Stories from Tuesday, January 26, 1993

The Cape Girardeau Sears, Roebuck and Co. store will remain open. "That's the good news for this area," said Graeme Wilson, manager of the Sears store in Town Plaza Shopping Center. Other news announced by the No. 3 retailer in the U.S. was not so good. The firm Monday announced that it will close 113 stores, eliminate about 16,000 full-time jobs and 34,000 part-time positions, and discontinue its "big book" catalog in the latest effort to revive itself...

(Last in a series) In its move to Division I athletics, Southeast Missouri State University has proven it can compete. Dan Beebe, commissioner of the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), in which Southeast now competes, said the Cape Girardeau school has clearly shown its ability to play at the Division I level...

The upheaval in Missouri's educational system anticipated after reform-minded Mel Carnahan's election to the governorship may have been stopped short Jan. 15, when a circuit judge ruled Missouri's foundation formula for public schools unconstitutional...

With a new governor in place who has said he would sign collective bargaining legislation, labor unions are making a push in this session of the General Assembly for a law that would allow public employees to bargain. But many legislators are skeptical whether there is enough support to pass such a bill this year. ...

Since she was an ambitious fourth-grade student with her own science project, Ruth Hathaway has been involved in science fairs. This year she takes the helm as co-director of the 37th Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair Hathaway, a chemist with Environmental Analysis South in Cape Girardeau, is the first director of the fair who works solely in the science industry. Previous co-directors have been affiliated with Southeast Missouri State University...

Myrl M. Clemens of Keytesville, worthy grand matron of the Missouri Eastern Star Grand Chapter, will make an official inspection of chapters in the 49th district tonight. The meeting will be held in the Masonic Temple in Zalma beginning at 6:30 p.m...

Ted Spencer was no stranger when he walked into the district Social Security office at Cape Girardeau earlier this month. Spencer is the new district manager of the local office, which is comprised of 13 counties and maintains offices in Cape Girardeau, Kennett, Flat River and Sikeston. He was previously assigned to positions within the district...

Missouri Supreme Court Judge Stephen Limbaugh Jr. led attendees of the annual Cape Girardeau Jaycees Distinguished Service Award banquet on an abbreviated stroll down memory lane Monday night. Limbaugh, who received the Distinguished Service Award in 1984, was asked to speak at the banquet by last year's honoree and close personal friend Bob Neff, owner of Ford Groves...

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle said Monday he will decide within two weeks whether any charges should be filed against a local group for violating campaign finance disclosure laws of the state. Last October, former City Councilman Curt Smith filed a complaint with the Campaign Finance Review Board about irregularities in activities and reports of the Elect A Neighbor Committee, an organization that successfully worked for passage of a referendum to have council members elected by zones in the city.. ...

JACKSON - The Jackson Board of Education has rescheduled tonight's board meeting to later in the week. The board will meet Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Jackson School District's administrative offices on South Oklahoma Street. It normally meets on the second and third Tuesdays of each month...

Dr. Richard A. Martin has ben an otolaryngologist in Cape Girardeau since 1978. He graduated from the University of Nebraska's medical school with an internship in general surgery in California and with three years of head and neck surgery in Nebraska. He also spent two years in the U.S. Army...

Missouri voters, along with this newspaper, gave their nod of approval in November to Proposition C, a workaday measure among more high-profile issues on the crowded ballot. If you've forgotten, Proposition C expanded the duties of the state's lieutenant governor. ...

To the Editor: The word "Veteran" usual refers to someone who served in the armed forces. A Memorial to Veterans of All Wars, regardless of its location state, county, or city acknowledges the fact our country has had wars, that men and women served in those wars, that many died, some were maimed for life, hundreds wounded but recovered, and thousands were lucky to have made it back with no physical damaged but "remembers how it was."...

To the Editor: I'm writing in response to the recent "Be Our Guest" column in defense of riverboat gambling. I agree that Cape Girardeau is a wonderful place to live and raise children. That's why my family and I are here. And, similarly, I believe Cape Girardeau needs to grow, insure financial opportunities for its residents and attract additional business into the area...

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson of Cape Girardeau will appear on a national television call-in program this morning. Emerson's segment on the C-SPAN program (channel 10 on the Cape Girardeau and Jackson cable system) will be broadcast from 7:45-8:30 a.m. The topic of the program will be the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress, on which Emerson is one of 28 members. There are 14 members each from the House and Senate, with an equal party division...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Steven Payne of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:40 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 17, 1993. Name, Denae Marie. Weight, 9 pounds 5 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Payne is the former Debbijo Lively, daughter of Doris Causey of Malden and Jay Lively of Shawnee, Okla. Payne is a technician in open heart surgery at Southeast Hospital. He is the son of Robert and Louise Payne of Chaffee...

JACKSON -- Lindell "Pete" Harper, 77, Jackson Route 4, died Monday, Jan. 25, 1993, at his home. He was born April 20, 1915, at Huzzah, son of John and Eura Halbert Harper. He and Sadie Craft were married Jan. 11, 1943. Harper was employed by Hobart Restaurant Equipment in St. ...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Leslie Earl and Agnes Eileen Schweer, Jackson Route 3, will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. David Conley will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

TAMMS, Ill. - Brent Eric Heady, 15, of Tamms, Ill., died Monday at Southeast Missouri Hospital after a long battle with Leukemia. He was born Aug. 1, 1977, in Murphysboro, Ill., son of the Rev. Billy Don and Cheryl Renee Browning Heady. He attended the Trinity Assembly of God Church in Olive Branch, Ill. He was a sophomore at Egyptian High School in Tamms, Ill., where he played in the band and sang in the chorus...