Stories from Wednesday, February 22, 1995

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Lisa Gayle Adams, 28, of Jonesboro died Monday, Feb. 20, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 28, 1966, to Basil and Virginia Vines Adams in Cape Girardeau. Adams was a graduate of Anna-Jonesboro High School and attended Lockard Chapel Baptist Church...

ACTION Tuesday, Feb. 21 7:30 p.m. Power and Light Committee Awarded annual contract on Electric Distribution supplies to Electric & Sales Corp., Fletcher-Reinhardt Co. and Graybar Electric for a total of $146,633. Authorized city's participation in Mid-America Inter Connect Network project and appointing Larry Humes as delegate and Mark Brown as alternate delegate...

ACTION Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings Five-year capital improvements program for Cape Girardeau. Consent ordinances Rezoned 2942 Bloomfield Road. Second and third readings. Amended a special use permit for Boyd Missouri Inc. concerning its planned gambling venture. Second and third readings...

To the editor: After Missouri Treasurer Bob Holden's recent talk in Cape Girardeau on the future of Missouri, I brought up a big future Missouri expenditure: the earthquake everyone knows will hith the New Madrid Fault. With an ever-increasing number of earthquakes all over the world almost every month, the New Madrid quake becomes more certain and could happen any time. A large area would be devastated, particularly us in the Bootheel up to St. Louis...

"I discovered the powerful of the Earth can create poverty, but they can't bear to look at it." -- Mr. Peachum By Sam Blackwell With its arch and discordant tunes that stop on a dime, slapstick scenes that morph into stinging social satire, and a length of three hours, "The Threepenny Opera" is a musical that demands much more of the audience than the usual Broadway production does...

The Community Caring Council will sponsor its annual conference Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the Show Me Center, featuring speakers and exhibits based on the event's theme, "Pride in Partnerships." The council, in operation for six years, is an organization of human service professionals and others who want to serve the needs of the entire community. ...

A Cape Girardeau County woman is dead following a one-car accident on Boutin Drive in Cape Girardeau. The woman, Jessica LeGrand, 18, of 127 Paiute Lane, was thrown from the vehicle she was driving after it went out of control. The vehicle struck a ditch and overturned Tuesday about 1:20 a.m...

JACKSON -- A well water screening clinic will be held today from 1 to 5 p.m. at the University of Missouri Extension Center, 815 Highway 25 South in Jackson. The clinic, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau County University of Missouri Extension Council, is being conducted in response to a growing number of local inquiries from well owners concerned about the safety of their water system...

JEFFERSON CITY -- In his new role as chairman of the House Motor Vehicle and Traffic Regulations Committee, state Rep. Larry Thomason hopes to put teeth into Missouri's mandatory liability insurance law. Thomason unsuccessfully has sponsored legislation to do so the past two sessions. But with his new committee chairmanship, Thomason has been able to move the bill as the committee's top priority...

Although it isn't official yet, the National Football League Rams this year will move to St. Louis from Anaheim, Calif. Football fans in Missouri, and eastern Missouri in particular, are predictably elated that St. Louis again will field a professional football team. But dyed-in-the-wool fans aren't the only ones jumping on the St. Louis Rams bandwagon...

Denise Brown, sister of Nicole Brown Simpson, will speak Saturday, March 4, at 12:30 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Executive Center in Columbia, as part of the Women for Women Weekend being held to benefit The shelter for battered and abused women in Columbia...

BELL CITY -- Tyree F. Brown, 71, of Bell City, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, at Advance Nursing and Residential Care Center in Advance. He was born Jan. 17, 1924, at Bell City, son of B. Rust and Louise Vollmar Brown. He and Frances Eakin were married March 20, 1949, in Bell City...

MILLERSVILLE -- Funeral service for Wilson Drum of Millersville will be held at 2 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, with the Rev. Fred Rister officiating. Burial will be in New Salem Cemetery at Daisy. Drum, 81, died Monday, Feb. 20, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Loretta E. Noble of Anna will be held at 2 p.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Rev. Dewayne Taylor will officiate, with burial in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until service time...

PERRYVILLE -- Clifford H. Cissell, 82, formerly of Perryville, died Monday, Feb. 20, 1995, at Village North Woods Care Center in St. Louis. He was born Jan. 24, 1913, in Perryville, son of Leonard and Ottilia Huber Cissell. He and Rita Mattingly were married Nov. 16, 1946...

SIKESTON -- Marjorie Ruth Hardman, 70, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 25, 1924, at Randles, daughter of Arthur F. and Lucy Jane Beck McFerron. She and Howard H. Hardman Jr. were married Feb. 21, 1946, in Paducah, Ky. He died Jan. 28, 1983...

SCOTT CITY -- Elmer Henry Prindle, 92, of Scott City, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 16, 1902, in Oran, son of Ernest and Ida Pobst Prindle. He and Marie Louise Mekan were married Oct. 19, 1941...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Jerry Lee Tinnin of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel, with Johnny Hester officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Tinnin, 19, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 1995, in an automobile accident here...

Son to Peter and Linda Nelson of Houston, Texas, Friday, Feb. 10, 1995. Name, Michael Dines. Weight, 8 pounds 4 ounces. Mrs. Nelson is the former Linda Piccione, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Piccione of Houston. She is a marketing representative with Alexander and Alexander Inc. Nelson is a CPA with Pannell Kerr Forster of Texas, and is the son of Margarette Nelson and Lewis Nelson of Cape Girardeau...

BLOOMFIELD -- Fred E. Gross, 52, of Bloomfield died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995. Arrangements are incomplete at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Oran.

Jessica Diane LeGrand, 18, 127 Paiute Lane, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, in an automobile accident here. She was born June 9, 1976, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of David and Diane Meystedt LeGrand. LeGrand was a 1994 graduate of Notre Dame High School. She was a member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church...

Education Commissioner Robert E. Bartman's letter to school administrators has outraged state Sen. Peter Kinder. The Cape Girardeau Republican wants Bartman to explain the letter's intent, which he contends is "an invitation to spend" for school districts around Missouri...

The fate of a proposed half-cent transportation tax will be decided by Cape Girardeau voters Aug. 8. The city council Tuesday night agreed to move the sales tax election back 60 days at the request of 10 businessmen. The group includes several members of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce board...

Retired Lt. Col. Oliver North told a crowd of 826 people that Americans deserve better than what their government has given them in his lifetime. North, a 51-year-old former Marine, spoke Wednesday night at the Show Me Center. He talked for about 30 minutes and then opened the floor to questions for a half hour...

The Cape Girardeau City Council voted Tuesday night to license rooming and boarding houses in the wake of three fires at in the past four or five months. Fire Chief Robert Ridgeway said the license requirement clears the way for the city to inspect rooming and boarding houses to ensure they aren't fire traps. The annual license will cost $1...

Someone asked me the other day if I would pay to see minor league talent in a major league baseball park. To answer that question, I felt compelled to relate an experience I had while working in the sports department several seasons ago. Vince Coleman, who was then playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, was having another one of his bad days. It seems everyone in and around the dugout was aware of this. Everyone except one reporter for The Associated Press, that is...

I THINK the news media are confusing the public on who does what with families and children. The Division of Youth Services is only involved with children who have been arrested or have been in trouble in some way. The organization that works with families and children in Missouri who are not arrested or in trouble is the Division of Family Services...

Young Girl Scouts did their part to raise funds, delivering thousands of boxes of cookies to supporters in the Otahki Council area. Now their adult counterparts hope to raise $37,190 for Scout activities in the 11-county council. Mary-Ann Maloney, anchor for KFVS-12, is the overall chairwoman of the 1995 Annual Giving Campaign, and Carolyn Goodin is the Cape Girardeau chairwoman. ...

An assortment of keys in Dan's mobile unit. Faced with a van that the owner couldn't open, Dan tried one of several ways he uses to gain entry. When the owner of Dan's Key and Lock Shop gets a call for emergency service from a customer in distress, the first thing he asks is "What's going on there?"...

BENTON -- Five Sikeston architects will receive letters this week asking for their qualifications to build a new Scott County jail. Scott County commissioners said they wanted to insure that county professionals and business people are invited to participate in all areas of the jail project, including planning, design, finance and construction...

PUXICO -- Akbani Industries, a division of American Athletic Apparel, is operating again at Puxico. The manufacturer of men's and boys' athletic clothing, which closed abruptly Jan. 6, putting more than 100 people out of work, has rehired 76 of its worker...

The Route K bridge over Interstate 55 is congested, but it will be more congested beginning next week when construction to widen the bridge begins. "Anytime you have construction you can count on delays," Missouri Highway and Transportation Department resident engineer Bob Wilson said...

Elaine Ganick, a nationally known broadcast journalist, will be keynote speaker March 16 at the second annual community Women's History month program. She will speak at 10 a.m. at the American Legion Post 153 on Highway PP. Admission will be free. As a correspondent for Entertainment Tonight from 1981 to 1987, she developed a reputation within the broadcast industry as a knowledgeable and trusted journalist who has the ability to get the most out of an interview, said Amelia Taylor, Federal Women's Program Manager at the John J. ...

The days are getting noticeably longer and the ground hog promised that in about four more weeks we will have spring. What a happy thought! Are you getting itchy fingers to begin gardening? It is about time to start seeds indoors for those varieties of flowers and vegetables that need a head start. Seedlings of most varieties take about six weeks or more to develop into transplants ready for the outdoor garden...