Stories from Tuesday, July 2, 1996

Cape Girardeau Jennifer Erin Jones was Cape Central High's valedictorian. She was involved in Student Council, Knowledge Master, Beta Club, science club, art club, a member of the National Honor Society, Chemistry Bowl and The Ballet Royale Midwest Performing Dance Troupes. She plans to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, accepting a $10,000 four-year scholarship -- out of state tuition waiver. She is the daughter of Kenneth and Carol Jones of Cape Girardeau...

Coach Jim Burke of the Diamondbacks discussed batting technique with Lonnie Campbell. Shortstop Kyle Capone, left, and second-baseman Chris Koch of the Athletics attempted a force out at second base with baserunner Kyle Garvey of the Diamondbacks. Coach Alan Gregory of the Astros advised his son, Seth Gregory, prior to batting...

Foreclosure on St. Vincent's Seminary will sever the city of Cape Girardeau's ties to the property and to Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation. Thanks to a short-term loan from the Vincentian Fathers of St. Louis, who owned the seminary, the foundation took the title to the property in April 1995. But plans to pay off the title didn't materialize. After extending the payoff date too many times, the Vincentians decided to foreclose on the property. Proceedings began Monday...

Members of the local Postal Workers Union were on picket lines in Cape Girardeau and Jackson Monday to express their fears concerning privatization of the mail service. A number of postal workers believe that mail service in the region would suffer as a result of what they believe is the federal government's attempt to turn the U.S. Postal Service over to private companies...

The public will have a say on whether a telemarketing business interested in coming to Cape Girardeau gets a major tax break. At their Monday night meeting, Cape Girardeau City Council members set a public hearing for 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5. Residents are invited to express their opinions on a plan to lure the potential employer to the city...

Parents used to record their children's childhood in baby books. Everything from Junior's first words to first haircut were dutifully jotted down in the book. Even childhood illnesses were mentioned at length. Just ask my mom. But in today's hurry-up world, it's tough to find time to write down all that stuff...

HAVING LISTENED to Rush Limbaugh for some time now, I cannot help but be puzzled by his statements that he does not engage in hate radio. I am puzzled because he certainly sounds like he hates President Clinton, Hillary, all liberals, many environmentalists and feminists. But since Rush says he is just an entertainer, he must want us to believe that his brand of hating is just good entertainment...

Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Regents tabled a proposed master plan at its recent meeting. If enacted, the plan would dramatically change the landscape of the university campus over the next two decades. The plan is a complex matter that deserves in-depth discussion by the board. ...

Dr. Bill Atchley served Southeast Missouri State University admirably in his year as president. It was only fitting that the Board of Regents replaced the title "interim president" and made him the 15th president of the university. After all, the plain-speaking Cape Girardeau native didn't act like an interim president. ...

To the editor: In his "Prayer for Generosity," St. Ignatius Loyola asks, "Teach us ... to labor and not ask for any reward." And the American philosopher Emerson said, "The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it." John "Doc" Yallaly is a man who has labored for four decades on behalf of the young people of Cape Girardeau, and he has never asked for a reward. ...

To the editor: Now that National Dairy Month is over, perhaps it's time to re-examine the facts. It is important to keep in mind that a lot of money is spent to convince us that we need milk and dairy products to remain healthy. Here are some facts: 90 percent of black and Asian adults, 60 percent of Hispanic adults and 20 percent of Caucasian adults suffer from lactose intolerance. ...

SCOTT CITY -- Last month the Scott City Council voted to rescind the liquor license of JJ's Pub & Grub on Main Street in Scott City because of the number of times police have had to respond to disturbance calls there. At the council meeting Monday night the owners of JJ's, Jack and Joanne Johnson, told council members they were in a no-win situation because of a few "undesirables."...

Kathleen O. Huber of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Perryville, died Sunday, June 30, 1996. She married Joseph E. Huber, who preceded her in death. Survivors include a brother, Harry Robinson of Cape Girardeau; three sisters, Rose Purdom, Helen Creglow and Jessie Lottes, all of Cape Girardeau...

PERRYVILLE -- Irene Mary Eddleman, 84, of Perryville, died Sunday, June 30, 1996, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Sept. 7, 1911, in Perry County, daughter of Henry and Emma Regelsperger Terbrak. She and Jesse Eddleman were married Aug. 5, 1934. He died Dec. 23, 1984...

PUXICO -- Funeral service for Lillie Teets of Puxico will be held at 10 a.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Puxico. The Rev. Kenneth Lambert will officiate, with burial in Puxico Cemetery. Teets, 90, died Sunday, June 30, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Carrie M. Wyatt, 77, of East Prairie, died Monday, July 1, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Daughter to Timothy Wayne and Marcia Kay Underwood of Sikeston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:36 p.m. Sunday, June 23, 1996. Name, Connor Renee. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Underwood is the former Marcia Cobb, daughter of Fern Cobb and the late Robert Cobb. ...

JACKSON -- A woman asked aldermen to "untie the police's hands" and institute a citywide curfew after a neighborhood disturbance. Paula Salzmann told aldermen Monday night that until police came to her home Saturday night to answer her complaint about a loud party, she was unaware the city doesn't have a curfew for teen-agers...

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for the Rev. Earl Lizenbee of Advance was held Monday at Morgan Funeral Chapel. The Rev. J.D. Smith officiated, with burial in Morgan Memorial Park. Lizenbee, 77, died Friday at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- The Standard Democrat, Sikeston's daily newspaper, has been sold. Michael Jensen and Don Culbertson, both of Sikeston, and Gary Rust of Cape Girardeau have purchased the six-day-a-week operation from American Publishing Co. Jensen has served as publisher of the Standard Democrat since 1989, and Culbertson is the former general manager of the paper. Rust is president of Rust Communications of Cape Girardeau...

The Missouri National Guard hopes state-funded scholarships will be the ammunition needed to beef up its ranks. The state's guard units currently aren't manned at capacity, and the state is in danger of losing some guard units if it doesn't expand, said Maj. Gen. Raymond Pendergrass, Missouri's adjutant general who heads up the Guard. Southeast Missouri Guard engineering units could be among those affected, he said...