Stories from Monday, September 28, 1992

Nell Holcomb school and Procter and Gamble have established a partnership to help motivate students and prepare them for the world of work. This is Nell Holcomb's first Adopt-a-School arrangement. The agreement was finalized earlier this month, Superintendent David Fuemmeler said...

Concern over a lack of available rental units in Cape Girardeau has prompted debate over whether a housing authority and public housing are needed here. Last week City Councilman Doug Richards suggested the city again examine whether public housing is needed here for low-income residents. Richards also said he was concerned that too few houses are available for homebuyers in the $40,000 to $60,000 market...

Although it's on the other side of the globe, Esina Alic and Nikola Stankovic cannot escape the fighting. It is a constant torment. And while the two Southeast Missouri State University freshmen try to remain on friendly terms, the civil war in the former nation of Yugoslavia divides them...

The state of Missouri has little interest in acquiring St. Vincent's Seminary in Cape Girardeau, state park officials say. "It would be a very rare instance if we would purchase a seminary," said William Palmer, director of the state's Division of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation...

When Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Gene Hindman takes off his badge and officially retires Wednesday, he will complete 31 years in fire service, seven of those as chief. During his tenure as fire chief, Hindman, 53, has witnessed the culmination of important goals in the department, including some life-long dreams of the two fire chiefs who preceded him...

Each Cape Girardeau public school has an Adopt-a-School business partner except Central High School. The high school has been orphaned for several years. The Adopt-a-School program, established in 1985, in Cape Girardeau schools has become a part of the educational program...

The Southeast Missourian asked students at Charles C. Clippard Elementary School how they felt about a child suing his parents for divorce in order to be adopted by his foster family. Lee Schlitt: "I don't think he should be able to that. He is not really old enough to make such a decision. I think that the parents could be able to work things out. A divorce would be permanent."...

A combination of circumstances leads to the realistic conclusion that Missouri state government doesn't have enough revenue to spend on such an esoteric project as rural development. Despite the fact that a portion of rural Missouri is moving closer and closer to a vast wasteland, and in spite of a declining population, eroding business sector and crumbling infrastructure, only a handful of elected state officials seem to have noticed. ...

For half a century, the free world agonized over the fearful prospect that international communism would continue to extend its octopus-like tentacles. Communism was the glue that held together two cohesive and mutually antagonistic blocs. But now the glue is gone...

A Cape Girardeau doctor's campaign to get the city of Cape Girardeau to adopt more stringent regulations pertaining to the sale of cigarettes to minors is a worthy cause. As the doctor, Richard Martin, an ear, nose and throat specialist, said, 435,000 people die each year from diseases associated with cigarette smoking, and three-fourths of longtime smokers begin as teens. ...

ZALMA -- A 16-year-old Marble Hill youth was seriously injured Sunday morning when the car he was driving ran off Route H about two miles north of here. Shane Morgan was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau by Air Evac after the 5:25 a.m. accident...

BLOOMFIELD -- George David Henson, 70, of Bloomfield died Sunday, Sept. 27, 1992, at the Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter. He was born near Bloomfield on Dec. 29, 1921, the son of Harvey and Viola Fulkerson. On July 6, 1946, he married Lucille Trotter, who survives of the home...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Bryan Burton, 321 S. Spanish, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:44 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 10, 1992. Name, Robert Blake. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. First child. Mrs. Burton is the former Deborah Pender, daughter of Anna Marie Pender of Cape Girardeau, and the late Robert H. Pender. Burton is the son of Bobby Lee Burton of Columbia, Ky., and the late Thelma Burton...

A seminar entitled "Sports Medicine: Nutrition for the '90s" will be held Tuesday from 7 a.m. to noon at Southeast Missouri State University. The half-day seminar will be held in the University Center Ballroom and Party Room. The university is co-sponsoring the event with the Southeast District Dietetic Association, St. Francis Medical Center, Sandoz Nutrition and Kraft Foodservice...

Two Southeast Missouri Hospital nurses have been awarded Southeast Missouri Hospital Auxiliary scholarships for advanced study in nursing. Each scholarship is for $2,500. For the past six years, the auxiliary has awarded a scholarship to a Southeast employee who has been on staff at least two years, has a bachelor of science in nursing degree and is working toward a graduate degree in nursing. ...