Stories from Thursday, February 7, 1991

Southeast Missouri State University officials might excuse local business people for not cheering some of the school's lesser renovation plans. While no one benefits if students suffer an uncomfortable university environment, it also makes little sense to use tax revenues to pave the way for campus businesses that compete with taxpaying community enterprises. We can't expect students to live in spartan circumstances but we can't predict much local enthusiasm for these plans...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts will present a new juried exhibition, the Midwest Small Sculpture Show, at Gallery 100 March 10-29. The Midwest Small Sculpture Show is open to all artists 18 years and older who live in Missouri, Illinois, Tennessee, Kentucky and Arkansas...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A benefit concert by the Hillbilly Ken Show will be held March 10 at 2 p.m. in Academic Auditorium on Southeast Missouri State University campus. The show will benefit the Cape Nutrition Center's building fund. The Hillbilly Ken Show is organized by Ken Martin, who performs at the Ole Chuck Wagon restaurant in Cape Girardeau's Town Plaza...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Theatre Department at Southeast Missouri State University will present "Romeo and Juliet," the play on film, Friday at 7 p.m. in the Forrest H. Rose Theatre. Admission is free and open to the public. The film is part of the semester-long Shakespeare Festival, sponsored by the Theatre Department...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The department of art at Southeast Missouri State University is sponsoring a public lecture by New York art critic and magazine editor John Howell, Jr., tonight at 7 p.m. at the University Center Ballroom. Admission is free. Howell, a senior editor of "ELLE" magazine and a regular contributor to numerous national and international arts magazines, will discuss "From Mirror to Prophecy: A Critical Look at Art in a Critical Time."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "Zoomer's Rap Band," a play focusing on ways to handle peer pressure, will be performed for several area schools. A free performance, which is open to the public, will also be presented March 1 at Rose Theater on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. The show begins at 7 p.m...

Singer Mark Collie says music is like an addiction to him: He can't imagine it not being a part of his life. "I've always been really excited by music," he said. "As a kid, I really didn't understand what most of the songs were about, but they just stirred something in me. As I grew up, music became a big part of my life."...

More than $16,000 worth of merchandise donated by downtown merchants will be put on the auction block Saturday at the fourth annual Downtown Merchants Association Fundraiser Auction and Gala. Some of the big-ticket items available at the silent auction include a ranch-mink coat with a fox collar donated by Hecht's; a microwave oven donated by Tinsley Appliance; 100 gallons of gas from Kidd's Oil Co.; a Norman Rockwell music box from Zickfield Jewelers; an oak roll-top desk with matching chair from Hutson's Furniture; and a mammogram from Southeast Hospital.. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Daniel Dunlap of Cape Girardeau is among the two million Americans with a mental illness. After years of silence, Dunlap and others with mental illnesses have decided to speak out and hope by doing so to become better accepted and better understood...

CARBONDALE, ILL. ZZ Top and the Black Crows will bring the 1990-91 Recycler World Tour to the SIU Arena in Carbondale on Feb. 26 at 8 p.m. A band with a penchant for doing things in grandiose style, ZZ Top will perform such classics as "Tush," "Cheap Sunglasses," "Legs," "Sharp Dressed Man," "TV Dinners" and "Pearl Necklace," as well as hits from their album "Tres Hombres."...

It's good to see that a major support-the-troops parade is scheduled for Saturday morning at 10:00 a.m. in Jackson. Sponsored by the VFW and American Legion posts there, the parade will gather at the frozen food locker on South High Street and proceed north...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" is scheduled to be performed in Cape Girardeau April 9-10. The long-running production, based on T.S. Elliot's "Old Possum Book of Practical Cats" will be presented at the Show Me Center as part of a nationwide tour of sports arenas...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State University is considering a plan calling for a three-year guaranteed pay raise and awarding of merit pay for faculty. After months of wrangling over a merit pay plan that calls for implementation only in years when at least a 4 percent across-the-board pay hike would kick in, senators appeared to scrap the idea Wednesday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The City Council Wednesday tabled action on a proposal to repeal parking restrictions on Kage Hills Drive after 10 residents of the street attended the meeting to oppose the parking ban. Dr. Paul Spence, of 3212 Kage Hills Drive, was one of 11 residents who signed a petition asking the council to repeal the parking ban that it approved Dec. 19. Sixteen people own property along the street...

