Stories from Wednesday, August 3, 1994

Memorial service for Constance Rowe of Cape Girardeau will be held at 9 a.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Charles B. Dreyer will officiate. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Rowe, 86, died Monday, Aug. 1, 1994, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center...

After serving eight years as sheriff of Cape Girardeau County, Norman Copeland retired last weekend to the well-deserved praise of area leaders, law enforcement officials and the general community. A man of proven character and integrity, he leaves a sheriff's department considerably stronger than the one he inherited March 27, 1986...

To the Editor, Feminist! The word seems to ignite the most negative hostility. Yet, despite how some may feel it is not a profanity. In a clipping I have of a cartoon character bearing the title "A Fine Line", a female with a joyous expression and uplifted arms proclaims: "For the record ... a feminist is a girl person who deeply cares about the world and tries as hard as she can to make things better. Oh Yes."...

It isn't every day that the good guys win and justice emerges from our court system. Such a day occurred last week, with a decision by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in the Kem-Pest Superfund case. A three-judge panel of the appeals court upheld a ruling U.S. ...

ANNA, Ill. -- Alice Sarah Hill, 90, of Anna, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1994, at her home. She was born June 23, 1904, in Anna, daughter of George and Mollie McNew Soloman. She and Hal Hill were married May 15, 1922, in Murphysboro. He died in September 1989...

Gertrude A. Green, 84, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1994, at Ratliff Nursing Home. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

CHAFFEE -- Vera Maude Hill, 67, of Chaffee, died Monday, Aug. 1, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 7, 1926, at Caulfield, daughter of Rue and Vesta Duffel Lamb. She married Calvin Poinsett in 1946. She later married James Hill...

PUXICO -- Fred L. Cochran, 67, of Puxico, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1994, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born Feb. 12, 1927, at Harviell, son of Joseph H. and Pearl Clemens Cochran. He and Sindy Metcalf were married Jan. 27, 1951, in Piggott, Ark...

BERTRAND -- Kenny Ray Summers, 36, of Bertrand, died Tuesday, Aug. 2, 1994, in Caruthersville. He was born March 19, 1958, at Wyatt, son of J.L. and Mary Crane Summers. Survivors include his father of Wyatt; his mother, Mary Carter of Murphysboro, Ill.; two brothers, Garland Summers of Bertrand, Robert Summers of Sikeston; two sisters, Nancy Summers of Pinckneyville, Ill., Martha Summers of Sikeston, and stepmother, Delores Summers...

Funeral service for Rosie Foster of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate, with burial in New Morley Cemetery at Morley. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

MARBLE HILL -- Leroy E. Haupt, 74, of St. Louis, died Friday, July 29, 1994, at St. Anthony's Medical Center. He was born in Bollinger County, son of Charles and Beulah Haupt. He attended elementary school in Bollinger County, and Jackson High School. He married the former Helen Jones...

MARBLE HILL -- Roy William Boles, 73, of Marble Hill, died Monday, Aug. 1, 1994, at his home. He was born May 26, 1921, in Denver, Colo., son of John Huston and Eunice Irene Johnson Boles. He and Martinea Hamlyn Schaefer were married March 18, 1972...

BENTON -- Bob Kielhofner had little time to be nervous about the Scott County primary election Tuesday. He had even less time to celebrate his victory. Kielhofner, who serves as county clerk, racked up the most votes in the presiding commissioner race in Scott County's the primary election, beating out two-term incumbent Durward Dover...

After meeting his Ward 3 Cape Girardeau City Council opponent for the first time last Saturday, Jack Rickard had an uneasy feeling about the outcome of Tuesday's election. "I told Mike Ballou I would wish him luck if I had any to spare, but I didn't think I had any left," quipped Rickard, whose pre-election anxieties proved accurate. Rickard narrowly defeated Ballou 468 to 433 to secure the seventh and final city council seat...

JACKSON -- While others were agonizing over close election returns in the Cape Girardeau County presiding commissioner's race, Gerald Jones was conducting a rules interpretation meeting for high-school football officials in Scott City. Jones had no idea whether he was winning or losing after a hard-fought campaign with Mike Kasten and Howard Tooke for the Republican nomination of presiding commissioner...

JACKSON -- In the closest primary contest of the night, Allen Moss nudged Jeff Dix by a 133-vote margin to capture the Republican nomination for Cape Girardeau County Division IV associate circuit judge. Moss and Dix waged aggressive campaigns focused heavily on an issue raised by Dix to have Division IV serve as a family court. Dix, 34, made the family court idea a central theme of his campaign...

James L. "Jay" Thompson, who narrowly lost the Democratic nomination for Congress two years ago to Thad Bullock, managed to capture the nomination Tuesday night. Thompson, who is retired from the Navy and from the state of Missouri, finished with about 39 percent of the vote in a four-way race. By winning the Democratic nomination, he earned the right to meet 8th District U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson in the general election...

