Stories from Thursday, July 18, 1991

The Community Counseling Center's psychosocial rehabilitation program is sponsoring an adult day-care food program. The program is at 411 Broadway. Free and reduced-price meals are available to enrolled participants and from members whose annual income is at or below established levels for family size...

When Doc Cain, owner of Port Cape Girardeau restaurant, heard singer Joyce Cobb at a Memphis night club and asked her about performing in Cape Girardeau, he didn't need give her directions to the city. One of Beale Street's premier performers, Cobb has roots in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson area that go back to the turn of the century. ...

SEDALIA -- What do the Kentucky Headhunters and the Beach Boys have in common?, Musically, not much, but both groups will entertain at the 1991 Missouri State Fair Aug. 15-25. State Fair Director Roger Alewel announced the grandstand entertainment for the fair, a line up that features an agenda of acts diverse enough to please even the pickiest listener. Performers range from country music rage Garth Brooks to the Christian crusader Carman to the rock-n-roll legacy of REO Speedwagon...

CARBONDALE, ILL. America's future playwrights will exhibit their works during the annual summer Playwright's Workshop, July 22-24 and 29-31. Student works will be performed in the Laboratory Theater at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. This summer's bill opens with "Don't Bury Me Deep" by Denise Kay Dillard. A "comic nightmare lampooning America's health system, the insurance racket and the American government."...

DUQUOIN, Ill. REO Speedwagon, the Statler Brothers and Lee Greenwood are a few of the grandstand entertainers scheduled to perform at the 1991 DuQuoin State Fair, Aug. 24-Sept. 2. Other performers will be Garth Brooks, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and Randy Travis. All shows begin at 8 p.m...

SEDALIA -- The State Fair also announced grandstand motor sports for 1991. "The concerts are only a part of the grandstand excitement," said State Fair Director Roger Alewel. "The fair also offers a variety of outstanding track and entertainment events in the afternoon."...

Cape Girardeau's newest nightclub opens Friday. Legends, located at 610 South Kingshighway, will be open Wednesday through Saturday nights from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m.. The house band, "Tain't EZ" will perform each night from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. "Tain't EZ" is made up of four local musicians who play all different types of music. Band member Jeff Allen, lead guitar, said the four have diversified backgrounds but specialize in harmony...

Rocky Holler, USA, Saturday will host the Coyote Creek Band and the reigning Mrs. Missouri and will conduct a Mr. and Miss Rocky Holler contest and games for kids. The hall is located north of Cape Girardeau along county road 303. Coyote Creek, which will perform at 4 p.m., is a country and bluegrass group made up of local musicians. They have performed at the Thebes, Ill. Memorial Day event, the Iron Mountain Railroad at Jackson and the HLM Country Music Hall in East Cape Girardeau, Ill...

JACKSON -- A cookbook signing party will be held from 1-4 p.m. Sunday at Trisha's Bed and Breakfast in Jackson. The cookbook includes recipes from 24 inns across Missouri, including the one in Jackson. Trisha Wischmann, owner of the bed and breakfast, said innkeepers from St. Louis and other areas will be in Jackson Sunday to sign the books and talk about inns...

Riverboats played an important role in the history of Cape Girardeau long before the steamboat era, when the big boats were a means of making the city a warehouse distribution center for Southeast Missouri supplies. There is something special about a river city, and Cape Girardeau has been special since its founding in 1792-93...

A university's board of regents is duty-bound to guard the interests of the institution it serves and the taxpayers who support it. We believe the regents at Southeast Missouri State University have done that regarding the recent merit pay issue. By not automatically adopting the administration recommendation in this case, the regents have coordinated the merit pay issue with its proper intent and conducted the oversight that is their appointed chore...

I WOULD LIKE to ask the person, what were you thinking when you left your dog in the car for over an hour? Didn't you think it would die? Thank you. THE CAPE GIRARDEAU city recycling center will hold an open house at its new location at 120 N. Broadview on Saturday between 10 a.m. ...

Construction workers digging an elevator for L.J. Schultz Middle School struck water when they hit a natural spring at the site. The incident slowed work for a short time, but installation of the elevator is back under way in the 77-year-old building...

Bruce Gardner is keeping watch on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) talks at the London Economic Conference that began this week . "The GATT negotiations could represent a turning point for the agriculture exports market," said Gardner Wednesday. "President Bush is facing the leaders of the European Community whose farm subsidies are a threat to U.S. farm exports."...

Cape Girardeau City Councilman David Limbaugh Wednesday told an area civic group that factious rivals in the city should strive to resolve conflicts rather than pretend they don't exist. Limbaugh was the keynote speaker at the Regional Commerce and Growth Association's monthly membership meeting at the Cape Girardeau Holiday Inn...

