Stories from Wednesday, August 14, 1991

The Southeast Missouri District Fair will open Sunday, Sept. 8, in Arena Park in Cape Girardeau and continue through Saturday, Sept. 14. This annual event has been held in the city since 1855 and was one of the first Missouri fairs to take place prior to the Civil War...

Area Wide United Way volunteers have begun soliciting contributions from area professionals, said Jeff Krantz and Peter Kinder, chairmen of the United Way's professional division. Professionals, including doctors, dentists, attorneys, architects, accountants and chiropractors, are being asked to donated toward this year's United Way goal of $470,000. The annual fundraising campaign officially kicks off Sept. 4...

Volunteers are needed to sell newspapers on street corners Sept. 11 during the first Y.E.L.L. for Newspapers. The Y.E.L.L. for Newspapers project will raise money for the Area Wide United Way and Newspapers in Education, a project of the Southeast Missourian...

The Southeast Missouri District Fair is looking for contestants in three competitions scheduled during fair week Sept. 8-14 a baby contest, a fiddler's contest and the demolition derby. Babies ages newborn through 17 months may compete in the annual baby contest to be held Sept. 10 in the R&R tent at 4:30 p.m. Babies from the 19-county fair area are eligible. Registration deadline is Sept. 7...

A low-interest state loan will help nullify increased city costs to renovate the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport terminal building. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources' Division of Energy announced the $130,000 loan Tuesday. Most of the funds will go toward energy conservation measures in the $1.1 million terminal building renovation project, with $30,000 earmarked for energy improvements at the city's waste-water treatment plant...

The Cape Girardeau School District is taking legal action opposing its inclusion in a class-action lawsuit contesting the state's public- schools retirement system. The board passed a resolution against the lawsuit Tuesday, directing its attorney to file a motion in court asking that the school district be removed as a plaintiff in the lawsuit...

The commercials suggest you can master the possibilities with MasterCard. At Southeast Missouri State University, students now can master an education through credit cards. Since last November the university has allowed students to pay fees with MasterCard or Visa. At this point, only a small number of students are using credit cards to pay their fees, but the number will probably grow in the future, said Kenneth Dobbins, vice president for finance and administration...

JACKSON -- Girls in the Jackson and Oak Ridge school districts are invited to attend "Scout Splash," a free swimming party Aug. 24 sponsored by the Tsalagi Service Unit of the Otahki Girl Scout Council. Scouts and non-Scouts are invited to attend the swimming party from 10 a.m. to noon at the Jackson city pool...

JACKSON - A wall on a sewer-line trench in a new subdivision collapsed Tuesday on a Jackson excavating company worker, injuring him, police said. Jackson Police Capt. Robert Hull identified the worker as Jerry Wolfenkoehler, 41. Wolfenkoehler, he said, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, where a hospital spokesperson Tuesday morning described him as being in satisfactory condition...

Charlene Peyton, gospel and contemporary vocalist, will be featured at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band concert at 8 tonight in Capaha Park. Peyton will sing several selections with piano and taped accompaniment in the middle of the band program. The celebrity guest conductor, Cape Girardeau Chief of Police Howard Boyd, will conduct "El Capitan March."...

Twenty people have been named to the 1991-1992 Board of Directors of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Caring Foundation for Children. The charitable, not-for-profit foundation was established in 1987 to provide access to basic, preventive care for children whose families are without private or public health-care benefits...

PAULA GOODALE Occupation: Postal Clerk, Cape Girardeau What do you do in your spare time? "I don't have much spare time, but when I do, I go to my son's ballgames and swim meets, read and cook." The author I'd recommend is: "Charles Swindle." Describe your oddest experience. "When you're raising children, every week holds odd experiences. It's hard to single out just one."...

The reputation of Cape Girardeau's drug- and alcohol-prevention programs has become one of international scope. Six representatives from countries as far away as Afghanistan and Singapore learned about the programs in detail Tuesday at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau. Members of the group work in drug abuse prevention and police narcotics. They traveled here under the International Visitor Program with the World Affairs Council of St. Louis Inc...

