Stories from Thursday, January 10, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Paintings and pastels by Mary Stephanie Naunheim will be featured at the first exhibit of the new year at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. The exhibit opens today and runs through Jan. 25. A reception will be held Jan. 17 at 1 p.m. at the museum...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A long-awaited decision on the site for a proposed regional mail processing center locally may be made as soon as Friday by United States Postal Service officials. Local and division administrators are meeting Friday in the Kansas City division headquarters to review data and determine a choice...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- If you're a former Boy Scout who attained Scouting's highest rank of Eagle, the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council wants to hear from you. The Boy Scouts of America has launched a decade-long effort to locate and identify all former Boy Scouts who are Eagle Scouts...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ken Martin has been entertaining people since his first teen year. "I was 13 years old when I first played before a crowd," says Martin, "This was in the early 1960s, and I played in a rock 'n' roll band at Teen Town here." Twenty-nine years later Martin is still entertaining people in Southeast Missouri as a singer, musician, and comedian...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ricky Van Shelton, Patty Loveless and Mark Collie will entertain country music fans at the Show Me Center Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. The Cape Girardeau performance is the first of a national tour by the three sponsored by Red Man Tobacco. Tickets go on sale Saturday at 9 a.m. at the Show Me Center box office and other ticket outlets. Tickets also may be obtained by calling the 24-hour ticket line at 651-5000...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The best and brightest of the region's vocal and instrumental students will perform at Brandt Music Hall on two Sundays in February. Performers will be submitted by their music teachers, and teachers are limited to one student for each recital...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Three dozen Cape Girardeau businesses may be bought or sold depending on the role of the dice in a game of "high finance and big money" named for the city. Wes Holly of Mount Juliet, Tenn., has created a series of games named for different communities and is working on one for Cape Girardeau. The game is based on the Monopoly board game...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The 1991 Southeast Missouri Honors Wind Ensemble will present a concert in Rose Theatre on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University Saturday at 7:30 p.m. The concert is free and open to the public. The band is comprised of 50 high-school students chosen by audition from among several hundred young people representing 40 Missouri schools...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Two architectural firms will present design proposals for a new College of Business Administration building at a special meeting Friday of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents. The meeting comes as the university is gearing up for the start of spring-semester classes Monday...

JEFFERSON CITY - Southeast Missouri members of the Missouri House of Representatives were generally complimentary of comments made by Speaker Bob Griffin in his opening-day address to the 163-member chamber Wednesday. Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Blackmar is scheduled to deliver the annual State of the Judiciary address this morning...

JACKSON - A mid-morning traffic accident here Wednesday claimed the lives of two St. Louis County women. The accident, involving an empty gasoline tanker truck and a station wagon, occurred at 8:55 a.m. on Highway 72 at the West Lane intersection near Pioneer Orchard...

Also, the item failed to say that Ayers completed basic training at Fort Jackson, S.C. Information provided to the Southeast Missourian on his job description was incorrect. (CORRECTION RAN 1-11-91, PAGE 2) PFC ELMER LEE AYERS U.S. ARMY Private Ayers is the son of Charles and Luella Ayers of Jackson...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Sgt. Robert Scott of the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department Wednesday received the 1990 Timothy J. Ruopp award for outstanding and distinguished service. Sheriff Norman Copeland presented the award to Scott, saying he was "proud" to have him working in the department...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Memorial service for Richard Kent Hahs of Oakland, Calif., will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Liley Funeral Chapel in Lutesville. The Rev. Rick Broadway will officiate, with burial in Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Saturday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Like it or not, how you move conveys a message about who you are, says dancer Dana Goodin Vanoni. "You might as well make the message a good one," she told drama and music students at Cape Central High School Wednesday. Vanoni, who grew up in Cape Girardeau, has lived and worked in Italy for the past four years...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Everett E. Ballard of Sikeston will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. The Rev. Amel Shibley will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here after 4 p.m. today. Parish prayers are at 7...

LUTESVILLE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Opal M. Barks of Dexter will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Liley Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Gerald Huffman and Dr. John Englehart, D.O., will officiate. Burial will be in Baker Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Friday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Fred R. Reynolds of St. Louis will be held Friday in St. Louis. Burial will also be in St. Louis. Reynolds, 47 years old, died unexpectedly Monday, Jan. 7, 1991, while at work. He was born July 8, 1943, in Cape, son of Ray and Nellie Reynolds...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- Funeral service for Mrs. Birdie Goins of Olmsted will be held at 11 a.m. today at Crain Funeral Chapel in Mounds. The Rev. Randy Douglass will officiate, with burial in Masonic Cemetery at Grand Chain. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Mrs. Hazel Pirtle of Paducah, Ky., will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Eugene Williams will officiate, with burial in Beechwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Friday...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Sadie Slinkard of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Otto Steinhaus will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Ruby Turner of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. W. Michael Woods will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Friday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The agriculture business in the United States now offers more challenges to young people who plan to pursue a career in it, but it also offers more opportunities, agriculture leaders say. About 150 high schools students from around the state attended a "Greenhand Motivational Conference" held Wednesday at Southeast Missouri State University. The conference was sponsored by the Future Farmers of America...

