Stories from Thursday, February 21, 1991

Parental influence is the earliest and most enduring authority most children experience, and it doesn't subside when young people are given over to the care of school systems. Parental involvement is critical to the education of young students; if mother and father are dedicated to this task, their children will pick up on its importance. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The annual spring musical at Notre Dame High School will be "Into the Woods." The play will be performed April 11-14 at the high school. "Into the Woods" was the 1988 Tony Award winner for best book and best score. It was written by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. The play features an ensemble cast of 22...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Try to imagine most rhythm-and-blues bands. Then listen to The Beat Daddys. The experience will likely will readjust your perceptions of that genre of music. An area favorite, The Beat Daddys are based in Evansville, Ind. They like to call themselves "a group of soul-rockin', funky white boys" who play house-rocking R & B...

Talent and a lot of determination can take you places, according to Steve Hornbeak, and one could say his career is a prime example of that theory. A member of Lee Greenwood's band for a year and a half, the 27-year-old Hornbeak, a native of Tamms, Ill., and graduate of Egyptian High School, plays keyboard and sings back-up vocals for the country music star...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Members of the Alpha Delta Pi sorority at Southeast Missouri State University along with The House of Brides of Cape Girardeau will sponsor a fashion show Monday at Academic Auditorium on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- David Green of Cape Girardeau will be one of four featured soloists at a March 9 concert at Symphony Hall in Paducah, Ky. Green, a member of the music faculty at Southeast Missouri State University, will play the clarinet in the concert. He is one of four first, chair wind players in the Paducah Symphony to be featured at the concert...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Kent M. Householder, a senior at Thomas W. Kelly High School, has been named a finalist in the National Merit Scholarship contest. He will advance in the competition. The process of selecting 6,000 merit scholarship winners from the finalists is now in progress...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Kim Zoellner and David Pobst, Notre Dame High School juniors, have received the "I Dare You Leadership Award." They each received a $500 scholarship to attend the American Youth Foundation's National Leadership Conference to be held in Miniwanco, Mich. in August...

SCOTT CITY -- Amy Holmes, a senior at Scott City High School, has been selected as the student of the month for January by the Breakfast Exchange Club of Cape Girardeau. Holmes is a member of the National Honor Society, the Pep Club, Foreign Language Club, and Students Against Drunk Driving...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School will offer a course, Introduction to DOS, beginning March 11. The class will meet on Monday from 4-6 p.m. for six weeks and costs $35. This class includes an introduction to the operating system used on IBM and compatible microcomputers. Students will receive hands-on practice with basic and intermediate level DOS commands...

Is Missouri approaching a future revenue crisis in public education that will make the current cash crunch look like child's play? We'll leave it to readers to decide. This is not a question we take pleasure in asking, and since it is seldom mentioned, it is not a question we are even comfortable raising. ...

REPRINTED FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL New York City is in danger of losing one of its more valuable resources. The 140 inner-city schools of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, which educate 50,000 disadvantaged youngsters a year, many of them non-Catholic, face closure unless the Archdiocese is successful in its recently announced campaign to raise $100 million for them. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Because some men and women serving in Operation Desert Storm also are bike riders, members of the Southeast Missouri Chapter of the Harley Owners Group (HOG) thought a good way to demonstrate their support for the troops would be to hold a motorcycle parade...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- State Sen. Danny Staples said Wednesday he and another senator were mostly joking when they made comments about the use of cough syrup that persuaded the Missouri Senate to raise the blood-alcohol level contained in a drunken-driving bill...

MARBLE HILL -- For Lee Mahasongkham, who soon will become an American citizen, the quiet pace of his new Bollinger County home suits him fine. A refugee from Laos, Mahasongkham escaped from his communist-occupied country when he was just 13 years old...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The City Council Wednesday took the city staff to task over its policy of investing city funds out-of-state to achieve better interest rates. All the council members present told City Manager J. Ronald Fischer and Assistant City Manager Al Stoverink that they thought city funds should be invested locally. The council took no formal action on the matter...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Members of the Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State University gave final approval Wednesday to a much-debated merit pay plan. The plan, which will get one final look by the Senate after wording is cleaned up, will be sent to the administration for consideration as part of the University's budget process...

