Stories from Monday, May 10, 1993

JEFFERSON CITY - Hopes of state funding for a proposed College of Business building at Southeast Missouri State University were set back Friday morning when a House-Senate conference committee failed to agree on a method of funding for higher education construction projects...

Two Southeast Missouri state representatives, from opposite political parties, are expressing concern about tactics being used by Gov. Mel Carnahan and his staff to win support for an education bill in the legislature before Friday's adjournment. "I am very upset at the present administration's tactics on trying to persuade me to stay green," said Rep. Dennis Ziegenhorn, D-Sikeston, referring to the House voting board that displays "yes" votes with green lights...

Cape Girardeau Central High School student leaders want the Board of Education to look at renovating the aging high school auditorium. Student Senate leaders want the district's help in financing the refurbishing and replacing of auditorium seating. They have requested a joint meeting with the school board to discuss the issue...

At first glance, they look like something out of the television series "CHiP's" transplanted onto the streets of Cape Girardeau. But when the helmets are taken off, they are not actors sitting on the police-outfitted motorcycles. "In Kansas City, motorcycle unit officers call themselves `wheelmen' of the `wheels unit' we liked that we're the wheelmen of Cape Girardeau," said Officer Ken Rinehart, a motorcycle officer with the Cape Girardeau police...

JACKSON -- A Jackson man was taken to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau with moderate injuries after he lost control of his truck in a single-car accident Sunday. A spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol said Eldon Maloney, 47, was thrown from his 1965 Ford pickup truck when it slid down a steep embankment on Route Y, about two miles East of Jackson...

The Southeast Missourian asked people if they thought Bill Clinton needed a new joke writer or if he should stick to running the country. Tim Miller said, "I think his attempts at humor are about like his attempts at leadership ... they fall short. He's not in Arkansas anymore. I can't believe what this liberal Democrat said about Limbaugh coming to the aid of the woman only because her attacker was a black person."...

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Education Committee is again co-sponsoring the Missouri Freedom Forum and needs sponsors for students. The forum is designed to provide students with the opportunity to discuss with business leaders, educators and counselors the basics of the American economic and governmental systems; the contrasting principles of other governments and economies and the philosophy of private enterprise and participation of citizens in our democratic structure...

Seven members of Cape Girardeau Central High School traveled to Columbia on April 30 for the Missouri State High School Music Festival. Those earning a superior rating were Lydia Eddy, cello; Jamie Filer, viola; Shane Keefe, bass; and Casi Krauss, violin. Those earning an excellent rating were Joanna Seres, violin; Matt Shivelbine, violin; and Casi Krauss and Jessica Wagner, violin duet...

Students at the May Greene Elementary School participated in several special May Day activities on Friday to honor May Greene, the former teacher for whom the school is named. The activities included a Maypole dance by fifth and sixth grade students at the school, a brief biography of May Greene, serving of a birthday cake and planting of flowers in front of the school, which is located at the corner of Ranney and Locust...

Bill Zellmer is a resident of Cape Girardeau and a previous contributor to this column. I've always enjoyed reading Walter Williams, whose column appears in your newspaper. I mean, how often does one get to read the views of a conservative black? But Williams' columns on the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas, suggest the columnist has gone from conservatism to extremism, and make so little sense that he has lost at least this fan...

Reports out of Somalia indicate that during the short five months Operation Restore Hope was in place great strides were made in providing food and medical supplies to the starving nation. In addition, the operation curbed lawlessness that had interfered with efforts to deliver the food and supplies to people in desperate need...

SIKESTON -- Lectoria Wren Hony, 76, formerly of Sikeston and a resident of Norwood, Ohio, died May 8, 1993, at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. She was born Dec. 17, 1916, at Charter Oak, Mo., to the late Noah and Lizzie Dismuke Tippy. She was a housewife and homemaker, and a former member of the First United Pentecostal Church in Sikeston...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Irvin of Kelso, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:37 p.m. Monday, May 3, 1993. Name, Elyssa Rae. Weight, 8 pounds 10 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Irvin is the former Kelly Glastetter, daughter of Ray and Kay Glastetter of Chaffee. Irvin is a deckhand with MidSouth Towing, and is the son of Tom and Sydney Irvin of Scott City...

Bobby Lee Selvy, 24, of 433 S. Ellis St. died there May 7. 1993. He was born Oct. 29, 1968, in Turrel, Ark., the son of Otis Brown and Erma Jean Gray. His father survives of Crawfordville, Ark. His mother survives of Cape Girardeau. He also is survived by one son, Jermery Walker of Chicago; three brothers, Patrick Lee Selvy, Tracy Lee Selvy and Antonio Gray, all of Cape Girardeau; and one sister, Renesha Brown of Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- Sarah Burns Wright, 73, of Poplar Bluff, formerly of Sikeston, died Sunday, May 9, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 19, 1919, at Sikeston, daughter of Roy M. and Hallie J. Wyatt Johnson. She married Ray Burns Dec. 12, 1936. He died April 6, 1974...

