Stories from Thursday, May 28, 1992

GLEN ALLEN -- Chester T. Shorn, 84, of Glen Allen died Wednesday, May 27, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Baker Funeral Home in Marble Hill.

Shirley Beggs, president, and Elsie Miller, Executive Director, of Otahki Girl Scout Council, recently attended the National Meeting of Girl Scout Presidents and Executive Directors in Albuquerque, N.M. Highlights of the conference included the keynote speech from Rev. Bernice King, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the unveiling of the new Girl Scout cookie box designs...

Honor students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have recognized 318 high school educators as their most influential teachers. Students from Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City have recognized teachers from those schools. Joe Bradshaw, a teacher at Cape Central High School was chosen by student Lesli Maxwell as an influential teacher...

Tonight's topic on "Ask Your Doctor" will be mental health featuring Dr. Theodore J. Glenn. "Ask Your Doctor" can be seen every Thursday at 8 p.m. on channel 13. It is a one-on-one medical television show featuring local doctors answering questions from local viewers who call...

The Cape Girardeau Central High School Band will present a spring concert tonight at 8 at the high school auditorium. The free concert will be the last for 18 senior members of the band. Band director Ronald Nall said the program features music from the movie "Robin Hood Prince of Thieves" and "Manhattan Beach March" by John Philip Sousa...

BENTON -- Benton's former police chief says he was fired this month apparently because he refused to single out tractor-trailer drivers for tickets. "My belief on that is, you can't pinpoint one certain area of traffic and work that without working the others because the law fits all not just one certain party," said the former chief, Ray Hopper...

Artists and crafters are invited to participate in the Riverfest craft show June 12-13 in downtown Cape Girardeau. About 60 booths will be set up downtown, selling everything from wood crafts to jewelry to foam rubber alligators on a stick. Ink sketches of the historical downtown area will also be available...

Cindy Murphy has been singing with a band for as long as she can remember. But it wasn't until she teamed up with the country group Dixiana in 1986 that she found her calling. "I'm really happy," said the band's lead singer and only female. "I just told the guys the other day it feels like we're on vacation."...

Art Experience `92, an exhibit sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts, opens June 7 at Gallery 100. The works of 86 artists were submitted, and the best were selected by Katie Anderson of Locus Gallery in St. Louis. An opening reception will be held June 7 from 2-4 p.m. at the gallery, situated at 100 Broadway. The public is invited...

CHAFFEE -- An artist from Chaffee has won first place in a national art show held at the Margaret Harwell Art Museum in Poplar Bluff. Aaron Horrell's mixed media painting, "Sunset at My Pink Flower Field" is the second consecutive first place work Horrell has won at the competition. The exhibit closed this week...

Writing workshops conducted by noted publishing professionals from New York and across the country will highlight the third annual Heartland Writer's Conference Aug. 16 at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau. Eighteen seminars on writing and selling stories to publishers and the mass market will be held. Sessions include writing for children's and young adult markets, selling to magazines, writing romance, dealing with agents, developing a plot, and writing poetry...

"Music Making for the Young Child," a new music preparatory program for children, ages 4 and 5, will be offered this summer by the music department at Southeast Missouri State University. "This program will focus on the creative experiences of music making," said Marlin McCutchan, an early childhood specialist and music faculty member...

SIKESTON -- The Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce will host several events in conjunction with Junefest, June 16-20. Junefest is the former Annual Springfest, with all its activities moved to the Kingsway Mall. A beauty pageant is scheduled for June 16 to select this year's Ms. Junefest. The Sikeston Chamber invites area girls ages 14-18 to participate in the pageant which will begin at 6:30 p.m. at center stage of the mall...

(The following was adapted from Vice President Dan Quayle's speech last week at the Commonwealth Club of California, San Francisco. The speech is the context from which the Murphy Brown controversy arose.) When I have been asked during these last weeks who caused the riots and the killing in L.A., my answer has been direct and simple: Who is to blame for the riots? The rioters are to blame. Who is to blame for the killings? The killers are to blame...

Michael G. Deimund of Cape Girardeau has been elected to membership Pi Sigma Alpha, a political science honorary, at DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind. To be eligible for membership in Pi Sigma Alpha, students must be a declared major or have a major interest in political science, be in the top one-third of his or her class, have completed at least four semesters in political science and have a specified grade point average at each semester level...

Angela Diane Lovelady, a 1989 graduate of Cape Central High School, made the dean's list at Murray State University for the spring semester of 1992. Lovelady is studying elementary education and is also very active on campus. She is a member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority, Association for Childhood Education International, National Education Association and she works with the Head Start program on campus...

