Stories from Tuesday, August 8, 1995

The Southeast Missouri Music Academy, a non-profit organization under the auspices of Southeast Missouri State University's department of music, invites students in grades one through 12 to enroll for instructions in band and orchestral instruments, piano, organ, harp and voice...

Frank Graham repaired vinyl seats in a school bus. Dan Greable replaced a defective clearance light switch in a school bus. School bus routes for Jackson R-II and Cape Girardeau public schools will be published in the Wednesday edition of the Southeast Missourian...

The Cape Girardeau City Council wants the state and federal governments to pay the entire cost of a flood buyout. The council said Monday night it will seek an estimated $1.64 million in federal and state funds to buy and demolish up to 65 homes in four flood-prone areas of the city...

JACKSON -- It isn't a long walk from Jackson Public Library to Riverside Regional Library. The two libraries have shared patrons in a town of about 10,000 since the 1950s. On Monday, the Jackson Board of Aldermen, with support from both library boards, voted to change that...

Cape Girardeau's Board of Education will retreat Saturday to the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau for a day of training and planning. The annual board retreat begins at 8 a.m. It is open to the public. In the past, the retreat typically was held at out of town. Last summer it was in St. Louis. The year before, it was in Jefferson City...

Forget the food, it's toys that are the attraction at fast-food restaurants. Three-year-olds could care less about the food. But give them a kiddie meal toy and an indoor playground, and they're happy for hours. Across America, parents have driven miles just to get "Simba" and all those other "Lion King" lions...

I THINK these people who want to vote "No" on the sales tax had better think twice. We will vote for everyone using our streets in the city to help pay for them instead of just the residents of Cape Girardeau. We are in desperate need of street improvements, and I would much rather see a sales tax rather than an increase in property taxes or other personal taxes for the people of Cape Girardeau. I am a senior citizen...

What about Missouri Street? NOTHING about paving Missouri Street between Scott and Mississippi. The hazards created by detouring around this street are unlimited. The ruts get deeper and the gravel gets more dislocated day by day. This is one of the oldest streets in Cape. Why is this centrally located street being overlooked?...

The Cape Girardeau City Council sent state and city engineers back to the drawing board Monday night on plans for turning part of Kingsway into a right-turn lane for Kingshighway. Council members requested more traffic studies to determine the impact of making Kingsway a dead-end road...

Agenda Monday, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings Request for special-use permit for a sign/craft business at 2031 Brink. Request of Boyd Missouri Inc. to extend special-use permit for riverboat gambling development. Request to amend historic preservation ordinance...

Monday, Aug. 7 7:30 p.m. Power and Light Committee Authorized partial payment of $44,100 to Caldwell Tanks Inc. as per 300,000-gallon elevated tank contract. Authorized purchase of three new 500/560 KVA single-phase voltage regulators from Fletcher-Reinhardt Co. of Maryland Heights in the amount of $32,496...

Cape Girardeau property owners won't see any change in their city tax rates. The City Council gave first reading Monday night to an ordinance setting the city and downtown business district tax rates for fiscal 1996. Council approval followed a public hearing at which no comments were voiced...

To the editor: On Aug. 3 a small group of individuals met in Marble Hill. The meeting was intended to kick off a petition drive in an effort to get the Cape Girardeau/Bollinger lake issue placed on the November 1996 ballot. Members of this group previously had met with the Bollinger County Commission and informed the commissioners of the interest in the lake and the intentions of the group to circulate a petition...

Reports last week that Cape Girardeau County's assessed valuation had a healthy increase can be taken as a sign of the times. And most business and economy watchers would take it as a good sign. Assessed valuation is an important figure, because it is the amount on which taxing units base their income. ...

Cole County Circuit Judge Byron Kinder will decide whether State Auditor Margaret Kelly can legally avoid disclosing her working papers to a committee of the General Assembly. The committee, chaired by Rep. Don Prost of Caruthersville, is essentially trying to audit the auditor. ...

To the editor: After reading the "Another View" commentary by Steven R. Carroll on Aug. 2, I realized riverboat gambling is truly a good thing. I now understand the riverboat companies are only interested in funding our educational system. Our children are the direct beneficiaries of the voters' decision to allow riverboat gambling in Missouri...

PERRYVILLE -- James Arliss Barnes, 70, of Perryville, died Saturday, Aug. 5, 1995, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Feb. 1, 1925, at Centerville, son of Hugh Houston and Rosa Mae Smith Barnes. He and Virginia L. Griffin were married Aug. 11, 1951...

MILL CREEK, Ill. -- Merlin Pecord, 84, of Mill Creek, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1995, at his home. He was born July 9, 1911, in Willard, son of Jerry H. and Jennie Schlamer Pecord. He and Lena Deckard were married Sept. 30, 1932, in Cairo. She died Sept. 15, 1981...

Memorial service for Jack C. Frissell of Jefferson City will be held at 11 a.m. today at First United Methodist Church in Jefferson City, with the Rev. Dorothy Lairmore officiating. Graveside service will be at 5:30 p.m. today at Deer Ridge Cemetery near LaBelle, with the Rev. Wayne Carrigan officiating...

