Stories from Thursday, April 16, 1998

`Arts for All,' an art program tailored for children and adults with disabilities, will be presented May 2. While the program is tailored for children and adults with disabilities, non-disabled participants are encouraged to join in. The program will run from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the A.C. Brase Arena Building...

The cast of "The King and I" consists of 74 members, 15 of them children from local parochial schools. As the curtains open tonight on Notre Dame High School's production of "The King and I," the audience will be transported to a stateroom of a British ship about to dock in Bangkok, the largest city of Siam...

A handful of anti-tax protesters from the Libertarian, Reform and U.S. Taxpayers parties greeted customers who stopped by the Cape Girardeau post office Wednesday to mail their federal tax returns. Greg Tlapek, an unabashed local promoter of the Libertarian Party, was among seven protesters who paraded with placards in front of the post office over the lunch hour. The protesters were from the Libertarian and Reform parties...

Cape Girardeau's hospitals want to serve as the hub of regional health care, not a spoke, administrators said Wednesday. If the hospitals can establish a single health-care system by affiliation, "we can create one strong, consolidated and integrated delivery system here in our region," said Jim Wente...

A secret meeting in the woods with family friends begging to be sheltered from the Nazis. A mother spoon feeding her newborn baby opium so it would die quickly and not cry, which might lead to their discovery. Living in a ghetto and watching as other Jews died from starvation or disease...

April 16, 1998 Dear Patty, It's tornado time here in Missouri. We're at the eastern end of Tornado Alley, just about the spot where the bowling pins would be set up. Not that we have a history of disasters. A killer storm hasn't come through in almost 50 years...

To the editor: I just want to add a resounding Amen to the letter to the editor in Sunday's paper regarding what the Drurys have given to the city. I do not know Connie Eichhorn personally, but I've known the Drurys all my life, went to school with some of them and worked at Drury Co. ...

As Missouri's attorney general, Jay Nixon, observed during a visit to Cape Girardeau this week, the state's swelling prison population must be viewed along with the declining statistics for major crime. For Nixon and most supporters of stiff, mandatory prison sentences, there is a direct correlation. The same can be said for the sharp increase in the number of prisoners at the Cape Girardeau County Jail over the past three or four years...

Students in our public schools tend to view certain events through the eyes of youth. For example, a snowstorm isn't a headache for highways. It's a reason to stay home from school. How many youths have longed for Mother Nature's assistance on cold, dreary winter mornings? The same snow that keeps schools closed, of course, is no reason to stay indoors. There are snowmen to build, hills to be sledded down, forts to erect for neighborhood snowball battles...

To the editor: I fell off a ladder in 1987, injuring my back. I entered the hospital and was released sometime later with a back brace. After wearing the back brace and seeing a doctor for several months, I was advised I should have back surgery. Nine months later, in July 1988, I had the surgery, which left me paralyzed from the waist down...

Students from five area high schools took over local decision-making Wednesday during the 13th annual Optimist Youth in Government Day. Seventy students from Cape Girardeau Central, Notre Dame, Jackson, Oak Ridge and Delta high schools participated by assuming roles of city, county and federal government officials for a day. The event is sponsored by the four Cape Girardeau and two Jackson Optimist clubs...

Southeast Missouri State University's minority affairs commission wants to roll out the welcome mat in Cape Girardeau for black students, faculty, staff and the general public. "Building Success" is the theme of the second meeting of the President's Commission on Minority Affairs scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday in the University Center Ballroom...

The Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball team picked up its second recruit of the spring signing period Wednesday when Brian Bunche of West Plains Community College signed to play for the Indians. Bunche, a 6-foot-8, 240-pound junior, averaged 10 points and seven rebounds in his final season at West Plains. He shot 53 percent from the floor and 62 percent from the line as West Plains finished 25-8...

Kris Buchheister, Southeast Missouri State University's first-year women's gymnastics coach, has been selected to speak at a youth clinic that is in conjunction with the NCAA National College Gymnastics Championship. The NCAA Championship meet will be held Saturday in Los Angeles...

POPLAR BLUFF -- The Cape Central Tiger baseball team continued to roll through their SEMO Conference schedule Wednesday with an 8-2 win at Poplar Bluff. The Tigers pounded 13 hits and Craig Ringwald pitched into the seventh inning before the game was called due to darkness. The victory improves Central to 9-2 overall and 4-0 in conference play...

The closer it gets to draft day, the more anxious and nervous Angel Rubio becomes. "I think I'm just now starting to get anxious and nervous," he said. "I've been dealing with everything well, but now it's crunch time I guess you could say." The 1998 National Football League draft will be held this weekend, with the first three rounds on Saturday and the final four rounds on Sunday...

