Stories from Tuesday, May 31, 1994

Lightning struck a Union Electric substation early Monday disrupting electrical service for about two and one-half hours to about 1,175 UE customers in the southwest part of Cape Girardeau. UE spokesman A.D. Cox said the lightning bolt struck the Union Electric LaFerth substation near the intersection of Southern Expressway and South Kingshighway at about 4:40 a.m...

An early morning thunderstorm forced cancellation of the Avenue of Flags display at Cape County Park Monday, but by mid-morning the rain had stopped and several hundred people were on hand for the annual Memorial Day observance of the Joint Veterans Council...

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- The final section of relocated Route 3 between Thebes and Twente Crossing Road will be opened to traffic in early August, the Illinois Department of Transportation said. Meanwhile, the department late this summer will begin to raise large portions of Routes 3 and 146 in East Cape Girardeau, Gale and McClure. Included in the project is the Route 3-146 intersection between McClure and East Cape Girardeau...

When someone under the age of 21 is caught in possession of intoxicating beverages, police often seize the alcohol along with the young offender. Then the law enforcement agency will send the liquor to the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Lab for testing to prove to a court that what is in the can or bottle is as the container reads. This goes for open and sealed containers...

MALDEN -- The executive director of the Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission is resigning June 30 to accept a similar position in southwest Georgia. Dan Bollinger will become executive director of the Southwest Georgia Regional Development Center in Camilla, Ga...

As Americans, we're supposed to love the outdoors. It's part of our kids-running-through-the-clover, Little-House-on-the-Prairie heritage. Somehow that heritage passed me by. My family and I are among the allergy sufferers of the world. To us, Mother Nature is anything but motherly. In the midst of the allergy season, she's the wicked witch...

Carla Crawford, 19, of 1137 Ranney, died Sunday, May 29, 1994, at Saint Louis University Hospital. The Ford and Sons Sprigg Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Gary K. Goins of Jonesboro, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:42 a.m. Friday, May 20, 1994. Name, Dalton Kent. Weight, 9 pounds 2 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Goins is the former Candice Ames, daughter of Saundra and James Owens of Chaffee, and Dennis and Vicki Ames of Anna, Ill. ...

DEXTER -- Funeral service for Charles Dee Sanders of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. David Light will officiate, with burial in Gravel Hill Cemetery near Bloomfield. Sanders, 56, died Saturday, May 28, 1994, near Essex...

DEXTER -- Camille E. Julian, 90, died Sunday, May 29, 1994, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. She was born July 11, 1903, in Sikeston, daughter of Samuel E. and Hagar A. Barker Watson. She and John Thomas Julian were married Feb. 23, 1920, at Bloomfield. He died April 4, 1961...

SIKESTON -- Mildred Harper, 88, of Sells Rest Home in Matthews, died Saturday, May 28, 1994, at the rest home. She was born Jan. 2, 1906, in Sikeston, daughter of W.H. and Jennie Marshall Stubblefield. She and J. Ernest Harper were married Sept. 11, 1929. He died Sept. 22, 1978...

CROSSTOWN -- Leola Marie Clifton, 89, of Crosstown, died Monday, May 30, 1994, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Oct. 25, 1904, in Perry County, daughter of John George and Nancy Votau Klobe. She and Lloyd Clifton were married Dec. 27, 1922, in Corning, Ark. He died Sept. 21, 1984...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Alline Crain, 88, of Daystar Care Center in Cairo, died Saturday, May 28, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was the daughter of Harry and Ruth Settlemoir. She married Joseph M. Crain, who died March 12, 1969...

GORDONVILLE -- Harold Louis "Chug" Skelton, 69, died Saturday, May 28, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 11, 1924, at Benton, son of Joe and Pearl May Brunner Skelton. He and Dorothy Willa were married Aug. 3, 1966, at Gordonville...

PERRYVILLE -- Christopher G. Schumer, 18, of Perryville, died Sunday, May 29, 1994, at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 18, 1975, at Perryville, son of Edward J. and Marilyn Callio Schumer. Schumer would have been a senior at St. Vincent's High School this fall. He played on the championship soccer team with the Perryville Park League in 1993...

GRASSY -- Memorial service for Tommy Lee Stewart of Grassy will be held at 11 a.m. today at Liley Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. The Rev. Don Cook will officiate. VFW Post 5900 will then conduct a military service. Burial will be at a later date. Stewart, 45, died Sunday, May 29, 1994, at Grassy...

POYNOR -- Azalea Jane Branson, 69, Poyner Route 4, died Sunday, May 29, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 20, 1924, in Gibson City, Ill., daughter of John and Nell Cooper Perry. She and Glen L. Branson were married April 5, 1947, in Saybrook, Ill...

Funeral mass for Thomas C. "Buck" Bradford, 2801 Bloomfield, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary's Cathedral. Msgr. Richard Rolwing will officiate. Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Joseph Cemetery in Bardstown, Ky. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel was in charge of local arrangements...

BERTRAND -- Funeral service for Dorothy M. McClanahan, Bertrand Route 1, will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. Paul Latham will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery. McClanahan, 80, died Saturday, May 28, 1994, at her home...

PERRYVILLE -- Vallie A. Brown, 86, of Perryville, died Sunday, May 29, 1994, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept. 11, 1907, in Perry County, son of John Burns "J.B." and Elizabeth Lou Graff Brown. He and Myrtle Edna Biri were married Oct. 28, 1933. She died Aug. 4, 1983...

