Stories from Wednesday, March 13, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Memorial mass for Anthony Rubich of St. Louis, basketball coach at Notre Dame High School 16 years, will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Dominic's Savio Catholic Church in Affton. J.B. Smith Funeral Home of Maplewood is in charge of arrangements...

MARBLE HILL -- Two brothers from Hiram received moderate injuries Tuesday when the truck in which they were riding ran off Highway 34 and overturned. The accident occurred at 10:35 a.m. about 12 miles west of Marble Hill, said a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol at Poplar Bluff...

JACKSON - The Jackson chapter of the American Business Women's Association will sponsor a "Meet the School Board Candidates" forum Monday at 7 p.m. in the R.O. Hawkins Junior High School Library, 200 North West Lane. Voters in the Jackson R-2 School District are urged to attend the forum to learn more about the candidates and their views on the issues that face the school district, a chapter spokesman said...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Approximately 240 students from 30 area high schools, including Cape Central, Jackson and Oak Ridge, will participate Thursday in Southeast Missouri State University's ninth annual Chemistry Bowl. At the competition, high schools will be divided into large and small school divisions. Each school will also entered four students in team competition, and awards will be given to the top three schools in each division...

SCOTT CITY -- The Scott City Council will hold a public forum Monday from 7-8 p.m. to field questions on the proposed half-cent sales tax rate increase in the city. The question-and-answer session will he held at City Hall. Mayor Shirley Young said the council is urging city residents to attend the session if they have any questions, concerns or comments about the proposed tax rate increase...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ankesh Kadakia of Cape Girardeau has completed the requirements for Boy Scouting's highest award, Eagle Scout. To earn this award, Kadakia earned 22 merit badges, served in several troop leadership positions and completed a service project...

BENTON -- Melanie D. Urhahn of Benton has been selected as a Coca-Cola Semifinalists for 1991. Urhahn, a senior at Kelly High School, is one of the 1,800 semifinalists selected from more than 60,000 applicants. Semifinalists will complete additional materials which will be screened by the Coca-Cola Foundation's program review committee this month. Nationwide, 150 Coca-Cola scholars will be selected...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Christina Koch and Robert Arendt have been named students of the Month for February by the Cape Girardeau Elk's Lodge 639. Koch, 18, is a senior at Cape Central High School, where she is captain of the softball team, captain of the basketball team and secretary of the Letterman's Club...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Todd Essner of Notre Dame High School will join other Missouri students for the annual Sophomore Pilgrimage to Jefferson City April 8-9. To receive this honor, the sophomore must rank in the upper fourth of the class and demonstrate high standards for leadership and service. The faculty and students at Notre Dame vote to select the student...

SCOTT CITY -- Ten Scott City Future Business Leaders of America members were chosen to "shadow" local business people for a day as part of a Partnership with Business Project sponsored by the club March 6. Members were chosen for the career awareness day based on activities they had participated in this year...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The local Parents Without Partners chapter has scheduled an orientation meeting for prospective new members Friday at St. Andrew Lutheran Church. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. Parents who are divorced, widowed, legally separated or never married are encouraged to attend...

What hath Meryl Streep wrought? Aside from being one of America's most accomplished film actresses and founding member of the "Accent of the Month Club," Streep has fostered enough agricultural paranoia to fertilize legislation from Tallahassee to Juneau...

More than 2,500 teachers from throughout Southeast Missouri will converge on Cape Girardeau this Friday. It's all part of a 115-year tradition of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers Association. We bid these teachers welcome to our community. Educators play a crucial role in the development of our community, state and nation. This gathering provides a fitting opportunity to pause and honor our educators...

MARION, Ill. -- Marilyn Rhodes Horsley, formerly of Jackson, Mo., was named Mrs. Photogenic in the 1991 Mrs. Illinois United States Pageant. The contest was held March 2 at the Marion Civic Center. Horsley will also compete in the Beauties of America pageant in Winter Haven, Fla. in August...

DUQUOIN, Ill. -- Traffic deaths were down in the Southern Illinois District 13 area in February compared to February 1990, but deaths statewide were up for the month, Illinois State Police said. Ninety deaths were reported statewide as a result of 83 accidents, 40.6 percent more than the 64 deaths in February a year ago. Included in the death totals were nine pedestrians and one bicycle rider...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Louis E. Potts of Mounds, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:14 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, 1991. Name, Lindsey Gail. Weight, 7 pounds 14 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Potts is the former Kimberly Khourie, daughter of Fred Khourie and Virginia Khourie of Cairo, Ill. She is employed at Tamms State Bank in Cairo. Potts is an ironworker in Joppa, Ill., and is the son of the late Joe and Mildred Potts of Cairo...

CHARLESTON -- L.C. Townsend Sr., 61, of Charleston died Monday, March 11, 1991 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Oct. 27, 1929 in rural Charleston, the son of Robert and Jessie Mae Matthew Townsend. He was a lifelong resident of Mississippi County and was an Army veteran, serving in the Korean Conflict. He was of the Baptist faith...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Mary R. McCormick of Marble Hill will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Liley Funeral Chapel here. The Revs. Lloyd Green and Sonny Floyd will officiate, with burial in Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- In an effort to deal with ever-increasing health care costs, several major Cape Girardeau employers are looking at discount health care programs as an option. Healthlink, a St. Louis-based Preferred Provider Organization that offers such discounts, is scheduled to hold two informational seminars here today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Superintendent of Schools Arthur Turner was released from his daily school-district duties during a meeting Tuesday of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. The board also approved an expenditure of $7,500 for a new baseball scoreboard...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The administrators of Cape Girardeau's two hospitals say they are opposed to discount health care programs. The two hospitals have stayed away from discount health care plans. Jim Wente, Southeast Missouri hospital administrator, and John Keusenkothen, president of St. Francis Medical Center, said discount programs like Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) could mean lower costs for members of such discount groups...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- For years, residents of Cape Girardeau's south side have asked City Hall to repair or replace antiquated sewers in their neighborhoods. During the past several years residents have reported, mostly following heavy rains, sewage-filled basements and raw sewage discharged in drainage ditches and into Cape LaCroix Creek...

