Stories from Tuesday, January 22, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A rally in support of troops serving in the Middle East will be held on the Southeast Missouri State University campus today at 6 p.m. The "Yellow Ribbon Rally" will be held in front of Academic Auditorium. Those who attend are asked to bring candles and lighters. Yellow ribbons will be distributed as a symbol of support...

CAPE GIRARDEAU It was not who was there, but who wasn't that concerned speakers at a program honoring the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King at Southeast Missouri State University Monday. About 150 people turned out for the program, held at Academic Auditorium. That number included 42 members of the Black Student Fellowship Choir, who performed at the event...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department is asking the Federal Highway Administration to appoint it as the lead agency for a feasibility study on whether to build a new east-west highway being promoted as Interstate 66. Wayne Muri, chief engineer for the department, said during a recent visit to Cape Girardeau that he hoped to learn later this month whether his department would be chosen to lead the study...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A new law requiring Missouri high schools to report the names of known dropouts puts an added impetus on the Adult Basic Education Program here. High schools are required to report names to the state's "Literacy Hotline" so state and local adult education officials can provide dropouts with information about adult education and GED classes...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Although preliminary 1990 census figures show growth in Cape Girardeau apparently was stunted during the 1980s, officials here say the city's population likely will rebound and swell during the next decade. City Manager J. Ronald Fischer said Monday the infrastructure is in place to allow for "orderly" growth that won't overburden the city's tax base and available services for streets, sewers and other utilities...

CHAFFEE -- City officials Monday announced their intention to place a bond issue on the April ballot for improvements to the city's waste-water treatment plant. Chaffee City Council members took no action on the matter at a meeting Monday night, but City Attorney David Summers said the council would have to do so by its next meeting Feb. 4 to get the issue on the ballot...

JACKSON -- Nearly a year ago the Jackson R-2 School District asked the city for a special-use permit to build a school-bus and maintenance garage near the site of its new Orchard Lane Elementary School. But the request was withdrawn in April because of opposition from neighbors...

PERRYVILLE -- The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission may lose a portion of its funding from the state. "We've been notified that the governor proposes zeroing out the state funding to regional planning in the new budget," said Thomas G. Tucker, executive director of the Southeast commission, one of 20 such organizations around the state...

LT. J.G. TIMOTHY COLYER U.S. NAVY Colyer is the son of Bill and Mitzi Colyer and grandson of E.A. and Wilma Colyer of McClure, Ill. He is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, where he was a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He is married to the former Cathie Shelton of Metropolis, Ill...

SCOTT CITY -- The Scott City Council will again consider putting a one-half-cent sales-tax increase proposal before Scott City voters. Funds generated from the tax would be used for capital improvements, specifically for street repairs and improvements, said Mayor Shirley Young...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cape Girardeau Postmaster Mike Keefe said last week signing a lease for the proposed automated mail processing center has been pushed back again, this time to April 29. The newest delay pushes the date back seven months beyond the original Sept. 30, 1990 deadline...

So read the headline over a lengthy (and excellent) News Analysis article in Friday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Ironic, isn't it? Some of us have spent decades working and fighting for peace through strength, including the high-tech weapons that mean the difference in modern warfare. For this we get called warmongers, supporters of the "military-industrial complex" and worse, by the sort of people who look to the editorial page of the Post-Dispatch for guidance on policy...

Crime doesn't pay in Cape Girardeau. In fact, municipal court violators will find the price of crime has climbed here. About 75 percent of the city fees were increased in early January by Municipal Court Judge Ed Calvin. To say that the city fines were increased merely to generate more revenues is shortsighted. Judge Calvin's actions came not at the urging of the city for increased earnings, but by his own judgment to deter crime...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for George E. Mitchell of Cape Girardeau will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Neil Stein will officiate and burial will be in Fairmont Cemetery in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Apollo String Quartet will be performing tonight at Old St. Vincent's Church on Main Street. The performance begins at 8 p.m. and doors open at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for the general public and $3 for students, senior citizens and Community Concert Association card holders. Admission is free with a university ID card...

ANNISTON -- Funeral service for Paul Busby of Anniston will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Revs. James Bolden and Jesse Garrett officiated, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Busby, 82 years old, died Sunday, Jan. 20, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

NEW HAMBURG -- Catherine (Katie) Klipfel, 76, of New Hamburg died Sunday, Jan. 20, 1991 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 28, 1914 in New Hamburg, daughter of the late Frank and Veronica Hoefler Heuring. She was a retired sewing machine operator for Buckstein Pants Factory in Chaffee. She was also a member of St. Lawrence Catholic Church in New Hamburg, a member of St. Ann Sodality in New Hamburg and a member of the Chaffee R.S.V.P...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Hopwood, 3102 Dogwood, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:09 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, 1990. Name, Nicholas Graham. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Hopwood is the former Kandi Demaree, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Demaree of Malden. Hopwood is owner of Cape Central Airways, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hopwood of Malden...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Funeral service for the Rev. Joe Lentz of Tamms, Ill. will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Tamms Pentecostal Church. Burial will be in the Alto Pass, Ill. Cemetery. Mr. Lentz died Monday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was 69...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Anthony Keele of Cape Girardeau was named to the Harding University dean's list for the fall semester. Keele is a sophomore majoring in mathematics at the Searcy, Ark., school. To be named to the list, a student must achieve a grade-point average of at least 3.5...

JACKSON - Amy Mills, program director for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Gateway Area Chapter, has announced that Mary Kathryn Meyer and her son, Chad Meyer, both of Jackson, have been chosen again this year as local coordinators for the Multiple Sclerosis "Super Cities Walk." The walk is scheduled April 7 at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...

Joseph Blair Selle, et al, to Kenneth J. and Judith A. Voepel, two tracts; Robert J. and Nancy H. Stiegemeyer to the Stiegemeyer Family Trust; Burette L. Cargle Jr. and Lavina Cargle to Vencil H. and Verna M. Duncan; Charles W. Cauble to the Charles W. Cauble Trust; Charline F. Caldwell to the Charline F. Caldwell Trust; The Eugene F. McDonald Trust to the Marjorie L. McDonald Trust...