Stories from Saturday, May 3, 1997

To arrest or not to arrest. For Judge Ed Calvin there is no question. Cape Girardeau's municipal judge issues an arrest warrant for anyone who fails to appear in his court. He's tough on people who break the law. Retired Cape Girardeau businessman Jamie Estes takes issue with Calvin's approach. ...

A report by a subcommittee of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Committee raised serious questions about the city's collection of the 1 percent restaurant tax. The report said 13 restaurants may not be paying the tax and asked the city manager to investigate...

IF NEWT Gingrich had a Lincoln bedroom, he could pay off his $300,000 loan in three nights. THE CITY administration is once again threatening the taxpayers of Cape Girardeau with an increase in their trash pickup. We just had a three percent increase this year and last year both. ...

At right, Creglow hammered a fence post next to his tomato cage to give it strength when the tomato plant grows. Above, Creglow walked beside his rear-tine tiller while doing some light surface tilling. Creglow grows a variety of vegetables and gives most of them away to his neighbors at Chateau Girardeau...

Clayton Huey looked forward to his trip to Jefferson City Monday, where he was to pass on a state honor, tour the capital and maybe meet the governor. But 7-year-old Clayton died early Friday morning after darting out in front of a car on Broadway near Capaha Park Thursday evening...

Some fraternities have tapped out on drinking parties and more are lining up to go alcohol-free. Two Southeast Missouri State University fraternities are the latest to join the nationwide trend. The local chapters of Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Theta are set to go alcohol-free this year, well ahead of the nationwide mandate set by their fraternities' national offices...

Construction on the new Notre Dame High School will begin within a month and the 101,500-square-foot building should be open for business for the 1998-99 school year. The nearly $7 million project is the largest single financial effort ever undertaken by the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese, said Bishop John J. Leibrecht...

The Missouri Senate's move to give tax deductions to parents whose children attend private or parochial high schools garnered praise and criticism Friday. Catholic Bishop John J. Leibrecht of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese congratulated the Senate for passing the measure Thursday...

This is a good time to live in Cape Girardeau. "Things are good," said Cape Girardeau Mayor Al Spradling III. "There's some mud on the streets, but we don't have much to complain about at the present time." Spradling, speaking before a large crowd at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee, discussed the "State of the City."...

How many loved ones have to die before we realize that violence is a problem in our society? My family traveled over 700 miles last week to attend my sister's graduation ceremony. Proud eyes watched my sister accept her diploma from the university president, grasp his hand in a firm handshake, then proudly adjust the tassel on her mortarboard...

JACKSON -- Jackson residents now have a full service recycling center. The city held a grand opening for the renovated at 508 Eastview Court Friday Public Works Director Tom Morris said the center renovation was 70 percent funded by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) through a grant awarded last year for waste reduction and recycling. Total cost of the project was $42,500...

Instead of performing such aerobatic stunts as loops, rolls and hammerheads, Travis Aukes spent most of Friday afternoon wiping down the grounded Red Baron Boeing A-75 Stearman aircraft. "We got rained out," Aukes announced glumly. He and fellow pilot Patrick Rediker flew into Cape Girardeau's Municipal Airport to give rides to area store managers and media reprsentatives in appreciation for helping to promote a fund raiser for the fight against cystic fibrosis...

LaMonte Collier has a lot of confidence in his ability to play baseball. That's why the sensational season he is having doesn't really surprise him. Without trying to sound cocky, Collier says he always felt like he had the ability to be the Ohio Valley's Conference best hitter...

It's back to the Ohio Valley Conference wars for Southeast Missouri State University's baseball Indians. Southeast, with just six OVC games remaining in the regular season, finds itself facing a must-win situation when Tennessee-Martin comes to Capaha Field this weekend...

Looking back on the recent weather history of the Cape Central Big 8 Invitational baseball tournament, a little rain was probably expected this weekend. But the drenching thunderstorms that rolled through the area Friday completely washed away any chance of the high school tournament getting started this weekend. It seems rainy weather is becoming as much a part of the Big 8 tourney as home runs and stolen bases...

