Stories from Friday, August 20, 1993

In Scott City public schools, the playbook has changed for the better. Under a new policy that takes effect this school year, students must earn at least a C-minus grade average to participate in school sports and other activities. If students do not maintain at least a C-minus grade average, they miss a quarter of participation in sports and other extra-curricular activities. ...

Volunteers are needed to help during the 28th annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon on Labor Day, Sept. 6. The telethon to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association will be hosted by KFVS-12 broadcasters Mary-Ann Maloney and Randy Ray. The telethon will begin at 9 a.m. ...

U.S. Postal inspectors and the Illinois Attorney General's Office are investigating a company that is sending mass mailings of postcards to victims in flood areas offering free grants. The agencies advise that flood victims may receive a postcard in the mail that says, "We have determined that you have met preliminary free grant guidelines," yet they know nothing about the recipient...

JEFFERSON CITY - State Auditor Margaret Kelly said Thursday that while most state and local government agencies have performed well in providing assistance to flood victims so far, prior audit reports suggest the agencies may be inadequately prepared to handle properly the hundreds of millions of dollars headed to the state...

JACKSON -- The Small Business Administration has opened a workshop in Jackson to help Missouri flood victims with their disaster loan applications. The center will be in the County Administrative Building, at One Barton Square, across from the Cape County Courthouse, and will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Saturday...

Now that the river has receded and no longer poses a threat to area residents, the Emergency Operations Commission is calling for volunteers to help move sandbags from their homes on Saturday. Volunteers will been needed primarily in the Red Star area to move filled sandbags from around flood-affected homes to the curb side for city removal...

They can't fool me. A lot has been written lately about lawyer bashing. The articles are part of a ruse. Writers use them as an opportunity to spread lawyer jokes, which are the currency of the bashing to begin with. In a recent Time magazine article on this very subject, the reporter sneaks in three lawyer jokes over the course of the first seven paragraphs, especially brutal gags that put attorneys in the dubious company of toxic waste, human sperm and a particularly distasteful postage stamp...

Over the past two weeks, the Missouri Safety Center in Warrensburg, Mo., has sent teams of officials throughout the state to educate law officers on recent changes in driving-while-intoxicated laws. Gary Lowe, a program development specialist with the safety center, and Roger Pennel, an associate professor of criminal justice at Central Missouri State University, brought about 50 area law enforcement personnel up to date Thursday on techniques of arresting and processing intoxicated persons...

Highway 51 at McBride still looks like a lake and the Chester, Ill., bridge across the Mississippi River remains closed to traffic. "The bridge is sitting there high and dry," said Freeman McCullah, District 10 engineer for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department in Sikeston...

It's a mess now, but it won't be long before the Lexington Avenue arterial is extended in north Cape Girardeau. Nip Kelley Equipment Co. Inc., the contractor for the short segment of the street between Perryville Road and Concord Place, today should complete storm sewer work and begin grading the tract...

DELTA - Another section of the former St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad's historic Belmont Branch Line between Delta and Oran will fade into history this year when its tracks are removed and the right-of-way turned back to adjoining landowners...

Cape Girardeau school administrators, facing a new school year, took time out Thursday to look at what stresses them out and how better to deal with it. Donald Hinnant, director of the Pain Management Center at St. Francis Medical Center, talked with school principals about what they can do to minimize stress...

On the top of the Your Time section in today's edition is a reference to the Sports pages beginning on Page 3 of that section. In fact, the Sports pages begin on Page 1B. The Your Time section, which should be labeled Section C, was printed during an early press run and the mistake was noticed later...

Son to Drs. Lynn and Ann Wiens of Great Bend, Kan., Central Kansas Medical Center there, 10:27 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 1, 1993. Name, Josiah Daniel. Weight, 7 pounds 6 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Wiens is the former Ann Hardeman, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Howard Hardeman of Patton. She is a pediatrician and her husband is an allergist at Central Kansas Medical Center. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Waldo Wiens of Meade, Kan...

Alma S. Schonhoff, 85, 11 S. Schonhoff Lane, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1993, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

SIKESTON -- Bright Caroline Calhoun, 101, of Sikeston, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1993, at her home. She was born May 27, 1892, in Camden, Ind., daughter of Hubert and Priscilla Brown Jones. She and William Alvin Calhoun were married in 1914 at St. Louis. He died Feb. 3, 1939...

Harlan Joseph Mueller, 74, 515 Cordelia, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Sept. 24, 1918, at Wittenberg, son of Arthur S. and Ella Nischwitz Mueller. He and Mildred Louise Buck were married June 21, 1942, at Altenburg...

BLOOMFIELD -- Andrew McClard, 76, of Bloomfield, died Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 18, 1917, near here, son of Thomas and Pearlie McClard. He married the former Evelyn Capps. McClard had farmed and worked as a blacksmith. ...

WHITEWATER -- Richard E. Nance, 74, of Whitewater, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 16, 1919, at Whitewater, son of Andrew and Effie Young Nance. He and Geneva Brown were married Dec. 24, 1942, at Jackson...

ANNA, Ill. -- Graveside service for Betty Sullens of Anna will be held at 10 a.m. today at Anna Cemetery. The Rev. Dick Sullins will officiate, with Crain Funeral Home here in charge of arrangements. Sullens, 96, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1993, at Union County Hospital...

ADVANCE -- Meta Lucille Crain, 77, of Advance, died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1993, at Clayton House Care Center in Ballwin. She was born May 14, 1916, near Advance, daughter of Richard and Attie Caldwell Sheldon. She and L.R. "Pete" Crain were married May 5, 1934, in Advance. He died Oct. 17, 1991...

Funeral service for Isabel Burford of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Douglas Burford, a grandson, will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery at Charleston. Friends may call at the funeral home from noon to service time...

A story based in historical research and told with an interior designer's aesthetic sense hides within and literally behind each quilt Laura Crews-Lewis makes. Crews-Lewis, a nationally recognized quilter, can relate the genesis of each one. A Gothic-theme quilt, for instance, came about because she had a scrap of material that included grapes. "Grapes represent communion," she begins...

JACKSON - The Jackson Municipal Band will participate in a joint venture with the Perryville Community Band to aid flood victims in Perry County. Flood victims will be helped by a joint concert involving both bands Thursday at 7 p.m. in Perryville City Park. A freewill contribution will be collected and all proceeds will go for flood relief...

Despite the extra responsibilities assumed by the Salvation Army during the recent flooding, it has still made arrangements to have its monthly Meals With Friends program next week. Meals will be served from 4:30 to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, at the Salvation Army building, at 701 Good Hope...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Raymond and Alma I. Davis to Mark G. and Tonya R. Roe; Dorothy Braun Sigmund et al. to Larry G. Gray; the Dorothy M. Sigmund Trust and the Catherine B. Jordan Trust to Larry G. Gray...