Stories from Thursday, April 2, 1992

A battle is raging hundreds of miles away, yet its outcome will determine something about how our backyard looks. It is a fight as old as the settlement of the West, over water rights. Northern states believe their reservoirs feeding the Missouri River are too freely loosed for southward flow. ...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department April 25 will host the 7th Annual Friends of the Park Day at Capaha Park. The event will be held at Capaha Park from 9 a.m. until noon. Local sponsors have provided t-shirts and a sack lunch for participants...

The film, "The Last Temptation of Christ," will be shown Monday at 6:30 p.m. at the University Center on Southeast Missouri State's campus. The showing is sponsored by the Student Activities Council and Student Life Programs. Following the film will be a discussion led by members of the Association of Campus Ministries and members of the faculty and staff of the university...

Mary Kathryn Meyer and her son, Chad Meyer, both of Jackson, have been chosen again this year as local coordinators for the Multiple Sclerosis "Super Cities Walk." The walk is scheduled Sunday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau. Last year the event drew 183 registered walkers with $12,977 pledged...

The American Red Cross will be holding blood drives at Delta, Chaffee and Bell City. Friday, a drive will be held at Delta High School from 1-6 p.m. in the high school band room. On Monday, a drive will be held at Chaffee High School gym lobby from 2-6 p.m. A T-shirt will be given to each donor...

David H. Dye, an associate professor of anthropology at Memphis State University, will present a slide lecture Sunday on Hernando de Soto's expedition through the Mississippi valley. The lecture will begin at 2 p.m. at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum...

BENTON -- The Scott County Commission failed to reduce the property tax levy adequately for 1988, 1989 and 1990 under the state's tax rollback provision, a state audit shows. The state auditor's office also cited concerns about various financial activities, particularly in regards to the sheriff's office and associate circuit court Division V...

New officers of Cape Girardeau County Republican Women's Club will be installed during the noon meeting Friday at Holiday Inn. They are: Carol Sparkman, president; Pam Kirk, first vice president; Venieda Reynolds, second vice president; June Combs, secretary, and Carolyn King, treasurer. Anne Bradshaw, a charter member, will conduct the ceremony...

What can kids and their parents spend time doing together and with other families have lots of fun? How about a day at the park? "Sunday in the Park" is a family event with games, contests, crafts and stage entertainment aimed at amusing the entire family. It will be held at the A.C. Brase Arena Building and Arena Park grounds Sunday from 1-4 p.m...

Two of country music's hottest stars, Travis Tritt and Marty Stewart, will bring their "No Hats" tour to the Show Me Center May 2. Special guest on the tour is Grammy-winning instrumentalist Mark O'Connor. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m. All artists on the "No Hats" tour are supporting hit-producing albums. Tritt's current release, "It's All About to Change" has produced "Here's a Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)," "Anymore" and "Nothing Short of Dying."...

The Ice in Cape Girardeau will present "Beach Party on Ice" this weekend at the Plaza Galleria. The shows will feature more than 100 skaters from the skating school at The Ice and special guest skater Colin Vander Veen, an Olympics hopeful. Vander Veen, of Marietta, Ga., trains in Ontario, Canada, under coach Doug Haw with choreography by Toller Cranston, a bronze medalist in the 1976 winter Olympics...

"Preserving Images of Life Through Photography and Writing," a slide show presented by Professor Lea Hecht of Southeast Missouri State University's Department of English, will be presented Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in room 300 of the art building on campus...

SCOTT CITY -- An Easter Egg hunt for children in Scott City will be held April 11 at 10 a.m. at Scott City's main park. Easter Bunny himself will help hide more than 500 eggs on park grounds. There will also be several golden Easter eggs filled with prizes...

The Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State University narrowly rejected a proposal to include homosexual "orientation" in the university's anti-discrimination policy. The proposal offered by Faculty Senate Chairman Allen Gathman was defeated by a vote of 10 to 11...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- An Olive Branch girl who was hit by a car last week and did not regain consciousness for four days is expected to make a complete recovery. Angela Maze, 8, was hit by a car as she attempted to board a school bus March 24. She was released from St. Francis Medical Center Wednesday...

Schools in Southeast Missouri are eliminating teaching positions, freezing salaries, postponing building repairs and looking at local levy increases in efforts to maintain school programs and balance budgets, said a recent poll of the region's school superintendents...

