Stories from Monday, March 30, 1992

Editor's note:The Southeast Missourian today begins reports on the six candidates for Cape Girardeau City Council. Reports will follow on Tuesday and Wednesday. Al Spradling III is the only one of three Cape Girardeau councilmen whose terms expire this year to seek re-election...

Lawrence Godfrey wants to represent the "working man" on the Cape Girardeau City Council. Godfrey is one of six candidates seeking three, four-year terms on the council. City council elections will be held April 7. Godfrey said Sunday that most of the current city council members are professionals or business owners and that the "working class" is not adequately represented...

People who eat out at some Cape Girardeau restaurants during National Library Week next month will help feed the coffer of the Cape Girardeau Public Library. The special promotion is called "Get Fed Up for the Library." Participating restaurants will give 10 percent of their sales from a certain day of the week to the library...

If opinions of area movie enthusiasts are an indication of how tonight's Academy Awards will turn out, Oscar history will be made. That's because the majority of people who entered the Southeast Missourian Pick the Oscars Contest chose "Beauty and the Beast" as the winner in the best picture category...

Students are putting the finishing touches on their exhibits for the 43rd annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair. The fair opens Tuesday at the Show Me Center. Lester Leaton, science fair director, estimated there will be 200 entries in the junior division and 60 entries in the senior division. Students from throughout Southeast Missouri enter their projects in the competition...

Freeman McCullah, Missouri Highway and Transportation Department District 10 engineer, will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee. The Friday meeting will be held at the Drury Lodge starting at 7:30 a.m. Southeast Missouri Hospital is sponsor for the April 3 event...

ANNA, Ill. -- A group of about 200 Anna-Jonesboro High School students launched a walkout last week in protest of teacher layoffs for the 1992-93 school term. The high school's board of education recently approved budget cuts of about $290,000, which includes releasing seven teachers...

The Southeast Missourian asked people how they felt about others addressing them by their first names, and whether this informality reflects a declining level of respect in our society. Larry Kitchen: "Personally, I would prefer that others call me by my first name because I always like people to feel comfortable talking to me. I would prefer Mr. from someone under 18; however, I would address others by Mr. or whatever, until I got to know them better."...

The Nell Holcomb R-4 School District will hold free kindergarten and preschool screenings during the fourth week of April. Screening for 3- and 4-year-olds and incoming kindergarteners will be April 28. The purpose of the screenings is two-fold: to help parents monitor their child's growth and development and to assist in providing for the educational needs of district children. The screenings also encourage an early partnership between parents and educators...

Ken Scheer is a long-time Cape Girardeau resident. He is active in business and civic affairs. In 1985, Monika Jensen-Stevenson was the producer for the television program "60 Minutes." It was her intent to produce a television segment dealing with Missing in Action and POWs in Southeast Asia after the 1973 Peace Accord was signed to end the war. ...

Almost eight years have passed since Missouri voters implemented a state lottery, and many Missourians, we have found, remain under the misconception that lottery revenue is used only to fund public education. That, of course, is not so. Instead, money generated from the sale of lottery tickets goes into the state's general revenue fund, which provides the primary source of funding for much of state government. ...

HESTERDaughter to Robert S. Hester and Erika Hilliker of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:09 a.m. Sunday, March 22, 1992. Name, Jessica Brooke. Weight, 6 pounds 11 ounces. Second daughter. Miss Hilliker is the daughter of Kaarina Hilliker and the late Charles Hilliker of Scott City. Hester is employed at Interior Plus Inc., and is the son of Doug and Betty Hester of Scott City...

SCOTT CITY -- Theresa Welter, 85, of Kelso died Sunday, March 29, 1992, at Mary's Boarding Home in rural Scott City. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.

A vehicle ran off a road and struck a tree Saturday night east of Dutchtown, seriously injuring two Chaffee teenagers, the Missouri Highway Patrol at Poplar Bluff reported. The patrol identified the teenagers as Necole Parker and passenger Nancy Evans, both 17 and of Chaffee. They were taken to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, said a patrol spokesman. A hospital spokeswoman said Sunday night both were in stable condition...

JACKSON -- Gene Sides, 71, of Jackson died Sunday, March 29, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 3, 1920, at Fruitland, the son of Price S. and Nancy Hargraves Sides. On April 8, 1944, he married Rosalee Winkler, who survives of the home...

SIKESTON - Closkie M. Skaggs, 61, of 419 Ruth St., died Saturday, March 28, 1992 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born March 5, 1931 at Silver City, Miss. to the late William Closkie and Lorena Walker Skaggs. He was a retired staff sergeant in the Air Force. Skaggs served 20 years, including in the Korean and Vietnam wars...

ANNA, Ill. - Anna resident Ida Sitter Ury died Sunday, March 29, 1992 at St. Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro. She was 92. She was born Oct. 17, 1899 at Anna, daughter of the late Jefferson and Lucy Williams Sitter. She married Grover Ury, who died in 1965...

Alta "Darlene" Young, 55, of Arnold died Sunday, March 29, 1992, at St. Anthony Medical Center in St. Louis. She's the wife of Jim Young, formerly of Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- George W. McNeely, 72, of Route 3, Jackson died Saturday, March 28, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 7, 1920, at Advance, the son of Guy and Estle Hawkins McNeely. On May 17, 1941, he married Wilma Berneice Pierce at Cape Girardeau. She survives of the home...

Fred H. Gerlach, 63, of 2801 Bloomfield Road in Cape Girardeau died Saturday, March 28, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 25, 1929, in Egypt Mills, the son of Edward Charles and Amanda E. Borchelt Gerlach. On July 7, 1972, he married Emma L. McFall in Cape Girardeau. She survives of the home...

JACKSON - Eula M. Roberts, 92, of Jackson, died Sunday, March 29, 1992 at Deals Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born March 16, 1900 at Daisy to the late John and Mary Walker Linebarger. She married Eldon Roberts March 26, 1918 at Daisy. He died April 16, 1972...