Stories from Tuesday, February 12, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dancers from the Royale Ballet School of Performing Arts in Cape Girardeau recently won awards at a national dance competition in Nashville, Tenn. The competition was sponsored by Joe Tremaline studios of Los Angeles, Calif. Two Cape Girardeau girls were awarded dance scholarships: Kathy Gilliland, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Newt Gilliland; and Leigh Lindley, 19, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Keonig...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Gasoline prices in Cape Girardeau fell to pre-Persian Gulf crisis levels Monday, with some stations dropping prices to 99.9 cents a gallon. It has been more than six months since gasoline prices were under a dollar. On Aug. 1, 1990, gasoline prices here were 99.9 cents a gallon. A day later, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, prices increased here, and in two weeks, pump prices for regular unleaded gasoline were at $1.19.9...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city Planning and Zoning Commission Monday recommended the City Council not adopt the 1990 Building Officials and Code Administrators (BOCA) guidelines for minimum property maintenance. The commission recommended the council instead appoint the city staff or a committee of advisers to define the city's low-income housing objectives and then draft an ordinance to meet those specific goals...

MARBLE HILL -- Bollinger County Sheriff Januar Peters "misappropriated" at least $5,269 from January 1988 through July 1990, state auditors have said. Weaknesses in the county government's internal accounting system allowed the sheriff to misappropriate the money, a state audit showed...

FRUITLAND - A Cape Girardeau County man was injured Monday when the pickup truck he was driving struck a semi-truck on Highway 61 at its intersection with Interstate 55. The accident occurred at about 2 p.m. The Missouri Highway Patrol said the driver of the pickup, Lawson Burgfeld of Jackson, was taken to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau with moderate injuries...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The new federal Clean Air Act amendments will be costly environmental legislation for Missouri industry, a local business official said. "It will be very costly, both to industry and consumers," said Robert Hendrix, president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. "Thousands of businesses will have to comply with new, highly complex and costly adjustments to conform to the regulations, and these costs will eventually be passed on to consumers."...

AB3 CLYDE W. WARREN U.S. NAVY Warren is the son of Dan and Nellie Warren of Scott City. He graduated from Scott City High School in 1985, where he was a member of the baseball and football teams. Warren has been stationed aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt for the past three years. His unit left for the Persian Gulf Dec. 28 and is scheduled to arrive Feb. 15...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A public forum on "Perspectives about the Middle East" will be held tonight at 7 in the University Center ballroom on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The program is sponsored by the department of history and the College of Liberal Arts...

Mark your calendar for the annual Mayor's Prayer Breakfast to be held Friday, March 1 at the Show Me Center. This year's speaker will be Bill Armstrong, a lay leader, business executive, and former United States Senator from Colorado. At least one nationally syndicated columnist has recently touted Sen. Armstrong for the presidency...

Reed Irvin and Joseph C. Goulden are writers for the "Accuracy in Media" syndicate, headquartered out of Washington D.C. TV viewers around the world daily are seeing dictator Saddam Hussein's secret war weapon on CNN the face of balding, blondish correspondent Peter Arnett. As the de facto Voice of Baghdad, reporting only what Iraqi censors permit, Arnett is putting Saddam's propaganda into 105 nations as the dictator attempts to mobilize world opinion against the Allied effort...

When it comes to quality vocational education, there's no need to look far from home. The Cape Girardeau Public School District operates one of the finest vocational-technical facilities in the state. Vocational Education Week seems a fitting time to recognize the local center for contributions to its students and the community...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Stewart of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6 a.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29, 1991. Name, Mark Allen. Weight, 6 pounds 4 ounces. First child. Mrs. Stewart is the former Janet Wheeler, daughter of Pearl Wheeler of Decatur, lll., and is a registered nurse at Southeast Hospital. Stewart is a surgical aide at Southeast Hospital, and is the son of Barbara Stewart of Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for John Paul Redwine of Sebring, Fla., formerly of Cape Girardeau, was held Jan. 24 at Warren-Morris Chapel in Sebring. The Rev. Winfred White officiated, with burial in Lakeview Memorial Gardens in Avon Park, Fla...

MILLERSVILLE -- Funeral service for M.D. Austin Sr. of Edwards, Ill., will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Fairview Methodist Church near here. Jack Byrd will officiate, with burial in Fairview Cemetery. Friends may call from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Zelma L. Bueltemann of Madison, Miss., will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Willard Murrie will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Mrs. Velma O. Worth of Bell City will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. Mrs. Worth, 71 years old, died Sunday, Feb. 10, 1991, at her home...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Members of a recently-formed committee studying the possible establishment of a countywide 911 emergency reporting system have made their first trip to view other 911 systems. All six of the committee's members made the trip Friday to look at 911 systems at both the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department and the headquarters of South County Fire Alarm in south St. Louis County...

SCOTT CITY -- Commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority have taken under advisement bids that were received last week for the first phase of construction of a rail spur into the port. CWR Construction Co. of North Little Rock, Ark., was the apparent low bidder on the project, with a figure of $1,675,767. That was about $75,000 less than the next lowest bid of Potashnick Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau, at $1,746,211...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Miss Anna Irene Matthews of Sikeston will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jim Matthews will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

OLD APPLETON -- Funeral service for Virgil Arlington Lang of Old Appleton will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Ron Watts will officiate, assisted by Bob Eisenhauer. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today...

BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Cecil Obards of Bloomfield will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Don Cooper will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Dan Sitz. Burial will be in Elliott Cemetery near here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A forum for Cape Girardeau Board of Education candidates will be held Feb. 28 at Washington Elementary School. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. and is open to the public. Washington's Parent-Teacher Association and the school district's Community Teacher Association are hosting the forum...

WE HOPE THOSE WHO are opposed to the senior tax will never grow old, will never need a home-delivered meal, will never need home-chores service, will never need home health care, will never need transportation or even a telephone call to see if you're OK. Remember, a lot of seniors are veterans of World War I, II, and the Korean War...