Stories from Tuesday, May 18, 1993

David S. Broder joins the roster of Southeast Missourian columnists with today's edition. A national political correspondent for The Washington Post, Broder has his column syndicated to more than 300 American newspapers through The Washington Post Writers Group...

The 1993 session of the Missouri General Assembly is being acclaimed in post-mortem in much the same way it was conducted since convening in January: along party lines. Democrats at the State Capitol patted themselves on the back with Friday's adjournment, hailing the just-completed session as "the most productive ever." Democrats are in control of the executive and legislative ~branches of state government for the first time in a dozen years, and their self-serving proclamations are to be expected. ...

If you go in to the West Park Mall from the northern main entrance, look to your left before reaching the center court. There, in two kiosks, are pictures of some very special people in Cape Girardeau. Bill Askew, coordinator of Drug-Free Schools programming for the Cape Girardeau school district, selected photos of 12 adults and about 15 high school students who have contributed significantly to battling drugs within the schools...

A total of 172 Southeast Missouri Hospital employees were recognized for a total of 1,540 years of service at the hospital's 24th employee awards banquet last Wednesday. Commemorative pins in recognition of 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 years of service were presented by hospital administrator James W. Wente...

JACKSON -- The Jackson High School Squawler newspaper walked away with the Blue Banner Award at the Southern Illinois School Press Association's Spring Conference recently at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. The award recognizes excellence in high school newspaper writing, content, photographs, layout design and ads...

JEFFERSON CITY - A bill that could have provided a source of funding for a new College of Business Building at Southeast Missouri State University, died in the Missouri Senate Friday when the sponsor declined to take the amendment and bring the bill up for consideration...

Southeast Missouri State University is among five Missouri institutions listed in a promotion spearheaded by a Turkish newspaper offering full scholarships for Turkish students to study abroad. The promotion, which began Thursday and will continue for two weeks in the Istanbul newspaper, Hurriyet, offers 101 five-year scholarships for Turkish students to study at primarily Missouri institutions...

A proposed $34 million Cape Girardeau budget for the 1993-94 fiscal year includes a $2.4 million increase in capital improvements and another $1.2 million increase for equipment and changes in city services. The City Council Monday gave initial approval to the proposed budget, which shows a $4.7 million increase over the budget for the current fiscal year that expires June 30...

Legislation to allow Sunday package liquor sales has drawn a mixed reaction locally. Gov. Mel Carnahan has indicated he will likely sign the legislation approved by the Missouri General Assembly in the recently-ended session. If enacted, the measure would end the situation where some restaurants can sell packaged beer or liquor on Sundays while other establishments such as grocery and liquor stores are prohibited from doing so...

The Cape Girardeau Convention & Visitors Bureau wants to take the "middle man" out of its operation. Robert Hoppmann, chairman of the CVB Advisory Committee, has recommended that the city take over the CVB contract. "We're asking that a separate division be established by the city for the CVB," said Hoppmann during a meeting Monday of CVB board members, city council and other city officials, held at the Holiday Inn...

The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday gave first-round approval to a law that sets Aug. 3 as the date voters will again consider city charter amendments to implement ward representation. The charter amendments were recommended by the city's Zone Election Committee, appointed to define an ill-crafted measure voters approved last November. In that election, Cape Girardeau citizens voted to scrap at-large council elections in lieu of ward representation...

SCOTT CITY -- The municipal government continues to be plagued by a tight budget, Scott City Mayor Larry Forhan said Monday night. "We'll get the bad news out of the way first," Forhan told the council in his "State of the City" address. "Revenues are flat and costs are increasing...

JACKSON -- The Board of Aldermen and the Jackson Chamber of Commerce have agreed in principle to create a city tourism board as of July 1. Ward 4 Alderman LeRoy Brown, chairman of a study committee appointed in April to look into the formation of a tourist board, said Monday final plans and guidelines are now being drawn up by the chamber and the city. Other members of the committee are Ward 3 Alderman Glenn Oldham, City Administrator Carl Talley, and the board's legal counsel, David Beeson...

Three new patrolmen were sworn in early Monday to serve as members of the Cape Girardeau Police Department. The patrolmen will fill the vacancies left by an officer who transferred to the Southeast Missouri State University Department of Public Safety and two officers who are leaving for the Missouri Highway Patrol Academy at the end of June...

SCOTT CITY -- Authorities said no operating smoke detector was found in the living room of a mobile home where the body of Troy Allen Dover, 32, of 818 Seventh Street East, was found on Saturday. Dover died after an early morning fire swept through his mobile home on Scott City's east side...

To celebrate a schoolwide drug prevention week, Jefferson Elementary School invited police officer Dennis Horn and his furry sidekick, Greif, the police dog, to give a short speech and demonstration of the canine's abilities. "Criminals get better and better at hiding drugs from officers all the time," said Horn, a tactical officer with the Cape Girardeau Police Department. "That's why the dogs are so necessary to police work."...

Small children hid behind their parents' legs and older children watched with curiosity as Cape Girardeau Police Officer Kevin Orr fingerprinted children at K-Mart Saturday afternoon. The parents of each child who was fingerprinted was given an envelope containing safety information, along with the fingerprints...

The third annual Strawberry Festival at Mid-America Teen Challenge will be held May 29 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The festival is held at the Teen Challenge Training Center, about five miles north of Cape Girardeau on County Road 621. Special events include guided tours of the training facility and strawberry fields, puppet shows for children, Teen Challenge choir mini-concerts, drawings for free quarts of strawberries and a free serving of strawberry shortcake...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Gov. Jim Edgar has declared two more counties Alexander and Jackson as disaster areas because of flooding threats. The declaration sets the stage for special assistance and mobilizing state resources to help flood-stricken communities along the Mississippi River...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Floy Croach of Spokane, Wash., will be held today. Croach, 95, died Saturday, May 15, 1993, in Spokane. She married Charlie Croach, who preceded her in death. Croach taught at Tamms Grade School before moving to Spokane about 30 years ago...

Graveside service for Benjamin A. Webb of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. today at Lightner Cemetery in Scott City. The Rev. Bill Dickey will officiate. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Webb, 82, died Monday, May 17, 1993, at Cape LaCroix...

ADVANCE -- Charles Elfrink, 82, of Advance, died Monday, May 17, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 25, 1911, at Leopold, son of Herman and Mary Brands Elfrink. He and Florence Douglas Hampton were married Dec. 10, 1967, at Sikeston. She died Oct. 15, 1992. He later married Francis Abbott Sherman March 14, 1993, at Advance...

ORAN -- Funeral service for Paul David Dalrymple, Oran Route 1, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Larry Stephenson will officiate, with burial in New Morley Cemetery at Morley. Dalrymple, 63, died Saturday, May 15, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Anna Louise Sheffer of Dongola will be held at 1 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. William Horn will officiate, with burial in Friendship Cemetery. Sheffer, 80, died Sunday, May 16, 1993, at her home...

Funeral service for Janey Crites Harrison, 1515 Carter, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Lorimier Cemetery. Harrison died Sunday, May 16, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. In addition to her husband, a son and her mother, she is survived by maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Burette Cook of Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Elmer Hobeck, 57, of Daisy, Mo., died Monday, May 17, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. The McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

Orville J. Glueck, 71, 2532 Tulip, died Monday, May 17, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Dec. 4, 1921, in Scott County, son of George and Lena Lux Glueck. He and Rita M. Wulfers were married May 7, 1958. Glueck served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He was a member of Scott County Historical Society, VFW, St. Francis Medical Center Auxiliary, Bed and Breakfast Club of Salvation Army of Southeast Missouri, and White House Retreat League of St. Louis...

Luella V. Blackwell, 69, 1818 Lacey, died Sunday, May 16, 1993, in an automobile accident near Corpus Christi, Texas. She was born April 30, 1924, at Longtown, daughter of John and Lydia Frentzel Mehner. She married Paul E. Blackwell, who preceded her in death...

GORDONVILLE -- Nina "Helen" Johnson, 66, Gordonville Route 3, died Monday, May 17, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 26, 1926, at Charleston, daughter of Leonard and Grace Kief Glenn. She and Everett Johnson were married Oct. 19, 1942, at Charleston...

