Stories from Monday, September 21, 1992

The Cape Girardeau Police Department likely will benefit because city budget estimates last year were too conservative. The city council tonight will formally consider earmarking $25,400 in the general fund for the purchase of two police motorcycles with radios. The purchase is possible because net income at the end of the fiscal year exceeded city projections...

There are striking similarities between America's presidential campaign and the Conservative Party's close election victory last April. That's according to two newly-elected members of the British House of Commons who visited Missouri's Eighth District this weekend with host Congressman Bill Emerson. Nicholas Hawkins and Matthew Banks are both Conservatives the party of Prime Minister John Majors...

With no pretenses of perfection, Sarah Schermann simply is a woman who loves her children and husband and hopes to provide stability for the family. She believes that can best be accomplished by her not working outside the home. "I'm the anchor here to take care of things," Schermann said Saturday following her children's swim practice and soccer games...

Trish Volp doesn't believe in ordinary vacations. Her idea of traveling is an African safari or a bicycle trip through China. Three years ago, the Cape Girardeau resident trekked through Africa on a three-week safari. This summer, she was planning to go on a hiking trip in the Andes mountains in Bolivia...

The Southeast Missourian received incorrect information for an article that appeared on page 2 of Sunday's Business Section. Dr. George Ringland said Sunday afternoon that he will continue to practice at his office at 629 Good Hope during regular hours. He has no plans to practice at any other office...

The Southeast Missourian asked students at L.J. Schultz Middle School who they thought should be the next president of the United States. Andrew Witvoet: "I think George Bush should be the next president, because he has a lot of experience in being president. I like what he is doing for the country as far as social programs and eliminating poverty."...

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838 of Cape Girardeau has received the Golden Anniversary Citation from the national headquarters of the V.F.W. in Kansas City. The award, issued to Post Commander Floyd A. Smith by Commander-in-Chief John M. Carney, commemorates the post's 50th anniversary this past Sunday...

The President gleamed and the McDonnell Douglas people gleaned as the sale of the F-15s to Saudi Arabia was presidentially blessed. It meant a lot. It meant that President Bush, like many presidents before him, would use the levers of presidential pork power to spend himself into the minds and hearts of the American people. ...

In the midst of an aggressive effort to boost the state voter registration rolls to a record 3 million voters by the Nov. 3 election, every opportunity is available to those who are not registered to vote to do so. The opportunity particularly presents itself to unregistered voters in Cape Girardeau County. ...

Eugene "Pete" Meinz, 75, of 631 Perry in Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1992, at his home. He was born Feb. 24, 1917, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Charles and Agnes Mobray Meinz. On Dec. 9, 1950, he married Anita Humphreys at Piggott, Ark. She survives of the home...

EAST PRAIRIE -- William Thomas Weems, 67, of East Prairie, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 1992 at his home of an illness. He was born Dec. 18, 1924 in Pope, Tenn., the son of James Irl and Buelah Stinnett Weems. He was a retired farmer and attended the Full Gospel Church...

CHAFFEE -- Magdalen Mary Crump, 71, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 1992 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at the Amick Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

PERRYVILLE -- Earl B. Weith, 81, of Perryville died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 10, 1911, at Perry County, the son of Andrew and Margaret Klobe Weith. On May 3, 1952, he married Adela Heimbecher, who survives of the home...

Helen Burfiend, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1992 at her home. She was born July 17, 1922 in Festus, the daughter of Ernest F. and Martina K. Wirth Burfiend. She was a homemaker and a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau...

SCOTT CITY -- Nellie E. Powers, 89, formerly of Scott City died Sunday, Sept. 20, 1992, at her son's home in Pine Bluff, Ark. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.

STURDIVANT -- Charles Dayton Limbaugh, 81, of Sturdivant died Sunday, Sept. 20, 1992, at Shuffits Nursing Home in Sikeston. He was born Dec. 15, 1910, the son of William and Nora Kinder Limbaugh. He was a World War II veteran, where he served in the U.S. Army...

Georgia L. Garner, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1992, in Ruston, La. Survivors include three daughters, Marilyn Rhodes of Ruston, Paulette Inman of Frederick, Md. and Carolyn Maevers of Cleveland, Texas; three grandchildren; 17 great-granchildren; and eight step-grandchildren...

MONDAY, SEPT. 21 DWI James D. O'Connell, 38, of Tupelo, Miss. was arrested Saturday at Independence and Frederick and charged with driving while intoxicated. David Justin Flammond, 23, of 101 Rivercrest Drive was arrested Saturday at 2700 S. Sprigg and charged with driving while intoxicated...

A family trust from Wisconsin has donated $2,000 to the Family Learning Center thanks to Catherine Taylor Foster. Foster is the chairman of the Nursing Department at Southeast Missouri State University. The Jack DeLoss Taylor Charitable Trust was founded in 1989 and is designed to benefit children. Taylor was Foster's father...