Stories from Tuesday, May 2, 1995

Action Monday, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public Hearings Petition for voluntary annexation of a nearly one acre tract along Route W. Request for a special use permit for mini-storage units at 1733, 1773 rear and 1749 N. Kingshighway. Consent Ordinances...

The Cape Girardeau City Council voted 4-3 Monday night to delay implementing a two-bag or two-can trash limit for a year. Councilman Richard Eggimann said the move would discourage residents from recycling. But city staff said the delay would allow more time to determine base pricing and the prices for additional bags or trash stickers...

The city of Cape Girardeau and TCI Cablevision of Missouri Inc. have reached agreement on a 10-year franchise ending years of negotiations. City Attorney Warren Wells announced the cable television agreement at Monday night's City Council study session...

The city has been underfunding equipment used to fight fires, fix streets and uphold the law for at least seven years, a practice that has city officials wondering when borrowed time will run out. City Finance Director John Richbourg said the city will come close to paying what is needed to fix and replace existing equipment this year by earmarking $520,000 for that purpose...

Area farmers see recent rains as somewhat of a blessing -- as long as it stops at the right time. To highway construction workers, the weather allows them to catch up on paperwork from a season running ahead of schedule. But they, too, prefer just the right amount of rain...

KANSAS CITY -- In economic circles, it is known as "skilled worker net migration." But the more common term for is just plain "brain drain," the process in which more educated workers leave a state than move in. From 1985 to 1990, no state in the Midwest had a larger skilled-worker out-migration than Missouri...

Look out, Becca's driving a sports car. It is a shocking pink, Barbie car that scoots around on an environmentally friendly 6-volt battery. You don't have to send this car to the gas pumps. I never expected my 3-year-old daughter would be driving so soon. But then Joni and I couldn't refuse the garage-sale deal of the century last week...

The Southeast Missouri State University Concert Band will perform its final concert of the spring semester at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Academic Auditorium on the Southeast campus. The concert features a special performance by the Arcadia Valley High School band, under the direction of Thomas Broussard, a 1994 Southeast graduate...

THERE'S A city ordinance against leaving grass clippings in the street. Besides that, it makes your whole area look tacky. The street cleaner trying to sweep it up makes a worse job. It just spreads the grass. So come on. Sweep up your own clippings...

Eight individuals received top recognition Saturday night at the 37th annual awards banquet of Southeast Missouri State University's two theater groups -- the Black Mask Honorary Dramatic Society and the University Players. The awards, endowed by two former Cape Girardeau business women, Jane Barnett and the late Elaine "Tommie" Davis, consist of small sterling silver bowls for the individuals and an engraved plaque for the trophy case in the main corridor of Grauel Language Arts building...

"Victorian Lace and Timeless Treasures" is the theme for the May 8 luncheon sponsored by Cape Girardeau County Christian Women's Club. The luncheon and meeting will be held from noon to 2 p.m. at Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau. The cost is $7.50 per person. Complimentary day care is provided for children younger than 10 years old...

Walkers will raise money for the Cape Girardeau Senior Center Saturday at the first Miles for Meals walk-a-thon. The Miles for Meals program will support congregate and home-delivered meals for the elderly in Cape Girardeau. Similar walk-a-thons are being held at more than 300 centers across the state...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Dimple Emily Shands of East Prairie will be held at 3 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Shands, 73, died Sunday, April 30, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Paul Sherman Williams, 56, of Corona, Calif., died Friday, April 28, 1995, at the Regional Medical Center in Corona. He was born June 13, 1938, in East Prairie, son of Golf and Birtie Mae Zook Williams. Williams was a retired self-employed painter. He had lived in Corona 35 years...

