Stories from Tuesday, June 10, 1997

The Martin Luther's Small Catechism was taught in German into the 1950s at Die Kleine Schule (The Little School) in Frohna. This copy was printed in both German and English in 1912. Die Kleine Schule (The Little School) was built in 1898 by Concordia Lutheran Church in Frohna. Many of the original furnishings and books can be seen at the school...

CYBERTIP: The staff of SEMissourian.com will present a lecture/slide show on the Internet Thursday from 7-8 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School. A question-and-answer period will follow. The cost is free. Registration is requested but not required. Call 335-6611 to register...

Tonia Christine Stott of Cape Girardeau was among students named to the fall honor roll at Utah State University. Stott, a humanities, arts and social sciences major, achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or better to earn this honor.

Oak Ridge High School graduates have received several scholarships and awards. Amy Strickland received the $5,000 Drury College Scholars Award, the $2,000 Bright Flight Award, the $1,000 Drury College Dean's Scholarship, the $1,000 Procter & Gamble Award, the $500 Leadership Award, the $500 matching scholarship and a $50 savings bond from Boatmen's Bank. She is the daughter of Paul Strickland and Sally Strickland...

The following graduates of Scott City High School received scholarships to further their education. Chastity Bercey received the Scott City Kiwanis Club scholarship. She is the daughter of Linda Brannan of Scott City and John Bercey of Los Angeles. Lori Arnzen received the Camp Enterprise Scholarship and Scott City Federation of Teachers' Scholarship. She is the daughter of Ervin and Lana Arnzen of Scott City...

Area municipal pools have been getting the cold shoulder from residents since Memorial Day because of unseasonably cool weather. Doug Gannon, recreation and aquatics coordinator for the Cape Girardeau Parks Department, said attendance was down by a third during this Memorial Day weekend compared to last year; 627 people have used the Capaha Park pool this year compared to 990 by this time in 1996...

Finding affordable rental property could be a lot easier for new or relocating renters in Cape Girardeau this summer due to a favorable renter's market. An uncommonly large number of rental apartments and properties are vacant this summer due to the end of Southeast Missouri State University's school year, families transferring or moving out of the city, and other unknown factors. ...

Fifty-five percent of the families living in the more than 16,000 residential units in Cape Girardeau own their homes. The home ownership rate increases when county property is counted: to 62.6 percent ownership of the more than 25,000 residential units...

"You either shut up or get cut up; they don't want to hear about it. It's only inches on the reel-to-reel And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel." -- Elvis Costello, "Radio, Radio" Wonderful radio, marvelous radio...

I HAVE a question for the citizens of this city. I'm looking for a bubble recipe which uses glycerine, Dawn detergent and water. You mix the three components and put it in a proper container and children can make bubbles out of it that will float through the air and that they can pop. Can somebody please give me the correct amounts of each item? I'd appreciate it and thank you...

Dear editor: The article in the Marble Hill Banner-Press about hands by Robert Horrel was outstanding, and it should make us think about some other parts of us. The tongue for instance. No one has ever conquered it completely. What has happened to the promise and a hand shake. Those days are gone, except a few people who know each other well enough that they will still rely on their word...

Dear editor: On May 10, 1997, while installing the officers for the Missouri State Council of the International Reading Association in Columbia, I was stricken with a neurological medical emergency. Being a member of Lynwood Baptist Church, a teacher at L.J. ...

Dear editor: I would like to comment on an article that I read in Wednesday's paper on the P&G donation to the Cape and Jackson school districts. First of all, I think this is a wonderful thing for P&G to do for schools. However, I question why $500,000 could not have been spread around to include all Cape county schools...

Magazine publisher Steve Forbes ran for president in last year's primaries and lost, but that doesn't seem to have deterred him in the least. This year, Forbes has been among the most active of any Republicans on the national scene. In the process, given a certain shellshocked attitude among many Republicans in Congress, Forbes has served as a sort of leading indicator on issue after issue -- a political canary in the mineshaft, if you will. ...

The FBI reported last week that violent crimes reported to police dropped by a record 7 percent in 1996 as overall serious crime declined for the fifth years in a row. Led by record declines of 11 percent in murders and 6 percent in aggravated assaults, preliminary FBI figures showed that violent crimes of murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault together had the largest one-year decline in the 35 years since the FBI began reporting year-to-year comparisons in 1961...

Members of Cape Girardeau American Legion Post 63 and its auxiliary will hold a Flag Day Retirement and Disposal Ceremony at 6 p.m. Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Veterans Home. All faded, worn, tattered, torn, stained or otherwise unserviceable flags will be disposed of in a symbolic burning. Following the indoor ceremony, the flags will be burned in a brick pit outside the Veterans Home...

After almost two years of planning, a name change and final regulatory approval, Capaha Bank is open in Cape Girardeau. John Abercrombie unlocked the doors to the public at 3168 William St. Monday morning. "We're open," said Abercrombie, president of Capaha Bank, headquartered in Tamms, Ill. "We've been looking forward to our new branch since the spring of 1995."...

Cape Girardeau Board of Education president Dr. Ferrell Ervin will be celebrity guest conductor for the Municipal Band Concert Wednesday at the Capaha Park Band Shell. The 8 p.m. concert is free, but guests are advised to bring lawn chairs. Ronald Nell is director. Mike Dummy will provide special musical entertainment...

