Stories from Sunday, March 15, 1998

If you're feeling a little light in the wallet, it may be because your state budget was just approved spending about $16-billion. The Missouri House of Representatives passed the state's budget after nearly 2 1/2 days of debate. To prepare I looked through budget documents which measure 3 feet, 6 1/2 inches when stacked up...

(St. Patrick roamed throughout Ireland converting Irish Celts to Christianity in the fifth century. The following prayer, according to legend, protected Patrick from harm from the hostile heathens he sought out to convert.) I arise today Through a mighty strength, the invocation of the Trinity,...

The Brown family quilt is proudly displayed in Idell Dockins' home. Idell Dockins decided the first quilt she made was going to be memorable. So she decided to depict her family history. No small task when you grew up in a family that had 17 children, 14 of which lived past infancy...

25 years ago, 1973 Time was when Southeast Missouri dairymen, requiring good bulls to improve their herds, imported studs from Wisconsin; Cape Girardeau County scored a first recently when registered Holstein was sold to breeders cooperative in Wisconsin; 2,685-pound bull was raised as joint venture by Macke-Hager Farm near Gordonville and Hobb's Haven Farm near Mayfield, Ky...

A gala birthday celebration is being planned by the Altenthal-Joerns Post 158 of The American Legion in Jackson, Missouri as part of the Legion's world wide observance of its 79th anniversary in March, Post Commander Jack Latimer announced today. Under a special Committee directed by Bill Poe the 79th birthday of the American Legion here will be observed with a Social Hour at 5:30 p.m. ...

I read a story on the Associated Press last Tuesday about a man in West Virginia who was ordered by a judge to sell his house and split the proceeds with his estranged wife. The man hated the idea of sharing the house so much that he borrowed a bulldozer and drove it through the two-story home leaving nothing but a pile of rubble...

After the Latrell Sprewell arbitration ruling it is now okay to choke you boss. So go ahead wrap your hands around their neck and go to town. One note of caution, though, hunting your boss down and shooting the unfortunate paper pushers was not addressed in the recent ruling...

To the editor: A call to heroism was answered by two extraordinary young people last September in Bergen County, N.J., a notorious place where partial-birth abortions are performed about 1,800 times a year. A young man, David E. Houlihan, and his partner, Jazz Reiling, were paramedics. David was scheduled to be off that night and had made plans to spend the evening with his two small sons when the medical center called his home and asked him if he would help cover the night shift...

A Southeast Missouri native busy making his mark as a freshman U.S. congressman has an idea that could make a small but significant difference for taxpayers. Rep. Kenny Hulshof of Columbia and a 1976 graduate of Kelly High School in Scott County is a member of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee. Hulshof's measure would exempt from taxation the first $200 in interest and dividend income for single filers and the first $400 for joint filers...

Two developments on the affirmative action front mark interesting mileposts in this debate. Last week we heard from the U.S. Supreme Court, which has been increasingly skeptical in recent years of quotas and preferences for minorities without evidence of discrimination...

The difference between a democratic government and an authoritarian one is basically the difference in which each selects its leaders. The script followed by democracies is an electoral process into which the governed select their leaders and establish them in a office for an agreed period of time. ...

To the editor: Since there is much chatter about what's going to happen to the stock market, an item in another city newspaper caught my attention. It seems that this staff feature writer was noticing that the maintenance workers in his officer were talking constantly about their personal involvement in investments, mutual funds and the stock market. It brought to mind an anecdote about Joseph Kennedy, the patriarch of the Kennedy clan...

President Bill Clinton should tell the truth so government and the rest of the nation can get on with the work at hand, said two Washington Republicans in Cape Girardeau Saturday. U.S. Sen. Christopher S. Bond was the keynote speaker Saturday at the 28th Cape Girardeau County Lincoln Day dinner. About 300 tickets were sold for the annual event sponsored by the Cape Girardeau County Republican Women's Club...