The Cape Girardeau Convention & Visitors Bureau Advisory Board is hoping a new "funding request policy" will help it better administer the city's tourism and economic development fund. The policy was adopted in response to an increase in funding requests over the past year...

JACKSON - Representatives of the Missouri secretary of state's office attempted Wednesday to clarify details of a new ethics law to a group of about 28 local governmental representatives. The meeting was one in a series being held around the state to discuss the reporting requirements for local governments. All political subdivisions in the state with annual budgets of more than $1 million will be required to comply with the law...

A new administrator has been named for the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Desma Reno, a faculty member in the Department of Nursing at Southeast Missouri State University since 1981, was appointed to the position, the Missouri Veterans Commission announced Wednesday. She officially begins her duties Aug. 5...

Although the number of participants wasn't as high as expected, a spokesman for the Missouri Department of Conservation said Wednesday that last week's cleanup along portions of Crooked and Hurricane creeks near Marble Hill was a success. Brian Todd, fisheries management biologist with the department's Southeast Missouri regional office at Cape Girardeau, said another cleanup probably will be held next summer, perhaps along Castor River...

MILLERSVILLE -- An Oak Ridge man was injured Wednesday afternoon when the vehicle he was driving overturned on Highway B, two miles north of Millersville. A spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol said Wilson Moore, 74, was driving a 1986 Ford station wagon southbound at about 2 p.m., when the car left the roadway, struck a culvert and overturned...

BERTRAND -- Louise Chapman, 69, of Bertrand, died Tuesday, July 16, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Oct. 28, 1921, in Oklahoma, daughter of Earl Z. and Isma Elizabeth Waggoner Woolard. She married Albert B. Chapman May 16, 1946. He died March 18, 1988. Chapman was a member of First Baptist Church here, and Order of Eastern Star at Charleston...

LILBOURN -- Christine Marceline Latham, 67, of Killeen, Texas, died Tuesday, July 16, 1991, in Ft. Hood, Texas. She was born Aug. 28, 1923, at Lilbourn. She married Carl Latham, who died Oct. 23, 1990. Latham had lived in Killeen since 1979, and worked at Gibson's Discount Center there from 1979-84...

ANNA, Ill. -- N.D. "Donkey" Bishop, 85, of Anna, died Tuesday, July 16, 1991, at his home. He was born May 11, 1906, in Galatia, Ill., son of William Lawford and Ada Bradshaw Bishop. He and Mildred Phelps were married Oct. 7, 1944. Bishop was owner/operator of Bishop Furniture and was a retired horse trainer. He was a member of First Christian Church here...

JACKSON -- J. Milton Johannes, 83, of Jackson, died Tuesday, July 16, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Oct. 20, 1907, in St. Louis, son of George and Susan Braniff Johannes. He and Emilie D. Holekamp were married April 4, 1936, in St. Louis. She died March 22, 1989...

EAST PRAIRIE -- John Ray Dodge, 76, of East Prairie, died Wednesday, July 17, 1991, at Puxico Nursing Center, following an extended illness. He was born April 26, 1915, in Kentucky, son of George and Laura Roach Dodge. He married Beula Smith Dec. 14, 1935. She died July 21, 1979...

THEBES, ILL. Laura B. Stevenson, 83, of Thebes, died Wednesday, July 17, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 9, 1908, in Alexander County, Ill., to Samuel and Nora Jackson Copelin. Survivors are daughters, Barbara Shelton, Jackson, Mo., and Helen Masterson, Hazel Garett and Helen Eyvon, all of Thebes; sons, Herman Stevenson, Tamms, Raymond and Ernest Stevenson, both of Thebes, Eugene Foutch, East Alton, and Leon and Eddie Foutch, all of Thebes, and J.T. ...

Daughter to Jeff Bernhardt and Tami Hileman of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:23 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, 1991. Name, Hannah Irene. Weight, 6 pounds 14 ounces. First child. Ms. Hileman is the former Tami McCoy, daughter of Sam and Willa McCoy of Olive Branch, Ill., and is employed in the composition department at the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. Bernhardt is employed at M&W, and is the son of Don and Melba Bernhardt of Cape Girardeau...

Clayton Windell Davis, 83, 2504 Fairview, died Wednesday, July 17, 1991, at his home. He was born Sept. 20, 1907, at Fruitland, son of Floy Everett and Zona Blanche Colyer Davis. He and Margaret E. Farmer were married Sept. 17, 1944, in Cape Girardeau...

The Southeast Missouri State University cheerleaders will conduct a cheerleading clinic July 29. The one-day clinic begins at 8 a.m. and will end at noon. The clinic will be held on Academic terraces on the university campus, and in the Parker lower gym in case of rain. The cost is $10 plus an optional $5 for a cheerleading souvenir. Registration is open to children age 5-13. Cheers, chants and jumps will be taught...