Stories from Wednesday, July 10, 1991

The Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents Thursday will discuss ways to cut the 1992 budget to bring it in line with cuts in state funding. The board will also consider authorizing bids for expansion of the Bootheel Education Center at Malden...

Now that Gov. John Ashcroft has signed a bill drawing new boundary lines for the state's nine U.S. House districts, members will be making a special effort to become familiar with needs and problems of new territory they will be representing. The 8th Congressional District's Bill Emerson will be adding two counties - Texas and Wright - and losing Ste. Genevieve County and the Sullivan Township of Washington County...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education Tuesday night formally approved a contract hiring Neyland Clark as superintendent of schools. The board also approved the hiring of Terry Kitchen as the district's athletic director and discussed the issue of yearbook photography...

JACKSON -- The Jackson R-2 Board of Education received two state report cards on the district during its Tuesday night meeting. Both were good. Assistant School Superintendent Fred Jones reported on the results of the 1991 Missouri Mastery Achievement Test (MMAT) that was given to students in grades 2-10 in April. The MMAT is a yearly, state-developed test that measures students' masteries of state-defined key skills in language arts, math, science, and social studies...

Max Pind of 2542 Lynnwood wants the city of Cape Girardeau to compensate him for work he's already done on a garage that the planning and inspection division says doesn't comply with building codes. Pind staged a one-man protest Tuesday in front of City Hall, where he parked his pickup truck complete with a sign and display in the bed that stated his dissatisfaction with the city for what he called its "screw-up."...

FRANKIE ERLACKER Occupation: Physical Therapist with Physical Therapy Association of Southeast Missouri Pet Peeve: "When I finally have enough time to do all the things I want to do, I'm too tired to do them." What do you do in your spare time? "I enjoy jogging, tennis, my children's ball games and swim team."...

A friend of mine once offered the opinion that American history was well-served by the rejected U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Robert Bork. Don't look too deeply here: his view was not the same as the Norman Lear/Bella Abzug/Benjamin Hooks crowd. It is more the opinion of a cosmetologist. Bork, he claimed, has the planet's cheesiest beard, and his elevation to the Supreme Court would reflect badly on our government...

Cape Girardeau will host the largest agriculture-oriented show between Memphis and St. Louis next week. The third annual "New Trends in Agriculture" program July 17-18 will draw 500 participants from throughout the region. Most of the programs will be geared to those directly employed in agriculture. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Frances J. Austin, 69, of Perryville, died Sunday, July 7, 1991 at the Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Feb. 26, 1922 in Bangor, Wis., daughter of George and Marie Ehleiter Jung. She married Gordon W. Austin May 25, 1946. He survives...

PERRYVILLE -- Lindolf G. Bock, 59, of Arnold, died Monday, July 8, 1991 at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born Aug. 19, 1931 in Uniontown, son of Gottfried and Hilda Herring Bock. He was co-owner of Arnold Printing Inc. On Feb. 11, 1956, he married the former Linda Franklin. She survives...

ANNA, Ill. -- Estelle Granay, 98, of Tucson, Ariz., formerly of Anna and E. Moline, Ill., died Sunday, July 7, 1991, at the Flower Square Nursing Home in Tucson. She was born June 2, 1898, at Irvington, Ill., daughter of Dr. Logan Granay and Amelia Schmidt Granay...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- Michael J. Burd, 26, of Olmsted, Ill. died Tuesday, July 9, 1991 at his home. He was a recent graduate of Webster University in St. Louis and was a graduate of Meridian High School where he was in the band, the Beta Club and served as a class officer...

Minnie Mae Ervin, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, July 9, 1991 at her home. She was born March 2, 1901 in Coldburg, Ky., daughter of Wallace and Icy Spears Ervin. She was married to Herbert Ervin, who preceded her in death Jan. 11, 1974. Ervin worked 20 years at the International Shoe Factory. After retirement, she was a private duty nurse at Southeast Missouri Hospital and in the home...

CHARLESTON -- Inez Pierce Pemberton, 96, of Charleston died Monday, July 8, 1991 at the Charleston Manor. She was born Oct. 20, 1894 in Mississippi County, daughter of Cortez and Hattie Pierce. She lived in Mississippi County her entire life. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Charleston where had served as the organist for many years. She was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star...