Missouri voters Tuesday narrowly passed a $250 million, statewide bond issue Tuesday. The bonds will finance construction of new prisons and university facilities, including a College of Business building at Southeast Missouri State University. The issue passed 412,651 to 404,695 with 99 percent of the vote counted...

Thunderstorms dumped 2 to 3 inches of rain in parts of the Cape Girardeau area early Tuesday. Total rain at the airport from 4 a.m. to 10 a.m. was 2.25 inches. There were reports of up to 3 inches of rain in the Commerce and Patton areas. The heavy rain caused a mudslide on Highway 74 west of Cape Girardeau and resulted in some streets flooding in Cape Girardeau, Scott City and Chaffee. ...

Thanks to Don Shrubshell's persistence and Mr. T's need for 15 cents, I learned a little bit more about gang graffiti, checkbook journalism and those who live and die on the mean streets of Sikeston. Shrubshell, who accompanied me to Sikeston to shoot pictures for a series on gangs, drugs and violence, became much more than an aggressive photographer. ...

BENTON -- Cristy Baker-Neel spent the better part of the afternoon and early evening crying nervous tears. Shortly before 9 p.m. Tuesday, she cried tears of joy. Baker-Neel received the most votes in the Scott County prosecuting attorney's race, edging out a heavily-favored contender...

NEW MADRID -- Presiding Commissioner Jay Blankenship of Kewanee won the New Madrid Democratic primary over Robert Cook 2,015 to 1,499 in Tuesday. Donnie Westmoreland of Lilbourn got 636 votes. For 1st District Commissioner, Robert B. Hedgepeth of New Madrid defeated incumbent Jim Cravens of New Madrid, 1,019 to 886, in the Democratic primary. Gordon J. Powell of Morehouse received 131 votes...

Joe Heckemeyer took a step toward following his father's footsteps into the Missouri House of Representatives Tuesday night by capturing the Democratic nomination for state representative in the 160th District. Heckemeyer, of Sikeston, sailed to victory by piling up 77 percent of the vote against Jim Spooler of near Oran. Heckemeyer received 4,099 votes, while Spooler got 1,186...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Jim Edmundson, Western District Associated Commissioner of Butler County, failed in his bid to become the Democratic candidate for presiding commissioner Tuesday. Louie Snider garnered 1,716 votes to Edmundson's 941. He will face Republican Robert L. Manns, who was unopposed in Tuesday's primary, in the November general election...

PERRYVILLE -- Perry County voters approved a $4.059 million bond issue for a new nursing home Tuesday. The funding, approved 1,889 to 1,156, will be used for construction and furnishing of a 123-bed nursing home in Perryville, with revenues from the nursing home paying off the bonds...

MARBLE HILL -- Incumbent Republican Diane Holzum turned back a bid of challenger Beverly A. Johnson to remain in the running for Bollinger County clerk. Holzum defeated Johnson, 650 to 530, to become the Republican candidate in the November general election. She will face Democrat Margie Cook Gaines, who received 692 Democratic votes Tuesday...

FREDERICKTOWN -- Madison County voters by a margin of two votes Tuesday approved a half-cent sales tax to fund construction of a county jail. The vote was 1,112 to 1,110. In all, 2,282 voters went to the polls in the primary election, or about 31.6 percent of the county's 7,200 registered voters...

BLOOMFIELD -- Democratic incumbent Norman Moore defeated Robert Weathers for Stoddard County presiding commissioner Tuesday by a vote of 2,204 to 1,688. Ralph Mouser, a former sheriff, defeated David R. Corlew 250 to 145 in the Republican primary for presiding commissioner...

DeField was beaten by Jim Blumenberg, the associate commissioner in the 2nd District. Blumenberg received 1,552 votes; DeField, 1,152; and Oliver "Bubber" Goodin, 765. There were no Republican candidates for county office. Charleston voters approved a $1.14 million bond issue for sewer improvements by a vote of 850 to 351...

Authorities on grammar estimate that the number of tenses in the English language is nearer 30 than three. True, we have only three basic tenses -- present, past, and future. But grammar guides and textbooks include perfect as well -- present perfect, past perfect, future perfect. ...

More than 1,000 Cape Girardeau School District patrons signed petitions that were delivered to school board members Tuesday expressing dissatisfaction with Superintendent Neyland Clark. A group called "Concerned Citizens for Education" collected 1,083 signatures within 17 days. ...

August is the month when the summer garden begins its colorful passage into fall. This is a vibrant transition period which offers plenty of flowers and vegetables to enjoy. Annuals and perennials are still blooming and tomatoes, cucumbers, beans, okra, squash, green peppers and melons are still producing...

Their faces reflect the colors of the rainbow and may be round, oval, square or heart-shaped, to name a few. Some take the subtle approach. Others are more bold. Some are even musical. And, they are almost never home alone, that is, when home is the jewelry box...

"Salute to Teachers" is the theme for the Aug. 8 luncheon sponsored by Cape Girardeau County Christian Women's Club. The luncheon and meeting will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at Holiday Inn. Cost is $7.50 per person. Complimentary day care is provided for children birth to 10 years...