Stories from Thursday, May 9, 1991

To the Editor: Once a week I have the privilege of spending 30 minutes with a class of second graders at St. Vincent de Paul School. Working from a comprehensive curriculum guide, my partner and I have had discussions with these 7- and 8-year olds in four areas: 1) self-awareness feelings and how to handle them, recognizing our uniqueness and celebrating it; 2) relationships what is a friend, different kinds of families, recognizing the uniqueness of others; 3) decision making skills values, peer pressure, how to say no assertively; and 4) limited drug information. ...

Crafters and runners are invited to participate in Cape Girardeau's annual Riverfest, June 7-8. Arts and crafts vendors from several states will be selling items ranging from handmade dolls to artwork suitable for framing. The items will be displayed along Main Street in downtown Cape Girardeau...

If this weekend's craft fair at Capaha Park is a success, the Cape Girardeau Park & Recreation Department may just make it into an annual event, said Penny Wingerter, recreation coordinator with the parks department. Wingerter said about 35 craft booths will be set up at the two-day fair, which runs from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday...

So you think lamb has a "muttony, goaty" taste and "smells up the complete house" while cooking. "Not so," says Charlie Knote, a cook-out cook who shares many recipes with the public via his cookery articles which appear in the Southeast Missourian's monthly tab, "The Best Year' (TBY)...

The Cape SEMO chapter of Parents Without Partners will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a dinner and dance on May 18 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Cape Girardeau. The speaker for the event will be Freda Mark, past international president of the organization...

Just let anyone try to offer May Greene sixth-grader Eric Wren some marijuana or other drug. He's got his response all planned out. "I would say, `I'm in the DARE program; I learned to say no to drugs,' and then I would walk away," said Wren, 12. DARE is an acronym for Drug Abuse Resistance Education...

The National Weather Service says more warm and wet weather is ahead for Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois this month. But the weather service's long-range, 90-day outlook, through the end of July, suggests temperatures here will average near to slightly above normal, while precipitation will average near to slightly below normal...

JACKSON - Cub Scout packs and Boy Scout troops in the city of Jackson will be holding a special Day of Scouting on the county courthouse lawn Saturday. Packs 12 and 212, and Troops 11 and 311 will be having displays and activities from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m. The displays are designed to give prospective members and their parents an idea about what Scouts do at meetings and on outings...

Organizers of the Broadway Community Theatre hope their upcoming production, "Our Town," will set the pace for a community-centered theater organization. The theater group will perform "Our Town" May 31 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. The dinner theater is aimed at raising money for the newly-formed Broadway Community Theatre organization...

The Southeast Missouri Area Single Professionals Association will hold a "Thank God It's Spring" dance Saturday. The dance will he held at 8 p.m. in the Jackson Room of the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Cape Girardeau. A sound system will provide entertainment and there will be a cash bar. Tickets are $5 in advance or $7 at the door. For more information call 651-4829 or 651-9737...

ST. LOUIS The 1991 Queeny Pops season opens July 2. Highlights of the season include Theodore Bikel, Ben Vereen, Helen Reddy, The Andrew Lloyd Webber Generation and The Glenn Miller Sound. Discount prices are available to groups of 20 or more who attend the concerts, held at the air-conditioned Greensfelder Recreation Center in Queeny Park...

To the Editor: You have to congratulate our hard-working legislators in Jefferson City. The headlines say the House tax plan is now up to three-quarters of a billion dollars. Incredible. Fortunately, the voters will have the final say on this folly. The sad thing is Missouri could clearly benefit from increased revenues for education and other important state services, but it is hard to see how voters will approve such a massive tax increase...

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- If your dream is to perform on stage as a country music star, the opportunity to fulfill that dream is coming soon. The HLM Country Music Hall in East Cape Girardeau will give amateurs and professionals the opportunity to perform in front of an audience...

Learning goes on every day of our existence, yet some take on society's rugged chore of formalizing the process. No adult reflects on life without being signaled to some contribution made by a teacher. The lessons are not always easy and are sometimes harsh in remembrance, but classroom educators make a positive impact on the lives of us all. During this Teacher Appreciation Week, which ends Saturday, it's a good thing to stop and mull over...

West Park 4 Cine will bring back the days of 5-cent movie admission Wednesday. The theater will hold several "Nickelodeon Days" to celebrate the 85th year of business for Wehrenberg Theatres. Admission to all shows on Wednesday will be only 5 cents. In addition, on May 22, popcorn will be 5 cents and on May 29, refreshments will be 5 cents...

Scott Monteith, a junior at Southeast Missouri State University, has received the President's Purchase Prize for his entry, "Macho Dream Diptych," in the Juried Student Art Exhibit. The art award is presented to a student work purchased by Southeast President Kala Stroup and the University Museum for permanent placement on campus. Stroup selected the ink wash drawings from works entered in this year's juried exhibit...

