Stories from Tuesday, August 13, 1991

SIKESTON - U.S. Sen. Christopher S. Bond said Monday that a proposed change in federal health-care regulations would cost Missouri $200 million a year in health-care funds aimed at low-income people. Speaking at a news conference at Missouri Delta Hospital in Sikeston, Bond vowed to fight the new regulations of the Health Care Financing Administration. ...

Construction should be completed by Oct. 1 on a Missouri Division of Youth Services treatment center on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The 15,000-square-foot Southeast Missouri Community Treatment Center could be in operation by Nov. 1, said James L. Davis, facility manager for the Division of Youth Services (DYS) in Cape Girardeau...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Monday voted to allocate about $35,000 to renovate the Capaha pool bathhouse and make improvements to two Arena Park ball fields. The projects would use about half the $70,000 annual parks and recreation capital improvements allotment from the city budget...

Music at St. Mary Cathedral may sound a little sweeter this Sunday: a new organ designed especially for St. Mary Cathedral is being installed this week. Service of the organ began Monday and the instrument is scheduled to be fully operational in time for church services Sunday...

Southeast Missouri State University has hired a University of Kansas official with ties to Southeast President Kala Stroup as interim vice president and dean of student services. Caryl K. Smith, 54, associate vice chancellor for student affairs and dean of student life at the University of Kansas at Lawrence, was given a one-year appointment by Southeast's Board of Regents. The action was taken in closed session Friday and formally announced by university officials Monday...

It takes a special kind of person to be a good parent; it takes a special kind of parent to become a foster parent. More foster parents are needed in Cape Girardeau County. Ten to 20 more foster homes are needed in the county to meet the needs of current foster children. Only 21 of the county's foster children live inside the county, with another 25 to 30 children placed in surrounding counties. Especially acute is the shortage of black foster families...

Dear Editor: Living in rural Cape Girardeau has many advantages. Some of these advantages are: - Enjoying habitat in their environment. - A quiet atmosphere - Friendly and helpful neighbors - A cooler temperature in summer - And excellent newspaper carriers!...

THEBES, ILL. - A Thebes, Ill. man suffered major injuries early Monday when the car he was driving struck an embankment and overturned along Illinois Route 3. The man, James M. Knapp, 19, was transferred to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, said a spokesperson with the Illinois State Police at Ullin. Knapp remained in serious condition in the hospital's intensive-care unit, a Southeast spokesperson said Monday night...

WHITEWATER -- Lee E. Moore, 66, of Whitewater Route 1, was found dead on the family farm Monday, Aug. 12, 1991. He was born July 16, 1925, at Allenville, son of Charles and Anna Bock Moore. He and Marie Baylor were married April 9, 1944, in Cape Girardeau...

I ADMIRE THE former smoker who said prayer helped her most of all in quitting the addiction cold turkey. I hope that many smokers will follow those examples. I SELDOM RESPOND to a criticism, but before a torrential rain of Speak Out comments pour in as to my remark about May Greene School being in a crime zone, I'd like to set the record straight. ...

JACKSON -- Over 100 old photographs of Jackson will be displayed this week during the Jackson Homecomers celebration. The pictures include photographs depicting past Jackson Homecomers celebrations. "Some of these pictures have never been seen by the public before," said Lee Fronabarger of the Jackson Heritage Association, sponsor of the display...

Steve Moore, a Missouri Department of Conservation agent, will discuss "Wildlife in the Back Yard" during Senior Citizens Activity Day at West Park Mall Wednesday. Moore, an agent with the DOC for nine years, will be guest speaker at the Wednesday program, which starts at 8:30 a.m. with a free continental breakfast...

CHAFFEE -- Robert Ernest Sherman Jr., 42, of Chaffee, died Monday, Aug. 12, 1991, at his home. He was born April 16, 1949, in New York City, son of Robert and Barbara Chisholm Sherman Sr. He and Yvonne Smith were married Jan. 10, 1976. Sherman was a cost estimater at Rapco in Jackson. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy...

FROHNA -- Alfred F. "Fritz" Sachs, 70, of Frohna, died Sunday, Aug. 11, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Oct. 29, 1920, at Flint Hill, son of Victor and Ida Menten Sachs. He and Thelma Luebrecht were married June 9, 1948. Sachs was a heavy equipment operator, and had worked many years at Westlake Quarry. He was a 39-year member of Operating Engineers Local 513, St. Joseph Catholic Church at Apple Creek, and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Funeral mass for Virtus L. Graves of Villa Ridge will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mound City. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery here. Friends may call at Jones Funeral Home here from 3-8 p.m. Thursday...

UNIONTOWN -- Dorothy Lee Koch, 60, of Uniontown, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 12, 1930, at Uniontown, daughter of Theodore and Margaretha Wittschieben Mueller. She married Elton V. Koch Dec. 22, 1951...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Larry McGinnis, 1655 Themis, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:17 p.m. Monday, Aug. 5, 1991. Name, Cailin Marie. Weight, 7 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. McGinnis is the former Natalie Egli, daughter of Winford Egli and Helen Egli of Manson, Iowa. She is a substitute teacher with Cape Girardeau Public Schools. McGinnis is a pharmaceutical salesman with A.H. Robins, and is the son of James McGinnis and Jeannine McGinnis of Cape Girardeau...

CHARLESTON -- Frances Hale, 52, of Charleston, died Monday, Aug. 12, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born May 6, 1939, at Wyatt, daughter of John and Stella Lowrey. She married Kenneth Hale June 15, 1963. He died Feb. 14, 1976. Hale was a member of General Baptist Church here...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education will meet tonight for its regular monthly meeting at 7:30 p.m. The board will meet in the conference room at 61 N. Clark. Prior to the regular meeting, a tax rate hearing will be held, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The school district's tax rate will remain the same as last year, at $2.83...

Ninety graduate students and 225 undergraduates recently received degrees in summer commencement ceremonies at Southeast Missouri State University. The following is a list of area residents who graduated with honors. MAGNA CUM LAUDE CAPE GIRARDEAU Dena Stricklin Callahan, 324 Bellevue, bachelor of science, major in social work...