Stories from Tuesday, April 20, 1999

Phi Eta Sigma, a national scholarship honor society for college freshmen, has inducted these SEMO students; Nicholas Adams, Brooke Appleby, Carly Armstrong, Dorie Arsenault, Amy Arteme, Marisa Banasik, Jamie Barnes, James Baughn, Katherine Bellinger, Sarah Berkbigler, Danielle Birdsill, Sarah Blount, Michelle Bock, Charles Bowman, Christina Brands, Christopher Braun, Jason Browning, Jennifer Browning, Katie Burchett, Tammy Burnett, Christopher Busken, Blanca Castaneda, Marianne Cook, Amy Crow, Rebecca Cunningham, Lucas Dalton, Scott Dankel, Sandra Dase, Jennifer DeBrock, Daisey Diederich, Paul Dobbins, Clifford Dugan, Patricia Engel, Heather Farrow, Leslie Faulkner, James Fees, Erica Foust, Jill Franklin, Sarah Frye, Emily Gauthier, Jeremiah Bibbons, Mary Gibbs, Amanda Gremaud, Jennie Heger, Stephanie Hoffman, Connie Hogenmiller, Andrea Holloway, Angela Kassel, Amy Kay, Jennifer King, Erin Kluesner, Michelle Kopp, Erica Langlitz, Jacob Layne, Jennifer Long, Sarah Long, Tonya Lynn, Austin Malone, Mary Manning, Star Marshke, Matthew McCormick, Kelli McFarland, Elizabeth McMullin, Jonathan Mikow, Trisha Moriarity, Sara Morris, Willa Morrow, Kimberly Mouser, Joshua Mueller, Allison Newman, Ketan Patel, Katrina Paubel, Lindsay Piel, Benjamin Pranger, Jennifer Preston, Tera Redfering, Amanda Reece, Hollie Roach, Amey Roehrkasse, Laura Rudanovich, Susan Schindler Laura Schuessler, Yu-Li Shih, Donna Shoemake, Jamie Simpson, Hollie Smith, Angela Spavale, Nathan Speer, Kristina Spihlmann, Crista Straub, Adam Talburt, Lucy Thurston, Sarah Torretta, Nicole Trokey, Paul Trupka, Leah Ulrich, Lisa Vandergraaf, Adam Waddell, Matthew Wagner, Amanda Walker, Marissa Weeks, Jennifer Weilbaecher, Kathryn Wencewicz, Kristie Werkmeister, Dana Whaley, Catherine Wiegert, Jocelyn Wilson, Travis Wilson and Jill Wittenborn.. ...

After a shaky preliminary round, the Southeast Missouri State University Sundancers rebounded to earn a seventh place ranking at the NCA National Collegiate Dance Championships earlier this month in Daytona Beach, Fla. "I knew we were one of the top 10 teams in the nation " said Sundancer coach Suzanne Vaughan...

Head start children rode tricycles around play equipment at the Cape Girardeau Head Start program. Good manners never go out of style. Good manners -- including sharing, taking turns and using special words like "please" and "thank you" -- are only a few of the things the Cape Girardeau Head Start program has emphasized every year since it opened in 1969...

Peggy: Guess what. I'm very excited because next week a piano is scheduled to arrive at our house. My children, who have been practicing on an electronic keyboard are ready to sign up for piano lessons. Joni: One day we'll be getting a piano, too. My children's grandmother is a piano teacher. Unfortunately, she lives in St. Louis and long-distance lessons are tough...

CHAFFEE -- Chaffee grants and technology coordinator Peggy Hitt has wanted to be an educator since she learned that teacher's editions have answers to the questions. "I wanted that book," said Hitt, who previously taught third grade for seven years. "I truly enjoyed my years as an elementary teacher and now do miss the students and that daily contact."...

The old St. Francis Hospital and its property at Good Hope and Pacific streets have been purchased by a Little Rock, Ark., firm that plans to turn it into housing units. The Phillips Cos. of Little Rock purchased the property from 811 Good Hope Co. of Springfield, which was founded in March 1998 and named for the address of the 86-year-old structure...

The Cape Girardeau City Council voted unanimously Monday night to issue $2.8 million in bonds for improvements to Cape Girardeau Regional Airport and A.C. Brase Arena Building. The bonds will help with renovation projects and water and sewer improvements at the airport in conjunction with the Zenair project. Zenair of Canada Ltd. will open an airplane manufacturing plant at the airport. It needed water and sewer improvements to be made before construction begins...

Cape Girardeau is a city of vision, said members of the Vision 2000 Community Relations Council during an annual report at Monday's City Council meeting. "This is a wonderful thing you have created," said Nancy Jernigan, 1999 chairman of the committee. "It's a means for people to get involved in their city and what it's going to become."...

