Stories from Tuesday, November 28, 1995

Nearly a year after beginning the search for a site to build a new Notre Dame High School, a priority is finding property that's accessible to commuter students. Students from six counties in Southern Missouri and Southern Illinois travel to attend the high school...

Budgets stretched to the limit by job loss, illness and everyday life can't always generate even a few spare dollars for presents at Christmas. But Toybox will make a big difference for those children whose families can't afford Christmas this year. The Cape Girardeau Jaycees and the Southeast Missourian sponsor the toy drive to benefit Cape Girardeau children up to age 12...

For years and years Mr. B has tended a garden at his small rural home. He enjoys gardening, and he eats the vegetables he raises. Mr. B's small monthly income often runs out before the end of the month. He sometimes must choose between paying his medical bills and buying groceries...

It's a mystery to me why kids don't want to wear their coats in the dead of winter. At age 3, Becca could care less about coats. To her they're just an enormous nuisance. Joni and I constantly have to remind our daughter to put on her coat before we leave the house each morning...

IMAGINE A man obsessed, willing to do anything for power, a little boy who would be king, who rages and throws tantrums when his whims are not met. Now imagine such a man controlling the FBI, the DEA, the IRS, the CIA, the Justice Department, Customs, the ATF and even the armed forces. ...

TCI Cablevision will move C-SPAN to another channel, freeing up channel 5 so it can be used exclusively for local programs. C-SPAN will be moved to channel 20 on Jan. 22. CNBC, which is currently on channel 20, will be moved to Channel 38. Prior to that, on Dec. 31, the cable company will add INTRO Television on channel 37. The channel will offer a wide range of programming from about 30 cable networks...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Anthony George Simpkins, 27, of East Prairie, died Friday, Nov. 24, 1995, in an automobile accident on Highway 80. He was born March 9, 1968, in St. Louis, son of Larry H. and Marg Chapple Simpkins. Simpkins attended East Prairie High School. He was employed by Wallace People's Farms...

ORAN -- Verneda Marie Urhahn, 78, of Oran, died Monday, Nov. 27, 1995, at Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston. She was born May 14, 1917, at Oran, daughter of August and Emma Schlosser Welter. She and Leon "Gumbo" Urhahn were married Aug. 17, 1938. He died Jan. 22, 1990...

PERRYVILLE -- Mary Leona Wengert, 93, of Perryville, died Monday, Nov. 27, 1995, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Aug. 24, 1902, at Ozora, daughter of Charles William and Elizabeth Hurst Siebert. She married Edward A. Wengert Sr., who died Aug. 26, 1973...

MOREHOUSE -- B.J. Cruse, 74, of Morehouse, died Monday, Nov. 27, 1995, at his home. He was born March 18, 1921, in Rector, Ark., son of Berry Jefferson and Minnie Stein Cruse Sr. He and Dean Kelley were married July 6, 1940. Cruse had been a meatcutter at Ramsey Grocery Store in Parma. He was a member of Church of Christ at Morehouse...

MORLEY -- Johnathan Quincy Davis, 89, of Morley, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee. He was born Sept. 5, 1906, in Mulvane, Kan., son of William Robert and Addie Ann Snyder Davis. He and Elizabeth Mae Murphy were married Aug. 8, 1931, in Newton, Kan. She died Feb. 11, 1975...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Gregor Anton Heuring of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Preston Palmer will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Heuring, 90, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

SIKESTON -- Clarence Harrington Sr., 83, of Sikeston died Saturday, Nov. 25, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Dec. 18, 1911, at Tupelo, Miss., son of Richmond and Hattie Harrington. Survivors include three sons, Clarence Harrington of Carbondale, Ill., Greg Harrington of Chicago and Timothy Sanders of Sikeston; three stepdaughters, Maxine Kelly and Shirley Darling, both of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Peggy White of Chicago; four stepsons, Willie Lee Sanders, James Sanders and Jesse Sanders, all of Grand Rapids, and Henry Taylor of Sikeston; two sisters, Mattie Thompson of East St. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Pearl A. Stine, 87, formerly of St. Louis, died Monday, Nov. 27, 1995, at her home. She was born July 16, 1908, at Caruthersville, daughter of Thomas and Georgia Viola West Allen. She married Arthur M. Stine in 1953. He preceded her in death...

BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Kenneth R. Spears of Auburn Hills, Mich., was held Monday at Pixley Funeral Chapel in Rochester, Mich. Burial was in Christian Memorial Cemetery. Announcement courtesy of Morgan Funeral Home in Advance. Spears, 61, died Friday, Nov. 24, 1995, at Pontiac Osteopathic Hospital in Pontiac, Mich...

William James Evans, 72, 144 Edgewood, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Dec. 4, 1922, in Murphysboro, Ill., son of William H. and Louise Borgers Evans. He and Ruth Campbell were married April 14, 1947, in Cape Girardeau...

SCOTT CITY -- Memorial service for the Rev. Howard Wynne Jr. of Lime Ridge, Wis., was held Nov. 19 at the United Methodist Church in Reedsburg, Wis. The Rev. Brian Kundinger officiated. Farber Funeral Home in Reedsburg was in charge of arrangements...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Joyce Elizabeth Aldridge of Charleston will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Revs. Bob Bishop and Larry Stephenson, a grandson, will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery. Aldridge, 78, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

Funeral service for Imogene M. Webb of Naylor will be held at 11 a.m. today at Parrent Funeral Chapel in Naylor. The Rev. Lee R. Johnson will officiate. Webb, 80, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, at Doctors' Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born Feb. 27, 1915, in Arkansas, daughter of Rudolph and Ruth Reel Marlin...

