Stories from Tuesday, October 15, 1996

Fifty-two students from 12 area high schools attended the fourth annual Camp Enterprise in September. A service project of the Rotary Clubs of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson area, the camp is an intensive two-day seminar on business issues. The aim of the camp is to afford students the opportunity to explore business as a career...

Registration for the Stock Market Game, operated through the Missouri Council on Economic Education, will remain open for Missouri schools through Friday. Through the game, students in grades 5 through 12 participate in a 10-week stock exchange simulation designed to teach the fundamentals of investing in the stock market...

Students in grades 6 through 12 are invited to submit essays in the 1997 Letters About Literature essay contest sponsored by the Missouri and National Center for the Book and Read magazine. Students wishing to enter should write a personal letter to an author, past or present, explaining how his or her book influenced their lives or changed their way of thinking...

Twenty practical nursing students were graduated from the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational Technical School of Practical Nursing in September ceremonies at LaCroix United Methodist Church. Shannon Burton of Scott City was named student nurse of the year by her peers. Graduates hailed from at least 13 area communities...

Jackson High School graduate Derrick Deneke has been named recipient of the C.R. Johnston Farm Bureau Scholarship for this school year. The scholarship is awarded to an agriculture major who shows academic achievement and leadership. Deneke, the son of Wayne and Faye Deneke of Jackson, is a student at the University of Missouri...

Saundra Fidler wants her students at Louis J. Schultz School to establish their own style and originality. "Kids today are so alive with knowledge, spirit and ability that one must be careful not to stifle this energy but enhance it so they can demonstrate it productively rather than destructively," she said...

The Marching Tigers of Cape Girardeau Central High School won the second-place trophy at the Route 66 Classic Marching Festival, recently at Rolla. The band competed in Class 4A, which included five bands. Ten bands competed overall, and the Marching Tigers earned the honor of second place overall...

Descendants of the Thomure or Flieg families of Ste. Genevieve are needed to proofread and check family history for a project sponsored by the Ste. Genevieve Chamber of Commerce Project Pioneers. The project committee needs family information from local members and contact addresses for members who live outside the region, said Lucille Basler...

Kristi Bock of Old Appleton, Natalie Brandes of Perryville, Jason Meyers of Marble Hill and Glen Stueve of Frohna were recently nominated to receive the American FFA degree at the national convention in November. The four Southeast Missouri students join nearly 160 FFA members nominated for the degree...

Principals from seven elementary schools in Cape Girardeau participated in a kickoff luncheon for Project Charlie. Project Charlie is a drug and alcohol prevention program taught to students in second and fourth grades. Every Project Charlie instructor is a volunteer...

Tina M. Ross of Cape Girardeau recently won a scholarship from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers. Ross studies industrial technology at Southeast Missouri State University. The $900 scholarship was presented by the St. Louis Chapter of the SME organization. It is awarded to full-time students who are enrolled in a manufacturing engineering program...

Reference librarians don't know all the answers, but they know most of them. The three reference librarians at the Cape Girardeau Public Library often are accused of being know-it-alls. Reference librarian Betty Martin said they don't know everything. They have to look for it...

Cape Girardeau public schools offer a "best buy" in terms of student achievement when compared to spending in the school district, according to a national magazine study. Expansion Management, a magazine for corporate executives who might be considering relocating or expanding, looked at 770 school districts across the country to determine each school district's education quotient...

With hopes for a relationship "as long as the Mississippi and Yangtze rivers," Lu Zhiqiang signed a document Monday making Cape Girardeau and Shaoxing sister cities. Lu is former mayor and current adviser of the Chinese city. He and three other delegates arrived in Cape Girardeau on Sunday, making this the third time a Shaoxing delegation has been here...

This has been a great year for St. Louis Cardinals baseball and hopes were running high Monday night for the Redbirds to clinch the National League Championship Series. Even a blowout by Atlanta didn't dim local fans' hopes that the Cardinals would rebound to earn a spot in the World Series. The Cards were shut out 14-0. They still lead the best-of-seven series 3-2...

