Stories from Tuesday, August 3, 1999

University students from across the nation spend there summers in the field school at the park getting hands-on experience . The visitor's center houses a museum and the lab where artifacts are sorted. Visitors can watch the work in the lab through a viewing window...

Music is said to soothe the savage soul, but on the Internet, music is creating a new kind of jungle. At the heart of this great debate is a digital technology called MP3. It allows home computers to compress, store and play near-CD quality music from the Internet...

ALTENBURG -- Tyson A. Wunderlich of Altenburg has been awarded a President's Scholarship and Missouri Leadership Award to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1999-2000 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who rank at least in the upper 20 percent of their high school class and score 24 on the ACT or 1,110 on the SAT...

A Sikeston couple has donated a former convenience store and property near Houck Stadium to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation. Robert and Dana Jenkins donated the building and site at 1116 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. The gift is valued at $170,000...

The Dr. Henry Sessoms Scholarship has been endowed through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation. Friends of Sessoms provided $10,000 to endow the scholarship in his name. Sessoms was a longtime professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University who retired after spring semester...

He once referred to his work as "thoughts on a wall" and probably never recognized the depths of his talent. Jacob Kenneth "Jake" Wells, a well-known Cape Girardeau artist who had lived most recently in Marble Hill, died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999. He was 81...

Approximately 15 of the tourist line's 25 stockholders met at the train station to make a decision about the future of the train, which currently is three months behind on its loan. Nonprofit status would enable people to write off donations made to the train and for the train to qualify for federal and state tourism grants, including federal transportation grants that only recently became available...

What began as an advisory board for the police department has now evolved into a broader concept encompassing more than just police business. The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday gave Micheal Miller, the city manager, permission to begin the process of setting up a Human Relations Commission. The board is in response to an incident on Good Hope Street on June 11 involving a melee in which eight police officers were attacked...

JACKSON -- Joe Bob Baker, whose family has been in the auto salvage business in Jackson for 30 years, was sworn in as Jackson's newest alderman Monday night. Mayor Paul Sander appointed Baker to fill the unexpired term of Alderman Fred Leimer, who resigned from the board last month...

Moving from welfare to work isn't easy, but it's becoming necessary. President Clinton intends today to introduce a plan that would offer more financial help to welfare recipients during the transition. He cites an increase in the number of people who have traded their welfare checks for paychecks as incentive for the aid...

JACKSON -- Discovery of a Civil War-era tombstone in the projected path of potable water distribution system improvement could cause the system's route to be altered. Julie Emery of Burns & McDonnell Engineering Co. told Jackson aldermen Monday night the tombstone was the only potential problem found during an archaeological assessment of where the Greensferry Road easement would go...

Several accidents occurred over the weekend in the Bootheel, according to the state Highway Patrol. In an incident that took place Saturday afternoon, an East Prairie man attempted to escape from the patrol, running stop signs in East Prairie until he finally crashed into a tree, reported Trooper E.D. Williamson...

Bragging rights, the Charles E. Knote Grand Champion Trophy, and up to $400 in cash awards are at stake in the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's seventh annual BBQ Fest, to be held this month. The two-day event, which includes barbecue competition in six categories and skits in a showmanship contest, will be held at Arena Park Aug. 27 and 28...

A crowd turned out for the "Beach Party," held in downtown Cape Girardeau Saturday night, and at midnight some of the party-goers were still there, doing the limbo in the sand. "Beach Party" was the theme for the 12th annual Downtown Merchant Association's fund-raising auction, held inside the large structure at 45 N. Main St...

Raymond Earle Buckman, 63, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Aug. 2, 1999, at his home. He was born Aug. 31, 1935, in Paducah, Ky., son of Joseph Earle and Mary Juanita Elder Buckman. Buckman was a self-employed carpenter many years, and later was a bus driver with Ryder Transportation...

DEXTER -- Dexter voters will decide today the fate of the city's parks and recreation program. Voters will decide if they want to pay a 1/2-cent sales tax for the city's recreation and parks facilities. The sales tax will determine the future of the parks program, said Mary Ann Taylor, a member of the parks and recreation commission...

Son to Todd Harold and Vicki Lynne Lantz of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:45 a.m. Monday, July 26, 1999. Name, Caden Todd. Weight, 6 pounds 8 ounces. Fourth child, third son. Mrs. Lantz is the former Vicki Hale, daughter of Dave and Maxine Hale of Cape Girardeau. Lantz is the son of Harold and Trudi Lantz Jr. of Pukwana, S.D. He is a self-employed exotic animal dealer...

THEBES, Ill. -- Agnes Lanier, 77, of Thebes died Monday, Aug. 2, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Dec. 18, 1921, in Napier, Tenn., daughter of Robert Lee and Anna Bailey Durham. She and Mitchell Lanier were married July 20, 1943...

PERRYVILLE -- Graveside service for Gilbert Wayne Schremp will be held at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Hope Cemetery. The Rev. Robert Brockland will officiate. Miller Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The infant died shortly after birth Monday, Aug. 2, 1999, at Perry County Memorial Hospital...

JACKSON -- Otto W. Kranawetter, 86, of Jackson died Monday, Aug. 2, 1999, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 6, 1913, at Pocahontas, son of Martin and Martha Walther Kranawetter. He and Violet A. Rubel were married Dec. 31, 1939, in St. Louis. She died Dec. 5, 1992...