JACKSON -- After lessons about funnel clouds, flash floods, lightening and thunder storms, two dozen new severe weather spotters are on the job in Southeast Missouri. While storm spotters are in place throughout Southeast Missouri, more eyes on the sky mean a better, more reliable early warning system, said Paul Witsaman, National Weather Service meteorologist who taught the basic training class Saturday...

Gardeners know that tomatoes grow best when they receive full sunshine. But, tomatoes also need a lot of water, and a fertilizer high in phosphorous and potassium. There's still plenty of time to plant this popular home garden crop. Plants can be placed in the ground in this area from mid-April through mid-May...

He's no ordinary Joe. Dr. Joe Low Jr., a speech professor at Southeast Missouri State University, likes nothing better than to talk up the school. No one cheers any louder or more enthusiastically for the school than he does. "I have always considered myself a booster of the university," said Low, who has taught at the school for 36 years...

Bryan Leible watched closely as Brice Max used a hack saw to remove a portion of a weight from the left side of young Leible's pinewood derby racer. "We'll take about the same amount of weight off the right side," said Max. "That should put the racer into the right weight class."...

You don't see grown-ups doing this sort of thing unless they're school principals. It's not every day your 6-year-old gets to go to school in pajamas. But such was the case on Friday the 13th for our oldest daughter, Becca. You don't see grown-ups doing this sort of thing unless they're school principals. There's good reason for that...

The College of Health and Human Services at Southeast Missouri State University will be the topic Tuesday on "University Conversations." The 30-minute program can be seen at 6:30 p.m. on local cable access Channel 5. Dr. Paul Keys, dean of the College of Health and Human Services, will be the guest...

Nisha R. Shah, a senior at Cape Central High School, has been recognized with the Cape Girardeau Area Zonta Chapter's International Young Woman in Public Affairs award. The award is presented annually to a student who exemplifies the ideals of Zonta in promoting the legal, political, economic and professional status of women...

Sales are going well for the Southern Living Cooking Show scheduled April 30 at the Show Me Center. Paula Lewis, secretary of the Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Alliance, hopes that tickets sell out. A sell-out show will mean more money for the nine area charities that will share in more than $10,000 from the ticket proceeds...

COLUMBIA -- Been there. Done that. In a scene all too familiar for fans of Jackson High's girls basketball team, the Lady Indians dropped their third straight Class 4A state championship game Saturday at the Hearnes Center. This time, in the state's first-ever televised girls final, the West Plains Lady Zizzers kept Jackson from its ultimate goal of the past three years...

It's not like they tried to get hammered, but Murray State's Racers certainly didn't do the Ohio Valley Conference any favors with their dismal performance in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. At worst, Friday night's game against Rhode Island figured to be a tossup between two athletic yet somewhat undersized teams...

CABOOL -- It was not a good night for area basketball teams here Saturday as they competed in Class 1A state quarterfinal games. Scott County Central's girls were routed by Norwood 70-41, then Delta's boys suffered a 57-45 setback at the hands of Fordland...

COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team, after dropping the opener in part because of a controversial call, came back to claim a split here Saturday. Tennessee Tech prevailed 2-1 in the first game but Southeast erased an early deficit and rolled 13-6 in the nightcap...

The Four Seasons Chapter of the National Audubon Society will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Missouri Department of Conservation building in Cape Girardeau County Park North. Ida Domazlicky will present the program on "Bird Identification by Sight and Songs." She is author of "The Bald Eagle in Illinois" and writes a monthly column for the Nature Society News...

Kent Freeman of Cape Girardeau won the 1998 Wild Turkey Federation's Grand National Decorative Callmaking Competition Feb. 27 at the annual NWTF Convention in Indianapolis, Ind. Freeman won the Best of Show award with a carved duck call in the Duck and Goose Call Competition and Second Best of Show with a carved box turkey call in the Turkey Call Competition...

Where do you look to find fish? In the water, of course. But you need a more exact answer if you're an angler trying to catch them. Fish might be found in water scarcely deep enough to cover their backs, or they might be 30 feet deep. They may feed on the bottom, on the surface, or anywhere in between. Each species of fish goes through different cycles at various times of the year and eats different foods...