Missouri, a national leader in agricultural production, ranks second in number of farms, ranks second in number of cattle operations and is among the top 10 in hay, soybeans, cotton, rice, watermelons and summer potato production. The figures were available in latest issue of Missouri Farm Facts, available from the Missouri Department of Agriculture...

A Reform Organization of Welfare (ROWEL) official is encouraged with the results of a statewide poll that shows voters leaning toward a proposal that would increase the minimum wage to $6.25 an hour. The campaign manager for SOS (Save Our Jobs) Coalition, which opposes Resolution A, which would give workers the highest starting minimum wage in the nation, is disappointed with the poll, commissioned by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and KMOX radio...

While most election-year followers ponder questions on Clinton's character and Dole's tax plan, I'm still trying to figure out what the heck a pundit is. With the changing of the leaves comes the intense final weeks of the long drawn-out political season...

Students get report cards. Parents expect them each quarter and hope that the reports reflect an accurate measure of their children's work. Missouri's 524 public schools now are required, under the Outstanding Schools Act of 1993, to generate a report card about district achievements. The document is supposed to include statistical information about finances, staffing, salaries, class size and dropout rates...

I WOULD like to make a comment regarding James McDougall, Clinton's best friend who is fixing to go to the pen. Why is that the judge down there is going to wait until after the election to sentence him? Something's going on. And I think Susan McDougall is getting kind of tired of sitting behind the bars, because it seems like she's wanting to talk now...

It's one thing to talk about improving the community. It's another matter to dig right in. A group of about 15 Cape Girardeau police officers spent some off-duty hours last week picking up trash on the corners of Good Hope and Middle streets. They didn't have to do it. They saw a need and volunteered their time. They collected and hauled off nearly 15 large bags full of trash...

To the editor: I would like to thank the Southeast Missourian and specifically Heidi Nieland for the unbiased coverage of the Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation's efforts in attempting to procure funding for the purchase of St. Vincent's Seminary. The newspaper's articles have always presented the issues in an evenhanded way and have always been historically accurate...

To the editor: The purpose of this letter is to acknowledge the social workers who are required by law to investigate complaints of child abuse and neglect. They have a misunderstood and thankless job. There is a high degree of turnover in the child-welfare profession. ...

To the editor: Smoking among people today is creating much controversy. Feelings are mixed. There is substantial proof that many people are harmed by smoking. On the other hand, just as many people who have smoked from a very young age to their senior years have not been harmed. Fate has it for some, luck for others...

With Democrats in the majority of the 105th Congress, Dick Gephardt, would be the Speaker of the House. The following people would then become chairmen of the House Committees listed below -- making decisions affecting your business, community and country...

Republican candidate John Hancock wants to open the Missouri secretary of state's office during some holidays. Addressing the media at the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau Monday, which was closed for Columbus Day, Hancock said he'd like to go back to the way things were done before Judith Moriarty and Bekki Cook took office...

David Zimmer, the Natural Law Party candidate for the 8th District congressional seat, will be the guest Sunday on the "Going Public" weekly community affairs program, which airs on KRCU 90.9 FM. The locally-produced half-hour program can be heard at 3 p.m. "Going Public" features interviews and discussion on issues that affect the KRCU broadcast region. Programs focus on Southeast Missouri's arts, history, community affairs, commerce, politics and more...

Billie Letts, a 1969 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University and author of the award-winning novel, "Where the Heart Is," and her husband, Dennis Letts, who formerly taught English at Southeast, will present the Common Hour program Oct. 23 at the university...

A fourth debate between candidates for the 8th Congressional District race has been set for 7 p.m. Oct. 21 at the Farmington Civic Center. All of the candidates have agreed to the debate except Republican Richard Kline, according to Jo Ann Emerson's campaign coordinators...