ADVANCE -- Richard Eugene Baker, 45, of Advance died Monday, July 8, 1991 at Doctors Regional Hospital in Poplar Buff. Morgan Funeral Home in Advance is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral service for Wilson H. Stoll, 81, was held June 29, 1991 in Toledo, Ohio. Stoll, a native of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, June 26, 1991 at Lake Park Nursing Center. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. For 35 years, he worked at the GM Chevrolet plant, retiring in 1958...

JACKSON -- Molly L. Froemsdorf, 84, of Jackson, died Sunday, July 7, 1991, at Southeastern General Hospital in Lumberton, N.C. She was born June 19, 1907 in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Joe and Annabelle Weatherford Leeds. She married William H. Froemsdorf, who survives in Jackson...

SIKESTON -- Elmer Thomas Rainwater, 84, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, July 9, 1991, at his daughter's home in Cape Girardeau following a brief illness. He was born Jan. 25, 1907, at Faxon, Tenn., son of George Fulton and Laura Mae Holmes Rainwaters. He was a farmer and a member of the Bement Baptist Church of Sikeston...

CHAFFEE -- Work on the Highway 77 Cotton Belt Railroad overpass north of here will resume sometime next week, a state official said Monday. The project to stop soil subsidence on the four slopes of the overpass was halted July 3 after the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department discovered a compound, Code L, being mixed in with the soil to stabilize it might be a health hazard...

A special patriotic concert by the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band, which was rained out July 3, will be presented tonight. The free concert is dedicated to members and veterans of the armed services and begins at 8 p.m. in Capaha Park. The concert begins with a selection entitled "Armed Forces Salute," which includes the song of each of the five branches of armed services. ...

Long before there was a small community on the Mississippi River between St. Louis and the mouth of the Ohio River named "Cape Girardeau," the name was being used by river men to distinguish the place where a French ensign stationed at Fort Kaskaskia named "Girardot" traded in furs with the Indians. His trading post on the west side of the Mississippi was in a cape enclosure, part of a huge bluff that extended into the river...

Southeast Missouri State University has named 999 students to its dean's list for academic achievement during the spring 1991 semester. Students named to the list earned at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and completed at least 12 credit hours during the spring semester...

In this column we take a cursory look at the longest and perhaps the shortest of recently-published books devoted to language. The new Random House Webster's College Dictionary has been "bugled" by its perpetrators as the newest, biggest, and best college dictionary to date. Few critics consider it the best. Au contraire...

GLENNONVILLE, Mo. The Missouri Rice Research Farm near Glennonville was officially dedicated last week. "This kind of self-help project and the cooperation among so many different agencies and people will make us competitive in the world market," Charles Kruse, director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture, told the crowd of about 100 people who gathered Friday under a large tent in the center of the 30-acre research plot...

KENNETT -- The Missouri cotton acreage for 1991 is below the March USDA planting forecasts, but the estimated 270,000 acres is the largest crop since 1977. "Many cotton fields are in excellent condition," says Michael R. Milam, agronomy specialist of Dunklin County. "But, there is still concern over some of the late-planted cotton. Many of the late fields which do not have irrigation are in need of rain...

PORTAGEVILLE -- A Cotton Physiology Seminar will be held at the University of Missouri Delta Center here July 16. "Physiology is one of the last frontiers as far as our knowledge of cotton is concerned," said Dr. Kater Hake, manager of the National Cotton Council's Cottony Physiology Education Program. "We'll be talking about the physiological effect of water stress on cotton, and the physiological causes of square shedding."...

A youth livestock judging contest will be one of the highlight events for youngsters during the New Trends in Agriculture program, scheduled July 17-18 at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus. The contest is open to all youths, and will feature divisions for Youth, 4-H, and FFA, with individual and three-person teams...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- "Ten years ago the words, `no-till,' were practically unheard of. This year, up to half of the crops planted required little, or no till." These were recent remarks by Edward C. Varsa, professor of plant and soil science at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, who will be one of seven speakers at the 25th annual Farmer Field Day, to be held Wednesday at the Belleville, Ill. Research Center...

Two more big agriculture programs are on scheduled this month the New Trends in Agriculture at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus in Cape Girardeau, and the No-Till Crop Production Field Day at Milan, Tenn. The New Trends program at Cape Girardeau will be held July 17-18, and features "something for everyone."...

Five area women have been named to the 1991 edition of Outstanding Young Women of America. Included in the publication are Michelle Marie Rediger and LaRae Diane Moore, both of Cape Girardeau; Kathy Jo Boyd of Jackson; Karen Lynne McDowell of Millersville; and Mary Margaret Marshall of Sikeston...