Stories from Thursday, January 19, 1995

The hoops through which Boyd Gaming Corp. must jump in order to develop its planned riverboat casino at Cape Girardeau are getting closer and closer. There are three major hoops: a contract with the city, an agreement with the U.S. Corps of Engineers and an operating permit from the Missouri Gaming Commission...

Ken Buchheit at Hotop's in Uniontown, the only place between Fruitland and Perryville along Highway 61 to get something to eat and drink. Highway 61 stretches from Fruitland to Perryville and beyond like a lazy yawn that no longer needs to be stifled...

WARE, Ill. -- The goose-hunting season ends Sunday in Southern Illinois. And, even though hunters in the four-county -- Alexander, Union, Williamson and Jackson -- area are short of this year's quota, the season won't be extended. The goose season, which opened Dec. 3, was scheduled for 51 days, through Jan. 22, or a 39,800-goose quota, whichever came first...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Area legislators voiced general satisfaction with Gov. Mel Carnahan's state-of-the-state address. Several Republican members viewed the speech as evidence Carnahan was trying to move more toward the mainstream and away from controversial positions that might offend Missourians...

JACKSON -- Dr. Howard Jones, superintendent of schools in Stillwater, Okla., will become Jackson's new school superintendent on July 1, the school board announced Wednesday. Jones, a Nevada, Mo., native, replaces Wayne Maupin, who plans to retire in June after working 26 years in the Jackson school system...

Strip-tease joints aren't welcome in Blue Springs, and the town has laws to prove it. The Kansas City suburb, population 45,000, enacted stringent regulations two years ago that sent two strip-tease bars packing and have prevented similar businesses from coming in...

Southeast Missourians are no strangers to earthquakes. They occur almost daily, but most aren't felt except by sensitive instruments able to measure even the slightest ground movement. The last earthquake of sufficient magnitude to be felt in the region was on Feb. 5 last year, when a mild quake was centered in Lick Creek, Ill., eight miles south of Carbondale...

Jan. 19, 1995 Dear David, Marianne Faithfull has been on my mind lately. You remember her, I'm sure. "As Tears Go By," London scene-maker, angel in the first degree, the rock 'n' roll fantasy girl who inspired so many Stones songs from the '60s. She's a pretty good if cruel writer, even if her autobiography is one of those "with" books. I suspect that's because she's taken far too many drugs...

I'M A student at Southeast and I'm calling to comment on how this town makes it hard for any of the students to enjoy themselves while at school. Anytime a student tries to have a party or any kind of social function at their home or wherever, the police are there within minutes. This town is lame, and I for one will never go to school here again...

JEFFERSON CITY -- In his third state-of-the-state address, Gov. Mel Carnahan embraced a more conservative agenda that will more than likely be less controversial than some of the issues he pushed during his first two years in office. But Republican leaders responded to the speech with skepticism of the governor's conservative turn and found several issues they felt the governor had ignored or weren't addressed sufficiently...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Funding to renovate the power plant and an upgrade of the electrical distribution system at Southeast Missouri State University are part of the state budget proposed by Gov. Mel Carnahan. Southeast has $5.034 million allocated for the power plant project from a $40 million allocation of riverboat gambling funds for capital improvement projects on college campuses...

JACKSON -- Director of Public Works Mark Brown calls it housekeeping -- the adoption of BOCA codes into city ordinances every three years. To towns growing as quickly as Jackson, the adoption is vital. Building Officials and Code Administrators International revise the guide every three years to incorporate changes in the code...

The Mid-Western River Cities Chapter of American Association for Medical Transcription will meet Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at St. Francis Medical Center in conference rooms C and D. A chapter meeting will be held following the presentation. For information call Beth Leible at 824-5362 or Mary Popp at 335-6176...

"One was blue, one was red, and one was as yellow as the sun." -- Scandinavian folk song Benjamin Saar always wanted to be the yellow boat when he sang that song with his mother. In the chorus, the red and blue boats returned to harbor but the yellow boat always sailed up to the sun...

Six hundred performances per year and the band doesn't even have a Top 40 hit. It's evident that members of the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command Band stay pretty busy with such a full touring schedule. The band will stop in Cape Girardeau Tuesday for a 7:30 p.m. concert at the Central High School auditorium...

EGYPT MILLS -- Funeral service for Ted Thiele of Egypt Mills will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Mark Martin will officiate, with burial in Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

PATTON -- Ricky Duaine Stanfill, 42, of Patton, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995. He was born March 31, 1952, son of Dentford Keith and Dorothy Brotherton Stanfill. Stanfill was a driver with Friese Trucking. Survivors include a daughter, Jessi Stanfill of Jackson; his mother of Patton; three sisters, Sandra Davis and Gail Garland of Patton, Penny Stanfill of Jackson, and maternal grandmother, Lurlien Brotherton of Patton...

CHAFFEE -- Emma S. Baker, 90, Chaffee Route 1, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 20, 1904, near Oak Ridge, daughter of William S. and Minnie Devenport Criddle. She and Emazzar Baker were married Dec. 23, 1920, at Jackson. He died in 1958...

SCOTT CITY -- Louis William Statler, 79, of Scott City, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 2, 1915, at Fornfelt, son of Joseph Hilliard and Amelia Westerwelle Statler. He and Ruby Marie Crader were married Dec. 24, 1936...

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Nesbit Tilley of Peoria, Ill., was held Monday at Wilton Mortuary in Peoria. The Rev. James Sandy officiated, with burial in Springdale Cemetery at Peoria. Announcement courtesy of Morgan Funeral Home in Advance. Tilley, 84, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 1995, at her home...

Son to Michael and Candida Hester of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:56 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 11, 1995. Name, Christian Michael. Weight, 7 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Hester is the former Candida Robertson, daughter of Paul and Mary Robertson of Cape Girardeau. Hester is dairy manager at Town and Country Supermarket, and is the son of Watson and Velma Hester of Delta...

Marie Oberheide, 90, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Jan. 13, 1905, near Oak Ridge, daughter of Tom and Mae Snider Lance. She and William Oberheide were married June 20, 1936, in Cape Girardeau. He died Jan. 9, 1987...

Della Mae Fronabarger, 85, formerly of Oak Ridge, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995, at the Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Nov. 1, 1909, at Daisy, Mo., the daughter of Bob and Tisha Seabaugh Hahs. She was married Aug. 21, 1930, to Paul Fronabarger. He died Nov. 22, 1983...

Olga H. Kasten, 87, a resident of the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, died there Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.

Linda Maxey began studying the piano at age 4 and at 6 took up the marimba -- basically a xylophone with roots in Africa, South America and maybe even China. From playing for the Kiwanis International Convention in Madison Square Garden at age 11, she went on to the prestigious Eastman School of Music and now has played marimba concerts all over the United States...