Stories from Saturday, November 23, 1996

A Honor Roll Twelfth Grade -- Amber Helmus, Misty Jean Jameson, Gregory Rayburn, Jennifer Schaefer. Tenth Grade -- Amanda Mouser, Amanda Pinnon. Ninth Grade -- Matthew Davis, Angie Kirkpatrick, Dasha Mehrle, Derek Winans. Eighth Grade -- Sarah Hanneken, Drew Helmus...

Read any good food labels lately? Nutrition labels might not be as titillating as your average supermarket tabloid, but they do contain a wealth of information once you know what to look for, experts say. Kay Wood Litwicki reads nutrition labels "all the time."...

It has been a good year for the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. The chamber is in a new building, its membership has remained steady at more than 1,100, and Cape Girardeau acquired more than 500 new jobs. "And Proposition A was defeated," said John Mehner, chamber president...

Schools have changed much since the days of the one-room schoolhouse. Teachers and administrators are regulated much differently on how they interact, teach and discipline students. The simple problems of cutting in line and pushing at the water fountain have been superseded by sexual harassment and guns in schools...

TCI cable television officials insist they aren't bluffing: They will take KFVS-TV off their cable systems in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois Jan. 1, rather than pay to carry the broadcast station. That would leave some 45,000 TCI subscribers without a CBS station on their cable systems...

I just got done reading Scott Moyers' Tuesday column about communicating with his wife, and while I can't exactly empathize with his situation -- I'm a bachelor and need only to find ways to communicate with potential wives -- I can sympathize with the situation he probably found himself in when he got home Tuesday night...

Four Southeast Missouri people are dead following automobile accidents Thursday in Stoddard and Mississippi counties, including three sisters from Charleston. The Highway Patrol identified the three sisters as Dionadrey Pettigrew, 16, Jessica Pettigrew, 15, and Leona Pettigrew, 12...

An eight-week building campaign for Maple United Methodist Church, Jean Ann and Cape Rock Drive, will culminate with a churchwide event Sunday at Drury Lodge. Activities will begin with breakfast at 9:30 a.m., worship service and celebration with a video featuring church members and history, and members offering pledges for the campaign. Theme of the campaign is "Building for the Future."...

A matter of stepping down THE POSITION of speaker of the House is, in my opinion, just as important, if not more important than the president of the United States. So if Newt Gingrich has to step down while he's being investigated, then Bill Clinton should step down while he's being investigated...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education this week appointed a committee to redraw elementary school attendance districts. Members are to present recommendations at the February board meeting. The district's new master plan -- which includes a building program and which the board adopted this week -- would require redistricting with the addition of a new elementary school and the closing of two old buildings...

It is called shock time, and the "shock" of spending 120 days in a Missouri prison seems to snap many offenders back to the straight and narrow. Since 1981, Missouri judges have been allowed to sentence felony offenders to this option. The program works particularly well for first-time and young offenders. The felon can be tagged for a drug and alcohol program, a sex offender's program, a prison boot camp or the general prison population...

To the editor: I am writing this letter to whoever believes the Constitution is the supreme law of the land and that the framers of the Constitution were God-fearing, God-loving men. I'm writing to those of you who believe that the Constitution is a document that has lasted so long because God had a hand in its creation...

Son to Charles George and Nettie Mae Youngerman, 210 Pearl, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:09 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, 1996. Name, Travis Michael. Weight, 7 pounds 2 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Youngerman is the former Nettie Brown, daughter of Nettie Brown of Cape Girardeau. Youngerman is the son of Joyce and Richard Kleiman of Jackson. He is a forklift operator at Ceramo Co...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Lonell Williamson of Dongola will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Revs. Paul Sadler and Roger Menees will officiate. Burial will be in Christian Chapel Cemetery, with military graveside rites by Carroll P. Foster VFW Post 3455 of Anna...

CHARLESTON -- Glen Owen Collier, 67, Charleston Route 2, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born April 20, 1929, in Scott County, son of Freeman and Esther Christine Mitchell Collier Sr. He and June Shaw were married Aug. 28, 1953...

McCLURE, Ill. -- Jessie Marie Rhymer, 81, of McClure, died Friday, Nov. 22, 1996, at her home. She was born June 28, 1915, at McClure, daughter of James and Agnes Charles Reavis. She and John W. Rhymer were married July 15, 1933, in Cairo. He died Jan. 23, 1991...

Howard Templeton, 87, 305 Albert, died Friday, Nov. 22, 1996, at Ratliff Nursing Home. He was born Nov. 9, 1909, at Fruitland. He and Beulah "Boots" Jones were married in 1933. Templeton worked at International Shoe Co. 45 years. He was a member of VFW Post 3838...

Fay P. Robbins, 89, of Hendersonville, Tenn., died Friday, Nov. 22, 1996, in Hendersonville. Ford & Sons Funeral Home of Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements, which will be announced later.

Helen McKee, 93, of Cape Girardeau, died at Chateau Girardeau Health Care Center Friday, Nov. 22, 1996. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Ford & Sons Mount Auburn.

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Perry Dean Schultz Sr., 74, of Dongola, died Friday Nov. 22, 1996 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 10, 1922 in Pulaski County, Ill., son of Henry George and Ollie Stoner Schultz. He married Ruth Dillow Dec. 18, 1948. She preceded him in death April 29, 1990...

CHARLESTON -- Diondrey Lamont Pettigrew, 16, Jessica Mae Pettigrew, 15, and Lenora Pettigrew, 12, all of Charleston, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 1996, of injuries from an automobile accident. They were the children of Mozell and Edna Pettigrew Sherrell...

Ralph Lee Harris Sr., 73, of Jackson, died Friday, Nov. 22, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Services will be held Sunday at Ford & Sons Mount Auburn Chapel at 1:30 p.m. with the Rev. Fred Burgard officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park...

Erna Mueller, 67, of Cape Girardeau, died at Southeast Missouri Hospital Friday, Nov. 22, 1996. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Ford & Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.

ORAN -- Funeral service for Viola Hancock Crain of Oran will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Richard Farquhar will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie. Crain, 53, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...