Stories from Friday, May 17, 1991

SIKESTON -- Clarence Cox, 88, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, May 15, 1991, at SEMO Care Center here. He was born Feb. 4, 1903, in Monroe County, Miss., son of Robert Mannon and Gairia Towery Cox. Cox was a retired dragline operator. Survivors include three sons, Robert Cox of LaBelle, Fla., Edward Cox of Miami, Fla., Clarence Cox Jr., address unknown, and a sister, Trudie Nelson of Sikeston...

Financial assistance is available through East Missouri Action Agency for people interested in becoming a certified nurse aid. A certified nurse aid program will be offered in June. Training grants are available for the classes, which will be held at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, said Patricia Thompson of EMAA...

Commencement for Cape Girardeau Central High School will be held June 7 at the Show Me Center. This will mark the first time that the Central High School graduation ceremony has been held at the center. Commencement begins at 8 p.m. Speaker for the ceremony is Charlie Spoonhour, basketball coach at Southwest Missouri State University...

American Legion Auxiliary Unit 63 of Cape Girardeau is sponsoring four students to Missouri Girls State. Missouri Girls State, which will be held on the William Woods College campus June 16-22, is sponsored by the Missouri American Legion Auxiliary...

SCOTT CITY -- Rachel B. Faries of Alton, Ill., formerly of Scott City, has been named to the "Who's Who in American Education," a national directory of professionals in education. Selection is based on professional educational accomplishments. Faries serves on the Illinois State Board of Education assessment advisory committee on language arts and on the National Council of Teachers of English Commission on Language...

BENTON -- Two graduates of Thomas W. Kelly High School in Benton have been inducted into Southeast Missouri State University's Phi Eta Sigma honor society. The inductees are Laura Ellen Fitzpatrick, an elementary education major at Southwest, and Leigh Anne Urhahn, an accounting major at the university...

JACKSON -- Susan Buckenmyer, formerly of Jackson, received the Margaret Rogers Nursing Award at Berea College last month. The nursing award is given annually to a nursing students who has done an outstanding job in labor assignments. All Berea College students work 10 to 15 hours weekly in a college position to earn money for room and board expenses...

NEELYVILLE -- An alumni association has been formed for all Neelyville alumni. The association meets the second Tuesday of each month in the Neelyville High School math classroom at 7 p.m. Plans are being made for a reunion July 6 of all alumni of the school. For more information, call 989-3810, 686-0868, or 785-7895...

Three area students have been inducted into honor societies at the University of Missouri-Rolla. Jill Suzanne Gosnell of Cape Girardeau, a senior in geological engineering, was inducted into Tau Beta Pi. Tony Lee Blaylock of Jackson, a freshman in engineering, was inducted into Phi Eta Sigma. Corey Dean Wills of Perryville, a senior in mechanical engineering, was inducted into Tau Beta Pi...

East Missouri Action Agency is looking for elderly or handicapped persons to participate in their weatherization program. The agency has received grants of $258,530 to provide weatherization services for low-income households, but East Missouri Action Agency does not have enough households to meet 1991 goals...

Jerry Heise of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a teaching assistantship at Purdue University. The assistantship will pay his tuition and living expenses while he attends a doctoral program in chemistry at the university. Heise graduated from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in chemistry. He is also a graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School...

PERRYVILLE -- Edward Huber, a senior at St. Vincent High School in Perryville, was recently awarded a 1991-92 Regents Scholarship at Central Missouri State University. Huber plans to study agriculture. In high school, Huber has been active in National Honor Society, Future Farmers of America and varsity football...

A dispute between people in the building trades and the city of Cape Girardeau inspection office, brewing for some years, has recently boiled over. The suggestion here carries out the metaphor: like you do with any boiling pot, you tend to it and then get on with your business. ...

Authorities are investigating a fire of suspicious origin that heavily damaged one room of a one-story, wood frame house at 1003 N. Fountain early Thursday. Assistant Fire Chief Max Jauch said the fire call came in at 7:53 a.m., about eight minutes after the occupants of the house had left...

To the Editor: In a recent editorial you advised people to take preventive care of their health and be a good medical services consumer. I wish that it was possible to be a knowledgeable consumer. However, there are so many variables and unknown prices and policies dealing with doctors' and hospitals' fees that the average person (without medical knowledge) has very little chance of making informed choices...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Safrona Wallace, 84, of Kansas City, formerly of Charleston, will be at 1 p.m. today at Mercy Seat Baptist Church. The Rev. J.L. Posey will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Sparks Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

FRIEDHEIM -- Willard R. Kieninger, 78, of Friedheim, died Wednesday, May 15, 1991, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born June 27, 1912, at Wittenberg, son of William and Esther Mueller Kieninger. He and the former Dora Boehme were married April 29, 1934...

ALTENBURG -- Ella M. Kaufmann, 83, of Altenburg, died Thursday, May 16, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born June 9, 1907, at Farrar, daughter of Richard and Anna Cordes Fritsche. She married George F. Kaufmann April 26, 1931. He died June 26, 1982...

SIKESTON -- Thomas Edward Brewer, 71, of Sikeston, died Thursday, May 16, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Jan. 1, 1920, at Kennett, son of Everett Austin and Minnie Bell McCulley Brewer. He married the former Phyllis M. Brown Sherman Dec. 1, 1945, in Piggott, Ark...

