Stories from Tuesday, April 16, 1996

Six area high school students have recently received scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University. Rachel M. Robert, Laurie A. Ingram, Ernst K. Warren, all of Cape Girardeau, Crhstina J. Wright of Benton, Barbara A. Bilek of Millersville, and Christopher R. Cox of Chaffee have all ben awarded the President's Scholarship...

One group of children listen to a story on tape in one corner while others play in a kitchen area or take turns at a computer game. The flurry of activity in the brightly colored room might seem like play, but it's a regular part of the day for students in Sharon Shaw's classroom...

Original poetry by Nancy Beegle of Mounds, Ill., has been published in "The Path Not Taken," a compilation of poetry by The National Library of Poetry. The poem is entitled "My Missing Love." Poets interested in publishing an original poem, 20 lines or less, may submit to The National Library of Poetry, 11419-10 Cronridge Drive, P.O. Box 704-1377, Owings Mills, Md. 21117...

The Tuesday Club, General Federation of Women's Clubs of Missouri, sponsored Claire Syler, a student at Cape Girardeau Central High School, to attend the annual Sophomore Pilgrimage in Jefferson City April 8 and 9. The pilgrimage promotes good citizenship and enables outstanding sophomores to see state government in action...

Scott Enderle of Cape Girardeau has enlisted in the Navy. He recently completed recruit training at Great Lakes, Ill., and will begin SeaBee Class "A" school in Gulf Port, Miss., this month. He is a 1995 graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School and the son of Steve and Dee Enderle of Cape Girardeau...

Kearsten Brianna Collins, the daughter of Brian and Jacquelyn Collins of Cape Girardeau, has qualified for the New Star Discovery state pageant. The 11-month-old will compete in May. She won most photogenic and Miss All-Around at the preliminaries in Cape Girardeau in March to qualify...

Elizabeth Martin, Shawna Burger and Jamie Welker have been named Students of the Month by the Cape Girardeau Elk's Lodge. Martin, 17, is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Richard Martin of Cape Girardeau. She attends Cape Girardeau Central High School. She has been involved in JV Lady Tiger basketball, JV Tiger softball, FCA, chamber choir, and the Cape Bible Chapel Youth Group. ...

Carmen Shah, left, told the Mexican legend of "El Sol y La Luna" as part of a class presentation. Donna Ellis used flash cards to work on the students' food vocabulary before a cooking project. For most of its existence, America has been largely isolated from countries which speak languages other than English. With the exception of areas on the southern border, geography made it unnecessary for most Americans to be able to communicate in other tongues...

SCOTT CITY -- Port authority officials opened bids on a half-million-dollar project Monday, the first step toward getting sewers, railroad tracks and paved roads to port businesses. The Economic Development Administration, under the U.S. Department of Commerce, awarded the Southeast Missouri Port Authority a $3.075 million grant in 1994. Funds were earmarked for job creation and general economic development...

Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "Taxes are paid by the sweat of every man that labors." And individuals whose 1995 federal tax returns remain unpaid today are surely sweating even more. Millions of taxpayers scrambled to meet Monday's midnight deadline for filing federal returns, and Uncle Sam is hoping everyone made the deadline...

People referred to Southeastern Louisiana University at Hammond as "Slow Learners U" before G. Warren Smith became its president. Under Smith, the school has developed a solid academic reputation. Smith -- a finalist for the presidency at Southeast Missouri State University -- is credited with boosting academic quality and enrollment and taking courses to the region during his eight years as president of Southeastern Louisiana. ...

G. Warren Smith put academics ahead of football. He still believes it was the right decision despite it costing him his job. Smith was president of Southeastern Louisiana University at Hammond from December 1986 until he resigned in February 1995. He currently teaches chemistry at the school...

The Internet is everywhere. You can't even run for president without glancing at your home page. Bob Dole referred to it as his "whatchamacallit" in a campaign stop at a school. Dole even had a chance to view the White House home page on the computer screen. If he is elected president, he gets the Oval office and his own home page...

Marlo Morgan, author of "Mutant Message Down Under," will lecture Friday at Southeast Missouri State University. The lecture will be from 7-9 p.m. in Johnson Hall, Room 200. Morgan will discuss her experiences with Aborigines in the Australian outback...