Two Internet hands-on training sessions will be held today, sponsored by the Southeast Missourian. One begins at 10 a.m. and a second starts at 7 p.m. in the A+ Lab. All those who signed up for the class received letters of confirmation. A $5 fee will be collected at the door...

Participants in this week's third annual Capaha Field Baseball Camp will receive instructions from one of the best shortstops in the history of the game and a certain future Hall of Fame selection. The camp, set for Thursday and Friday at Capaha Field, will have as its featured instructor former St. Louis Cardinals great Ozzie Smith...

Celeste Ramsey figures to take plenty of momentum into her freshman year at Southeast Missouri State University. Ramsey, a recent Perryville High School graduate, capped a sensational senior season of running by winning both the 1,600-meter and 3,200-meter (in state meet record time) during the Class 3A state track meet held May 30-31 in Jefferson City...

Southeast Missouri State University will unveil its new men's head basketball coach Wednesday morning. School officials released a statement Monday saying that a news conference will be held on campus at 11 a.m. Wednesday to announce the new coach. The four finalists for the position -- out of an original field of 54 -- visited the Southeast campus last week for interviews, meetings and news conferences...

American Legion baseball games don't get much more offensive-minded than Monday night's homer opener for Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons. Cape and Murphysboro (Ill.) combined for 29 hits, 23 men left on base and 22 runs in the nine-inning contest at Capaha Field. Each team went down in order only once all evening and the squads also made seven errors, four by the visitors...

KELSO -- Area fast-pitch softball fans once again figure to be in for a real treat when the 13th annual Kelso Klassic is held here Friday through Sunday. The 16-team tournament, featuring some of the Midwest's top squads, is sponsored by the Kelso Kwik Stop and the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Jackson's Junior American Legion baseball team swept a Monday night doubleheader from visiting Poplar Bluff, winning both games 8-3. Jackson (3-3) had 22 hits in the two games. Darrin Hahs pitched five innings for the winning in the opener. Chris Kohm and Jesse Boyer both had two hits...

BENTON -- Billy James of Sikeston bettered the field of Super Streeters Saturday to take the top honors for the fifth time this year at Missouri International Racepark. "Me and Greg King, my brother-in-law, started on the front row and we swapped leads back and forth," said James. "That was the closest race that I have been in, in a long time...

Southeast Missouri softball has signed junior-college transfer Ricki DeArmon, a first-team NJCAA All-American, to a letter of intent. DeArmon, an outfielder from John A. Logan College, was named the MVP of the Great Rivers Athletic Conference as well as the Region 24 MVP. She was also named to her conference's all-academic team...

CHARLESTON -- Shirley Ann Fitzgerald, 43, of Charleston died Monday, June 9, 1997, at her home. She was born Nov. 7, 1953, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of Oris Douglas and Mary Louise Lomax Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald had lived in Mississippi County most of her life. She was a member of First General Baptist Church...

MARBLE HILL -- Dora N. Cooper, 78, of Star City, Ark., died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at Jefferson Regional Medical Center in Pine Bluff, Ark. She was born July 26, 1918, near Marble Hill, daughter of Lee and Rosetta Hahn Fisher. She and Warren Cooper were married July 18, 1936...

CHARLESTON -- Samuel Albert Nicholson, 81, of Charleston died Monday, June 9, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 9, 1915, at Bertrand, son of C.W. and Ethel Vivian Presson Nicholson. He and Mildred Brown were married Aug. 22, 1936...

James T. Frierson, 65, 845 Walnut, died Monday, June 9, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Oct. 18, 1931, in Mt. Pleasant, Tenn., son of Sam Henry and Janey Josephine Wilson Frierson. He and Betty Terry were married Feb. 28, 1978, in Cape Girardeau...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral Mass for Ralph Peter Seyer of Chaffee will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Ambrose Catholic Church. The Rev. Allan Saunders will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements...

ANNA, Ill. -- William M. Coleman Sr., 83, of Anna died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at his home, following a lingering illness. He was born Feb. 25, 1914, in Chicago, son of Cornelius and Elizabeth Kelly Coleman. He and Helen Novak were married in 1942. Coleman resided in Kankakee County 40 years. He worked as an electrician for the New York Central Railroad, Roper Corp., Kankakee School District, and several years at Manteno State Hospital...

JACKSON -- Ada M. Schreiner, 97, of Jackson died Monday, June 9, 1997, at Heritage Gardens Nursing Home. She was born Dec. 23, 1899, at Marble Hill, daughter of Bill and Rozetta Croft Watkins. She and John Wesley Schreiner were married Jan. 14, 1918. He died July 16, 1965...

ANNA, Ill. -- Ethel Mae Duncan, 73, of Anna died Monday, June 9, 1997, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. Friends may call at Hileman and Parr Funeral Home in Jonesboro from 4-8 p.m. Funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Jonesboro Cemetery...

The Area Wide United Way added a new program this spring that will help it do what it does best: make funding available for programs in the community to help those in need. The agency recently awarded more than $19,000 to 10 different agencies in Cape Girardeau and Marble Hill as part of the One-Time Grant Program. Funding for this program became available after the United Way surpassed its 1996 campaign goal of $525,000...

Victor F. Rouviere Sr., 53, of Independence died Monday, June 9, 1997, at his home. He was born March 5, 1944, in Topeka, Kan., son of Paul and Opal Tarbutton Rouviere. He was a graduate of Topeka High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He worked as a goldsmith in Cape Girardeau and Topeka. He worked for the Evangical Children's Home in Kansas City and lived most of his adult life in Cape Girardeau...