Stories from Wednesday, August 12, 1992

Dear Editor: This time last year I stopped in Cape Girardeau on my way down the Mississippi from Minnesota to New Orleans. I docked my 12-foot canoe, the "Estella Dawn," at a small launch there next to your levee wall and spent an afternoon sketching on a bench downtown...

Elizabeth A. Hale of Cape Girardeau has been awarded the Maurice J. and Betty O. Dunklin Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1992-1992 academic year. The Dunklin scholarship, which is awarded to graduates of Cape Girardeau Central High School who meet the scholarship criteria, covers one year's incidental fees...

Joanna Wagner, 14, of Cape Girardeau was one of 11 students named as "Outstanding Music Camper" at recent sessions of the summer music camp held at Southeast Missouri State University. Wagner attended the session that began July 19 and participated in Arapaho Band...

The Moon Dogs, a men's vocal group headed by Dr. Ron Peterson of Charleston, will be the featured attraction at tonight's Municipal Band Concert. The concert begins at 8 p.m. at the band shell in Capaha Park. The group offers tunes in the style of the Beach Boys and other vocal ensembles from the 1950s and 1960s...

The Missouri Department of Insurance Monday approved a workers' compensation rate increase of 12.5 percent, a much smaller increase than requested earlier by the insurance industry. That smaller increase was praised by Peter Kinder, candidate for Southeast Missouri's 27th State Senate District. On July 27, Kinder filed a formal protest with the Missouri Department of Insurance when the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) requested a rate increase of 23.8 percent...

JACKSON -- A four-hour course to help give rookie babysitters the know-how they need before accepting their first sitting job will be offered Thursday by St. Francis Medical Center. The class will be held at the St. Francis Information Center in Jackson from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. A $5 registration fee includes all course materials...

Max Stovall was named to the Missouri Veterans Home Assistance League, the organization that oversees spending of all donations to the veteran's home. Stovall is a life-long resident of Cape Girardeau. He recently retired as a contractor. He also owned Stovall Block and Brick Company. He attended Southeast Missouri State University...

Dear Editor: Presently, Perot is on the ballot in 30 states with petitions presented for certification in 11 more. Plans are to have his name on the ballots in all 50 states. Legal people are working to comply with all necessary regulations. Concord coalition being brought together by Senators Rudman and Tsongas, pressing for effective measures to deal decisively with the federal deficit, promises to hit the street Sept. ...

It might not be the largest festival in the region, but Jackson Homecomers remains one of the most treasured. Its hometown flavor and exhibition of local talent serves up an authentic slice of Americana. Homecomers began Tuesday and continues through Saturday. Festivities are centered around the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse the same as the first celebration 85 years ago...

SIKESTON -- A benefit will be held Aug. 28 for a Sikeston man who is suffering from Hodgkin's disease. The benefit for Terry McKinnie will be held at 7 p.m. at Tanner Street Church of God in Sikeston. It will feature gospel singing by Tina Sadler of Poplar Bluff, the Full Circle group from Risco and the Bobbitt Family from Jonesboro, Ark...

Scenes on a St. Louis Street Show Fear, Divisions -- and Surprising Resilience - Wall Street Journal headline One day before Missourians went to the polls to choose party nominees for statewide offices, the Wall Street Journal published a page one story on the decline and decay of our state's largest urban area. ...

The guys who fought the "Big Ones" are out to catch the "big ones." World War II veterans, joined by comrades from World War I, Korea and Vietnam, are given the opportunity to swap not only military stories but fish stories as a part of one of the many recreational programs offered by the Missouri Veterans Home at Cape Girardeau...

Tucked away in temporary quarters a small, sparse office in Academic Hall Leonard W. Clark already is hard at work. Clark, 49, is the latest addition to the Southeast Missouri State University administrative team. His job title is a lengthy one: assistant to the president for equal opportunity/diversity issues and university policy development...

Summer vacation is rapidly drawing to a close as students, teachers and parents get ready for a new school year. Area schools are almost ready to begin for the 1992-93 school year. Following is a synopsis of school openings: Cape Girardeau schools Cape Girardeau schools will open Thursday, Aug. 27, with a full day of school. An opening-of-school workshop for teachers is scheduled Aug. 25 at the Show Me Center...

Under a new lease agreement, the fixed base operator at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport will be charged a 2 cents-per-gallon fuel flowage fee and will lease fewer acres. Mark Spatz, owner and president of Cape Central Airways the airport's fixed base operator said he's unhappy with the lease agreement, although he understands why it was changed...

The original London stage production of "The Phantom of the Opera" will be presented at the Show Me Center in October, it was announced Tuesday. Ken Hill's touring adaptation of the famed musical-thriller will be in Cape Girardeau for two shows in the first major play ever presented at the Show Me Center...

JILL MACKEY Occupation: Account executive, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri. Pet Peeve: "Thin people who don't have to work hard to stay that way." The best part of my job is: "Meeting and working with so many wonderful people." What do you do in your spare time? "Read and relax with my family."...

JACKSON -- The Jackson School District's 1992-93 operating tax levy won't increase, nor will school lunch prices in the coming school year. The Jackson School District Board of Education Tuesday approved the tax levy, which will remain at $2.85 per $100 assessed valuation. The levy includes $1 for the general fund, $1.21 for the special revenue (teacher) fund, 22 cents for debt service and 42 cents for the capital project fund...

BENTON -- Students at Kelly schools may pick up their class schedules next week. Students in grades 6-8 may pick up their schedules Tuesday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the elementary office. Any changes in the schedules will be made on that day. High school seniors and juniors may pick up their schedules Tuesday also from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m...

