Stories from Thursday, September 12, 1996

The Cape Girardeau Public Library, in cooperation with the Missouri State Library, will hold three tutor enrichment programs this month. From 10 to noon Friday, Debbie Dumey and Diane Newett will present a workshop for anyone interested in tutoring programs for students who don't speak English. The workshop's content will depend on members of the audience...

Rick Althaus has taken his campaign to the Internet. The Southeast Missouri State University political science professor is the Democratic candidate for the 27th Senate seat. He is seeking to defeat incumbent Republican Peter Kinder of Cape Girardeau...

Dr. Charles F. and Martha Lou McGinty lost almost everything they owned when the First Exchange banks failed in 1992. That included a beautiful four-story house. Four years and an experiment in country living later, the McGintys have re-established themselves in a tidy historic house in downtown Cape Girardeau, where she has plans to build a true English garden and revels in "the almost indescribable charm" of an old house...

When you look for performers who influenced the careers of Williams & Ree, tonight's entertainment at the SEMO District Fair, the names Rowan & Martin rank first. The comedy of the '60s TV show "Rowan & Martin's Laugh In" was useful when the band Williams and Ree were playing in Spearfish, S.D., ran out of songs to play...

Churches in Cape Girardeau are experiencing a building boon. Several churches around the city are expanding or planning new buildings. All say they've outgrown their existing buildings. Lynwood Baptist Church, now at Lynwood and Randol, will be getting bids next week for construction of a church on Route W near Kingshighway. A ground-breaking ceremony is planned for early November, said the Rev. Mark Anderson, pastor...

Enrolling new students during the summer meant crowded quarters for the Eagle Ridge Christian School, formerly the Christian Faith Academy. The school had hoped to move into a new building by the first of the school year, but weather and construction delays prevented that. Instead, administrators decided to separate the elementary and secondary students into two buildings...

Joyce Bock can't imagine life without disposable diapers. "It is just so convenient," said the Oak Ridge mother as she held her 6-month-old daughter Taylor in her arms at the SEMO District Fair Wednesday. Bock stopped by Procter & Gamble's diaper changing station at the Fair...

It was a sea of pink frills, floppy hats and lacy headbands. Proud moms and dads and their tiny daughters crowded into the R&R tent at the SEMO District Fair Tuesday for the baby girl contest. The scene was about the same Wednesday, only with baby boys in suits or overalls...

Only three months after the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission voted down a rezoning request for Forest Hills Subdivision, members gave it the nod Wednesday night. Harold Holigan, owner of Dallas-based Holigan Family Investments Inc., traveled to Cape Girardeau Wednesday to ask that the subdivision be rezoned from R-1 to R-2. His main argument was that the lower zoning would mean less expensive housing in Cape Girardeau...

Sept. 12, 1996 Dear Patty, Feeling awfully domesticated these days. Sometimes I discover I've been walking around with paw prints on my trousers, the aftermath of Hank and Lucy's usual boisterousness. Other times the magazine titles on the coffee table are reminders. This Old House Journal, The Life of Reilly Is Over, You're Old Enough To Be the Girls In Playboy's Father...

A LIBERAL is someone who is so understanding that he can't understand anyone who is not as understanding as he is. A COMPANY now makes Bill Clinton golf balls. They appear to be going down the right or center of the fairway, but if you look away, they curve to the far left. ...

Economic developers say they have hit on a way to solve a problem that has long plagued the Nash Road industrial area: lack of potable water. The proposed solution, so say these developers, would also be available for other parts of Cape Girardeau County that lack potable water. It is called tax-increment financing, or TIF...

The Cape Girardeau City Council has taken the second step toward establishing an ethics commission within city government. Voters approved the notion of such a commission back in April. A proposed ordinance patterned after the state ethics statute has been drafted and will shortly be considered by the council...

To the editor: I would like to respond to Alan Journet's rather partisan letter of Sept. 6 criticizing the Republican presidential candidate, Bob Dole, and his running mate, Jack Kemp, for their supposed naivete in economic and environmental matters. It would appear that in the mind of Mr. Journet, it is naive for Mr. Dole to prefer a more limited federal government approach to legislation...

A Democratic campaign office will open in Cape Girardeau Tuesday. The office, at 121 South Broadview Plaza, will be open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. through Election Day. Kendra Foster is director of the office. "We'll have an invitation-only grand opening Tuesday from 10 a.m. to noon," said Foster. "A number of Democratic candidates has been invited for the grand opening."...

TCI Cablevision will launch Fox News Channel Oct. 7. The station will air locally on channel 37, replacing Intro Television. There will be no cable rate increase. TCI general manager Roger Harms said adding the channel will give TCI customers access to the third-largest media company in the world, News Corp. The company employs 6,500 journalists in bureaus throughout the world...

Investigators from the state fire marshal's office, the Cape Girardeau Fire Department and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms have descended upon remains of the former Polar Therm plant near Independence and Frederick in an attempt to determine the cause of Tuesday's blaze...

Son to Michael and Corrie Young of Cape Girardeau, Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, 2:11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 1996. Name, Peyton Douglas. Weight, 6 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Young is the former Corrie Ascherman, daughter of Doug and Stephanie Ascherman of Nashville, Ill. She is employed at KFVS-TV 12. Young is the son of Tim and Carolyn Young of Cape Girardeau. He is employed at Patrick Furniture...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Cecil F. Hickam of Jonesboro will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Alto Pass. The Rev. Bobby Norton will officiate, with burial in Alto Pass Cemetery. Hickam, 65, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1996, at his home...

SIKESTON -- William Garfield Cagle, 62, Sikeston Route 2, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1996, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn. He was born Sept. 25, 1933, in Mississippi County, son of Arthur and Clyde Lee May Cagle. He and Patsy Morgan were married May 14, 1965...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Anna Mae Hill of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Burl Britt and Howard Myers will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Hill, 77, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...