Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 1991

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education Monday approved a $19.7 million budget for the 1991-92 school year that contemplates the district spending about $1.1 million more than it will receive. Superintendent Neyland Clark said school officials will begin looking at ways to trim that $1.1 million from the 1992-93 budget...

JACKSON -- If you're looking to get a jump on the Halloween spirit, the Jackson Jaycees are promising a ghost of a time beginning this weekend. Friday night marks the opening of the Old Toll Road Manor, also known as the annual Jaycees haunted house...

If Cape Girardeau buys Union Electric Co.'s water system, it will cost the school district $135,000 in tax revenue. But City Manager J. Ronald Fischer said that if the measure is successful at the polls the city is willing to wean the school district off the money over a five-year period...

SCOTT CITY -- In an effort to expedite funding for extension of Nash Road into the Southeast Missouri Regional Port, port authority commissioners voted Monday to take the lead in forming a special transportation district. The district, which is allowed under a recently passed state law, would be organized by Cape Girardeau and Scott counties, which also operate the SEMO Port Authority...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is hoping a new association established Monday will raise funds for parks improvements not currently funded by the city. The park board Monday unanimously approved the articles of incorporation and bylaws for the Cape Girardeau Parks Development Foundation...

More than 300 area residents took First National Bank up on its offer of free samples Monday and discovered that the "samples" were crisp, new $2 bills, enclosed in folders detailing the bank's services. The new bank opened at 2027 Broadway two weeks ago, but Monday (Columbus Day) a normal banking holiday marked its grand opening...

The Cape Girardeau Breakfast Optimist Club will hold its 23rd annual Spaghetti Day Wednesday at the A.C. Brase Arena Building. Serving will take place from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. The price is $4 for adults and $2 for children under 12. Dessert is extra and carry-outs will be available...

Bruce D. Stansil will be guest speaker during the October general membership meeting of the Regional Commerce & Growth Association (RCGA). The Wednesday meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn. A social hour starts at 5:30 p.m., with the regular meeting at 6:30 p.m...

Nurses should take a leading role in improving the nation's health care system, a nurse-educator said at a state convention of the Missouri Nurses Association in Cape Girardeau Monday. "We have a mission of caring and that elevates us," said Beverly L. Malone, dean and professor at the North Carolina A&T State University School of Nursing in Greensboro...

Since 1985, business and education have worked hand in hand to enrich the educational experience in the Cape Girardeau Public Schools. The Adopt-a-School program has been a real success story. It symbolizes the concern of business to build closer ties with our schools. The program is a real tribute to our business community...

Suppose I were to step forward with a bizarre and unlikely scenario. It is this: Anita Hill loves group sex with animals Shetland ponies, Great Danes, the occasional python. Proof? Admittedly, it's scarce, there being only one eyewitness myself. (The rest are all members of the animal kingdom what we used to call "dumb animals" before the Animal Rights folks Raised Our Consciousness on such dreadful slurs.) I'm the only witness, but I told four close friends at the time, and I can now produce them to testify that I told them at the time. ...

Ted Hirschfield is a member of the faculty in the Department of English at Southeast Missouri State University. This Cape resident has taught at the university since 1965. And now we have seen it all and you were there: a high-noon soap opera showdown of all the conflicting undercurrents in American life of the last generation, served and mixed up into a peculiarly American salad (it ain't coleslaw) to titillate and frighten and offend all sensibilities equally...

Graveside service for Douglas Hunter Rosenberger of Sullivan, formerly of Cape Girardeau, was held Sept. 28 at Lockhart Cemetery in Sullivan. The Rev. William E. Norris officiated, with Eatons Funeral Home of Sullivan in charge of arrangements. Rosenberger, 69, died Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1991, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center in St. Louis...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Lola M. Davis, 70, of Dongola, died Monday, Oct. 14, 1991, at her home. She was born Jan. 30, 1921, at Dongola, daughter of Claude and Lura Dillow Hartline. She married Elijah A. Davis Dec. 24, 1940, who died June 17, 1987. Davis was a member of First Baptist Church at Mill Creek...

CHAFFEE -- Brittany Lynn Kennedy, infant daughter of Jeffrey and Patricia Chasteen Kennedy of Chaffee, was stillborn Sunday, Oct. 13, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Survivors include her parents; maternal grandparents, Earl and Katie Chasteen of Chaffee; maternal grandparents, Glenn Kennedy Jr. of Van Buren, and Bill and Ruth Wills of Advance...

Three people suffered injuries Monday in two accidents within two minutes a block apart on William. Police said the second accident, involving four vehicles, happened when a vehicle was unable to stop and struck an auto slowing because of a stalled third vehicle...

MALDEN -- The Rev. Margaret M. Dirks, 67, of Malden, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Feb. 8, 1924, at Yorkville, Ill. She married Ronald Dirks June 10, 1944. Dirks had lived in Malden since 1947. She received a bachelor of science degree in home economics from Iowa State University, and received a master of divinity degree from Memphis Theological Seminary in 1981...

JACKSON -- James G. Austin, 70, of Arnold, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 1991, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis County. He was born Dec. 22, 1920, at Delta, son of James G. and Mary Scheniman Austin II. He and Marianna Shelton were married June 17, 1961...

Virgie Best, 96, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 8, 1895, at Essex, daughter of Sam and Molly Jones Smith. She married Clyde LaMar July 21, 1911, who died April 14, 1952. She then married William Best Oct. 25, 1953, who died Feb. 6, 1955...

SIKESTON -- Leo John Klekamp Jr., 35, of Sikeston, died Saturday, Oct. 12, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Nov. 14, 1955, in Caracas, Venezuela, son of Leo J. and Norma Jean Thompson Klekamp Sr. He and Teresa Russell Hood were married July 23, 1991, in Piggott, Ark...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Recie Dixon of Chicago will be held at 1 p.m. today at Sparks Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Otis White will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call from noon until service time. Dixon, 54, died Tuesday, Oct. 8, 1991, at Bethany Hospital...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Seth Fredrick Brandenburg of Columbia was held Oct. 9 at Columbia United Church of Christ. Joel Hartman and the Rev. Fred Brandenburg officiated, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Columbia. Brandenburg, 24, died Monday, Oct. 7, 1991, at Boone Hospital Center there...

SIKESTON -- Ernest Brown, 97, of Sikeston, died Monday, Oct. 14, 1991, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Nov. 7, 1893, in Simpson, Ill., son of John and Alice Curtis Brown. He married the former Emma Patterson, who preceded him in death. Brown was a mill worker at Himmelberger-Harrison. He was a corporal in the U.S. Army during World War I. He had lived in Sikeston 70 years...

A Southeast Missouri State University two-person debate team won second place Oct. 4-6 at the University of Missouri-St. Louis debate tournament. Team members Joanne Jenkins of O'Fallon, Ill., and Leslie Pace of Arnold, Mo., defeated the University of Texas in the octo-finals, Central Missouri State in the quarter-finals and Western Kentucky University in the semi-finals...

A progress report on the Outcomes Assessment Program at Southeast Missouri State University shows that Southeast juniors and seniors in the University Studies program are performing better than the national average, university officials announced Friday...

I'VE BEEN WATCHING C-Span and CBS all day long, and C-Span was requesting callers to comment on this country's process. It scares me to think the Supreme Court justice nominee is the only one who is scrutinized, put before a panel, questioned, condemned and judged. ...