Stories from Wednesday, July 30, 1997

Cape Girardeau is looking at expanding water to the new Notre Dame Regional High School, which is under construction. The new school is located about two miles outside the city limits, but committee members have requested that the site be annexed. While the annexation makes sense, the timetable for water may be unrealistic for the city. The school needs water by November and has asked the city to expedite the matter...

The city of Cape Girardeau has adopted a new annexation policy. The policy not only targets potential areas for growth, but it outlines how city services will be extended to these areas. This plan of action streamlines the annexation process. It's a sensible and realistic approach to orderly growth...

Some of Cape's breakfast crowd will face a dilemma Friday after their favorite meeting place, WIMPY'S, closes. Sports boosters, hard kidders and -- though they won't admit it -- good friends, said goodbye with a special get together last Saturday afternoon...

Two groups of farmers are in Southeast Missouri this week. Soybean growers from a half-dozen states will be looking at more than soybeans during a three-day visit in the Bootheel Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The visit was arranged by the American Soybean Association (ASA) and FMC Corp...

It's not quite a done deal, but it is almost certain that starting Oct. 1, three scheduled flights on Trans World Express will arrive and depart Cape Girardeau Regional Airport every weekday, said Bill Mishk, marketing director for Trans World Express...

A fund drive to help support the Kohlfeld Capahas' trip to the National Baseball Congress World Series has started somewhat slowly, but Capahas' manager Jess Bolen expects things to pick up. After the Southeast Missourian got the ball rolling on Monday by pledging $500, another $800 came in Tuesday...

Construction of an interstate highway between Paducah, Ky., and Van Buren could cost from $450 million to $625 million depending on the route, Missouri highway officials say. The Missouri Department of Transportation is doing a cost analysis of proposed Interstate 66. The cost study focuses on four alternatives involving five possible routes...

ADVANCE -- The only thing an early-morning house fire didn't take from an Advance couple Tuesday was the support of their friends and family. Jared and Amber Smith left their two-bedroom brick house at 6:15 a.m. to go to work. At about 9:30 a.m., Smith said he received a call from the fire department saying his house was on fire...

Nearly two years after its first discussions with Cape Girardeau city officials about water and sewer service, members of the building committee at Notre Dame High School still have not applied to the city for water service. After meeting with city officials Monday, members of the building committee haven't decided how to supply the school with water, said Hillary Schmittzehe, chairman of the building committee...

Nudist resorts aren't all they're cracked up to be. Living in Florida for Nude Recreation Week taught me two things I didn't know. First, this observance actually exists. Second, nudists aren't the sexy people pictured on television and in movies. You don't learn much about nude recreation in Missouri. ...

JACKSON -- The kitty is empty and the shelves need supplies at the Jackson Ministerial Alliance Food Pantry. The Rev. Scott Lohse, pastor of New McKendree United Methodist Church, said cash and food donations are needed immediately. "It's always a hard time of the year for some families when the children are home all summer," said Lohse. "There is a greater demand for food."...

The Southeast Missourian asked people about the types of new retail businesses they would like to see locate in Jackson. Kelly McElrath: "We need some clothing stores here. Also some sit-down restaurants would be good to have too." Vince Friedrich: "We need to build places for people to make money, not just spend money. I buy everything I need in Jackson. We have a lot, but we need more."...

JACKSON -- A $10.54 million bond issue that would allow for new city water and sewer services will be decided Tuesday by Jackson voters. The work on the new projects would be done over a six-year period. Sanitary sewer improvements would cost $7.375 million and water projects would cost an additional $3.165 million...

First, let me apologize to readers for having permitted a cat to cloud my vision. The last thing I ever wanted was to fall in love with a cat. At the same time, I feel duty-bound to apologize to the beautiful cat across the way. I should have invited him to lend me his ear months ago. His regal mien was proof positive that he was of royal lineage...

Cape Girardeau's Kohlfeld Capahas are brimming with confidence as they gear up for another trip to the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. The Capahas had their final pre-tournament workout in Cape Girardeau Tuesday night, taking part in a session at Capaha Field...

JACKSON -- Gary King of Jackson shot his first hole-in-one as he aced the 195-yard, par-3, No. 8 hole at Kimbeland Country Club Tuesday. King, who used a six-iron, was playing with Mark Mungle, Woody Fadler and Gerald Blattel.

BENTON -- Jerod Hull of Sikeston held off Brooke Tatnell to pick up his fourth Winged Sprint feature win of the year during the most recent action at Missouri International Racepark. Tatnell, of Tempe, New Australia, won the right to sit on the pole of the feature after winning the dash. Hull finished second in the dash...

JACKSON -- Anna Josephine Brockmire, 77, of Jackson died Tuesday, July 29, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 7, 1919, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of Gustav and Anna Marie Schmidt Schuch. She and Arnold C. Brockmire Sr. were married Sept. 26, 1941, at Charleston. He died in September 1979...

Nelda Juanita Brown, 83, of Midland, Mich., died Saturday, July 26, 1997, at Stratford Village in Midland. She was born Dec. 14, 1913, in Advance, daughter of Charles Stewart and Mayme Davis Prather. She and Chester M. Brown were married June 11, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, He died Aug. 12, 1981...

DELTA -- Henry Heinsohn, 91, of Delta died Tuesday, July 29, 1997, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee. He was born Oct. 13, 1905, in Neola, Iowa, son of Lorenz and Helena Allers Heinsohn. He and Cora Jane Goodall were married Aug. 30, 1946, in DeSoto. She died July 18, 1997...

SULLIVAN -- Wanda Lee Crites, 67, of Sullivan and formerly of Delta, died Tuesday, July 29, 1997. Survivors include her husband, Roy Crites of Sullivan, a daughter, Lila Langworthy of Versailles, Mo.; two sons, Rodney Crites of Pleasant Valley, Mo., and Timothy Crites of Moberly; two sisters, Willa Dean Propst of Jackson and Laverne Nothdurft of Whitewater; a brother, Douglas White of Tulsa, Okla., and seven grandchildren...

Russell Fowler, 89, 230 N. Ellis, died Tuesday, July 29, 1997. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home.

Two Illinois men were in Southeast Missouri Hospital Tuesday night after a head-on collision on the Illinois side of the Cape Girardeau Mississippi River bridge that tied up traffic for more than an hourMonday evening. At 8:10 p.m., Perry Jennings, 36, of McClure, Ill., was driving a rental truck heading east on the bridge when it crossed the center line and struck a pickup driven by Brian Shelton of Cache, Ill., according to the Illinois State Police. ...

Daughter to Kimberly Kay Holzbauer of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:02 a.m. Monday, July 14, 1997. Name, Morgan Arica. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounce. Second child, first daughter. Ms. Holzbauer is the former Kimberly Werner, daughter of Ron and Janet Werner of Cape Girardeau. She is a claims processor at Alliance Blue Cross Blue Shield...

Carl Fisher, of Dongola, Ill., died Tuesday, July 29, 1997 at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangement are incomplete at the Crain Funeral Home in Dongola.