Stories from Monday, November 4, 1991

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County's budget process for 1992 is officially under way, but Auditor H. Weldon Macke is anticipating very little excitement or debate connected with the new budget. One reason for the lack of excitement is the county's tight financial condition, which is caused by a flat sales tax growth this year. With 10 monthly checks for 1991 already in, receipts are running just a few dollars ahead of last year - less than 1 percent ahead of the same time in 1990...

Firefighters were called to a residence at 121 South Benton at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, after a fire broke out in an upstairs bedroom. Assistant Fire Chief Jim Niswonger said a television set apparently shorted out, setting a mattress on fire. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to the bedroom of the two-story frame home...

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will hold a public hearing on a request for a special use permit for a drug and alcohol treatment facility on the corner of Linden and West End Boulevard. The city's Planning and Zoning Commission Oct. 9 recommended the council approve the center's permit, which would be situated across the street from the former WISER Inc. building, a similar facility that closed last year...

The calender read Nov. 3, but the thermometer reported that it was mid-winter. The 10 p.m. reading Sunday at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport was 22 degrees. Temperatures in Missouri and much of the Midwest Sunday plunged to lows not normally seen until January. A dome of extremely cold air has pushed deep into the midsection of the nation...

Cape Girardeau's Show Me Center pulled off a minor coup Saturday by booking The Judds' farewell tour, and the near sell-out crowd's appreciation was evident throughout the evening. Whether stomping their feet to such Judds signatures as "This Country's Rockin'" and "Rockin' With the Rhythm" or swaying slowly with outstretched arms to the soulful ballads, "Guardian Angels" and "Grandpa," the crowd was riveted to every note, move, and bit of banter offered by the mother and daughter country music superstars.. ...

The Southeast Missourian asked students at Trinity Lutheran School about their belief in the winter weather forecasting ability of the woolly bear caterpillar as well as their own predictions of this winter's weather. Jennifer Daume: "I think we can tell from the woolly worm what the winter will be like. I think we will probably have a harsh winter, because it has been so cold already."...

In the last eight days, the Southeast Missourian, in keeping with the traditional role of newspapers, has provided editorial endorsements for several measures on Tuesday's ballot. Voters face some important matters. Decisions made at the ballot box will direct our state, county and city for many years to come...

(Here are samples of recent editorial comment from Missouri newspapers about Proposition B:) FOR Hannibal Courier-Post ...Voters should remember that Proposition B, like most legislation, is a compromise. It took most of the last session of the General Assembly to bring this proposal to the ballot. Education dominated the agenda, and because the problems and needs of education are so diverse, various legislators applied various remedies to the plan...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. James Michael Bono of St. James, Phelps County Regional Medical Center at Rolla, 6:31 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1991. Name, Amanda Mariah. Weight, 7 pounds 7 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Bono is the former Marjorie Simmons, daughter of Mr. ...

NEELY'S LANDING Goldie Awick, 86, of Neely's Landing died Saturday, Nov. 2, 1991, at St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson are incomplete.

Polling places across Missouri will be open from 6 a.m. until 7 p.m. Tuesday, as voters decide whether to approve a tax increase that will provide $385 million in additional state funding for education. Although there are a number of local issues across the state being decided, the tax proposal for education, known as Proposition B, is the only statewide issue...

Seven people were injured in a two-vehicle accident at 1 a.m. Friday. The driver of one of the vehicles was arrested for drunk driving, said Cape Girardeau Police. Todd S. Beggs, 21, Cape Route 2, was charged with driving while intoxicated and second degree assault Friday following the accident at Perryville Road and Belleridge Pike. Beggs' bond was set at $2,000...

MARBLE HILL -- Leemon Wayne Hopkins, 68, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Nov. 2, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 5, 1923, in Hiram, the son of Troy and Myrtle Golden Hopkins. Survivors include his mother and a son, Timothy Hopkins of St. Louis...

LEOPOLD -- Charlie Frank Eldracher, 84, of Leopold died Saturday, Nov. 2, 1991, at his home. He was born Sept. 15, 1907, in Leopold, the son of Frank and Katherine Vandoren Eldracher. On April 24, 1935, he married Rofina Elfrink, who survives of the home...

ADVANCE - Lottie J. Bollinger, 90, of Advance, died Sunday Nov. 3, 1991 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Feb. 1, 1901 near Advance, the daughter of William A. "Will" Jenkins and Maude Heiderman. In 1921 she was married to Albert L. Bollinger, who preceded her in death on April 19, 1956...

EAST PRAIRIE - Marcus Landon Henry, 20, of East Prairie, died Saturday Nov. 2, 1991 at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, after a six week illness. He was born Nov. 12, 1970 in St. Louis, the son of Charles Forrest and Carolyn Jo Poole Henry. Both parents survive...

Walter Huter, 82, of 3007 Themis St., died Sunday, Nov. 3, at the St. Francis Medical Center. The body is at the McComb Funeral Home in Jackson, where funeral arrangements are pending.

PERRYVILLE -- William Schwein, 87, of Perryville, died Saturday, Nov. 2, at his home. He was born July 4, 1904 to Frank and Anna Berkbigler Schwein. On Feb. 7, 1959, Schwein married Elmira A. Wingerter, who survives, along with two sons, Kenneth Schwein of St. Charles, and Gary Schwein of Fort Worth, Tex.;...

PERRYVILLE -- Voters in Perryville will decide Tuesday if the position of city collector should be an appointed instead of elected office. The position is currently an elected one. City officials said money could be saved by allowing the city collector to be an appointed position...