Stories from Sunday, June 27, 1993

The Cape Girardeau City Council has decided it won't adopt a proposed minimum property maintenance code without first carefully analyzing the measure. The council this week took its first look at the Building Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA) minimum property maintenance code that has been proposed by the city's Board of Appeals...

And so the politicians in Washington worked and sweated and agonized until after 3:00 a.m., deciding that your taxes are going up by the largest amount ever. Taking their cue fom the majority in Missouri's General Assembly, which spent the spring ramming through huge state tax increases, our taxaholics on the Potomac are in fine fettle. Truly, truly it must be said: "Gridlock" is over, and "efficiency" reigns. How do you like it?...

Hundreds of cars filed through the seat-belt Safety Check and Awareness Fair Saturday afternoon in the parking lot of Boatmen's Bank at Mount Auburn Road and Independence. "I can't help but notice that you're wearing your seat belt, ma'am," said Cape Girardeau police officer Ken Rinehart. "We're stopping people here today to do checks for seat-belt safety and to advise them of current seat-belt-safety laws."...

The Southeast Missourian will become a seven-day morning newspaper this fall when it begins to publish a regular Saturday edition on Oct. 2, Wally Lage, the publisher, announced today. "This decision follows months of research and consideration of the changing needs of advertisers and readers," Lage said. "The 48-hour window without print news and advertising exposure between Friday and Sunday morning needs to be filled considering the size of the market," he said...

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Thanks to the Players Riverboat Casino in Metropolis, Alice Snider has become an entrepreneur at age 71. She runs a small antique store in the new Ferry Street Mall, a collection of arts and crafts and collectible shops near the floating casino...

RISCO -- Three men were killed Friday when the van they were traveling in skidded off the road, overturned and was submerged in a water-filled ditch, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported. The accident is believed to have occurred about 1 a.m. Friday at the junction of Highways 153 and 62 at the east city limits of Risco. It was not discovered until after daylight...

Cape Girardeau firefighters quickly brought an early morning blaze under control in a house at 412 Koch. Capt. Scott Altenthal said that at 7:41 a.m. a 911 call was placed to the Cape Girardeau police department advising them that the house was on fire...

Host families are needed for the 1993-94 school year as part of the Finnish American Cultural Exchange. English-speaking students from Finland and Estonia, a formerly occupied nation in the Soviet Union, have been selected to study in the United States...

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Merv Griffin and Ava Gabor joined Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar Saturday to break ground for a 120-room Players Riverfront Hotel & Casino here. The hotel will be developed by Amerihost Properties Inc., adjacent to the Players Riverboat Casino Landing in Metropolis. Plans for a 400-to-500-seat theater at the location were also announced...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Brian Craft of Carrollton, Texas, Trinity Medical Center there, 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 2, 1993. Name, Madison Ryanne. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. First child. Mrs. Craft is the former Dara Anderson, daughter of the late James and Sarah Anderson of Hot Springs, Ark. She is employed in advertising with Bonanza Steak House. Craft is regional manager with Triad Systems Corp., and is the son of Jack and Betty Craft of Cape Girardeau...

7FRIEDHEIM Pearl R. Pohlman, 62, of Friedheim died Saturday, June 26, 1993, at his home. He was born Nov. 5, 1930 at Friedheim, son of Herman and Clara Grossheider Pohlman. He was a farmer and also a maintenance man for Buchheit's in Biehle. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church at Friedheim. He was an Army veteran, having served in the Korean War...

GLEN ALLEN -- Charley Brown, 51, of Glen Allen died Friday, June 25, 1993, at John Pershing Veterans Administration hospital at Poplar Bluff. He was born Aug. 26, 1941 in Charleston, son of Raymond O. and Juanita V. Baker Brown. On Oct. 4, 1979, he married Mary Stephens McCall. She survives of Glen Allen...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Graveside services for Betty E. Adams were held Saturday, at the Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston, with the Rev. David Bowden officiating. Adams, 87, of Herculaneum, formerly of Mississippi County, died Thursday, June 24, 1993, at the Westview Nursing Center in Herculaneum...

ADVANCE -- James Lawrence Neal, 72, of Advance, died Thursday, June 24, 1993, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was the son of Matthew H. Neal and Elsie Mae Bailey Neal Johnson. He married Mabel Looney, Aug. 16, 1952, at East St Louis, Ill...

ANNA, Ill. -- Gladys Fink, 84, of Anna, Ill., died Friday, June 25, 1993, at the Union County Nursing Home in Anna, Ill. She was born Nov. 21, 1908, at Cairo, Ill., daughter of Fred and Leta Mason Weber. She married Wardell Fink, Nov. 17, 1927. Fink was a member of the Mount Moriah Lutheran Church in Anna, Ill., the Anna Star Chapter 552 Order of the Eastern Star and the American Legion Auxiliary...

KELSO -- Harry Louis Scherer, 60, of Kelso, died Thursday, June 24, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 10, 1933, at Kelso, son of Albert John and Vernetta Burger Scherer. He and Catherine Mary Seyer were married Sept. 25, 1954, at Oran...

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Constance L. "Conny" Johns, 46, of Wolf Lake, died Friday, June 25, 1993, at her home. She was born April 1, 1947, at Centralia, daughter of John and Ruth Krutsinger Piearcell. She and Lonnie W. Johns were married Aug. 24, 1989, in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

PERRYVILLE -- Anthony V. Moranville, 89, of Perryville, died Thursday, June 24, 1993, at Perry County Nursing Home in Perryville. He was born Nov. 18, 1903 at Silver Lake, Mo., the son of Thomas Moranville and Ella McBride Moranville. He married the former Lunette A. Jannin. She preceded him in death Oct. 18, 1965...

Dorothy Ruth Himmelberger, 98, of 3120 Independence, died Saturday, June 26, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born June 9, 1895, at Rome, N.Y., daughter of Ernest and Evelyn Rudd Bouton. She married Harry I. Himmelberger, Jan. 12, 1912, at Rome, N.Y. He died Sept. 9, 1973...

When news anchorman Mike Shain took a job at KFVS-TV, he received one bit of advice watch how Don McNeely does it and do it the same way. McNeely, whose name has become almost synonymous with KFVS-TV news and weather, has set the standard at the station for half a century...

James Russell Lowell, in his poetic imagery, says that heaven has chosen one month in the year to see if the earth is in tune. That month is June. Not by plucking an A string or striking Middle C, does heaven test earth, but, as Lowell suggests, by laying "softly her warm ear over it."...

Daylilies are the top perennial for summertime bloom. Their simplicity and steadfast beauty make them the gardener's heroes year after year. Daylilies are almost too good to be true. They are tolerant of virtually anything that nature and humans can dish out--heat, cold, drought, billows of dust or any other freak weather condition. They establish themselves quickly, then multiply year after year...

Community Counseling Center will present a video presentation "Winning at Parenting" July 12. The video will be followed by questions and answers, moderated by Paul Schniedermeyer, director of children and family services at Community Counseling Center...

MORLEY -- A number of students at Scott County Central High School received awards and scholarships at commencement ceremonies May 28. Receiving awards were: Tabitha Harris, athletic scholarship; Southeast Missouri State University. Andy Johnson, Kevin Coffe, Ben Hicks and Carmen Thomas; Presidential Academic Fitness Award...