Stories from Monday, January 6, 1992

Missouri Highway and Transportation Commissioner John Oliver said Sunday that passage of a 6-cent state gasoline tax would be a "bonanza" for Southeast Missouri. The Cape Girardeau attorney said Missouri will best be able to take advantage of a new federal highway bill if voters approve the 6-cent increase. The tax would be increased in two-cent steps over a five-year period...

For Southeast Missouri State University and education in general in Missouri, 1991 was the year of the "B," as in budget cuts and Proposition B. The bottom line was money or more specifically the lack of it. Educators from the university level on down said schools desperately needed increased funding to provide quality education...

The defeat of Proposition B has not buried the issue of education reform, says a Southeast Missouri State University official. Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president at Southeast, said education reform will be the focus of much attention this year at the college level...

PERRYVILLE -- Six-year-old Alisha Schumer and her father Tom shared "dad's chair" Sunday, talking and giggling like millions of other fathers and daughters do. But unlike other youngsters, Alisha will undergo her second kidney transplant Thursday at Cardinal Glennon Hospital in St. Louis. Her father is the donor...

Cape Girardeau this year will satisfy a new landfill mandate that prohibits yard waste such as grass clippings and leaves in landfills by launching a citywide compost service. A Missouri solid-waste law enacted in 1990 requires that all materials going to landfills be reduced by 40 percent by 1998...

Don Beattie: "They are still a threat to us, particularly since their leadership is undefined right now. Although they are broken up into many small states, they still have nuclear weapons. The whole thing is so vague now that I think we need to worry more about them now than we had."...

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will consider a contract with the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission to conduct a study of the city's public transportation needs. The council last year agreed to the study subject to receipt of a grant from the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department. The department has approved the city's request for $20,000, which is 80 percent of the project's cost...

J. Christopher Schnell is a professor of history at Southeast ~Missouri State University. On November 22, 1963, someone shot and killed President John F. Kennedy. I learned of the assassination as a Senior leaving my 1:00 French class at Kansas State University. In the years that followed, I earned a Ph.D. in American Political History but my special project always focused on JFK, for whom I worked during the 1960 presidential campaign...

Whether it be a knowledge of one's genealogy or the history of a given locale, most of us bond closely to our ancestry Ancestry, whether we realize it or not, is very much responsible for how we think and what we do. Likewise, events both good and bad that took place long before we were put on this Earth directly affect our lives of today...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Dewey W. Adams Jr. of McClure, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:13 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 28, 1991. Name, Derek Wade. Weight, 8 pounds. First child. Mrs. Adams is the former Regina Espindola, daughter of Louise Freeman of Las Vegas, Nev. She is a receptionist at Mercantile Bank of Cape Girardeau. Adams is a mechanic with Ryder Student Transportation, and is the son of Patti Bell of Gale, Ill., and Dewey Adams of Marble Hill...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Jacqueline Malone, 72, of Tamms died Sunday, Jan. 5, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 15, 1919, at Tamms, the daughter of John L. and Ruth Boswell Clifford. On July 20, 1962, she married Virgil Malone, who survives of the home...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- James L. Redcloud, 56, of Dongola died Friday, Jan. 3, 1992, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. He was born April 28, 1935, in Perks, Ill., the son of Orville H. and Hazel Beaver Redcloud. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Dongola and was sales representative for Lewis Brothers Bakeries...

MILLERSVILLE -- Emery A. "Bud" Kistner, 99, of Millersville, died Sunday, Jan. 5, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Oct. 27, 1892, at Millersville, son of Marion and Para Lee Runnels Kistner. He married Agnes Sawyer, who preceded him in death. He then married Alma Fulbright Ates on Nov. 1, 1943. She preceded him in death in October, 1984...

PERRYVILLE -- Dr. Lawrence W. Feltz, 78, a long-time prominent Perryville physician died Sunday, Jan. 5, 1992, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born Aug. 11, 1913, in Perryville, the son of Lawrence and Katherine Lukefahr Feltz. On Feb. 14, 1944, he married Irene L. Creedon, who survives of the home...

Emma L. Sander, 91, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Jan. 4, 1992, at the Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Oct. 4, 1900, daughter of Henry Karl Sander and Martha Sophia Bohnsack Sander. She married Henry William Sander on May 22, 1930 in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death on Oct. 22, 1981...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Tamms Little Egypt Chapter 3927 AARP Inc. will meet at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Smiles II Senior Citizens Nutrition Center in Ullin. The program will be on eye health care. Members are urged to bring a friend. Lunch reservations need to be made by Tuesday by calling the center at 845-3832...

Degrees were conferred on 479 students during winter commencement exercises Dec. 14 at Southeast Missouri State University. The following is a list of area students who graduated with advanced degrees. Advance: Polly A. Bradford, P. O. Box 518, master of arts, major elementary education...

Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Clarence Barks to Robert E. and Kristi A. Hahs; Greenwood Land Company to James J. and Esther B. Ressel; Henry D. and Lillie E. Hickam to the Henry D. and Lillie E. Hickam Trusts...