JACKSON -- Sex crimes against children are often hard to detect, and even harder to prosecute if the person conducting the investigation does not have the training and expertise needed to investigate such crimes. When the FBI in St. Louis surveyed municipal and county law enforcement and related agencies in eastern Missouri, they were told, "We need help in the investigation of child sexual assault cases, and help on how to investigate crime scenes involving sex crimes."...

DUTCHTOWN -- Perryville Alderman Robert V. Pirrie, 52, was killed late Wednesday afternoon, when the single-engine airplane he was flying crashed into a plowed, muddy field west of here. Authorities said the Piper Cherokee crashed at a steep angle into the field, situated about one-half mile east of County Road 233, three to four miles west of Dutchtown. The farm field is owned by Wayne and Albert Deneke...

PFC WILLIAM R. GREBING U.S. ARMY PFC Grebing is the son of Pat and Hubert Kight of Delta and Marvin Grebing of Altenburg. He joined the Army in 1989 after graduating from Delta High School. He completed basic training at Fort Leonard Wood. Grebing was stationed in Germany until November, when he was deployed to Saudi Arabia...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Words like coordination and cooperation are being used more and more when officials discuss programs to help children and families. That suits Rep. Mary Kasten just fine, because throughout her eight years in the Missouri House, she has urged improved coordination and cooperation among agencies at all levels as a way of reducing duplication of services and making limited resources go farther...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Southeast Missouri State University plans to turn two Cape Girardeau apartment buildings into housing for students. Tom Lovett, dean of students, said this will mark the first such housing arrangement here for university students...

SCOTT CITY -- A half-mile asphalt walking trail recently was built in the Scott City Community Park. The $13,000 fitness trail circles the park and will be dedicated officially in April, according to Penny Wingerter, park director. "There are a lot of people who walk religiously there," Wingerter said. "The previous (unpaved) trail would wash out whenever it rained, so there are a lot of walkers who are really going to appreciate this trail."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Mailers adding ZIP+4 bar codes to their first and third-class letter mail, then pre-sorting to 5-digits can save money on postal costs. "The mail is processed faster, delivery is more accurate, turnaround is speedier, and best of all, your profits can be greater," said Donna Rippee, director of marketing and communications of the Springfield Division U.S. Postal Service office...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Franklin R. Rhodes of Maryland Heights will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Plainview Methodist Church near here. The Rev. Luther Rhodes will officiate, with burial in Plainview Cemetery. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Liley Funeral Home in Patton...

ROSENBURGSon to Mr. and Mrs. David Rosenburg of Rolla, St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, 8:07 p.m. Monday, Jan. 14, 1991. Name, Brandon David. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. First child. Mrs. Rosenburg is the former Karen James, daughter of Franklin and Wanda James of Cape Girardeau. Rosenburg is employed by City of Rolla, and is the son of Lester Rosenburg and Lola Turner of Rolla...

PERRYVILLE - Funeral services will be held Friday for Ginger M. Tucker of Perryville, who died Tuesday, Feb. 5, 1991, at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. She was 19. She was born Aug. 13, 1971, in Perryville, the daughter of Richard C. and Dianna Wibbenmeyer Tucker. Her parents survive...

IBEN BROWNING SHOULD be remembered along with Martin Luther King. They both had a dream. THIS IS FOR the person who says apparently there's not a thing we can do about postage rates going up. Sure there is: find another country that has cheaper postage rates and move to it. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Three Southeast Missouri State University students were among 180 students from across the state invited to attend the 1991 Governor's Leadership Forum. The forum was held Jan. 8-10 in Jefferson City. Juniors Kim Holshouser and Kristen Dreyer, both of Cape Girardeau, and sophomore Steve Nenninger of Leopold represented Southeast at the fourth annual forum...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. K.P.S. Kamath will discuss stress management on tonight's edition of "Ask Your Doctor." The medical program airs on cable channel 13 at 8 p.m. every Thursday. The show features local doctors answering questions from viewers who may call in. Hosts are Martha Muench and Dr. Jean A. Chapman...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau County American Red Cross and West Park Mall are sponsoring the First Celebrity Blood Drive Monday from 12:30 to 6 p.m. The drive will be held in the former Sports Connection Retail Space located in the Venture Court area...