Southeast Missouri State University softball coach Lana Richmond expects quite a battle as the Otahkians shoot for their second consecutive Ohio Valley Conference Tournament championship this weekend. Play will be held today and Sunday in Morehead, Ky...

Daughter to Daryl Edwin and Stephanie Elaine Fridley, 1726 Dunklin, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:41 a.m. Saturday, April 26, 1997. Name, Margaret Grace. Weight, 8 pounds 10 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Fridley is the former Stephanie Myers, daughter of William and Charla Myers of Jackson. She is a teacher at Southeast Missouri Music Academy. Fridley is the son of Ed and Lucy Fridley of Anderson, Ind. He is a teacher at Schultz School...

BLOOMFIELD -- Shirley Ann Mowery, 62, of Farmington, died Thursday, May 1, 1997, at Mineral Area Hospital in Farmington. She was born April 8, 1935 in Paragould, Ark., daughter of Willis and Roselie Raines Higgins. She was a former resident of Bloomfield but had lived in the Farmington area for the past few years. She was a member of the Bible Tabernacle Church in Bloomfield...

ORAN -- Elmer Joseph Schaefer, 77, of Oran died Thursday, May 1, 1997, at his home. He was born at Benton on Nov. 21, 1919, to the late Adam and Cora Halter Schaefer. He was a retired farmer and had worked for 30 years for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service at Benton...

Myrtle Violet Riehn, 85, 1927 N. Kingshighway, died Friday, May 2, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Nov. 4, 1911, in St. Louis, daughter of Charles and Goldie Spanswick Wade. She married Troy Hobeck Aug. 18, 1928. He preceded her in death...

ORAN -- Funeral Mass for Martha Clara Scheeter of Oran will be held at 10 a.m. today at Guardian Angel Catholic Church. The Rev. Lewis Hejna will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Oran is in charge of arrangements...

JACKSON -- Barbara Proffer, 84, of Memphis, Tenn., died Thursday, May 1, 1997, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She was born June 30, 1912, at Matthews, daughter of Frank E. and Bertha Radcliff. She and Clifford J. Proffer were married Dec. 27, 1947. He died July 25, 1986...

COMMERCE -- Graveside service for Meredith Reed Ober was held Friday at Oakdale Cemetery in Commerce. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City was in charge of arrangements. The infant was stillborn Wednesday, April 30, 1997, at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Jean Hartline, 66, of Dongola died suddenly Thursday, May 1, 1997, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born Oct. 19, 1930, in St. Louis, daughter of John and Elma Irene Ferguson Rowe. She and Elmer C. Hartline were married Dec. 24, 1947. He died March 20, 1994...

PARMA -- Geneva Johnson, 77, of Evansville, Ind., died Thursday, May 1, 1997, at Holiday Nursing Home in Evansville. She was born Aug. 21, 1919, near Vinson, daughter of John Henry and Dora Clenny Barrett Gregory. She and Lloyd Miles were married in 1939. He died Oct. 17, 1964. She later married Henry Johnson, who died May 13, 1989...

SCOTT CITY -- Alma "Doris" Kinder, 75, of Scott City died Friday, May 2, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Scott City is in charge of arrangements.

GLEN ALLEN -- Funeral service for Jennifer Lynn Winder, 23, of Glen Allen will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Bill Moss will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Winder, 23, died Wednesday, April 30, 1997, at Parkland Health Center in Farmington...

Funeral service for the Rev. Robert Harris Sr., 628 S. Benton, has been changed to 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Second Baptist Church. The Rev. Wiley Reed will officiate, with burial in Haywood Cemetery at Morley. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today...

Clayton Hunter Huey, 7, 2042 Thilenius, died Friday, May 2, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He darted in front of an automobile Thursday night on Broadway. He was born Dec. 27, 1989, in Cape Girardeau, son of Charles and Lisa Lehman Huey. Clayton was in first grade at Franklin School. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Cleta Mary Kiefer, 91, of Perryville, died Thursday, May 1, 1997, at Jupiter, Fla. She was born Aug. 18, 1905 in Sereno, daughter of Lawrence and Mary B. Morgan Endres. She was a homemaker and a past member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church...