MARBLE HILL -- Peggy Hensley, 60, Marble Hill Route 1, died Monday, Aug. 7, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Scott City is in charge of arrangements.

SCOTT CITY -- George Karl Wilson, 78, of Scott City, died Monday, Aug. 7, 1995, at his home. He was born July 8, 1917, in St. Louis, son of Justin and Hattie Stewart Wilson. He and Arneita Elizabeth McKee were married Dec. 17, 1954. Wilson was an executive chef with various oil companies. He had lived here 16 years, and was a member of VFW Post 6407. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

CHAFFEE -- Robert Hess Land, 89, of Chaffee, died Monday, Aug. 7, 1995, at his home. He was born Jan. 25, 1906, in Illinois, son of Alford A. and Hattie Hester Land. He and Juanita Arvella Schultz were married July 26, 1941. Land was a section worker with Frisco Railway Co. 35 years, retiring in 1967...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral mass for Anna Mary Ressel of Charleston will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton. The Rev. James Reynolds will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton after 5 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7...

PULASKI, Ill. -- Orlan Parker, 82, of Pulaski, died Monday, Aug. 7, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Jones Funeral Home at Villa Ridge is in charge of arrangements.

PUXICO -- Geneva S. Crawford, 84, of Kansas City, died Saturday, Aug. 5, 1995, at Truman Medical Center East in Kansas City. She was born Feb. 19, 1911, in Puxico, daughter of William and Bertie M. Brimer Stapp. She and Willard Smith were married Jan. 14, 1934. He died Aug. 31, 1938. She later married Hadley T. Crawford Sept. 28, 1945, in Jonesboro, Ark. He died Dec. 22, 1969...

PUXICO -- Funeral service for Ethel Page of Puxico will be held at 10 a.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. The Rev. Ray Placher will officiate, with burial in Puxico Cemetery. Page, 78, died Saturday, Aug. 5, 1995, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Irene M. Hopper of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Charles E. Buck will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Hopper, 78, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Graveside service for Woodrow H. Bradley of Metropolis will be held at 2 p.m. today at Spencer Heights Cemetery in Mounds. The Rev. Kelly Cox will officiate. Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo is in charge of arrangements. Bradley, 78, died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1995, at Good Samaritan Nursing Home in Metropolis...

Beulah Marie Borum, 85, 1811 Niemann, died Monday, Aug. 7, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 8, 1910, in West Frankfort, Ill., daughter of Theodore and Bertha Mooneyham Mitchell. She and the Rev. S.S. Borum were married Spet. 9, 1933, in Jeffersonville, Ind...

Lisa Marie Tomlinson and Alyssa Camille Browning were recently named to the honor roll at Rhodes College in Memphis. Both are graduates of Cape Girardeau Central High School. To be eligible for the honor roll, students must have a grade-point average of at least 3.85...

Degrees were conferred upon 672 undergraduates and 58 graduate students during spring commencement exercises May 6 at Southeast Missouri State University. Area students who graduated with honors or advanced degrees: Danna Marie Bruns, Ladonna Marie Burnley, Tonya Kay Deneke, Joanne Dickerson, Christine Klueppel Dohogne, Jason Edward Emmenderfer, Micheal W. ...

Cape Girardeau 4-H delegates attended the 50th anniversary meeting of the 4-H Congress in Columbia. Mark Gihring, Erin Prince, Mary Catherine Fetterhoff and James Aufdenberg represented Cape Girardeau County. Representatives for the Southeast region include Aufdenberg of Cape Girardeau County, Travis Burger of Scott County, and Kelly Green of Stoddard County...

Children's Bazaar and Boys Corner are teaming up with the Area IX Special Olympics to highlight the area's stars of the future. Members of Special Olympic teams, local baseball, softball and swim teams will hold an autographing session Saturday at the stores. Baseballs were donated by Toys 'R Us...

Brynn McDougall, 17, recently participated in the Eastern Music Festival at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C. She was one of 176 music students chosen to attend. Students gave several performances throughout the area while studying orchestral, chamber and solo music...

Deanna Leimbach of Frohna won a $1,000 All-College Scholarship from Aid Association for Lutherans. She is also the recipient of a $3,500 Curators Scholarship from the University of Missouri-Columbia where she will major in computer engineering. Leimbach is a 1995 graduate of Perryville High School. She is the daughter of Dennis and Diane Leimbach...

Members of the Missouri School Counselors Association presented the Missouri Masonic Model for Prevention of Substance Abuse to local educators. About 25 teachers, administrators and nurses met last week at the Cape Girardeau Masonic Temple for the conference...

Several students from Southeast Missouri earned academic honors at Shawnee Community College this spring. Cristy Ertman, Jeanne Steger and Angila Tripp, all of Cape Girardeau, were named to the dean's list. Todd Esner, James Miller and Eric Workman, all of Scott City were also named to the list...