Brad Kolwyck School: Kelly Class: Sophomore Sport: Baseball Position: Center Field Coach: Mike Scott Week report: Kolwyck went 6-for-11 (.545) with five RBI's as Kelly completed an undefeated string of four games to improve to 6-1. The Hawks won the inaugural Quad-State Tournament in Anna (Ill.) with a pair of 4-0 wins in the round-robin tourney. Kolwyck had Kelly's only two hits in a win over Anna-Jonesboro. He also went 3-for-3 with four RBIs in a 14-4 win over Charleston on Thursday...

JACKSON -- In a triangular meet Wednesday at Kimbeland Country Club, Notre Dame shot a 160, Jackson a 171 and Malden a 194. Notre Dame's John Brey, Jonathan LeGrand and Nick Spantgos each shot a meet-best 39. Cliff Seratti shot a 43. For Jackson, Gabe Estes shot a 42 and Craig Hutson, Tom Henderson and Chris Pike each shot a 43...

PEKIN, Ill. -- Southeast Missouri State University's golf team won the 15-team Bradley University Spring Golf Invitational at Lick Creek Golf Course on Tuesday. Southeast's five-man team shot a 614 for two rounds, bettering Marquette by four strokes on the 6,909-yard, par-72 course. Wisconsin-Green Bay was third (619), Indian Hills fourth (623) and DePaul fifth (636)...

Funeral for Linus Emil Dohogne of Paragould, Ark., was held Tuesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Joseph Kay officiating. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery in Paragould. Heath Funeral Home in Paragould was in charge of arrangements. Dohogne, 86, died Saturday, April 11, 1998, at Arkansas Methodist Hospital...

CHARLESTON -- Robert C. Jones, 82, of Charleston died Wednesday, April 15, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 13, 1916, at Dudley, son of Odes Naldo and Mary Ann Cozart Jones. He and Minnie G. Monroe were married May 26, 1937...

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Carl Ross Mileur, 64, of Grantsburg died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at his home. He was born March 2, 1934, in Murphysboro, son of Harmon and Jessie Boucher Mileur. He and Virginia Hawk were married Sept. 5, 1953, at Murphysboro. Mileur served 20 years in the U.S. Air Force, and later was transportation shop foreman with a school district in California...

SIKESTON -- Johnnie Lee Templeton, 77, died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Sept. 19, 1920, in Mainord, Ark., son of Aubrey and Valda Kidd Templeton. He and Catherine Adel Murdock were married Oct. 9, 1943. She died June 5, 1995...

SCOTT CITY -- Sadie Marie Wilkerson, 91, of Scott City died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 26, 1906, in Delia County, Texas, daughter of Almond E. and Zuma Wood Hillis. She married William Bryan Wilkerson Feb. 11, 1926, in Waco, Texas. He died June 25, 1974...

Funeral for James Louis Whitledge of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Barry Pfanstiel will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery at Jackson. Friends may call at the chapel from 4-8 p.m. today...

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- George W. Vandergraph, 83, of Alto Pass died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born March 25, 1915, in Greenfield, Mo., son of Charles and Millie Vandergraph. He and Marie Sanders were married July 20, 1935, in Jonesboro...

SIKESTON -- Columbus R. "Ross" Taylor, 84, of Sikeston died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born May 8, 1913, in Marble, Ark., son of William Riley and Emma Viola Suggs Taylor. He and Gladys H. Smith were married April 7, 1949, at Oran...

DEXTER -- Goldie Fay Crane, 88, of Dexter died Wednesday, April 15, 1998, at Vintage Villa Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 10, 1910, at Dexter, daughter of William P. and Elizabeth Fields Singleton. She and C.A. Crane were married Feb. 25, 1926, at Bloomfield. He died March 2, 1967...

Kim S. Hill, 49, of Lehigh Acres, Fla., died Tuesday, April 14, 1998. He was born in Davenport, Iowa, son of Sherman and Vicki Hill. Hill moved to Lehigh Acres in 1982 from Cape Girardeau. He was employed with the U.S. Postal Service in Sanibel, Fla...

Vickie Sue James, 44, of Newport, N.H., died Tuesday, April 14, 1998, at New London Hospital in New London, N.H. She was formerly of Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Billy E. Butler, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, April 15, 1998, at Missouri Veterans Home. He was born July 28, 1921, in Muskogee, Okla., son of Charles C. and Lucille Penley Butler. He married Veronica Mattingly. Butler was a foreman at Union Electric 33 years, retiring in 1984. He was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral...

MILLERSVILLE -- Carolyn M. Daniel, 61, of Millersville died Wednesday, April 15, 1998, at her home. She was born March 30, 1937, at Millersville, daughter of Tony E. and Mabel M. Hahs Friese. She and Charlie R. Daniel were married Nov. 16, 1956. Daniel was a member of Millersville United Methodist Church and its United Methodist Women, and member of PEO Chapter DJ...

Jesse Walton Hand, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, April 15, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

ADVANCE -- Ada Jo Nanna, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday April 15, 1998, at the Advance Nursing Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.