Stories from Thursday, March 12, 1992

Since their professional debut nearly 20 years ago, the Scholars of London have given at least 1,700 concerts in 50 countries and performed in many of the great concert halls. On March 21, the quartet will perform in Cape Girardeau at 8 p.m. in Academic Auditorium in a concert sponsored by the community Concert Association...

Whitewater rafting enthusiasts will have an opportunity to raft and canoe down the North Carolina and Tennessee rivers this spring in a "Wet and Well" week expedition. The trip is sponsored by the health and leisure studies department at Southeast Missouri State University and the Fitness and Wellness Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

Auditions for the May production of "Pure as the Driven Snow" will be held Sunday, Monday and Tuesday at the Academy of Dance Arts in Cape Girardeau. "Pure as the Driven Snow" will be presented by the Broadway Community Theater May 8-9 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. It is a dinner theater with the dinner starting at 6:30 p.m. followed by the show...

The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will tour St. Louis area schools March 16-18. Schools included on the tour are Festus High School, Windsor High School, Herculaneum High School, St. Charles High School, Parkway South, Parkway West, St. Louis Community College at Forest Park and Jefferson College...

Two evenings of Victorian mayhem and mysterious happenings are planned at Cape Girardeau's Glenn House March 27 and 28. "Murder So Foul" will entertain area sleuths with an authentic Victorian buffet catered by Mollie's restaurant and then a night of intrigue. You and your fellow detectives will mingle and frolic with Cape Girardeau's most affluent circle about the dark deed that has occurred at the house while you were there...

When Lone Star Industries advertised for workers recently, the Cape Girardeau firm expected a good turnout of potential employees. "We probably didn't expect the turnout that we had," said Norris Johnson, control room supervisor at the local cement manufacturing company. "We gave out 190 job applications, and had to close the doors to many more."...

You never know who might show up in Eva Wilson's fifth grade class at Nell Holcomb School. On Wednesday, it was a Civil War general. The general was portrayed by Lee Ragland, who talked with Wilson's students about the war. Ragland, of Cape Girardeau, is a Civil War reenactor and came to class dressed in his military uniform, including sword and hat...

State Rep. Mary Kasten has filed for a sixth term in the Missouri House and said as a member of several key House committees, she plans to concentrate on meeting goals. Kasten had considered seeking the Republican nomination for the Missouri Senate, but announced last month she would instead seek re-election to a sixth term in the House...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Democratic presidential hopeful Bill Clinton ended a Wednesday campaign swing through Illinois with a speech on the campus of Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. The Arkansas governor urged more than 1,000 people at the rally to reject President George Bush's "failed economic policies of the '80s" and vote "Clinton" in Tuesday's presidential primary...

Kathleen Mattis will present a viola concert in Cape Girardeau March 22. The concert is free to the public and will be held at 3 p.m. at the Old St. Vincent's Religious and Cultural Center, 131 S. Main. Accompanying Wolf on the piano will be St. Louisan Patricia Wolf, a recent graduate of Juilliard. The concert will include works from two periods, including classical with works from Mozart. Representing the early 20th century will be works from Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Gershwin...

About 250 high schools from across Missouri will participate in the Missouri Association of Student Councils (MASC) convention at Cape Girardeau Central High School today. The purpose of the convention is to promote leadership and give students an opportunity to share student council concerns, said Kathy Wright, Central's Student Council adviser...

The Wendl Band will perform March 28 at a German Dance sponsored by the German Club of Southeast Missouri. The dance will be held at the KC Hall in Jackson beginning at 8 p.m., and German food and drinks will be available. Tickets are $6 in advance and $7 at the door...

Funeral service for Herbert Spears Jr., 220 Pearl, will be at 9 a.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 tonight. Spears, 65, died Tuesday, March 10, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

Randall Lee Watkins, 43, of Southaven, Miss., died Tuesday, March 10, 1992, at Baptist Hospital East in Memphis, Tenn. He was born Feb. 23, 1949, in Sioux City, Iowa, son of Verle and Carna Watkins. He and Cheryl Haynie were married in June 1969. Watkins was a contract supervisor with Winsett-Simmonds Inc. in Memphis...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Funeral service for Donnie Calvin of Mound City will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Crain Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Jimmy Calvin will officiate, with burial in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Friday...

WYATT -- Essie Mae Wilke, 83, of Florissant, formerly of Wyatt, died Tuesday, March 10, 1992, at Christian Northeast Hospital in Florissant. She was born July 20, 1908, at Jonesboro, Ill., daughter of James A. and Mary Smithey Knupp. She married Albert Wilke Aug. 13, 1953. He died Jan. 24, 1975...

MILLERSVILLE -- Lillard Dockins, 83, of Santa Ana, Calif., died Sunday, March 8, 1992, in Santa Ana. He was born Jan. 29, 1909, at Millersville, son of Edmund Lee and Lucy Johnson Dockins. Dockins moved to Orange County, Calif., about 50 years ago. He was a self-employed businessman, retiring in 1982. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Allen Wilke, 902 S. Sprigg, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:57 p.m. Tuesday, March 3, 1992. Name, Brooke Nicole. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounce. First child. Mrs. Wilke is the former Kim Bazzell, daughter of Karen Bazzell of Cape Girardeau. She is a licensed practical nurse at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Wilke is employed at Sperling's, and is the son of Bert and Leroy Wilke, Cape Girardeau...

The city charter, adopted by Cape Girardeau voters more than a decade ago, calls for an annual evaluation and five-year projection on municipal capital needs. As anticipated by charter authors, the requirement will accompany the city through good times and bad, the evaluation remaining a fixture even if the results shift with the economic times. The current exercise by city officials is a reflection of modern circumstances; the planning must go on but cast in the light of more limited resources...

