Stories from Friday, February 15, 1991

There is nothing wrong with educational innovation. Through foresight and invention, the system advances. However, innovation is flighty experimentation without a clear purpose apparent. More importantly, it can fall short in a school setting if there is no educational grounding for the idea being tried, nor any reasonable line of authority for making it a success. We believe a recent idea discussed by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education falls into the gloomy category of misplaced innovation...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Greta Glastetter, a sophomore at Notre Dame High School, has been selected to attend the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation Leadership Seminar. The workshop will be held April 5-7 in St. Louis. Glastetter is a member of Future Business Leaders of America and the SADD group at Notre Dame. Last year she had a role in the spring musical and this year she is working on the make-up crew. She plays on the softball team...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A new city investment policy last year helped the city earn more interest income by investing tax dollars in financial institutions nationwide than if the money had been invested only locally. Assistant City Manager Al Stoverink said that in the last six months of 1990, the city earned an additional $15,000 in interest income with the new policy...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Today marks the application deadline for Cape Girardeau superintendent candidates. The Board of Education will meet Tuesday in closed session to begin the actual work of selecting a new superintendent. "We're really going to jump into it starting Tuesday," said Dr. Pat Ruopp, who is chairman of the search process. "This will be our first introduction to the candidates. No school board member has seen any of the applications. Our consultant has been handling things up until now...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Three local bankers object to city-government funds being invested nationally, arguing that the money should be invested locally to benefit the Cape Girardeau economy. But another local banker has no objections to the city's investment policy...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- An Environmental Protection Agency official Thursday told business leaders they could defer some of the high cost of environmental clean-up programs by preventing pollution and recycling waste. Morris Kay, regional administrator for Region VII of the Environmental Protection Agency, was the guest speaker at a Clean Air Act seminar here Thursday...

1LT. DAVID C. BONNEY U.S. AIR FORCE 1Lt. Bonney is the son of Donald and Darlene Bonney of Jackson. He is the brother of Mark and Kevin Bonney and Cindy Lichtenegger. He graduated from Jackson High School in 1984, and went on to graduate from Southeast Missouri State University in May, 1988...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A crew from the ABC television show, America's Funniest People will be in Cape Girardeau Sunday looking for local talent to feature on upcoming shows. Taping will be from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the West Park Mall Center Court. Producers are looking for area people with jokes to tell, impressions to do or an unusual talent to perform to audition for the show, which airs Sunday nights...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Sister Francesca Fritz, 77 years old, died Thursday morning, Feb. 14, 1991, at Villa Gesu retirement home in St. Louis. She taught English at Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau from 1960 to 1966. Funeral mass will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. in St. Louis at Villa Gesu, a retirement home for the school sisters of Notre Dame...

CHAFFEE -- Mrs. Mary Kirn of Chaffee died Monday, Feb. 11, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was 77 years old. She was born Jan. 7, 1914, at Oran, daughter of Joseph and Harriet McClanahan Phegley. She married Ben Kirn Sept. 9, 1933. Mrs. Kirn was a sewing machine operator 42 years at Thorngate, retiring in 1976. She was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Jennie L. Bendel of Jackson will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Home. The Rev. Walter Keisker will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

PERRYVILLE -- Weldon M. Layton, 80 years old, of Perryville died Wednesday, Feb. 13, 1991, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Aug. 23, 1910, son of Marion A. and Elizabeth Harrell Layton. On May 7, 1938, he married Mildred L. Merkel in Perry County. She died Feb. 2, 1982...

