Stories from Monday, March 2, 1992

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will again consider a city law that would impose more stringent identification requirements for people who sell merchandise to pawnshops and jewelry stores. The proposed law first was discussed at a council meeting in January, but was tabled after council members questioned the necessity of the restrictions and said they feared the measure would burden the affected merchants...

BENTON -- The rate of mileage reimbursement has become a topic of debate among Scott County officials in the wake of a decision by commissioners to reduce the rate for the sheriff's department. On Feb. 13, the Scott County Commission voted 2-1 to reduce the mileage reimbursement rate for the sheriff and his deputies from 25 cents to 20.5 cents a mile, bringing it in line with the rate paid other county officers and employees...

SCOTT CITY -- Buy Local Week at Scott City has left Baker's Bestway manager John Meisenheimer asking for more. "I'd like to see it done as an annual thing," he said at the grocery store at 1302 Main. "We ran a big sale that week ... and we did have an extremely good week."...

For 43 years, Vince Seyer has had his hands on the nuts and bolts of Southeast Missouri State University. The 62-year-old Seyer retired last December, but he's still going to work, directing the operations of the physical plant under a contract with the university until a new director can be hired. University officials say a new physical plant director will be hired this spring...

The Southeast Missourian asked people what they thought about the Pentagon's request to Congress for permission to reduce the National Defense Stockpile from its current $9 billion level of war-related materials to $1.3 billion, selling up to $1 billion worth each year. The proposed level is based on a one-year mobilization and a three-month war...

SCOTT CITY -- Three candidates for a Ward 2 seat on the City Council will become two on Tuesday after a primary election in Scott City. Running for the two-year term are incumbent John Rogers, and George Moit and Terry Gettings. Only voters in Ward 2 will cast ballots, and the polling place will be at the United Methodist Church, 1400 Broadway...

John Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, was the first political casualty of the Republican primary war. As a TV commentator, Pat Buchanan inveighed against Frohnmayer and the NEA for years. When he brought his campaign to the church-going conservatives of Georgia, Buchanan blasted George Bush for "subsidizing filthy and blasphemous art" at the National Endowment. ...

The Missouri Senate has before it a measure that will curtail the use of illegal drugs in this state. The package has been kicked around by the General Assembly for the last two sessions without resolution. Now is the time for its passage. The Senate should act this week to advance this important legislation...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jay Wolz, 630 Red Bud Circle, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:10 a.m., Feb. 28, 1992. Name, Allison Jeanette. Weight, 7 pounds 11 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Wolz is the former Kathleen Anderson, daughter of Joan Anderson of Cape Girardeau and the late Robert J. ...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Cook, Delta Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:10 a.m. Monday, Feb. 17, 1992. Name, Matthew Shannon. Weight, 8 pounds. Fifth child, fourth son. Mrs. Cook is the former Rosemary Coleman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Coleman of Scott City. Cook is a foreman at Kasten Concrete, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cook of Whitewater...

SCOTT CITY -- Louis Albert Walter, 68, of 2301 James in Scott City died Saturday, Feb. 29, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 28, 1923, at Ancell, the son of William and Amelia Sander Walter. On Sept. 3, 1955, he married Mary Alice Ressel, who survives of the home...

ADVANCE -- Ben F. Kight, 68, of rural Advance died Sunday, March 1, 1992, at his home. He was born March 20, 1923, at Arbor, the son of John H. and Elizabeth Hitt Kight. On May 17, 1975, he married Millie Kight, who survives of the home. He was an independent insurance agent and farmer. ...

Lorey Ann Sparks, 22, of 918 S. Ellis, died Saturday, Feb. 29, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital of an extended illness. She was born July 7, 1969, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Luther and Anna Griffith Sparks. They survive. She was a graduate of Cape Central High School and Stage One Hair School. She was employed at J.C. Penney in Cape Girardeau as a beautician...

SIKESTON -- Anna Murray, 85, formerly of Sikeston, died Saturday, Feb. 29, 1992, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews. She was born May 29, 1906, in Charleston, the daughter of George W. and Delaney Dunlap Green. On June 9, 1928, she married Henry C. Murray, who preceded her in death March 4, 1978...

The criminal justice department at Southeast Missouri State University has received approval from the Missouri Department of Public Safety's Peace Officers Standard and Training Commission to hold a 130-hour advanced law enforcement academy this spring...