Stories from Monday, May 20, 1991

Superintendents at some area schools say that even if a proposed $385 million tax increase is approved by voters in November, relief is at least two years away. Salaries in Oak Ridge, Chaffee, Thomas W. Kelly and Scott County Central school districts are frozen for the next school year and Scott City is likely to freeze its salaries also...

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County Commissioners, who expressed disappointment over bids received May 2 from banks interested in being the depository for county funds the next two years, have decided to try again. Last week, the commission voted to reject the bids it had received and start over. New bids are due at 11 a.m. June 6...

For Don and Tina Hanebrink, the American dream of owning a home always seemed just out of reach. But this weekend, they moved into a home they can call their own. "It just feels wonderful," said Don Hanebrink Sunday after the couple and their three children had spent only one night in the home, which sits on a corner lot on Hanover Street...

With a California public television station filing suit seeking the right to broadcast executions, the Southeast Missourian asked people whether executions should be carried out in public as they once were, and if they should be televised. Rick Dotson: "I favor the death penalty, but I think it should be a private thing. I don't think it should be on television for everybody to see. Keep it as it is now."...

Lance Cassout and Bess Estes of Cape Girardeau have been recognized as state winners of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Volunteer Award. The awards were given out Friday in St. Louis. Cassout and Estes were among 50 Missourians who competed for the honors...

Speaking at a Prisoner of War-Missing in Action Rally Saturday, two veterans urged those in attendance not to lose their recently revitalized pride in the United States and its military. "It's nice to see people that have regained the spirit that we recognize as that of America," said retired Lt. Col. Ian Sutherland, assistant Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney. "I want you to maintain that spirit."...

The "October Surprise" is the agonizing nightmare that sometimes haunts a presidential campaign. The party out of power fears that the incumbent will use the levers of government to pull off a stunning last-minute political coup. Professor Gary Sick of Columbia University, a former Ford and Carter Administration national security staffer, alleges that the 1980 Reagan campaign thwarted an "October Surprise" of an election-eve release of the 52 hostages held in Iran which might have catapulted Jimmy Carter to a re-election victory.. ...

If a doctor were transported by time machine from 1891 to the current day, he would stand awestruck at the ad~vance~ments of a century on his profession. To twist a phrase, there has never been a better time and place to be sick than now and in this country. ...

CHARLESTON - Ethie Lee Warren died Saturday, May 18, 1991, at the Charleston Manor Nursing Center. She was 80. She was born Oct. 14, 1910, in Marion, Ill., daughter of Denver B. and Agness M. Grissom Threlkeld. She was a member of the Church of Christ...

GORDONVILLE -- Albert O. "Humpy" Spalding, 79, of Gordonville, died Sunday, May 19, 1991 at his home. He was born Aug. 21, 1911 in Cape Girardeau, son of Richard O. and Nora Baehre Spalding. He was a farmer and was of the Catholic faith. Survivors are a sister, Marie Siemers of Cape Girardeau, and two friends Gladys Lilly and James Lilly of Cape Girardeau. Two brothers and one sister preceded him in death...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Eddie R. Kerbough, 83, of Dell, Ark., formerly of Dongola, died Sunday, May 19, 1991, at Baptist Hospital in Blytheville, Ark. He was born April 24, 1908, in Ripley, Tenn., son of Albert and Ola King Kerbough. On June 15, 1933, he married Ethel Carlock. She died March 29, 1989...

BENTON -- Marie Dorothy Vinyard, 66, of Benton, died Sunday, May 19, 1991, at her home. She was born June 14, 1924 in Williamsville, daughter of Marion and Rose Ann Joiner Ward. On Dec. 30, 1943, she married Benjamin Vinyard. He died Oct. 5, 1977. She was a housewife and a member of the Unity Baptist Church of Benton...

GORDONVILLE -- The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department today will close one lane of the Route K bridge, one mile east of here. The department is resurfacing the bridge and a spokesman said traffic will be restricted to a single lane. The spokesman said there will be no traffic signals on the bridge, but there will be warning signs...