Stories from Friday, April 17, 1992

L.A. Barnett, 66, of 1114 Jefferson, died Wednesday, April 15, 1992 at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born March 21, 1926, at Fornfelt, son of Dave and Hattie Schaffer Barnett. He had worked on the river and was a retired maintenance worker at Schultz School. He was an Army veteran of World War II...

Chances of major flooding from melting snow running into the Mississippi River this year are rated at "nil or none," a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said. But the Corps and the National Weather Service cautioned that does not mean serious flooding on the Mississippi, Missouri or Ohio rivers could not occur from other causes...

Susan Lynn Sciortino of Cape Girardeau, Amy R. McMillan of Friedheim, Michele L. Abrisz of Old Appleton and Angela Hogan of Oran have been awarded President's Scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1992-1993 academic year...

Ronald G. Eaglin, a 1962 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, was recently selected to be the 12th president of Morehead State University. Eaglin, 51, currently is chancellor of the University of South Carolina's Coastal Carolina College at Conway and holds a bachelor's degree from Southeast in secondary education with majors in mathematics and biology education. ...

Ted Loso, instructor of industrial technology at Southeast Missouri State University, has been named "Educator of the Year" by the St. Louis chapter of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME). "This selection is to honor your commitment in furthering the promotion of manufacturing principles for the benefit of our community and our Society," said Jeanette M. Fox, chapter chairperson...

Southeast Missouri State University will hold a "Show Me College Day for Transfer Students" April 21 in the University Center Missouriana Room. All students planning to transfer to Southeast are invited. There is no cost, but students planning to attend the event should register with the new-student relations office by calling (314) 651-2590...

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County's sales tax check for April was about the same as it was the year before; however, overall receipts are ahead of 1991. One third of the new year's sales tax checks have been received. Auditor H. Weldon Macke reported that sales tax receipts in April totaled $251,966.16, which is about $300 less than April of last year...

I no longer have hobbies. I used to fish. I used to do some woodwork. I ran out of time for them. No big deal. You can buy fish. You can buy furniture. Eating might be my hobby now. Something that is both recreation and necessity seems to fill the bill for me...

Jack H. Knowlan Jr. is an administrative law judge for workers compensation, and is president of the Jackson Board of Education. "LOCAL SCHOOL ~DIST~RICT BANKRUPT" This type of headline may soon be appearing in some local newspapers. How can this be happening? Who's responsible for the red ink? Have all of our school boards and administrators ~been guilty of poor financial management? Why can't our schools pay their o~~wn way without tax increases?...

A University of Missouri curator, John "Woody" Cozad of Platte City, has created a stir among some of the university's faculty because he has requested a rundown on all guest speakers at the system's four campuses this year. He also asked for details on the funding of student organizations. The requests riled some campus factions who suggest it could breed censorship...

MARBLE HILL -- Mary A. Honeycutt, 52, of Marble Hill, died Wednesday, April 15, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb. 10, 1940, in Utica, Ky., daughter of Byron and Virginia Adcock Underwood. She and Dempsey Honeycutt were married Oct. 13, 1960...

JACKSON -- Frances E. Boyel, 88, of Jackson, died at Southeast Missouri Hospital Thursday, April 16, 1992. She was born in Grundy County, Mo., June 28, 1903. daughter of George H. Titcomb and Carrie Shelton Titcomb. She married Glen Boyel June 20, 1928, He preceded her in death on Dec. 30, 1987...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Willie Stroud, 79, of McClure, died at 4:09 p.m. Thursday, April 16, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 5, 1912, in Searcey, Ark., daughter of Ed and Iva Ballard Edwards. She married J. Barnett Adams in 1927 at Bardwell, Ky. He died in 1952...

Flora May Gobble, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, April 16, 1992, at Cape LaCroix Manor. She was born June 17, 1901, at Zalma, the daughter of James and Josephine Beatty Gobble. She moved from Kennett to Cape Girardeau in 1926 and began working for International Shoe Co., where she was a fancy tip stitcher. She retired after 50 years of work with the company, then worked for five years at The Country Store in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Hope Rice, 75, of Jackson, died Wednesday, April 15, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 22, 1916, at Leemon, daughter of Burley and Ellen Garner Gohn. She married Eugene Rice Feb. 6, 1955. He died March 24, 1991. Rice owned and operated Hope's Beauty Salon in Jackson a number of years. She was a member of Wesleyan United Methodist Church at Fruitland...

