Stories from Monday, September 23, 1991

The Community Counseling Center is having a Fall/Winter Community Education series of classes and presentations. Assertiveness Training classes will be held on Wednesday evenings beginning this week for five weeks. Strengthening Step Families is a series for step parents that runs for five weeks beginning Nov. 6...

JACKSON - The Cape Girardeau County Planning Commission will review a sixth draft of proposed zoning ordinances at a special meeting Oct. 1, which should complete their work toward county-wide zoning. If approved by the planning commission, the measure then would be submitted to the county commission, and finally to the the public at hearings in each of the county's 10 townships...

Robertson Contractors, Inc. of Poplar Bluff submitted the low bid of $1.29 million for the next phase of Cape Girardeau's Lexington Avenue arterial street project. Robertson's bid was the lowest of four bids opened Friday in Jefferson City. The project will include construction of a signalized intersection of North Kingshighway, Lexington and Mt. Auburn Road and a five-lane bridge over Cape LaCroix Creek...

JACKSON -- The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company's newest locomotive, the "R.T. Hughes, will enable the railroad to expand operations into the winter months. The 80-ton, twin-engine diesel locomotive, which will begin regular runs late this fall, also will be used as a backup for the railroad's popular Number Five steam locomotive...

Activity Week, Notre Dame High School's biggest fund raiser each year, was kicked off with an all-school rally Friday. The week, which runs through Saturday, sees faculty, students and parents work together to raise funds to meet the annual school budget, said Notre Dame's principal, Sister Mary Ann Fischer...

The Southeast Missourian asked people about their concern for possible renewed hostilities between Iraq and the United States. Gary Beggs: "I would be very surprised if we would go back to a war situation over there. It's more of a policing action now to get them to admit that they have more war machinery. I think Saddam has to `fess up, or he'll be in deeper trouble than he is now."...

After spending some of his life working in the U.S. Senate, Mert Bernstein is hoping the people of Missouri will send him to Washington next year as a member of that body. "I feel I am very familiar with issues that Congress is addressing, with congressional procedures and how it works in Washington," explained Bernstein, who has been a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis for 16 years...

Nineteen students graduated from the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School of Practical Nursing Friday night at Grace United Methodist Church. Barb McKeon, nurse counselor at Southeast Missouri Hospital, delivered the graduation address. Nursing school pins and diplomas were awarded to:...

Clarence Thomas will soon be the 106th justice of the United States Supreme Court. During the next 40 years, we will learn what the confirmation process could not reveal: whether Thomas is the doctrinaire disciple of the far right as his writings and speeches would indicate, or the somewhat more compassionate, flexible person he appeared to be at his confirmation hearing...

Much has been made during 1991 about the lack of activity among national Democrats in fielding a slate of candidates for next year's presidential run. Republicans publicly touted this as the only response available a weak one for an opposition party facing a popular incumbent. ...

Daughter to Lisa Ayers of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:40 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1991. Name, Andreea Shanique. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. Miss Ayers is the daughter of Thrisa Ayers and Johnny Ayers of Cape Girardeau, and is a student...

PATTON -- John A. Brotherton, 41, of Patton, was dead on arrival at St. Francis Medical Center Sunday, Sept. 22, 1991. He was born Jan. 9, 1950, at Patton, son of Kelly and Ruby Douglas Brotherton. He was employed by General Motors Co. at Wentzville...

PATTON -- Lonnie D. Brotherton, 44, died Sunday Sept. 22, 1991, at his home in Patton. He was born at Cape Girardeau July 14, 1947, son of Kelly and Ruby Douglas Brotherton. He worked as a dock hand. He served in the National Guard. Survivors include his parents; three daughters, Tonya Kester, Jackson, Jackie Brotherton, Millersville, and Laura Robinson, Jackson; and two brothers, Ronnie Brotherton and Rocky Brotherton, both of Patton...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Mrs. Mary B. Rolf, 75, of Mounds, formerly of Cairo, died Sunday at Meridian Manor Nursing Home in Mounds. She was born in Cairo April 1, 1916, daughter of Edmond and Ellen Hearly Shannessy. She was married to Virgil H. Rolf. He preceded her in death Dec. 1, 1965...

The Missouri Housing Development Commission will conduct a public hearing in Cape Girardeau tonight to discuss its Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Holiday Inn at Route K and Interstate 55. Gene M. Zafft, chairman of the MHDC, said the commission is conducting the hearings around the state to gather public comments on the preliminary draft of the housing document...

PERRYVILLE -- Canzada E. LaRose, 81, of Perryville, died Sunday, Sept. 22, 1991 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 13, 1910 at Mine LaMonte, daughter of Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bollinger Hand. She married Emmanuel LaRose Oct. 25, 1925. He preceded her in death Aug. 16, 1961...

PERRYVILLE -- Margaret G. Schumer, of Perryville, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 1991, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. She was born Oct. 23, 1913, at Belgique, Mo. daughter of Fred DeClerk and Matilda Fuytinck DeClerk. On Aug. 23, 1932, she married Walter M. Schumer. He survives...

PUXICO -- Orville Gene Andersen, 70, of Puxico, Rt. 1, died Saturday, Sept. 21 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 3, 1921 in North Platte, Neb., to Malcom and Myrtle Andersen. On July 4, 1943, he married Iva Medlin at North Platte. She survives...