Stories from Wednesday, March 20, 1991

The next American presidential election is 594 days away and some folks, mostly those with press credentials, are getting antsy about it. The question was put to Speaker of the House Thomas Foley a couple of weeks ago: "Where are the Democratic candidates?"...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - It's the beginning of spring in Southeast Missouri. The March flowers are blooming, and the white jasmine flower used to flavor tea has been spreading its fragrant perfume since February. In Cape Girardeau, however, one of the old landmarks of brick, stone and wood, stands deserted and boarded on the southwest corner of Broadway and Pacific. It's waiting patiently to be recognized for the once important role it played in the city's history...

SIKESTON -- The Scott County Central School District will hold kindergarten pre-enrollment March 27 and 28 from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day. The child must be five years old before July 1 to enroll. Parents need to bring the child's birth certificate and shot records. An appointment will be made at this time to test the child at a later date...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Farmington High School successfully defended its championship title at the sixth annual Physics Olympics held at Southeast Missouri State University March 11. The Physics Olympics is a series of competitive events for high school physics students based on the fundamental concepts of physics. Five-person teams from 11 area high schools were judged on their performance in 11 events...

PERRYVILLE - Nancy Anderson never intended to be a teacher, but she's happy about her career decision. Anderson teaches sixth grade at Perryville School where she has taught for the last 15 years. "After graduating from college, I substitute taught while looking for a job," Anderson said...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Student Recreation Center at Southeast Missouri State University has been selected as a "Facility of Distinction" by the National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA). Southeast's Student Recreation Center will be featured in the NIRSA publication "Outstanding Sports Facilities II." The publication series features new, expanded and renovated indoor recreational sports and physical education facilities...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - St. Francis Medical Center will host benefit basketball and volleyball tournaments next month to help raise money for Thanksgiving meals for needy families this fall. The "St. Francis Sports/Fun Night" will be held April 6 at the Cape Central Junior High School gym. Activities begin at 5:30 p.m...

As of April 1, Cape Girardeau public schools will be dishing out more than reading, writing and arithmetic. Workers at May Greene will be serving breakfast as part of a pilot program approved last week by the Board of Education. Most of the program funds will come from the federal government. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Gary A. Garbs of St. Louis County, 1:41 p.m. Friday, March 8, 1991. Name, Chelsea Ann. Weight, 8 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Garbs is the former Melanie Hutson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Mueller of Cape Girardeau, and is a teacher in the Hazelwood School District. Garbs is an engineer with McDonnell Missile Systems, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Theon Garbs of Washington, Mo...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Service for Charles L. Wibel will be held at Crain Funeral Home here Thursday at 1 p.m. Burial will be in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens near Villa Ridge. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Wibel, 94 years old, of Mounds, died Monday, March 18, 1991 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Memorial service for George R. Swan of Hilo, Hawaii, will be held Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Hilo. Swan, 68 years old, died Saturday, March 16, 1991, in a Hilo hospital. He was born Nov. 16, 1922, at Seventy-Six in Perry County, son of Albert R. and Mary E. Farrar Swan. After his parents died he made his home with a sister and brother-in-law, Roberta and Sloan Cotner in Cape...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Virgil (Smokey) Brant of Wappapello will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Rennie Phillips will officiate, with burial in Lightner Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. until time of service...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- George W. Light Jr. of Olive Branch died Monday, March 18, 1991, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was 83 years old. He was born Aug. 14, 1907, in Thebes, son of George W. and Minnie Durham Light Sr. He married the former Daisy Coursey...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Perry G. Thiessen of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. Pat Hogan will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. Thiessen, 84 years old, died Monday, March 18, 1991, at Miner Nursing Center...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Ethel Williams of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at St. John's Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Flem E. Bonner Jr. will officiate, with burial in New Morning Star Cemetery at Haywood City. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here after 6:30 p.m. Thursday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A memorial service for Lloyd B. Campbell of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Grace United Methodist Church. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate. Campbell, 92 years old, died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1991, at the Lutheran Home, where he resided almost seven years...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for John H. Darby Sr. of Chaffee will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Charley Shrum will officiate, with burial in Union Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. until time of service...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Helen C. Klages of the Lutheran Home died there Tuesday, March 19, 1991. She was 86 years old. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

