Stories from Tuesday, February 26, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- News Monday of an Iraqi Scud missile attack that White House spokesmen say killed at least 27 U.S. servicemen and left a number of others injured or missing was not taken lightly by local residents, including one man who called the attack "sickening."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Judy Below, who has owned Custom Design Inc. for almost five years, says she credits her employees for much of her success in the business of manufacturing custom-made draperies and bed spreads. "I always remember a remark made by a boss several years back," said Below. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Almost 1,200 new trees will arrive in Cape Girardeau this spring thanks to recycling efforts of hundreds of local residents. Wednesday marks the final day for the Department of Natural Resources' "paper to trees" recycling project in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Southeast Missouri highway officials and civic leaders are scheduled to testify Friday at a congressional subcommittee hearing in the St. Louis area. Congressman Bill Emerson, a Cape Girardeau Republican, announced Monday the hearing by the House Public Works subcommittee on surface transportation...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Tickets can still be obtained for the Fourth Annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast Friday at the Show Me Center. The featured speaker will be former U.S. Sen. Bill Armstrong of Colorado, who served 12 years in the Senate and six years in the U.S. House of Representatives. Armstrong left national politics in January after announcing last year that he would not seek another Senate term...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - A proposed five-cent property tax to be voted on April 2 to fund services for the elderly in Cape Girardeau County would cost the owner of a $40,000 home about $4 a year. The information was released Monday by the Cape Girardeau Council on Aging, a proponent of the tax. The council does business as the Cape Nutrition Center...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Survey boats from the Army Corps of Engineers took depth soundings in the John L. Wescoat Marina and Mississippi River Access Point at Trail of Tears State Park Sunday. A Corps spokesman said the soundings of the bottom of the marina will determine if modifications made nearly four years ago to a wing dike on the north side of the harbor has reduced the sedimentation problem...

2ND LT. RANDY W. ZIMMERMAN U.S. ARMY Zimmerman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Zimmerman of Scott City. A 1985 graduate of Scott City High School, he went on to graduate from Southeast Missouri State University, majoring in Criminal Justice and minoring in Military Law...

SCOTT CITY -- The first meeting of Scott City's Desert Storm Support Group will be tonight at 7 p.m. in the council chambers at City Hall. Barbara McKeon, a nurse counselor at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, will speak about the benefits a support group can offer people who have loved ones in the gulf...

Every candidate running for lieutenant governor in the past 20 years has promised voters he or she would serve as the common man's ombudsman, his representative within the Capitol chambers. Few seldom even approach the honorable calling of looking after the interests of us common folk, but the promise is revived every four years all the same...

Dr. Bill Terry reminds everyone that the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast is this Friday morning at 7:30 at the Show Me Center. A large crowd is expected, but tickets ($8.75 for the speaker, a hearty breakfast buffet and coffee/juice) are still available from him at 334-4635...

One of the unfathomable disclosures Americans have come to grips with in recent years is that school children in the United States have fallen behind their peers from other countries in the study of science and mathematics. For years, America took pride in its educational and technological leadership; being surpassed by nations such as Japan is certainly a blow to that self-image. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Keller of Jackson, St. Joseph's Hospital in St. Louis, Saturday, Jan. 26, 1991. Name, Laura Suzanne. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Keller is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Moll of Jackson Route 2, and is employed by Solid Software of Cape Girardeau. Keller is employed by Tandem Computers in St. Louis, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rex Keller of Dexter Route 4...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Jean K. Hardy of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Revs. Cy Smith and Tom Shoger will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Leon Frank Walter of Ironton will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Jerry Hingle will officiate, with burial in Friend Cemetery at Oran. VFW Post 3838 will conduct graveside rites...

LUTESVILLE -- Richard A. Kittle of Lutesville died Saturday, Feb. 23, 1991, in a farm tractor accident 10 miles north of Marble Hill. He was 29 years old. He was born July 23, 1961, in Geneva, Ill., son of Milton and Judith Smith Kittle. Kittle moved to this area four months ago from Chicago, and was a press operator at Ceramo in Jackson...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for J.E. (Bud) Stroder of Calvert City, Ky., will be held at 10 a.m. today at Lindsey Funeral Home in Paducah, Ky. The Rev. Jim Gerhart will officiate, with burial in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens near Paducah. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. until service...

BENTON -- Four area blood drives have been scheduled in early March. They are set for: Sunday, at Kelso. March 6, at Patton. March 7, at Benton. March 8, at Oran. The American Red Cross will be a co-sponsor of the four blood drives. The Kelso Jaycees will co-sponsor the drive at St. Augustine School Gym in Kelso from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m...