Stories from Thursday, September 12, 1991

PERRYVILLE -- Mildred L. Maddock, 77, of Perryville, died Wednesday, Sept. 11, 1991, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born July 16, 1914, in St. Louis, daughter of George and Dorothy Fanter Fisher. She married Bernard Maddock Jan. 31, 1938...

The Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission Wednesday recommended denial of two rezoning requests that commissioners said constituted "spot zoning." The commission has adopted bylaws against such zoning, which places commercially zoned property within residential neighborhoods...

Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Cape Girardeau will hold an informative meeting Saturday about foster parenting and adoption. The meeting is open to all prospective and current foster or adoptive parents. Members of a panel will present firsthand information temporary parenting and adoptive parenting. Panel members will be the Rev. and Mrs. Fred Faughn of Cape Girardeau, Dorothy and Randy Gholson of Tilsit and Pat Abernathy of Jackson...

The first Hedge-Crump family reunion since the early 1980s was held Aug. 25 at Cape County Park North. Sixty-one guests attended from Advance, Arnold, Burfordville, Cape Girardeau, Chaffee, DeSoto, Fenton, Fruitland, Gordonville, Jackson, St. Louis, Scott City, Sikeston, Sullivan, Whitewater; Memphis and Trenton, Tenn...

JACKSON - Despite a temptation to raise taxes, the Cape Girardeau County Commission has decided to keep property tax rates for general revenue and the county road and bridge fund at the same levels for 1991. The commission followed a recommendation from Auditor H. Weldon Macke that the general revenue rate remain at zero, where it has been the last nine years, and the road and bridge rate stay at 23 cents...

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and Village Voice staff writer Nat Hentoff will debate freedom of speech and the First Amendment on Oct. 1 at the Show Me Center. The debate is open to the public and begins at 7:30 p.m. During the Reagan administration, Meese was noted for his domestic political agenda, targeting welfare reform, drug enforcement and crime control. ...

St. Francis Respiratory Care and the American Lung Association will hold a free workshop entitled "All About Asthma and Exercise in Children" on Sept. 23. The workshop will be at 7 p.m. in Conference Room A at St. Francis Health and Education Center...

COMMERCE -- Two Tamms, Ill., men were injured Tuesday night when the westbound vehicle they were riding in ran off Route E and overturned, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Injured were the driver, Eric Ford, 25, and a passenger, Charles Dixon, 20, a patrol spokesman said...

Alice Ireland wanted to be what she had heard so much about as a child. "Growing up listening to educators talk about helping children," she said, "inspired me to do the same thing." So Ireland followed in the footsteps of her grandfather, mother, aunts and uncles who were teachers or school administrators...

JACKSON -- The Riverside Regional Library in Jackson will hold a book sale on Oct. 5 at the Central Center in Jackson. The sale will be held from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The library has also added a new series of videotapes to its collection. The "Great Events" video series covers highlights of the years 1950 to 1969. The 30-minute tapes are available for checkout during library hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday...

STE. GENEVIEVE The Missouri Humanities Council is offering a tour of historic Ste. Genevieve on Oct. 5 beginning at 10 a.m. and ending at 4:30 p.m. The tour includes the Maison Guibourd-Valle House, the Bolduc House, the Green Tree Inn and the Felix Valle State Historic Site...

Former members of Southeast Missouri State University capella choirs, which were under the direction of J. Clyde Brandt from 1936 until his retirement, will perform at Southeast Missouri State University's Homecoming festivities. Homecoming is scheduled for Oct. 11 and 12...

The Show Me Center will be the site of the Paramount Laser Spectacular on Sept. 19 featuring the music of Pink Floyd. The show is the most technologically advanced laser-light show touring the country. The sound is pumped through a 10,000-watt concert sound system and the lasers are projected onto a 2,500-square-foot screen, creating astounding audio and visual effects...

Photographers will have a chance to improve their picture-taking skills by participating in a Fall Color photography workshop at Trail of Tears State Park on Sept. 21. Professional photographer Martha McBride of Cape Girardeau will teach this and another workshop on Sept. 28 at Meramec State Park in Franklin County. Both workshops are sponsored by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources...

Square dancing lessons for beginners will be offered beginning Wednesday by the Hill Toppers Square Dance Club. Loretta Fluegge with the club said the club promoted square dancing as an inexpensive way to have fun and meet people. She said it's also good exercise...

(Editor's note Capt. Elmer Trapp of the Salvation Army in Cape Girardeau offered the following response to a Speak Out caller's claim that the Salvation Army is delivering Playboy magazines in Chicago to the Institute of the Blind, where they are being transformed into braille for blind people to read: "The Salvation Army is a Christian organization that works to support family values and is against all forms of pornography. ...

Cuba lies just 90 miles south of Florida. Despite this geographical coziness with the United States, the president of Cuba must feel like a lonely man these days. With communism collapsing worldwide and economic hardships gripping his island nation, Fidel Castro must know that the days of his way of life are numbered. Few Americans are shedding tears; it couldn't happen to a more despotic man...

