Stories from Thursday, July 25, 1991

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education will head out this weekend for its annual retreat. It is intended as a concentrated period in which elected board members and their hired administrators can focus on the broader needs and concerns of the school district. ...

The Notre Dame High School graduating class of 1991 earned a total of $300,000 in college scholarships. Notre Dame graduated 54 seniors, said principal Sister Mary Ann Fischer. While not every student earned a scholarship, Fischer said the sum total of honors received speaks well of the class...

Golfers will hit the green Aug. 12 for the fourth annual United Way Charity Golf Tournament, and a lucky player may walk away $5,000 richer. The tournament, to be held at the Cape Girardeau Country Club, is expected to raise over $10,000 for the annual United Way fundraising campaign...

It's a roller skate. No, it's an ice skate. No, it's Rollerblade, able to conquer paved parking lots and walks in a single bound. Over the past four years, the use of these in-line skates that are a cross between roller and ice skates has dramatically increased. You may commonly know these skates as Rollerblades, which is the name of the original manufacturer...

STE. GENEVIEVE The 26th edition of the famed Jour de Fete celebration in Ste. Genevieve, will take place Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 10-11. For 363 days of the year, tourists come to Missouri's oldest city to see its startling array of vertical log houses, put up by the pioneer French when the town was still a Spanish settlement. But the second weekend in August brings visitors to see what Midwestern craftsmen and artist have been up to...

The work of a Doniphan artist known for Missouri waterfowl and trout stamps will be the August exhibit at Gallery 100. The artist, Eileen Melton, will be present at an opening reception on Aug. 4 at the gallery from 2-4 p.m. Anyone may attend. Melton said she dabbled in art throughout her childhood but didn't begin a serious career in it until 1980, after her children had married and her husband had retired...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department on Saturday will sponsor a "Baby Boomer Bash" at the A.C. Brase Arena Building. The dance will feature Infinity Sound System, which will play music from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. The event will run from 8-11 p.m. and is open to anyone 21 years and older...

Rather than waiting for the people to come to the museum, the Confederate Air Force Arizona Wing flies the museum to the people. The CAF Arizona Wing will display its fully restored B-17G Flying Fortress World War II bomber, Sentimental Journey, at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport Aug. 1-4. The Cape Girardeau visit is one of 60 stops on the mobile museum's annual nationwide tour...

The hit television series, "Evening Shade" and star Burt Reynolds have brought national attention to the town of Evening Shade, Ark. The patron of the Evening Shade School District hope that it will do one other thing - help build a new auditorium-gymnasium complex on the school campus...

I'M CALLING IN regards to the changing of house numbers in Scott City. Little consideration has been taken on behalf of the citizens of Scott City. Did the city realize the problems each individual will face in this process of changing house numbers? Some things to take in mind are changing your mailing address, personal checks, titles, your will, stocks and CDs, and so on. ...

Property owners in a south-central area of Cape Girardeau will have an opportunity Monday to discuss with city officials a plan to rehabilitate up to 60 homes in their neighborhood during the next two years. A public meeting of all the owners of property located in the College/Jefferson Neighborhood Restoration Project area will be held at 7 p.m. Monday at City Hall, city officials announced this week...

PERRYVILLE -- The city of Perryville has won a three-year court battle that challenged the city's practice of requiring property owners to pay for portions of city street improvements. The case was won on appeal. City Administrator Craig Lindsley said Wednesday the ruling represents a major victory for the residents of Perryville and other towns across Missouri that utilize the same method of payment for street work...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - A plan proposed by Republican members of the senatorial redistricting commission would leave the Bootheel without representation in the Missouri Senate for two years. The plan, which was discussed at a weekend meeting of the commission and rejected by Democratic members, would have given the district represented by Sen. ...

An Emergency Medical Dispatch system used by many of the emergency services featured on the television program "Rescue 911" is paying big dividends for patients and paramedics of the Cape County Private Ambulance Service. Paramedic Stacey Sauerbrunn of Karnak, Ill., is one who knows that EMD can make a difference...

JACKSON - Bollinger County Presiding Commissioner Elwood Mouser this week officially notified the Cape Girardeau County Commission that his county would not be calling an election for a proposed 7,700-acre recreational lake in the two counties. Mouser called Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep to tell him there would be no election called because the results of a straw poll in a Marble Hill newspaper indicated a majority of those responding did not want an election held...

