Book cover exhibit to make stop at KU

A traveling exhibit of award-winning book designs will make a stop at Kansas University this month.

The winners of the 2003 Association of American University Press Book, Jacket and Journal Show will be on display from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, Feb. 23 through March 8, at the University Press of Kansas, 2501 W. 15th St.

The exhibit features 43 books, 30 jackets and covers, and one journal.

The show was established in 1964 to recognize achievement in book design and to share ideas for “intelligent, creative and resourceful bookmaking.”

Memorial

Group seeks donations for statue honoring CCC

Alumni of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a 1933 plan to help unemployed youths while saving the country’s natural resources, hope to place statues honoring the program in every state in the union.

The proposed statue in Kansas would be placed at the entrance of Marion County Park and Lake in Marion. The park’s dam, parapet, roadways and ball diamond were built by Corps 4755, consisting of black veterans of World War I and the Spanish-American War.

The statue will be a life-sized bronze worker sculpted by Sergey Kazaryam, a studio artist for Elliot Gantz And Co. Inc. in Farmingdale, N.Y.

The group needs to raise $20,000 to make and install the statue. Mail donations to CCC Statue Project, Central National Bank, Marion 66861. Those who donate $500 or more will be honored on a plaque at the base of the statue.

Kansas City, Kan.

Church member gets probation for abuse

A member of a storefront church has been sentenced to two years probation for her role in gagging the church leader’s children and restraining them with extension cords and belts as punishment.

One of the children, 9-year-old Brian Edgar, died when he was bound like a mummy in duct tape, prosecutors said. His parents and a baby sitter were convicted of murder.

Wyandotte County District Judge Thomas L. Boeding granted Barbara Clark of Kansas City, Kan., probation Friday after handing her two concurrent one-year sentences.

Clark was one of five members of God’s Creation Outreach Ministry in Kansas City, Kan., who pleaded no contest last year to reduced charges of attempted child abuse. The other women already were sentenced to probation.

St. Joseph, Mo.

Former police officer sentenced to prison

A former St. Joseph, Mo., police officer has been sentenced to eight years in prison on drug charges.

Doyle L. Rucker Sr., 59, changed his plea to guilty in Buchanan County Circuit Court. He had previously pleaded not guilty to delivery of a controlled substance, crack cocaine.

Rucker was a policeman for the St. Joseph Police Department for 17 years.

He was acquitted in 1990 of selling cocaine. He denied the allegation but resigned from the department.

Rucker admitted to Judge Patrick Robb that he delivered crack cocaine to a confidential informant on Aug. 1, 2002. He said he received drugs in payment.