Stories from Friday, May 15, 1992

The Southeast Missouri Press Association will hold its centennial meeting in Cape Girardeau Saturday. We join our newspaper colleagues in this organization's celebration of 100 years of service throughout the region. The observance, however, is not just self-congratulatory; understanding the role of community newspapers, such as those represented in this group, is to recognize their participation in sustaining our democracy...

Dr. Frank W. Braxton will be the guest on Thursday's "Ask Your Doctor" show on Channel 13 of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson cable systems. His topic will be "Dietary Management of Kidney Disease." The show airs at 8 p.m. "Ask Your Doctor" allows viewers to call in their questions for guest doctors. It is sponsored jointly by St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri Hospital and the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society...

DELTA -- Crystal Henson, a student at Delta High School, has been named a United State National Award honor roll winner. She will appear in the academy's official yearbook, published nationally. Henson was nominated for the national award by Donna Zohner, an English and Spanish teacher...

JACKSON -- Carrie Heise of Jackson has been selected as a candidate of the 1992 Miss Teen of Missouri pageant to be held in Jefferson City July 16-18. She will be judged on personality, poise, scholastic record and personal development. The winner of the state pageant will receive a $1,000 scholarship to the school of her choice. The national Miss Teen winner will receive at $10,000 scholarship...

May has been designated as Better Hearing and Speech Month to inform people about hearing, speech and language disorders and about help available to handle those problems. "More than 21 million Americans have a hearing disorder," said Mary Donnelly-Billmeyer, supervisor of speech and hearing therapy at St. Francis Medical Center. "Speech or language disorders such as aphasia, stuttering, articulation and voice problems, and language delays affect more than three million children and adults."...

BENTON -- Pat Hulshof and Jerry Hart, both members of the Kelly High School FFA chapter, received State FFA degrees during the 64th Missouri FFA convention held at Columbia. Only 3 percent of all state FFA members receive this award, the highest given at the state level...

JACKSON -- The Bethel 60 Jackson Job's Daughters organization has launched a fund-raising campaign to raise money for the HIKE (Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment) Fund. HIKE is the official charity of the International Order of Job's Daughters. Since its inception five years ago, the fund has bought nearly $150,000 worth of hearing devices and equipment for needy children...

Two Notre Dame High School students and choruses came away with top scores in the Missouri state choral contest at the University of Missouri in Columbia. The girls' sextet, the men's quartet, soloists Sally Iten and Matthew Strohmeyer all scored I's for their performances; I is the highest score given by judges...

The Missouri legislature recently increased state taxes on gasoline by six cents per gallon. In the midst of a short-lived legislative debate over the merits of the tax increase, several public officials declared that the measure would create 40,000 jobs in the state. ...

A Cape Girardeau agency has received an energy assistance grant from Union Electric Company. Fish volunteers of Cape Girardeau, a program designed to provide one-time assistance to people who are in an emergency situation, was recipient of the $5,000 grant...

The end of the school year marks the unofficial start of summer and the beginning of St. Francis Medical Center's summer junior volunteer program. Young men and women between the ages of 14 and 17 are eligible to join the junior volunteer program. An orientation session is scheduled June 5 at 9 a.m. in the medical center's Health and Education Centre...

Marjorie Beenders, director of the Missouri Division of Tourism, will speak at the Regional Commerce and Growth Association (RCGA) meeting Wednesday. The meeting will be held at 5:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau. Beenders is responsible for administering the division's $6.4 million annual budget and overseeing promotion of Missouri's second largest industry tourism...

When a plan was approved last year to renovate the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport terminal building, the project was expected to boost economic development and airport boardings. But continued delays due to the Federal Aviation Administration's dogmatic enforcement of its Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) program has frustrated airport users and tenants alike...

JACKSON -- This weekend marks a first for the Jackson Jaycees chapter. The organization is hosting the annual state convention. Since between 350 and 400 people are expected to attend, the annual meeting is being held today through Sunday in Cape Girardeau, said Gary Kamp, general chairman of the state annual convention and member of the Jackson Jaycees...

JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County's budget was cited Thursday by a national taxpayers watchdog organization as "a shining example of county budgeting for the nation by watching for waste and mismanagement in the budget." An award was presented to Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep and Associate Commissioners E.C. ...

When it comes to the number of detectives needed for Cape Girardeau criminal cases, Police Chief Howard "Butch" Boyd and the recession are at odds. From a practical standpoint, Boyd said he needs to add two detectives to the 10 the department has. But the recession is doing its best to keep Boyd from getting them...