JACKSON -- Graveside service for Tanner Joseph Morrill was held Thursday at St. Joseph Cemetery in Scott City. The Rev. Robert Schumacher officiated. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City was in charge of arrangements. Tanner, infant son of Charles Joseph and Marjorie Ann Green Morrill of Jackson, died Monday, April 13, 1992, at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur...

PATTON -- Dewey Levi Green, 52, Patton Route 1, died Thursday, April 16, 1992, at his home. He was born July 7, 1939, at Patton, son of Dewey Lester and Mildred Pearl Johnson Green. He and Betty Long were married July 29, 1967. Green worked at Harris Truck and Trailer Sales in Cape Girardeau from 1968-91. He was a member of Little Whitewater Baptist Church...

Two Southeast Missouri attorneys drawn into a controversy over the way Attorney General William Webster has administered Missouri's second injury fund say the fray is politically motivated. John Lichtenegger of Jackson called an article this week in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch "a planted story" by representatives of Roy Blunt, who is challenging Webster in the Republican primary for governor...

MARBLE HILL -- If a petition is successful in forcing a state audit of the Marble Hill treasury, thousands of dollars of city money would be wasted, say municipal ~officials. The petition questions the use of a $700,000 trust donated to the city by a St. Louis woman between 1988 and 1990 for building a city pool...

Seventeen months after KRCU ushered in National Public Radio in this area, the Southeast Missouri State University radio station is still an unknown to much of the general public. Ferrell Ervin, chairman of the university's mass communications department and acting general manager of the station, said efforts continue to upgrade the station's equipment and boost its signal from 100 watts to 2,300 watts...

Shop 'N' Save will sponsor an Easter egg hunt at Cape Girardeau County South Park on Saturday. Pre-hunt activities will begin at 2 p.m., and the hunt will start at 3. Children from toddlers to age 10 are welcome to participate. Thousands of plastic eggs will be hidden and stuffed with candy or notification of larger prizes...

Thanks to the television show "Rescue 911," the public is better educated about what tele-communicators do, says Kim Amelunke, a telecommunicator at the Cape Girardeau Police Department. On the other hand, according to Amelunke, there are people who dial 911 and expect to get an operator, thinking instead they dialed 411 for information. The numbers 911 can be dialed in Cape Girardeau, as in many places, for emergency service...

The Easter weekend weather will be warmer than usual, but an umbrella will definitely be a required part of the Easter finery. The National Weather Service at St. Charles forecasts scattered showers and thunderstorms for the Cape Girardeau area throughout the weekend and into first half of next week...

The Cape Girardeau chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW) will present "Hobbies for Fun & Profit" on Saturday, April 25. The workshop is open to the general public. It will be held at Centenary United Methodist Family Life Center at 300 N. Ellis...

The music department at Southeast Missouri State University, including the Choral Union, University Choir and the University Orchestra, will present Handel's "Dettingen Te Deum" Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in Academic Auditorium. The University Orchestra, under the direction of Sara Edgerton, will open the concert with Handel's Viola Concerto. Southeast student Melissa Schillito will be the viola soloist...

Three Southeast Missouri State University seniors and a faculty member recently were inducted into the university's Sigma Pi Sigma Physics Honor Society. Inducted were Nancy M. Blechle of Perryville, Mark A. Wetzler of Chaffee, Isaac A. Kunz of Marquand, and Craig...

COLUMBIA -- Wednesday is Missouri Tree Frm Day. Missouri's 1,000 or so tree farmers will gather in Columbia April 22 to celebrate the 12th Annual Tree Farm Day. You don't have to be a certified tree farmer to attend. An interest in trees and $20 is all that's needed to participate...

JEFFERSON CITY -- The 1992 spring turkey harvest isn't likely to rival the record set in 1987, but with favorable weather it could top 30,000 says Missouri Department of Conservation Research Biologist Lay Vangilder. Vangilder said there is a shortage of 2-year-old toms this year. He said this shortage will significantly decrease the quality of spring turkey hunting, because 2-year-old gobblers make up about 35 to 40 percent of the adult gobbler harvest...