Stories from Friday, April 5, 1991

To the Editor: During Spring Vacation, Cape Central High School Band, Choir and Orchestra visited and performed in the Washington D.C. area. I wish each person who worked so hard to make this trip possible could have seen and felt the pride of the students as they presented their concerts...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Breakfast Optimists girls softball league will hold a meeting April 9 and anyone interested in becoming a coach or manager this season. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the First Church of the Nazarine, 2601 Independence in Cape...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Takara Stanley of Cape Central High School will join approximately 200 other sophomore leaders from public and private high schools in eastern Missouri at the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundations's annual leadership seminar. The program will be held this weekend in St. Louis...

PATTON -- William Biggerstaff, principal of Meadow Heights R-2 School District, has been selected Administrator of the Year by the Southeast Missouri School Counselors Association. Biggerstaff was selected upon his nomination by Meadow Heights counselor Homer Yount...

SCOTT CITY -- Amy Marie Holmes, a senior at Scott City High School, has been selected as a presidential scholar at Maryville College in St. Louis. She is one of 10 1991 graduates to be awarded the scholarship, which pays tuition plus room and board...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Winners have been named for the District History Fair held recently. More than 300 students participated in this year's contest at Southeast Missouri State University. All the students listed below qualify for the state contest to be held Saturday...

Certain things signal the onset of spring: the blustery day, the sudden budding of flowers, the unexpected warmth of sun on your face. Certain words also clue you in: Grapefruit League and salary arbitration. Boys of summer need their springtime the way their agents need bulging statistics. Baseball is a seasonal religion in Sun Belt states and those who love the sport glory in the rituals of this worship...

Those who don't know might be fooled by demographics and geography into a faulty description: Cape Girardeau is no sleepy river town. No one who has seen a schedule of the weekend's activities would properly think that. The city is bulging with events: the four-day H&H Exotic Animal Auction will run through Sunday; the annual SEmotion Relays begins in earnest today and concludes Saturday at the university; the SEMO Homebuilders Association Home/Garden/Craft Show has a three-day run at the Show Me Center; the Missouri Conference on History is set for today and Saturday at the Holiday Inn; and the 1991 Ozark Bodybuilding Championships will be held Saturday at Universal Physique. ...

To the Readership: "The Bush Administration's policy is not being defended because it is morally indefensible." That is how William Safire of the New York Times explained why host Ted Koppel could not obtain an administration spokesperson to defend their current de facto policy of permitting the wholesale massacres of Kurdish and Shiite people of Iraq by the Iraqi government. ...

SCOTT CITY -- Scott City plans to finance a large part of the $563,500 cost of water- and sewer-line construction to the Nash Road industrial area through a 12-year, $360,000 bond issue. A $290,000 grant from the Department of Economic Development (DED), which the city applied for in 1990 to finance the lines, has been rejected by the agency. It has forced the city to look elsewhere for funds to pay for the project...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The nation returns to daylight-saving time early Sunday. Officially, time "springs forward" at 2 a.m. CST, but most people will elect to move their clocks and watches ahead one hour before they go to bed Saturday night. This is also the weekend to check and change batteries in smoke detectors, advises the International Association of Fire Chiefs and Cape Girardeau Fire Chief Gene Hindman...

JACKSON - A new board to oversee the allocation of tax money for services for senior citizens will be established within about 90 days, Cape County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep said Thursday. The board will decide on the allocation of the tax money, about $220,000, that will be generated from a newly passed property tax levy...

JACKSON -- Students at astronaut Linda Godwin's alma mater see her success as proof that small-town starts can lead to big-time success. Weather permitting, shuttle Atlantis, with Godwin aboard, is scheduled to lift off this morning. Jackson High School students in Ed Seabaugh's advanced-physics class will be closely monitoring the shuttle's progress...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- An innovative recycling effort will culminate this weekend with the distribution of 1,680 ash, maple and hackberry trees to local residents. The trees will be made available by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, which last fall spearheaded the "papers to trees" recycling project in Cape Girardeau and other Missouri cities...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- When the Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off (scheduled for 8:18 a.m. CST today), Cape Girardeau County residents will be cheering for astronaut and mission specialist Linda Godwin of Oak Ridge. Those who have short-wave (world-band) radio receivers equipped with BFO to receive single sideband transmissions can listen in to the audio transmissions between Atlantis, and Kennedy Space Center (Cape Canaveral) and Johnson (Houston) Space Center mission control operators before liftoff and throughout the mission.. ...

JACKSON - A Missouri Humanities Council grant totaling $1,549 has enabled the "Friends of the Steam Railroading" to sponsor two free programs on history of railroading tonight and Saturday. In acknowledgment of the grant, Jackson Mayor Carlton Meyer has proclaimed this "Jackson Railroad Heritage Weekend." The St. Louis Iron Mountain Railway will also kick off its sixth season Saturday...

