Stories from Thursday, March 7, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Four area high-school students will present a musical recital on Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau. The public is invited to attend the recital, which will feature organists Ryan Kasten and Christy Roethemeyer, both of Jackson, and Katy Stein of Cape Girardeau. Also performing will be Chris Robins, oboist, who was selected as first-chair oboist at the January convention of the Missouri Music Educators Association...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Gallery 100 and the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts will present a new juried exhibition, the Midwest Sculpture Show, at Gallery 100 Sunday. An opening reception and awards presentation will be held from 2-4 p.m. at the gallery...

Org~an~izers hope to have community theater in Cape Girardeau back at center stage later this year with productions involving many people from the community. After several months of work, Cape's community theater group, The Broadway Players, has been restructured...

JACKSON -- Jackson High School's spring production, "Our Miss Brooks," will be performed Friday and Saturday in the school auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The play, written by R.J. Mann and adapted by Christopher Sergel, is about a young high-school English teacher, Miss Brooks, who falls in love with the school's coach, Hugo Longacre...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A benefit concert by the Hillbilly Ken Show will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Academic Auditorium on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The show will benefit the Cape Nutrition Center's building fund. The Hillbilly Ken Show is organized by Ken Martin, who performs at the Ole Chuck Wagon restaurant in Cape Girardeau. Musicians are Greg Colyer, Mike Williamson and Michael Hicks...

JOHNNY JAMES' IDEA of rotating the school principals was a good one, but a better idea yet is to rotate classroom teachers. I NOTICED A couple of comments about the Jaycee Golf Course in the paper in regards to ownership. The city does not own the golf course; the Cape Girardeau Jaycees own the golf course. So, in other words, the city cannot sell it...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Beer and concerts at the Show Me Center shouldn't be mixed, the center's Board of Managers decided Wednesday. Board members voted unanimously at a meeting to stay with the center's current alcohol sales policy, which gives the center's director the discretion of deciding whether alcohol should be sold at an event. But the board amended the policy to prohibit the sale of beer at concerts...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Faculty members at Southeast Missouri State University are pushing for a 4 percent across-the-board pay raise for the 1991-92 fiscal year. In addition, they want the university to absorb an anticipated 25 percent increase in the cost of family medical/tax sheltered annuity benefits...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cable Television Citizens Committee has nearly completed the first phase of its work to review the city's franchise agreement with TCI Cablevision, the local cable television operator. At its meeting Wednesday, committee Chairman Michael Maguire said the "information gathering" phase of the committee's work will conclude with a public hearing, which has yet to be scheduled...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Area educators, who participated in a "Day of Concern" at the state Capitol in Jefferson City Wednesday, felt the effort was productive and a good way to express concern over the level of funding for education in Missouri. "They were very receptive to us and I think the impression was left that the teachers of Missouri, the people that support education in Missouri, are showing there is a great need for improving education, both financially and any other way possible that we can," observed Roger Tatum, superintendent at Oak Ridge, which dismissed classes so all teachers could participate.. ...

Last in a series CAPE GIRARDEAU Adult learner David Breth begins his school day by reading the Southeast Missourian newspaper. Breth, a student in the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, uses the newspaper to exercise the new skills he is learning in his adult basic education classes. Plus, he said, he likes to read the newspaper...

SPEC. WILLIAM A. NOEL U.S. ARMY RESERVE Spec. Noel joinied the Army Reserves in 1988. He was assigned to the D-2 21st General Hospital in Cape Girardeau. After being called for active duty, he was deployed to Saudi Arabia in late December. He is now with the 145th Medical Unit. His parents are Henry and Barbara Noel of Jackson, who say they've received a letter and a phone call from him since he's been in Saudi Arabia...

SCOTT CITY -- A public hearing to consider the annexation of four acres of property located just north of Nash Road has been set for March 18. The Scott City Council set the hearing at a Wednesday meeting. The property is owned by Gene and Edvira Rhodes...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Airport Advisory Board Wednesday recommended the city continue efforts to persuade the Federal Aviation Administration to allow the city to retain the Municipal Airport control tower contract. Airport Manager Mark Seesing said following a closed meeting of the board that a letter will be sent this week to FAA officials contending the city will be better able to assure safer and more reliable control tower service than would a private company...

JEFFERSON CITY - After a lot of careful consideration, Rep. Mary Kasten, R-Cape Girardeau, voted Wednesday against removing $5 million from the state budget to help fund construction of a new stadium-convention center expansion in St. Louis. "I finally concluded it was a vote for progress," said Kasten, who is also a member of the House Budget Committee that prepared the budget bills now being considered by the full House...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A Marine Reservist stationed in Saudi Arabia says it could be anywhere from two weeks to two months before his platoon is sent home. In a telephone call from an air base near Jabayl, Saudi Arabia, Cpl. Mitch Callis told the Southeast Missourian his platoon is readying to leave for the United States...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Ruby Alberta Stevens, 77, of Scott City, was held Wednesday at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Home. Burial followed in Lightener Memorial Cemetery. The incorrect date of the funeral service was published in the Southeast Missourian Wednesday. We regret the error...

