Stories from Tuesday, September 3, 1991

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will try to resolve a four-month tiff over how far city regulations should extend to construction trades. The council will consider a revised contractor licensing law that has stirred heated debate over such issues as whether part-time "handy man" contractors should be licensed, what minimum liability insurance requirements for contractors should be, and whether further regulation of the construction trades would eliminate competition...

Traffic accidents during the Labor Day weekend killed at least 14 people on Missouri roads, including three fatalities in Southeast Missouri. Two men and a teenage girl were killed in separate accidents in Southeast Missouri, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported. None of the victims were wearing seat belts...

The 26th annual Muscular Dystrophy Telethon over the Labor Day weekend raised $233,495 in the 38-county local region and a record $45,071,857 nationwide. Last year the telethon raised more than $44 million nationally and $218,193 in the Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois and western Kentucky district...

With Missouri leading the nation in the eradication of marijuana, the Southeast Missourian asked people if the state should significantly increase its efforts to eradicate the illegal cash crop. Bill Rasmuson: "I think the state should invest more money in doing that, and other states should do so as well. Treatment and counseling should be the first priority, but the second line of offense should be the eradication of all illegal drugs."...

Cape Girardeau Public Schools open today, and that means many elementary, junior, and senior high school students will be waiting near street corners to board school buses. Others will walk, or ride bicycles, skateboards, or skates to school. All of them will be potential traffic hazards to motorists...

JACKSON - Members of the Cape Girardeau County Senior Services Board have agreed on an application form, and are encouraging groups in the county that provide services to senior citizens to submit applications. The seven-member board is responsible for recommending how to spend funds that will be generated from a 5-cent property tax levy earmarked for services to people 60 and over. Voters approved the tax levy in April...

What a difference a failed coup makes. Two years ago Boris Yeltsin made his first visit to the United States. Yeltsin had been Communist Party Chief in Moscow, but lost his job when he became too frank in his criticism of the painstakingly slow pace of economic and political reform under the Gorbachev regime...

Missourians are nine weeks away from deciding a crucial question on the state's educational system. Citizens of the state are three weeks away from the beginning of what has been promised as a full-fledged campaign blitz to explain Proposition B to voters. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Sorbello of Millersville Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:24 a.m. Friday, Aug. 23, 1991. Name, Lyndsey Jo. Weight, 9 pounds 5 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Sorbello is the former Vicki Hopkins, daughter of Lynn and Ilinda Hopkins of Millersville Route 1. Sorbello is an installer with Johnson Communications, and is the son of Magdaline Sorbello of Bonne Terre and the late Santo Sorbello...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Funeral services for Orb Johnson, 75, of Route 1, Ullin, Ill. were held Monday at the Clary Funeral Home in Alton, Mo. Johnson died Friday, Aug. 30, 1991 at his home. The Rev. Grover Pingleton officiated at the funeral service. Burial followed in Cave Springs Cemetery at Alton, Mo...

JACKSON -- Tosha Ann Rutherford, 2, of Marquand died Sunday, Sept. 1, 1991. She was born Sept. 16, 1988, at Sikeston, the daughter of Roberta Rutherford, who survives of the home. Other survivors include a maternal grandmother, Dorothy Rutherford of Marquand, and an uncle, Doug Rutherford, also of Marquand...

OLIVE BRANCH -- Guy C. Miller, 84, of Olive Branch, died at 3:10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, 1991, at his home. He was born Feb. 28, 1907, at Thebes, son of William and Amanda Holshouser Miller. He married Belva Altman on Oct. 3, 1938. She survives. Miller was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Parish of Cairo. He retired from Amoco Oil Co., in Chicago, where he worked as traffic manager...

A Southeast Missouri legislator has been named as chairman for the five House members on a joint House-Senate Wetlands Task Force, while another is hoping to be named to head senators on the panel. House Speaker Bob Griffin recently named Rep. Larry Thomason, D-Kennett, to be chairman of the House delegation of the committee. Thomason handled legislation in the House this year that led to the establishment of the wetlands task force...

TAMMS - Bernold Henry "Nub" Jordon, 61, of Tamms, died Sunday, Sept. 1, 1991, at 7:45 p.m. at Hillside Terrace Nursing Home in Cobden. He was born April 16, 1930 in Chicago, the son of Rev. Louis and Mabel Lentz Jordon. He was a Korean War veteran and a retired truck driver...

BERTRAND -- Dora Danels, 73, of Bertrand Nursing Home died Saturday night, Aug. 31, 1991, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 3, 1917 at Senath, daughter of Rufus A. and Jettie L. Hagy Braddum. On Sept. 28, 1940 at Matthews, she married George Albert "Shorty" Danels, who died on March 11, 1988...

"Ask Your Doctor," a special one-on-one medical show with local doctors answering questions from viewers will air Thursday at 8 p.m. on Cable Channel 13. "Bi-Focal Lense Implants" will be the topic, presented by Dr. Charles H. Cozean. The show is sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Hospital in conjunction with the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society...

The Cape Girardeau Area Chapter of Ducks Unlimited will hold its annual Sponsors Dinner Sept. 30 at the New Orleans restaurant starting at 6 p.m. Additional information is available by calling John Campbell at 334-0568 or Debbie Oliver at 335-4030. An auction will be held in conjunction with the dinner...