MARBLE HILL -- Edith C. Rhodes, 78, of Marble Hill, died Saturday, May 8, 1993, at Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. She was born Oct. 19, 1914, at Glen Allen, Mo., daughter of Marvin and Lula Buehler Walker. She was married to Ernest Rhodes, March 25, 1938. He died May 22, 1975...

The Cape Girardeau chapter of the National Vocational-Technical Honor Society inducted 23 seniors during a candlelight ceremony on April 29. Parents, area counselors and area school administrators were present to honor the students. David Blanchard, plant manager of Dana Corp. was the guest speaker...

Two Southeast Missouri State University students have been selected for membership in the International Youth Wind Orchestra. Southeast students Michelle Marshall of Jackson and Thomas Broussard of Cape Girardeau are two of only four American students selected to participate in the ensemble...

Cadet Anthony Zoffuto Jr. of Cape Girardeau has been named to the dean's list at The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, for the first semester of the 1992-93 academic year. Dean's list students must earn a grade-point ratio of at least 3.2 out of a possible 4.0. Cadets who make the dean's list receive certificates and medals indicating the number of times their names have appeared on the list...

Christine Byrd of Cape Girardeau won one of five Tribute to Missouri Nurses awards in the Patient Care category. Byrd is a nurse at St. Francis Medical Center. A Tribute to Missouri Nurses is a statewide recognition program sponsored by St. Louis University Hospital Auxiliary and St. ...

Roy Schoenborn, associate professor of art at Southeast Missouri State University, has had two watercolors accepted in the New England Invitational for 1993. This year's exhibition is titled "State of the Art: '93". The titles of Schoenborn's works are "Boston Harbor in Fog" and "Time-warp"...

The Cape Girardeau County work force is a fluctuating one. In January of this year, the work force totaled 35,834. Two months later, in March, the available work force was up to 36,519, an addition of 685 people. "However, more people were working in March," pointed out Jackie Cecil, director of the Missouri Job Service office at Cape Girardeau. "Even though the work force is up, our unemployment figure is down."...

Americans spend $23,000 a second on health care. That's a staggering $2 billion a day or $733 billion a year. It's a major cost to both employers and employees. Across the nation, the battle cry has been sounded for health care reform. Proponents of a government-run system argue that it would provide expanded access to health care, but their real concern is the financial bottom line, according to officials of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Missouri, the largest health insurer in the state...

First there was the spotted owl. Then along came Hurricane Andrew. Add the National Forest Management Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act. It all adds up to a reduction in the supply of lumber and increasing costs for homebuyers. Consumers paid $5.9 billion more for lumber and plywood in 1992 than they did in 1990...

The Missouri Department of Economic Development has awarded a $179,000 Action Fund Loan to Cape Girardeau County in behalf of a new plastics-recycling industry which is in the start-up phase in Nash Road Industrial Park. Sanders Enterprise Inc. (SEI) will use the low-interest loan for machinery and equipment...

The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in three areas this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available May 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for an appointment...

Steven M. Green has been promoted to vice president and commercial loan officer at Capital Bank of Cape Girardeau County, headquartered in Cape Girardeau. Green is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia, the Southwestern Graduate School of Banking in Dallas, Texas, and the Missouri School of Lending in Columbia...

Michael G. Hinton of Cape Girardeau has been recognized for 25 years of service with American General Life and Accident Insurance Co. Hinton, an agent in the Poplar Bluff district office of the company, works in the Cape Girardeau area. --- Steven Fritzler and Allen Clark, both of Cape Girardeau, recently attended a national sales and education conference sponsored by Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL), a fraternal benefit society based in Appleton, Wis...

Gene Baumann, director of Shelter Insurance Companies Communication Services, will be guest speaker at an Advertising Federation of Southeast Missouri meeting, Thursday at Drury Lodge. Baumann will discuss Shelter Insurance's "We'll Always Be There For You" advertising campaign during the 6 p.m. meeting. A social hour will be held from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m...

The Fastenal Co., a national distributor of threaded metal fasteners and related construction supplies, has opened a branch at 2228 Bloomfield Road. Fastenal, headquartered in Winona, Minn., opened 11 new stores during the first quarter of 1993, bringing the total number of stores to 211...

JACKSON -- Infinity Data Products (IDP) has completed its third expansion in four years. "We have added additional sales, technical and office staff," said Larry L. Myers, president of IDP, at 1404 Old Cape Road, Suite 203, in Jackson. One of the newest staff members is William Bernauer, who will assist in development of custom software solutions as well as sales...

A magician, carnival games, coloring contests and other activities have been scheduled for the second annual Farm and Home Savings "Family Week" celebration. "The celebration starts today and will continue through the week," said Karen Rigdon, manager of the branch at 211 Silver Springs Road...

Lemmon Oil Co., 103 N. Kingshighway, is under new ownership. Tom Leggett and Charlie Westrich recently purchased the service station and convenience store operation. "The building and station were remodeled in 1980," said Leggett. "Our convenience store offers a variety of convenience products sodas, milk, cigarettes and some automotive supplies."...