Presidential campaigns have become so complex and confusing that it's a wonder we don't usually wind up with the least desirable candidates. Come to think of it, we guess wonders have ceased. --- Support the homeless: Take a presidential candidate home for the night. In fact, keep him as long as you want...

To the Editor: This letter is being written in response to your column on Sunday, March 1, which attacked MNEA and its educational goals. The article showed a lack of research into MNEA's position on several important issues. The first issue dealt with MNEA's support for a standard's board, which would deal with teacher certification. ...

About 276 high school students from 37 high schools will compete today in the 10th annual Southeast Missouri State University Chemistry Bowl. The event will be held on the Southeast campus and is sponsored by the university's chemistry department. The competition will consist of a 35-question, multiple choice exam and two experiments an acid titration and a qualitative analysis experiment...

A Cape Girardeau man is in critical condition with burns over 40 percent of his body after he was injured in an accident at his home on Sunday. Terry Long, 71, is hospitalized in the burn unit at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Couer. A friend of the family said Tuesday Long is responding to treatment and the prognosis for recovery is good...

A public conference to explore the history, current management and future direction of Missouri's public forests is planned for March 27-28 at Southeast Missouri State University. Several organizations have joined forces to spearhead the conference, titled "Towards A Vision For Missouri's Public Forests." In addition to the local university's College of Science and Technology, the University of Missouri-Columbia's School of Natural Resources, the Ozark Chapter of the Sierra Club, the Missouri Department of Conservation, the Mark Twain National Forest and the Four Seasons Audubon Society are participating.. ...

A December 1991 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University is among 110 finalists nationwide for the Army ROTC Top 5 Percent Fellowship Program. 2nd Lt. Eric Ludwig of Cape Girardeau, who last fall received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice with a major in military science, is among the select group narrowed from a field of 3,300 cadets from across the nation...

BENTON -- Wendy Wooldridge, a senior at Kelly High School, has received the Daughters of the American Revolution Good Citizen Award. She is active in FHA, marching and concert bands, track, SADD, Pep Club, Beta Club and honor roll, and attended Girl's State last summer...

Gwenda Bennett, a senior at Cape Girardeau Central High School, is one of 1,000 finalists in the Josten's Foundation Leader Scholarship Program for 1992. Bennett was one of more than 35,000 high school students throughout the United States who applied for one of Josten's $1,000 scholarships, made annually to 200 students. Scholarship recipients will be announced in April...

Christine M. Hoffman of Cape Girardeau has been named to the fall president's list at Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Mo. She is the daughter of Dr. James and Linda Hoffman of Cape Girardeau. A 1988 graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School, Hoffman is a senior majoring in elementary education...

SCOTT CITY -- Cristie Petitt, a senior at Scott City High School, has been awarded a president's scholarship to attend Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg. Petitt is a member of the National Honor Society, treasurer of Student Council, secretary of Future Business Leaders of America, and sergeant-at-arms of the Science Club. She is a member of Students Against Driving Drunk and band...

SCOTT CITY -- Emily Wipfler, a senior at Scott City High School, has been chosen student of the month for February by the Breakfast Exchange Club of Cape Girardeau. Wipfler is a member of Future Business Leaders of America, Foreign Language Club and the speech team. She has been chosen as the school's nominee for the Tandy Corp.'s "Outstanding Math and Science Award," received the Danforth "I Dare You" award, and has served both as a teacher's aide and counseling center aide...

JACKSON -- Christopher L. Hutson, 17, of Jackson, was recently awarded the rank of Eagle Scout. He is the son of Charles P. and Linda Hutson of Jackson. Hutson earned 30 merit badges as a member of Boy Scout Troop 311 sponsored by the Jackson Optimist Club. His Eagle Scout project was an inventory of the Cape Girardeau County Administrative Building and preparing that inventory for a computer program. It took 97 hours to compete. The scoutmaster of Troop 311 is Brad Kasten...

Karen Denee Hasty, a senior at Cape Girardeau Central High School, has received an Evangel College Honor Scholarship. Hasty plans to attend Evangel College this fall, majoring in world outreach and elementary education. At Central High School, she is a member of the National Honor Society, Spanish Club and Chamber Choir. She works part-time at Kid's Korner Day Care...

The Cape SEMO Chapter of Parents Without Partners will hold an orientation meeting for prospective members at 7 p.m. March 19 at the Community Counseling Center. Parents who are divorced, widowed, legally separated or never married are invited. A public dance will be held March 21 from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. at the VFW Hall in Cape Girardeau. The Good, Bad and Ugly band will play. Admission is $5...

BENTON -- Donna Lynn, a sophomore at Kelly High School, has been selected to represent the school at the Hugh O'Brien Youth Foundation Leadership Seminar in St. Louis this spring. The foundation, also known as HOBY, has conducted annual, all-expense-paid seminars since 1958...

McLane Jateff, a seventh grade student at L.J. Schultz School in Cape Girardeau, has been selected to compete in the Miss Teen St. Louis Pageant in May. She will compete in the 13-15 year old category. Jateff is involved in band, student council and was selected as student of the month. She is also active in Girl Scouts and her church, Maple Avenue Methodist...

Tom Hammontree of Cape Girardeau has received a marketing management scholarship award from Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hammontree. The award is given in recognition of scholastic achievement, vocational interest and demonstrated leadership in vocational Cooperative Occupational Education, Distributive Education and Marketing Cooperative Education...

Ed Leoni, chairman of Health and Leisure at Southeast Missouri State University, will speak at Tuesday's meeting of the Ozark Society. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Department of Conservation headquarters in the Cape Girardeau County Park...