MATTHEWS -- Funeral service for Scottie Joseph William Maddox Sr. of Matthews will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. Larry Long will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Maddox, 67, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, following an extended illness...

ST. LOUIS -- Herman J. Steele, 84, formerly of Jackson, died Sunday, Nov. 26, 1995, in St. Louis. He was born Jan. 1, 1911, in Anada, son of Horace and Maude Taylor Steele. He and Hazel M. Jones were married. Steele worked as a meat cutter for Central Packing Co...

In its 100th year of football, Jackson High School made it to the stratosphere of excellence. In the Class 4A state championship, the Indians lost, but by only by a hair. There will be some murmurs, as there always are when strong teams lose, that this play or that call would have made the difference. Certainly. But nothing can diminish the fact that Jackson was represented proudly in high school football this year...

Agenda, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 7:30 p.m. Jackson Middle School Library Consider participation in MUSIC, a school risk-management cooperative. Consider a contract for architectural services. Consider a contract with the Missouri School Boards Association for policy review...

Faced with a reduced federal subsidy, Trans World Express of St. Louis on Monday cut back on its flight schedule. It could have been worse. Congress had talked of eliminating subsidies to commuter airlines entirely. That would have left Cape Girardeau without any commuter airline flights, said Bill Mishk, marketing director for TWE...

Bill and Barbara Port spent Monday hovering around their Christmas tree like new parents. They put an ornament on a branch, took a look, then moved it elsewhere. They worried about types of ornaments and how they looked next to other types. And in the end, they had a brightly lit, very colorful, 18-foot-tall baby right in their front lobby...

Revisions in Missouri traffic laws are causing minor headaches for state judges and the Missouri Highway Patrol. Legislation approved last year by the Missouri General Assembly reclassified speeding and careless and imprudent driving as infractions. Previously such violations were misdemeanors...

Melvin Gateley will seek re-election to a second term on the Cape Girardeau City Council. The 68-year-old councilman filed Monday, making him the first person to file for a council seat since the filing period opened Nov. 8. The filing period ends Dec. 8...

Entries are being accepted for the 12th annual Asthma Athlete Scholarship program for athletes who have overcome asthma. The "Will to Win" scholarship is sponsored by the Schering/Key Co. of Kenilworth, N.J. Ten high school athletes will earn $35,000 in scholarships...

Applications are now being accepted for the ninth annual Miss Northwest Missouri Scholarship pageant. The pageant will be Jan. 27 at the Charles Johnson Theater on the campus of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville. The pageant is open to unmarried women between 17 and 24 who lives, attends school or works in Missouri...

John Eberhart Cozean of Cape Girardeau was recently named to the Dean's List at the Thomas Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich. To be named to the list, students must earn a 3.0 grade-point average. Cozean is a 1993 graduate of Wake Forest University. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Charles Cozean of Cape Girardeau...

Tammy Parrish of Cape Girardeau was recently selected to the Who's in American Universities and Colleges list. She was one of 32 students chosen from Stephens College in Columbia. The college is the second oldest women's college in the nation. The names of all the students chosen for the list will be included in the 1996 edition of Who's Who...

The Cape Girardeau Elk's Lodge 639 has named three students to its Student of the Month program. They are selected by a panel at their school and are recognized for their achievements, citizenship, scholarship and leadership. Alicia Chapman, 17, of Chaffee was named as the Student of the Month by Notre Dame School...

The Southeast Missouri Council of the International Reading Association recently held a literacy program. Dr. Linda Dorn, a reading recovery trainer at the University of Arkansas, presented the program, which explained the Arkansas Early Literacy Model...

The Evening Optimist club of Cape Girardeau will sponsor an essay contest for area high school students. The essay contest will be titled, "Freedom: A Right or a Privilege?" It is open to high school sophomores, juniors and seniors. The first-place entry will be forwarded to district competition. All essays must be original and should be submitted by Dec. 7...

The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational School of Practical Nursing will host an open house Nov. 30. Families and friends are invited to the annual event, which helps acquaint them with the events and instructors in the program. The school is now accepting applications for class 23, which begins Sept. 30. For more information, contact Carol Eaker-Kranawetter at 334-0826, ext. 26...

Cadet Robert Alexander Barney was recently honored at Missouri MIlitary Academy in Mexico, Mo. Barney was awarded the Soldier's Bar for outstanding military courtesy, neatness, bearing, attitude and performance of duty. He is the son of Judge Robert S. Barney of Dexter and Mrs. Kathryn M. Skelton of Cape Girardeau...

For the eighth year, the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor "Calls from Santa." The calls will be made Dec. 11-14. Parents can register their child by mail or over the phone. Forms, which were included in the department's fall brochure, can also be picked up at the A.C. Brase Arena building...

There are two words you don't hear often in Paula Walker's classroom -- "I cant." Walker, who teaches kindergarten at Cape Christian School, likes to create a positive experience for her students. She has been teaching for 15 years. Walker said, "I try to instill an attitude of `I'll try' in my classroom instead of the words `I can't.'"...

Does a darkling beetle prefer corn flakes or oats? From left, Bethany Burchyett, Steven Umfleet, teacher Kelly Phillips and Jodie Miller observed the preference of the bug. Using audio headphones, these students tried to discover if the darkling beetle preferred rock music or classical music. From left are Amanda Kridelbaugh, Jessica Jones, Christy Phelps and Amber Smith...