After months of debate, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education Monday night established elementary school boundaries during a meeting at Central Junior High School. Board members approved a proposal developed by administrators late last month that slightly modified the original plan adopted in 1997. Under the proposal, most school boundaries would remain the same as in the original proposal, with the most significant changes affecting Jefferson and Franklin schools...

JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County has developed a new policy that should help eager landowners move road paving projects ahead on the county's paving schedule. In addition, county residents interested in getting a road paved can share in the cost to move the paving project up in the priorities schedule...

Confusion regarding a previous decision of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education sparked debate regarding the elimination of a second preparation period for secondary teachers during a four-hour board meeting Monday night. In other business, board members late in the night approved salary schedules for teachers and classified staff that will place them where they would have been on the schedule without the salary freeze enacted last year. ...

It's a lesson parents try to teach their children: Don't take something that isn't yours. Especially if it's trash. But for one week each spring, that rule is set aside in Cape Girardeau. All this week, solid waste crews are picking up an abundance of trash and refuse at the street curb...

To the editor: If you build it, will they come? Buildings don't make communities. People do. The buildings help, certainly, and the fact that we live in the geographic center of our country, on Twain's Mississippi, with the new River Campus school of the arts overlooking that vista, is yet another point of pride. ...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday night cleared the way for the city to proceed with sewer and water improvements. The aldermen hired Horner and Shifrin Inc. to analyze sewer charges, an essential step to financing sewer and water improvements through the issuance of low-interest bonds from a state revolving fund...

To the editor: This letter references statements made about asbestos-containing materials in the home-improvements section included in the April 11 Missourian. In the article answering questions about home repairs, I noted an incorrect statement as it concerns residents of outstate Missouri. ...

It's hard to believe that spring isn't even half over and we've already been through an impeachment trial in the U.S. Senate this year. Remember? Government continued to function despite claims late last year that the impeachment process would bring the nation's bureaucratic wheels to a grinding halt...

The issue of free speech has a way of showing up in unusual circumstances. It happened again last week when Senior U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh -- one of Cape Girardeau's own -- ruled in St. Louis that the Ku Klux Klan has a right to participate in Missouri's Adopt-A-Highway program despite the Missouri Department of Transportation's efforts to prevent it...

SPENDING $19,000 to fly mental health commissioners to and from their meetings is just plain crazy. IN REFERENCE to a comment in Speak Out the other day that said referring to a Marine hero as an ex-Marine was incorrect, he is a former Marine. I beg to differ. Once a Marine, always a Marine...

Dr. Robert Hamblin, English professor and director of Southeast Missouri State University's Center for Faulkner Studies, will present the annual Dr. H.O. Grauel Memorial Lecture on May 2. The lecture is slated for 3 p.m. in Robert A. Dempster Hall's Glenn Auditorium...

SCOTT CITY -- It took Kelly High's baseball team only one inning to record its biggest win of the season -- and to hand Notre Dame it's first loss of 1999. When Kelly played at Notre Dame on March 29, the teams were tied 6-6 after eight innings when darkness suspended the contest...

SCOTT CITY -- Monday wasn't all bad for Notre Dame High's baseball team. Despite being handed their first loss of the season by Kelly in the conclusion of a game suspended last month (see related story), the Bulldogs began the afternoon with a 14-4 thrashing of host Scott City...

Southeast Missouri State University senior softball player Christine Engelhardt has been named the OVC Pitcher of the Week. Engelhardt went 3-0 with a save and a 0.67 E.R.A. in five appearances as the Otahkians moved into first place in the conference...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Ryan Smith, Southeast Missouri State University's standout freshman golfer, is in second place and just one stroke off the lead after Monday's opening round of the Ohio Valley Conference Championships. Smith fired a 3-under-par 69 at the Springhouse Golf Course. He trails defending OVC champion Brett Alexander of Middle Tennessee, who had a 68 to tie his own tourney record...

PORTAGEVILLE -- After his baseball team won its own eight-team Chaffee Tournament on Saturday, Red Devil coach Bruce Qualls expected a letdown of sorts Monday. Committing seven errors in the field, the Red Devils validated Qualls' concerns. Allowing nine unearned runs, Chaffee suffered just its second loss of the season, a 10-8 setback to Portageville...

Classic United of Cape Girardeau recently got a taste of national soccer competition when it competed in the National Indoor Soccer Championships, a tournament that collected 2,000 regional winners to Cleveland. Classic United competed in the Under-13 Boys Premier division. The local squad won its four-team sub-division and placed ninth among the 24 teams in its division...

