Stories from Tuesday, July 21, 1992

Missouri health officials hope a new access plan will pave the way for people to get the health care they need. Meetings are being held around the state asking health-care providers and consumers to identify the need and explain how they can best be met...

A divided Cape Girardeau City Council Monday voted to direct the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board to develop a "sports theme" proposal for use of excess city tourism funds. The council's action came at the recommendation of the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board, which spent the past six months studying eight proposals for use of the tourism funds...

Cape Girardeau will host its largest convention of 1992 when the Missouri Baptists hold their annual gathering. The Rev. Roy Jones said Monday he believes that it may have been 15 years since the organization has held a convention in Cape Girardeau. The Baptist minister is director of missions for the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association, composed of churches in Cape Girardeau, Perry, Bollinger, St. Francois, Stoddard and Scott counties...

Lone Star Industries Inc. of Cape Girardeau, one of the largest users of energy in the area, has converted its coal-burning cement kiln into a system that also will burn shredded rubber and toxic waste fuels. "We're not at full capacity yet," said plant manager Harry Philip, "but we're still saving more than six tons of coal an hour. ...

BENTON -- Scott County Sheriff Bill Ferrell charged Monday that politics is behind an issue that has been raised over the approximately $100,000 in mileage reimbursements he received last year. Ferrell, who makes a salary of $40,000, owns nine vehicles, which he and other deputies use. Ferrell drives one of the vehicles. Deputies drive six others. The eighth vehicle is used for taking prisoners to the state penitentiary and the ninth serves as a spare vehicle, he said...

SCOTT CITY -- City employee raises will likely be realigned by the Scott City Council once a committee can come up with an alternative to the current policy regarding pay raises. At the City Council meeting Monday, council members said they disagree with the current merit system that grants raises according to steps on a pay scale. An employee can be given a raise if further training is completed or with a promotion...

JACKSON -- The paving contractor on the West Main Street Improvement Project got more bad news Monday. Acting City Engineer Rich Bowen told the Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday that a 300-foot section of the bad pavement in the vicinity of Lenco, Inc. will have to be torn out, including the parking area...

It might be called Missouri's stealth tax since it went into effect July 1 with a minimum of publicity or fanfare. The latest in a seemingly endless string of tax hikes is a brand new levy known as a local use tax. Unless the tax is declared unconstitutional in a pending court case, more than 600 cities in the state will begin to receive its proceeds by September. The levy is a 1.5 percent use tax which will be added to the present state use tax rate of 4.225 percent of purchases...

Two weeks from today, Missouri voters will decide the fate of five constitutional amendments. At this point, probably only a few voters are aware of the ballot issues we will be asked to decide. It is to be hoped that voters will acquaint themselves with arguments, pro and con, for each of these issues. ...

Now that Ross Perot has taken himself out of a presidential race he never really put himself into, some questions linger: What did it all mean? What does it still mean? The Texas billionaire embodied a unique political phenomenon in this nation, one stoked by a desire for action where no action had been apparent. While it remains to be seen what effect his withdrawal will have on this evolving movement, removing the man could fortify the frame of mind that sent Perot to such a lofty place...

JACKSON -- Ray Loyd, 73, of Jackson, died Monday, July 20, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 9, 1919, at Zalma, son of John Logan and Ada Ann Walker Loyd. He and Bernice Collins were married Feb. 25, 1939. Loyd was a rural mail carrier 37 years, and member of Church of Christ...

Cape Girardeau businessman Warren S. Hastings, 79, 423 Silver Springs Road, died Sunday, July 19, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Sept. 27, 1912, in Cairo, Ill., son of Ira and Nettie McKeon Hastings. He married Earlean Forbey Sept. 30, 1933, at Farmington. She preceded him in death. He later married Imogene Graham July 5, 1986, in Cape Girardeau...

CHAFFEE -- Lela Janice Campbell, 69, of Chaffee, died Sunday, July 19, 1992, at Chaffee Nursing Center. She was born June 25, 1923, at Allenville, daughter of John and Ethel Crader Glenzy. She married Willie Warren Campbell Dec. 22, 1958. He died March 21, 1988...

Alfred Mansker, 68, of Clermont, Fla., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, July 20, 1992, at South Lake Memorial Hospital in Clermont. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Wayne J. Beasley, 75, of Jefferson City, Mo., died Sunday, July 19, 1992, at St. Mary's Health Center. He was born June 17, 1917, at McClure, son of Oliver and Pearl Castleman Beasley. He and Virginia Thompson were married in 1942 at Joplin, Mo. He later married Cloriaetta Johnson June 25, 1975, in Jefferson City...

Pearl M. Rogers, 85, 3120 Independence, died Monday, July 20, 1992, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born Jan. 28, 1907, in St. Louis, daughter of Paul and Mary Supper Mugele. She and Russell Rogers were married Dec. 30, 1937, in Warren, Ohio. He died Jan. 18, 1991...

MARBLE HILL -- Ora M. Cheek, 84, of Marble Hill, died Monday, July 20, 1992, at her home. She was born Dec. 25, 1907, near Glen Allen, daughter of Adolph and Clara May Shetley Haynes. She and Norman B. Cheek were married April 9, 1927. Cheek had worked at Pope's Cafeteria in St. Louis many years. She was a member of First Baptist Church here...

PERRYVILLE -- Anna Elizabeth Baer, 88, of Perryville, died Monday, July 20, 1992, at American Care Center. She was born April 7, 1904, at Biehle, daughter of John and Cecilia Renner Berkbigler. She and Herman Joseph Baer were married Oct. 18, 1927. He died April 6, 1975...

SIKESTON -- Coy R. Unsell, 79, of Memphis, Tenn., died Sunday, July 19, 1992, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. He was born Oct. 2, 1912, at Sikeston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joshua H. Unsell. Unsell was a retired plant manager at Marquette Cement Co. He was a member of West Side Church of God, and a veteran of World War II...

PERRYVILLE -- Ida L. Lohmann, 80, of Perryville, died Sunday, July 19, 1992, at her home. She was born March 17, 1912, at Lixville, daughter of Christian and Martha Bangert. She married Rudolph Lohmann June 4, 1939. Lohmann was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, its Ladies Aid and Lutheran Laymen's League...

Wednesday's concert by the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band will feature guest conductor Don McNeely and include an appearance by the Water Street Six Dixieland band headed by David Green. The concert is scheduled at 8 p.m. at the band shell at Capaha Park...

Susan Vaughn, director of the Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council, will be the guest speaker at the Aug. 10 Head Injury Support Group meeting, held at St. Francis Medical Center. The group will meet at 6 p.m. in the Friends Lounge. The Missouri Head Injury Advisory Council is an agency that advocates head injury prevention and support for the needs of people with head injuries...

The St. Louis Muny Theater's production of "Wizard of Oz," which opened Monday, has a Cape Girardeau tie two generations old. Emily Loesser is playing the lead role, Dorothy, the same role her mother, Jo Sullivan Loesser, played at the Muny in 1951...