GORDONVILLE -- Mabel Ulrich, 93, of Gordonville Route 3, died Thursday, May 16, 1991, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born Nov. 1, 1897, in Cape Girardeau County, daughter of Frank and Mary Tunze Newburn. She married Joseph Ulrich Jan. 9, 1918. He died Feb. 11, 1968...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Caroline Margaret "Carleen" Raines, 78, of Sedgewickville, died Thursday, May 16, 1991, at North Scott Medical Center in Chaffee. She was born March 15, 1913, in Honaker, Va., daughter of James Henry and Eunice Sisk Griffith. She married James Thorton Raines Aug. 17, 1937...

LUTESVILLE -- Pauline Bernice Steward, 78, of Lutesville, died Thursday, May 16, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Feb. 1, 1913, in Wayne County, daughter of Hartford and Alpha Meador Stevenson. She married Thelbert Steward Nov. 2, 1930...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Gee of Anna, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:09 a.m. Thursday, May 9, 1991. Name, Natalie Christine. Weight, 6 pounds 14 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Gee is the former Cheryl Earnhart, daughter of Barbara Jones and Kent Jones of Anna. She is a speech and hearing technician at Choate Mental Health and Development Center. Gee is a cemetery sexton with City of Anna, and is the son of Louise Gee of Anna...

Conservative city budgets during the past few years will allow the city to tolerate an economic downturn caused by stagnant sales tax revenues, a top Cape Girardeau city official maintains. Assistant City Manager Al Stoverink said Thursday that the proposed $27 million, 1991-92 budget contains few cuts in city services, despite sagging sales tax revenues this year...

A proposed $27 million city budget for the 1991-92 fiscal year includes an overall increase in total salaries and benefits, but funding cuts for some city departments. Following are the proposed budget allocations for the operation of various departments...

The Red Cross needs you well, your blood that is. Red Cross officials report that area donations have dropped dramatically. And if that trend continues, they warn it could lead to a summer blood shortage. "It's been real slow," said Dave Palmer with the Cape Girardeau County chapter of the American Red Cross. "Collections have been bad. We're holding our own, but if this continues we'll definitely be looking at some serious problems heading into Memorial Day."...

THE SOUNDS OF YESTERDAY: Yesterday as The Beatles, will perform during Riverfest. Musical tributes to The Beatles and the Mississippi River will highlight main-stage entertainment at Riverfest '91. Riverfest, scheduled for June 7-8, is Cape Girardeau's annual celebration of its river heritage...

The residents and staff of Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau are gearing up for a fund-raising fun fair on Saturday. The day-long celebration will feature a dunking booth, bingo, magic show, car wash, square dancing, music and other events to benefit the work of the American Heart Association. Activities will be held at the Fountainbleau facility at 2001 N. Kingshighway...

CARBONDALE, Ill. - This fall, scores of fish will swim the Mississippi River equipped with their own personal radios. Don't look for waterproof Walkmans, however. The radios, each about the size of a quarter, are surgically implanted in the abdomens of the fish...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Orders for the 1991 Governor's Edition of the Missouri State Waterfowl Stamps are now being accepted. Applications for the stamps must be sent to the Missouri Department of Conservation before June 30. This year's stamps, designed by Ron Ferkol, of Gerald, features a pair of snow geese...

RIDGEDALE, Mo. The Missouri Conservation Commission approved the purchase of several parcels of land during its recent meeting. They include: 132 acres in BENTON County as addition to Lost Valley Hatchery. 117 acres on Shoal Creek in Caldwell County, an addition to Bonanza Wildlife Area...

WAPPAPELLO -- The ruffed grouse population is doing fine in the Wappapello Lake area, according to park rangers who conducted a survey recently. In 1981, a total of 82 ruffed grouse were released at the upper end of the lake. Although a count figure was not released recently, rangers say the population has increased each year and that portions of Wayne County may soon support harvestable populations of the ruffed grouse...

PIEDMONT -- `Watersafe 91,' a program to promote water safety, will beheld at River Road Park near Clearwater Lake June 15. The program, which starts at noon, will include exhibits, canoe races, live music, children's activities and demonstrations. "It will be a day of fun about a serious subject," said Joe Corbin, of the Corps of Engineers. Through such events, the public is made more aware of safety practices on or near the water."...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Two Cache River wetland projects Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuges and Cache River State Natural Area will be dedicated during a meeting of state and federal officials at Shawnee Community College here Saturday. The Cache River project is a cooperative venture between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Illinois Department of Conservation, the Nature Conservancy and Ducks Unlimited to preserve wetlands and bottomland hardwoods in Southern Illinois...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- "More than 1.4 million anglers make about 40.3 million fishing trips in Illinois every year." This was the findings of a statewide fishing survey, released this week by the Illinois Department of Conservation. The survey measured the fishing activities of 5,053 anglers responding to a mail-in questionnaire during the 1989 licensing year, from April 1, 1989 to March 31, 1990...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Bicycle riders will leave the Illinois Tree Farm near Jonesboro, Ill. at 10:30 a.m. Sunday for the annual VELO Girardeau Bicycle Club's Giant City State Park Pigout ride. Riders may meet at Kent Library at 9:30 to caravan to the tree farm...

Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County Recorder of Deeds. Wespac Inc. to Samuel H. and Brenda J. Birk; JB Properties Inc. to Jeffrey S. and Lisa M. Unterreiner; Michael L. Annis Inc. to Carl E. and Edda J. Clopp; Anthony P. and Maureen Stephens to Robert L. and Mary Teresa Bauer...

The sixth annual Missouri Student Mathematics Regional Contest was held recently on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The event was sponsored by the Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Area students in grades four through six competed in three events: problem solving, geometric and numeric concepts, and estimation and computation. The top three winners in each division will compete Saturday in the state mathematics contest at Columbia...