Stories from Thursday, March 28, 1996

To the editor: Missourians are about to be sold a pig in the bush, or is that two birds in a poke? If I seem to be confused, it's only because I am. Amendment 4 on next Tuesday's ballot is what has me so confused. Like the majority of Missourians, I like the idea of a tax-limitation amendment. ...

The Perkin Elmer Corp. donated a new plasma emission spectrometer to the chemistry department at Southeast Missouri State University. Southeast received the donation with the assistance of Edward L. Covey, a 1971 chemistry graduate of Southeast and a director at Perkin Elmer...

Blood donors will have several chances to donate at upcoming American Red Cross blood drives in Southeast Missouri. Five blood drives are scheduled from April 1-5. All blood types are needed, but Type O is especially needed. Type O is the most common blood type used in hospital surgeries. About 46 percent of the population carries Type O blood...

The national project director for "Debate Watch '96" will speak at 10 a.m. Friday at Southeast Missouri State University. Dr. Diana Carlin will lecture in room 316 of the Grauel building. Her lecture, "Creating a Public Agenda for the 1996 Presidential Debates," is open to students and the public...

Hollywood has created a dark, despairing world perceived to be real but it's a world unlike anything you can find in America, said film critic and author Michael Medved. Medved spoke Wednesday at Academic Auditorium on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. His visit was sponsored by the university's student government, the Young America's Foundation and KZIM. About 200 people attended the lecture...

At far left, Robbie Guard as Carnes pointed his shotgun at peddler Ali Hakim, played by Nick Ryan, to reinforce Hakim's engagement to Carne's daughter Ado Annie, played by Lauren Hirschburg. In photo at left, drama teacher Cynthia Wyatt, center, instructs her students backstage before a dress rehearsal of "Oklahoma." The musical opens tonight at the school auditorium...

Everyone wants to be part of something that is going well. In Cape Girardeau that something is the Choral Union. Since its beginning in 1988 with 28 singers, the Union has grown by leaps. The Union, which is open to anyone, combines community members and university students, faculty and staff and currently boasts 120 to 125 members...

JEFFERSON CITY -- There are two principal sources of greenhouse gases in Missouri, transportation (cars, trucks, airplanes) and the generation of electricity to meet the demands of private consumers and large and small industries. In 1990, transportation alone released about 38 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2), 69.5 percent of which came from motor gasoline, 21.5 percent from diesel and 8 percent from jet fuel...

For the past couple of years, the Cape Girardeau County Jail has battled intermittent overcrowding problems. The solution to the problem seems to be expansion of the jail, which gives rise to another problem: How to pay for it. Now county officials hope they have the solution to that problem as well...

The city of Cape Girardeau is spending more than $570,000 to raise a section of South Sprigg Street that Mississippi River flooding has closed regularly over the years. Seventy-five percent of the cost of the project will be paid with money from the federal Economic Development Administration...

Two candidates for the Cape Girardeau Board of Education would welcome a three-year pilot project on school choice. Bob Blank, a school board member, and Jacqueline Sproat said state legislation that would set up limited school choice in Cape Girardeau, Jefferson City, St. Louis and Kansas City public schools might be good for education...

When Wehrenberg Theatres Inc. opens its planned 14-screen cinema here, Cape Girardeau will have more movie screens than any city along or near the Interstate 55 line between St. Louis and Memphis. The new 14-screen complex, for a site not yet determined, will more than double the present 10 screens in town, to a total of 24...

Richard Moore was 19 and a student at Southeast Missouri State University when he got his first dream job: playing the piano with a group of jazz musicians at the Purple Crackle in East Cape Girardeau. "I didn't have a very successful academic career here. I was too busy making music," said Moore, 55, an anesthesiologist at the Missouri Surgery Center in Cape Girardeau...

March 28, 1996 Dear Leslie, DC and I just returned from the Lake of the Ozarks, where she shopped, I golfed and we partied with a couple hundred duck lovers. Call it a blow-out-the-winter-blues break. DC's Neosho sister and brother-in-law invited us and DC's brother Paul dropped in from Columbia. The brother-in-law belongs to Ducks Unlimited, a coalition of hunters and conservationists who are wild about ducks...

