Stories from Tuesday, March 2, 1999

Remember when? A show on VH1 sort of got us thinking whatever happened to those heartthrobs from those teen-age years. Peggy: Now my children are going goo-goo over the "new" teen idols. So we took to the Internet to see whatever happened to some favorites from way back when...

Mitch Ogles worked out in the weight room at Cape Girardeau Central High School. DeMarco Williams used the weight room at Central High School. To succeed in academics, a student has to pay attention in class, do their homework and put in extra study time when necessary...

Robert C. Friedrich III sees art in everything. Friedrich, a third-year art teacher at Cape Girardeau Central High School, enjoys photography, painting, sculpting, gardening, antiques, old cars and art history. He teaches a sculpture class for The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri...

The National Science Foundation has awarded a $16,000 grant to a Southeast Missouri State University physics professor. Dr. Jai Dahiya received the grant to develop a course and experiments in the area of materials science. The work will be conducted for the Northeast Center for Telecommunications Technologies...

Dr. Paul Keys, dean of the College of Health and Human Services at Southeast Missouri State University, recently attended the 17th annual Conference of the Research Association of Minority Professors. The conference was held at Howard University, Feb. 4-6...

JACKSON -- Jackson has been rated first among 62 cities seeking approval of projects under the State Revolving Loan Program. Acceptance into the program should save the city about $3.1 million in interest over the life of sewer and water bonds authorized by voters in August 1997...

JACKSON -- The crash woke up Renda Eggimann. "I was asleep. It was just a big crash. That is all I heard," said Eggimann after a pickup truck crashed into her home at 11:10 p.m. Sunday. She and her family were asleep upstairs in their home at 1407 Oak when a pickup truck driven by Matt VanAmburg, 24, of Jackson ran off the road...

Who needs a government study to prove that Americans are eating out more often? Leave it to another government study to tell the American people they aren't eating right. I know that my diet doesn't include as many healthy foods as it should. And I don't need anyone else to remind me of this flaw...

To the editor: I came home from work last Thursday, and my 8-year-old son asks, "Dad, why do we have a `Paul Sander for Mayor' sticker on the back of our car?"I responded by saying, "Because I think he's doing a good job as mayor of Jackson, and I like him as a person.""You know him?" Austin asked incredulously."Yes. ...

Basketball fans all across the country watching on ESPN Sunday saw an extremely dejected Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball team after Murray State University hit a last-second shot to beat the Indians 62-61 in the championship game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Nashville...

Upon reading the Southeast Missourian's Web page, (semissourian.com), I found myself somewhat puzzled and upset by the article on Proposition B opposition. It seems that U.S. Attorney Ed Dowd is getting involved in what is essentially a state's rights issue, as is Assistant U.S. Attorney Larry Ferrel...

To the editor: The Strategic Defense Initiative is an expensive program that will afford little protection from those who are most likely to attack our cities with weapons of mass destruction. The countries that now control the missiles of the old Soviet Union are no longer hostile to us, and their military forces and remaining missiles are in no condition to mount a credible attack against us. ...

Missouri can't make sound highway improvement plans while an environmental lawsuit threatens to cut off its federal transportation funding, U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond said Monday. In a telephone interview, Bond said the state is threatened with the loss of some $600 million a year in federal highway funds if the Sierra Club and Missouri Coalition for the Environment win their federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency...

Experience counts. Under a new ordinance, electricians in Cape Girardeau won't have to take an examination in order to receive a license from the city. The council voted Monday night to approve an ordinance that exempts currently licensed electricians from taking another licensing test. The ordinance will receive a second and third reading at later council meetings...

JACKSON -- Les Crump has seen firefighting change from the days of putting out blazes with a short hose to cleaning up hazardous wastes and chemical spills. After 37 years as fire chief for Scott City, Crump has taken a post as assistant fire chief at Jackson. He began work there Monday...

Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies has named a Japanese professor of American literature its 1999 recipient of the Biokyowa Visiting Scholar award. Ikuko Fujihira of Tokyo Gakugei University is visiting the Faulkner Center this month as the first participant in the cultural exchange program. The program is designed to bring Japanese scholars to Southeast to use research materials in the Brodsky Collection and the Faulkner Center...

When Cierra Jackson, a kindergarten student at May Greene Elementary School, headed to the nurse's office Monday with a soar ear, she was greeted by a nurse from Southeast Missouri Hospital. The hospital in conjunction with the school system is providing additional nursing services at the elementary school. Monday was the first day of the cooperative venture...

As much as Sunday's heartbreaking loss hurt, there is no question the performance Southeast Missouri State University gave before a national television audience on ESPN can do nothing but enhance the image of Indians' basketball. Southeast and Murray State put on some kind of show in the championship game of the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Nashville, Tenn., with the Racers squeezing out a 62-61 victory to advance to the NCAA Tournament...

