Stories from Monday, March 7, 1994

Gaming, go-carts, capital improvement and the go-ahead to proceed on the Cape La Croix Creek/Walker Branch Flood Control Project will pace the Cape Girardeau City Council's busy agenda tonight. Two resolutions are on the city council's agenda for the selection of a developer for riverboat gaming in the city...

Forest Ice, a grain farmer in Alexander County, is in the fields these days. "We're not doing much plowing or other soil preparations," said Ice, who farms about 1,100 acres in the Miller City area. "We're clearing the land of trees, debris and sand."...

Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Jack Watt standing at attention near the Kuwait Liberation medals that former Governor John Ashcroft presented to about 100 Naval Reservists at the Cape Girardeau Naval Reserve Center Sunday. As former Missouri Governer John Ashcroft pinned Kuwait Liberation Medals on Naval reservists at the Cape Girardeau Naval Reserve Center Sunday, Jeff McDaniel counted his blessings...

The Southeast Missourian asked people if they favored proposed legislation in Missouri that would charge anyone under 21 years old with DWI if they are caught while driving with any amount of alcohol in their blood? David Slaughter, Cape Girardeau "If they're not legally drunk they shouldn't charge them. According to the law .10 (of one percent) is legally drunk. They made the law being .10, it should be for anyone."...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education will again examine building needs at a work session tonight. The meeting will be held at 5 p.m. at the Board of Education office, 61 N. Clark. At a February study session, the school board decided to replace old buildings with new elementary classrooms, setting aside for now the idea of a new middle school...

The 38 employees of Southeast Missouri Bank, at 111 Broadview, resolved last week to turn over a new leaf. On Friday, the business was presented with a plaque by the local branch of the American Stop Smoking Intervention Study, ASSIST, for choosing to make its workplace smoke-free. It's one of a number of businesses making the change...

Don't expect a "stodgy, stuffed shirt" performance from the Mac Frampton trio when it plays in Cape Girardeau March 15. Jazz pianist Mac Frampton says his goal is entertainment, pure and simple. With Frampton on piano, accompanied by bass and percussion, the Mac Frampton Jazz Trio will perform March 15 at 8 p.m. at Academic Auditorian at Southeast Missouri State University...

When Michael Dukakis campaigned against George Bush in 1988 one of his more memorable lines was, "A fish rots from the head first." The comment was in part referring to insinuations that Bush had traveled to Iran to discuss trading arms for hostages. ...

Dear Editor: I am a resident of the area that would be affected by the go-cart track proposed for the northeast corner of Kingshighway and Lexington. Wednesday's Missourian carried an article consisting primarily of information provided by people associated with the track. Your article contained inaccuracies which need to be exposed...

Dear Editor: Newspaper reports state that hearings are to be held concerning statewide funding of operational cost of the Metro Link in the St. Louis area. This system was built and the equipment furnished by federal taxpayers, at no dollar cost to the local areas...

FREDERICKTOWN -- A 35-year-old Marquand man was killed Sunday in a single-car crash on Route J, about 10 miles northeast of Fredericktown. A spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Cecil Smith's westbound vehicle left the roadway as he was attempting to pass another vehicle at about 1:35 p.m. Sunday...

Erna Pauly, 87, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, March 6, 1994, at the Lutheran Home. The Ford and Sons Funeral Homes are in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

SCOTT CITY -- Lorene Davis, 83, of Scott City, died Sunday, March 6, 1994, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 16, 1910, at Pollard, Ark., daughter of William and Annie Barnwell Russom. She married Herman Edward Davis, Dec. 23, 1930, at Cobden, Ill. He died Oct. 29, 1973...

SIKESTON -- Don Payne, 65, of Sikeston, died Saturday, March 5, 1994, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was born April 6, 1928, at Parma, Mo., son of Alonzo Edgar and Sarah Frances Griffen Payne. He married Helen Burnett, Nov. 10, 1952, at Piggott, Ark...

SIKESTON -- Kristian Marie Bannister, daughter of Jeffrey A. and Nina M. Davidson Bannister of Sikeston, died at birth Friday, March 4, 1994, at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Survivors include her parents; maternal grandparents, Dewey and Janet Davidson of Sikeston; paternal grandparents, Jerry and Jo Bannister of Sikeston; maternal great-grandparents, Gracie Sartin, James and Mary Chappell and Kathleen Sides, all of Sikeston; and paternal great-grandparents, Delbert and Ruby Glassburn of Marion, Ind., and Mr. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Eva Eagle Leher, 103, of Perryville, died Saturday, March 5, 1994, at the Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 8, 1891, at Xenia, Ill., daughter of George J. and Mary Harriet Friend Eagle. She married Walter G. Leher, Sept. 17, 1912. He died July 13, 1972...

When Kevin Burns moved to the Cape Girardeau area, he knew where to go to find work -- a temporary services firm. "I'm versatile in the job market," said Burns. "I'm experienced in electrical work and in business management positions." Burns, who moved to the area from Texas, had heard of Manpower Temporary Services. He looked them up and has been plenty busy since...

"Build it and they will come." It's not a baseball field, but the new Lowe's Home Center, which opened last week in Cape Girardeau, is a do-it-yourself enthusiast's "Field of Dreams." Lowe's built it, a 115,000-square-foot home center, with a 40,000-square-foot live nursery, greenhouse and garden center, and people are coming -- in droves...

Barbara Rauh-Powell, director of Southeast Missouri Hospital's Regional Home Health Services, will be the guest speaker at the Society for Ambulatory Care Professionals' annual meeting this year. The organization, a part of the American Hospital Association, will hold its annual convention in Seattle, Wash., in June. Theme of the meeting is "Hospital Home Care: Innovative Leadership for a Time of Change."...

"Visions for Community Development" will be the theme of the 12th annual Quinstate Economic Development Conference to be held at the Executive Inn Riverfront in Paducah, Ky., April 7-8. The Quinstate Conference, co-sponsored by cooperative extension services from Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, and local chambers of commerce throughout the region, is held at various sites. The 1992 conference was held at Cape Girardeau...