JACKSON - The Cape Girardeau County Commission Thursday voted to seek bids for emergency ambulance service in the county. Since 1967 when the county began providing a subsidy from general revenue for emergency service, the commission has not publicly bid the contract. Instead, it has negotiated a series of contracts with Cape County Private Ambulance Co...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Police reported a 2-year-old boy was injured Wednesday afternoon when a car hit him after he ran out from behind a parked car while playing. Mark Jackson of 534 South Hanover sustained evident, but not disabling injuries to his right leg, said police...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Beverly McKinley Harris will be keynote speaker at the 1991 Hospitality Training Seminar luncheon, to be held Tuesday at the Drury Lodge here. Harris, program director for the Paducah (Ky.) Hospitality Association will discuss "Marketing in the Hospitality Industry" during the noon luncheon...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Word has been received of the death of two former Southeast Missourians Charles Francis Moore, and his wife, Mae Moore, both of Lewisville, Tex. from injuries suffered in a motor vehicle accident. Service for the Moores will be held at 11 a.m. today at Dalton & Son Chapel, at Lewisville, Texa., with Rev. Daniel Coborn officiation. Burial will be in Martin Oaks Cemetery at Lewisville...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Graveside service for Arch Styles Milam will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery, with Rev. Paul Presson of East Prairie officiating. Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at Heath Funeral Home in Paragould, Ark., where a service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday...

PADUCAH, KY. William Larry Buckman, 45 years old, of Paducah, died Wednesday, April 3, 1991, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. He was born Oct. 29, 1945 in Paducah, son of Mary Juanita Harper, who survives of Cape Girardeau, and the late Earl Buckman...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Dorothy Swearingen of Dongola will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church. The Rev. William Horn will officiate, with burial in St. John's Cemetery. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home here until time of service...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Grebe of Jackson Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:07 p.m. Wednesday, March 13, 1991. Name, Carol Christina. Weight, 8 pounds. First child. Mrs. Grebe is the former Angela Coomer, daughter of Rick and Carol Coomer of Jackson. Grebe is the son of Thersa Reisenbichler of Jackson and Paul Grebe of Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Miss Clara Grebe of Jackson will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Otto Steinhaus will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The first April VELO Girardeau Sunday bicycle ride will be held Sunday, a 27-mile back-road ride from Kelso to Chaffee. Riders will meet at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport at 2 p.m. Other April rides include the Greensferry ride, 25 miles, between Cape Girardeau and Jackson, April 14, 2 p.m., riders to meet at Kent Library on Southeast Missouri State University campus; PP Ride, 30 miles, over rolling hills south of Scott City, April 21, 2 p.m. ...

WEST PLAINS -- A tornado ended the reign of one of Missouri's forest monarchs last month, and conservation officials are looking for a successor for the title, "State Champion Tulip Poplar." The previous champion was blown down March 21 by a tornado which cut a swath through the Richie and Gracie VanDerhoef Memorial State Forest in southern Howell County...

WAPPAPELLO -- Fishing is the number one outdoor activity for people visitng Wappapello Lake. Anglers are reminded that the pond constructed at the Lost creek Trail area will not be open to fishing until Jan. 1, 1992. The three-acre pond was stocked with bass, bluegill and catfish in 1989, and is currently closed to fishing to allow the stocked fish to reach adequate size...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A pre-turkey season hunter education class will be conducted at the Cape Girardeau VFW Post 3838 April 13. "All hunters born on or after January 1, 1967, are required to complete this training before they can purchase any type of firearms hunting permit," said a spokesman of the Missouri Department of Conservation, which will present the day-long course in cooperation with the local VFW...

BRANSON, Mo. - The one that got away came back, and it's a doozy. Marty Babusa first spotted the 23-pound, 4-ounce brown trout a couple of years ago, but twice it escaped from his line. Babusa landed the same fish last Friday, blowing the state's record for the largest brown trout out of the water. The previous mark, set at Montauk State Park in August, was 16 pounds, 12 ounces...

PEORIA, Ill. -- The tournament site for the World series of Team Bass Fishing has been selected. The event will be held on the Illinois River and its tributaries near Peoria, Ill. A total of 43 teams from across the nation will gather at the site the week of June 4-8...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- St. Vincent de Paul School held its junior high academic fair recently. Grand champions of the History Day contest were Chuck Prost and Josh Glueck. Other history day winners were Carson Heady, Sasha Glasscock, Julie Stoverink, Natalie Favier, Chuck Prost, Nick Simon, Bart Elfrink, April Thompson, Nichole Buehrle, Jeff Mueller, Josh Glueck, Kyle Elfrink, Andrea Arnold, Natalie Jones, Cassie Westrich, Meghan Talley and Jeff Crader...

NEW HAMBURG -- The Kelso C-7 School in New Hamburg held their annual Science Fair last month for students in grades 6-8. Trophies were awarded to Chris Berry and Scott Heisserer, eighth grade; Amber Schiwitz, seventh grade; Dirk Dirnberger and Brian Heuring, sixth grade...

Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County Recorder of Deeds: The Eugene Bahn Trust to Hutson Enterprises Inc. Procter and Gamble Paper Products to Thomas Franz and Lydia King Kern; Betty L. Moore to Brooks H. and Sandra Moore; Lucinda Jett, et al, to Ladine Hanner; Greenwood Land Co. to Keith W. Smith and Mimi A. Mecham; Maxine G. Davis to Thomas J. and Sharon V. Lappe; James M. Haynes to the James Eaker Trust...