TERRY KITCHEN Occupation: Teacher/coach, Cape Public Schools Best part of the job: "The trusting relationship you develop between the coach and the athlete." What do you in your spare time? "Work around the house and spend time with my two boys." I've always looked up to: "My dad, because I know he worked very hard to provide for me; my mother, because her faith in God was always an example for me to keep my priorities in the right place; and my brother, because he was always there when I needed a `big brother.'". ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A benefit fund has been set up for the Cape Girardeau couple whose two daughters were killed and whose home was destroyed in a fire Friday. The fund for James and Frances Probst has been established at Southeast Missouri Bank. James Probst, who was injured in the fire, remains in critical condition at Barnes Medical Center burn unit in St. Louis...

JACKSON -- The Jackson R-2 Board of Education got a positive update Tuesday on the district's 1990-91 budget and its projected financial condition at the end of the current fiscal year June 30. "The bottom line is that we're in a lot better shape than we anticipated," said district Business Manager Howard Alexander. ...

MM-FN ADAM FLEISCHMAN U.S. NAVY Seaman Fleischman is the son of Jack Fleischman of Cape Girardeau and Pat Gardner of Aloha, Ore. He attended Aloha High School before enlisting in the Navy in March, 1989. He is married to Renee Fleischman, who lives in Aloha...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Pro~ponents of a 5-cent property tax levy to fund senior citizens programs in Cape Girardeau County plan to hold an open forum on Saturday. Officials from a number of senior citizens organizations will serve on a panel that will answer questions about the tax from interested residents...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Children from 14 area day centers are participating this week and next in a Muscular Dystrophy Association Hop-A-Thon. Sponsors for the participants are being asked to make their pledge based on the number of hops each child will complete in two minutes...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- For six years, Betty Fulton has toiled with the business side of operations at Southeast Missouri State University. But she'll soon be back in the classroom teaching economics as she did prior to going from a faculty position to an administrative job at the university...

JACKSON - The war in the Persian Gulf where American men and women have been fighting for freedom and liberty for Kuwait has ended. But the aftermath will take a long time to resolve. At the county courthouse in Jackson, the American flag waves high on the pole near the statue of a stone soldier in World War I uniform. The massive dome of the courthouse and the large stone columns that support the arch over the south entrance to the building form an impressive background...

JACKSON -- A blood drive will be held at the Jackson High School here Monday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The Jackson High School Student Council and the American Red Cross are co-sponsors of the drive. T-shirts will be given to all blood donors. To be eligible to give blood, donors must be at least 17 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds...

Newsmen reporting on the War in the Gulf became enamored of a word that troubled word watchers. Again and again, we heard our allies were in favor of continuing to "prosecute" the war, and one of our readers thought the reporters were dead wrong. To her, and to others, to "prosecute" meant to condemn...

OAK RIDGE - Beverly Hemman's ambition of teaching began as a child. "One of my favorite childhood pastimes was playing school with my dolls and stuffed animals," Hemmann recalls. "It seems I have always wanted to be a teacher. "As a parent, I now appreciate having summers off to spend with my children."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The annual meeting of Southeast Missouri District Retired Teachers Association will be held Friday at the University Center Party Room. Southeast Missouri State University president Kala Stroup will be the after-luncheon speaker. Her topic will be "Bringing Tomorrow into Focus."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A junior high Scholar Bowl team has been created at St. Vincent de Paul School. Members competed in their first scholar bowl March 2 at East Prairie. The team won two of their six rounds. Students were chosen for the team after taking a test. Members practice each Monday with sponsors Carol Marshall and Jo Ann Debrock...

CARUTHERSVILLE -- David P. Madison Jr., of Caruthersville, has been elected president of the Missouri Soybean Association (MSA). Two Southeast Missourian John Moreton of Charleston and Robert Cook of New Madrid were re-elected to the association's Board of Directors...

JACKSON -- "Grafting" workshops will be held at Jackson and Perryville March 27. The Jackson session will be held at the Cape County Extension office here at 9:30 a.m. An evening workshop will be held at the Perry County Extension office at 7 p.m. Participants will receive "hands-on" experience at the workshop by "grafting" two apple trees, which can then be taken home and planted...

ADVANCE -- Richard Hitt of Advance averaged 175 bushels of corn an acre during the 1990 growing season. The production was good for fourth place in the Missouri "Irrigated Class" of the 1990 National Corn Grower's Yield Contest. "I used a new seed in 1990," said Hitt. "I tried McCurdy 7477, a 117-day corn."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "Hands on demonstrations on how to convert conventional planters for use in reduced and no-tillage will be offered during tillage planter clinics to be held at Cape Girardeau and Dexter. The local session will be held March 22, at Elmer Eftink's Garage on Route K, west of Cape Girardeau, from 8:30 to 11 a.m. The Dexter session will be held from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at Elmer Seyer's Implement Dealer at Dexter...