Stories from Wednesday, July 19, 2000

Carol Bullock said she was surprised to learn that her family's old Marquette Hotel had been condemned by the city, especially since she had been working to clean up the area. City inspectors have posted notices of condemnation declaring the Marquette Hotel unfit for occupation. The Cape Girardeau City Council approved the condemnation process for the building at Broadway and Fountain streets on June 5...

Gary Lee Roll has run out of court appeals and is sentenced to die Aug. 30 for murdering a Cape Girardeau family in 1992, an official in the Missouri attorney general's office said. After Roll's final appeal for a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court was rejected, the Missouri Supreme Court was free to set an execution date, said the official, Scott Holste...

Future needs of the Great River Road, a 3,000-mile network of federal, state and local roads on both sides of the Mississippi River from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, are discussed in an "Accomplishments and Future Needs" report issued by the Mississippi River Parkway Commission...

Cindy Huber of Perryville knows that you have to catch children at just the right moment and they can do something extraordinary. So when her children, MaKayla, 4, and Grant, 2, started peering up the chimney looking for Santa Claus last Christmas, she immediately grabbed her camera...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Immunizations are more than something parents "ought" to make sure their children have before starting school. It's a requirement, and no vaccination could mean no school for local youths. It may sound a little harsh, but as Brenda Freed pointed out, it's for a good reason. Immunizations can protect a child against diseases that can hurt, cripple or kill by helping him build natural defenses against the disease...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Stoddard County Sheriff Steve Fish faces a challenge from Bloomfield Police Chief Rick Stanfield in the Democratic primary, and controversial former Morehouse police chief Doug Triplett is one of three candidates for the Republican nomination...

BENTON, Mo. -- Rick Walter thinks Scott County can be a safer place for residents and families. Bill Ferrell knows the county, the people, and wants to continue working for them. Both men are vying for the post of Scott County Sheriff, with a salary of $47,150. Voters heading to the polls Aug. 8 will elect a sheriff since both men filed as Democrats and face no Republican competition. Ferrell is an incumbent...

Show Harry Truman. Cover up Rush Limbaugh. That's the plan of Democrats involved in organizing Gov. Mel Carnahan's whistle-stop campaign visit to Cape Girardeau Saturday. Carnahan is running for U.S. Senate. The campaign train, featuring Carnahan and other statewide Democratic candidates, is slated to stop in front of the Missouri Wall of Fame in downtown Cape Girardeau just before 1 p.m...

A St. Louis neighborhood group has applied to Southeast Missouri State University for a charter to operate an elementary and middle school. The proposal has the support of the Missouri Botanical Garden. Southeast Missouri State University received the application within the past few days. But school officials and charter school supporters have agreed to delay the official submission date until Aug. 1...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Catholic Congregation of the Mission says it will remove the archives, rare books and art objects from its library in Perryville to make room for Southeast Missouri State University's higher education center. The Vincentians have yet to decide where to store the items from the St. Mary's of the Barrens library...

One of local golf's most tradition-rich and unique tournaments will be played today and Thursday at the Cape Girardeau Country Club. The 22nd edition of the Lassies Classic a Scottish-themed tournament pattered after the "old course" in St. Andrews, Scotland will feature 200 players...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- The Chaffee Medicap Pharmacy American Legion baseball team's hopes of a first-ever District 14 Tournament title took a severe blow Tuesday night. Fifth-seeded Poplar Bluff rode the brilliant pitching of ace Jamie McAlister to a 5-1 win over top-seeded Chaffee during a winner's bracket semifinal at Hillhouse Park...

Jay Pierce will be able to combine playing baseball with taking his first trip outside the United States. Pierce, who will be a senior at Cape Girardeau Central High School this year, was recently selected to play on a team that will travel to New Zealand Aug. 4-17 for a tournament against squads from several other countries...

PERKINS, Mo. -- James Shoemaker, 76, of Perkins, died Tuesday, July 18, 2000, at Southeast Memorial Hospital at Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett in Chaffee, Mo.

ANNA, Ill. -- Ramma Dell Wilson, 73, of Anna died Monday, July 17, 2000, at City Care Center. She was born July 1, 1927, daughter of Elisha and Bunav Williams Magee. She and Sterling Hunter Wilson were married April 9, 1966, at East Prairie, Mo. He died May 19, 1996...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Graveside service for Joe Hays Wills of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. today at Russell Heights Cemetery. The Rev. Lloyd Bollinger will officiate. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Wills, 78, died Monday, July 17, 2000, at Jackson Manor...

SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- Lucille M. Craft, 72, of Sedgewickville died Monday, July 17, 2000, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Festus, Mo. She was born Aug. 6, 1927, daughter of Roy and Evie Hughes Henson. She and Dewane S. Craft were married Nov. 16, 1948...

Funeral for Kathryn "Kay" Trauernicht of Sarasota, Fla., was held Sunday at Shipman Funeral Home in Bismarck, Mo. Deacon Tony Snodgrass officiated. Burial was in Bismarck Masonic Cemetery. Trauernicht, 82, died Friday, July 14, 2000, at Sarasota Memorial Hospital...

