Stories from Saturday, June 22, 1996

To the editor: Never has the Southeast Missourian been as full, as complete and as expert in its coverage as it was in the June 16 edition. Various other publications could not equal such lengthy and complete coverage as did this single issue. The many news items showed skill on the part of the reporters, as well as fine workmanship and dedication...

To the editor: You June 13 editorial, "Book issue isn't settled yet," contained an egregious fallacy followed by a false conclusion, false because it was based on the assumption that the first fallacy would be presumed to be accepted as fact. The second sentence of the third paragraph is totally at variance with the contents of the chapter of the book quoted at the center of the controversy. ...

Elizabeth Dole, the wife of GOP presidential candidate Bob Dole, campaigned in Cape Girardeau Wednesday. It wasn't her first visit: The former labor secretary last stopped here in 1988 during her husband's failed primary bid for president. This could be just the first of a number of high-profile visitors to Missouri this campaign season. Pollsters consider Missouri a battleground state, and as such candidates may try to win the state's 11 electoral college votes...

Speeding is a problem along some residential streets in Cape Girardeau. Such is the case on Lexington Avenue in northern Cape Girardeau. The wide avenue seems a perfect place to edge the speedometer past the posted 30 or 35 mile per hour limits. Some neighbors who live along Lexington feel a number of the speeders zoom past at more than 60 miles per hour. That is downright dangerous...

It's about time national guidelines were established to help coroners and pathologists distinguish crib death from homicide, says the Cape Girardeau County coroner. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta released a standardized, six-page form Thursday to be used by coroners and police when they investigate sudden deaths in infants...

The Board of Regents Friday tabled a proposed master plan that would dramatically change the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Among the most noticeable changes, Parker Hall would be transformed into a campus student center and the University Center would become a conference and visitors center...

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents Friday approved a $60.3 million operating budget for fiscal 1997, which begins July 1. The regents also approved auxiliary budgets totaling $15.1 million for 11 units designed to be self-supporting operations. The largest part of that budget is $8.4 million for residence life, which includes campus housing...

There must be an overabundance of professional researchers in this country. Sitting around in dank, windowless research institutes, a bunch of bored men and women with doctorates, bitter at being beaten to all the cool topics, desperately try to come up with something even remotely interesting to study and write papers about so they don't have to go back into teaching...

ALEXANDER COUNTY, Ill. -- A 22-year-old Scott City, Mo., man was injured Friday on Route 146 in Alexander County. According to the Illinois State Police, Patrick Anderson attempted to make a U-turn in front of another vehicle, resulting in a collision...

VANDUSER -- Gay Carter, 68, of Vanduser, died Thursday, June 20, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 18, 1927, in Vanduser, daughter of William and Eula Hamby Vines. She and Bradley Carter were married Jan. 26, 1960. He died April 23, 1973...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Alfred C. Sturgeon of Poplar Bluff will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. Vernon Self will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Malden. Sturgeon, 83, died Thursday, June 20, 1996, at Mark Twain Caring Center in Poplar Bluff...

Funeral service for Rufus James Sample, 215 Country Club, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. Chaplain Arthur Kelley will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 10 a.m. to service time...

CHESTER, Ill. -- John C. Hobeck, 64, of Chester died Friday at Memorial Hospital in Chester. He was born June 17, 1932, in St. Louis to Myrtle Morris Hobeck and the late Troy J. Hobeck Sr. He married Lavern Slinkard on June 27, 1953, in Jackson. He was an Army veteran of the Korean War and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Disabled American Veterans. He was a bookbinder for Sparta Printing...

Martha J. Bolton, 65, 1837 Georgia, died Thursday, June 20, 1996, at her home. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Noted nutritionist and author Barbara M. Dixon will be in Cape Girardeau Sunday to sign her new book, "Good Health for African-American Kids." The book signing will be conducted at Barnes & Noble, 3035 William, from 1-3 p.m. Sunday. Dixon became dedicated to improving African-American health after both her parents and grandparents died at early ages from either stroke, heart disease or cancer. ...

JACKSON -- W.T. Palisch, 82, of Jackson, died Friday, June 21, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 14, 1913, at Brazeau, son of Ernst and Cora Mueller Palisch. He and Esther Weber were married Oct. 4, 1936, at Altenburg. She died Sept. 25, 1989...

A ribbon-cutting ceremony Friday inaugurated the recruitment phase for a 60,000 square-foot spec building sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association and other area industrial groups. Mitch Robinson, executive director of the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association, said that phase one had been financing and phase two was building the structure, which is 90 percent complete. Phase three is marketing, or recruitment of tenants for the building...

ST. LOUIS -- Striking McDonnell Douglas Corp. machinists say the jet fighter that crashed in Bethalto, Ill., this week had undergone major repairs by fill-in workers. But the company said there was no connection between the crash and the strike. The Navy and McDonnell Douglas are investigating the Wednesday afternoon crash of one of the company's F/A-18C Hornets into a subdivision in Bethalto, about 24 miles northeast of St. Louis...

Missouri children must be immunized against certain infectious diseases before being allowed to enroll in school. "The first thing we ask for when children enroll is their shot record," said Barbara Blanchard, principal at Washington Elementary School in Cape Girardeau. "If they don't have the shots, we require they get them."...