Stories from Monday, February 17, 1992

Cape Girardeau city officials said they're pleased that the Cape Girardeau County Commission will take the lead in setting up a solid waste management district in the region. The commission agreed Thursday to help establish the district to assure compliance with a state law passed two years ago. As part of the law, cities and counties are required by 1998 to reduce by 40 percent the volume of waste going to Missouri's landfills...

A Las Vegas-based company is soliciting investors in the Cape Girardeau area for "wireless cable TV" systems. Telephone marketing representatives for American Microtel Co. have targeted Cape Girardeau residents, hoping to procure investors in their company. But it's unclear whether the company is seeking money to open the door for a microwave-type "cable TV" system in Cape Girardeau...

After suffering through a year with no general pay hikes, Southeast Missouri State University employee groups are pushing for increased salaries and other compensation. The three major employee groups presented their compensation proposals to the university's budget review subcommittee Thursday and Friday...

JACKSON - State Rep. David Schwab will file today for re-election to a third term in the Missouri House of Representatives. A Republican, Schwab has a farming operation near Jackson. Schwab promised to continue his efforts to reduce excessive government regulation if elected to another term...

The Southeast Missourian asked people for their thoughts about the Winter Olympics. Shannon Davis: "I enjoy the downhill skiing most of all. I have watched a few hours of it, but I wish I had the time to see more of it. It seems that there is less political influence with it this time. I think we should get more involved with our teams as a patriotic endeavor."...

City officials are justified in their dissatisfaction with an evolving government-imposed regulation that will require the expenditure of a good chunk of city revenue, and they should let the government know they are irritated. The latest in what has become a barrage of new or amended environmental regulations being imposed upon local governments has been handed down by the federal Environmental Protection Agency, an agency with a flair for telling governments and businesses what must be done to clean up the environment, in most cases without the offer of a single penny of federal assistance.. ...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Runge of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:31 a.m. Friday, Feb. 7, 1992. Name, Brett Aaron. Weight, 7 pounds 10 ounces. First child. Mrs. Runge is the former Renae Larson, daughter of Sandy and Dave Whitlock of Ava, Ill. She is a salesperson at Advanced Business Systems. Runge is employed at Biokyowa, and is the son of Virgil and Sharon Runge of Sparta, Ill...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Eddie L. Childers, 85, of East Prairie, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1992, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Aug. 2, 1906 in Alamo, Ky., son of John Cody and Louella Nanny Childers. He was a retired farmer and a member of the Wolf Island Baptist Church in Wolf, Island, Ill...

PERRYVILLE -- Anna Augusta Schroeder, 88, of Perryville, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 1992 at the American Care Center in Perryville. She was born April 16, 1903, in Friedenberg, daughter of Barney and Julie Welker Kirn. She was a homemaker and member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church of Perryville...

He was born Oct. 25, 1914, at Dongola, the son of James and Nellie Karraker Sivia. On Nov. 24, 1934, he married Euba Karraker, who survives of the home. He was a member of the Wetaug Church of Christ and was retired from the Union County Highway Department...

ANNA, Ill. -- Eva Harrell, 95, of Jacksonville, Ark. and formerly of Anna died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1992, at her home. She was born Sept. 11, 1896, near Alto Pass, the daughter of James S. and Cora Stone Gore. On May 5, 1935, she married William Alonzo Harrell, who preceded her in death July 10, 1947...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Dovie Grant, 84, of Elgin, Ill. and formerly of Pulaski and Olive Branch died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1992, at the Fox Valley Nursing Center in South Elgin. She was born July 26, 1907, in Thebes, Ill., the daughter of Mack Farland and Carrie Hill Dyer. In 1924, she married Eldon L. Grant, who preceded her in death June 16, 1972...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Rosie R. Helton, 77, of Route 1, Mounds died Sunday, Feb. 16, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge, Ill.