JEFFERSON CITY - Members of the Missouri General Assembly will begin the final day of the 1992 session today with many priority issues still lingering. One of the biggest issues, reform of the state worker's compensation law, appeared headed toward passage after intense behind-the-scenes maneuvering to get an agreement Thursday...

Steve Rector has spent the last two years building a house, and will have one thing to show for it a job building other houses. But that's exactly what the 21-year-old student at Cape Girardeau's Vocational-Technical School wanted from his two years in the school's building trades class...

JACKSON - Registration for the Jackson Noon Optimist Club's Safety City USA will be held Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon at the Jackson City Hall on South High Street. Beverly Nelson, a member of the club, explained Safety City is an educational program that introduces safety awareness and preventive procedures to children ages 6-10...

Over objections of U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, the House Thursday approved a $495 million appropriation for federal agencies to provide disaster assistance to riot-scarred Los Angeles and flood-damaged Chicago. The money will enable the Small Business Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to provide $822 million in disaster aid grants and subsidized loans to the two cities...

JEFFERSON CITY - Two days before the end of the 1992 legislative session, Rep. Joe Driskill called off his efforts to enact a law that would allow certain individuals to carry concealed weapons in Missouri. But the Poplar Bluff Democrat vowed the issue was not dead and promised to spend the summer trying to reach a consensus with opponents of the bill and bring it back next year...

PERRYVILLE -- Perry County Hospital in Perryville has undergone some changes in the past two years, both in appearance and the type of care available there. On Sunday, the hospital will open its doors to dedicate the expansion and hopefully to introduce people to the "new" facility, said Administrator Patrick Bira...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Freida M. Hudson of Perryville will be held at 2 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Don Estes will officiate, with burial in Cedar Fork Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6:30 a.m. until service time...

Paul H. Dahringer, 47, of Los Angeles, Calif., died there earlier this month. He was born July 6, 1944, in Cape Girardeau. He attended Advance schools, graduated from Central High School here in 1962, and is a graduate of the University of Kansas. Dahringer was employed in advertising in the Kansas City area before moving to Los Angeles. He was currently employed by American Film Marketing Association...

JACKSON -- Vincent J. Miget, 73, of Jackson, died Wednesday, May 13, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Alma Josephine Brock, 70, of Jackson, died Thursday, May 14, 1992, at her home. She was born April 16, 1922, at Charleston, daughter of Joseph and Lela Samson Brown. She married Robert Brock Nov. 3, 1945, in Nashville, Tenn. The Brocks moved to the Jackson area in 1952 from Benton. ...

BENTON -- Roy L. Thompson, 69, of Jefferson City, died Wednesday, May 13, 1992, at Still Regional Medical Center. He was born Dec. 21, 1922, at Benton, son of Samuel B. and Mary Magdelan Brown. He first married Rose Ann Kroeger, and later married Ruthie A. Hemmel...

JACKSON -- C. Louise Howard, 77, of Jackson, died Wednesday, May 13, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born June 1, 1914, at Jackson, daughter of Adam and Emma Talbert Hoffman. She married Edward "Bones" Howard April 22, 1937. He died March 1, 1979...

CHAFFEE -- Herman Fowler, 64, of Chaffee, died Thursday, May 14, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Sept. 7, 1927, at Chaffee, son of Robert Oscar and Minta Graves Fowler. He and the former Jacqueline Shell were married Dec. 1, 1948. Fowler had worked in construction through Local 1104 in Cape Girardeau, retiring in 1990. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II, and was a member of Chaffee VFW Post 3127...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Spencer Eugene Titus, 66, of Mounds died Thursday, May 14, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 2, 1926, at Mounds, the son of Dr. John Raymond and Edna Lewis Titus. He was married to Betty Williamson Titus, who survives of the home...

JACKSON -- Bob's Katidid, a pointer female, was a big winner during the Southeast Missouri Quail Unlimited & Bird Dog Association, Inc. trials, held at the Meier Hunting Club near here recently, winning the Bob Catlett Open Puppy Stake and the Jerry Kilgore Amateur Puppy Stake...

EAST PRAIRIE -- The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) takes advantage of any opportunity to bring native wetlands back to Missouri. Recently, it made a move that could restore wetlands in an area that has lost 98 percent of its historic wetland habitat...

JEFFERSON CITY -- "Free Fishing Days" will be held in Missouri June 6-7. Anyone can fish Missouri waters on those days without a fishing license. --- PATTON An Outdoor 3D Series Archery Shoot will be held at Patton this weekend. Entries for the two-day activity, sponsored by Boyd's Pro Shop, will be taken from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday...