Stories from Friday, March 10, 1995

A Cape Girardeau woman, Juanita Spicer, has filed a federal civil rights complaint against the Cape Girardeau School District. Spicer, a member of the NAACP, refused Thursday to discuss the nature of the complaint, although she said it involved more than one issue...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Indiana bats may determine when dead trees, killed by the 1993 flood, can be removed from the Horseshoe Lake Conservation Area. The Illinois Department of Conservation has approved an amended plan for reforestation of the Horseshoe Lake area in Alexander County, and will soon start taking bids for the timber, which includes oak and hickory...

Your favorite hometown has a new stoplight. It is also the town's first stoplight. It is quite a historic development for a town that since the 1850s never figured a stoplight would make all that much difference. When you heard about the new stoplight you were tempted to drive downtown and take a look. ...

Fly-through is silly I WISH Channel 12's fly-through radar would fly away. It's the silliest thing I ever saw, and everybody in our family laughs about it when it comes on. FLY-THROUGH weather is for the birds. And a photo too I WOULD like to comment that Jeff Breer's article on Notre Dame district title championships was well written. ...

A memorial service for Paul Randol Williams of Cape Girardeau and Sun City West, Ariz., will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Christ Episcopal Church. The Rev. Brant Hazlett will officiate. Burial will be later in DeSoto. Williams, 70, died Sunday, March 5, 1995, at Del Webb Memorial Hospital in Sun City West, following a brief illness...

PERRYVILLE -- Sara Ann Wingerter, 37, of Perryville, died Wednesday, March 8, 1995, at her home. She was born Feb. 3, 1958, in Newton, Iowa, daughter of William P. and Patricia A. Hoeckele Wingerter Sr. She was a 1976 graduate of St. Vincent's High School...

OAK RIDGE -- Funeral service for David Lee Maintz of Oak Ridge will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Revs. Raymond Epps and Thomas Morris will officiate, with burial in Old Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery at Millersville...

JACKSON -- Kathryn L. Curtsinger of Jackson died Thursday, March 9, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.

CLARKTON -- Funeral service for Mayrene Nash of Clarkton will be held at 3:30 p.m. today at Bradshaw Funeral Chapel in Malden. The Rev. Richard Blagg will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Malden. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. today...

SIKESTON -- Doyel Eugene Starr, 46, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, March 8, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 20, 1948, at Clarkton, son of Bert D. and Thelma L. Ham Starr. He and Brenda F. Brown were married Nov. 9, 1978, in Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Delmer Jones, 72, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, March 8, 1995, at his home. He was born April 6, 1922, in Corning, Ark., son of Robert Elmer and Mary Lourana Flanigan Jones. He and Pauline Hodges were married May 5, 1943, in New Madrid. Jones was a maintenance foreman and plumber with Missouri State Hospital in St. Louis 17 years, had worked for Loyd Williams Plumbing, Heating and Air Conditioning Co., and had also farmed. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

George Irwin Clutts, 77, 222 S. West End Boulevard, died Wednesday, March 8, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 15, 1918, in Granite City, Ill., son of Francis Pete and Nettie Eaves Clutts. He and Fran Lincoln were married May 20, 1961, in Houston, Texas...

Lettie M. Joiner, 86, 1105 Linden, died Thursday, March 9, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 11, 1908, at Tyler, daughter of Frank and Lillie Wilson Strong. She married Jay Joiner, who preceded her in death. Joiner had owned a restaurant. She was a member of Southside Baptist Church and VFW Auxiliary...

Welfare reform is one of the most complex issues of our time. For many years I doubted that serious reform efforts would be made, largely because of the turf protection practiced by federal bureaus, agencies, departments and, frankly, the committees of the Congress. The conflicts between programs and the cost of the overall system have so escalated that the public is demanding reform, and I believe this Congress has the will to step up to the plate...

Earlier this week, rains pounded Cape Girardeau and the region. But the swirling waters in the city's west end were efficiently collected in the partially completed flood-control project along Cape LaCroix and Walker creeks. Merchants and city officials breathed a sigh of relief. Serious flash flooding in the city's west end business district was avoided...

To the editor: Recently passed out of the Missouri Senate Ways and Means Committee was Senate Bill 333. If passed by both chambers of the General Assembly and signed into law, this measure would permit tuition paid for private high school education to be exempt from state income taxes. ...

To the editor: Last week Southeast Missouri said goodbye to a dear friend, Mrs. Mary Maud Hosea. When we are young we think we are immortal. The older we get we realize no one is. But sometimes we cross paths with an individual who makes the world a better place by their presence in it. These people become immortal in our hearts. Their paychecks may not have six figures or their homes 60 rooms. Their success comes from the lives they have touched...

ORAN -- Funeral service for Leroy Moore, Oran Route 2, has been changed to 2 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran. The Rev. Robert Gibson will officiate, with burial in New Morning Star Cemetery at Haywood City. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. Saturday...