SCOTT CITY -- Graveside service for Harold D. Eifert of Scott City will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Russell Heights Cemetery in Jackson. Mr. Eifert died Tuesday at Scott City. He was 72. He was born Aug. 18, 1918 at Fornfelt, the son of John and Elda Koch Eifert...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Retail Steering Committee will continue its actions in seeking a revision of the city's retail merchants licensing process following a vote of support from the Chamber. "The merchants want a revision," Curt Smith told the Chamber Board of Directors Tuesday, during an open meeting held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus here Tuesday. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Two new student fees will be implemented at Southeast Missouri State University to fund student organizations and help support the athletic programs. University officials estimate the fees will raise $348,000 to $373,000 a year $225,000 to $250,000 for funding student organizations and $123,000 for athletics...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - A canceled flight for 11 area military personnel from the Persian Gulf War left family members, friends and co-workers waiting at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport Tuesday night. The welcoming party numbering about 80 people had remained on hand to greet a vehicle the group reportedly had rented for the trip to Cape Girardeau. As of 11:20 p.m., they had not arrived, and 40 or more people were still waiting...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Gov. John Ashcroft Tuesday appointed Lynn Matthews Dempster of Sikeston and Mark J. Pelts of Kennett to six-year terms on the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents. The appointments are subject to Missouri Senate confirmation, which generally is considered a formality. The appointments take effect immediately...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- You shouldn't have to look at a calendar to know that spring is about to arrive. The weather has been spring-like most of the month, and even warmer weather is in store for the rest of the week. The National Weather Service's mid-March to mid-April weather outlook calls for seasonable temperatures and above normal precipitation in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Senior Nutrition Center this week kicked off a building campaign for a new nutrition center building. Approval last week of the building fund as a Neighborhood Assistance Project prompted the organizers to move ahead with the plan for a new building, said Russel Faust, president of the Cape Girardeau Council on Aging, which operates the nutrition center...

JACKSON -- People with impaired vision will be able to see a little easier, thanks to the Low Vision Resource Center opening today in Jackson. The center will operate like a library in that people who use it can check out vision aids such as hand-held and free-standing magnifiers and closed-circuit television systems designed to enlarge objects...

C. LESLIE CRUMP Occupation: Chief of Fire and Rescue, Scott City Fire Department Pet Peeve: "Chronic pessimism." The best part of my job is: "Serving the community, utilizing skills that I have worked many years to acquire and improve on." The book I'd recommend is: "Passion for Excellence by Tom Peters."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Parents without Partners Cape SEMO Chapter will hold two orientation meetings and an April showers dance next month. The first orientation meeting will be held April 3 at St. Andrew Lutheran Church. The second orientation meeting will be held April 19 at the church. Both meetings begin at 7 p.m...

DP2 PAUL C. CRATZ U.S. NAVY Kratz is a graduate of Cape Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He is serving aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. His parents are Dr. and Mrs. Paul E. Kratz of Cape Girardeau, and he is a member of the Centenary United Methodist Church...

COLUMBIA -- Two area students have been named to the centennial class of the University of Missouri System Curators Scholars Program. Katrina Leimbach of Frohna and Jill Wene of Glen Allen have received the scholarships. Each year the Board of Curators, governing body of the four-campus University of Missouri system, offers scholarships to Missouri high-school seniors who rank in the top 3 percent or are one of the top three students in their graduating class...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A mock constitutional convention held on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University Tuesday proved a legislative lesson for about 200 high school and junior high students. The fifth annual convention here was attended by students from 10 schools: Cape Central Junior High School, Jackson High School, and Fredericktown, South Iron, Dexter, Meadow Heights, New Madrid, Marquand-Zion, Farmington and Clearwater schools...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A training course for people interested in becoming paramedics and a refresher program for paramedics will be held at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School. Applications for the paramedic training course are being accepted through June 1. The program begins Aug. 12 and will run for 40 weeks. Classes meet on Mondays and Thursdays from 6-10 p.m. Students will also participate in scheduled clinicals and field internships...

The drive will be held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. An article in the Wednesday edition of the Southeast Missourian listed incorrect times for the event. (CORRECTION RAN 3-21-91, PAGE 11A) CAPE GIRARDEAU Cape Central High School students hope to retain two state records and have set their sights on a regional record for blood collected during their annual high school drive...

