Stories from Monday, September 26, 1994

READ RW Ameritech brings name to Cape CyberTel Ameritech Cellular is arriving in Cape Girardeau today. Ameritech, a provider of communications services, has converted its CyberTel operations into the Ameritech name. The name change explains why those geese have been flying in a lazy arc in newspaper ads appearing in the Southeast Missourian. Other ads show the St. Louis Arch on its side...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Although the cost is hardly small, amounting to more than a quarter-billion dollars a year, Missouri still ranks dead last among the 50 states for per capita expenditure on a penal system that includes probation and parole service...

HALLSVILLE -- Jane Bevans doesn't like what she has seen in the Hallsville School District over the last three years. She is so alarmed she has taken her three children out of the public schools and, at considerable financial sacrifice, placed them in a private Christian school...

HALLSVILLE -- Controversial changes in the Hallsville School District, located north of Columbia in Boone County, are more a matter of how material is presented than they were actual curriculum revisions, says the superintendent. "We moved from a passive to a more active learning model," says Dr. ...

If the second phase of a study on alluvium wells is anything like preliminary reports on the first, Cape Girardeau Water Systems manager Tom Taggart will be switching to a better system. Among the changes would be a more streamlined expansion design of the Cape Rock Water Treatment Plant, which is scheduled to be completed by late 1997 or early 1998. The Cape Rock plant has been renovated twice since it was built in 1931...

The Southeast Missourian asked, "Do you approve of the recent U.S. military action in Haiti?" Jay Bunge, Cape Girardeau "I think we concentrate too much on getting ourselves involved in external affairs too much, and I don't think that we need to be worried about each little country and what they are doing, and I think we stick our nose where it doesn't belong."...

Cape Girardeau County The Welker Family Trust to Wallace J. and Thelma E. Hotop; Michael A. and Laura E. Delgado to John R. Pagano; Bradley B. and Stacey L. Boyette to Carroll L. Williams. Ashland Land Development Corp. to James E. and Donna L. McDonald; Ashland Land Development Corp. to Leonard R. and Leslie A. Essner, two tracts; Venita Strickland to Stacey L. and Shannon L. Slinkard...

Funeral service for Paul F. Kitchen, 69, of 517 S. Sprigg will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. John Gourley and the Rev. Jack Cathcart will officiate. He died Saturday, Sept. 24, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born March 20, 1925, at Cairo, Ill., the son of William Paul and Pearl Kneibert Kitchen...

When Missouri Highway Patrol Cpl. Larry Clark approaches an automobile during a traffic stop, he wants to see hands. Clark, with Troop-E, demands everyone in a vehicle have their hands in plain view. "It's best for the driver if the hands are on the steering wheel," he said, "and everyone should stay in the car unless otherwise directed by the officer."...

Funeral service for Dr. Harold E. Chism, 77, of Cape Girardeau will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. He died Saturday, Sept. 24, 1994, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. today at the funeral home, and entombment will be in the Memorial Park Mausoleum in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Neil Stein will officiate...

SCOTT CITY -- Raymond Arco Reeves, 81, of Scott City died Saturday, Sept. 24, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Mar. 25, 1913, at Cableton, Tenn., the son of Cleo and Hanna Simms Reeves. On March 22, 1953, he married Dovie Verdel Pettey, who survives at the family home here...

MARBLE HILL -- Charley William Cook, 88, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Sept. 24, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 18, 1906, near Mayfield, the son of Adam Lee and Kizzie Caroline Langston Cook. He married Radie James on Dec. 27, 1927. She preceded him in death on Sept. 20, 1944...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Marie J. Henning, 88, formerly of Mounds, died Sunday, Sept. 25, 1994, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds.

ARBYRD -- Linda Lou Chase, 47, of Arbyrd died Saturday, Sept. 24, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 12, 1946, at Herrin, Ill., the daughter of Margaret Covert Jones of Chaffee and the late William Grant Jones...

Last year Gov. Mel Carnahan pushed through the General Assembly Senate Bill 380, his reform plan for elementary and secondary education. Familiar criticisms of SB 380 have been oft-repeated here. These have included the manner in which the governor and a legislative majority enacted $350 million in new taxes without the public vote they promised in the 1992 campaign, as well as higher local property taxes required by the legislation for half of Missouri's 538 school districts...

A friend and physician, once asked to explain his philosophy for curing the ills of mankind, said he owed his success to two words: "skillful neglect." Pointing out that Nature was the greatest healer, the wise and witty doctor said his challenge was keeping patients alive long enough for them to be healed by natural forces. ...

`When the Show Me Center spotlight zeroes in on the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's "Industry of the Year" award each October, the trophy is an impressive sight -- a giant brass Eagle mounted on a handsome walnut base. That sight will be repeated Oct. 6 when the chamber hosts its annual Industrial Appreciation Dinner...

"T+3" won't go into effect until June, but the new Securities and Exchange Commission ruling already has some stock investment representatives talking about it. The new ruling, say financial-services people, could affect the way individual investors conduct their securities transactions...

PADUCAH, Ky. -- The Paducah area could be site of two major multimillion-dollar steel mill operations that would provide employment to hundreds of people over the next three years. Birmingham Steel Corp. announced last week that four cities have been selected finalists for a $100 million state-of-the art melt plant to recycle scrap steel...

Judy Aslin, director of Southeast Hospice, a service of Southeast Missouri Hospital, has completed requirements for certification as a Certified Nursing Administrator. The certification process, offered through the American Nurses Association, included an extensive written examination...

The Missouri Association of Realtors will hold its annual convention in Springfield Oct. 11 through 14. Thomas M. Meyer of Thomas L. Meyer Real Estate & Insurance, in Cape Girardeau, will become president of the MAR during the convention, succeeding Alice M. Watson...