Stories from Thursday, February 18, 1999

To the editor: Congratulations to Cape conservative David Limbaugh, who has been chosen by the prestigious Creators Syndicate to pen a nationally syndicated column. This is quite an accomplishment, and all citizens no doubt share my pride in what Limbaugh has done...

Sailors from the Cape Girardeau Naval Reserve Center participated in a veterans' stand down in Collinsville, Ill. A stand down provides services and supplies to veterans. The first stand down was held in Marion, Ill., and provided service to about 70 veterans over three days...

A group of Cape Girardeau doctors and nurses are planning a weeklong trip to Jamaica in April, but their visit will be no vacation on the beach. The group is participating in a medical mission trip to provide primary health care to rural communities in the township of Carron Hall...

The late Margaret Woods Allen of Sikeston bequeathed $860,000 to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation through her estate. The money will support programs in the Donald L. Harrison College of Business and the nursing and music departments. "During Mrs. Allen's lifetime, she made a significant impact on the personal and professional lives of our students," said Wayne Davenport, vice president for Southeast Missouri State University advancement and the foundation's executive director...

"Portrait of N.M. Zeretelli," 1927, by Max Beckmann "Algerian Woman," 1909, by Henri Matisse "Harlequin," 1918, by Pablo Picasso ST. LOUIS -- German painter and one-time St. Louisan Max Beckmann longed for the world fame of contemporaries Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse. That he was denied that renown in his lifetime but deserves more recognition now is the thesis of the show "Beckmann and Paris" now at the Saint Louis Art Museum...

I AM so disappointed in our senators, both Democrats and Republicans. They've slapped us in the face by approving of a low-life, cheating liar in our White House. At least, John F. Kennedy and FDR didn't lie about their cheating and bad behavior under oath. ...

Whenever reports are issued that rank how much states spend on various government programs, it is always interesting to see how those figures are interpreted. For example, when a report shows per-capita state spending on elementary and high school students and ranks Missouri 36th in the nation, there are bound to be educators who say we would have better schools and improved academic performance if only we would spend more and become, say, the 12th-ranked state in this category...

Missouri's $5.5 billion farm economy provides the source for another set of statistics, this time from Federal Reserve economists in St. Louis and Kansas City. These statistics aren't bright. But most of the state's farmers knew that before the Fed's recently issued report. Farmers are facing depressed prices the likes of which haven't been seen since the 1930s...

To the editor:With President Slick having once again escaped paying for wrongdoing, I suggest that, in tribute to his great ability, a naval vessel should be named in his honor. I think that the most appropriate type of ship to bear the Clinton name would be a destroyer.JERRY MITCHELLJackson...

To the editor: Thank you for the moving article in Sunday's Southeast Missourian about shelter workers who must euthanize animals at the Richmond, Va., Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shelter. The same heartbreaking situation exists in our community, where thousands of loving, helpless dogs and cats have to be put to death because nobody wants them...

The U.S. 60 project may be stuck in the middle of nowhere, sabotaged by the state's new five-year highway plan. At least that worries Bill Green, economic development director for Sikeston. Green is co-chairman of the Highway 60 Corridor Committee. The group involves mostly economic development officials from communities along U.S. 60. The committee wants the highway across southern Missouri widened to four lanes...

Several students created miniature versions of the exotic ecosystems of rain forests as part of a reading program at the Cape Girardeau Public Library Wednesday. The library's youth services department began sponsoring its annual winter reading program Jan. 26. This year's theme is "Discover the Reading Rain Forest." The reading program runs for 10 weeks and ends March 20...

Feb. 18, 1999 Dear Patty, As I drive through town hoping to spy a goat-footed balloonman or some other harbinger of spring, yards that are flawless even in their winter nakedness sometimes make me wish ours looked more like a page from Home and Garden magazine and less like a scene from "The Grapes of Wrath."...

Southeast Missouri State University's baseball Indians will enjoy the luxury of an impressive new locker room facility this season. The Indians, who open the 1999 campaign Saturday at home against Creighton, recently moved into the Tiger Joe Uhls Locker Room, which is located in Houck Field House...

We are coming off two straight road wins at Tennessee-Martin and Eastern Kentucky. Both games were against teams near the bottom of the league standings and it would have been easy for our team to overlook them. I was proud, though, that our team took care of business. We didn't play with a lot of emotion, but we played well and got two victories. Being able to do that is the sign of a championship team...

Two Cape Girardeau Central wrestlers and five wrestlers from Jackson will be competing in the state wrestling meet in Columbia today. For Central, Keith Benton (14-10) will compete at 112 pounds and Matt Strickland (24-9) will wrestle at 189. For Jackson, Brett Stroud (27-8) will also wrestle at 112 pounds and will be joined by teammates Adam Wachter (125, 25-8), Cyle Huck (130, 27-8), Lance Schlick (135, 32-2) and Kyle Watson (140, 25-9)...

Tuesday night, Cape Girardeau Central High's boys basketball team ate its cake. Wednesday night, the Tigers devoured their icing. Central had clinched the SEMO Conference championship Tuesday by scoring the game's final 21 points to defeat Charleston...

