Stories from Sunday, April 10, 1994

Funeral service for Robert Eugene Litzelfelner of Winter Haven, Fla., was held Wednesday at Crisp-Coon Funeral Home in Winter Haven. The Rev. Stephen Olds officiated, with burial in Rolling Hills Cemetery there. Litzelfelner, 67, died Saturday, April 2, 1994, at Winter Haven Hospital...

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is a nationally respected economist and a former deputy Treasury secretary in the early days of the Reagan administration. He also writes a syndicated column distributed nationally. A principled conservative who was highly critical of the failed presidency of George Bush, Roberts is one keen observer of the arcane subject of economics. He possesses what one writer called "a vision into the causes of our disorder."...

With the statewide failure of a riverboat gambling vote Tuesday, the Missouri General Assembly might use the remaining five weeks of its legislative session to adopt a state gesture: shrugged shoulders. In the aftermath of the amendment's rejection, effectively eliminating certain profitable games from floating casinos, no one seems to know what the next step should be. ...

For a moment, there seemed to be a glimmer -- ever so slight -- of hope in Bosnia. The incessant pressure on Sarajevo had been removed. The Croats and the Moslems were working out some of their problems. The Serbs, some thought, might be in a mood to talk. Wrong. Once again, the Serbs are at their "ethnic cleansing" business now in less well known places like Gorazde and Prijedor...

Daughter to Kevin Bowen and Tamara Welker of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:31 p.m. Saturday, March 19, 1994. Name, Hadley Jade. Weight, 8 pounds 4 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Ms. Welker is the daughter of Claudia Higgenbotham of Caseyville, Ill. Bowen is a deckhand with Luhr Bros., and is the son of Janet and Donald Bowen of Ste. Genevieve...

John H. Hall, 74, of Sikeston, died Saturday, April 9, at his home. He was born Nov. 9, 1919, in Bertrand, to John and Lula Findley Hall. On Sept. 18, 1970, Hall married Addie R. Stokes in Benton, Ill. She survives of the home, along with two sons; Terry Hall of Mulkytown,Ill., and John E. Hall of Dayton, Ohio. Two daughters, Velma Gammon of Cape Girardeau, and Kathy Sue Keeton of Martin, Tenn. also survive, along with seven grandchildren and one great grandson...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Ray H. Lingle, 76, of Dongola died Saturday at 8:15 a.m. at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Marion. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Crain Funeral Home in Dongola.

Oma L. Stafford, 85, of Dexter, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, April 9, at Brentwood, Tenn. She was born Dec. 19, 1908, at Brownwood, to Cornelius and Ida Parcell Pletcher. On July 4, 1928, she married Blane Stafford at Bell City. He survives, along with two sons; Howard Stafford of Sikeston, and the Rev. Tom Stafford of Jonesboro, Ark.; one daughter, Judith Partain of Brentwood, Tenn., and nine grandchildren and five great grandchildren...

Cora E. Hartline, 86, of Tampa, Fla., formerly of Alto Pass, Ill., died Saturday, April 9, at the Lake Shore Villa Health Care Center in Tampa. She was born May 8, 1907, in Alto Pass, to Robert and Bertha House Emery. On Feb. 29, 1929, she married Leonard Hartline in Indianapolis, Ind. He preceded her in death on Nov. 28, 1976...

JACKSON -- Progress in a growing community typically comes at a cost. In Jackson, that cost is in the form of muddy streets and lots near new housing developments. Motorists complain about dirt that's been washed into city streets and mud that's been tracked onto streets by trucks hauling materials in and out of developing subdivisions...

It's up at 1:05 a.m. and to bed at 5:05 p.m. each day for Oak Ridge astronaut Linda Godwin. Godwin serves as payload commander aboard the space shuttle Endeavour, which blasted into space Saturday. As payload commander, Godwin is the chief person responsible for the science taking place on board the shuttle, said NASA spokesman Barbara Schwartz said Saturday afternoon...

A new Cape Girardeau organization will pool the resources of churches to address problems of the homeless, youth and the elderly. Officers will be installed today for the Black Ministers Coalition For Progress. The Rev. William Bird, pastor of Futrell Temple Church of God in Christ, is president of the new organization...

It is the eventual goal of the federal government to disarm all U.S. citizens, claimed a spokesman for the National Rifle Association during a stop in Cape Girardeau Saturday. Brian K. Black, field representative for the NRA's Missouri field services office at St. Charles, said this would be done through legislation that would first control, then ban outright ownership of certain classes of weapons and ammunition...

Southeast Missouri State University is inviting the public to "Tour the World with Us" in various campus events observing International Week. The activities began Saturday with a multicultural carnival and run through April 16. "International Week is a time to focus on our place in the world and the influence of the people from around the world on us and on our culture," said George Dordoni, coordinator of student development and international student adviser at Southeast...

Fourteen girls from Cape Girardeau area elementary schools and Louis J. Schultz Middle School recently participated in a five-week science mentoring program on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The participants were exposed to informal, after-school mentoring experiences with women scientists and science educators. The purpose of the program was to increase positive attitudes, and values held about science and the role of women in science among the participating girls...

Five Southeast Missouri State University graduates have been selected as recipients of the University's 1994 Young Alumni Merit Award. They will be honored at a graduation dinner at 6 p.m. April 24 in the Show Me Center. The honorees include Kim Davis and Dr. James Boyd, both of St. Louis, Susan Renee Freeman of St. Charles, and John Grimm and John Mehner, both of Cape Girardeau...

Sunday in the Park, an annual fund-raiser for the Community Counseling Center's Family Learning Center, will be held today at the A.C. Brase Arena in Cape Girardeau. Carnival games for children ages 2-12 will be presented by the Programming and Recreation class at Southeast Missouri State University, taught by Drew Laudi. Children will win food coupons to local restaurants and small prizes...

With the return of daylight-saving time and warmer weather, more people -- young and old -- are taking to the roads on bicycles. But Bob O'Grady rides his bicycle year-round in almost all kinds of weather, ice and snow being the exceptions. O'Grady is a chemist with Golden Cat Corp.'s research center near Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport...

Our town has been in a frenzy of flowering excitement this spring. The pear trees have outdone any previous years in the matter of blossoms. They stand like fat upside down exclamation points as if silently expressing their own surprise. The yellow footlights of the daffodil patches scattered about the city seem to trumpet, "Look up, look up!"...

University of Missouri archaeologist Michael O'Brien will discuss the "Late Prehistoric Archaeological Record of Pemiscot County" at a lecture Sunday at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. The one-hour lecture will begin at 2 p.m. The event constitutes the annual Thomas Beckwith Memorial Lecture, hosted by the University Museum and Southeast's sociology and anthropology department...

A conference on "Reclaiming Children and Adolescents At Risk" will be held Thursday at the Show Me Center. The conference for parents and professionals will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The conference will consist of concurrent sessions. Three sessions will be held in the morning, followed by the same concurrent sessions in the afternoon...

The featured guest today on "University Conversations" will be Robert Foster, executive director of the Southeast Missouri University Foundation. The 30-minute television program can be seen Sundays on local cable access Channel 5 at 7:30 p.m. The moderator is Jim Biundo, assistant vice president for university relations...