Stories from Tuesday, October 11, 1994

ROLLA -- Briggs & Stratton Corp. said Monday it will locate a $38 million engine-manufacturing plant here that will employ about 600 workers. The move follows earlier announcements of a $23 million expansion of the company's Poplar Bluff plant that created 70 new manufacturing jobs and a second venture at the plant with a Japanese firm that added 60 jobs...

In his new role as executive director of I-66 Project Inc., Walt Wildman said Monday he plans to push for another feasibility study to answer questions raised by the one recently completed. The final copy of a study is now being distributed, which concluded that the concept of a coast-to-coast interstate highway isn't economically feasible...

The Cape Girardeau City Council voted to spend $5,000 to contract the services of Walt Wildman Monday as a lobbyist for the continuation of the I-66 Project. The contract would be for one year. Wildman asked the council for a $10,000 donation at the last meeting...

When Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein sent troops marching toward the Kuwaiti border recently, he got the attention of American veterans of the 1991 gulf war. Dr. Mike Brown and Norman Anderson were among 60 members of the Cape Girardeau Naval Reserve medical unit who served in a fleet hospital in Bahrein during the brief conflict...

After 35 years of beach parties, weddings, camping trips and just hangin' out, Barbie looks just as good as ever. How does she do it? Not even Jane Fonda can stay in this good a shape. I never realized just how many Barbie dolls there are until my daughter, Becca, got one...

SCOTT CITY -- The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority went on record Monday opposing a Corps of Engineers' proposal to release more water in the spring and less in the fall. Port Commission Chairwoman Mysie Keene said the proposal would change the objectives of the corps' approach to the Missouri River from flood control and navigation to recreation and flood control...

It didn't look like the same person. On the left side of the screen was a vibrant, beautiful woman with wide eyes and a big smile. On the right, her eyes were closed, her face swollen, her expression blank. Christy Cruzan White used the photos to illustrate the change in her sister, Nancy Cruzan, after a 1983 car accident...

In these uncertain economic times, the accumulation of debt is something that weighs heavily on the public mind. Not only are people concerned about their personal debt, they also are dismayed over a runaway national debt measuring in the trillions of dollars...

To the editor: All this imbroglio about what the Hancock II/Amendment will cost schools, police, roads and perhaps even unwed mothers overlooks the main point. Sure, many of these groups may lose some money, while all of us Missourians will gain NOW -- and certainly in the long run...

Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. have recycled almost 5 million telephone directories since initiating "Project ReDirectory" five years ago. The recycling of five million directories translates into more than 9,701 tons of paper collected, saving more than 150,000 trees and more than 30,000 cubic yards of landfill space...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Barney R. Mullinax of Jackson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Bill Ellis will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park at Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9:30 a.m. Thursday...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Delbert Wilson, 86, of East Prairie, died Sunday, Oct. 9, 1994, at East Prairie Nursing Center. He was born June 12, 1908, in Grayson County, Ky., son of William H. and Arpha Brooks Wilson. He and Margaret Hanor were married Feb. 14, 1935...

Daughter to Steve and Trinka Hileman of McClure, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 30, 1994. Name, Morgan Lynn. Weight, 7 pounds 11 ounces. Mrs. Hileman is the former Trinka Johnson, daughter of James and Glenda Johnson of Dexter. She is a registered nurse at St. Francis Medical Center. Hileman is a technician at Lone Star Alternate Fuels, and is the son of Donald and Shelvy Hileman of McClure...

Citing a loss of more than $800,000 if it passes, the Cape Girardeau School District Board of Education unanimously passed a resolution Monday night opposing the Hancock II amendment to the Missouri Constitution. The Hancock II amendment is Amendment 7 on the November ballot...

401 Independence St. Monday, Oct. 10 5 p.m. Study Session, 7:30 Voting Session Public hearings No opposition to request of Richard L. and Joan Eggimann for a special-use permit to build duplexes in Timberlane Subdivision and a tract of land at 2910 Kage Road, all in a C-1, local commercial district...

Yung H. Park of Cape Girardeau was one of 117 top Missouri students to receive a Robert C. Byrd Honor Scholarship. Park received the award from the 8th Congressional District. The scholarships, worth $1,500 each, are awarded to top graduates in each of Missouri's nine congressional districts...

The Young American 4-H Club of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a Building Our American Communities Grant from the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Market Development Division. The $500 grant was presented to the 4-H club by Kenneth Nopwasky, agriculture development fund loan representative on behalf of the Missouri Department of Agriculture for work done at the Nell Holcomb School, which consisted of an amphitheater for the outdoor classroom and seating for 40 people, with a podium...

Sara Whistler, a sophomore at Chaffee High School, has been selected to participate in the All-District Choir. Members of the All-District Choir are chosen by audition, and Sara was picked 19th from 115 sopranos who auditioned. The All-District Choir will perform for the Southeast Missouri District Teachers Association meeting at Cape Girardeau next spring...

Jeff Roth, director of Riverside Regional Library, has announced the library will extend its hours to better serve the patrons in our community. Beginning Nov. 1, the Central Center in Jackson will be open from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday...

Jason Green of Cape Girardeau finished third in informative speaking at the Creighton University Tournament and fifth in informative speaking, advancing to the semifinals in impromptu speaking at the University of Nebraska at Omaha Tournament. He is a member of the Nebraska Wesleyan University forensics team...

People joining the National Arbor Day Foundation this month can receive 10 free shade trees. The free trees are part of the nonprofit foundation's Trees for America campaign. The 10 shade trees are sugar maple, red oak, pin oak, green ash, thornless honeylocust, weeping willow, river birch, tuliptree, silver maple and red maple...

Chaffee and Delta high schools are participating in the Veterans of Foreign Wars "Voice of Democracy" college scholarship program. The Program is open to all 10th, 11th and 12th grade students who want to try for the prize. Top national prizes are $20,000, $15,000 and $10,000 scholarships...

Classes begin when the sun is on its afternoon slide. But more than the hour of the day is different at this place of learning. "We call it supplemental education," said Jack Stanley, director and franchise owner of the recently opened Sylvan Learning Center in Cape Girardeau...

Brother Joseph Sebek doesn't have a "teacher's corner" of his own at St. Vincent de Paul Grade School. "I have the benefit of a constantly changing environment for teaching fine arts to the students," Sebek said. Sebek takes his show into each room with a specially-built art cart that displays "lots of neat stuff that I use in exploring the visual arts," he said...