Stories from Monday, May 4, 1992

Seventh and eighth graders from Cape Girardeau captured honors during two recent mathematics contests. The L.J. Schultz team of math students ranked ninth of 164 schools participating statewide in the Missouri Mathematics League seventh and eighth grade contest...

National research on breast cancer prevention is the topic of the May 21 Woman to Woman luncheon. The meeting will be held at noon in conference rooms A and B at St. Francis Medical Center. Dr. Stanley Sides, president of the St. Francis medical staff and medical director of the Womancare Department at St. Francis, will be the featured speaker...

The American Red Cross has scheduled blood drives Wednesday and May 14. On Wednesday, a blood drive will be held at JCPenney in the West Park Mall. The drive will be held from 1-6 p.m. in the training room. On May 14, the Notre Dame High School National Honor Society will hold a blood drive from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. The drive will held in the multi-purpose room...

Little did Tom Miller know that riding a horse once a week would bring about such a change in his young son. "We have seen Ryan become stronger and better balanced," said Miller of Scott City, whose son Ryan is nearly 3. "When he first started he was slumped over. He couldn't sit up. But the last several months he's been able to sit up and even hold his hands up while he's on the horse."...

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will consider a resolution to send a list of area road projects to the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department for its 15-year highway plan. City officials hope the new highway plan will include a number of Southeast Missouri projects. They say funding from a new federal highway law and state fuel tax could be a boon for the area in terms of new highway construction...

Cape Girardeau Public Schools soon will be able to pinpoint students' homes on computer. "We are replacing the old pin-head map with a computerized map," said George Baker, computer programmer with ABC Systems, Inc., of Osage Beach. The first project for the new mapping program is to help re-map school bus routes and boundaries...

The LaLeche League, for mothers who wish to breastfeed their babies, will meet Thursday at 9:30 a.m. at Route 2, Box 431G, just off Bloomfield Road, past the Cape Girardeau city limits sign on county road 206. The discussion will include suggestions about nutrition for nursing mothers and their families as well as information about weaning the breast fed baby. For more information, call 335-4471 or 334-4705...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has developed a pyramid design, replacing the familiar pie chart, to illustrate the relative importance of food groups, with fats, oils and sweets shown at the top of the pyramid to be used sparingly. The Southeast Missourian asked people which of their favorite foods, now shown at the top of the pyramid, they would have preferred to be placed at the bottom...

JACKSON -- The Jackson High School instrumental department will hold its annual spring concert Thursday at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gymnasium. Both the concert band and the symphonic band will be featured. The concert band, directed by Scott Vangilder and Pat Schwent, will perform "Chesford Portrait," the British march "Glory," a new composition for concert band entitled "In All Its Glory," and a collection of songs from "The Phantom of the Opera."...

The Community Counseling Center is offering a four-part series on marital enrichment, beginning Tuesday. The classes are scheduled on Tuesdays through May 26 from 6-8 p.m. Information offered can assist couples enhance their marriages. Barbara Morgan and James W. Morgan will lead the classes...

The Future Homemakers of America chapters at Chaffee and Kelly high schools will present motivational speakers at their parents banquets. Chaffee will hold the banquet Thursday; Kelly will hold the banquet Friday. The speakers, Dan and Marie Lena, will present a program entitled "You Are Special."...

KELSO -- Larry Franklin Arnold, 54, of Kelso, died Sunday, May 3, 1992 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born March 4, 1938 at Ashland, son of Elvin and Mary Phillips Arnold. He married Wilma Wagner on Jan. 9, 1960 in Charleston. She survives. He was employed at Patton-Tully Transportation in Memphis, Tenn. for 38 years. He is of the Baptist faith...

AMZIE KNIGHT AMZIE KNIGHT Jack R. Gleason, 54, of 2505 Melrose, died Saturday, May 2, 1992 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Nov. 4, 1937 in Cape Girardeau, son of John and Nina M. Reynolds Gleason. He married Janet Snyder on July 30, 1962. She survives...

OAK RIDGE -- Mabel G. Rumfelt, 88, of St. Charles and formerly of Oak Ridge died Saturday, May 2, 1992, at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Couer. She was born Jan. 22, 1904, in Sedgwickville, the daughter of Robert Lee and Mary Jane Caldwell. She married Bern Rumfelt, who preceded her in death in 1957...

