Stories from Friday, September 13, 1991

SCOTT CITY -- Clement A. Dirnberger, 84, of Scott City, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 12, 1907, at New Hamburg, son of Michael and Mary Bucher Dirnberger. He and Clara Roth were married May 29, 1939, at Chaffee...

In plotting a course of resolution for its facility needs, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education acknowledged an important truth Tuesday night: the foundation of a public school district is built not of bricks and mortar but of citizen support. In announcing a plan called "Project Partnership: Schools and Community," Superintendent Neyland Clark and the school board are throwing open their ideas and designs for education's future here and asking for public input. ...

If Ronald Reagan brought any particular talent to his two terms as president, it was an ability to sum up in one compact phrase what an entire nation believed. He became known as the Great Communicator not for his gift of reasoned oration but for his capacity to succinctly and sincerely get a point across. His was a presidency when the sound bite came into full bloom...

Robert L. Cox is Professor Emeritus of Industrial Technology at Southeast Missouri State University. We hear a lot these days about education in the United States deteriorating, declining, going bad. Most of these observations are based on test scores which are going down slowly, or maybe rapidly in some places. ...

To the Editor: In his Sept. 5 column, "Research on homosexuality greeted with befuddlement," Jay Eastlick discusses the impact of a recent research finding by Simon LeVay. I waited to respond to Eastlick's column until I could see LeVay's research in print; today I got the issue of the journal Science in which he published his results. ...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Iris Illene Bohren, 66, of DeKalb, Ill., died Thursday, Aug. 29, 1991, at Rockford Memorial Hospital in Rockford, Ill. She was born Aug. 16, 1925, in Hornbeak, Tenn., daughter of Howard and Fannie Ing Ashley. She moved to the DeKalb and Chicago area several years ago from East Prairie...

ADVANCE -- Basy "Bill" Hurt, 80, of Advance, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 1991, at Doctors' Regional Hospital in Poplar Bluff. Morgan Funeral Home at Advance is in charge of arrangements.

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lawrence, 1015 Bloomfield, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:50 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, 1991. Name, Kathryn Elizabeth. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounce. First child. Mrs. Lawrence is the former Sharon Prater, daughter of James Prater of McClure, Ill. Lawrence is a maintenance worker at Thorngate Ltd., and is the son of Burl and Elizabeth Lawrence of Cairo, Ill...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Milo Eudy, 80, of Jonesboro, died Thursday, Sept. 12, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 6, 1910, in Reynoldsville, Ill., son of Pearl and Clara Canupp Eudy. He married Delores Miller in Anna, Ill., on March 22, 1937. She survives...

"The new residential curbside recycling program will not be mandatory. The program will not result in a rate increase. Trucks will still be running two days a week in each area." These answers by Doug Kaminskey, environmental services coordinator for Cape Girardeau, are in response to questions that flooded the city's public works office Thursday afternoon in response to a circular, which has been mailed to residents to explain the new curbside pickup program that starts Oct. 1...

The best way to increase voter registration and participation is to create a new generation of young people who recognize the importance of democracy and exercising the right to vote, Secretary of State Roy Blunt told a group of county clerks here Thursday...

Saying they didn't want to lose a "bird in hand," the Cape Girardeau Airport Advisory Board Thursday failed to approve a motion to halt a plan to renovate the airport terminal building so the matter could be further studied. The board in December approved a motion to go forward with the $1.1 million renovation project after more than a year of deliberations over whether to renovate the terminal or build a new one. ...

There are no two-headed snakes or five-legged calves on display at the Southeast Missouri District Fair. But there are many unusual and rare breeds of animals that are just as interesting and fascinating for fair visitors to see. A good place to start is the poultry and rabbit exhibition building near the southeast corner of the Arena Park fairgrounds...

Local law enforcement officials told a state crime commission Thursday that more funding is needed to help local law enforcement agencies fight crime. The Governor's Commission on Crime, headed by Missouri Attorney General William Webster, was in Cape Girardeau to hear law enforcement officials' concerns. The commission this week is holding similar hearings throughout the state...

BENTON -- The Scott County Commission has raised the county's levies for the road-and-bridge and general-revenue funds by 1 cent each. The general-revenue levy has been increased from 6 to 7 cents per $100 assessed valuation and the road-and-bridge levy has been raised from 23 to 24 cents...

JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County was among several counties that participated in a statewide nuclear-disaster preparedness exercise Wednesday. While such simulations are routinely conducted each year, Deputy Cape Girardeau County Emergency Services Coordinator Martha Vandivort said year's exercise scenario was more timely, and realistic than others...