Tina L. Riley of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a President's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1992-93 academic year. The President's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who rank at least in the upper 20 percent of their high school class and score 24 on the ACT, those who rank in the upper 15 percent of their class and score 23 on the ACT, or those who are their class valedictorian or salutatorian...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Beauton Long, 86, of East Prairie, died Wednesday, May 27, 1992, at East Prairie Nursing Center, following an extended illness. Shelby Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

SCOTT CITY -- Ottilia Regina Halter, 86, of Scott City, died Monday, May 25, 1992, at Mayfair Manor in Pensacola, Fla. She was born Oct. 11, 1905, at Commerce, daughter of Alexander and Clara Georger Burger. She and Otto Halter were married in 1929. He died Jan. 3, 1939...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Clara Belcher, 87, of Ponotoc, Miss., formerly of Cape Girardeau, Mo., died Tuesday, May 26, 1992, in Tulsa, Okla. She was born April 11, 1905, in Willisville, daughter of Harry and Della Luthy Wareing. She and George Leo Belcher were married in 1922. He died in 1975...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Edward Daume of Perryville, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10 p.m. Friday, May 15, 1992. Name, Alexandra Nicole. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Daume is the former Rachelle Vance, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth Vance of St. Charles. She is an X-ray technologist at Southeast Hospital. Daume is employed by Schemel Construction, and is the son of Edward and Ruth Daume Sr. of Perryville...

"I don't need tax breaks. I just want to protect the property and the employees." George Randall, business owner in South Central Los Angeles Four weeks have passed since riots laid waste to sections of Los Angeles. The number of words exhausted in analyzing this disgraceful act is incalculable. ...

Patricia Gau, the daughter of Judith A. Gau of Cape Girardeau and the late Robert Gau, was recently named outstanding senior in speech communication and theatre at Murray State University. Jerry Mayes, chairman of the department, presented Gau with a plaque for her achievement...

CHAFFEE -- Linette Marie Welter, a senior at Notre Dame High School, has been selected to receive the 1992 Junior Member Scholarship from the River City C.B. Club. The announcement was made by club president Dixie J. Burnett. Welter will receive the $1,000 cash award at the completion of her first semester of college. She has been accepted at Barnes College of Nursing in St. Louis, as well as at Southeast Missouri State University...

McCLURE, Ill. Kindergarten students at Shawnee Elementary South School spend a lot of time in the principal's office. But they're happy about their trip down the hall. Principal Gene Vandeven listens to each of the youngsters read their first books...

Motorists who apparently didn't view seriously enough the city's minimum fine for timed-parking zone violations now face a substantially larger penalty. New parking fines take effect in the city today, both for timed- and prohibited-parking zones. The Cape Girardeau City Council passed an ordinance for the new parking fines at its May 18 meeting...

When the Cape Girardeau City Council meets tonight to review next year's budget, one item on the table is restoration of depleted cash reserves in the city's general fund. A special budget study session is scheduled for 5 p.m. today at the city manager's office in City Hall. A public hearing on the budget will be held Monday during the council's regular session...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cape Girardeau residents who were near the Mississippi River early Tuesday afternoon got a glimpse of the modern, sleek-looking motor vessel, Empress, as it passed the city. The $35 million floating gambling casino was en route from Jacksonville, Fla., to its new home in Joliet, Ill., where it will be operated on the Des Plaines River by Empress River Casino Corp. of Joliet...

A once-obscure Second Injury Fund for workers compensation has become a dominant issue of the Republican race for governor. Attorney General William Webster, regarded as the frontrunner for the GOP nomination, has been criticized by both Secretary of State Roy Blunt and State Treasurer Wendell Bailey for the way attorneys hired by Webster's office have handled fund cases...

Shooting a hostage-taker or a barricaded gunman is something Cape Girardeau Patrolmen Rick Price and William Bohnert hope never to do. But if need be, they're ready. The two went through five days of sharpshooter training last week at the Springfield Police Department...

JACKSON -- A ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday will mark the dedication and grand opening of the Jackson Noon Optimist Club's Safety City USA in the Jackson City Park. The miniature city, complete with streets and traffic signs, will be used to give bicycle and traffic safety instruction to young children...

The Missouri Bar will present a continuing legal education program for lawyers in Cape Girardeau. The program, "A Short Course in Medicine for Personal Injury Lawyers," will be given Friday at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau. The program will qualify for 6.9 hours of Missouri MCLE credit...

The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School will offer a computer camp for students entering grades 7, 8 and 9. The camp will be held Aug. 3-14 from 8 a.m. to noon each day. Students will learn how to use IBM personal computers and some beginning DOS. Most of the time will be spent learning how to write simple programs using the BASIC programming language...

Eighth District U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson announced his mobile office will visit Marble Hill and Jackson June 4. The van will be at Town & Country Foodliner in Marble Hill from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. and will be at the county courthouse in Jackson from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m...