Stories from Tuesday, February 15, 1994

Whether Notre Dame High School expands or a new facility is built, the high school will remain strictly Catholic, Bishop John Leibrecht said Monday. The bishop said some change is on the way, probably within two years. He was in Cape Girardeau to celebrate mass with students from Notre Dame, St. Vincent de Paul and St. Mary schools...

JACKSON -- A group of Cape Girardeau County citizens opposed to the sale of the Jackson sanitary landfill has organized. The group, called the Cape Girardeau County Concerned Citizens, organized Feb. 6., and elected Glen Birk as president. The group has retained the services of Cape Girardeau attorney Joe Russell...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education approved changes in top-level administration and in high school senior pictures for the yearbook. At its Monday meeting, the school board also set a March 7 study session to continue its discussion of building needs for the district...

Some Cape Girardeau officials and representatives of Lady Luck Gaming are concerned that the city is unjustly opening up the proposal process. Representatives from Boyd Gaming and Lady Luck met Monday with city officials to further clarify their proposals for a riverboat casino complex in the city...

What better way to spend Valentine's Day than celebrating over a few beers at BG's Old Tyme Deli and Saloon, watching live coverage of the Olympics. That is what one group of sports fans was doing Monday evening, instead of sitting at home. "I came down here to watch the Olympics with other people," said Tom Brennecke, who had staked out his territory at the bar early Monday evening. "It's just not the same watching it at home by yourself. There's no one to cheer or boo with."...

The Cape Girardeau City Council has asked the two riverboat gaming companies competing for a license in Cape Girardeau to help them make a selection by clarifying several issues not covered in their proposals. Below are some of the questions that both companies will be required to answer by 3 p.m. Friday:...

Virgil R. Seabaugh, 77, 1228 Marquette, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Aug. 1, 1916, at Sedgewickville, son of Wally Thomas and Rady Niswonger Seabaugh. He and Maggie Ayers were married July 25, 1936. Seabaugh was a shipping clerk at Central Packing 37 years. He was a member of Southside Baptist Church, and had been a deacon 40 years...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wilson of Dallas, Texas, Baylor Medical Center there, 10:15 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 8, 1994. Name, Mark Christopher. Weight, 4 pounds 11 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Wilson is the former Teresa Rutledge, daughter of Harley and Ruth Rutledge of Cape Girardeau. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson are national bank examiners. He is the son of Lucy Northcutt of Norman, Okla., and Robert Wilson of Purcell, Okla...

JACKSON -- Metta Vienna Miller, 93, of Jackson, died Monday, Feb. 14, 1994, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal City. She was born Aug. 3, 1900, at Grassy, daughter of Adam and Frances Birk Sitze. She and Ira F. Miller were married Feb. 28, 1932, at Grassy. He died May 28, 1971...

BLOOMFIELD -- Norma Lea George, 66, of Bloomfield, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 12, 1928, at Bloomfield, daughter of William Earl and Agnes Hester Followell. She first married William Lyndon Murdaugh. She later married Eugene George...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Bernice A. "Red" Winchester of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Winchester, 85, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 1994, at Sikeston Convalescent Center...

PERRYVILLE -- John F. Lottes Jr., 81, of Perryville, died Monday, Feb. 14, 1994, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 23, 1912, in Perryville, son of John F. and Louise Elder Lottes. He and Jessie Mae Robinson were married Nov. 10, 1938...

BLOOMFIELD -- Dale Aslin, 48, of Fenton, died Sunday, Feb. 13, 1994, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born April 24, 1945, at Bloomfield, son of William and Mildred Aslin. He and Susan Kibler were married June 10, 1967, in Cape Girardeau. Aslin received a bachelor of science degree in social studies in 1967 and a master's degree in social studies in 1976, both from Southeast Missouri State University...

DOE RUN -- Lillian Alice Wichman, 85, of Doe Run, died Tuesday, Feb. 8, 1994, at the home of a son here. She was born July 31, 1908, in Elvins, daughter of Wilson and Myrtle Casey Bell. She and Curtis Wichman were married in 1933. Wichman taught 43 years in St. Francois County schools. She was a member of Doe Run United Methodist Church, and Retired Teachers Association...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Joyce Hamil of Scott City will be held at 2 p.m. today at Cape Bible Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Dan Greene will officiate, with burial in Lightner Cemetery at Scott City. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Scott City from 8-10:30 a.m., and at the church from noon to service time...

Southeast Missouri State University, once a normal school and teachers college, has a reputation as an institution that educates educators. The school is outstanding in that regard and the reputation is deserved ... though not complete. Southeast also has a long-held and still budding stature as a school that trains students for careers in business. ...

The U.S.S. Sally Ride will hold its regular monthly business meeting Friday at Reed's Restaurant in the Town House Inn, 505 N. Kingshighway. The Sally Ride is a fandom Star Trek organization interested in providing service to its community. As such the organization participates in the Missouri Adopt-A-Highway program, Cape Girardeau Red Cross Services, various telethons and radiothons for charity...

Benita Daniel believes children learn best by doing. So her second-grade students at Jefferson Elementary School do a lot. "We do a variety of activities in the classroom that involve the children doing hands-on activities, which may include cooking, planting, experiments and making projects," Daniel said...

With about 400 teachers working in Cape Girardeau Public Schools, there always is a need for substitute teachers who can step in -- sometimes with only a moment's notice -- to handle classrooms of students. It is the responsibility of the principal at each school building to find substitutes...

Thomas Ratledge has been named to the fall 1993 honors list at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. He is the son of Gary and Sharon Ratledge of Benton. Students listed on the honors list have been enrolled in at least 12 credit hours and earned a grade point average of 3.0 to 3.49 on a 4.0 scale...

Staci Lynn Huey of Cape Girardeau has been named to the dean's list at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Mo. Dean's list students have earned between a 3.5 and 3.99 grade point average and were enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours with no grade lower than a C...

BENTON -- Organizers of Project Graduation 1994 at Thomas W. Kelly High School are soliciting donations to help fund the program. Project Graduation focuses on a substance-free graduation party. This will be the fifth year for the party at Kelly High School. Last year, over 90 percent of the senior class participated...

An educational video series called Science Screen Report is being distributed to Notre Dame, Cape Girardeau Central, Jackson, Chaffee and Scott City high schools through a grant from Union Electric Company. The award-winning series presents the most recent developments in science and technology. ...

Teresa Ann Paikeday of Cape Girardeau has been named to the dean's list at the University of North Carolina. Students are eligible for the dean's list by meeting one of two sets of requirements: at least a 3.2 grade point average with no grade lower than C if enrolled in 15 or more credit hours; at least a 3.5 grade point average if enrolled in at least 12 but fewer than 15 credit hours...

The Southeast Missouri State University Debate Squad had a strong showing at the Billiken Invitational Debate Tournament Jan. 27-30 at St. Louis University. Squad member Mike Easley, a senior from Cape Girardeau, and Tina Schaefer, a squad member and junior from Crestwood, combined to finish third in the novice division of the tournament. Novice divisions are open to debaters with less than two full semesters of debate experience...

Over the past three years the Cape Girardeau Public Schools have been deliberately pursuing a course toward significant and comprehensive capital improvements throughout the school district. The district began with an "Educational Summit" in January 1992 which involved over 200 citizens of our community resulting in the formulation of Project Partnership: School and Community. ...