Stories from Monday, August 19, 1991

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Floyd L. "Frosty" Spurlock, 75, of Route 1 Jonesboro, died Saturday, Aug. 17, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 11, 1916 in Jonesboro, the son of Benjamin and Minnie Kimbrell Spurlock. On Nov. 11, 1939, he married the former Edna Harvel in Jackson, Mo. She survives...

SIKESTON -- The bright smile on the face of the tiny, green-eyed teen is not a forced one. Audra Lynne Sherman, Miss Missouri Teen USA, has every right to smile because she is one step away from becoming Miss Teen USA. The 18-year-old, who is the daughter of Sikeston's Ron and Karen Carmody and the late John Sherman, is in Biloxi, Miss., site of this year's Miss Teen USA pageant...

State Reps. Dennis Ziegenhorn and Ollie Amick will share the same Missouri House district under a plan agreed to by two members of the House Redistricting Commission from the 8th Congressional District. John Lichtenegger of Jackson, the Republican member of the commission, and Mel Weems of Bonne Terre, the Democratic member, have been working together to finalize a map in this part of the state based on 1990 census figures...

DELTA -- Mary Maud Hosea, a teacher and principal in the Delta school system for over 40 years, calls herself an instigator just trying to make things better for her students. But the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education calls Hosea a "Pioneer in Education." She was one of six Missouri educators honored with the title this month...

PERRYVILLE -- A Perryville teenager was killed early Sunday when his pickup truck ran off the road and overturned, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported. Christopher M. Reiss, 18, was killed at 2:30 a.m. Sunday in the accident on Route P, three-tenths of a mile east of U.S. Highway 61, said the patrol...

The Southeast Missourian asked children why they are looking forward to going back to school. Renee Shoulders: "I missed reading this summer, so I'm looking forward to that at school. I also missed some of my friends." Dujuan Jones: "School is fun. I want to go back especially for spelling and math. Also, I want to play some basketball when I get back."...

Among items on the agenda for the Cape Girardeau City Council meeting tonight is the first reading of an ordinance requiring certain municipal officials to disclose potential conflicts of interest. The council will meet at 7:30 p.m. A study session will be held at 5 p.m. prior to the regular meeting of the council. Both meetings will be held at City Hall, 401 Independence...

SIKESTON - If a Missouri House Redistricting Commission plan puts state Reps. Dennis Ziegenhorn and Ollie Amick in the same district, Ziegenhorn may re-consider his decision not to run for the state Senate next year, he said Sunday. "This totally changes the complexion of what I might do," said Ziegenhorn. "Maybe I made my announcement a little too soon about my Senate intentions. If I'm going to run a race, I might as well run the big one...

Late last week, the Congressional Budget Office announced that next year's federal budget deficit would be a stunning $362 billion primarily because of the S&L debacle and the "explosion of Medicaid costs." Further, the National Governors' Association declared that states could no longer cover the costs of long-term health care for example, nursing homes now borne, in significant measure, by the states under the Medicaid program...

Warren S. Hastings is a long-time Cape Girardeau resident, and retired businessman. The fact that the United States is amassing a huge trade deficit is deplored by relatively few people and ignored by the vast majority of our people. Being one of the few who deplore this situation, I have been trying to devised a remedy...

The City Council decided last week that Cape Girardeau officials should embark upon a coordinated plan with other local governments to study ways to develop a comprehensive plan for a "Greater Cape Girardeau Urban Area." In so doing, the council had hoped the area would be designated as "urbanized" by the U.S. Census Bureau, a title that brings with it many economic advantages to local governments and businesses...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Donnie Milam of Kelso, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:24 p.m. Friday, Aug. 9, 1991. Name, Mallory Kristine. Weight, 6 pounds 13 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Milam is the former Kristie Westrich, daughter of Marvin and Lillian Westrich of Benton. She is employed by the Federal Probation and Parole Office. Milam is an electrician with IBEW Local 1, and is the son of Earl and Betty Milam of Diehlstadt...

PERRYVILLE -- Christopher M. Reiss, 18, of Perryville died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1991 in Perryville in a traffic accident. He was born Sept. 18, 1972 in Perryville, the son of Ronald and Gail LaRose Reiss. They both survive. In addition he is survived by one sister, Michelle Reiss, Ste. Genevieve; his maternal grandmother, Faye LaRose, Perryville; and one nephew, Justin Reiss, Perryville...

PERRYVILLE -- The Rev. Wendelin Joseph Dunker C.M., 85, of Perryville died Aug. 17 at St. Mary's Seminary in Perryville. He was a former priest at several area churches. Born Jan. 7, 1906 at Perryville, he was the son of Louis Dunker and Josephine Schindler Dunker...

Charles A. Warren, 76, 1751 Dunklin, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1991, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. He was born Sept. 28, 1914, in Advance, son of Charles E. and Jettie Clifton Warren. He and Ina B. Bollinger were married Jan. 21, 1936, in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Hester Viola Deimund, 93, of Jackson, died Saturday, Aug. 17, 1991, at Cape LaCroix in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 13, 1898, at Allenville, daughter of Ed and Mollie Seabaugh Seabaugh. She married Christian Deimund Dec. 12, 1915. He died Sept. 24, 1973...

Virgil Elfrink of Cape Girardeau has been elected president and Jackson Mayor Carlton Meyer vice president of the board of directors of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association. The two were chosen at the August meeting of the 21-member board, which is comprised of nine at-large members and representatives of various counties and communities in the region...