Stories from Thursday, September 10, 1998

To the editor: After watching President Bill Clinton's recent televised confession of his affair with a White House intern, one question leaps to mind: If he lied about Monica Lewinsky, what makes you think he wasn't lying about the benefits of every new government program he proposed over the last six years? In light of his yes-I'm-a-liar speech, is it possible that his planned takeover of the nations health care system would not have, in fact, resulted in better service and lower prices, contrary to his promises? That $500 billion in new taxes would not have reduced teen-age cigarette smoking? That the Communications Decency Act would have, in fact, actually restricted freedom of speech? Keep in mind for six years we've watched President Clinton go on television and try to seduce Americans with the alleged benefits of some new government program. ...

Cape Girardeau's Planning and Zoning Commission is recommending rezoning blocks of North Park Avenue, North West End Boulevard and Normal Avenue. The commission Wednesday night voted to recommend granting the request of property owners to rezone the 300 block of North Park, the 500 block of North West End Boulevard and the 500 block of Normal from R-4 multiple family residential to R-2 single family residential...

Quilting isn't just another art form or hobby for members of the River Heritage Quilter's Guild. It's also a way for them to help a worthy cause. A silent auction to benefit breast cancer awareness is planned during the guild's second juried Quilt Show. The show will be held Sept. 26 and 27 at Centenary United Methodist Church Family Life Center, 300 N. Ellis. Admission is $3. The show will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 26 and from noon to 4 Sept. 27...

Southeast Missouri State University will sponsor an Early Childhood-School-Age Child Care Conference Sept. 26. Featured speaker will be Bev Bos, director and teacher at Roseville Community Preschool in Roseville, Calif., for 32 years. She is the author of three books on creativity for young children: "Don't Move the Muffin Tins," "Before the Basics" and "Together We're Better."...

Cape Girardeau City Council Agenda, Tuesday, Sept. 8 Consent ordinances -- Approved an ordinance establishing the boundaries of Lateral Sewer District 14-1-C-1, approving the plans and authorizing the construction of a system of sanitary lateral sewers under a private contract subject to certain provisions...

Amidst the hay and horses, cows and corn, the SEMO District Fair brings country music to Cape Girardeau next week. The fair begins Sunday and runs through Sept. 19 at Cape Girardeau's Arena Park. Grandstand entertainment begins Monday with a demolition derby. Tuesday is a tractor pull, and Wednesday is a truck pull...

I'VE BEEN watching the paper seeing if anybody said anything about the Judgment House that Lynwood Baptist Church did. I just want to say that they did an exceptional job on it, and it was really a great experience. I want to thank them for it. AFTER READING the article about the Salvation Army being overloaded with clothing and goods, I would suggest that they could eliminate that problem by actually giving away the things collected or else or charge for them at a price greatly reduced from than what they are charging now. ...

Practically anyone who saw the message posted on a Woodland High School student's personal Web site would have be offended. The Internet home page created by Brandon Beussink and, according to the heading on the page, his sister, Brittney, contains language that is not only vulgar, but also repulsive in its attacks on the school, its faculty, its principal and the school's own Web page...

Mark McGwire fever is easy to catch. His record-breaking performance at Busch Stadium in St. Louis has captured the attention of the nation -- and the world. The Cardinals are enjoying more fan support -- if calculated by paid admissions -- than ever, and they aren't even winning all that many games...

To the editor: I am sure that by now you are aware the Missourians Against Cockfighters got enough signatures on its petition to put our fate to a statewide vote. I feel like we are in 1903 and have no rights to decide what we as taxpaying Americans can do with our own lives. I feel like a slave being told what to do and when to do it...

To the editor: Should President Clinton be impeached? This seems to be the question of the month. The truth of the matter is that if he committed a crime, and I think Starr has proven this, there should be no question on impeachment. The real question should be why does anyone believe anything this man says and when will we get a real apology? Can you believe that some people think he gave an apology? This so-called apology was nothing but a blatant attack on Kenneth Starr. ...

To the editor: Thank you for providing an excellent educational series on the methamphetamine problem. By increasing community awareness, you have assisted the process of family and community involvement in addressing the problem of drug abuse in our society. ...

Zara Seabaugh of Cape Girardeau was first in line at JCPenney's Wednesday to get a Mark McGwire T-shirt marking his record-breaking 62nd home run Tuesday night. Seabaugh, who was at the store at 10 a.m., wanted to get the shirt for her 13-year-old son...

A room full of Cape Girardeau's hometown heroes watched as a trio of "superheroes" unveiled the Area Wide United Way's campaign goal for 1998. The goal is $625,000, up $75,000 from last year's $550,000 goal. "We know this is an ambitious goal," said Edythe Davis, who chairs the fund-raising campaign. "But we know we can do it. We'll get together in December and celebrate this wonderful goal."...

The northbound exit ramp off Interstate 55 at the Jackson-Cape Girardeau exit known as Center Junction will be widened to include an additional turn lane. Traffic at peak periods often is backed up onto Interstate 55, said state transportation department resident engineer Bob Wilson...