SCOTT CITY -- Retired U.S. Army Col. Harold Maurice Beardslee, 49, died at his home in Scott City Thursday, Feb. 14, 1991, following a lengthy illness. He was born Nov. 29, 1941 in Detroit, Mich., the son of Maurice and Elizabeth Garber Beardslee of Benton...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Walter Carr of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Crews Welsh and Ponder Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Tom Geers will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Carr, 73 years old, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A memorial service for Mrs. Bessie Cleland of Liberty will be held at 4 p.m. today at Second Baptist Church there. Burial will be in New Hope Cemetery Mrs. Cleland, 85 years old, died Tuesday, Feb. 12, 1991, at Liberty Hospital. A native of Golden City, she was a graduate of Southwest Baptist College at Bolivar, and attended Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and William Jewell College. She was a member of Second Baptist Church...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A memorial service for Charles L. McKinnis Jr. of Granville, Ohio, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church in Granville. The Rev. Duane Johnson will officiate. A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Brown Cemetery in Perry County, Mo. McPeek Funeral Home of Granville is in charge of arrangements...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Tourette Syndrome Support Group will hold a meeting on Saturday, Feb. 23. It will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. in the American Legion Hall, 811-A Broadway. Tourette Syndrome is a neurological disorder, which begins in early childhood or adolescence. The first symptoms usually are involuntary movements of the face, arms, limbs, and truck, which are frequently repetitive and rapid...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "Trout Unlimited," an organization founded about a year ago, will hold an "Open House" meeting at Bonanza Restaurant here Feb. 25, at 7 p.m. "We'll be commemorating the opening of trout season," said Tom Morris, a spokesman of the club. "The Missouri trout season will open March 1."...

OSAGE BEACH -- Carl Noren, director of the Missouri Conservation Department from 1967 to 1979, has received the Conservation Commission's highest honor the Master Conservationist Award. Noren, who received his honors during the recent Forest, Fish and Wildlife Conference, is the 35th Master Conservationist in the 49-year history of the ward...

COLUMBIA -- The fourth annual Missouri Deer Classic will be held March 16-17, at the Midwest Exposition Center here. The two-day event is hosted by the Missouri Bow Hunters, Show Me Big Bucks, ARchery Big Bucks and Missouri Taxidermist Assn. Admission is $5 each day...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Fishing equipment, boats, and other outdoors items will be exhibited during the Cape Girardeau Sports Show, to be held at the Show Me Center, Feb. 22-24. Tony Bean, a bait designer for Ditto Products and Hoppy's Lures, and a member of the promotional staff of Berkley fishing Line and Daiwa Rods and Reels, will be on hand to provide fishing information and tips...

WARE, Ill. -- Why was the 1990-91 Canada goose season a disappointing one for Southern Illinois goose hunter. Dennis Thornburg, chief waterfowl biologist for the Illinois Department of conservation, and based at the Union County Wildlife Refuge near here, explains some of the reasons...

SPRINGFIELD -- It's time for Illinoisans to apply for their landowner/tenant firearms deer hunting permits. "February is the month to apply," says Illinois Department of Conservation director, Mark Frech. "Our office has mailed applications to every landowner/tenant who received a permit last year. They have until Feb. 28 to get the application back to our office."...

PUXICO -- While waterfowl hunting at Duck Creek Wildlife area last November, two hunters Ulis Turner of Mesa, Ariz., and Larry Eby, of Sikeston mistook a pair of trumpeter swan for snow geese and killed them. The two hunters realized their blunder, and discussed turning themselves in and facing the consequences. Instead, they decided to hide their mistake...

GOLDEN POND, Ky. Crappie fishing has been good for anglers who hunt for them at Kentucky and Barkley Lakes. "Crappie are being found in shallow waters," says Dr. Tom Forsythe, fisheries biologist who is preparing a weekly fishing forecast for the two lakes. "Smaller crappie are being caught in less than a foot of water, and larger crappie are being found in 10 to 18 inches of water. Anglers are using jigs and minnows."...

SPRINGFIELD -- The Illinois Department of Conservation has issued 12,852 wild turkey hunting permits through its recent permit lottery. "About 95 percent of the people who applied received a hunting permit," said conservation director Mark Frech. "There was an increase in application of about four percent. we issued about 500 more permits this year than we did during the 1990 lottery."...