Stories from Wednesday, April 22, 1992

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education has approved new ridership eligibility guidelines for the district. It could means hundreds of children now riding the bus will walk to school this fall. The change is part of a $1.2 million budget cut package approved by the board in March...

The Saturday Morning Breakfast Club of Cape Girardeau is presenting "Africa, Myth & Reality" Sunday at 2:30 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. The program is free. Dominic Capeci, professor of history at Southwest Missouri State University, will use slides and maps and will discuss art, literature, history and cultural anthropology...

Rebeccah Nothdurft, a sophomore at Oran High School, and Bradley Reddick, a sophomore at Scott City High School, have recently been named Missouri Scholars by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. The Missouri Scholar's Academy is a three-week academic program at the University of Missouri-Columbia campus this summer...

LEOPOLD -- Angela K. DeBrock of Marble Hill has been awarded a University of Missouri Curators Scholarship. After graduating from Leopold High School this spring, DeBrock plans to study physical therapy at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Scholarship winners must score at or above the 90th percentile on a standardized college entrance test as well as rank in the top three or three percent of their graduating class, depending on its size. ...

Darren M. Allcock and Kenneth C. Pemberton Jr., both of Cape Girardeau, have been awarded Regents' scholarships and Missouri Leadership awards to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1992-1993 academic year. Pemberton also received a Boy's State Leadership Award...

Mike Brown of the criminal justice department at Southeast Missouri State University has been appointed to the Law Enforcement Coordinating Committee of the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Missouri. The appointment was announced by U.S. Attorney Stephen B. Higgins...

Jim Tweedy of Cape Girardeau has been appointed to the University of Missouri-Columbia college of agriculture, food and natural resources alumni board of directors. The alumni board supports the university by helping with student recruitment, sponsoring scholarships, assisting with student placement and providing direct feedback to college faculty and administrators...

The prospect of reducing the U.S. deficit is matched only by the lack of politicians who can achieve it. --- Proving he's not a sore loser, Pat Buchanan says he'll endorse George Bush at the GOP convention. Pat plans to go on an immediate diet so he can eat his words in Houston...

SCOTT CITY -- Sixth graders at Scott City School participated in a social studies and science fair. Sixty-two projects were completed by students, who chose their own topics in 11 categories. Tonya Mathews won the fair's grand prize for her exhibit, "When the Earth Shakes." She was first place winner in the Natural Happenings...

The Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation has announced plans for a multi-million dollar project to convert the 150-year-old former St. Vincent's Seminary into a national and local historic museum and civil war interpretative center. The Foundation, which was formed about 10 months ago by a group of Cape Girardeau residents, is one of a number of groups which will appear before the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board next week to request a portion of tourism tax funds...

Crystal Atkins of Cape Girardeau and Amy Mouser of McClure, Ill., have been awarded Governor's Scholarships, the most prestigious academic honor bestowed on incoming freshmen at Southeast Missouri State University. The scholarship pays all college fees, including room and board, for up to eight semesters...

The math of Missouri's proposed concealed weapons law doesn't work. It goes like this: you add guns to an environment yet fewer bullets end up flying. The imagery of this debate doesn't hold water either. Supporters of the proposal portray the law's beneficiaries as elderly women traveling alone and Main Street shopkeepers hauling their day's take to the night deposit...

Gary Stanley is a certified public accountant at the accounting firm of Stanley, Dirnberger, Hopper and Associates. When evaluating various tax proposals offered during an election year (Perspective, April 20), one must distinguish between those which have merit and those which merely have appeal to the broadest spectrum of "family" voters...

The Salvation Army restores people, not buildings, said Capt. Elmer Trapp with the Cape Girardeau agency. Despite protests by the city's Historic Preservation Commission and the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau, Trapp said the Salvation Army plans to proceed with plans to build a new facility and raze the former Farmers and Merchants Bank building the army now uses...

A Cape Girardeau policeman notified last week that his position was being eliminated three years before he reached full retirement will stay on as a full-time patrolman at less pay. Meanwhile, a second policeman whose position is being eliminated has also been asked to stay on with the city police department at a smaller full-time salary, but finalization of the matter is pending...

MARSTON -- Employees at the sprawling Noranda Aluminum plant in Southeast Missouri face an uncertain future. So do coal miners in northern Missouri. Their continued employment depends on how the board of directors of Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., based in Springfield, decides to bring its coal-fueled Moberly power plant into compliance with federal Clean Air regulations. The regulations take effect in 1995...

MOBERLY -- P.C. Long has been a coal miner for 23 years. He and his fellow miners at Associated Electric Cooperative's mine near Moberly are worried about their jobs. Faced with complying with federal Clean Air regulations, Associated Electric is considering closing the high-sulfur coal mine that fuels the Thomas Hill power plant near here and instead shipping in low-sulfur coal from Wyoming...

