Stories from Thursday, January 2, 1992

The Show Me Center will host a sports show in February, featuring the area's finest display of fishing, hunting, boating, camping and RV equipment. The two-day event will take place Feb. 1 from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Feb. 2 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is $2 at the door. Children under 12 will be admitted free. Sponsors of the show are K-103 and Pepsi Cola...

Auditions for the March production of "Babes in Arms" by the Broadway Community Theater will be held Jan. 7-11 at the Concord Theater. Nine males and nine females, ages 16 and older, are needed for the cast. "Babes in Arms" was a Broadway musical in the 1930s and subsequently was made into a movie...

Motivated by the extra pounds that invariably go hand in hand with holiday parties and Christmas gatherings, many people resolve to slim down for the new year. And 1992 will likely be as good as any other year for such weight-loss resolutions. If it's yours, you'll be glad to know that January is the busiest time of the year for health clubs and weight-loss clinics. ...

Cape Girardeau teenager Kelly Russell has advanced to the regional semi-finalists category in the Teen magazine's Great Model Search. Her photograph appears in the January issue of the magazine. She is vying for the title of the Model Discovery of the Year for Teen magazine...

The Show Me Center Jan. 10 will host the Maverick and Monster Motorsports Thrill Show, featuring five monster trucks and the world's largest transformer. Monster trucks scheduled to appear are "Holman's Beast," "Mr. Twister," "Flashback," "King Kong" and "Pony Express." Also, Cape Girardeau's own custom wreckers will compete in the wrecker race series...

The Cape Girardeau County MADD Community Action Team will hold its organizational meeting later this month. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, in the Community Counseling Center's Harrison room. The center is at Silver Springs and Bloomfield roads...

Preliminary construction associated with an $89 million Cape Girardeau Mississippi River bridge and cross-city highway project is scheduled to begin late this year, said a designer for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department. Tom Stehn, the department's District 10 chief designer at Sikeston, said Tuesday that work on the highway will start where Highway 74 is to be relocated to form an interchange with I-55...

JACKSON - Unless there was an exceptionally heavy rush of late mail, it appears that many Cape Girardeau County taxpayers are waiting until 1992 to pay their 1991 taxes. Personal property and real estate tax bills for all taxing entities within the county were due by midnight Tuesday. ...

SCOTT CITY -- Last-minute filings will mean a primary election in Scott City's second ward for at least one seat on the city council. Three people have filed for a two-year term in Ward 2, and three have filed for a one-year term in that ward. On Tuesday, the last day to file, Terry Gettings, a member of the town's volunteer fire department, filed for the two-year term. The seat is currently held by John Rogers, who has filed for re-election. George Moit has also filed for the seat...

The mild December weather had Cape Girardeau street crews smiling. Last year by this time the area already had suffered through a major winter storm. Another winter storm struck in early January as street crews scrambled to clear streets of snow and ice...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Mae Ella Cummins, 76, of Cairo, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Nov. 15, 1915, in Mound City, daughter of Tilly and Emma Joyner Hawf. She married Will Cummins. Cummins was a member of Cairo Baptist Church and American Legion Auxiliary...

BENTON - Two Southeast Missouri women were injured early Wednesday morning when the car they were in ran off the median and overturned on I-55, four miles south of Benton. Laura Garner, 32, of Cape Girardeau, was the driver of the car and was treated for minor injuries at Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. A passenger, Debra Schuerenberg, 31, of Matthews, sustained serious injuries and was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Bon Hoffner, 76, of Dongola, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at the VA Hospital in Marion. He was born Feb. 25, 1915, at Dongola, son of Henry and Dessie Lingle Hoffner. He and Beatrice Acuff were married March 30, 1946. She died Dec. 9, 1972...

ELCO, Ill. -- Clifford Hazelwood, 80, of Elco, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Crain Funeral Home at Tamms is in charge of arrangements.

MARBLE HILL -- Roy Hale, 77, of Marble Hill, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at Saint Francis Medical Center. He was born at Huntsville, Ala., June 11, 1914, son of John D. and Nancy D. Miles Hale. On Dec. 20, 1937, he married Ruth Watson. Survivors include his wife; two sons, John D. Hale of Afton, Ronald H. Hale of High Ridge; six grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren...

MATTHEWS -- Graveside service for Cecile A. Olson of Poplar Bluff will be held at 11 a.m. today at Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Tom Bruns will officiate, with Cotrel Funeral Chapel of Poplar Bluff in charge of arrangements. Olson, 82, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff...

