Stories from Tuesday, July 30, 1991

The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri has a new administrator and a new direction, said the president of its board of directors, Larry Tidd. The board hopes the restructuring will create a more businesslike operation of the Humane Society, he said. The change follows months of struggling to keep the animal shelter's doors open...

SCOTT CITY -- Some residents of a Scott City subdivision want the City Council to halt a planned renumbering of more than 200 of the subdivision's homes. "There are a lot of very angry people out here," said LaDonna Phelps, a resident of the Country Club subdivision, which sits on the city's northwest side. "We were never asked if we wanted to do this or even how it should be done."...

If the attendance at Monday's public meeting is an indicator, Cape Girardeau's latest low-income housing rehabilitation program should prove successful. About 65 property owners from south-central Cape Girardeau attended the meeting at City Hall to learn about the city's latest Community Development Block Grant program. The program could renovate 60 homes in the neighborhood of College and Jefferson streets during the next two years...

Efforts to find a suitable site for a new Greyhound bus terminal in Cape Girardeau were scheduled to begin today, a Greyhound spokesman said. Tom Clayton, customer service manager for Greyhound Bus Co. in St. Louis said Monday a representative from the bus line was scheduled to be in Cape Girardeau today...

Aerial demonstrations, World War II vintage aircraft, plane rides and a "Star Spangled Banner parachute drop" will be featured at this weekend's Fly Cape Aviation Days at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport. This year's featured attraction will be the display of a fully restored B-17G Flying Fortress World War II bomber. The airplane, Sentimental Journey, arrived in Cape Girardeau Monday and is actually on display throughout the week, said Airport Manager Mark Seesing...

Wednesday night's Cape Girardeau Municipal Band concert will feature vocalists Don Presson and Jackie Smith. The free concert begins at 8 p.m. at the Capaha Park band shell. Presson will sing several contemporary Christian and gospel songs. Smith will join him for one selection...

Attendance at the Show Me Center from July 1990 through June 1991 was 329,826. In the 1989-90 fiscal year, attendance was 398,568. In an article in Sunday's paper, Christopher Washko incorrectly reported the attendance figures through May instead of the annual attendance through June...

JACKSON - The growing trend of the federal and state governments to pass more programs and costs on to local governments is leaving county governments with big problems and no clear solutions, says Cape County Auditor H. Weldon Macke. Macke, who has been active for years in the Missouri Association of Counties, recently returned from the annual meeting of its national counterpart, the National Association of Counties, held in Salt Lake City, Utah...

Southeast Missouri State University's School of Graduate Studies and Extended Learning will offer 11 courses this fall at Sikeston Area Vocational School. All the classes will meet from 6-9:15 p.m. Registration for the courses will be held at 6 p.m. Aug. 27 in the Sikeston High School cafeteria...

Southeast Missouri State University finds itself in a Catch-22 that could become quite costly to students. The university is facing an Office of Civil Rights deadline to install elevators in the Grauel Language arts and Social Science and art buildings - to make the structures handicapped accessible. The university has proceeded with the project in good faith - but twice state funding has been vetoed due to shortfalls in Missouri revenues...

Funeral service for Martin Schnare of Bosworth, formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Carrollton. The Rev. George Rattelmuller will officiate, with burial in Carroll Memory Gardens at Carrollton...

SIKESTON -- Ida E. Malone, 79, of Sikeston, died Saturday, July 27, 1991, at her home. She was born Feb. 25, 1912, at Dexter, daughter of Robert Joel and Clersey Garner Edwards. She married Daniel E. Malone Feb. 18, 1947, at Sikeston. He died July 21, 1990...

NAYLOR -- Nannie M. Sanders, 79, of Chaffee Nursing Center and formerly of Naylor, died Sunday, July 28, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born June 12, 1912, at Kewanee, daughter of James Alvin and Margaret Alice O'Bannon Wescoat. She married Curtis M. Sanders Dec. 25, 1935, in New Madrid County. He died in December 1987...

ADVANCE -- Clyde A. Burchett, 63, of St. Louis, died Saturday, July 27, 1991, in Dallas, Texas. She was born Feb. 19, 1928, at Kinder, son of Charles and Ella Arnold Burchett. He and Wilma DePriest were married Feb. 6, 1951, in Pocahontas, Ark. Burchett was a member of Gardenville Masonic Lodge 655 AF&AM in St. Louis, and an Assembly of God Church in St. Louis. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

PERRYVILLE -- Agnes M. Hunt, 82, of Perryville, died Sunday, July 28, 1991, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 24, 1908, in Perry County, daughter of Arthur and Mary E. Klump Sutterer. She married Leslie Hunt Sept. 4, 1926. He died Oct. 26, 1981...

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 fund-raising campaign. The overall goal this year is $470,000...

THIS IS for the people who helped us this evening in taking my husband to St. Francis hospital. I just want to say thank you and I really appreciate it. I wish that God blesses each and every one of your family. Thank you. I WAS RECENTLY a patient at Southeast Hospital and I just wanted to let everybody know that I got the most wonderful treatment and they have got the best nurses. They all deserve a pat on the back. Thank goodness for 3W at Southeast Hospital...