SIKESTON -- Hazel Marie Badgett, 81, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Jan. 8, 1910, in Ellington, daughter of William Thomas and Charlottie Vineyard Layne. She married James Franklin Badgett July 9, 1929. He died Jan. 1, 1987...

GLEN ALLEN -- Wilda M. Slinkard, 66, of Glen Allen, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Feb. 2, 1925, at Glen Allen, daughter of Floyd and Dora Greer Sitze. She married Henry W. Slinkard March 28, 1942. Slinkard was retired from Prince Gardner in St. Louis. She was a member of New Trace Creek Baptist Church, and had been a Sunday School teacher most of her life...

WITTENBERG -- Caroline W. Stueve, 95, of Wittenberg, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1991, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 14, 1895, in Perry County, daughter of Claus and Alwine Brauner Stueve. She married Martin Stueve Nov. 20, 1919. He died Jan. 14, 1963...

JACKSON -- Rose Horn, 87, of Jackson, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Aug. 28, 1903, in Carnforth, Iowa, daughter of Anthony and Frances Eichman Horn. Horn had been a registered nurse as hospitals in Iowa, retiring in 1966. She was then a private duty nurse in Grinnell, Iowa. She moved to Jackson in 1990 to live with a sister...

JACKSON - The Jackson R-2 Board of Education Tuesday established its 1991 tax rate, adopted goals for the 1991-92 school year, voted to increase school cafeteria lunch prices, and approved a Conflict of Interest and Financial Disclosure Policy for board members and district employees to comply with a new state ethics law...

BLOOMFIELD -- Pearl McCain, 93, of Bloomfield, died Monday, Aug. 12, 1991, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born April 15, 1898, near Bloomfield, daughter of Henry and Janie Schrader Malone. She married John Wesley McCain April 15, 1921. McCain lived all her life in the Bloomfield and Sikeston areas...

BERTRAND -- Elvis E. Alberson, 76, of Bertrand, died Monday, Aug. 12, 1991, at his home. He was born Oct. 12, 1914, at Sikeston, son of William Earl and Rose Ferron Alberson. He married Mildred Myers Jan. 13, 1934, who died Dec. 19, 1983. He later married Arneeda Hornback June 8, 1987...

State Rep. Ollie Amick of Scott City likely will become a casualty of heavy population losses in the Bootheel when a new map of the 163 Missouri House districts is finalized. The seven present House districts in Southeast Missouri south of Cape Girardeau County are in total about 23,000 people below the ideal size of a district based on 1990 census figures. That virtually assures that Southeast Missouri will have one less representative when a final plan is agreed to later this year...

Capital Bancorporation of Cape Girardeau has converted to public trading of its common stock, becoming what is thought to be the only bank holding corporation in out-state Missouri to do so. Fewer than 10 Missouri banks offer public trading of stock, and they are concentrated in the Kansas City and St. Louis areas...

There are many reasons that people come to Cape Girardeau: Retail, medical services, restaurants. But this week the reason is baseball. For the next five days, Cape Girardeau's Capaha Park will be home to the American Legion Central Plains Regional Tournament. Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons Louis K. Juden Post 63 will play host to champions from seven states: Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota...

Nobody ever said parenting was easy, particularly when it comes time to explain to unhappy children why Pee-wee's Playhouse has been condemned. --- Governor Ashcroft once again displays his uncanny political skills. To get around his rule against reappointing members of non-salaried commissions, he let someone else rename John Powell...

Dear Editor: I hardly think Raymond Peats serves any purpose in maligning a Vietnam Vet who has taken his time to speak to 200 young people about what ails this nation and our government funded school system. Mr. Brownfeld points to the crisis in public education (surely Peats cannot deny that) and to a disintegration of the family ~another fact that cannot be denied)...