BERTRAND -- Funeral service for Lawrence Lewis Sr. of Bertrand will be held at 1 p.m. today at Cornerstone General Baptist Church. The Rev. Jim Romine and Jeffrey Vaughn will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Friends may call at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston from 9-11:30 a.m. today...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Mrs. Ambrosia (Rose) Tucker of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent's Church. The Rev. Larry Koncewicz will officiate, with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Drayton Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Fred Lee Roberts of the Missouri Veterans Home died there Wednesday, March 6, 1991. He was born Sept. 15, 1917, in St. Louis, son of Harry and Hazel Roberts. Roberts was formerly a guard at Jefferson Resort. He was of the Baptist faith, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Memorial service for Dr. David J. Clark, 3 Starwood, will be held at noon Friday at First Christian Church. The Revs. Wallace Brown and Tracy Carroll and Chaplain Art Kelley will officiate. Private burial will be in Memorial Park. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-7 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Carol Elliot Byrd of the Lutheran Home will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Revs. Neil Stein and James Sanderson will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-6 p.m. today...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Lyman Estes of Essex, formerly of Charleston, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at McMikle Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Danny Tackett will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery near here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5:30 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Parents of junior high students in Cape Girardeau will be locked in Friday during an event designed to provide new parenting skills. The lock-in is sponsored by the Drug Prevention team at the junior high. Jim Hicks, a member of the team, said the lock-in is designed to provide information to parents and also "to help parents be supportive of other parents. We also want to be more effective in encouraging our children to be alcohol and substance free."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Central High School orchestra will perform a benefit concert tonight at 7 p.m. at the Central High Auditorium. Orchestra director Melvin Gilhaus said the proceeds will go toward a planned concert tour to Washington D.C. later this month...

Businesses recognize that they must get involved in local education for the good of their own future work force: More than one-fourth of Missouri's adult population reads and performs at a level below eighth grade. More than 10 percent of the state's adults read and perform at a level below fourth grade...

With Tuesday's shocking news the untimely death of surgeon David Clark just days short of his 46th birthday Cape Girardeau and our health care community have suffered a dreadful blow. If anywhere there was a more highly skilled general surgeon, I don't know of that person. ...

Southeast Missouri State University's athletic teams have progressed admirably through what promised to be an interesting year, the last in NCAA Division II. The teams make the jump this autumn to Division I athletics, a higher level of competition. Indian and Otahkian teams have shown themselves in excellent form during this transitional period and appear as prepared as possible for the challenges ahead...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Congress has authorized a new medal which will honor Pearl Harbor survivors during 1991 - the 50th anniversary year of the battle. Jim McLain, a member of Missouri Chapter 3 of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association, is trying to get the word out to area survivors as well as widows or other relatives of servicemen who served at Pearl Harbor. Individuals must apply for the commemorative medal to receive it, he explained...

JACKSON - The East Jackson Boulevard water main project is apparently back on schedule again. The project was delayed when the low bidder did not post a performance bond in January. On Monday, the Jackson board of aldermen opened bids for a second time on the project...

KELSO -- Voters here and those living in an area proposed for annexation by Kelso overwhelmingly approved the proposal in separate elections Tuesday, reported Scott County Clerk Bob Kielhofner. The vote within the Kelso limits was 77-0 and the vote in the area proposed for annexation was 26-1, said Kielhofner. Simple majorities were needed for the annexation, he said...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- There has been a delay in the American Heart Association residential campaign in Cape Girardeau, according to Cynthia Seabaugh, southeast regional coordinator. Due to a delay in obtaining block workers and preparing residential kits to mail, local volunteers should expect to receive their packets sometime this week...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School will offer a course in business math beginning March 13 from 6-8 p.m. The course will run for six weeks and costs $30, plus the book. The course builds on basic knowledge of mathematics. Students will learn to use math functions in realistic business situations like inventory, banking, budgets, sales and payroll...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- John Eberhart Cozean of Cape Girardeau, has qualified for the 1990 fall semester Dean's List at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C. To be named to the Dean's List, students much achieve a grade point average of 3.0 or better...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Kristin Schenimann of Cape Girardeau has been named to the dean's list at William Woods College in Fulton for the 1990 winter term. Students on the dean's list earned above a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale. Schenimann is the daughter of Robert Schenimann and Jinny Schenimann, both of Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A seminar Saturday will focus on the adoption of foreign children. Jim Richardson of Lutheran Children and Family Services will be the guest speaker. Molly Strickland, with Lutheran Family and Children Services, said a panel of parents who have adopted internationally will share their personal experiences. Any family interested in adoption, adult adoptees and birth parents are invited to attend...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Charles Quilty, who visited Jordan and Iraq late last year, will speak tonight at St. Marks Lutheran Church, 1900 Cape La Croix Rd. at 7 p.m. He will talk about his experience there and show slides. A member of the "Cross the Line" national delegation, Quilty spent 10 days in the two countries. The delegation delivered nearly 1,000 pounds of medicine to hospitals and refugee camps...