Stories from Thursday, December 20, 1990

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Junice E. Miller of Cape Girardeau will be at 1 p.m. Friday at the Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel. Dr. John Owen will officiate and burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Miller died Tuesday at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. He was 69...

By Robert E. Bartman Missouri Commissioner of Education The idea of a longer school year for public school students is slowly gaining converts, and I hope this trend will gain momentum in Missouri. I am convinced that a longer school year 200 days or more will eventually become accepted in America, and I hope Missouri will lead the way...

Over a period of several recent days, Michael Williams got a bitter education in modern governance. Along the way, he added a state-of-the-art description that summarizes forbidden laws in these sensitive times: "legally correct but politically naive." Naivete is not a characteristic treated gingerly in the nation's capital, but Williams survived his bout with "legal correctness" with little more than embarrassment. And in the end, a reasonable policy was established...

Have our nation's colleges become hotbeds of liberal teaching where vocal radicals hold cowering administrators at bay, or are they still places where students can easily accept or reject ideas in their quest for knowledge? Recently, several national columnists have focused on this issue, and they responded overwhelmingly that universities are not a place where scholars go to seek the truth, but where leftist teachers and administrators force the "correct truth" upon the students...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Funeral service for Larry William Brown of Sedgewickville will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Liley Funeral Chapel in Patton. The Rev. Morris Cobb will officiate, with burial in Sedgewickville Baptist Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Mildred Berenice Hartsfield of Jackson will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel. The Rev. William Bernauer will officiate, with burial in Jackson City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. Friday...

ST. MARYS Graveside service for Christopher Michael Cureton Lee will be held at 2 p.m. today at Baker Cemetery in Lutesville. The Rev. Paul Jordan will officiate. Baker Funeral Home at Lutesville is in charge of arrangements. The infant, son of Kevin M. Lee and Cheryl L. Cureton, died at birth Tuesday, Dec. 18, 1990, at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital in Ste. Genevieve...

LOWNDES -- Funeral service for Mrs. Melba Violet Fischer of Lowndes will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Lloyd Miler will officiate, with burial in New Hope-McGee Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Mrs. Wanda Rae Stanley of Scott City will be held at 9:30 a.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Bill Burke will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

WAPPAPELLO -- Funeral service for Leonard Ford of Wappapello will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Clinton Woodfin will officiate, assisted by the Rev. James Johns. Burial will be in Morgan Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-9 p.m. today...

ANNA, Ill. -- Mrs. Mary Lou McCord of Anna died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1990, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was 74 years old. She was born Dec. 8, 1916, in Anna, daughter of Oscar and Aurelia Toler Granay. She married William Oliver McCord in 1939, who preceded her in death Aug. 1, 1990...

MILLERSVILLE -- Funeral service for Dale Cornell of Millersville Route 1 will be held at 11 a.m. today at Mccombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Ronnie Brown will officiate, with burial in Old Salem Cemetery near here. Cornell, 70 years old, died Monday, Dec. 17, 1990, at St. Francis Medical Center...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Irene Agnes Lewis, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Dec. 19, 1990 at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born July 21, 1910 in Oran, daughter of William Pobst Mary Menz Pobst. She married Carl J. Lewis Dec. 15, 1928 in Oran. He preceded her in death Nov. 14, 1983...

Steve Hunt is a graduate of Cape Central High School and is currently a junior at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. Have our nation's colleges become hotbeds of liberal teaching where vocal radicals hold cowering administrators at bay, or are they still places where students can easily accept or reject ideas in their quest for knowledge?...

I HEARD OUR politicians just got a large raise, or it was just implemented very recently? Please print if this is so, and if they did, when was it passed, who was it passed by, how much is it, to whom, and when do they start getting it? Also, there has been a lot of earthquake activity around the world since Dec. ...

I TALKED WITH a gasoline wholesaler Dec. 17. The wholesale price of regular no lead on the date mentioned was .92 to .93 cents per gallon. Retail pump price for regular no lead in Cape Girardeau and Jackson on this same date was approximately $1.16 per gallon. It would seem there is approximately a 23-cent-per-gallon difference between the wholesale costs to the retailer and the retailer's price to the consumer. Now, my question is, who is the culprit? Thank you...

I'D LIKE FOR somebody to tell me what kind of person would call people on the telephone and talk filthy to them. I don't know what kind of people these are. They must be cowards. If they were any kind of people at all they ought to give their name to the people if they're mad at them. Why would they want to call them and talk such filth and then hang up? What kind of people are these people? Thank you...

YES, I JUST wanted to say that I think it's disgusting about people wanting to celebrate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday when there are a lot of other people who have accomplished a lot more that could be celebrated and you don't hear anything about them wanting to be celebrated. I think this deal with Martin Luther King, Jr. is blown out of proportion. Thank you...

IF THERE is a war in Kuwait, will we have to rebuild the homes, cities and country for them after the way, like we have done in the past in other countries where we have engaged in war? I haven't seen this question addressed in the newspaper. Can someone answer it for me?...

I NOTED IN the Sunday morning paper that many people called Speak Out about Browning and Stewart, and as usual the people at the Southeast Missourian had a lot of smart cracks to make back at them. Here a while back, two or three weeks ago, the Southeast Missourian had an editorial about Dr. ...