THE FUNDING DILEMMA IN HIGHER EDUCATION Only 7 percent of Missouri's public college and university students who were eligible for financial aid received need-based state grants in 1989. The Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education last year reported that $1.2 million in Missouri Student Grant Program funds were awarded to 1,943 eligible, public-institution students...

THE FUNDING DILEMMA IN HIGHER EDUCATION (Fifth in a series) As public colleges and universities struggle to secure federal and state funding, private contributions have become increasingly relevant to their financial health. While private donations are a small part of a university's overall budget, university officials contend a healthy fund-raising foundation can make good programming better...

With animal crackers scattered across the kitchen table, four-year-old Christina Wolford matched the horses. As a reward, she spread peanut butter between the matching cookies and ate them. Christina is one of 12 children being served through a new home-based program of the Cape Girardeau Head Start office...

Several members of the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission said Wednesday they wouldn't recommend commercial rezoning for a large section of William Street. The commission took no action on a proposal to rezone the street from residential to commercial between Sprigg Street and Sheridan Drive...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Bryan K. Farrow, Cape Girardeau Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:43 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, 1991. Name, Jesse Drew. Weight, 10 pounds. Second son. Mrs. Farrow is the former Kimberly McCulley, daughter of Wayne and Betty McCulley of Cape Girardeau. She is payroll clerk at R.B. Potashnick. Farrow is employed at Country Gardens, and is the son of Omar and Maxine Farrow of Jackson...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Five Mississippi residents were injured near Ullin Wednesday in a single-vehicle accident on Interstate 57. Illinois State Police reported that a pickup truck driven by Clayton Scott, 31, of Raymond, Miss., overturned in a ditch off I-57 after Scott apparently fell asleep at the wheel...

Calvin Chapman, director of special services for the Cape Girardeau Public Schools, has announced his retirement from the district. Chapman mailed letter to board members on Tuesday, and told staff members Wednesday. His 30-year tenure with the district will end June 7...

MARBLE HILL - If Jimmie G. Bollinger is elected Bollinger County sheriff, don't look for him to fight for extra funding for the tightly budgeted sheriff's department. It just isn't going to happen, he says. "I would work with less deputies and save the county money that way," Bollinger, an independent candidate for the post and a former Cape Girardeau labor union official, said Wednesday. "There are too many deputies. You could just rearrange them and do with less."...

ANNA, Ill. -- Mrs. Catherine Murphy, 84, died Wednesday, May 8, 1991 at her home in Anna. She was born Oct. 18, 1906, in Anna, the daughter of J. Henry and Flora Benefield Hicks. She was a member of the First Baptist Church and was a retired cashier of the G.C. Murphy Co. in Anna...

Funeral service for Herbert H. Pensel, 82, 104 Park, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. Carl Richardson will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today...

Barbara Ellen Neal, 35, 418 S. Spring, died Tuesday, May 7, 1991, in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 16, 1956, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of John F. and Melba Charlotte Cotner Neal. She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church. Survivors include her parents of Hot Springs Village, Ark.; two sisters, Linda Hodges of Denton, Tex., and Nancy Boos of Jefferson City...

JACKSON -- Ray Vangilder, 69, of Jackson, died Tuesday, May 7, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born June 10, 1921, in Jackson, son of Ed and Grace Johnson Vangilder. He and the former Doris Ludwig were married Nov. 29, 1941. Vangilder was employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone from 1945-83. ...

Funeral service for Ruby W. Poe, 88, of Apex, N.C., was held April 22 at Apex Baptist Church. Burial was in Apex Cemetery, with Apex Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. She died Friday, April 19, 1991, at her home, following a lengthy illness. She was born in Fairmont, N.C...

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Bill Emerson voted against the Brady Bill Wednesday. The bill would establish a seven-day waiting period for handgun purchases. The bill was approved by the House on a 239-186 vote. Emerson said, "Criminals who want a gun are not going to be deterred by a waiting period. They'll steal the guns as they already do."...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Missouri Senator Christopher Bond has helped secure the support of 51 senators to oppose a plan by Defense Secretary Dick Cheney to close National Guard and Reserve units around the country. Cheney proposed the cuts as one of the ways of cutting back spending in the defense budget, however, the senators disagreed with the practicality of making the cuts in a letter to Cheney this week...

PERRYVILLE -- Educating kids about the dangers of drug abuse can't start too early, according to Barbara Kutz, drug education coordinator at Perryville schools. Kutz has organized the district's first-ever Drug Education Fair, which will be held today from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Junior High School Gymnasium...

Paul and Patricia Brown have a problem. They are the new owners of a lot in the north end of Cape Girardeau in an undeveloped portion of the Belleridge Subdivision. Paul Brown describes the wooded lot as attractive, but he now has no access to the property where he hopes to build a home...

THE CAPE chapter of Parents without Partners is having a 20th anniversary dinner and dance May 18, 1991, at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. They're still trying to locate some of the charter members and past presidents of the organization. If you have information or would like to make reservations for the dinner, please leave your name and contact number on the PWP line, 335-0797. This event is open to the public...