Stories from Tuesday, August 20, 1991

SCOTT CITY -- A plan that would establish new house numbers for nearly 300 residents of Scott City has been put on hold and will be re-evaluated by a committee of city officials and city residents. LaDonna Phelps, saying she represents residents of the Country Club subdivision who are against the renumbering, presented a petition containing 183 signatures at Monday's meeting of the City Council...

City officials in Cape Girardeau who do business with the city will have to file financial disclosure statements next year, but one city councilman said the new state disclosure law is ineffective. The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night approved first reading of a law that requires financial disclosure statements for councilmen and other city officials who have interests in businesses that contract with the city. ...

Boris Yelstin, the reform-minded president of the Russian republic, remains a key player in the Soviet Union's unfolding drama of Communist hard-liners seizing power. That view was expressed Monday by two Southeast Missouri State University political science professors Russell Renka and Rick Althaus...

News of the ouster of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev prompted a 3.2 percent drop in the Dow Jones but offered investors a chance for bargain hunting, said local stock brokers. On Monday the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 69.99 to a close of 2,898.03...

The Cape Girardeau County Council on Child Abuse and Neglect will hold a fund-raising auction next month. Pat Abernathy, vice president and charter member of the council, said the annual auction will be held Sept. 21 in front of Sanders Hardware store in Town Plaza...

SCOTT CITY - The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority Board of Commissioners Monday authorized an engineering firm to proceed with the design of the final phase of construction of a rail spur into the port. The board also gave tentative approval to Midwest Agri-Chemico to construct a one-million-gallon tank to store liquid fertilizer on property it is leasing from the port...

CHAFFEE -- Voters in Chaffee will be asked to approve an estimated $500,000 bond issue in November to finance improvements for the city's waste water treatment plant and a sewer line and lift station. The sewer line and lift station are planned for North Frisco Street...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday night set the city property tax rate for the current tax year and approved a $1 increase in the tipping fee at the city landfill and the privately-financed development of two ball diamonds in Brookside Park...

The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri plays an important role in our region. Yet, for years, financial woes have threatened the institution's very existence. Shelter officials are now adopting a more businesslike approach to operations in hopes of securing financial stability. We commend the shelter board's foresight. The humane society's mission is much too important to all of Southeast Missouri for operations to be continually bogged down in financial worries...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Weatherspoon of Scott City, Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff, 7:54 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1991. Name, Emily Michelle. Weight, 6 pounds 12 ounces. Fourth child, first daughter. Mrs. Weatherspoon is the former Joyce Dees, daughter of Avery and Dorothy Dees of Scott City. Weatherspoon is a consultant with Ameron, and is the son of Roger and Joerene Weatherspoon of Anahuac, Texas...

CHAFFEE -- Roy A. Pobst, 71, of Plano, Texas, formerly of Chaffee, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1991, at Saguan Nursing Home. He was born April 15, 1920, at Sullivan, son of Albert and Josephine Steimle Pobst. He and Maria Carman Blanco were married Dec. 16, 1985...

The Cape Girardeau Division of Planning Services will order additional prints of the citywide aerial photograph taken last December. City Planner Kent Bratton said Monday that the extra prints will be ordered to meet public demand for the photographs...

Graveside service for Dorothy M. Miller of Herrin, Ill., formerly of Cape Girardeau, was held last Thursday at Herrin City Cemetery. The Rev. Sampson Harris officiated, with Johnson-Hughes Funeral Home there in charge of arrangements. Miller, 91, died Wednesday, Aug. 14, 1991, at Shawnee Christian Nursing Home in Herrin...

JACKSON -- W.H. "Dub" Willa, 52, of Cape Girardeau Route 2, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1991, at his home. He was born Feb. 11, 1939, in Jackson, the son of Arnold and Irene Schweer Willa. Survivors include two daughters, Sherry Gamble and Beth Moore, both of Millersville. He was preceded by two infant brothers...

Clementine J. Masters, 79, died Monday, Aug. 19, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born June 1, 1912, at Apple Creek, the daughter of Benjamin and Rose Ponder Buchheit. She later married Harry Masters; he preceded her in death on June 17, 1982...

A benefit bazaar will be held at the Holiday Inn Convention Center Saturday for Linda Douglass, who recently underwent a bone marrow transplant for treatment of severe inflammatory breast cancer. Douglass is in Barnes Hospital in St. Louis recovering from the procedure...

SIKESTON -- A workshop on legal rights of persons with disabilities in educational settings will be held Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Sikeston Regional Center. The workshop will be presented by Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services. Topics of discussion include right to a free and appropriate public education, appeal rights, Public Law 94-142, and due process...

I WILL AGREE with the person who said in Speak Out that every time they drove on Sprigg they too enjoyed the beauty of the former Buick building, which is now a beautiful showplace. I too enjoy looking at it. They certainly should be congratulated. Thank you...

Sometime in 1982 while traveling toward Kansas City, Cape County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep stopped at a Missouri Department of Conservation nature center in Blue Springs. "I just kind of stumbled into the facility and I was flabbergasted at all the attention it was getting from people," recalled Huckstep...

A Missouri Department of Conservation regional service center will provide people in Southeast Missouri easy access to information about Department services and programs. In addition, the center will also have interpretive displays and be adjacent to the start of a nature trail which will focus on natural areas in this part of the state...