Stories from Tuesday, February 19, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- In hopes of capturing the attention of state legislators and securing additional funding for education, the Missouri State Teachers Association is hosting a "Day of Decision" March 6. Thousands of educators and other individuals interested in education from across the state are expected to converge on the state capitol to ask political leaders for more support for education...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The City Council Wednesday will consider amending the city code to allow restricted parking along Kage Hills Drive. The council in December approved a law that prohibited parking on the street, but 11 of the street's 16 residents protested the law and asked that parking be allowed on at least one side of the street...

DEXTER - For the third time in a little over seven years, voters of the 156th state representative district are going to the polls in a special election to fill a vacancy for their seat in the Missouri House of Representatives. Polls will be open until 7 p.m. today as Democrat Marilyn Williams and Republican Jerry Seabaugh battle for the right to claim the seat vacated by Jerry Howard...

JACKSON -- Over 60 people crowded into the Jackson Board of Aldermen meeting room Monday night for a rezoning hearing about tracts of land along East Jackson Boulevard. The properties extend from the Highway 25 intersection eastward to near the intersection with the Old Cape Road...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A turn-of-the-century style covered pavilion is one of the ideas suggested for a downtown Cape Girardeau project by the Downtown Merchants Association. "This may be a `down the road' project for the association," said Evelyn Boardman, marketing director for the group. "There are other projects, which are more immediate."...

SCOTT CITY -- Jennifer Bertrand and Emily Wipfler, juniors at Scott City High School, have been awarded the national "I Dare You Leadership Award." The award is presented to the two juniors at the school who exhibit personal integrity, balanced living and a potential for leadership...

RPI MICHAEL HUTCHINS U.S. NAVY RPI Hutchins is the son of Jim Hutchins of Farmington and LaJune Hutchins of Arnold, formerly of Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Central High School in 1980 and joined the Army the same year. He was a Religious Programmer at Camp Pendleton, Calif., before being deployed to Saudi Arabia in September with the 11th Marine Regiment...

One of the most interesting and compelling public figures writing and speaking today is one David Horowitz, an enormously articulate ex-leftist who once edited Ramparts magazine, a principal organ of the revolutionary Movement of the New Left during the '60s. Horowitz came to see the error of his former ways in pursuing leftist causes, and has written a remarkable book on his years in that misbegotten "Movement."...

The recent Cape Girardeau County grand jury clearly benefited our local court system and proved once again to be a good tool for the prosecution of some criminals, particularly drug dealers. Employed properly, grand juries provide certain economies of scale for a county. With a grand jury, prosecutors can run a large number of cases through the court system in a relatively short period of time...

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Service for Christy Lynn Schaefer of Wolf Lake will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the auditorium of Shawnee High School near here with Father Tom Miller officiating. Burial will be in Casper Cemetery north of Anna. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Lutz-Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna, and after 1 p.m. Wednesday at Shawnee High School. A wake service will be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Russell A. McCann, 2501 Janet, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Tim McClard will officiate. Burial will be in Morgan Memorial Park at Advance, with the Rev. Clinton Woodfin officiating...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral mass for Leo J. Trapp of Chaffee will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Ambrose Church. The Rev. John Cantore will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here after 3 p.m. today. The rosary will be at 7...

NEW MADRID -- Funeral servide for Mrs. Lela LaPlant of New Madrid was held Monday at Richards Funeral Home here. The Rev. Paul Lathum officiated, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery here. Mrs. LaPlant, 73 years old, died Saturday, Feb. 16, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Funeral service for Fred LaBruyere of Herndon, Va., will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at West Side Church of God. Burial will be in Forest Hills Cemetery near Morley. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Harold N. (Pete) Chartrau of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. A.G. Hampton will officiate, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery at New Madrid. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today, with Masonic rites at 7:30...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for David O. Howe of Baton Rouge, La., was held at Welsh Funeral Home there Feb. 11. Burial was in Greenoaks Memorial Park. Howe, 74 years old, died Thursday, Feb. 7, 1991, at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Route...

WELL, MY FRUSTRATIONS have reached the point where I'm doing something I thought I'd never do, which is call Speak Out. I am tired of watching the news media as it misreports the affairs of the war in the gulf. I'm tired of watching and listening to those people, concentrating on the many, many people in Kuwait and Iraq who have been murdered by Saddam Hussein, and yet, according to the news, they point the finger of accusation at the troops who are fighting in the gulf region trying to preserve freedom. ...

I SAW AN ARTICLE in the Friday's Standard at Sikeston by a Mrs. Randol on the Giboney Cemetery being destroyed at Scott City which it is one of the oldest cemeteries in Scott County. I think it would be interesting if the paper would run the article. I think somebody ought to look into the destruction and the removal of those tombstones especially since they're going to build houses on the oldest cemetery in Scott County...