William D. Rushing, 78, of 747 Bellevue in Cape Girardeau died Sunday, May 3, 1992, at his home. He was born April 22, 1914, at Makanda, Ill., the son of Burrel F. and Loie Ann Rushing. On Aug. 16, 1936, he married Amy Lewis Campbell, who survives of the home...

Fay Graham Hale, 53, of Route 2, Cape Girardeau died Saturday, May 2, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Nov. 24, 1938, in Mayfield, the daughter of Arthur James and Hannah Elizabeth Ridings. On Nov. 21, 1983, she married Earl Graham, who preceded her in death Nov. 21, 1983...

Graveside service for Eleanor Anne Gutherz of 412 S. Spring in Cape Girardeau will be at 2 p.m. today at the Masonic Cemetery in Grand Chain, Ill. The Rev. L. Wallace Brown will officiate. She died Saturday, May 2, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born in Mound City, Ill, the daughter of Roy and Pearl Wilson. On May 28, 1940, she married Werner Gutherz, who preceded her in death February 1962...

Eberhardt Julius Perr, 83, of 128 S. Park, died Sunday, May 3, 1992 at his nephew's home in Scott City. He was born March 1, 1909 at Egypt Mills, son of August and Hanna Borchelt Perr. He married Geraldine Vaughn on Nov. 1, 1947. She died Jan. 23, 1982...

GLEN ALLEN -- Amzie Knight, 78, of Glen Allen, died Sunday, May 3, 1992 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 17, 1914 in Malden, son of George and Flora Hunsaker Knight. He married Pauline Letgrate on March 22, 168 in East Prairie. She survives of Glen Allen...

Southeast Missouri State University budget concerns, the search for a new provost and sexual orientation are issues that will likely come before the Faculty Senate in the 1992-93 academic year. That's the prediction of Rick Althaus of the political science department. He was selected Wednesday as the new Faculty Senate chairman. He replaces Allen Gathman of the biology department, whose one-year term ended Wednesday...

WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson said Friday he is pleased with action taken to raise tariffs affecting $1 billion of imports from the European Community. "We've been urging a level playing field all along," said Emerson. "If the EC won't heed our warnings and pleas, I wholeheartedly believe this action is justified."...

The Cape Girardeau County Chapter of AARP will meet today at 1:30 p.m. at Grace United Methodist Church. The program will be by Dortha Strack, horticulturist with Sunny Hill Garden Center. She will discuss safe pesticides and fertilizers. Final plans will be made for a day trip to the Black Forest June 1...

No one likes the idea of paying more for services. But with decreasing tax revenues, the city of Cape Girardeau has little choice. In preparing the new budget, the city staff has recommended that user fees provide their fair share. This is especially true in the parks and recreation programs, which have been largely subsidized in the past...

There must have been champagne all around the other day when Gov. John Ashcroft said he planned to veto a House-passed school foundation revision that includes a corporate tax increase of $95 million. Still awaiting action in the Senate, the measure marks the successful completion of a long series of urban-outstate compromises to a fashion a workable formula for distributing state money to local schools. ...

All children find mirrors through which they define themselves. These mirrors are the attitudes and values that parents and teachers model. Since World War II life has changed drastically in our country. We have become a self-indulgent society and many of our students no longer feel the need to contribute or be self-reliant...

By Bill Springer Perspectives: Cheap Advice Have you ever been told to "Hang in there"? That's trite and stupid. Hanging has a negative conotation. A hung man, a hanging picture, hung meat -- don't do anything. Just "hang." There: where's there? -- someplace else...

Being an elementary teacher is a fascinating and challenging job. The rewards that come with helping a child to understand a new concept or to hear him say, "Now I get it!" can warm one's whole body and should. However, with all the special joys that teachers experience also come many trying difficulties with which we deal. Many citizens outside of the field of education do not realize problems in the classroom which teachers face, sometimes on a daily basis...

Education is sometimes expected to be like a factory. Teachers are assigned children and we are expected to produce young women and men. Like our society, it is getting more complex by the year. Each child is an individual with abilities, weaknesses and special needs. ...