GIPSY -- Bessie Jackson, 96, of Pittsburg, Ill., died Sunday, April 18, 1999, at Fountain Nursing Home in Marion, Ill. She was born Dec. 11, 1902, at Gipsy, daughter of Nathan and Celia Vaughn Corzine. She married Louis Jackson, who died Aug. 9, 1989...

BLOOMFIELD -- John William Aslin Sr., 79, of Bloomfield died Sunday, April 18, 1999, at his home. He was born June 8, 1919, at Avert, son of Thomas Monroe and Dovie McClard Aslin. He and Meredith Louise Aslin were married Oct. 8, 1938. She died April 11, 1994...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Paul Wade Hampton, 79, of Poplar Bluff died Sunday, April 18, 1999, at his home. He was born Jan. 12, 1920, at Poplar Bluff, son of Daniel Paul and Zettie Rushin Hampton. He and Opal Fuson were married Feb. 10, 1941, in Poplar Bluff...

PERRYVILLE -- Lillie M. Evans, 80, of Perryville died Sunday, April 18, 1999, in Perryville. She was born April 28, 1918, at Crosstown, daughter of George and Amelia Rhyne Davis. Evans had been a sewing machine operator at International Shoe Co. She was a member of First Baptist Church at New Offenburg...

DEXTER -- Funeral for William E. Sadler of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter. Dale Grissom will officiate. Burial will be in Hagy Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 10 a.m. until service time...

MARBLE HILL -- Albert A. Fee, 83, of Marble Hill died Monday, April 19, 1999, at his home. He was born Feb. 14, 1916, at Cape Girardeau, son of Ira and Nevada Gaines Fee. He first married Pauline Hans. He and Idella Dinkens Dodds were married April 27, 1971...

The Rev. Ray Rhyne, 90, of Triangle, Va., died Sunday, April 18, 1999, at Potomac Hospital in Woodbridge, Va. He was a longtime resident of Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Marie Elizabeth "Betty" Parsons, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, April 18, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born March 9, 1907, in Knoxville, Pa., daughter of John Jacob and Marie Zumbrook Hamel. She and Bruce Leonard Parsons were married May 11, 1934, in Detroit, Mich...

SCOTT CITY -- Ray Wendel Sr., 81, of Scott City died Monday, April 19, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 26, 1917, at Perkins, son of John and Ida Engels Wendel. He and Ada Juanita Schlosser were married Feb. 15, 1942, at Oran...

PERRYVILLE -- Amber and Amanda Johnson died Thursday, April 15, 1999, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. They were born earlier that day in Perryville, daughters of Jim R. Johnson and Tina M. Bishop of Perryville. Survivors include their parents; a brother, James Johnson; a stepsister, Tiffany Bishop; maternal grandparents, Roger and Shirley Bishop; and paternal grandparents, William and Vicki Johnson, all of Perryville...

DEXTER -- William B. Sarratt, 82, of Dexter died Monday, April 19, 1999, at his home. He was born Feb. 13, 1917, in Atoka, Okla., son of Henry Franklin and Dora Freeman Sarratt. He and Minnie A. Davis were married Oct. 22, 1938, in Custer, S.D. Sarratt lived at Bernie from 1978-96, moved to Gillette, Wyo., and came to Dexter in March 1999...

Daughter to Terry Allen and Dorothy Sue Buchheit of Perryville, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:19 p.m. Monday, April 12, 1999. Name, Elizabeth Anne. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. The couple also has a son. Mrs. Buchheit is the former Dorothy King, daughter of Alfred and Josephine King of Perryville. Mr. and Mrs. Buchheit are employed at Ewald's Bar-B-Q. He is the son of the late Ewald and Virginia Buchheit...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Flossie Shaw of Cairo died Monday, April 19, 1999, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo.

Tom Schulte, an aide to U.S. Sens. Christopher "Kit" Bond and John Ashcroft, will hold Listening Post forums on April 28 in East Prairie, Charleston, Sikeston and Scott City. Schulte will visits the cities to meet with the senators' constituents. The schedule: 9 a.m. at Dill Insurance in East Prairie; 11 a.m. at Pizza Hut in Charleston; 1 p.m. at Cole Insurance in Sikeston; and 3 p.m. at the Southeast Missouri Port Authority, 2110 Main Street in Scott City...

Monday, April 19 at 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Consent ordinances (Second and third readings) -- Withdrew ordinance authorizing a lease purchase agreement for improvements to the A.C. Brase Arena Building. -- Approved ordinance amending City Code by changing zoning of 1705 N. Kingshighway from C-1 and C-2 to C-2...