MARBLE HILL -- Zona Hahs, 78, of Marble Hill, died Sunday, April 30, 1995, at Bond Nursing Home. She was born March 29, 1917, at Neelys Landing, daughter of Hiram and Julia Brown Craft. She and Grover Hahs were married Sept. 11, 1943. Hahs was a member of New Bethel Baptist Church near Pocahontas 40 years. The family lived in Cape Girardeau 20 years where she was a member of Red Star Baptist Church. They moved to Marble Hill earlier this year and she became a member of New Salem Baptist Church...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Thomas E. VanCleve, 71, of Cairo, died Sunday, April 30, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 12, 1923, in Eldorado, son of Thomas and Edna VanCleve. VanCleve was owner/operator of Cade's Florist many years, and then retired as parts manager at Gutterman Motors. He was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Knights of Columbus, Cairo Elks and VFW. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

Bruce Gilliland Martin, 39, of Columbia, died Saturday, April 29, 1995, at his home. He was born Sept. 26, 1955, in Cape Girardeau, son of M. Gene and Marian Lee Bahn Martin. Martin had been a clerk at the General Services Building and at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Clydesdale Hall, on the University of Missouri campus...

MARBLE HILL -- Ira Hency Swofford, 76, of Marble Hill, died Sunday, April 30, 1995, at Ste. Genevieve County Memorial Hospital. He was born Aug. 17, 1918, at Fredericktown, son of Thomas W. and Lilly Hency Swofford. He and Doris Boehm were married Aug. 18, 1956. She preceded him in death...

DEXTER -- Matthew Lee Wright, 6 months, son of Tracy Wright of Dexter, died Monday, May 1, 1995, at his home. He was born Oct. 21, 1994, in Poplar Bluff. Survivors include his mother; a sister, Cybil Wright of Lavaca, Ark.; maternal grandparents, Doris Carl of Dexter, Steve Carl of Puxico; maternal great-grandparents, John and Beatrice Hagy of Dudley, and Junie Carl of Poplar Bluff...

Betty Jane Swob, 67, died Sunday, April 30, 1995, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born April 2, 1928, in Jefferson County, daughter of Charles and Emma Lucas Swob. She was a longtime Cape Girardeau resident. She never married, and was preceded in death by a brother and sister...

MAKANDA, Ill. -- Evelyn Morella Lott, 68, of Makanda, died Sunday, April 30, 1995, at her home. She was born March 21, 1927, in Alto Pass, daughter of William Butler and Ruby Mae Forby Cobb. She and Earl Lott were married Aug. 9, 1944, in Union County. He died April 17, 1989...

Harry Truman was insistent in his belief that history hid the events of the future, and that the only unknown to be learned from the chronicles of the past is the part we don't know. Perhaps he was right. And so our story begins after the November election, when one of the nation's political parties emerged triumphant and the other suffered a major defeat. ...

Since 1986, Missouri has, by legislative action, held that life begins at conception. This claim, which was upheld in a landmark 1989 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, passed another test last week when the Missouri Supreme Court extended coverage to unborn children...

A world without volunteers is like a world without sunshine. Every day thousands and thousands of Americans do something extra for someone else. These helping hands don't receive pay for their efforts, and most of them never get any glory either. For a few shining moments last week several Cape Girardeau volunteers had the spotlight cast on them for their selfless work on behalf of the community at large. ...

Students from Cape Girardeau Central and Notre Dame high schools were honored Monday at the Rotary Club of Cape Girardeau's 36th annual John L. Blue Academic Excellence Banquet. The club honors students in the top 10 percent of their graduating classes...

The city of Cape Girardeau, in conjunction with area veterinarians, will host its annual rabies clinic from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday and Friday. The clinic will be held at the Area Park Trinity Lutheran Men's Club shelter. Rabies shots will cost $6 per animal, and city dog licenses are $1 each...

About 20 black students at Southeast Missouri State University Monday staged a sit-in in the University Center to protest the suspension of a black member of the Campus Assistance Center staff. The CAC staff member, Debra Mitchell-Braxton, assistant director of the center, was suspended for five days without pay, effective Friday...

Southeast Missouri State University adjunct faculty member, Dr. Corliss McCallister, has been awarded a 1995 Alden B. Dow Creativity Center Fellowship. Under terms of the fellowship, McCallister will spend the summer at Northwood University in Midland, Mich., working on a project...

