Stories from Friday, December 10, 1993

DEXTER -- Funeral service for Juanita Curtis of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Rainey Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Wayne Dismuke will officiate, with burial in North Antioch Cemetery near Bloomfield. Curtis, 78, died Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1993, at Dexter Memorial Hospital...

Cape Girardeau County officials have come through for taxpayers once again. Upon recommendation of the county 911 committee, the County Commission has lowered the surcharge from 15 to 8 percent on basic telephone bills. This fee was approved by voters to cover the cost of 911 emergency telephone service...

A reporter once asked Mahatma Gandhi what he thought of western civilization. Gandhi replied he thought it would be a good idea. I am apt to agree. But sometimes you can get too much of a good thing. While American society has grown frighteningly violent of late, it has also become disturbingly, and ironically, civilized...

Rush Limbaugh hardly needs me to defend him against his critics. But I'm going to do it anyway. It seems he has become the target of the moment for the running dogs of the media left. When pugilists square off in the ring, they are expected to observe the Marquess of Queensberry rules. ...

WARE, Ill. -- The Canada goose count is edging up, but hunters in Alexander and Union County are not counting big success with the big honkers. Illinois Department of Conservation officials counted more than 47,000 geese during the latest census of geese in Southern Illinois Monday...

MARBLE HILL -- Bollinger County Conservation Agent Mike Lancaster has used deer decoys to catch poachers, but he never thought a patch of ginseng would serve a similar purpose. Nor did he think that twice he would replant the same group of illegally dug roots...

SCOTT CITY -- During the holiday season, you can be a hero to one of the thousands of hospital patients in the area who will need blood, says Dorothy Dees, chairman of an upcoming blood drive in Scott City. "That patient might be a small child undergoing treatment for leukemia, a grandparents receiving lifesaving heart surgery or an accident victim who needs blood to survive," she said...

To the editor: Tuesday, Dec. 7, was a wonderful day for the Pearl Harbor services held on the river at the foot of Broadway. On behalf of American Legion Post 63, we wish to thank the following for furnishing support systems in order for this to be held: Shivelbine's music store (speaker system); Downtown Merchants Association (electric hookups); Vocational School (welding the bell stand); Legion Auxiliary (making of the wreath); Radio K-103 (advertising); KFVS (for showing the event); and the Southeast Missourian (for their usual good coverage). ...

FRIDAY, DEC. 10 At 6:59 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to 341 N. Main for medical assistance. At 9:32 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to 325 N. Sprigg for medical assistance. At 12:33 a.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to 737 N. Clark for a report of a trash fire...

Funeral service for Elbertine "Tina" Williams of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate, with burial in Union Park Cemetery at Chaffee. Williams, 84, died Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1993, at the Lutheran Home...

Winifred S. Gross, 88, of St. Louis, died Thursday, Dec. 9, 1993, in St. Louis. She was formerly of Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

SIKESTON -- Laura I. Cannon, 93, of Sikeston, died Thursday, Dec. 9, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 14, 1900, in Kentucky. She and Talton Thomas Cannon were married in 1919 in Kentucky. He preceded her in death May 27, 1976...

CHARLESTON -- Arnold B. Clark, 47, of Kansas City, died Sunday, Dec. 5, 1993, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City. He was born Feb. 7. 1946, in Charleston. Clark had lived in Kansas City 25 years, and was employed at Butler Steel Co. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

SCOTT CITY -- Graveside service for Lula Mae Stipes of Lewiston, Calif., was held Nov. 16 at Lewiston Cemetery. Jim Curran officiated. Stipes, 88, died Thursday, Nov. 11, 1993, at Trinity Convalescent Hospital in Weaverville, Calif. She was born May 22, 1905, in Louisville, Ill., daughter of Ellsworth and Stella Florence Atchison Connerly. She first married Wylie Owens in Urbana, Ill. She later married John Stipes in 1937, who died July 29, 1977...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Nola C. Sanders of Scott City will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. William Dickey will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3:30 p.m. today...

Southeast Missouri State University has notified 97 people who may have had contact with a student who had an active case of tuberculosis earlier in the fall semester. The university's Center for Health and Counseling sent out letters late last month encouraging the 97 people to come to the center and be tested for tuberculosis...

Brenda Dohogne of 319 N. Main became the third candidate to file for election in Cape Girardeau's Ward 2. Dohogne, 44, is a homemaker and civic volunteer. With her filing Thursday, Ward 2 becomes the second of three wards up for election in April that will have to have a February primary...

Cape Girardeau firefighters have had a year of big changes -- a new chief, the added responsibility of responding to medical calls, and use of a new disaster-scene communication system. Along with new uniform shirts and trousers, the firefighters now have a new locally-designed patch that symbolizes the department's function as well as the city's history...

JACKSON -- The look of relief on the face of Jackson School Superintendent Wayne Maupin left no doubt to how the bidding went on the new $5.4 million Jackson Middle School project. Five bids were opened Thursday afternoon at 4 p.m. in the high school cafeteria. All were under the architect's estimate of $4.9 million...

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents will consider approving an exchange program between the school's Harrison College of Business and a Swedish university when it meets today. The regents will convene at 2 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom...

This year has been a tough one for many area families. The high winds and heavy rains of the storms in early April took their toll on some Cape Girardeau homes. But the storms were only a herald for the what was to come. The April shower didn't bring May flowers this year. The rains fell incessantly on the Midwest, causing many of its rivers to leave its banks, forcing several area families from their homes...

Three times a week Mr. L dresses in his best suit jacket and drives to the Dialysis Center in Cape Girardeau for treatment for renal disease. Mr. L's best jacket is also his only jacket. He wears it summer and winter, no matter how cold it gets. Mr. L married late in life, finally finding the right person. They have been together 30 years now. His wife has been in and out of the hospital over the past year and Mr. L worries about her health as well as his own...

An art program celebrating America's Colonial heritage will be presented for children and their parents at 2 p.m. Saturday at May Greene School. Professional storyteller Tanya Merritt will perform "The Baker's Dozen," a tale from the Colonial days. Art teachers Brenda Seyer and Elizabeth Thomas will help the participants make a Colonial folded book of "The Baker's Dozen."...

The Area Wide United Way is hosting a celebration Wednesday to bring the 1993 fund-raising campaign to a close. The celebration will be held at the Holiday Inn holidome from 4-5:30 p.m. "We have never had a celebration to conclude the United Way campaign," said Dennis Marchi, chairman of the campaign. "This year, since I'm campaign chairman, we're going to have one."...

Five Missouri cities, including Cape Girardeau, will receive Community Development Block Grant funding for flood recovery efforts, Gov. Mel Carnahan announced Thursday. In addition to Cape Girardeau, the communities receiving funding are Hannibal, Maryland Heights, Rhineland and Ste. Genevieve County. Hannibal and Rhineland are the first cities to receive block grants for acquisition and relocation projects...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Strop, 1910 Grandview, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:15 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, 1993. Name, Charles Brandon. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. First child. Mrs. Strop is the former Angela Myers, daughter of Robert Myers and Mary Myers of Cape Girardeau. Strop is employed at Mid-South Steel Products, and is the son of Victoria Strop and Jim Strop of Cape Girardeau...