A souvenir, eight-page newspaper section dedicated to Cardinal slugger Mark McGwire will be included in this year's YELL edition. Special edition YELL newspapers will be sold Tuesday on street corners in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City. The $2 donation for these special editions funds literacy efforts in the community...

SIKESTON -- Gov. Mel Carnahan presented the Sikeston School District with the state's third Governor's Choice Outstanding District Award for the district's good use of the Outstanding Schools Act's money. Sikeston schools received $5 million in additional state funding since the law was enacted...

Sept. 10, 1998 Dear David, Diana Krall purred through the stereo on the way to the cabin. "You've got to wine me and dine me/ Don't try to fool me, bejewel me/ Either amuse me or lose me/ I'm getting hungry, peel me a grape." She's very convincing. I fantasized about a weekend of leisure...

Indiana State football coach Tim McGuire was philosophical about his team's first game of the season last Saturday -- a somewhat forgettable 66-0 destruction at the hands of national powerhouse Kansas State. McGuire understands that often times Division I-AA programs like his have to bite the bullet in order to gain a huge payday -- often times as much as $400,000 or $500,000 -- in exchange for getting mauled by a I-A power...

In the three weeks Mike Alden has been on the job as athletic director at the University of Missouri, he has seen a lot of Missouri highway. On Wednesday, Alden was in Cape Girardeau, continuing his effort to gain statewide support for the athletic programs at Missouri's "flagship" university...

Two Ohio Valley Conference football teams get a chance to have a hand in the Heisman Trophy race Saturday. No, a player from the OVC isn't actually in the running for the Heisman Trophy. But a pair of OVC squads will be playing teams with legitimate Heisman contenders...

Nathan Windeknecht School: Jackson Class: Senior Sport: Soccer Position: Striker Week report: Windeknecht scored a hat trick in three of his four games last week and now has nine goals on the season. He tallied three times in the Indians' season-opening 4-0 win over Cape Girardeau Central, and in the Notre Dame Soccerfest, he scored three goals in a 7-0 win over Sikeston and three more in a 5-1 win over Central. ...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Cape Girardeau Central High's softball team improved its record to 6-3 Wednesday by rolli ng past host Poplar Bluff 9-2. Kathy Michel pitched a three-hitter, with six strikeouts and three walks. The Lady Tigers' seven-hit attack was paced by Jennifer Daume, who went 2-for-3 with a home run...

Funeral for Lubertha "Bert" Johnson-Freeman of Petersburg, Va., will be held at 3:30 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Johnson-Freeman, 81, died Thursday, Sept. 3, 1998, at Southside Regional Medical Center...

SIKESTON -- Funeral for Derris M. Gray of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. James Trotter will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Gray, 78, died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Guile Ellis "Guy" Bollinger Sr., 75, of Sedgewickville died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 26, 1922, at Sedgewickville, son of Thomas E. and Elizabeth Catherine Ellis Bollinger. He and Doris Jane Hartle were married March 31, 1945...

PERRYVILLE -- Walter J. Dippold, 81, of Perryville died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, at Vencor Hospital in St. Louis. He was born July 11, 1917, in Kress, Texas, son of Leopold F. and Irma A. Griebel Dippold. He and Alma Sadler were married June 6, 1970...

PERRYVILLE -- Cletus J. Schumer, 74, of Perryville died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Nov. 25, 1923, at Glennonville, son of Edward F. and Clara Schlattman Schumer. He and Ruby A. Scheppers were married Sept. 28, 1946. She died May 4, 1998...

MOREHOUSE -- Clara Curry, 83, formerly of the Bell City and Morehouse areas, died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, in Duluth, Ga. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Morehouse is in charge of arrangements.

Velma William "Bill" Bivens, age 89, formerly of Cape Girardeau, MO, died Monday, September 7, 1998, at Freeburg Care Center, Urbana Rd. in Freeburg, IL.Mr. Bivens was born May 10, 1909, in Maroa, IL, to James M. and Georgeanne Prather Bivens. He married Cona May Potter in Cape Girardeau, MO, on August 11, 1962. She preceded him in death in 1989...

Claudia Miller Lynch, 82, died Wednesday, Sept. 9, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

BERNIE -- Funeral for Lucille Lockwood of Flint, Mich., will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Rainey Funeral Chapel in Bernie. The Rev. Joe Masters will officiate, with burial in Bernie Cemetery. Lockwood, 75, died Saturday, Sept. 5, 1998, at McLarin Hospital in Flint...

Son to Sgt. Jeff and Heidi Lashley of Yuma, Ariz., Yuma Regional Medical Center, 2:51 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1998. Name, Trevor Alan. Weight, 9 pounds 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Lashley is the former Heidi Tolbert, daughter of Bob and Mary Jo Tolbert of Cape Girardeau. She is assistant manager of the bowling center at the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station in Yuma. Lashley is the son of Donna Lashley of Cape Girardeau, and the late Bill Lashley. He is serving in the U.S. Marine Corps at Yuma...

ANNA, Ill. -- Marie C. Ferrill, 85, of Anna died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, at Union County Hospital. She was born Jan. 16, 1913, near Carbondale, daughter of A. B. and Lula Mae Keys Crawshaw. Ferrill was a graduate of Anna-Jonesboro High School, and attended Washington University in St. Louis...