Stories from Sunday, March 13, 1994

BELL CITY, Mo. -- John L. Cody, 88, of Bell City, Mo., died Saturday, March 12, 1994, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. The Morgan Funeral Home in Advance is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

Polls -- polls -- polls. Politicians worship them if they are favorable and pretend to ignore them if they are negative. Polls can be stable and show a continuing trend or polls can be volatile and reflect a sudden reaction to fast changing events. Historically the most volatile approval ratings pertain to the President of the United States. ...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education has set a new course for achieving its goals of upgrading facilities for the public school system here. At a meeting last week, board members voiced support for a two-part tax package that will provide funds for maintenance of existing structures and construction of an elementary school. ...

A "Workshop on Augmentative and Alternative Communication: Current and Emerging Technology" will be held April 16 from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Holiday Inn. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Lorberg Center for Speech and Hearing, the department of communication disorders and the College of Health and Human Services at Southeast Missouri State University, and the Missouri Speech, Language and Hearing Association...

Talk to any small business person or farmer across Missouri, and you're liable to hear one discouraging message: increasingly, he or she considers government to be the enemy of lawful, productive, job-creating enterprise. Is that too harsh? I don't think so. You should know that not a day goes by that I don't think about this subject, and about how this alarming trend can be combatted, and how, during my brief tenure in state government, I might be an instrument of its reversal...

SUNDAY, MARCH 13 At 5:40 p.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to 22367 Sherwood for medical assistance. At 1:33 p.m. Friday, firefighters responded to 1525 N. Water for medical assistance. At 5:57 p.m. Friday, firefighters responded to 540 S. Middle for a report of a residential lockout...

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. -- A "Jim Rea Rally" will be held today at the West Frankfort Moose Lodge, from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Area and local candidates will attended the rally. Rea, a Democrat, is 59th District state senator, and is running for re-election...

CHAFFEE - George B. Miles, 66, formerly of the Chaffee area, died March 6, 1994, at the home of his sister in Prescott, Ala. He was born Sept. 6, 1927, at Rockview, Mo., son of William P. and Mamie B. Stuckey Miles. He married Joyce Magee on Aug. 30, 1944. She preceded him in death Dec. 17, 1984...

DEXTER - Oma Marie Woolsey, 75, of Dexter, died Saturday, March 12, 1994, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born at Parma Dec. 22, 1918, daughter of Estel and Hallie Smith Cox. She married Ray Woolsey on July 8, 1938. He preceded her in death Feb. 13, 1979...

Gross revenue for the Cape Girardeau and Jackson license bureaus for the fourth quarter of 1993 was down slightly compared with the same period the previous year, financial records show. Still, the bureaus could net a combined profit of about $35,000 for the Southeast Missouri University Foundation by June 30, foundation officials said...

The Cape Girardeau license bureau is expected to move to new quarters to make way for riverboat gambling. The bureau is housed in a small building at 220 N. Main, which is owned by the Downtown Merchants Association. "The Boyd group has an option to buy it," said Norma Wildman, who manages the Cape Girardeau and Jackson license bureaus for the Southeast Missouri University Foundation...

John Danforth says he enjoyed his years of public service. Now, he says he wants to "come home." "It's been a wonderful opportunity and I want to thank everyone for that opportunity," the U.S. senator said during a visit to Cape Girardeau Saturday. Danforth, who stressed the importance of volunteerism to about 500 members of the Missouri Federation of Aid Association for Lutherans, also took the opportunity Saturday afternoon to emphasize his appreciation for allowing him to serve the public 27 years.. ...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Louis Maze and C. E. "Gene" Farris, who have more than 30 years combined service on the Alexander County Board of Commissioners, are each seeking another term when voters go to the Illinois primary election polls Tuesday. "I am serving my second four-year term now," said Maze last week. "Farris has more than 23 years in public office."...

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson chose the arena in which he announced his first bid for election to Congress to announce his decision to file again for the 8th District seat. Emerson received a standing ovation after making his announcement from the 275-plus Republicans in attendance at Saturday's 24th annual Lincoln Day celebration at the A.C. Brase Arena Building...

Corned beef, cabbage and potatoes seasoned with laughter and dashes of shenanigans will be served at the tables of Irishmen and the Irish at heart Thursday. Two Cape Girardeau families have made sharing hearty helpings of good times a March 17 certainty since 1966...

March seems to shout orders, using its own name. "Hup, one, two, three. March!" If anything or anyone doesn't fall into line at the appointed time he is just a looker-on as the parade passes by, green flags and kites flying. If the nursery companies don't make their seed racks blossom with pretty pictured flowers and vegetables, don't have a barrel of onion sets to run one's hand through, another barrel of grass seed exuding an inimitable faint odor, cabbage plants to finger and study, they're out of it. ...

Cape Girardeau County Genealogical Society is publishing a book listing burials in Cape Girardeau's oldest cemetery, which will become an essential tool for those working on family histories of current and former Cape Girardeau residents. The volume will contain not only a listing of gravestone inscriptions from Old Lorimier Cemetery, but will also include some family histories of the deceased as well. The book required three years to research and publish...