Stories from Thursday, February 18, 1993

Guest artist and baritone Brian Leeper will present a voice recital at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 28 in Old St. Vincent's Church. Leeper holds a bachelor's degree in choral conducting from Luther College and a master's degree in voice performance from the University of Nebraska. He now is completing his doctoral degree in music at Florida State University...

This weekend, Sharon Bebout's parents will see for the first time the play she has written about their lives as a coal-mining family. "I'm a little apprehensive," she confesses. It's not that "Walking On Our Knees" bleakly portrays the miner's lot; in fact, in the miners' own plain-spoken words and their families', the play evinces the dignity in their lives...

People need to come together, not pull apart over the issue of race, Southeast Missouri State University's top black administrator said Wednesday. Leonard Clark, assistant to the president for equal opportunity and diversity issues, addressed the issue of race at a meeting of the Society of Professional Journalists, held in the offices of The Capaha Arrow, the campus newspaper. About 15 people attended...

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson credited President Clinton with giving "a very good rhetorical speech" Wednesday, but criticized the lack of specifics in the State of the Union address. "We didn't get the details," Emerson complained Wednesday night at the conclusion of the speech...

Pay more. It's a lesson Southeast Missouri State University students know all too well. That lesson is expected to be driven home again under a university administration plan to raise room-and-board charges for the 1993-94 school year. The university administration has proposed raising room-and-board charges and implementing a three-tier housing fee structure...

A long-standing dispute between various Drury companies over the city's motel and restaurant tax was settled Wednesday at the Cape Girardeau City Council meeting. At the meeting, the council disclosed that the companies that had contested the legality of the tax agreed to drop their lawsuit. They have done so in conjunction with the development of a $4 million project that will expand parks and recreation facilities in Shawnee Park and at the corner of Mt. Auburn Road and Kingshighway...

Because of the Monday holiday, and Tuesday's 12-inch snowstorm, solid waste pickup schedules in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City have been revised. In Cape Girardeau, the Monday solid waste/recycling routes ran on Wednesday. The Tuesday solid waste/recycling routes will run today. Thursday's solid waste/recycling routes will run Friday, and Friday's solid waste/recycling routes will operate on Saturday...

A sweeping economic development package has been approved by the Commerce Committee of the Missouri House of Representatives, and could be taken up on the House floor within the next two weeks. Rep. Joe Driskill, D-Poplar Bluff, and chairman of the commerce panel, is sponsoring the package. He is optimistic the measure can win approval because of its early placement on the House calendar and the fact it contains many parts of Gov. Mel Carnahan's JOBS 2000 economic development plan...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen has voted to impose a no-parking ban on a residential street near East Jackson Boulevard. At its meeting Monday, it also opened bids for a new solid-waste truck and made preparations for the purchase of land to expand the city owned cemetery...

Sara Edgerton will conduct the University Orchestra in a concert to be presented at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Academic Auditorium. Southeast Missouri State University juniors Susan Ho and Thomas Broussard, two of the four 1993 Concerto and Aria competition winners, will be featured...

The Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport is undergoing some changes that we believe are positive ... or at least have the potential to be positive. A number of things need to happen in order for the airport to be an efficient and successful facility as well as an effective tool for local economic development. We believe these things are possible and that the airport can reach its potential as a gateway for the city and area it serves...

To the Editor: On Friday, the Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State University will cast their votes on admissions policies. The choice is whether to have open or selective admissions. President Kala M. Stroup has asked for input from the community in regard to this decision, as well as to the drafting of a new mission statement. ...

To the Editor: Keeping up with the Arkies in the White House: Savings to the taxpayer? Zilch. Oh, Clinton's people say they are saving $10 million in the White House budget. But National Public Radio reports there is no savings there either: All the $10 million will be spent to enhance allegedly out-dated White House phone and computer systems...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Masters, Patton Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:36 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1993. Name, Justin Albert. Weight, 6 pounds. First child. Mrs. Masters is the former Kim Chalk, daughter of Albert and Shirley Chalk of Patton. She is employed by Siemers Farms Inc. Masters is a dairyman with Chalk's Dairy Farm, and is the son of Winford and Sarah Masters of Patton...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Lloyd Ray Williams, 64, of Columbus, Ky., and formerly of East Prairie, died Feb. 16, 1993, at his home in Columbus. He was born July 1, 1928, in Mississippi County, the son of Birdie Williams of Sikeston and the late Golf Williams. He had lived in Columbus for the past 40 years, and was employed by the Columbus St. Park before retiring...

Harry V. Casey, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1993 at his home, 421 N. Frederick. He was born June 30, 1914, the son of Thomas and Maggie Dalton Casey. On Aug. 24, 1940, he married Grace Nowak in Stapleton, Neb. She survives. He is also survived by one son, John Casey, Cape Girardeau; two daughters, Mary Jiedinghagen, St. ...

CHARLESTON -- Sarah West, 85, of Charleston, died Friday, Feb. 12, 1993, at Charleston Manor. She was born Jan. 19, 1908, in Greenville, Miss., daughter of Eddie and Elnora Epps Kirkland. West was a member of Mercy Seat Baptist Church, where she had been a Sunday School teacher and served on the Mission Board...

SIKESTON -- Charles H. Boyce, 92, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Jan. 23, 1901, in Ware, Ill., son of Henry Willis and Mary Markert Boyce. He and Lucille Green were married April 11, 1929. She died Dec. 22, 1989...

ZALMA -- In the obituary of August C. Pape that appeared in Wednesday's Southeast Missourian, the name of a son was given incorrectly to the newspaper. It should have been Charles Pape of Zalma, not John Pape. Funeral service was held Wednesday at Baker Funeral Home in Marble Hill, with burial in Berrong Cemetery near here...

Richard A. Martin, M.D., will discuss facial plastic surgery tonight on the Ask Your Doctor program, which airs at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13. The show features local doctors answering questions from viewers. It is sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri Hospital, the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society and Channel 13...

Geda Virginia Gelawick, 93, of Westminster, Md., formerly of Perryville, died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1993, at her home. She was born Jan. 3, 1900, in Oran, daughter of Albert and Emma Niswonger. She first married Herman Jacob Berhle, who preceded her in death. In 1966 she married Allen Gelawick, who also preceded her in death...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Cody Gage Morris, one month, infant son of Lorie Ann Morris of Mound City, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1993, at Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. Barkett Funeral Home of Mound City is in charge of arrangements.

Gracia M. Mackey of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1993 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born at Salem, Mo., the daughter of Earl and Drusilla Callahan Say. In 1929, she married C.C. Mackey at Salem. He preceded her in death Dec. 2, 1981...

SIKESTON -- Roosevelt "Oozie" Jones, 39, of Chicago, formerly of Sikeston, died at 6:33 p.m. Monday, Feb. 15, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston following a brief illness. He was born Nov. 29, 1953, in Sikeston, son of David and Lillian Young Jones. His parents, of Sikeston, survive...