Stories from Tuesday, April 28, 1992

Full-time students will be paying more than $5,000 to live on campus and attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1992-93 academic year. That cost has climbed by more than $3,000 over the past 10 years, university budget figures show. Student leader K.C. Martin believes the cost to students is too high...

Cape Girardeau City Council members Monday took their first look at a gloomy synopsis of the city's operating budget for the next fiscal year, which begins July 1. City administration officials told the council that the city no longer will be able to fund programs and services solely with tax revenue generated from growth...

MARBLE HILL -- Missouri Highway and Transportation District 10 Engineer Freeman McCullah said there were two reasons Marble Hill was chosen for a public meeting to determine priorities for the Missouri Highway Commission's 15-year highway improvements program in Southeast Missouri...

JACKSON - County officials across Missouri, concerned about increasing costs for maintaining roads and bridges, are keeping close watch on a proposed constitutional amendment that would increase their share of state gas tax funds. The Missouri Constitution presently provides for 15 percent of the state gas tax to be distributed to cities, and 10 percent to counties for maintaining roads and bridges under their jurisdiction. ...

The Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation wants "seed" money to acquire the 150-year-old St. Vincent's Seminary in downtown Cape Girardeau. Plans call for converting the property into a national and local historic museum and civil war interpretative center...

At Southwest Missouri State University, steps are being taken that the local institution would like to emulate. Earlier this month, the Springfield university was notified that its College of Business Administration had received accreditation from the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business. ...

There are times when small things that go on in this community speak volumes about the people who live here. We noted with interest recently the dedication of a chapel at the local Missouri Veterans Home in response to the residents' desire to have a place to worship. The incident is heartening not only for demonstrating the devout nature of those involved but the willingness of many to live their religion by helping their fellow man...

DELTA -- A Puxico man was injured Monday night when the vehicle he was driving ran off Highway 25, about 1 miles south of Delta. The Missouri Highway Patrol reported that David Wyant, 21, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center with moderate injuries after his car ran off the road and struck a tree at about 8:15 p.m. He was wearing a seat belt, the patrol said...

ANNA, Ill. -- Orville J. "Bud" Creacy, 71, of Anna and formerly of Pulaski died Monday, April 27, 1992, at the Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born Aug. 25, 1920, in Oklahoma, the son of Orville Franklin and May Creacy. He was married to the former Helen Parmerley Laws, who survives of the home...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Randy Enzmann of Chesterfield, St. John's Mercy Hospital, 10:45 a.m. Saturday, April 18, 1992. Name, Madalyn Josephine. Weight, 8 pounds. First child. Mrs. Enzmann is the former Joelen Kester, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Kester of Cape Girardeau. She is employed at Balcor Co. Enzmann is employed by Brown Co. of Clayton, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Enzmann of Ballwin...

SIKESTON -- Avery Anthony Abernathy, 78, of 313 Marian in Sikeston died Monday, April 27, 1992, at the Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was born March 17, 1914, at Lutesville, the son of the late Matthew and Minnie Shell Abernathy. On Aug. 24, 1937, he married Doris Shepard at Piggott, Ark. She survives of the home...

SIKESTON -- Earl Douglas Singleton, 55, of Sikeston, died Monday, April 27, 1992, at his home. He was born May 22, 1936, at Sikeston, son of Joseph Earl and Norene Ables Singleton. He was married Oct. 15, 1983 in Chaffee to Jeanette Pullium. She survives...

JACKSON -- Carl Summers, 89, of Affton, died Sunday, April 26, 1992, at St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood. He was born Nov. 20, 1902, in Cape Girardeau County, son of John and Bertie Scivally Summers. He and Elsie L. Caldwell were married May 11, 1929...

JACKSON -- Mayme B. Kinder, 85, of Jackson, died Monday, April 27, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born March 11, 1907, at Swinton, daughter of William Lawson and Dora Napier Bess. She married Roy Jack Kinder Aug. 21, 1932, at Benton. He died Feb. 14, 1984...

Franklin Holliday, 89, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, April 27, 1992, at Fellowship Nursing Home in Warrenton. He was born July 17, 1902, near Greenville, son of Frank and Willa Tong Holliday. He married Johnnie Mae Croy, who died in 1991. Holliday was district salesman with Standard Oil Co. more than 35 years, retiring in 1960. He moved to Cape Girardeau in 1925 from Greenville...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Andrew Paul Hornberger, 74, of Tamms Route 1, died at 7:05 a.m. Monday, April 27, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born at Miller City June 11, 1917, son of George Peter and Eva A. Stricklen Hornberger. He retired from the Illinois Department of Public Aid as a quality control agent. He also had worked with the Illinois secretary of state's office...

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Earl Victor Palmer, 73, of Hammond, Ind., formerly of Pulaski, died at 3:50 p.m. Sunday, April 26, 1992, at St. Catherine's Hospital in East Chicago. He was born Nov. 7, 1918, in Pulaski, son of Earnest Melton and Della Mae Thurston Palmer...

The mobile office of U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson of Cape Girardeau will stop in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Patton on Thursday. The mobile office is staffed by a member of the Republican contressman's district office. The mobile office will be at the Cape Girardeau Nutrition Center from 11 a.m. to noon, at the Jackson Nutrition Center rom 12:30-1:30 p.m., and at the Patton Post Office from 2-3 p.m...