City budget constraints this year won't impede efforts to start segregation of combined sanitary and storm sewers in Cape Girardeau's south side. The sewer work has been planned for years and last year was included in the city's five-year capital improvements plan...

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees announced Tuesday they are launching another fund drive for bullet-proof vests for area law enforcement officers. Money raised by the drive will be given to the regional chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, which will purchase and distribute the vests to law enforcement officers in Cape Girardeau County. The money is being sought from county residents, service organizations and businesses...

Cape Girardeau fourth-graders are celebrating another smokeless year on their way toward the year 2000. A graduation ceremony is planned May 5 at the Student Recreation Center on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. "This is a celebration of their pledge to live a healthy lifestyle." said Judy Stricker of St. Francis Medical Center...

MARY ANN DUKES Occupation: Certified Nurses Aide, Cape LaCroix Nursing Center. Pet Peeve: "People who always complain." What do you do in your spare time: "Read." The best part of my job is: "Working with others." The book I'd recommend is: "The Bible."...

SIKESTON -- Memorial service for Irene H. Haynes of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton, with Clive Ables officiating. Haynes, 86, died Thursday, April 16, 1992, at Sikeston Convalescent Center.

New findings about ways Lyme disease is spread will be presented tonight at a meeting of the Four Seasons Audubon Society. The presentation is free and open to the public. It will be held at the Cape Girardeau Public Library at 7 p.m. Pam Lynxwiler, Lyme Disease Coordinator for Dr. ...

JACKSON -- A Jackson man is dead after the truck he was driving ran off the road and struck a tree Tuesday afternoon in rural Cape Girardeau County. David A. Latner, 44, of Jackson Route 7, is the victim. A passenger in the truck, Judy Terrazas of Jackson Route 7, was injured. She was listed in fair condition late Tuesday at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

ORAN -- Grace Elisabeth Williams, 23 months, died Monday, April 20, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born May 21, 1990, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of John Carter and Stephanie Grace Smith Williams of Oran. Survivors include her parents; two sisters, Jennifer and Sarah Williams of the home; paternal grandmother, Joan Williams of Cape Girardeau; maternal grandparents, Douglas and Verona Smith of Fruitland; paternal great-grandmother, Gertrude Pixley of Cape Girardeau, and maternal great-grandfather, Vincent Smith of Fruitland.. ...

SIKESTON -- Carl P. Holyfield Sr., 85, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, April 21, 1992, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Sept. 20, 1906, in Morrilton, Ark., son of Thomas J. and Lela Beeson Holyfield. He and Votra M. Baker were married Jan. 3, 1925, at New Madrid...

SCOTT CITY -- Anthony Joseph Wilhelm, 80, of Scott City, died Tuesday, April 21, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born March 10, 1912, in Nazareth, Texas, son of Herman Joseph and Eva Joner Wilhelm. He and Alleen Anna Hoffman were married Sept. 26, 1936, at Illmo...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Mildred Reynolds, 66, of Jonesboro, died Tuesday, April 21, 1992, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born March 27, 1926, in Alto Pass, daughter of Charlie and Lucy Fite Massey. She married Willis Reynolds in 1964 in Jonesboro...

In the 10 years Cape Girardeau has participated in the Missouri Community Development Block Grant program, more than $4 million in state grants have gone for neighborhood improvements in South Cape Girardeau and Red Star districts. The intent of the block grant program is to provide funds for cities to improve blighted conditions in low- to moderate-income neighborhoods through housing rehabilitation and infrastructure improvements...

Coping Skills clinics, sponsored by Beginning Experience of Southeast Missouri, are scheduled April 28 and May 5 for people who are separated, divorced or widowed. The programs begin at 7 p.m. at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. On April 28 the topic will be accepting changes in your relationship with others and your social activities. On May 5 the topic will be growth through divorce, separation or death...

Rich T. Pisani, president of Missouri "2004 World's Fair Committee," will discuss a proposed high-speed rail system at a meeting of the Southeast Missouri State University Marketing Club May 1. Pisani will present at 7:45 p.m. videotaped segments of his...

Today is Earth Day. The day has been so designated to call attention to some of the serious problems Mother Earth faces if each of us does not help to eliminate them. None of us like to be told we have to do certain things in a commanding manner. We like to operate as free souls and do our own thinking. ...

When Elaine Beussink works with students at Alma Schrader Elementary School, it's to help enhance their communications skills. She is a speech-language pathologist. "I work with everything from mild articulation errors, to more involved phonological and language disorders, to swallowing problems, to cognitive impairments, and the list continues to grow," Beussink said...