Ninety three honor students were recognized recently during Southeast Missouri State University's College of Science and Technology honors program. Honor students in the College of Science and Technology must be majoring in agriculture, biology, chemistry, computer science, geosciences, industrial technology, mathematics and physics. They also must have completed at least 75 credit hours and have a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.5...

The Cape Central All School Booster Club will hold its All School Recognition Banquet at the Holiday Inn Convention Center May 9 at 6:30 p.m. The top academic and athletic honors for the 1994-95 school year will be awarded. Central Athletic Hall of Fame inductees will also be honored...

Bryan M. Tilley of Cape Girardeau, a senior in mining engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla, is the recipient of a $1,250 1995 Coal Division Scholarship from the Society of Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc., a member society of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum Engineers Inc...

Staci Huey, a senior at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, has been awarded a Gold Circle Award in the Columbia Scholastic Press Association's national competition that recognizes individual achievement in college journalism. Huey shared a first-place award for her work in the 1994 C-SC "Dome" yearbook in the category of headline writing with fellow staff members Jamie Vavak and Stacy Courtway...

Eleven students from Cape Girardeau have been named to the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society at Southeast Missouri State University. Phi Kappa Phi is an international honor society for academic distinction that brings together individuals from a variety of disciplines. The society is open to men and women in all academic fields who have demonstrated excellence of scholarship and integrity of character...

Michelle Eby of Delta High School and James Bailey, Amy Wilton, and Kristi Jenkins, all of Advance High School, have won this year's Rural Youth Tour trip to Washington, D.C., June 1-16. They were chosen after winning an essay contest sponsored by Scott-New Madrid-Mississippi Electric Cooperative and the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives...

Central High School senior Shannon M. Newcomb has received a Regents scholarship from Southeast Missouri State. The scholarship, which is for the 1995-96 academic year, is awarded to high-school seniors who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class and have achieved an Enhanced ACT score of 27 or SAT score of 1,130. Regent scholarships also are awarded class valedictorians who have achieved an Enhanced ACT score of 25 or SAT score of 1,050. The award covers full-time fees each semester...

Tori Patterson has been selected to attend the Missouri Scholars Academy on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia June 11-July 1. She will be one of approximately 330 sophomores from Missouri to be invited. The academy is administered by the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education through funds appropriated by the Missouri General Assembly. It was established to provide educational experiences that differ from those provided in the more traditional high school programs...

Jeffrey L. Diebold of Scott City has been awarded a President's Scholarship and Boy's State Leadership Award to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1995-96 academic year. Diebold is the son of Lawrence and Christina Diebold of Scott City and will be a 1995 graduate of Notre Dame High School...

Seven students have been awarded scholarships from the Southeast Missouri State University College of Science and Technology. Cindy L. James of Cape Girardeau was awarded the S. David Nunley Scholarship to attend the university next academic year. The scholarship is awarded a pre-pharmacy student or those who have shown an interest in attending pharmacy school...

Jennifer P. Jones has been named a National Award winner in history and government by the U.S. Achievement Academy. The academy recognizes fewer than 10 percent of all American high-school students. Jones was nominated by Gerald Litner, teacher at R.O. Hawkins Junior High School in Jackson. Jones, a student at R.O. Hawkins, is the daughter of Steve and Patti Jones of Jackson...

Teaching isn't a 9-to-5 job for Christie Brumleve. Sometimes a school day lasts 18 hours. Brumleve, who teaches social studies at St. Ambrose Catholic School in Chaffee, took students in grades five through eight on a field trip to Jefferson City. "We left school at 5 in the morning and got back to school around 11 at night," Brumleve said. The long day was worth it, she said. Students had a chance to tour the State Capitol, see the legislature in session and tour the state penitentiary...

Cape Central High School students, from left, Kathy Wilbanks, Zena Al-Shukri and Dennis Clay, share a locker by choice because of its location and convience and to be with friends. Cape Central High School junior Emily Hall decorated her locker with photos and other mementos...