Stories from Friday, August 5, 1994

TILSIT -- Funeral service for Peyton F. Schafer of Bolivar will be held at 11 a.m. today at Bolivar United Methodist Church. The Rev. Marc Magana will officiate, with burial at 1 p.m. in St. James United Church of Christ Cemetery at Tilsit. Butler Funeral Home at Bolivar is in charge of arrangements...

To the editor: I read with some alarm the Aug. 2 editorial in the Southeast MIssourian regarding Superintendent Neyland Clark and the NEA. While I quite agree that Mr. Clark is not the object of the NEA-sponsored witch hunt, some of the unspoken assumptions regarding the NEA and education voiced in the editorial cannot go unchallenged...

TAMMS, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois Prison Committee didn't limit the cost of attracting a new full-sized maximum-security penitentiary to one of five counties in Southern Illinois. "Our only financial thoughts were that whatever it takes, we'll do it," said Jerry Reppert, an Anna businessman who headed the multicounty group's campaign for the $60 million, 500-bed super-maximum-security facility that is being built at Tamms...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Meyer of Florissant, Christian Brothers Hospital Northwest, 8:55 p.m. Saturday, July 23, 1994. Name, James Louis. Weight, 8 pounds 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Meyer is the former Robin Voepel, daughter of Dorothy Voepel of West Virginia, and the late Harry Voepel. She is an optometrist in Florissant. Meyer is a computer programmer/analyst with AMDOCS Corp. in St. Louis, and is the son of Bill and Joan Meyer of Cape Girardeau...

Mary Elizabeth Wilson, 85, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 1994, at Fountainbleau Lodge. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel.

PULASKI, Ill. -- Helen Staggs Fadely, 72, of Pulaski, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 1994, at her home. She was born April 9, 1922, in Cairo, daughter of Monroe and Bertha Horner Polk Sr. She married Edwin Staggs, who preceded her in death. She later married Oscar Fadely, who also preceded her in death...

SCOTT CITY -- Edna Royce, 73, of Scott City, formerly of Chaffee, died Thursday, Aug. 4, 1994, at her home. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Roxie J. Beussink, 65, of Jackson, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 12, 1929, in Crump, daughter of Dale and Aline Hosea Stroder. She and William J. Beussink were married May 3, 1949...

PERRYVILLE -- Raymond Michael Hager, 22, of Perryville, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1994, at his home. He was born July 8, 1972, in St. Louis, son of John A. and Ruth A. Myer Hager. Survivors include his parents of Perryville; three brothers, Mark, Albert and John Hager; four sisters, Marilyn Cervantez, Barbara, Michelle and Dana Hager, all of Perryville...

ANNA, Ill. -- The Rev. Jack Holmes, 65, of Anna, died suddenly Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1994, at Union County Hospital. Holmes was pastor of Apostolic Faith Tabernacle in Joneboro. Survivors include his wife, Dauna; two sons, John Holmes of Mahomet, Wayne Holmes of Monticello, Ind.; a brother, Gene Holmes of Lafayette, Ind., and five grandchildren...

It wasn't all that long ago Democrats and much of the media were sniping at Republicans in Congress for failing to articulate a GOP health-care reform plan. Even though there were several Republican alternatives, most notably one written by New Hampshire Sen. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Ivan Robert Weinkein of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. today at Immanuel Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Jeffrey Lloyd officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 6:30-8:45 a.m. today...

PARMA -- Funeral service for James Ellis Hill of Parma will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Calvary Baptist Church in Dexter, with the Rev. Bob Wiggins officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Gardens Cemetery at Poplar Bluff. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter is in charge of arrangements...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Irvin L. McIntosh, 78, of Dongola, died Wednesday, Aug. 3, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born Feb. 20, 1916, at Dongola, son of Arthur and Mary Arminda Lingle McIntosh. He married Florence Lillian Schluter, who died July 13, 1960. He later married Mary Daubs Kaufman July 4, 1969...

Private graveside service for Esther Ruby Willmott of Menlo Park, Calif., was held Thursday at Memorial Park. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel was in charge of arrangements. Willmott, 82, died Thursday, July 21, 1994, at Stanford Medical Center in Stanford, Calif...

Stacie McFadden realizes she and her fellow classmates will be walking into history when they graduate tonight from Southeast Missouri State University. The 7 p.m. ceremony at the Show Me Center will mark the final summer commencement exercise for undergraduates at Southeast. It ends a tradition that dates back to at least the 1920s and has been done annually since 1957...

A spokesman for the Cape Girardeau National Education Association said her group will wait and see what happens at the Cape Girardeau Board of Education's St. Louis retreat before deciding if legal action will be taken. The retreat begins today and concludes Saturday at the Hampton Inn, 2211 Market...

JACKSON -- Longtime state highway Patrolman Benny Hinton and Cape Girardeau County sheriff's Lt. John Jordon were nominated by their respective political party committees Thursday night to run for an unexpired term as Cape County sheriff. Hinton, 55, was chosen on the first ballot by the Democratic committee from a field of four candidates. Jordon, 33, was chosen on the second ballot from a field of five candidates by the Republican committee...

Looking for gold in the Ozarks sounds like looking for pearls in the Mississippi. But there you are. Some highly educated scientists who found gold in Australia when they were looking for iron now say the same geological conditions exist in the St. Francois Mountains not too far from here...

Republican U.S. Senate candidate John Ashcroft ended a two-day statewide campaign kickoff in Cape Girardeau Thursday, promising an "issue-oriented, agenda focused campaign." Ashcroft, who easily won the Republican nomination Tuesday against token opposition, met with a group of 60 supporters at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. About half of the group were youths not yet of voting age...