Editor: Recently my family and I traveled, as did hundreds of others, to Columbia, Mo., to the annual state math competition for the fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade levels. On this day, May 8, 1994 to be exact, something quite phenomenal took place! The participants from the Jackson-Cape area put Southeast Missouri on the map by bringing home eight state winners, including two first-place prizes! Now, before you dismiss this as being trivial because these kids are only in elementary school, I ask you to please stop and think about this for a moment. ...

To the Editor: The Southeast Missourian will never lose me to any new, up-start newspaper with big finances, because as a 1936 graduate of the University of Missouri's Journalism School -- that was then rated No. 1 in the country -- I am able to assess this paper well...

Published reports over the weekend indicated that the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Dan Rostenkowski, has decided to reject prosecutors' offers of a plea bargain. If indicted, the reports say, Rostenkowski will fight in court to clear his name, forcing prosecutors to prove their charges. If these reports are true, let us be among the first to say we're glad the chairman has decided to stand and fight...

Some moments that take seconds to accomplish are years in the making. With the symbolic move of shimmering tassels, LaShea Suzanne Bohannon and 65 classmates from Kelly High School on Friday night crossed an invisible border into their futures. If the years preceding the milestone event bring highs and lows like that of a ferris wheel, then the week before graduation is a roller coaster ride...

EDITOR'S NOTE -- Alice Niswonger has not been teaching since her husband Dan, a Cape Girardeau police officer, was injured in a motorcycle accident while on duty. Her photograph was taken before the accident. DELTA -- Alice Niswonger's career in education was sealed before she ever graduated from high school...

On June 7, just one week from today, the Cape Girardeau school district will ask voters to approve a waiver of the Proposition C rollback. This request comes to voters after three public forums, two traditional bond defeats and countless meetings and discussions which provided insight into several items which concerned the community. Hopefully, the Board of Education has effectively responded to input gathered and concerns expressed during those meetings...

Sarah J. Hill of McClure, Ill., has been awarded a scholarship for 1994-95 to attend Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Hill, a 1994 graduate of Shawnee High School, has been selected to receive the SIUC Academic Scholarship, which will cover full tuition charges each semester for which the award is granted...

Twenty-six local students have been honored through the Duke University Talent Identification Program. Seventh-graders recognized through the program earned scores on SAT or ACT college entrance exams that many graduating seniors would envy. TIP sponsors both a grand recognition ceremony for the highest scoring students and state recognition ceremonies. ...

Mark Thompson, son of Bill and Mary Thompson of Cape Girardeau, has qualified for the spring semester dean's list at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tenn. Thompson, a senior and member of the Vanderbilt University Army ROTC Go Gold Battalion, last summer attended airborne school in Fort Benning, Ga. This summer he will attend advanced camp in Fort Bragg, N.C., to receive commission as a second lieutenant in May 1995...

Matthew Shivelbine of Cape Girardeau has been offered a scholarship to attend Texas Christian University. Applicants were judged primarily on the basis of academic records, with consideration given to leadership and community service. Shivelbine was offered a faculty scholarship and has indicated he will study biology. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Shivelbine...

Nine students at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School have been inducted to the local National Vocational-Technical Honor Society chapter. To be eligible, students must be graduating seniors with a cumulative grade average of 8.0 or better and demonstrate good character and work ethics...

Monti Ferronato of Jackson, a sixth trimester student at Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa, has been named to the college's dean's list. To be named to the list, students must achieve a 3.5 grade point average. Ferronato is enrolled in a five-academic-year course of study leading to the doctor of chiropractic degree...

Pamela L. Schott of Cape Girardeau has graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor of science in pharmacy from the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. She is the daughter of Robert and Helen Schott and a 1989 graduate of Notre Dame High School. While at the college, Schott participated in musicals, was a member of the Gateway Academy of Students of Pharmacy and Rho Chi Honor Society...

Kiley Bollinger of Jackson was chosen one of the top 10 contestants at the Miss Junior Teen St. Louis Pageant, held in St. Louis May 15. The top-10 placement makes her eligible to compete in the national competition in Orlando, Fla., in January. She is a freshman at Jackson Junior High School and this was her first pageant. She is the daughter of Tom and Terry Bollinger of Jackson...

The Adult Learning Center at the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School offers classes for adults who are at least 16 years old and need to finish high school or improve basic skills. The center is open weekdays from 7:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Monday through Thursday nights from 6-9...

Two Jackson students named to dean's list Daren Ford and Jennifer Rice, both of Jackson, have been named to the dean's list at Hannibal-LaGrange College in Hannibal. To qualify for the dean's list, students must maintain a grade point average between 3.0 and 3.49 while carrying at least 12 semester hours...

Janette Dumas, a student at Egyptian High School, was recently elected vice-president of the Illinois State Beta Club. She ran against two other candidates for the statewide office. Competition included campaigning, giving a speech and presenting a skit before 700 club members at the annual convention in Springfield, Ill...

Parents of children who are 3, 4 or 5 years old are invited to a Kindergarten Information Night June 2 at Jefferson Elementary School's library from 7-8 p.m. A panel of kindergarten teachers will be available to answer questions parents may have about preparing youngsters for school...