Robert William Wren, 67, of Tecumseh, Mich., died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999 in a hospital at Tecumseh. He was born May 5, 1932, to Lloyd and Trinnitte Deevers Wren in Cape Girardeau. He married Nancy Martin Aug. 28, 1954. Wren attended Trinity Lutheran School in Cape Girardeau before moving to Michigan. He was a veteran of World War II...

DEXTER -- After two months of discussion, the U.S. Postal Service seems close to deciding the future of the city's post office. The Postal Service has advertised for a site for a 57,000-square-foot to an 89,000-square-foot building. The preferred site is an area bounded to the north by the city limits and to the south by West Grant Street and to the east by state Highway 25 and to the west by Route AD...

While the Chinese government was busy cracking down on the Falun Gong, it received some good news from the U.S. House of Representatives, which extended normal trade status between China and the United States for another year. This is an annual hot button in Washington. ...

China demands attention because it is the world's most populous country, because it produces low-cost consumer goods in vast quantities, because it has or is developing the most military might of any nation and because anything it does is shrouded in a veil that most Westerners find hard to penetrate...

THANK YOU for putting the story of Lance Armstrong winning the Tours de France on the front of the sports page. That man came back from testicular cancer that had spread to his lungs and his brain. Now he's the man. I'D LIKE to say something about the bill that Governor Carnahan has signed into law about extending the license plates and driver's licenses to two years. ...

To the editor: Once again, the Environmental Working Group has produced another report. EWG's most recent public relations tale called "Into the Mouths of Babes" attacks the crop-protection product Atrazine and warns that many communities in the Midwest have dangerous levels of Atrazine in tap water. The report makes outrageous, inaccurate interpretations regarding public risks...

If there is one thing Jess Bolen has learned over the years, it's the ability to adapt and adjust to whatever the fates and quirks of summer baseball throw his way. That's why the McDowell Capahas will feature something of a different look today when they begin play in the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, Kan. Their first-round opponent at 5 p.m. will be the Norman (Okla.) Boomerangs...

CHANUTE, Kan. -- A horrendous start was too much for Chaffee's Junior American Legion baseball team to overcome Monday morning as the squad was eliminated from the Mid-States Regional Tournament. Chaffee committed six errors in the first three innings as Minnesota jumped out to an 8-0 lead, then held on for a 9-6 victory in the loser's bracket final...

Dunkln County, the District 14 American Legion baseball champion, captured the Zone Tournament held over the weekend in Ballwin to advance to the Missouri State American Legion Tournament. The state tourney will begin Thursday in Columbia.

Edward Charles Wallgren, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral for Lewis Cass Nelson of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Kenneth Truelove will officiate. Burial will be in Bellfontaine Cemetery in St. Louis at 2:30 p.m. Friends may call at the chapel from 5-7 p.m. Wednesday...

MARBLE HILL -- Linder Lee Englehart, 91, of Marble Hill died Monday, Aug. 2, 1999, at the Bond Nursing Care Center. He was born Aug. 4, 1907, in the former Lutesville, son of Jesse J. and Sadie Cole Englehart. He married Hettie McCullough Sept. 12, 1925, in Lutesville. She preceded him in death...

GORDONVILLE -- Woodrow Lindle Jones, 83, of Gordonville died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 3, 1916, at Patton, son of Thomas E. and Radie Jane Killian Jones. He and Velma "Vi" McGraw were married Feb. 13, 1939...

PERRYVILLE -- Laura C. "Polly" Unterreiner, 88, of Perryville died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born April 21, 1911, in Perry County, daughter of Henry J. and Helena Huffman Guyot. She and Sylvester R. "Sonny" Unterreiner were married Dec. 28, 1930, in Perryville. He died May 10, 1976...

SIKESTON -- William L. Holland, 93, of Miner Nursing Center died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Sept. 25, 1905, at Steele, son of James Franklin and Annie Lee Patterson Holland. He and Irene Newton were married in 1927. She died Dec. 1, 1980. He later married Susie Yant Ray Feb. 3, 1982. She died Feb. 10, 1990...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- John Virdell Poynor, 65, of Dongola, died Saturday, July 31, 1999, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born Dec. 22, 1933, in New Madrid, Mo., son of O.E. and Audie Ginn Poynor. He and Joyce Ann Monan were married Sept. 14, 1963...

MORLEY -- Richard Irwin Sr., 69, of Morley, previously of Perkins, died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 10, 1929, at Perkins, son of Walter G. and Dora Haney Irwin. He and Juanita N. Elfrank were married Aug. 20, 1946...

OLD APPLETON -- Larry L. Ruehling, 51, of Old Appleton died Monday, Aug. 2, 1999, at his home. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Pearl Irene Halter, 78, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis. She was born Dec. 20, 1920, at Randles, daughter of William F. and Ivy Florence Jones Lusk. She and Vincent J. Halter were married July 31, 1948, in Piggott, Ark...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Ada Ridings, 93, of St. Petersburg, Fla., died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at her home. She was born Jan. 7, 1906, in Mound City, daughter of Hugh and Artie Walker Williams. She married Howard Ridings, who preceded her in death. Ridings was a member of Fifth Avenue Baptist Church in St. Petersburg...

A memorial service for Jacob Kenneth Wells of Marble Hill, a well known art instructor, will be held at 7 p.m. this Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999 at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Ernest L. Jordan, retired pastor of Evangelical United Church of Christ in Cape Girardeau, will officiate...