Stories from Friday, February 10, 1995

My dad used to say that when he was growing up in Des Arc, everybody knew the news. They only read the paper to see if it was printed right. That's the way I feel when the Missourian writes about the criminal justice system. On Jan. 31 this paper ran an editorial (following several stories) about crowding in the Cape Girardeau County Jail. ...

The Missouri Gaming Commission faces a huge responsibility in examining applications for riverboat casinos and deciding when and if to issue a gaming license. No one expects the commission to proceed hastily or haphazardly. But a wrinkle is threatening to delay Boyd Gaming Corp.'s application for a casino in Kansas City. Boyd also intends to request a license for a riverboat casino in Cape Girardeau...

President Clinton probably won't be writing home about this week. What White House officials originally planned to be seven days of positive, agenda-setting action went bust about as fast as the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX. No baseball analogy is possible, since it remains frozen in labor negotiations...

What's the weather forecast today? A quick glance at today's weather pet (at the top of this page) will both tell you about the weather and make you smile. Readers are invited to submit photos of their family pets to be the Southeast Missourian's weather pet for a day. Clear photos (color or black and white) can be used. Be sure to include the pet's name, the name of the owner(s) and the town where you and your pet reside...

CHAFFEE -- Mable Bollinger, 80, was worried about her job after she fell and injured her shoulder this week. As she was being tended at the office of the Scott County Retired Senior Volunteer Program in Chaffee, she asked, "You don't think they'll give away my job, do you?"...

The benefits of working together with the Missouri Division of Tourism was the message delivered by Marjorie Beenders Thursday night at the Regional Commerce and Growth Association's seventh annual awards banquet. Each year RCGA awards someone or a company with the John T. Crowe Award. This year's recipient was Donna Burk of Southwestern Bell. Columbia Construction was honored with the Industrial Appreciation Award...

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, acting on a problem identified in a recent chamber survey, will form a building task force committee to study how city hall deals with commercial and residential builders. Chamber of Commerce President John Mehner said the task force is to work with the city to resolve the problem rather than draw adversarial lines...

First, you need to know that your favorite hometown is about 80 miles west of Cape Girardeau in the Ozarks. It was in the national spotlight several years ago when some of the locals saw UFOs hovering over the old town dump. You need to know that your favorite hometown newspaper includes neighborly news from country correspondents whose job it is to chit-chat on the telephone and type up the results for publication -- a party line in print, if you will...

I TOTALLY agree with Mayor Spradling's idea of doing the reworking the roads that he talked about in the paper. But I totally disapprove of the way that he wants to pay for them. No. 1, we don't need any more tax increases, and No. 2, it will never pass. I suggest taking the money that we are going to receive from the gaming companies to do this work...

The supervisor of city building inspectors, Rick Murray, says as long as he can handle complaints of minimum property standard violations an additional inspector isn't necessary. "We don't have the number of complaints I envisioned, nor do we have the repeat offenders I anticipated," Murray said...

John Harding says his barrister basketball team is poised for victory with a new offensive strategy for tonight's rematch against the doctors in the second annual Doctor/Lawyer benefit basketball game. Tipoff is 7:30 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Central High School field house. Proceeds benefit the Community Counseling Center. Tickets are available at the door and cost $5 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12...

CHAFFEE -- The city of Chaffee decided this week that a sidewalk that has been torn up for months should be repaired. The city sent a letter to Bob Kielhofner of rural Scott City, Scott County's presiding commissioner, to take care of the repairs within 20 days...

Daughter to Dale and Sherri Robinson of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:27 a.m. Monday, Jan. 30, 1995. Name, Lacie Brooke. Weight, 8 pounds 9 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Robinson is the former Sherri Leimer, daughter of Joe and Marjorie Leimer. She is employed at Wal-Mart in Jackson. Robinson is employed at Delta-Y Electric, and is the son of Virgil and Evelina Robinson...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Raymond E. Dover of Scott City will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. William Dickey will officiate, with burial in Lightner Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-9 p.m. today...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Funeral service for Oliver Chester Dale of Babson Park, Fla., was held Thursday at First Church of God, with the Rev. Mel Rhodes officiating. Burial was in Portageville Cemetery. DeLisle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Dale, 83, died Monday, Feb. 6, 1995, at his home...

PATTON -- Grace Lela Smith Armstrong, 93, died Thursday, Feb. 9, 1995, at Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. She was born Oct. 17, 1901, in Marquand, daughter of Jesse and Nancy Aslinger Henson. She first married Roy Smith Sept. 1, 1920. He died Feb. 6, 1969. She later married Florian Armstrong in 1972, who also preceded her in death...

Well-known Cape Girardeau businessman Claude A. "Nip" Kelley III, who "rode out of Smelterville on a garbage truck," a friend proudly said, died Feb. 9, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was 58. The founder of Kelley Transportation Inc. and Nip Kelley Trucking & Equipment Inc., Kelley was known as a tough-minded businessman who gave freely to people who needed help and was fiercely loyal to his wide variety of friends...

Cape Girardeau is attempting to hop on the St. Louis Rams bandwagon by proposing Southeast Missouri State University as a potential site for the team's 1995 training camp. The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, working with Southeast athletic department officials, have contacted the Rams organization and received details concerning what the team desires in a training facility...