BLOOMFIELD -- Scott City High's boys basketball team, playing without the injured Jon Beck, romped past East Prairie 80-52 Monday in an opening-round game in the Class 2A, District 2 tournament in Bloomfield. In other quarterfinal games, Kelly handled Bloomfield 70-40, Puxico outlasted Woodland 67-51 and Notre Dame pounded Greenville 68-37...

Southeast Missouri State University's power-hitting outfielder Charlie Marino, the school's single-season record holder for home runs, may miss the remainder of the season with a torn cartilage in his right knee. Marino injured the knee in a game last week against Ole Miss. He was attempting to beat out an infield hit and suffered the injury when he jammed his leg at first base. The injury may require surgery and might force him to miss the rest of the season...

MARBLE HILL -- Mildred Lee Buchicchio, 84, of Marble Hill died Monday, March 1, 1999, at Bond Nursing Care Center. She was born June 11, 1914, at Marble Hill, daughter of Avery L. and Ella Jane Yount Sample. She had previously lived at El Nathan and had attended Marble Hill Bible Chapel...

McCLURE, Ill. -- Funeral for Vivian M. Ralls of McClure will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel in Cape Girardeau, Mo. The Rev. David Pringle will officiate. Burial will be in Lindsey Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 5-9 p.m Wednesday...

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Funeral for Sarah Lockey Crawford of Villa Ridge will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge. The Rev. Danny Beggs will officiate. Burial will be in New Lorimier Cemetery in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 10 a.m. until service time...

JACKSON -- Geraldine Marie Vogelsang, 80, of Jackson died Monday, March 1, 1999, at Jackson Manor. She was born Jan. 28, 1919, at Dutchtown, daughter of Walter and Bertha Baumgardt Bierschwal. She and Earl Vogelsang were married Oct. 22, 1938, in Corning, Ark...

Donald J. Schmittzehe, 46, of Chicago died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1999. He was born Dec. 10, 1952, in Murphysboro, Ill., son of Donald E. and Wanda A. Below Schmittzehe. Schmittzehe was vice president of Precision Manufacturing in Chicago. Survivors include his parents of Town and Country; a brother, D. Michael Schmittzehe of Bridgeton; and a sister, Susan Wilcox of Glendale...

MOREHOUSE -- Irene M. Moore, 81, of Morehouse died Monday, March 1, 1999, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born June 1, 1917, at Como, daughter of James and Mary Little Breeden. She first married Clyde Reynolds, who died in 1942. She later married Raymond Curd, who died in 1954. She and Jesse Moore were married in 1966. He died in 1995...

Funeral for Robert Alphonso Hubbard of Topeka, Kan., will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at The Apostolic United Pentecostal Church in Topeka. Friends may call today at Penwell-Gabel Highland Chapel in Topeka. Hubbard, 78, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1999, at his home...

Ralph Wilson Shaw, 86, of Tulsa, Okla., died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999. He was born May 14, 1912, at Womack, son of John and Laura Wilson Shaw. Shaw was a graduate of Bailey Schools in St. Louis. He was retired from the refrigeration and air conditioning business. He was a member and elder at St. James Presbyterian Church in Jenks, Okla., and member of Veterans of Foreign Wars...

Donald Strauser, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, March 1, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Irene Johnson, 87, of Carbondale died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1999, at The Abbey of Carbondale. She was born Jan. 11, 1912, at Ware, daughter of Will and Mary Markert Boyce. She and Robert T. Johnson were married Sept. 21, 1929, in Chicago...

Son to Pierre and Maureen Koshakji of Dallas, Texas, Medical City Hospital, 4:17 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, 1999. Name, John Patrick. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Koshakji is the former Maureen Tlapek, daughter of Pat and Anne Tlapek of Cape Girardeau. Koshakji is the son of Anastasia Koshakji of Nashville, Tenn., and the late Richard Koshakji. He is self-employed in Sports Entertainment...

MOREHOUSE -- Two passengers sustained serious injuries Monday night in a single-vehicle accident on Highway 60 at Highway 114. Linda Leist, 36, and Megan Leist, 13, both of Dexter, were flown by helicopter to Southeast Missouri Hospital after the 7:15 accident...

Developers for a much debated 96-unit apartment complex along County Road 206 withdrew their request for rezoning and special-use permits Monday night at the City Council meeting. The proposal had been scheduled for a public hearing. A lawyer for Thorn Investments LLC said the developers didn't receive the tax credits from the state they had hoped for and couldn't in "good faith" present their development as proposed...

Monday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m. Consent ordinances (Second and third readings) -- Approved ordinance granting special use permit to Vernon E. Rhodes Family Partners L.P. for community unit plan at southwest of Kingshighway and Boulder Crest Drive. -- Approved ordinance amending Schedule F of Section 26-247 of City Code establishing no parking on Broadway...