SCOTT CITY -- Approval of a $1.2 million federal grant for the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority could add nearly 200 jobs to the area, the port's director, Allan Maki, said Wednesday. Maki recently applied for the Economic Development Administration grant to fund a number of improvements at the port...

The Scott County Retired Senior Volunteer Service Program (RSVP) expanded its services Wednesday into Cape Girardeau County. "The RSVP program is designed for those people who are age 60, or older, who want to volunteer their time to help others," said Ellie Knight, RSVP administrator. ...

Photo `92 National Juried Photography Show will be exhibited at Gallery 100 beginning Sunday, with an opening reception and awards presentation from 2-4 p.m. Photographers from 21 states submitted work for the exhibit. Local photographers are Jan Chamberlain of Cape Girardeau, Jay Todd, formerly of Cape Girardeau and Richard Lawson of Carbondale. Judging the exhibit will be Tom Patton, chairperson of the department of art at the University of Missouri-St. Louis...

DELTA -- The Delta R-5 School District is asking voters to approve a 61-cent tax hike Tuesday to fund two major building repairs. Superintendent Larry Beshears said the levy requires a simple majority to pass. Taking into account the state's Proposition C rollback, Beshears estimated the tax increase would generate about $65,000 in additional money for the district...

CHAFFEE -- Chaffee still has a three-way city council race in Ward 1 for next week's election, even though one candidate is taking up residence in another ward. Challenger E.N. "Cotton" Sadler was in the process of moving out of Ward 1, his son, Ed, said earlier this week. Sadler and John Nordin Sr. are challenging incumbent Jerry D. Wolsey in the April 7 election...

SCOTT CITY -- Mayoral candidates in Scott City say they would work for lower taxes, better management of city money and less bickering in city government. Businessmen Larry Forhan and Rodney Holloway are vying for the position in the April 7 election. Both say making city government work within its present budget is a priority...

BENTON -- Six Scott County incumbents face opposition in the August Democratic primary. Not surprisingly in heavily Democratic Scott County, there are no Republican candidates for county office. So all of the contests will be decided in the primary election, with the November general election being a mere formality...

JACKSON - Larry Bock, a Gordonville farmer also involved in agri-business sales, has filed as a Republican candidate for first district associate commissioner in Cape County. "I have a strong interest in our county government and believe I will contribute to our county with new ideas and different approaches," said Bock...

DEXTER - Terry J. Ernst, staff writer and photographer for the Daily Statesman in Dexter, has filed as a Republican candidate for the 159th district. The district covers most of Stoddard County and the northwest portion of Scott County, including the cities of Chaffee, Oran and Morley...

"You have been selected to participate in a vacation package..." Several area residents have been greeted with this message when they answered their telephones this week. The offers of low-priced vacations and cruises are being made by Vacation Break, a Largo, Fla., vacation promotion company, and VIP Marketing, a travel promotion firm at Carriere in southern Mississippi...

JACKSON -- Canvassers for R.L. Polk and Company will begin gathering information about Jackson for the 1992 city directory. All residents and business areas will be covered by the canvass, which is expected to take three or four weeks. For more information, call the Polk Company from 8 a.m. to noon at 243-5620...

HALEAdopted son to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hale, 1433 Price, 5:39 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 16, 1992. Name, Ryan Christopher. Weight, 7 pounds. First child. Mrs. Hale is the former Shelly Cannon, daughter of Richard and Dee Cannon of Cape Girardeau. She is an EDP controller with the city of Cape Girardeau. Hale is a student at Southeast Missouri State University, and is the son of Lemro and Theresa Hale of Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- Lucy Bird, 92, of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston Route 3, died Monday, March 30, 1992, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born Jan. 31, 1900, in Mississippi County, daughter of Abraham Thompson and Ella Edmondson Bird. Her grandfather, John Bird, was a pioneer settler of Bird's Point near Charleston...

Funeral service for Beulah E. Anson of Cape Girardeau was held Sunday at Friedens United Church of Christ in Warrenton. The Rev. John Silea officiated, with burial in the Anson family cemetery at Truxton. Nieburg-Martin Funeral Home at Warrenton was in charge of arrangements...

SIKESTON - Joe Leible, 58, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, April 1, 1992 at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Sikeston.