For most of 1990, our geniuses in Washington labored, and labored, and labored, and brought forth a "Deficit Reduction Agreement." As predicted here on several occasions recently, the federal deficit not only is not shrinking it is now expanding, as the spenders are loosed, and less-than-robust revenues from a recession-shrunken economy widen the gap...

Missouri is a large state with a great many infrastructure needs. The state's rivers and roads carry with them the potential for what this state can become economically. Their proper utilization, maintenance and development will shape Missouri deep into the next century. While governmental expenditures on public works projects are dependent on a variety of factors, some of them not necessarily related to need, this region is at least well-positioned in terms of federal representation...

To the Editor: I find the political cartoon on Page 8A of your Jan. 7 issue extremely distasteful if not sick! I would have preferred not to see it and can see no reasonable purpose in printing it. How could this person possibly know how Nancy Cruzan felt? It's a shame you did not use some of your wisdom and authority to choose not to publish this trash!...

To the Editor: I am opposed to the new NC-17 rating for movies and feel it is simply a "cover up" to bring the previously X-rated films into our neighborhood movie theatres. I do believe pornography is a serious problem in our society today and I ask you not to accept any ads for NC-17 movies...

To the Editor: I read your article and saw the KFVS-12 TV clip on a local doctor who was complaining about the alleged unfairness in having to leave his stepchildren and second wife in order to honor his military commitment to his country, a duty for which he has, over the years, been handsomely paid. The doctor painted himself as responding to some higher calling. He missed his point...

I WOULD LIKE to express my feelings about the Cruzan family. I recently lost a son in an accident. When we got to the hospital we were told he was brain dead. Brain dead means several things can happen. As time went on I knew he would never live a life of his own or know anything that was going on around him. ...

MY MOTHER MAKES me so angry. Maybe she'll see herself if she reads this. Dear Mother: I love you, but you make it so hard and you hurt me so much when I try to talk to you and you don't listen. You talk at me and over me, and you never listen to me. Listen to what I'm saying when I talk to you. I love you, but I could love you a whole lot more if you'd just listen...

LAST NIGHT I stopped in a local bar for a drink to unwind. I was approached by some guy who thought he was God's gift to women; but he was so drunk he couldn't keep his eyes open and stand in one spot. Anything I told him last night he wouldn't have heard or wouldn't have remembered, but I'd like to tell him now: You're really disgusting. A man can be a drunk, but, honey, a drunk sure can't be a man. I hope you see yourself in the mirror and straighten up before it's too late. Thank you...

ST. LOUIS The Southeast Missouri State University Otahkians continue to defy heavy odds and a league penalty that was supposed to render them also-rans in the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association women's basketball race. The Otahkians, playing without five players three of whom are starters for the third time under an MIAA sanction, drubbed the Missouri-St. Louis Riverwomen 91-67 here Wednesday night to improve to 10-2 overall and 2-1 in league play...

ST. LOUIS One serious second-half run isn't enough to put a Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association opponent like Missouri-St. Louis out of contention. In fact, Southeast Missouri State's 16-3 run early in the second half wasn't enough firepower to stun the Rivermen, who went on to post a convincing 85-67 victory over the Tribe here Wednesday night...

(The following "Year in Review" articles were compiled by Sharon Sanders, Southeast Missourian librarian. They are the last installments of the 1990 monthly reviews.) November "Quiet" describes traditionally prank-filled Halloween holiday in area; spokesmen for four of five area law enforcement agencies used word to describe holiday in their jurisdictions; walkways of West Park Mall became evening trick-or-treat routes for about 1,200 adults...

(The following "Year in Review" articles were compiled by Sharon Sanders, Southeast Missourian librarian. They are the last installments of the 1990 monthly reviews.) December 2. Four county courthouses in Southeast Missouri plan to close Monday because of predicted earthquake for that day: Scott, Mississippi, Bollinger and Ripley...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Two Cape Girardeau residents have earned scholarships at William Jewell College. Laura Dew has received an athletic scholarship. Byron Karanthanos received a Trustee and athletic scholarship. Dew is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dew. Karanthanos is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Demetrius Karathanos...