Last season was a great one for Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team. Now the Indians want to prove that 1998 was not an exception but rather the rule as to where their program is headed. And with virtually every key player returning from last year's 32-24 squad that won the school's first-ever Ohio Valley Conference Tournament title and advanced to the NCAA Midwest Regional, optimism is running rampant around the Indians' camp these days...

Jon Beck School: Scott City Sport: Basketball Coach: Derek McCord Week Report: Beck scored 44 points in an overtime game against Scott City's conference rival Kelly. The 6-foot senior guard, who earned Class 2A all-state honors last year and earlier this season signed to play at Arkansas State, drained eight 3-pointers and scored eight of his team's 11 points in overtime. ...

Jason Owen School: Cape Central Sport: Swimming Coach: Dayna Powell Week Report: Owen completed an outstanding high school swimming career by taking second place in state in the 200-meter freestyle and third in the 100 backstroke. He snapped his own school records in both of those events in Saturday's state finals in St. ...

Kim Aslinger School: Cape Central Sport: Basketball Coach: Darrick Smith Week Report: Aslinger scored a season-high 25 points and came up with six steals in the Lady Tigers' 52-47 win over Perryville on Saturday. Seventeen of her 25 points came in the second half. ...

Tickets for the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament basketball games in Nashville, Tenn., will be on sale in Cape Girardeau beginning Saturday. Tickets can be purchased during Saturday night's men's and women's games at the Show Me Center between Southeast Missouri State University and Eastern Illinois. They can also be purchased Monday and Tuesday at the Houck Ticket Office and during and after Tuesday night's first-round tournament games at the Show Me Center...

PERRYVILLE -- Chris Foster scored 19 points as Arcadia Valley High's boys basketball team improved to 21-5 on the season with a 70-48 win over host St. Vincent Wednesday night. Arcadia led 30-24 at halftime and widened its lead with a 19-7 third quarter...

Saint Francis Universal Health and Fitness Center has extended the signup date for its soccer conditioning camp until Sunday. The camp will run consecutive Sundays for six weeks, from 5:30-7 p.m. at Universal Health and Fitness Center. Children ages 8 to 18 seeking to improve their speed, endurance, agility and balance are encouraged to participate...

Rick Attig, track coach at the University of Kansas, will conduct a speed development clinic Feb. 28 at the Southeast Missouri State University Student Recreation Center. The clinic will run from 8 a.m. until approximately 8:30 p.m. and will include lectures, video analysis and drill sessions...

DEXTER -- Funeral for Edith Edwards of Rolla will be held at 1 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home in Bloomfield. Burial will be in Hill Cemetery near Bloomfield. Edwards, 86, died Monday, Feb. 15, 1999, at Rolla. She was born Dec. 18, 1912, at Dexter, daughter of Samuel and Lucy Skelton McClard. She married Paul Edwards, who preceded her in death...

Funeral for Lydia E. Mueller of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. The Rev. David Johnson will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery at Jackson. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau from 2-8 p.m. today, and Friday at the church from 10 a.m. until time of service...

JACKSON -- Funeral for Judy A. Becker of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Richard Combs will officiate. Burial will be in Apple Creek Presbyterian Cemetery at Pocahontas. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

CHAFFEE -- Louise E. "Moxie" Hess, 83, of Chaffee died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 26, 1915, daughter of Ludonis Frank and Anna Mary Weber Schmitt. She and Edward J. Hess were married April 21, 1936. He died Oct. 12, 1978...

ANNA, Ill. -- Ervin L. Sadler, 79, of Anna died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999, at his home. He was born Jan. 27, 1920, in Ware, son of James and Iva E. Edmonds Sadler. He and Lawanda Merriman were married in 1942 at Jackson, Mo. She died in 1950. He later married Shirley Ann Poole Modglin May 25, 1975, in Union County...

BELKNAP, Ill. -- Funeral for Flossie Higgins of Belknap will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Wilson Funeral Home in Karnak. The Rev. Alvin Thomas will officiate, with burial in Masonic Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. Friday...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Charles L. Calvin, 69, of Ottawa, died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. He was born Oct. 1, 1929, in Mound City, son of Charles I. and Mary Burns Calvin. Calvin was a member of the American Legion and VFW. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War...

JACKSON -- Alfred R. Clifton, 86, of Jackson died Tuesday, Feb. 16, 1999, at Heritage Gardens. He was born March 18, 1912, in Wilmington, Del., son of Howard and Beulah Green Clifton. He and Inus Warner were married June 29, 1932. She died Aug. 18, 1975...

SIKESTON -- Carl C. Clayton, 86, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1999, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Sept. 8, 1912, in Caruthersville, son of William Andrew and Maude Mae McBroom Clayton. He and Lydia Mae Gilooly were married Nov. 17, 1945, in Paragould, Ark...

Son to Stephen John and Tammie Sue Haas of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:18 p.m. Monday, Jan. 18, 1999. Name, Trevor James. Weight, 7 pounds 8 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Haas is the former Tammie Rampley, daughter of Jim Rampley and Barbara Rampley of Bell City. She is employed in the home decor department at Lowe's. Haas is the son of John and JoEllen Haas of Cape Girardeau. He is grocery manager at Schnucks in Carbondale, Ill...

Daniel Joseph Bolton, 41, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1999, at his home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.