MARBLE HILL -- Gertie Myers, 82, Marble Hill Route 2, died Monday, Dec. 30, 1991, at Bond Nursing Care Center here. She was born Nov. 26, 1909, near Advance, daughter of David and Ada Helderman Bollinger. She married Marion L. Myers Feb. 29, 1988, at Farmington...

BENTON -- Wade Spencer Brock, 79, Benton Route 1, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at his home. He was born Jan. 6, 1912, at Benton, son of Robert and Amelia Steimle Brock. He and the former Etta Pauline "Jackie" Pattengill were married Nov. 9, 1935, at New Madrid...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Hallie Lucinda Cantrell, 91, of McClure, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Jan. 1, 1900, in Reynoldsville, Ill., daughter of Charles and Olivia Newton Keller. She married James Walter Cantrell Sept. 8, 1921, at Jackson. He died Dec. 23, 1964...

MOREHOUSE -- Euggie I. Bohannon, 93, of Morehouse, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Oct. 12, 1898, in Marshall, Ark., son of John and Annis Cordelia Flatt Bohannon. He and Effie Savage were married Aug. 26, 1919, in Atlas, Ark...

WHITEWATER -- Funeral service for Frederick Deneke, Whitewater Route 1, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Zion Methodist Church in Gordonville. The Rev. Tom Gross will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Virgil Bunch. Burial will be in the church cemetery...

MILLERSVILLE -- Garland E. Phillips, 47, of Millersville, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at her home. She was born July 10, 1944, in Quanah, Texas, daughter of Robert and Mamie Green Lytle. She first married Zeke Clement. She and Glen Phillips were married Nov. 3, 1985. He died Jan. 11, 1991...

SIKESTON -- Robert A. Gaddis, 78, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 30, 1913, at Kewanee, son of Jim and Effie Widows Gaddis. He and Emma Clayborn were married Aug. 4, 1946, in Piggott, Ark. She died March 28, 1988...

ANNA, Ill. -- Lena M. Verble, 97, of Anna, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1992, at Union County Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 15, 1894, in Union County, daughter of Dennis and Nettie Gunter Hess. She married James O. Verble, who preceded her in death Aug. 18, 1954...

ANNA, Ill. -- Kathy Robertson, 48, of Sun City, Ariz., died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at John C. Lincoln Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz. She was born May 1, 1943, in Anna, daughter of Charles and Bertha Hileman Robertson. She married Tod V. Schulz. Survivors include her husband; a son, Michael Letsinger of Elgin; her mother of Jonesboro; a stepson, Michael Schulz of Chicago; a stepdaughter, Debbie Schulz of Chicago; a sister, Pat Glasco of Anna; two brothers, Jack Robertson of Vergennes, Charles Robertson of Yucca Valley, Calif., and a grandson.. ...

THEBES, Ill. -- Norma Kay Garner, 31, of Thebes, died Tuesday, Dec. 31, 1991, at her home. She was born Dec. 22, 1960, at Malden, Mo., daughter of Floyd E. and Eva Mae Pearson Davis. She is survived by three sons, Steven Ray Pikey, Joe David Davis, and Sean Murphy Davis, all of Thebes; her mother of Tamms; two sisters, Francis Burton of Tamms, Kathy Davis of Thebes; two brothers, Wayne and Earsel Davis of Tamms; a half sister, Sue Mins of Tamms, and maternal grandfather, John Henry Pearson of Savannah, Tenn.. ...

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County Clerk Rodney Miller will soon be conducting a canvass of registered voters in the county as part of his office's ongoing process of keeping voter registration records current. By the middle of January, Miller said, all voters in the county should be receiving a new voter identification card. The card will include the voting ward where the person resides and the numbers of all city, legislative, fire, and other districts where a person is located...

The new year brings with it numerous resolutions, pledges made in earnest but most often dispatched with haste. Among the negligible promises for losing unwanted weight or increasing personal discipline may be one of far greater significance: an enlarged role in your child's education. This one should not be cast aside so casually. Parental participation is essential to the betterment of education...

To the Editor: The ~many comments~~ printed about lighting dis~plays in the County Park are not "m~uch ado about nothing." Fundamental ideas and emotions are involved. I visited the park and admired the displays for what they are: lighting arrangements~. I do wonder about a fiery-red cross, thou~gh...

Cape Girardeau has many things to be proud of as the city begins the celebration of its bicentennial. One of them is having the first tavern-hotel in Missouri, which was built and in business in 1806. Being one of the river towns that formed the nucleus of the state, it was a landing where families entered the West after the Louisiana Purchase was finalized. They came in numbers, taking advantage of cheap land being offered to settlers in an effort to improve their lifestyles...