Stories from Tuesday, April 9, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A scale model of a 17,200-square-foot building for the Salvation Army was unveiled Monday at the organization's annual dinner meeting. The one-story building will be built at the same location as the current building, on the corner of Sprigg and Good Hope Streets in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Students at Washington Elementary School have adopted a city park located near the school. They are helping to select the park's name and will be planting trees there this week. Students submitted Washington Park as their choice for the park's name. Students met with the Cape Girardeau Park Board Monday. The City Council will have the final say on the park's name...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city's Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Monday voted 5-2 against endorsing a proposal to paint a 320-foot-long, 14-foot-tall mural on the downtown flood wall. Board members Julia Kridelbaugh and Mike Kohlfeld voted for the endorsement, while members Terry Ashby, Rick Wieser, Steve Jackson, Jay Crosnoe and David Goncher voted against it...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The postmark's the thing. The Cape Girardeau Post Office is busy these days, certifying income tax returns for tax filers. "We've had some lines here off and on throughout the past week," said Postmaster Michael O'Keefe, "Most people who file near the deadline want to have something to show when they mail their taxes."...

SCOTT CITY - Commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority approved a marketing plan Monday they hope will attract more industries to use port facilities. The plan, recommended by the board's marketing committee, outlines a plan for targeting certain markets, establishes goals for the next five years, and provides for a $60,000 marketing budget that includes funds for hiring a marketing assistant...

CHAFFEE -- Lack of state funding could force the Scott County R-2 School District at Chaffee to freeze salaries for the 1991-1992 school year. The development would be more extreme than when a lack of revenue this school year required the district to stick with the same salary schedule for teachers for the second year in a row...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A unique, Burlington Northern Railroad freight train is coming to Cape Girardeau Thursday to give area firefighters "hands-on" training with hazardous materials accidents. The Cape Girardeau Fire Department is hosting the two training sessions on hazardous materials incident response. The sessions are are sponsored by the Burlington Northern's Safety and Rules Department from Springfield, Mo...

JACKSON -- A hunter education class will be conducted at Jackson and Benton this week. Steve Wilson, Missouri Department of conservation Hunters Skills Specialist, will conduct a three-day course today, Wednesday and Thursday at the Jackson Elks Lodge, 542 Highway D...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A Southeast Missouri State University task force has been "hitting the books" since last fall, but has found no easy answers as to whether to change the university's textbook system. "The issues turn out to be much more complex than they appeared initially," said Faculty Senator Max Drake, who serves as chairman of the task force...

I WOULD JUST like to say that I am very proud of our troops who served in the Middle East. I would just like to wish them the best of luck and I hope that all of them return home safely, especially my uncle Derek because I miss him very, very much. I really truly love him and I just hope he returns just like the rest of the troops...

Missourians are like most Americans: we don't mind progress as long as it doesn't cost anything. --- The General Assembly is experiencing difficulty in writing an amended ethics-in-government bill. Lawmakers have yet to decide how much misconduct the public will tolerate...

In this land of plenty, plenty of problems exist in ensuring that young people are fed. A recent report the Community Hunger Identification Project indicated that 11.5 million American children under age 12 are hungry or at risk of hunger. It is a dismal statistic, especially considering the dilemma compounds itself with resultant developmental problems that arise in malnourished children. ...

VAN BUREN - Funeral services will be held Wednesday for Ray Hilterbrand of Van Buren, formerly of Cape Girardeau. He died Saturday, April 6, 1991, at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield. He was 68. He was born April 16, 1922 at Ellsinore, Mo. He was a retired college professor, having taught at Shawnee Community College and Purdue University...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Doyle R. Gaither, 407 E. Cape Rock Drive, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Cy Smith will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today. Masonic service will be held at 7...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Cletus I. Harmon of Belleville, Ill., will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at George Renner and Sons Funeral Home in Belleville. The Rev. Arthur Erb will officiate, with burial in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Shiloh, Ill...

DORENA -- Funeral service for Mack Edwin Jones of Dorena will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. Thomas Griffin will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery near Charleston. Jones, 82 years old, died Sunday, April 7, 1991, at his home, following an extended illness...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Johnny Zook of Cuba, Mo., formerly of East Prairie, died Sunday, April 7, 1991, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in Sullivan. He was 79 years old. Shelby Funeral Home at East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.

BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Clarence McRoy of Bloomfield will be held at 2 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home. The Rev. Dean Phillips will officiate, with burial in Walker Cemetery near here. McRoy, 68 years old, died Sunday, April 7, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Hubert James Barks of Union was held March 16 at Oltmann Funeral Home there. Ellery Griffith officiated, with burial in St. Paul's Cemetery at Gerald. Barks, 63 years old, died Thursday, March 14, 1991, at Jefferson Barracks Hospital in St. Louis County...

CHARLESTON -- Charley Lee Johnson, 53 years old, of Charleston, died Friday, April 5, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Jan. 31, 1938 in Dorena. Surviving are his wife, Alberta Johnson, Rock Island, Ill.; five sons, Danny Johnson, Evansville, Ill., James Odell Johnson of the state of California, and David, Tyrone and Eric Johnson, all of Rock Island; a daughter, Barbara G. ...

CHARLESTON -- Fred Coleman, 55 years old, of Metropolis, Ill., formerly of Charleston, died Wednesday, April 3, 1991, in Metropolis. He was born May 12, 1935 in Charleston. Surviving are his wife, Estella Coleman of Charleston; three sons, Jarmain Coleman, Paul Coleman and Fred Coleman Jr., all of Charleston; six daughters, Christine Murray, Delorse Bostic, and Joyce, Angela, Linda and Rene Coleman, all of Charleston; a brother, Eddie Coleman, Salem, Ore.; two sisters, Ora Lee Kirkwood and Dorothy Coleman, both of Charleston; 19 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.. ...

SIKESTON -- Juanita B. Sadler of Sikeston died Sunday, April 7, 1991 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center here following an extended illness. She was born in Blodgett, daughter of the late Edward Clinton and Ruby M. Kennedy Graham. She was a housewife and a member of the First Baptist Church in Sikeston and also a member of Sikeston Chapter 137 Order of the Eastern Star. She formerly worked at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Helen Anna Weiss, 1801 Thilenius, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. David Dissen will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today...