April 15, 1996 7:30 p.m. Action Items Power and Light Committee A. Authorized Pay Request #7 in the amount of $13,279.72 to Penzel Construction Company under the City Hall renovation contract and change order relating to Library. B. Amended Ordinance 3500 relating to Budget Billing to include rental units...

A Cape Girardeau mechanic's special use permit for his garage was approved Monday with a unique provision -- a limit on the number of cars allowed on his property. It was the first step in an upcoming Cape Girardeau City Council effort to reduce the number of broken-down cars sitting on garage lots. The special use permit applied to property at 915 N. Main, located in a single-family residential district...

I'M CALLING about the comment about the National Guard building roads in Panama instead of working in the community like over in Illinois in the Gale area. One reason that doesn't happen is because the unions won't let the National Guard work on civilian projects. ...

Plans to build a couple of detention centers for juveniles in Southeast Missouri have created quite a stir. Communities throughout the region have made generous offers to the state in an effort to lure one of the centers and the accompanying jobs. Cape Girardeau and Cape Girardeau County have been among those offering sites for the centers...

When Gov. Mel Carnahan announced a few months ago that growth in state revenue -- largely due to the massive tax increase for schools he engineered -- would trigger refunds under the state's tax-limiting Hancock Amendment, there were plenty of scoffs. After all, this is the governor who wants it not just both ways in this election year. He wants it every which way...

There won't be any confusing bus schedules and half-day calendars to remember if Cape Girardeau kindergarten students attend classes all day next year. Some Cape Girardeau schools could start the all-day program this fall, Dr. Richard Bollwerk, interim superintendent, said at a board of education meeting Monday...

GORDONVILLE -- Funeral service for Sophie C. Rohde was held April 8 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in St. Louis, with Dr. August T. Mennicke officiating. Rohde, 99, died Wednesday, April 3, 1996, at a nursing home in Ellisville. She was born May 27, 1896, at Gordonville, daughter of Henry C. and Anna A. Grossheider Gerecke. She and Otto A. Rohde were married Oct. 24, 1926. He died Feb. 12, 1982. They lived in St. Louis all their married life...

GALE, Ill. -- Memorial service for Wayne Prather of Scott Bar, Calif., was held Monday in Scott Bar. Burial was in San Francisco, Calif. Prather, 65, died Friday, April 12, 1996, in a hospital in Medford, Ore. He was born Jan. 1, 1931, in Gale, son of Ernest and Eliza Jackson Prather. He married the former Barbara McCalster, who died in 1992...

RISCO -- Funeral service for W.D. Blaylock of Risco will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Parma, with the Rev. Gene Lancaster officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery at Malden. Blaylock, 90, died Saturday, April 13, 1996, at Malden Nursing Center...

PUXICO -- Funeral service for Hubert L. "Dude" McGowen of Puxico will be held at 1 p.m. today at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church near here. The Revs. Rowland Duckett and David Hill will officiate, with burial in Duck Creek Cemetery. McGowen, 77, died Sunday, April 14, 1996, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff...

Nationally syndicated radio talk-show personality Rush Limbaugh III will deliver the commencement speech at Cape Girardeau Central High School's May 31 commencement. The ceremony will begin at 8 p.m. at the Show Me Center. Tickets aren't needed. This is the fourth time Limbaugh, a native of Cape Girardeau, has been a commencement speaker at Central, his alma mater. He spoke in 1981, 1989 and 1992...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Virginia Byrd of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Preston Palmer will officiate, with burial in Mounds Park Cemetery at Lilbourn. Friends may call at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to noon...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Ollie Geneva Mitchell of East Prairie will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. George White will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery near Charleston. Mitchell, 73, died Sunday, April 14, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

ORAN -- Bunkie Franklin Canady, 88, of Oran, died Monday, April 15, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 4, 1908, in Newton County, Ark., son of John and Laura Bell Thompson Canady. He and Versie Mae Henson were married Dec. 22, 1959...

SCOTT CITY -- Howard Milton "Mac" McCommack, 71, of Scott City died Monday, April 15, 1996, at his home. Arrangements were incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.