PERRYVILLE -- Frieda M. Schmidt, 86, of Perryville, died Wednesday, July 24, 1991, at Perry County Hospital. She was born Aug. 3, 1904, in Beemer, Neb., daughter of William and Louise Roper Haasa. She married Edwin Schmidt Feb. 9, 1927. He died Dec. 2, 1978...

PERRYVILLE -- Erna W. Preusse, 93, of Perryville, died Wednesday, July 24, 1991, at Perry County Hospital. She was born Aug. 12, 1897, in Perry County, daughter of Henry and Theresa Unseld Scheetz. She married Albert Preusse Oct. 30, 1921. He died May 7, 1954...

SIKESTON -- Wes Gentry, 76, of St. Louis, died Tuesday, July 23, 1991, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born March 4, 1915, in Lonoke, Ark., son of Miles and Minnie Gentry. He married Louella Mae Newman Jan. 17, 1935, at Sikeston. She died Monday, July 22, 1991...

SIKESTON -- Louella Mae Gentry, 73, of St. Louis, died Monday, July 22, 1991, at Incarnate Word Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Jan. 31, 1918, at Canalou, daughter of Frank and Della Mae Gipson Newman. She married Wes Gentry Jan. 17, 1935, at Sikeston. He died Tuesday, July 23, 1991...

Jacqueline Sue Lucas, 41, 227 East Cape Rock Drive, died Wednesday, July 24, 1991, at her home. She was born Oct. 17, 1949, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Walter and Ruth Allen Aufdenberg. She married Gerald Lucas Nov. 2, 1974, at Egypt Mills. Lucas attended Nell Holcomb School, graduated from College High School in 1967, and attended Southeast Missouri State University. ...

MARBLE HILL -- Maebelle Hawkins, 86, of Marble Hill, died Tuesday, July 23, 1991, at Bond Nursing Care Center. She was born Feb. 19, 1905, in Double Springs, Ala., daughter of Columbus and Tempie Whitlow Cagle. She married Willie Richardson in 1919, who preceded her in death. She later married Phillip Hawkins, who also preceded her in death...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Eli Harrison Williams, 67, of East Prairie, died Tuesday, July 23, 1991, at his home. He was born May 31, 1924, in Charleston, son of Jasper McDonald and Velma Catherine Mitchell Williams. He and Geraldine Nunn were married June 20, 1947...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. William R. Slinkard of Pelham, Ala., Brookwood Medical Center in Birmingham, Ala., 5:15 a.m. Friday, July 12, 1991. Name, Lauren Elizabeth. Weight, 8 pounds 1 ounce. First child. Mrs. Slinkard is the former Tammy L. Strack, daughter of Jerry L. and Mary J. Strack of Cape Girardeau. Slinkard is an engineer with Phillips-Jordan Co. Inc. in Birmingham, and is the son of William E. and Charlotte Slinkard of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla...

MARBLE HILL -- A Marble Hill woman was injured Wednesday afternoon in a three-vehicle, chain-reaction accident in Marble Hill. A spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol said Marlene Toombs, 23, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau with moderate injuries following the accident...

A Missouri Department of Conservation regional service center, nearing completion in the Cape Girardeau County North Park, will be formally dedicated on Aug. 21. Last week, staff from the conservation department met with representatives of Sides Construction Co. to review the "punch list" as the final step before accepting the building...

ADVANCE -- Elizabeth Jean McCulley, 37, of South Pekin, Ill., died Tuesday, July 23, 1991, in Peoria, Ill. She was born Feb. 10, 1954, at Wyatt, daughter of Frank and Rita Turner Hunsperger. She married Albert McCulley May 6, 1972, at Bell City. Survivors include her husband; five sons, Greg Turner of Essex, David and Johnny McCulley of Dexter, Henry and Albert McCulley of South Pekin; three daughters, Anita, Misty and Shunda McCulley of South Pekin; her parents of Dexter; three brothers, Frank and Larry Hunsperger of Bernie, Tom Hunsperger of Essex; four sisters, Bobbi Turnbow of St. ...

Despite several problems having delayed progress on Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department projects, work on the sand volleyball courts in Arena Park is still under way. Approval for constructing the courts was granted by the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board two months ago. The courts are to be completed adjacent to the Arena Park tennis courts between Optimist and Rodney drives...