Stories from Tuesday, April 30, 1991

ANNA, Ill. - The Union County Historical Society will host its annual spring flea market on Saturday. It will begin at 8 a.m. and run through 3 p.m. at the Anna Fairgrounds. The public is encouraged to attend. About 75 dealers have reserved booths to sell collectibles and antiques. While the flea market officially begins at 8 a.m., dealers will begin setting up as early at 6 a.m. that day...

CAIRO, Ill. -- James Wilson will be a busy man next month. Wilson, executive director of the Alexander County Housing Authority, will take on some added duties Wednesday when he is sworn in as mayor of this southernmost Illinois city. "We have some primary concerns and objectives as we look to the next four years," said Wilson, who was elected mayor in the April. "But I feel that Cairo is on the edge of some great economic growth, and I want be a leader and a fighter in that effort."...

EAKER AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. Operation Desert Storm aircraft plus the Air Force Academy's Honor Guard Rifle Drill Team and the Army's Golden Knights Parachute Team will highlight what may be the last Visitors' Day at Eaker Air Force Base. The event begins at 11 a.m. Saturday and will conclude at 5 p.m. The public is invited...

OAK RIDGE -- Astronaut Linda Godwin will visit her home town next month with tales from her seven-day trip into outer space. Godwin, a physicist from Oak Ridge, flew aboard the space shuttle Atlantis April 5-12. Since arriving back on Earth, Godwin and the other four astronauts on her flight have been debriefed and are now planning a publicity tour...

School districts across Missouri will provide programs for handicapped preschool children starting in the fall. But some school administrators question the lack of money provided to start the program and including preschoolers in public schools. Federal and state laws mandate services for preschoolers with disabilities to start in the 1991-92 school year. How much state money will be available to help pay for starting the programs is questionable...

BENTON -- Amid burning candles and "tearful" guests, Jason Grojean promised to love, honor and cherish his friend and classmate Kimberly Essner at least until the end of the school day. The two seniors at Kelly High School were the bride and groom at a mock wedding Monday afternoon in the school's gymnasium. A mock wedding is held every other year at the school as part of a home economics lesson on marriage and family living...

DID YOU KNOW the state of Missouri is now requiring Social Security verification before you can renew a driver's license? The Social Security number will now be your driver's license number. You will need to bring a W-2 form, a computerized paycheck stub, your Social Security card, or a letter of verification from the Social Security office before we can issue you any driver's license...

Higher taxes drive the bandwagon of school reform this year. With only 17 days remaining in this legislative session, lawmakers are working to hammer out a compromise of reform and money that proponents hope will be acceptable to the governor. Two thrusts of the movement to reform schools are a) grading schools and student work objectively, not subjectively; and b) emphasizing accountability in education...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Steve Webb, 1301 Sonnet, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:42 p.m. Saturday, April 20, 1991. Name, Lindsey Renee. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Fifth child, fourth daughter. Mrs. Webb is the former Nancy Kenner, daughter of Jane Kenner of Cape Girardeau and John Kenner of Jackson. Webb is a mechanic/service manager at World of Honda, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Webb of Cape Girardeau...

Mrs. Daisy Mabel Smith, 99, of Fountainbleau Lodge, died there Monday, April 29, 1991. She was born Dec. 24, 1891, at Jackson, daughter of Milton and Maggie Campbell Gholson. She married Joe S. Smith Dec. 19, 1917, in Tennessee. He died April 30, 1950...

SILVER LAKE -- Mrs. Mary E. Davis, 93, of Glendale, Ariz., died Sunday, April 28, 1991, in Boswell Hospital. She was born Sept. 13, 1897, at Silver Lake, daughter of John W. and Fernanda Haman Grantham. Davis moved to Arizona 35 years ago from Missouri, and was a member of Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church in Phoenix...

PINHOOK -- Sterling L. "Chubby" Joiner, 40, of Pinhook, died Saturday, April 27, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Feb. 24, 1950, at East Prairie, son of Johnnie and Luella Verse Joiner. He married the former Peggy Mitchell. Joiner was a farmer...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for A. Paul Engelhardt of Englewood, Colo., was held April 10 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Englewood. Burial was April 12 at Marissa Cemetery in Marissa, Ill., with the Rev. Dennis Lindeman officiating. Heil-Schuessler Funeral Home of Marissa was in charge of arrangements...

MARBLE HILL -- John W. Davault, 90, of Marble Hill, died Sunday, April 28, 1991, at Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. He was born Aug. 5, 1900, at Marble Hill, son of George and Ruth Aldrich Davault. He and the former Nona Lutes were married Sept. 26, 1919. She died May 1, 1988...

John T. "Bingo" Morris Sr., 74, of 915 South Kingshighway died Monday at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

Hoyt A. "Bud" LaGrand, 78, of 1421 Good Hope, died Monday, April 29, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. LaGrand was born April 13, 1917, in Oran, the son of James and Sadie Mansker LaGrand. He first married Freda Ayers Jan. 22, 1945. She died Feb. 3, 1973...