Funeral service for Jack Edward Komis of Washington, D.C., will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Milton Ryan will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a.m. Komis, 53, died Friday, Oct. 11, 1996, at Washington Center Hospital...

KELSO -- Funeral Mass for Gerald Andrew Glastetter of Denver, Colo., will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso. The Rev. Charles Prass will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City after 4 p.m. today. The rosary will be at 7, and Knights of Columbus prayer service at 7:30...

Lawrence R. Hinck, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 14, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. Arrangements are incomplete with Ford & Sons Funeral Home.

ANNA, Ill. -- Harry Belcher, 79, of Anna died Monday Oct. 14, 1996, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Anna.

CHARLESTON -- Mary M. Hess-Baker, 44, of Charleston died Monday Oct. 14, 1996, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

DEXTER -- Funeral service for Joe Clippard of Dexter will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. Bob Grissom will officiate, with burial in Dexter Cemetery. Clippard, 48, died Sunday, Oct. 13, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Grace Terbrak of Dongola will be held at 1 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Dongola. The Rev. Kenneth Mixen will officiate, with burial in Friendship Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until service time...

SIKESTON -- Kenneth Samuel Vinson, 73, of Belle Glade, Fla., died Friday, Oct. 11, 1996, at Everglades Regional Medical Center in Pahokee, Fla. He was born Dec. 27, 1922, in Hickman County, Ky., son of Samuel Richmond and Pamie Lou Scott Vinson. He and Nellie Vangilder were married April 18, 1942, at Benton. He later married L. Ellen Tanner Sutton Moose in May 1966...

WYATT -- Carolyn Faye Tousky, 46, of Wyatt died Sunday, Oct. 13, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Aug. 27, 1950, in St. Louis, daughter of Walter A. and Katie Woodruff Adams. She married George Tousky. Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Melissa and Teresa Tousky of Wyatt; her mother of Wyatt; a brother, Ricky Adams of Charleston; a sister, Helen Knupp of Wyatt; and a granddaughter...

JACKSON -- Lawrence F. Koehler, 89, of Jackson died Monday, Oct. 14, 1996, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 26, 1907, at Jackson, son of Henry C. and Mary Belle Baugh Koehler. He and Emma L. Biri were married Nov. 13, 1940. She died Oct. 26, 1991...

JACKSON -- Robert E. Rafferty Sr., 87, of Jackson died Monday, Oct. 14, 1996, at Deal Nursing Home. He was born Feb. 7, 1909, at Jackson, son of Thomas and Lenore Franklin Rafferty. He and Mary Mollenhour were married May 26, 1930. Rafferty attended Southeast Missouri State University...

Leland J. Parker, 70, of Tishomingo, Okla., died Monday, Oct. 14, 1996, in a hospital in Ardmore, Okla., following a brief illness. He was born Dec. 11, 1925, in Dallas, Texas, son of Leland R. and Lillian Standifer Parker. He first married Bonnie Thomas, who died in August 1988. He and Mary Jo Ellis were married April 28, 1990, in Tishomingo...

Son to Bradley and Jean Mouser of Jonesboro, Ark., St. Bernerd Hospital there, 8:29 a.m. Friday, Oct. 4, 1996. Name, Bryson Boyd. Weight, 9 pounds 5 ounces. Third son. Mrs. Mouser is the former Jean Stewart, daughter of Jay and Sandra Stewart of Jackson. Mouser is the son of Janet Mouser of Millersville and Larry J. Mouser of Jonesboro. He is employed by Best Diversified Products Inc. in Jonesboro...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Edward Thomas Kerr, 72, of East Prairie died Monday, Oct. 14, 1996, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 23, 1924, in Celina, Tenn., to John Dale and Mary Ellis Kerr. A resident of Mississippi County for the past 17 years, he was employed as a truck driver with Simmons Mattress Co. ...