Miller went on to point out that they had received two proposals. He said, "One from TanStone Group for the new road that they are building" and a second proposing a road along the west side of the waterslide property. Miller went on to say the problem with the second proposal was, "It went down and would tie into Oak Creek Drive which does not exist, so technically it did not meet the terms and conditions because there is no through road to tie into because TanStone hasn't given us that right of way." Miller said the bid also included a $100,000 but the bid did not ask for money, staff considered the bid unqualified and recommended the TanStone proposal. In a telephone interview on July 25, Stephen Bradford, the attorney for Patobin Enterprises, Inc. disagreed with the determination that the bid was unqualified and said, "I believe that the bid met all the requirements of city's solicitation." The Board of Aldermen is scheduled to take formal action on accepting the TanStone proposal at its next meeting at 7:00 p.m. July 28. -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com

Branson Arrests 7/18 - 2-24 2008

Branson Police Department                                     110 W Maddux, Branson, MO 65616                                       Arrest Summary Report                                       07/18/2008 - 07/24/2008                                       Inmate Name / Inmate No.           City, State       Race   Sex   Age           Arrest Date   Released Date                                     MCNEALY, DELORES J  - 19270         TANEY COUNTY    W   F     31                           SHERIFF                               07/20/2008   07/21/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       STEAL ALL OTHER/CURRENCY(O/200) (F C)                         0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 DENHAM, LEAH NICOLE  - 19272         BRANSON POLICE   W   F     25           07/18/2008   07/18/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       POSSESSION OF DRUG PARAPHERNALIA (O)               CASH OR SURETY 500.00                                           Bond Total    500.00 GLISSON, JOSEPH LAMAR  - 19273       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   52           07/18/2008   07/18/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE SUSPENDED (O)                     SIGNATURE     0.00       LEAVING THE SCENE OF AN ACCIDENT (O)               SIGNATURE     0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 GRASSESCHI, CAROLINE SUE  - 19274       BRANSON POLICE   W   F     43           07/18/2008   07/18/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 500.00       FAILED TO DRIVE ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD (O)             CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    550.00 OSBORN, NELSON ETHAN  - 19275       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   31           07/18/2008   07/19/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       CARELESS & IMPRUDENT DRIVING (O)                 CASH OR SURETY 50.00       DRIVING WHILE REVOKED (O)                       CASH OR SURETY 300.00                                           Bond Total    350.00 AMMON, NANCY MARIE  - 19276         BRANSON POLICE   W   M   49           07/19/2008   07/19/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.                                                                         Page 1 of 6                                                                       Inmate Name / Inmate No.           City, State       Race   Sex   Age           Arrest Date   Released Date                                           STEAL ALL OTHER/MISC(O/200) (F C)                           0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 COREY, THOMAS LEE  - 19277           BRANSON POLICE   W   M   25           07/20/2008   07/20/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 500.00       FAILED TO DRIVE ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD (O)             CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    550.00 GONZALEZ-DURAN, JOSE MANUEL  - 19278       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   40           07/20/2008   07/22/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DEFECTIVE EQUIP - TAILIGHTS (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 50.00       DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 500.00       FAILED TO DRIVE ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD (O)             CASH OR SURETY 50.00       FAILED TO SHOW PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESP (O)           CASH OR SURETY 50.00       LIC -  NO VALID DRIVERS LICENSE (O)                 CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    700.00 BORDEWICK, RAMONA LYNN  - 19279       BRANSON POLICE   W   F     46           07/20/2008   07/20/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 500.00       FAILED TO DRIVE ON RIGHT SIDE OF ROAD (O)             CASH OR SURETY 50.00       SPEEDING (O)                         CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    600.00 STATEN, BRANDY NICOLE  - 19280       BRANSON POLICE    W   F     27                           DEPARTMENT                           07/20/2008   07/21/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       UNLAWFUL USE OF WEAPON (F D)                             0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 MCNEALY, BRADLEY TROY  - 19281       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   36           07/20/2008   07/22/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRUGS MARIJ/POSS 35 GRAMS OR LESS (M A)               NONE       0.00       DRUGS PARAPHERNALIA/POSSESS (M A)               NONE       0.00       STEAL ALL OTHER/MISC(O/200) (F C)                 CASH OR SURETY 10000.00                                                                         Page 2 of 6                                                                       Inmate Name / Inmate No.           City, State       Race   Sex   Age           Arrest Date   Released Date                                                                               Bond Total    10000.00 SCHODROWSKI, STEVEN ALLEN  - 19282       TANEY COUNTY    W   M   36                           SHERIFF                               07/21/2008   07/22/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       VIOLATION EX PARTE/FULL ORDER OF PROTECTION (M A)                 0.00       WARRANT / FELONY                                   0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 DROUILLARD, LENNY ODALE  - 19283       BRANSON POLICE    W   M   45                           DEPARTMENT                           07/21/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       100.00       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       100.00       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       300.00       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       100.00                                           Bond Total    600.00 ZEILMAN, JOSEPH SCOTT  - 19284       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   37           07/21/2008   07/21/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       WARRANT / MISDEMEANOR                       CASH OR SURETY 100.00                                           Bond Total    100.00 MUNGER, LYMAN BRADFORD  - 19288       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   37           07/21/2008   07/21/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE REVOKED (M)                                 0.00       WARRANT / FELONY                         CASH OR SURETY 20000.00                                           Bond Total    20000.00 HEDGLIN, ROBERT J.  - 19289           BRANSON POLICE   W   M   22           07/22/2008   07/22/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE REVOKED (O)                                 0.00       FAILED TO SHOW PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESP (O)                     0.00       WARRANT / FELONY                         CASH OR SURETY 5000.00                                           Bond Total    5000.00                                                                                                                                                                             Page 3 of 6                                                                       Inmate Name / Inmate No.           City, State       Race   Sex   Age           Arrest Date   Released Date                                     CARTER, JIMMY DOUGLAS  - 19290       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   42           07/22/2008   07/22/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE SUSPENDED (M)                     NONE       0.00       DRUGS/PARAPHERNALIA/POSSESS/SELL/DELV (F D)           NONE       0.00       UNLAWFUL USE OF WEAPON (F D)                   NONE       0.00       WARRANT / MISDEMEANOR                       CASH       200.00                                           Bond Total    200.00 SALEM, JESSICA DALE  - 19292         BRANSON POLICE   W   F     21           07/22/2008   07/22/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 500.00       DRIVING WHILE SUSPENDED (O)                     CASH OR SURETY 300.00       FAILED TO SHOW PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESP (O)           CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    850.00 EMMERSON BENTON, AMANDA DAWN  - 19294     BRANSON POLICE   W   F     21           07/22/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       FORGERY (F C)                         CASH OR SURETY 0.00       FRD (M) USE OF CREDIT DEVICE                     CASH OR SURETY 0.00       STEAL FROM MV/CLOTHING(O/200) (F C)               CASH OR SURETY 0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 AGUILAR, LUIS BERNARDO  - 19295       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   43           07/22/2008   07/25/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       FOLLOWED MOTOR VEHICLE MORE CLOSELY THAN SAFE (O)       CASH OR SURETY 50.00       IMMIGRATION VIOLATION/HOLD FOR I.C.E.                         0.00       LIC -  NO VALID DRIVERS LICENSE (O)                 CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    100.00 DAY, ZACHARY L  - 19296           BRANSON POLICE   W   M   23           07/22/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       500.00                                           Bond Total    500.00                                                                                                                                                                             Page 4 of 6                                                                       Inmate Name / Inmate No.           City, State       Race   Sex   Age           Arrest Date   Released Date                                     MARTINEZ, MICHAEL ANTHONY  - 19297       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   50           07/22/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       VIOLATION EX PARTE/FULL ORDER OF PROTECTION (M A)       NONE       0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 COOKE, ROBERT MCGREGOR  - 19298       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   50           07/22/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (O)                   CASH       500.00                                           Bond Total    500.00 HORNE, FELIX EDWARD  - 19299         BRANSON POLICE   W   M   45           07/23/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       CONTEMPT OF COURT (O)                                   0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 DALTON, KIMBERLY ANN  - 19300       TANEY COUNTY    W   F     40                           SHERIFF                               07/23/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       WARRANT / FELONY                         CASH OR SURETY 5000.00       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       200.00       WARRANT/MISDEMEANOR(BRANSON MUNICIPAL)           CASH       200.00                                           Bond Total    5400.00 MINTJAL, JEFFREY LYNN  - 19301       BRANSON POLICE   W   M   55           07/23/2008   07/23/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE INTOX/DRUGS (O)                   CASH OR SURETY 500.00       LIC -  NO VALID DRIVERS LICENSE (O)                 CASH OR SURETY 50.00                                           Bond Total    550.00 SIMPSON, JEREMY D  - 19302           STONE COUNTY SHERIFF W   M   22           07/23/2008   07/24/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DIST/DEL/MANUF/PRO-CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE (F B)                   0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00                                                                                                                                                                             Page 5 of 6                                                                       Inmate Name / Inmate No.           City, State       Race   Sex   Age           Arrest Date   Released Date                                     SKAGGS, JOSHUA ERIN  - 19303         BRANSON POLICE   W   M   21           07/24/2008   07/24/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       DRIVING WHILE REVOKED (O)                       SIGNATURE     0.00       FAILED TO REGISTER ANNUALLY (O)                 SIGNATURE     0.00       FAILED TO SHOW PROOF OF FINANCIAL RESP (O)           SIGNATURE     0.00       FAILED TO USE SAFETY BELT (O)                   SIGNATURE     0.00                                           Bond Total    0.00 BELOSTECINIC, VASILE  - 19304         BRANSON POLICE   W   M   20           07/24/2008   07/24/2008                                           Charges                             Bond Type     Bond Amt.       STEAL FROM BUILDING/ELECTRONIC(50/199) (O)           CASH OR SURETY 300.00                                           Bond Total    300.00 -- http://www.bransonedge.com http://www.bransonmissouri.blogspot.com