SECONDARY BUS ROUTE Route 1: Start at Main and McKenna, continue on Main to Cape Rock, right on Cape Rock to Cape Rock Park, turn and return to Country Club, right on Country Club to Hillcrest, turn and return to East Cape Rock, Right on East Cape Rock to Bend Road, left on Bend Road and to school...

Parents are asked to please teach their elementary student where they will be going after school, name and address of parents or the daycare center or sitter is absolutely necessary in seeing that these younger students get on the right bus after school. It is very helpful to the teachers for this information to be sent to school with your child on the first day...

The 1936 graduating class of Central High School will have a reunion Sept. 6-8. A barbecue will be held at 5 p.m. Sept. 6 at Cape Girardeau County Park South, Shelter 20. A banquet and program will be held at 7 the next night at Drury Lodge. The reunion will conclude with a Dutch treat breakfast at 10 a.m. Sept. 8 at Drury Lodge...

MORLEY - Morley native Hugh McDonough has received the 1991 Multiple Sclerosis National Achievement Award. McDonough, a college professor who moved to California in 1960, was presented with the award by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society Board of Directors in June in New York...

The Cape Girardeau County chapter of the American Red Cross will hold a blood drive Friday at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau. The drive will be held from 2-6 p.m. at the former Chrisman Art Gallery space. Two drives are scheduled for Aug. 22, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Southeast Missouri Hospital Outreach Office in Jackson, and at the Knights of Columbus hall in Advance from 2-7 p.m...

Area residents interested in exploring new avenues and sharpening their skills may enroll in any of 70 non-degree classes for the fall semester at Southeast Missouri State University. Both day and evening classes are being offered for non-degree seeking students in the areas of art, science, recreation, communication, health, literature, music, religion and business...

Christina Fields of Cape Girardeau has received a President's Scholarship and Music Minor Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1991-92 academic year. The President's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who rank in the upper 15 percent of their high school class and score 23 on the ACT, or rank in the upper 20 percent of their high school class and score 24 on the ACT, or who graduate as their class valedictorian or salutatorian...

Mark Rose of Cape Girardeau was named an "Outstanding Music Camper" during the third week of summer music camp at Southeast Missouri State University. Rose, the son of Claude and Mildred Rose of Cape Girardeau, was one of 18 students to receive the awards, which were determined by camp instructors and based on performance and attitude...

Michael Whitney of Manchester, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has accepted a baseball scholarship to attend St. Louis University. He attended Central High School here, and is a 1991 graduate of Parkway West High School in St. Louis. Whitney was also offered scholarships from Meramec College at Kirkwood, and from a college in Los Angeles, Calif...

Shell Century Three Leaders, a program honoring America's student leaders, will accept applications in September. High school seniors must apply through their schools before Oct. 18. For information about the program and how to apply, students should contact their principal or guidance counselor...

A short-term workshop on "Introduction to Lotus 1-2-3" will be offered next month by the computer science department at Southeast Missouri State University. Anthony Duben, associate professor of computer science, will teach the course, scheduled for 6-9 p.m. on Tuesdays, Sept. 3, 10, 17 and 24, in Room 112 of Johnson Hall. The fee is $105...

Students who will be attending L.J. Schultz Middle School this fall may pick up their schedules and tour the building Aug. 21 and Aug. 26 from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Principal Carolyn Vandeven said students must be accompanied by a parent or guardian and may visit the school any time on either of these days...

Jaclyn Gail Smith of Cape Girardeau, a 20-year-old junior at Southeast Missouri State University, has been selected to participate in the Walt Disney World College Program in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. She will participate for the fall semester, which runs from Sept. 9 to Jan. 4. Smith is one of 2,700 students from across the United States and around the world selected for this work-study program...

Rosemary Crisp, a Marion, Ill., resident for whom Southeast Missouri State University's hall of nursing is named, has been elected to honorary membership in Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Crisp, who is a member of the board of governors for the National League for Nursing's Community Health Accreditation Program, will be inducted in the honor society during the 31st biennial convention of Sigma Theta Tau International Nov. 14 in Tampa, Fla...