Stories from Thursday, January 11, 1996

Winter weather has delayed the opening of the newly completed portion of Missouri Highway 74 through the southern part of Cape Girardeau from Kingshighway to Sprigg Street, but only by a little bit. Officials hope to open this first portion of what will eventually become the access route for the new Mississippi River bridge sometime next week...

JACKSON -- With 260 seniors exiting Jackson High School this year but 360 entering, the board of education and school administrators wonder where answers lie for their burgeoning district. With 550 square miles inside the Jackson R-2 School District boundaries, chances are that children who move into Cape Girardeau County will attend Jackson schools...

The Salvation Army's Tree of Lights campaign exceeded its fund-raising goal by approximately $3,000. Charlie Neese, 1995 Tree of Lights chairman, announced Wednesday that the campaign netted $153,402. "Two things make reaching the goal very exciting," Neese said. ...

Fifty of the best high school musicians in Southeast Missouri will converge on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University this weekend to play in the Southeast Missouri Honors Wind Ensemble. The elite musicians are all members of their all-district bands and some undoubtedly will achieve all-state recognition. They are in for a whirlwind of auditions and rehearsals before the band's performance at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Academic Auditorium...

The annual Old Milwaukee and 960 KZIM/K103-FM Sports Show will be held at the Show Me Center Friday, Saturday and Sunday. RVs, campers, ski boats, pontoon boats, jet skis, gun safes, archery supplies and fishing equipment will be on display. Exhibitors from a three-state area will display their goods and services, which will range from sunglasses to taxidermy to resort vacations...

Many critics of this writer's efforts to illuminate the issues at stake in Missouri's educational "reform" process have tried to portray me and other critics as partisan, right-wing "extremists." It is therefore noteworthy for a lifelong Democrat, Jefferson City banker Sam Cook, to come forth with comments on the proposed academic performance standards to be voted on next week by the State Board of Education. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Dr. Dan Tallent is no stranger to Perryville, nor is he unknown in Cape Girardeau. He is a candidate for superintendent in both school districts. Tallent met with board members and teachers in Perryville Wednesday afternoon for a question and answer session. He will interview with the Cape Girardeau school board tonight...

Republican members of the Missouri House are calling on newly-elected Speaker Steve Gaw to embrace changes they think his predecessor stubbornly opposed. "I think its fair to say that we need to give him an opportunity," said Rep. Patrick Naeger, R-Perryville. "Personally, I think its great to have this mess over with. I think Steve Gaw deserves a fair chance, and I think Steve Gaw has an opportunity to make monumental changes."...

Jan. 11, 1996 Dear Ken, The first sign was a flash of movement so fast and small I shrugged and wondered if it was just something in my eye. A few days later DC asked if I'd seem our mouse. I guessed I had. It came fully into view in the bedroom one morning. A lovely charcoal gray, stealthily emerging from behind the puppies' bed, then streaking back into hiding. There have been sitings since then in the bathroom wastebasket and the bird room...

Barb Johnson of the Internal Revenue Service will be at Cape Girardeau Public Library Jan. 18 at 7 p.m. to present a free program on income tax filing tips. She will highlight 1995 changes, filing status, dependency exemptions, earned income credit, common errors to avoid and offer other tips. Johnson has worked for the IRS for 15 years. All but one has been at the IRS office in the Federal Building, where she offers walk-in income tax filing assistance...

The Cape Girardeau Public Library will host a special quilting program for quilters and collectors at 10 a.m. Saturday. Bonnie Windisch and Madeline Gieselman will discuss restoration and preservation of old quilts and will share techniques in treating the antiques. Everyone is invited to bring an old family quilt to share with the group...

ANNA, Ill. -- Pearl B. Clutts, 81, of Anna died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1996, at the City Care Center in Cobden. Funeral arrangements are pending at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna.

PERRYVILLE -- Arnold L. Meyer, 80, of Perryville, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 29, 1915, in Perryville, son of Joseph and Amalia Sauer Meyer. He and Sylvia Weber Geringer were married May 30, 1979...

PERRYVILLE -- Theodore R. "Ted" Oehlert, 85, of Perryville, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Sept. 17, 1910, in Altenburg, son of Joseph and Marie Gruenwald Oehlert. He and Ella Sticht were married Oct. 18, 1931. She died March 28, 1991...

CHAFFEE -- Wilbur "Chub" Conrad, 69, of Chaffee, died Monday, Jan. 8, 1996, at his home. He was born Jan. 1, 1927, at Sedgewickville, son of Vernon and Naomi Conrad. Conrad retired four years ago as a mechanic at Dean Taylor Cadillac-Oldsmobile. He was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church and VFW Post 3838 in Cape Girardeau. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Funeral service for David Wayne Haney of Jonesboro will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden. The Rev. Dewayne Taylor will officiate, with burial in Cobden Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Friday...

Helen Krueger, 90, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Jan. 8, 1996, at Chateau Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 30, 1905, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Louis and Helen Barbara Jaeger Krueger. Krueger was a 1922 graduate of Central High School, received a bachelor of science degree in education from Southeast Missouri State University, and a master's in education from St. Louis University...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Rosie Lee Hill of Scott City will be at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. Rennie Phillips will officiate, with burial in Lightner Memorial Cemetery. Hill, 56, died Monday, Jan. 8, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

Funeral service for Harry Leward McDonald, 239 E. Cape Rock Drive, will be held at noon Friday at Wade Funeral Home in St. Louis. The Rev. Glenn Eftink will officiate, with burial in Oakdale South Cemetery in St. Louis. Friends may call at Wade Funeral Home Friday from 11 a.m. to service time...

JACKSON -- Alvin A. Dickman, 101, of Jackson, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1996, at DeSoto Residential Care Nursing Center. He was born June 24, 1894, in Cape Girardeau County, son of August and Cora Sachse Dickman. Dickman attended Jackson High school and Southeast Missouri State University...

FREDERICKTOWN -- Robert E. "Bob" Green, 78, of Fredericktown, died Wednesday, Jan. 10, 1996, at his home. He was born June 24, 1917, in Mound City, Kan., son of Clarence and Lilly Green. He and Daphine Kinder were married Oct. 3, 1940, at Fredericktown...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Graveside service for Rose Brooks of Pensacola, Fla., will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at American Legion Cemetery. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Dongola from 5-7 p.m. Friday. Brooks, 95, died Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1996, in Pensacola...

Daughter to Ophelia A. Wooden and DeWayne L. Johnson of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:16 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1996. Name, Leah Nicole. Weight, 8 pounds 1 ounce. Miss Wooden is the daughter of Louberta Wooden and Mitchell Wooden of Caruthersville. She is a salesclerk with Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Johnson is the son of Mona Johnson of St. Louis. He is a sales representative at Southeast Missouri State University...

Planning and Zoning Commission Action, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Harold J. and Yvonne M. Werner withdrew request to rezone 2011-2019 Perryville Road from R-1, single family residential, to C-1, local commercial. Recommended Alliance Building at 7-15 Spanish Street be designated as a historic landmark...

Frozen water pipes seldom make the news. Agreed, they are seldom life-threatening, but more than a quarter-million families a year face the expense and inconvenience of freezing, bursting water pipes. During the latest cold and snowstorm that paralyzed the eastern half of the nation, cars, trains and planes and just about anything else that moves were halted. ...