Funeral service for Robert "Bud" Burns of Benton, Ark., will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Burns, 52, died Saturday, May 15, 1993, at Saline Memorial Hospital in Benton...

JACKSON -- Frances A. Drum, 62, of St. Louis, died Monday, May 17, 1993, at her home. She was born Sept. 22, 1930, at Advance, daughter of Leo and Mamie Wishon Davis. She and Marvin Drum Jr. were married Dec. 24, 1947. He died May 2, 1976. Drum was a salesclerk with 7-Eleven Corp. in St. Louis...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Sean Wood of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:54 p.m. Friday, May 14, 1993. Name, Taylor Logan. Weight, 6 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Wood is the former Gayla Bell, daughter of Linda Davis of Cape Girardeau and Randy Bell of Abilene, Texas. She is a pharmacy tech at Southeast Hospital. Wood is a student at Southeast Missouri State University, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Troy "Max" Wood of Mountain Grove...

Twenty-two senior Girl Scouts will receive the Gold Award on June 6 at Academic Auditorium on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. The Gold Award is the highest recognition given to a Girl Scout. To achieve this honor, ~girls ~~are required to achieve the leadership award, career exploration pin, give service, earn at least four interest patches, and complete the Senior Girl Scout Challenge. Each girl designed and carried out her own Gold Award project...

The Mississippi Valley Chapter of the Ozark Society has scheduled a hiking trip through the Garden of the Gods south of Harrisburg, Ill. on May 22. Those hiking will meet and car pool from the Purple Crackle parking lot in East Cape Girardeau, Ill. at 8 a.m...

Brandon Belvin, a seventh-grader at L.J. Schultz Middle School, has been recognized for his outstanding academic achievement through TIP, the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Belvin has been invited to a Grand Recognition Ceremony June 7 at Duke University in Durham, N.C...

John Seay of Cape Girardeau is among 10 delegates from Southeast Missouri elected to Missouri's Silver-Haired Legislature. Seay will served as a representative from the Southeast region along with Helen Hines of Fredericktown. Silver-Haired Legislature delegates are elected and participate in a mock legislature which is held in October in Jefferson City. Delegates write, discuss and debate bills and resolutions on issues that are of concern to older Missourians...

Marvin Francis Dodd of Cape Girardeau has been initiated into Phi Kappa Phi at Pittsburg State University in Pittsburg, Kan. Phi Kappa Phi is the only scholastic honor society to include all academic disciplines. Those initiated were listed in the top 10 percent of their class and had maintained a 3.79 grade point average...

SCOTT CITY -- Susan M. Brooks of Scott City recently graduated with honors from Westminster College. She earned a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics with cum laude honors. To earn cum laude honors, a graduate must have a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.65 on a 4.0 scale...

Stephanie S. Henson Ghanti of Cape Girardeau recently graduated with honors from Hannibal-LaGrange College in Hannibal. She earned an associate of science in nursing degree, graduating summa cum laude. Ghanti is employed at a Hannibal's regional hospital in the progressive care unit...

Pam Lynxwiler, a licensed practical nurse, will be the speaker when the Lyme Disease Self-Help Support Group meets May 25. She will discuss an International Lyme Conference Update. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Harrison Room at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri will hold its first garage sale June 5 from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. "This is the first year for the garage sale," said Nancy Richards, administer for the shelter. "We are hoping to generate a lot of business. The shelter is in need of different fundraisers and we thought a garage sale would be an excellent way to benefit the shelter and the public."...

A workshop to help individuals learn not to worry will be held June 22 at Community Counseling Center from 6:30-8 p.m. Social worker Judy Johnson will discuss "Why do we worry? How can we stop?" at the free presentation. She says people can learn how to free themselves from unnecessary anxiety and change worries into positive actions...

Two Southeast Missouri State University students received scholarships at the university's College of Science and Technology honors program April 21. Norman J. Heuring, Jr. of Oran received the William Avery and Helen Peyton Buckner Scholarship. Renee Buchheit of Old Appleton received the TG (USA) Scholarship...