One morning early, I switched the button on the small TV at the foot of my bed, and IRRESISTABLE hit me smack in the eyeballs. The correct spelling is IRRESISTIBLE. Poor spellers contend that if you recognize the word, that's all that matters. Well, I just read in Speak Out that someone "hardly disagreed" with a proposal to increase taxes. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jennifer Kopf of Cape Girardeau attended the 1991 National Young Leaders Conference earlier this month in Washington D.C. She was among 350 high school students from across the nation at the conference. Throughout the six-day conference, student met with leaders and newsmakers from the three branches of government, the media and the diplomatic corps...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Chris Doemel, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been chosen to perform with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra during their upcoming New York City tour. Doemel currently serves as principal French horn player with the Macon, Ga. Symphony Orchestra and is a member of the Atlanta Ballet Orchestra...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. Philip W. Taylor, a Cape Girardeau rheumatologist, will be the featured speaker at the "Woman to Woman" luncheon Thursday. The lunch will be held at the St. Francis Medical Center Health and Education Centre. Taylor will discuss osteoporosis, a bone disease. During his presentation, Taylor will discuss measures that women may take at an early age to avoid osteoporosis, and methods of treatment for the disease...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Mitchel Gerber, assistant professor of political science at Southeast Missouri State University, served as chairperson of the National Social Science Association's Midwest meeting, held recently in St. Louis. Peter J. Bergerson, chairperson and professor in the political science department at Southeast, was the keynote speaker for the conference. Bergerson's presentation covered ethics and public policy...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Three students from L.J. Schultz won the second round of competition in the Optimist Clubs oratorical contest. The students, Jim Fox, Laura Sheets and Todd Matzat, were among four winners at the zone level. To reach that level, each of the student won at the local club level...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Valerie Holland of Cape Girardeau has been named to Phi Eta Sigma, a national college scholastic society for freshmen. She is attending Culver-Stockton College. To be eligible for Phi Eta Sigma, students must earn a grade point average of 3.5 or above during either semester of their freshman year...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Michelle Eakins, 17, of Cape Girardeau has been selected to compete in the 1991 Missouri Miss Teen Pageant to be held in St. Louis March 29-30. She will compete against other 13-18 year olds from the state. Eakins is a junior at Central High School where she is a member of the volleyball team, the pom-pon squad, the Letterman's club, track team and the National Honor Society...

MORLEY -- Alicia Hamilton and Ray Gentry, two seniors at Scott County Central High School, have been selected for the national "I Dare You" leadership award. The award is presented to seniors who exhibit personal integrity and a potential for leadership...

CHAFFEE - Wayne Held, a Chaffee High School student, has been selected to attend the Sophomore Pilgrimage to Jefferson City next month. The pilgrimage will be held April 9. It exists to promote better citizenship and to provide students with a view of state government in action...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Zonnya White, a 1987 graduate of Cape Central High School, has been named to the Purdue University chapter of Phi Kappa Phi honor society. The society, founded in 1897, recognizes superior scholarship in all academic disciplines. Membership is limited to juniors who rank in the upper 5 percent of their class and senior who rank in the upper 10 percent of their class...

SCOTT CITY -- Though their school closed nearly three decades ago, some former students of the Gray's Point School in Scott City hope to hold a reunion this summer. The one-room schoolhouse, which was open for 55 years, held grades one through eight. It was closed in 1954 when the country school was consolidated into the Scott City School District...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "Hands on demonstrations on how to convert conventional planters for use in reduced and no-tillage will be offered during tillage planter clinics to be held near here Friday. The local session will be held at Elmer Eftink's Garage on Route K, west of Cape Girardeau, from 8:30 to 11 a.m...

CARBONDALE -- Southern Illinois University-Carbondale , Department of Animal Science, Food and Nutrition, will sponsor its 16th annual performance tested bull sale, at SIU April 19. The show will be held at the Beef Evaluation Station at SIU. starting at 7:30 p.m...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) will holds its March meeting at Mr. B's Waffles & Deli today. The meeting will get under way at 3:30 p.m. at the restaurant, located in The Crossroads Retail and Professional Office Center, at the intersection of Independence and Kingshighway...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Glenneta Vogelsang and Patricia J. Crossno recently attended the official visit in St. Louis of Ladies VFW Auxiliary National President Frances Booth to the State of Missouri. Mrs. Booth is from Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Following the presentation of district colors to welcome Mrs. Booth, a reception was held...

Loyd Slinkard, et al, to Sylvester Presberry; E. Blaine and Deborah S. Greer to Jesse K. and Karen J. Padgett; Scott and Debra Sprandel to Stephen D. and Sheila J. Gehl; J. D. and Joyce Treadwell to Bruce and Tina Huffman; R. A. Matheis Inc. to Mitchell R. and Karen J. Shelby; Judith Ann Wendel, et al, to Burnell C. and Elizabeth J. Turner; First Federal by receivership to Kenneth J. and Judith A. Voepel...