2000John Ashcroft and Mel Carnahan offer different opinions politically, but the two have finally agreed on one thing — to meet for two broadcast debates before the Nov. 7 general election; Gov. Carnahan, a Democrat, hopes to unseat Ashcroft, a Republican, in a hotly contested U.S. Senate race; after several days of impasse, both campaigns have announced debates Oct. 13 in St. Louis and Oct. 15 in Kansas City; a third debate, the date yet to be decided, will take place at KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau. PATTON — Lona Brotherton, 77, left her house on Highway 72 at about 2 p.m. Monday for a walk; about a quarter-mile into her stroll, she fell into a mostly dry, 5-foot-deep hole from which she couldn’t escape; when neighbors hadn’t seen her by 8 p.m. that day, they contacted the Bollinger County Sheriff’s Office; on what likely would have been the 80-member search team’s final sweep through 180 acres of rolling hills and fields, she is found at 7:15 a.m. Tuesday; Brotherton remembers few details about how she fell, injured her collarbone and spent a night outdoors. 1975The women’s lib movement has enabled Cape Girardeau Central High School girls to establish themselves as athletes, but it will take men’s liberation to get the boys into what is now an all-girl organization; two male seniors at Central have been campaigning for admission to the all-girl pep club, the Tigerettes, and to other activities for girls; but they didn’t make the club roster as they were denied membership; Randy Statler and James L. Zimmer ran into some opposition after attending the first three meetings of the pep club; the boys’ efforts are being backed by the Tiger, Central’s student newspaper. Three Cape Girardeau youths escaped serious injury yesterday afternoon when a rented helicopter crashed while attempting to land at Arena Park; the the crash occurred near the tennis courts on East Rodney; James and Daniel Alyea, both 21, were taking their first helicopter ride with their younger brother, Eric, 17, a recently licensed helicopter pilot; the three are sons of Dr. and Mrs. James O. Alyea of Cape Girardeau; all escaped serious injury, but the helicopter rented from Cape Central Airways suffered extensive damage.