OAK RIDGE -- The Oak Ridge School District is holding registration for new students Thursday and Friday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. New students in grades kindergarten through 6 should report to the elementary principal's office. New students in grades 7-12 should report to the high school principal's office. All new students should bring available records, report cards and immunization reports to the registration...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County Recorder of Deeds: Anna Mae Myer to Jesse J. Todd; Ray E. and Lillian A. Schreiner to Bruce L. and Deborah M. Schnurbusch; Ella Johannna Scholl Collier and Susan Christine Scholl Johnson to Bruce Dwayne Collier et al...

JACKSON -- Lee G. Cochran of Jackson died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1992, at Chateau Girardeau Health Care Center. He was born in Hoxie, Ark., son of George Depew and Margaret Ann Tarlton Cochran. He and Katherine Jane Hinchey were married Aug. 30, 1931, in St. Louis...

MARBLE HILL -- James A. Boyd, 69, of Marble Hill, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1992 at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born at Lutesville on Feb. 16, 1923, the son of James and Mary Moore Boyd. He was a retired farmer and was of the Baptist faith. He is survived by one sister-in-law, Beuleh Boyd of Pueblo, Colo. He was preceded in death by two brothers...

JACKSON -- Emil H. Loos, 75, of Jackson, died Monday, Aug. 10, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born May 10, 1917, near Jackson, son of Fred and Lillie Day Loos. He and Sybil Brown were married May 11, 1937. Loos was employed 30 years at International Shoe Co. here, retiring in 1979. He had been a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church since 1931...

CHAFFEE -- Elvirdia Haney Ingersoll, 86, of Chaffee, died Monday, Aug. 10, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 12, 1906, in Swifton, Ark., daughter of Goldman and Megdalen Schunalt Ditto. She married Virgil Lee Haney in 1923 in Alicia, Ark. He died Oct. 29, 1963. She married Leland Ingersoll in 1970, who died in 1973...

All program offices of the East Missouri Action Agency have moved to 1111 Linden Avenue. The site is the old WISER building next to the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. They include the EMAA's community service, family planning, Head Start, housing and job training offices...

A former Cape Girardeau man has a new assignment with the Missouri Highway Patrol's headquarters in Jefferson City. Effective Aug. 1, Capt. Gale P. Corbin, 50, is assistant commander of the patrol's statewide field operations bureau. The bureau is responsible for law enforcment activities of the patrol's troops statewide and its aircraft division...

The tinkling music of a merry-go-round and the tantalizing strain of United Exposition's new rides welcomed the crowds of early evening visitors to Jackson's 1992 Homecomers Tuesday. The side streets of Jackson's business district were lined with automobiles...

JACKSON -- Howard LaChance has grown a lot of tomatoes over the years. But, he said, none could compare to the 3.05-pound one he picked recently. LaChance wasted no time in showing it off to friends and acquaintances. Bigger than a softball, the tomato was clearly a conversation piece...

Southeast Missouri State University named 952 students to its Dean's List for academic achievement during the spring 1992 semester. Students named to the list earned at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and completed at least 12 credit hours during the spring semester...

Secondary Bus Route Route #1: Start at Main and 5th, north on Main to McKenna, north on Main to Cape Rock, right on Cape rock to Cape Rock Park, turn and return to Country Club, right on Country club to Hillcrest, turn and return to East Cape Rock, right on East Cape Rock to Bend Road. ...

Parents are asked to please teach their elementary student where they will be going after school. Name and address of parents or the daycare center or sitter is absolutely necessary in seeing that these younger students get on the right bus after school. It is very helpful to the teachers for this information to be sent to school with your child on the first day. Please help to make your childs first day in school a success by sending this information to teacher...

Sean Byrd of Cape Girardeau, son of Steven and Christine Byrd, has been awarded a $2,400 Achievement Award for the 1992-93 academic year at Murray State University. A graduate of Cape Central High School, Byrd plans to major in pre-veterinary at Murray State and pursue a career in veterinary medicine...

Jenni Horn of Cape Girardeau was named to the 1992 winter/spring dean's list at Centre College in Danville, Ky. The list is limited to those students whose grade point average is 3.60 or higher. Horn is the daughter of Paul and Barbara Horn of Huntington Drive. She is a 1989 graduate of Notre Dame High School. At Centre, she is a resident assistant and vice president of finance for the Delta Delta Delta sororoity. She is also secretary of Pi Sigma Alpha political science honorary society...

Tara Caldwell, a member of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees, attended the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce Jaycees Officer Training School recently. Caldwell is also district director of the Missouri Jaycees. The three-day seminar taught management methods and technicues to assist in the growth and development of the six Jaycee chapters for which Caldwell is responsible...

ANNA, Ill. -- The Masonic Lodges of Alexander, Pulaski and Union counties have awarded to scholarships. Winners are Melinda Leigh Brown of Century High School and Michael Alan Tarpley of Dongola High School. Brown is the daughter of Michaelj and Phyllis Brown of Ullin. She has been active in the French Club, FHA, Science Club, SADD, Scholar Bow., softball, yearbook staff, cheerleader and literary magazine staff...

An orientation for new eighth or ninth grade students at Cape Girardeau Central Junior High School will be held Aug. 20. Students whose last names begin with letters A-K should attend a session beginning at 9 a.m. Students whose last names begins with the letters L-Z should attend a session beginning at 10:30 a.m...