Stories from Tuesday, April 14, 1992

The response to the Southeast Missourian's new Perspective feature continues strong. In the first three weeks, the newspaper has received over 20 columns or letters addressing Perspective topics. These columns have been thoughtful, forcefully-written and constructive. ...

Two members of Congress, in Cape Girardeau Monday for a field hearing on ways to fix the welfare system, were encouraged to find ways to reduce the maze of paperwork, eliminate duplication and provide greater flexibility at the local levels for administering welfare programs...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education sent one part of the budget cuts announced last month elimination of one band director back to committee for review. At its Monday meeting, the board also approved the Blue Cross/Blue Shield Alliance preferred provider option for medical insurance for one year...

The Budget Review Committee at Southeast Missouri State University Monday narrowly upheld its earlier recommendation to cut $250,000 from the school's intercollegiate athletic budget for the 1993 fiscal year. The committee comprised of administrators, faculty, staff and students voted 12 to 11 against a motion by university Provost Leslie Cochran to rescind the group's March 16 budget-cutting recommendation...

SCOTT CITY - The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority Monday signed a letter of intent with Consolidated Grain and Barge Co. to lease up to 20 acres of land at the port and construct a $3.5 million facility. Once the company is operational and the extension of Nash Road and construction of a rail spur into the port are finished, Consolidated anticipates moving a minimum of 400,000 tons of grain through the port each year - eight times more than was moved through in 1991...

Cape Girardeau school officials Monday defended the school district against charges that it's "top heavy" with administrators. At a meeting of the finance committee of the Citizen Advisory Commission on Education, officials said the number of administrators in the district now is equal to recommended state guidelines for a district of Cape Girardeau's size...

PERRYVILLE -- Someone is $2.3 million richer. Susan Yamnitz, manager of the Express Lane convenience store on Highway 61 in Perryville, would like to know who. Yamnitz's store sold the only winning Missouri Lotto ticket Saturday. On Monday, there was a festive atmosphere at the convenience store...

Many teen suicides are preventable, but only if people see the warning signs and understand the way teens view the world, said a Harvard psychologist who spoke on the subject Monday in Cape Girardeau. Pamela Cantor, a Boston psychologist in private practice who is associated with the Center for Study of Suicide at Harvard University, said suicidal teens have "tunnel vision" and often view temporary problems as permanent and devastating...

Parents from Alma Schrader Elementary School want a chance to let the Cape Girardeau Board of Education know their feelings about issues including budget cuts and long-range planning. The school's PTA conducted a survey of 284 families, 63 percent of the 452 families at Alma Schrader...

page 6A editorial for tuesday They say there are no good ideas that come from Congress. "They" are wrong. Eager as many Americans are to paint the folks on Capitol Hill as pay-raise-approving, perquisite-grabbing rascals, the fact remains that many gifted public servants call Congress their workplace. Criticism should more properly be leveled at the circumstances that keep good work from coming to the fore. American distress in this regard should be considerable...

The response to the Southeast Missourian's new Perspective feature continues strong. In the first three weeks, the newspaper has received over 20 columns or letters addressing Perspective topics. These columns have been thoughtful, forcefully-written and constructive. ...

A fire that started from discarded fireplace ashes that had been stored in a plastic containers destroyed the garage of a Cape Girardeau home Monday morning. Capt. Don Smith of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department said the home of Jim and Stephanie D'Amour, 2921 Bella Vista Drive, was heavily damaged. There were no injuries...

CHARLESTON - Charleston resident Mattie Mae Green, 54, died Saturday, April 11, 1992 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Her death followed a brief illness. She was born Oct. 14, 1937 in Tupelo, Miss. to the late Thornton and Mattie Henson Gardner. She had lived in Charleston since 1948...

ANNISTON -- Howard Enoch "Pete" Holmes, 75, of Anniston, died Monday, April 13, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Jan. 19, 1917, at Portageville, son of Frank A. and Victoria Bass Holmes. He and Gladys Smith were married May 30, 1942...

Nelle R. Luchow, 96, 3120 Independence, died Sunday, April 12, 1992, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

SIKESTON -- Othel R. Noyes, 85, of Sikeston, died Sunday, April 12, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born April 27, 1906, in New Madrid County, son of Matthew G. and Ada Mainord Brooks. She married Oliver S. Noyes Jan. 15, 1926, near Crowe. He died April 7, 1982...

BLOOMFIELD -- Monroe Peck, 81, of Bloomfield, died Sunday, April 12, 1992, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. He was born March 19, 1911, at Frisco, son of Hercules and Isabel Cashion Peck. He married Ella Lorene Hughes Oct. 11, 1932. Peck was a retired assembly line worker with Lincoln Engineering in St. Louis. He was a member of Emmanuel Baptist Church at Dexter...

SIKESTON -- Leonard Allen, 77, of 502 E. Kathleen in Sikeston died Sunday, April 12, 1992, at the Vencor Hospital in St. Louis. He was born May 12, 1914, in Sikeston, the son of Willis and Nancy Lewis Allen. On Dec. 23, 1932, he married Hazel Dockins in Siekston. She survives of the home...

JACKSON -- Riverside Regional Library will sponsor an indoor Easter egg hunt for pre-schoolers ages 3-6 at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. today. The hunt will be held in the library building. The 10 a.m. hunt is already filled, but reservations for the 2 p.m. egg hunt can be made in person, or by phone, until noon today, according to a spokesperson for the library...

The annual Sophomore Pilgrimage is sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs and will be held this week in Jefferson City. The pilgrimage promotes citizenship and provides a view of state government in action. A tour of the governor's mansion and other state buildings, a visit to the legislative session and lunch with elected state officials is on the agenda...