Marie Brookshire, 69, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Rosa "Rosie" Enke, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at the St. Francis Medical Center emergency room. She was born Oct. 15, 1922 at New Wells, Mo., the daughter of Edward and Margareta Tiedmann Perr. She married Harold Enke Sept. 27, 1941 in New Wells. He survives...

PERRYVILLE -- Zita M. Barnes, 97, formerly of Perryville, died Wednesday, March 11, 1998, at her daughter's home in Godfrey, Ill. She was born Dec. 21, 1900 at Perryville, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ora Thorp Comte. She was married to Walter Barnes on Dec. 20, 1920. He preceded her in death...

ALTENBURG -- Henry Adolph Meinz, 83, of Altenburg died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at Altenburg. Arrangements are under the direction of Young & Sons Funeral Home in Perryville.

MATTHEWS -- Imogene Caldwell, 75, of Matthews, formerly of East Prairie, died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at her home after an extended illness. She was born May 18, 1922 at Blytheville, Ark., daughter of Charlie and Lily Evans Fisher. She has lived most of her life in East Prairie, moving to Matthews three years ago. She was Baptist...

THEBES, Ill. -- Virtus Childers, 90, of Thebes, Ill., died Saturday, March 14, 1998, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, Ill. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery at Thebes. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home...

ORAN -- Herbert Blattel, 62, of Oran dead at his home Saturday, March 14, 1998. Arrangements under direction of Amick-Burnett Funeral Home of Oran.

Wilson L. Box, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 13, 1998, at his home. He was born Sept. 20, 1915, in Hagarville, Ark., son of James and Martha Price Box. He and Iva L. Sexton were married Dec. 4, 1937 at Benton. She preceded him in death Sept. 27, 1990...

DEXTER -- Orpha Wise, 87, of Morehouse, died Friday, Mar. 13, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born at Jasper, Ark., Jan. 7, 1911, daughter of George and Minnie Strode Reynolds. She attended the First Oneness Pentecostal Church in Morehouse...

FARRAR -- Augusta M. Koenig, 83, of Farrar, died Friday, March 13, 1998 at PerryOaks Healthcare Center. She was born May 6, 1914 at Longtown, daughter of Eberhardt and Louise Mehner Popp. On April 12, 1936, she married Alfred Edwin Koenig. He survives...

Jonathan Blattel, 11, helped his grandfather, Flavian Lappe, plant potatoes Feb. 24. Joe Kluesner planted white onions just deep enough to keep the birds from digging them up. Joe Kluesner, right, and his son Dennis planted white onions. Dortha Strack measured spinach seeds into packages at Sunny Hill Gardens & Florist...

Jean Bell Mosley's new autobiography, "For Most of the Century," is only available in serialized form in the the Southeast Missourian. Return each week for her continuing story. April 20, 1944 After supper on Wednesday, April 19, 1944, Edward and I and Queenie, the bird dog, walked northward on the gravel street to the top of the East Rodney hill. ...

Children may eat brunch with the Easter Bunny April 4 as part of a fund-raiser for the Zonta Club of Cape Girardeau. In addition to brunch with the bunny, children may hunt for Easter eggs, do the Bunny Hop and dance the Hokey Pokey from 9:30 to 11 a.m. at Celebrations, 615 Bellevue...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will hold the 10th annual Easter Egg Hunt April 4 at Capaha Park, rain or shine.The hunt begins in the parking lot near the swimming pool. Children will be divided by age. Those ages 1 to 4 will begin at 10 a.m. Those ages 5 to 10 will begin at 11:15 a.m...

The Cape Girardeau Jaycee's are holding their second annual Springfest Dance from 8 p.m. to midnight Saturday, April 4, at the A.C. Brase Arena Building. The Renditions will perform polkas, waltzes and country music. Tickets may be purchased at First National Bank of Cape Girardeau and Schnucks for $7.50. Tickets are $8 at the door...