PETTY OFFICER TIM ROTH U.S. NAVY Roth, the son of Ron and Judy Roth of Cape Girardeau, graduated from Cape Central High School in 1982, and enlisted the same year. He was stationed in Sardinia, Italy before his ship was sent to the Gulf region. He works with weapons on board his ship, the USS Orion...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Teachers from area parochial schools are attending a series of computer workshops at Notre Dame High School this spring. Teachers are receiving hands-on training, including instruction on several specific programs, with Appleworks being the main focus...

JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County League of Women Voters will meet tonight at the county administrative building in Jackson to discuss disaster preparedness plans for the area. Mark Winkler, area coordinator for the Missouri Emergency Management Agency, and G. Brian Miller, Cape Girardeau County coordinator for emergency preparedness, will lead the discussion...

SCOTT CITY -- Scott City officials plan to dedicate a monument built to honor area soldiers serving in the Persian Gulf War during a dedication ceremony Sunday at 2 p.m. at City Hall. The monument, built by members of the Kiwanis Club, stands more than 10 feet high and will be a permanent fixture in front of City Hall until the war is over, said Don Roth of the club. The pyramid will also rotate, he noted...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Two memorial services for Capt. Jeffry Jon Olson of Eaker Air Force Base, Ark., were held earlier this month. The first was Feb. 8 at Eaker Air Force Base. The second was Feb. 11 at Sharon Lutheran Church in North Dakota with full military rites...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Pansy A. Estes of Cape Girardeau Nursing Center will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 7-9 p.m. today...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral mass for Mrs. Hermina Louise Diebold of Scott City will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Joseph Catholic Church. The Rev. Roger Leveillee will officiate, with burial in St. Joseph Cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here after 6:30 p.m. Friday. A prayer service will be held at 7:30...

PERKINS -- Funeral service for Amanda Angeline Elfrank of Perkins will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Perkins Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Robert Francis will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Ray Meek. Burial will be in Williams Cemetery here. Friends may call at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance from 4-8 p.m. Friday...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Ida M. Klaus of Highland, Ill., will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jeffrey Lloyd will officiate, with burial in Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. Friday...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Martin Moore of Bartlesville, Okla., Jane Phillips Memorial Hospital there, Thursday, Jan. 31, 1991. Name, Kelsey Nicole. Weight, 6 pounds 11 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Moore is the former Jane Godwin, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Kassel of Cape Girardeau and the late Lyman Godwin. Moore is a computer programmer/analyst with Phillips Petroleum Co., and is the son of Lenita Moore of Andale, Kan., and the late Robert Moore...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Narvol Randol Jr. was re-elected chairman of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau during a meeting of the bureau's advisory board Wednesday. Other officers selected at the session, held at Jeremiah's Restaurant in downtown Cape Girardeau, were David Ross, vice chairman, and Beverly Estes, secretary...

CHAFFEE -- The city of Chaffee should have its new computer system in operation in about 30 days. The city council voted Monday to purchase three IBM computer terminals for a total cost of $15,041. Included are two IBM 386 computers, one IBM 286 computer, and software...

OAK RIDGE -- Three area teachers will attend the seventh Teachers, Industry and the Environment workshop in Jefferson City. Melody F. Greene from Oak Ridge R-VI, Tammie Lukefahr from Perryville High School, and Lisa Gariepy from Charleston High School will participate in the workshop March 7-9...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Private funeral service for Lloyd B. Campbell of Cape Girardeau will be held later this week, with burial in Memorial Park. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements. A memorial service will be held at a later date...

I JUST WANTED to tell the post office thank-you for cleaning up the side parking lot last week. Maybe it would help if they put one of those sand containers for cigarettes by the side door. Thank you. WELL, I SEE from the news of the past for Feb. 19, 1981, where Wayne Cryts, the Puxico farmer who was struggling to save his hard-earned property from that gang of thieves at Ristine Elevator, has not been forgotten. ...