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Lloyd V. Hinton, 60, of Chaffee died Friday, July 14, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 11, 1939, in Willits, Calif., son of Lloyd Ben and Theola Pock Hinton. He and Patsy Shepard were married Aug. 11, 1963, in Reno, Nev...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Clara E. Huber, 106, of Perryville died Monday, July 17, 2000, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born June 3, 1894, in Perry County in Missouri, daughter of Andrew and Barbara Huber Hoffman. She and Charles Huber were married Nov. 25, 1930, at Perryville. He died April 29, 1963...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Shirley Ann Douglas, 2 months, died Monday, July 17, 2000, in St. Louis. She was born April 24, 2000, in Perryville, daughter of Linda Reed and William Douglas. Survivors include her parents of Perryville; paternal grandparents, Gloria Douglas of Perryville, Sterling Douglas of Brewer, Mo.; maternal grandparents, Shirley Penrose of Perryville, Michael Reed of Mooreville, Miss.; paternal great-grandmother, Lorena Horschman of Perryville; maternal great-grandmothers, Lillie Reed of Mooreville, Betty Barton of St. ...

HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. -- Carl E. Davis, 46, of House Springs, Mo., died Monday, July 17, 2000, at his home. He was born Jan. 22, 1954, at Marquand, Mo., the son of Everett P. and Lillian E. Gromer Davis. He and Patricia R. Chamberlain were married March 30, 1974...

BLODGETT, Mo. -- Timothy Lee McElroy, 33, of Blodgett died Tuesday, July 18, 2000, at his home, following an extended illness. He was born Jan. 12, 1967, in East Prairie, Mo., son of Cleo and Brenda Lynch McElroy. McElroy attended New Dawn State School 10 years...

Where Attorney General Jay Nixon's hiring of outside counsel for the state's tobacco litigation is concerned, the outrage continues to unfold. The latest chapter is prompted by an audit conducted by State Auditor Claire McCaskill -- who, like Nixon, is a Democrat...

To the editor: I read with great interest the July 17 column by state Sen. Peter Kinder attacking the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare -- a group with over 90,000 members and supporters in Missouri -- because they have rated U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft as having one of the worst records in the Senate on Social Security and Medicare...

In a new book, Hillary Clinton has been accused of calling Paul Fray, boyfriend Bill's 1974 congressional campaign coordinator, a " -- -- ing Jew 'expletive.'" I'll tell you the main reason I'm inclined to believe she did it. It's not because she has a vicious streak in her, has a notoriously bad temper, warmly embraced Yasser Arafat's wife last November, was extremely late in rebuking Mrs. ...

While the recent failure of another test of the Pentagon's missile-defense project has produced a number of jabs from editorial cartoonists, it should be pointed out that the system still has merit. It is a lack of attention to details that has been the problem -- a shortcoming that would have been disastrous in the manned space missions. It's time to buckle down and do it right...

To the editor: I have a question: Can you legally park your automobile in the middle of the street and wash it? The reason I ask this question is this. Firefighters at Fire Station No. 3 on Emerald Street park the fire trucks across the middle of the street and wash them whenever it is convenient for them. In the process of their washing these huge vehicles, they block one side of traffic with no warning signs, orange cones or any other safety warnings of any kind...

Son to Mark and Karen Regenhardt of Lake In the Hills, Ill., Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Ill., 2:55 p.m. Thursday, July 6, 2000. Name, Drake Connor. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. First child. Mrs. Regenhardt is the former Karen Siegl, daughter of Jack and Carol Siegl of Plymouth, Wis. Regenhardt is the son of Joe and Mary Alice Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau. He is employed by Johnstone, Downey and Kline in Chicago...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Vercie Helen Shelton, 81, of Sikeston died Monday, July 17, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 11, 1919, at Blodgett, Mo., daughter of John and Florence McCann James. She and Vernon E. Shelton were married Aug. 23, 1941, at Morley, Mo. He died May 1, 1990...

JACKSON, Mo. -- Ida Mae Rigger Stromatt, 87, of Jackson died Monday, July 17, 2000, at Jackson Manor. She was born April 4, 1913, at Scopus, Mo., daughter of Thomas and Annie E. Craig Brown. She first married Clarence Rigger, who died in 1953. She later married Clifford Stromatt, who also preceded her in death...

Through the course of Recipe Swap I have shared with you some of the special events in our family. This week we have a couple of anniversaries to celebrate in. My sister Linda and her husband Wynn are celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary today. Being one of my older sisters, she has been a wonderful marriage and parent role model for Scott and I. We have watched them raise two wonderful daughters and we follow many of their parenting skills to guide us. Thanks, Sis...

Snails are theorized to have been the first food ever. The theory goes its because they are so easy to catch. "He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster," observed Jonathan Swift. He was right. But the first person to eat an artichoke was probably no less intrepid...