Funeral service for Bertha Loretta Snider of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Snider, 85, died Monday, Sept. 9, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

Gertrude Willett, 96, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1991, at Ratliff Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 23, 1895, in Wayne County, daughter of Enoch R. and Adaline Perkins Sturgeon. She married R.C. Willett in 1946, who died in 1965. Willett was a member and past noble grand of Rebekah Lodge 508, First Baptist Church and its Dow Class, and former member of Fort D Senior Citizens...

Funeral service for Claude Ellis Brown of Marshfield was held Aug. 31 in Marshfield. Arthur's Colonial Chapel was in charge of arrangements. Brown, 88, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Aug. 29, 1991, at his home. He was born Aug. 19, 1903, near Jonesboro, Ill., son of James Alphus and Sarah Elizabeth Gunter Brown...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Alan Wills of Sikeston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:25 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, 1991. Name, Alyssa Gayle. Weight, 9 pounds 8 ounces. First child. Mrs. Wills is the former Karen Williamson, daughter of Bob and Doris Williamson of Morley. She is employed at Sikeston Regional Children's Services. Wills is employed by Gene Wills Insurance Agency, and is the son of Gene and Ann Wills of Millersville...

A monkey bit a 5-year-old girl Tuesday at the SEMO District Fair in Arena Park when the girl placed her hand near the monkey's cage. A police report of the incident said the monkey bit Emily Kimes, of the 500 block of Linden in Cape Girardeau, as the girl visited a tent to see "The World's Smallest Horses" at 10:30 p.m. The girl was treated at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau and released. Police reported she received five stitches for a bite to the hand...

As many as 40 Cape Girardeau Central High School students met before classes Wednesday to pray for the school and those in it. Janie Propst, a CHS senior and organizer of a religious club which meets at the school, explained that Wednesday was a national day of school prayer called "See You at the Pole."...

Students would shoulder a large share of the cost of making ends meet at Southeast Missouri State University in the face of the latest round of state budget cuts. A proposal to increase tuition by $3 to $5 per credit hour for the spring and summer semesters is one of a number of ideas under consideration by university officials to make up for $942,325 withheld from an already scaled-back budget...

Hundreds of volunteers hit the streets Wednesday morning selling a special YELL for Newspapers edition and generating excitement and awareness about literacy. Adding to the excitement was a special appearance by Marvel Comic's super hero, Spiderman...

Area schools are dealing with a problem that's unusual for mid-September 90-degree heat in classrooms that lack air conditioning. "It's pretty darn hot," said Larry Beshears, superintendent of Delta schools, where students are being dismissed at 1:10 p.m. today because of the heat...

No fair would be complete without long pole buildings filled with livestock to be judged, and the SEMO District Fair in Cape Girardeau is no exception. But there's more at stake in the livestock shows than a blue ribbon for the best looking calf, pig or sheep...

TAMMS, Ill. -- An 85-year-old woman suffered serious injuries in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of Route 127 and the Ullin Blacktop, north of Tamms, about 4:30 p.m. Monday. An Illinois State Patrol spokesman said Eva Price, of Perks, Ill., was taken to Union County Hospital in Anna when her car, and one driven by Larry G. Rosson, 49, Jonesboro, collided...

SCOTT CITY -- The Missouri Hazardous Waste Management Commission has denied a temporary restraining order for a Scott City company, meaning the company can no longer operate as a hazardous waste management facility. Officials at Industrial Fuels and Resources are still in the process of appealing a Department of Natural Resources (DNR) decision to deny them a permit to operate. In August, a Scott County judge ruled the company could continue to operate despite the permit denial by the DNR...

JACKSON -- At this week's meeting of the Jackson Board of Education, board members were updated on two educational programs in the district: Chapter One Remedial Reading, and Early Childhood Education for the Handicapped. In his report to the board, Assistant Superintendent Fred Jones said the focus this year of the district's remedial reading program has been switched to the primary grades, 1-3...

SCOTT CITY -- Growth in Scott City's industrial park will no longer be stalled because of a lack of access to city water. The construction of nearly 19,000 feet of water lines leading to the area will be completed in about three weeks, said the city's Public Works Director Harold Uelsmann...

It'll be "Lemonade, and Information" Sunday as the Cape Girardeau County League of Women Voters kicks off its annual membership campaign. Fran Harris, membership chair, has announced that the Sunday afternoon affair will be held from 2-4 p.m. at Shelter 10 in the Cape Girardeau Park. League members will be on hand to greet guests and answer questions, and a special "League Leaf" will be available, describing LWV objectives and activities...

Gov. John Ashcroft has designated today as DARE Day. DARE stands for Drug Abuse Resistance Education, a semester-long program that seeks to teach fifth- and sixth-grade students how to resist pressure to experiment with drugs and alcohol. The day is also being recognized as DARE Day nation-wide, with a theme of "Why DARE Makes a Difference."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Board of Education will begin meeting the second Monday of the month at 4:30 p.m. in October. The change was voted on at the board's meeting Tuesday. Board members said they wanted to change the meeting date and time because it often conflicted with other school district activities...

Winners in the annual SEMO District Fair Baby Contest, held Tuesday, have been announced. In all, 128 babies entered the contest in five classes. Winners are: Boys 12-17 months: Tyler Jeffrey Shipman, first place; Jared Eli Kinder, second place; Ross Logan Gilmore, third place...