Stories from Monday, July 15, 1991

MARBLE HILL -- Bollinger County commissioners today will tally results of a straw poll to determine if county residents want a November election to decide the fate of a proposed recreational lake. The $73 million project would create a lake that would span parts of Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties...

Parents as Teachers, Missouri's program to help parents give their children a good start towards education, works, says a study released last week. Armed with statistical data to back him up, Missouri Sen. Christopher Bond now wants to expand the program nationwide...

Cape Girardeau's Parents as Teachers program has proved so popular with parents it will expand for the coming school year. In Cape Girardeau, 283 families participated in Parents as Teachers last year. A waiting list was in place most of the year for parents who wanted to participate. Space was not available...

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will consider approving a contract for appraisal of properties along Walker Branch as part of a flood control project. The council meeting begins at 7:30 p.m. at City Hall. City officials said the appraisal of 15 tracts along Walker Branch from Broadway south to Good Hope Street, would be done by the Corps of Engineers. The cost would not exceed $37,600, officials said...

The Southeast Missourian asked people whether they support the replacement of the dollar bill by a dollar coin. The House Banking Committee is expected to consider such a change that would save millions of dollars in production costs. The General Accounting Office has said that elimination of the paper dollar would be necessary to ensure public acceptance of a dollar coin...

An accreditation review of Southeast Missouri State University lauded the institution for the "loyalty" of faculty, staff and students, and its "remarkable support" by alumni and the Cape Girardeau community. But the evaluation team for the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools also pointed out some concerns, including: the need for higher salaries for faculty and other university personnel, a gender and racial imbalance in the upper administrative levels at Southeast, and evidence of racial unrest on the campus.. ...

There are varying schools of thought about the evils of and cures for excessive campaign spending. The more optimistic want tight spending limits, government matching funds, controls on or even elimination of Political Action Committees and other sweeping reforms. The more cautious oppose a tight, regulated electoral system and abhor any form of government financing...

If you're seeing more police officers responding to calls on the streets, there's a reason. It's not because there are more officers, but the number of calls has grown substantially in the last four years. Police incident calls have jumped from 19,803 in 1987 to 27,860 last year. That represents about a 40 percent increase...

Daughter to Brian and Jolie McCallister of Gordonville Route 3, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:25 p.m. Monday, July 8, 1991. Name, Mallory Ann. Weight, 5 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. McCallister is the former Jolie Jones, daughter of Fred and Pam Jones of Jackson. She is a graduate student at Southeast Missouri State University. McCallister is the son of John and Pat McCallister of Gordonville, and is a quality control supervisor with Arvin North American Automotive in Dexter...

Delia "Dee" Loos Kimmich, 86, of 1827 Lacey, died Saturday, July 13, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb. 10, 1905 in Jackson, daughter of Adam and Mary Catherine Koehler Loos. She married Alvin J. "Bud" Kimmich in Jackson. He survives...

PERRYVILLE -- Howard L. Blair, 67, of Perryville, died Saturday, July 13, 1991, in Perry County. He was born Jan. 24, 1924 at Seventy Six, Mo., son of Floyd H. and Rosia Wichern Blair. He was the retired gas superintendent for the city of Perryville and a retired member of the Perryville Fire Department. He was a member of the American Legion in Perryville and AmVets No. 94 of Perryville...

ADVANCE -- Mary M. Beussink, 82, of Advance, died Saturday, July 13, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born at Glennon on Nov. 15, 1908, the daughter of Henry and Mary DeBrock VanDerMierden. On April 20, 1927, she married Henry Beussink. He preceded her in death on Oct. 23, 1978...

JACKSON -- Ella Koenig, 92, of Jackson, died Sunday, July 14, 1991, at the Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born March 3, 1899, at New Wells, daughter of Theodore and Otillie Petzoldt Scholl. She married Martin Koenig on April 11, 1920. He died Oct. 1, 1986...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Susie O'Daniel, 93, of Mounds, Ill., died Sunday, July 14, 1991, in Memphis, Tenn. She is survived by a son, Bob O'Daniel of Wickliffe, Ky.; two daughters, Geraldine Jones of Memphis, and Rachel McCabe of Denver, Colo.; a brother, Earl Taylor of Mounds; and five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren...

COBDEN -- Jennifer Ann Patrick of Alto Pass, Ill., a graduate of Cobden High School, has received the Masonic Scholarship, presented by the Masonic 18th Southern District. Patrick served as editor of the Cobden School newspaper, and was a member of the Beta Club...

Six Southeast Missouri State University alumni and a Southeast associate professor have been selected to receive the university's annual alumni and faculty merit awards. Each Alumni Merit Award is presented by an academic college at Southeast to honor a distinguished alumna or alumnus...

Jason Stephens, a student at the University of Missouri-Columbia, has been awarded the University Scholar Award for the 1991-92 academic year. The award results in a 30 percent reduction of Stephens' educational fee. He received the award based on academic achievement. Stephens finished his freshman year at the university with a 3.9 grade point average...