The use tax in Missouri was a 1.5 percent tax levied on residents or businesses who bought products from other states and used them here. That meant mail-order and television shopping businesses in other states had to pay 1.5 percent of every sale to the state of Missouri...

PERRYVILLE -- Peter Rozik, 84, of Perryville died Wednesday, March 27, 1996, at his home. He was born Aug. 14, 1911, at Donora, Pa., son of Joseph and Mary Rozik. His first wife, Bertha Fadler Rozik, died in 1966. He married Dorothy A. Miget Hotop May 20, 1967...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Lloyd E. Hock, 91, of Mounds, died Wednesday, March 27, 1996, at his home. He was born Aug. 18, 1904, at Cairo, Ill., son of William and Elanora Cook Hock. He married Helen Cruse. Hock worked at the former St. Mary's Hospital in Cairo for 20 years and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Mounds...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Milford L. "Pete" Acup of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Richard Krueger will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Acup, 53, died Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at Heartland Care and Rehabilitation Center in Cape Girardeau...

DELTA -- Mabel C. Waddle, 88, of Delta, died Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at her home. She was born Jan. 2, 1908, in Advance, daughter of Elmon and Addie Hitt Sullinger. She and Jake Waddle were married Jan. 11, 1924, in Advance. He died March 17, 1979...

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Funeral service for Mary Louise Treece Rose of Winter Haven, Fla., was held March 19 at Hope Presbyterian Church in Winter Haven. Burial was in Florida National Cemetery at Bushnell. Announcement courtesy of Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna...

Jimmie Raymond Nicholas Moore was stillborn Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis. Survivors include his parents, Chad Nicholas and Heather Leigh Eck Moore of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Courtney Weissinger of the home; maternal grandparents, Wally and Sharon Eck of Jackson, Sherry and Gene Crippen of Jonesboro, Ill.; paternal grandmother, Vicki Moore of Scott City; maternal great-grandparents, Georgia and Eugene Britton of Ottawa, Ill., Irene and John Eck of Farmington; paternal great-grandparents, Ron and Pat Kelsey of Scott City, Raymond and Dorothea Moore of Benton, and paternal great-great-grandparents, Ralph and Juanita Carlton of Scott City.. ...

PARMA -- Doris Wheeler, 63, of Parma, died Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 8, 1932, in Memphis, Tenn., daughter of Cecil and Lillie Mae Smith Williams. She and Isaac Wheeler were married May 29, 1973, at Bloomfield...

JACKSON -- Stella P. Glueck, 78, of Jackson, died Tuesday, March 26, 1996, at her home. She was born Aug. 9, 1917, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of John W. and Josephine Kirchdoerfer Brucker. She and Walter F. Glueck were married in 1940 at Dutchtown. He died May 30, 1951...

MARBLE HILL -- Lydia Margaret Hamlyn, 91, of Marble Hill, died Wednesday, March 27, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 9, 1904, at Shrum, daughter of Noah and Mary Kirn Abernathy. She married Earl Hamlyn, who preceded her in death...

Rethor R. Macke, 84, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, March 27, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Mary B. Warnaka, 89, of Jackson Manor, died there Wednesday, March 27, 1996. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.

PERRYVILLE -- Leslie A. Leible, 83, of Perryville, died Wednesday, March 27, 1996, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Oct. 29, 1912, at Apple Creek, son of Otto and Mary Schnurbusch Leible. He and Leola L. Abernathy were married June 28, 1947, in Cape Girardeau. She died May 27, 1995...

ORAN -- City officials in Oran are looking to shuffle offices, with City Collector Jean Neal running unopposed for Ward III alderman and Mayor Pro-tem Tom Urhahn running for the mayor's seat. Mayor Louie Hirschowitz won't seek re-election to city office in Oran but is on the ballot for Scott County public administrator...