Stories from Wednesday, August 25, 1993

CHARLESTON -- Eugenia Dunn Hinchey, 89, of Charleston, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1993, at the Charleston Manor. She was born Feb. 18, 1904, in Ballard County, Ky., daughter of Samuel Irvin and Lillian Martin Dunn. She married Samuel Brackston Hinchey, June 2, 1928. He died June 13, 1968...

SIKESTON -- The 20th annual Charity Walk for the Kenny Rogers Cerebral Palsy Center has been set for Oct. 23. One client is already gearing up for the event: Amber VanVickle of Morehouse has been selected as this year's poster child. She is 7 and has been going to the center since she was 2 months old. She attends Sikeston public schools and is receiving physical and occupational therapy services...

JACKSON -- The Jackson School Board found out Tuesday that it's in a bit of hot water. The board learned that the high school's 21-section hot water boiler, which was installed in 1964, had to be removed this month because of hairline cracks and corrosion...

The reopening of the Mississippi River will provide an economic shot in the arm to the flood-ravaged Midwest, and the rest of the nation, which depends on river transportation. It's good news to a $3-million-a-day barge industry that has been dry-docked for nearly two months...

ANNA, Ill. -- Veterans will be admitted free to the Union County Fair Thursday. "Thursday is Veterans Day at the Fair," said a spokesman for the fair, which is being held this week at the Union County fairgrounds here. "Any veteran showing a veterans organization membership card or wearing a veterans organization cap will be admitted free."...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Shaw of Owensboro, Ky., Welborn Baptist Hospital in Evansville, Ind., 10:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 6, 1993. Name, Haili Reed. Weight, 8 pounds 11 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Shaw is the former Mary Jo Reynolds, daughter of Martha Reynolds of Cape Girardeau, and the late Patrick Reynolds. Shaw is district manager with Godfather's Pizza in Owensboro, and is the son of Dewey and Leona Shaw of Cape Girardeau...

ALTENBURG -- Alma Josephine Reisenbichler, 90, of Altenburg, died Monday, Aug. 23, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 25, 1903, at Altenburg, daughter of Charles A. and Susanna Grosse Boehme. She and Leo E. Reisenbichler were married Oct. 29, 1922...

Cindy Jo Burger, 28, of Chaffee, died Monday, Aug. 23, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 26, 1964, at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Oscar and Rosemund Fluegge Welker. On Feb. 4, 1988, she married Joe Burger. Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Alison Burger; her parents of Jackson; two brothers, Ricky and Tim Welker of Jackson, and two sisters, Debbie Hartwig of Pocahontas, and Lisa Nagel of Jackson...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Herbert O'Dell Rowland, East Prairie Route 1, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Rev. George White will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Rowland, 80, died Monday, Aug. 23, 1993, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews...

PATTON -- Kay Tallent, 49, of Patton, died Tuesday, Aug. 24, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 31, 1944, at Marquand. Tallent was a retired machine operator at Brown Shoe Co. in Fredericktown. She was a member of Liberty Congregational Methodist Church at Marquand...

Increased state funding for Missouri's public schools means more than dollars for salaries; it means money for reforms in the classroom, the state commissioner of education said Tuesday. Commissioner Robert Bartman praised the new foundation formula by which school districts will receive state aid. He said the new formula should result in changes that will result in improved education for Missouri's children...

Southeast Missouri State University has 7,878 students enrolled for the fall semester, down 307 or 3.8 percent from last year, university officials said Tuesday. The figures reflect first-day enrollment. Classes began Monday. Total undergraduate headcount stands at 7,210, down 445 or 5.8 percent from a year ago. Graduate enrollment stands at 668, up 138 students or 26 percent from a year ago...

Cape Girardeau schoolteacher Carolyn Ford doesn't know what impact Missouri's new funding formula and related reforms will have on education. "I still have a lot of questions about it," she said. "I still think there is a lot of uncertainty out there."...

SCOTT CITY - After being shut down for nearly two months because of high water, the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority's public dock was back in operation Monday. Traffic was reopened on the Mississippi River Sunday, and for the first time in a long while, a barge was unloaded at the dock Monday...

Cape Girardeau law enforcement and fire officials are conducting a campaign to boost compliance with the city ordinance requiring posting of street addresses on residences. A recent survey of 816 city homes by the Cape Girardeau Fire Department showed only 494 had street addresses correctly posted on the front of the home or above the garage door...

Country music returns to the Show Me Center Oct. 8 when Brooks & Dunn, Aaron Tippin and Radney Foster kick off Family Weekend at Southeast Missouri State University. The show will begin at 8 p.m. All tickets are $20 and will go on sale at 9 a.m. Saturday...

When classes begin in Cape Girardeau schools Thursday, motorists must contend with more than 50 school buses hauling children to and from schools during the heaviest traffic hours of the day. "Almost every year for the past several years we have had a fairly serious bus accident early in the fall," said George Hathhorn, manager of Ryder Student Transportation in Cape Girardeau. "This is most often the result of people not seeing the school buses or not stopping...

Loan default rates in 1991 for schools in Southeast Missouri under the Federal Family Education Loan Program. The Education Department classifies each school according to the length of its program and its ownership, either public ("pub"), private ("priv") academic institutions, or proprietary ("prop") trade schools...

Zimmer Broadcasting Co., headquartered in Cape Girardeau, has announced the acquisition of WKBQ/KASP from Evergreen Media Corp. in the St. Louis area. "The acquisition of the station further demonstrates our faith in the future of radio in St. Louis," said Jerry Zimmer, president of Zimmer Broadcasting, which now owns 10 radio stations in Missouri and Illinois, including KIX Country 104 (WKKX-FM) in St. Louis...

HOUSTON, Texas Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Company has donated $100,000 to the American Red Cross for the Midwest flood relief effort. The company, which supplies natural gas to the region, has designated the money to go to Missouri and Illinois communities in the company's service area hardest hit by the flood damage...

When Steve and Traci Hamblin were home last month from his Marine base in California, the couple was overwhelmed by the first-hand view of the devastating floods. Upon returning to El Toro, Calif., they vowed to do something to help flood victims. "We were home for her class reunion in Jackson and when we flew in over St. Louis and saw all the flood waters, it just really affected us," Steve said Tuesday. "Just being here for a couple days, we decided we wanted to do something."...