Stories from Wednesday, March 27, 1991

In an era when many government programs have done more to harm than help the economy, the state's MO BUCKS program stands out as a shining example of a sound investment. Missouri officials say it is the number-one program in the nation in linked deposits...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Salvation Army, 701 Good Hope, is serving Meals with Friends this week from 4:30-6 p.m. each day. There is no cost for the meals. The menus are: TODAYSpaghetti, tossed salad, peas, applesauce, bread & butter. THURSDAYBeef stew, biscuits, apple salad, fruit cup...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - "Education is not quiet," says Mary Schrock, a second grade teacher at St. Mary Cathedral School in Cape Girardeau. "I like to think that I make education challenging and fun. This is sometimes chaotic and noisy. "It is the quest for knowledge. There are no set rules and there are no boundaries in the search...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Additional free copies of the 1990-'91 edition of the Bell telephone book are now being distributed. Mary Bolen, regional account representative for Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages Inc. in Cape Girardeau, said some 44,000 extra copies of the directory will be delivered to local homes and businesses beginning this week. The delivery process is expected to be completed within two weeks...

Today's column is chiefly a review or a test, at least for long-time readers. Late-comers have been exposed briefly to most of the violations in the examples given below. See what you can make of them and how to change for the better. All are authentic, written or spoken...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Every small town and big city has at least one street that has special significance to the community. In Cape Girardeau, Water Street has that distinction. The old timers referred to the street as Levee Street or Aquamsi, a reference to the French word for watery, as indeed the street was often when the Mississippi rose and flooded the street...

Lifelong Democrat Edward Koch is that rare public figure who, throughout his public life, could almost always be counted on to speak his mind bluntly. This blunt-spoken manner tends to get those who adopt it into occasional trouble, and they suffer retirement rather earlier than they would like. ...

Well, Holy Week is about as good a time as any to bring it up: A campaign of hatred is being conducted against the Catholic Church in the United States, and much of the American media, where it is not condoning it, is deliberately covering it up. Good for Cardinal John O'Connor for having the guts to say so...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Minnie Sanders' rental property faces certain destruction. But that's just fine with Sanders, who says she'll be glad to get out of the rental business. Sanders' property is one of nearly 140 tracts of land that the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department plans to acquire for construction of a new Mississippi River bridge and a connecting cross-town highway...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Derek Watson wanted to prove to his mother that playing Nintendo wasn't "rotting his brain." The seventh-grade student at L.J. Schultz School completed a science fair experiment asking the question his mother kept posing: "Video Games: Rotting Brains or Sharpening Reflexes?"...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city's Planning and Zoning Commission Tuesday reviewed the 1990 citywide traffic counts released recently by the state Highway and Transportation Department. Generally, the counts indicate the city's planning department is on track with its long- and short-range street plans, commissioners said...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- May-like temperatures in late March shattered the 40-year-old high temperature record for Tuesday and tied the record high on Monday in Cape Girardeau. More unseasonably warm weather is forecast today, ahead of a cold front that will trigger showers and thunderstorms later today. After the front moves through tonight, the weather service says cooler but more seasonable temperatures will return to the area, and remain over the Easter weekend...

JACKSON -- The Jackson R-2 Board of Education received the first of a series of informational reports from the administration listing options to improve the district's tight financial condition during the 1991-92 school year. The rest of the options and their impact on the district will be presented to the board on April 9 and 23 meetings. The board will receive a list of revenue generating measures for their consideration at its April 23 meeting...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A miniature village filled with traffic lights, intersecting roadways and crosswalks will help area children learn about traffic safety this summer. The layout, known as "Safety Village," will be offered through the Cape Girardeau County Community Traffic Safety program. Starting June 10, and for an individual fee of $10, children ages 5 to 8 can learn about traffic safety by making use of the layout in a two-week, 20-hour program...

SGT. MONICA ZWOSTA U.S. ARMY Sgt. Zwosta is a native of Cape Girardeau. A 1982 graduate of Cape Central High School, she joined the Army soon afterward. She was stationed in Germany before being deployed to the Gulf. It was in Germany she married her husband, Frany Zwosta...

