Stories from Friday, June 7, 1996

To the editor: On June 1 a letter was printed concerning the minimum-wage hike. The writer apparently doesn't feel that the minimum wage should be raised. The reasons he gives for not raising the minimum wage are paradoxical. He states that the minimum wage was never meant to be a living wage. ...

Who were the athletes in 1963 who all wore number 32, and were all selected as the most valuable players in the their sports? What was the name of the plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki? How did the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation do in fund raising this year?...

A World War II, B-17 bomber will be the featured attraction this weekend at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport's open house and fly-in. The "Texas Raiders" bomber will land this afternoon at the airport. It will be on public display from 3-7 p.m. today and from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday...

Police Chief Howard Boyd Jr. won't make a hasty decision on the future of the Cape Girardeau Police Department's motorcycle unit. "We have not resolved it yet," Boyd said Thursday. Boyd said he talked briefly with his officers Wednesday about whether to disband the two-motorcycle unit in the wake of serious injuries to two officers within the past two years...

The Summertime Sugar Shaker dinner dance and benefit auction June 15 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center will benefit the Southeast Missouri Chapter of the American Diabetes Association. A silent auction and cash bar will begin at 7 p.m., and dinner will begin at 8 p.m...

I THINK you owe Notre Dame an apology. There wasn't anything in the newspaper about their graduation Friday night. Just because that big mouth went to school at Central, is that why it was all over the front page of the paper when everybody pays for the paper around here? After all, our children goes to Notre Dame, and I think it's time you respect them too...

I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. ...

It is too easy to imagine the final dramatic moments as federal agents swoop down on the Freeman compound in a remote area of Montana, complete with devastation and the accompanying loss of life. Does this sound familiar? The lessons of Ruby Ridge in Idaho and the Branch Davidian compound in Waco apparently are hard to learn. ...

The roots of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church are deep in Southeast Missouri. This particular branch of the church, whose family tree goes back to reformer Martin Luther in Germany, dates back 150 years when immigrants from the Saxony region of Germany settled on the western banks of the Mississippi River and immediately began worshipping by giving thanks to God for his creation and for their safekeeping...

The government is a major and unwelcome partner in small businesses today, industry and political leaders say. The nation's small businesses are often at war with their silent partner -- the government, said Bill Beydler, who is the Southeast Missouri regional manager for the National Federation of Independent Business...

JACKSON -- After hearing complaints from angry senior citizens who can't get to the doctor's office or to the grocery store because of a lack of transportation, Cape Girardeau County Commissioners want to know who needs to go where and how they can get there...

Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Robert Ridgeway has accepted a position in Gastonia, N.C., and will begin his new job July 8. Ridgeway, who came to Cape Girardeau in March 1993, will oversee seven fire stations and 130 employees in Gastonia. It is a step up from his current job, where he oversees 57 employees and four stations. The position's pay is higher, too -- $61,000 annually compared to the $49,800 Ridgeway received in Cape Girardeau...

E-mail is a new way to say "Wish you were here." It also lets worried parents know that their sons are OK anywhere in the world. Maybe some of you can remember when the world wasn't wired for instant communication, which meant you could be pleasantly surprised by good news, when it finally arrived, and protectively shielded, at least for awhile, from bad news...

The Cape Girardeau and Jackson police departments and the Community Traffic Safety Program will sponsor a Safety Belt Check and Awareness Fair Saturday. The event will be from 1-4 p.m. at Boatmen's Bank on Mount Auburn Road in Cape Girardeau and Boatmen's Bank on Main Street in Jackson...

SIKESTON -- Frances Mae Wilson, 52, Sikeston Route 2, died Thursday, June 6, 1996, at her home. She was born Jan. 6, 1944, in Princeton, Ky., daughter of Andrew LaFayette and Clara Belle Poole White. She and J.T. Wilson were married May 6, 1957, at Benton...

PATTON -- Algerene "Bean" Mayfield, 72, of Patton, died Thursday, June 6, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 7, 1924, at Mayfield, daughter of Homer H. and Marie Mayfield. She and Marell "Toots" Mayfield were married Nov. 22, 1946...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Graveside service for the Rev. J. Melton Wienecke of Kansas City, Mo., will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Rose Hill Cemetery in Pulaski, with the Rev. Jon Althoff officiating. Crain Funeral Home at Ullin is in charge of arrangements...

POCAHONTAS -- Ida O. Lichtenegger, 94, of Pocahontas, died Wednesday, June 5, 1996, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Feb. 18, 1902, at Altenburg, daughter of Oswald and Lina Petzoldt Palisch. She and Herbert F. Lichtenegger were married Oct. 7, 1923, at Altenburg. He died Jan. 13, 1980...

ADVANCE -- Isabel Lewis Cole, 83, of Ferguson, died Thursday, June 6, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 15, 1912, at Bloomfield, daughter of Walter A. and Flora B. Capps Proffer. She first married Guile Milton Lewis in Piggott, Ark. He died in June 1944. She later married Carl Cole, who died Nov. 10, 1995...

JACKSON -- Wayne V. DeCamp, 86, of Jackson, died Wednesday, June 5, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 23, 1909, in Jackson, Mich., son of Arthur and Vina Bailey DeCamp. He and Geneva Cox were married Jan. 5, 1947, in Hammond, Ind...

CROSSTOWN -- Audrey Naomi Sherman, 69, of Bridgeton, died Thursday, June 6, 1996, at DePaul Health Center in St. Louis. She was born Nov. 30, 1926, at Crosstown, daughter of Lloyd and Leola Klobe Clifton. She married Charles Kenneth Sherman, who died Feb. 25, 1974...

Daughter to Gregory J. and Bernadette E. Bamberger, 1002 Oak Ridge Drive, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:08 a.m. Friday, May 31, 1996. Name, Kendra Lynn. Weight, 9 pounds 15 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Bamberger is the former Bernadette Powell, daughter of Joe and Julie Powell of Hopewell, N.J. ...

Betty J. Masterson, 68, died Wednesday, June 5, 1996, at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born June 14, 1927, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Thomas Edman and Dona Elizabeth Evans Wood. She married Carl Masterson in 1967 in Cape Girardeau...