DAVID L. HAHS Occupation: Insurance agent What do you do in your spare time? "Play golf and enjoy watching my sons, Brandon and Clayton, swim on the Cape Central Swim Team, supported by their No. 1 booster, their mom, Candy." The book I'd recommend is: "Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do by Robert Schuller."...

BENTON -- Property owners in the Kelly Scott County R-4 School District will be asked Tuesday to support an $870,000 bond issue to fund additional district facilities. Because the general obligation bond issue will be voted on at a regularly scheduled municipal election, it requires a four-seventh's majority for passage, said Scott County Clerk Bob Kielhofner...

OAK RIDGE -- Four candidates will seek two, three-year terms on the Oak Ridge School District Board of Education Tuesday. Richard Baer, Judy Abrisz and Wes Hall have filed for the seats currently held by Steve Schonhoff, the board's vice president who's seeking re-election, and Paul Strickland...

DELTA -- Two Delta School District Board of Education incumbents will run unopposed Tuesday for three-year seats on the board. Board members Mike Eby and Martha Nothdurft are the only candidates to file for the positions. Other current board members are Keith Cook, Don Hester, Phil Thompson, and James Bowers...

JACKSON -- There will be races in two of the four aldermanic wards and for the office of city collector in Tuesday's municipal election in Jackson. The contested aldermanic races are in Wards 1 and 3. In Ward 1, incumbent Paul Sander, who is completing his first, two-year term on the board, is opposed by Mike Baker...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Ora (Bud) Proffer, 1231 Marquette Drive, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Luther Rhodes will officiate, with burial in Proffer Cemetery at Crump. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until time of service...

VANDUSER -- Funeral service for Ramona A. Holland of Vanduser will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. William C. Booker Sr. will officiate, assisted by Charles Beasley. Burial will be in New Morley Cemetery at Morley...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Dr. George E. Brown of Carbondale, Ill., was held Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Carbondale. Burial was Sunday in Humansville. Brown, 84 years old, died Thursday, March 21, 1991, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Campbell, 1653 Westwood, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:49 a.m. Tuesday, March 12, 1991. Name, Jenna Michelle. Weight, 6 pounds 10 ounces. First child. Mrs. Campbell is the former Lisa Haskin, daughter of Neil and Helen Haskin of St. Charles, and is employed at Resin Exchange. Campbell is employed at Roadway Express, and is the son of Judy and John Jones of Cape and Forrest Campbell of Arnold...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Graveside service for Orlon G. Walker of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn. The Rev. Phil Clements will officiate. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements. There is no visitation or service here...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Bob Kustra is no stranger in the classroom. The new Illinois lieutenant governor, who has served in the state's legislature since 1980, has been an educator 20 years, and maintains his strong roots in education by continuing to teach a course in political science at Northwestern University in Evansville...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Next week's District Music Festival at Southeast Missouri State University will feature 32 bands and 26 choirs from southeast Missouri area high schools. The annual event is sponsored by Southeast's Department of Music. Dr. Sterling Cosaboom, chairman of the department, said more than 1,000 high school bands, orchestras, choirs, ensembles and soloists will compete, and the public is invited to any of the recitals free of charge...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Colin M. Kennedy, a freshman at St. Louis University, has been selected as a member of the Phi Eta Sigma National Honor Society. Members are chosen according to their high scholastic standing during their freshman year of college. Kennedy was named to the university's dean's list for the fall semester. This summer he will work with the Christian Ministry at Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri corn producers narrowly defeated a referendum that would have increased the statewide corn check-off. The Missouri Department of Agriculture said the referendum was rejected by a margin of two votes, 944 to 942. The referendum would have increased the check-off from a half cent per bushel to one-center per bushel...

JACKSON -- Gabriel Eggers is a new junior member of the American Angus Association (AAA). Junior members of the association are eligible to register cattle in AAA-sponsored show and other national and regional events. The American Angus Association is the largest beef registry association in the world, with more than 24,000 active adult and junior members. AAA headquarters is located at St. Joseph, Mo...

JACKSON -- Charles Fulhage, University of Missouri Agriculture Engineer, will be guest speaker at a Swine Waste Management meeting to be held April 1, at 7:30 p.m., at the K.C. Hall, located on HIghway 61 north of here. Fulhage will discuss new and previous regulations, who to get a lagoon or waste system approved, and details in buildings, pits or lagoons...