Stories from Sunday, May 31, 1992

Dear Editor: I am writing in response to "Playday," an annual event held by elementary schools in Cape and the surrounding area. "Playday" is an event in which schoolchildren are given the opportunity to spend a day having fun outdoors. They eat, socialize, participate in races, and play games. Being a parent, I was given the opportunity to participate in the event at one of the Cape schools this year for the first time, and quite frankly, I was amazed...

BENTON -- Members of the Kelly High School Future Homemakers of America (FHA) will compete at the FHA/HERO state leadership conference this week in Columbia. The conference will run from Tuesday through Friday. Some 1,200 delegates will be in attendance. Thirty Kelly students will attend the conference, with 24 competing...

"Ask Your Doctor" is a special one-on-one medical show with local doctors answering questions of viewers calling in. Thursday's show will feature Dr. Carl N. Ringer talking on "Myths and Falsehoods of the Eye." It will begin at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13...

Rebecca Domazlicky, a senior at Cape Central High School, has been selected to receive a Missouri Higher Education Academic Scholarship Award, known as Bright Flight. To qualify for the award, the student must attain a score of 30 or above on the ACT and must attend a college or university in Missouri...

BENTON -- Mary Christine Adams will graduate from the Missouri School for the Deaf in Fulton as an honor roll student. Adams, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Brad Adams of Benton, was a member of Student Council, yearbook staff and captain of the volleyball team, among other activities...

JACKSON -- The third Annual Easter Seals Benefit Golf Tournament will be held Friday at the Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson. The four-person scramble starts at 12:30 p.m. with a free lunch for all participants at 11:30 a.m. There will be prizes for two flights: Nicklaus and Palmer, and also for the closest to the pin on all par 3 holes, longest drive, longest putt and hole-in-one...

Two area students have been awarded the Wetterau Inc. scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University this fall. They include Lara A. Geringer of Cape Girardeau and Kandi L. Skinner of Scott City. The scholarship is awarded to children of Wetterau employees. One of the two awards is limited to a graduate of Scott City High School...

Brent R. Statler of Jackson has been awarded the Hattie Eicholtz Memorial Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the coming year. The scholarship is awarded to freshmen who have exhibited academic achievement in high school and who are direct descendants of a Southeast alumnus...

JACKSON -- Sherri L. Montgomery of Jackson has been awarded the Emma E. Dempster Memorial Scholarship. She is a junior at Southeast Missouri State University. The scholarship is open to nursing students who have achieved 30 hours of study in a nursing program, who have earned scholarship achievement, and who have exhibited promise of success in nursing...

Dear Jack Stapleton: This letter is in reference to your May 4, 1992 column in the Southeast Missourian titled, "Missouri schools are in need of financial help." Associated Industries of Missouri played an active role in the development and solicitation of Proposition B. ...

"The thrill of victory and the agony of defeat." I feel it is important that I share with the people of Southeast Missouri the experience that I had May 21. I am the assistant baseball coach and athletic director at Notre Dame High School in Cape Girardeau. ...

The city of Cape Girardeau begins a new business endeavor this week. While we don't typically advocate governmental bodies treading where private enterprise has done the job in the past, we believe the city lets itself in on some advantages by taking over the municipal water system. We feel this undertaking holds great potential for future development in the city and hope the new venture proves fruitful...

Dear Editor: It is with a certain sense of sadness I bring to a close my practice here in Cape Girardeau and leave for parts west. It has been a distinct pleasure and an honor to be associated with such a highly skilled, high quality medical community. The doctors and hospitals in Cape Girardeau are certainly to be complimented on the quality of health care that is being delivered at this time...

Rebecca E. McLard of Jackson has been awarded an Alumni Association Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University in the fall. The scholarship is awarded to students who have completed at least 30 credit hours but no more than 40 credit hours of study at Southeast...

For decades, they've held stirring Memorial Day parades in New York and Chicago. "Everyone came from all over to participate in our parade, and the marching would go on for four or five hours," said a saddened New York American Legion spokesman. They also used to have big Labor Day marches in the central cities. They are gone. Suburbanites don't go into the urban core unless they have an irresistibly compelling reason to do so. Drums, bugles and memories aren't irresistibly compelling...

Area supporters of Ross Perot's effort to get on the presidential ballot in Missouri have vowed to start all over collecting signatures, after a conflict at the state level of the Perot organization led to a decision to not file the petitions that had already been collected...

High mileage on some Cape Girardeau patrol cars could be putting the public at risk by jeopardizing a police officer's ability to respond to an emergency. Police officers acknowledged that such a situation could happen with some of the Cape Girardeau Police Department patrol cars. Five of nine cars assigned to patrol shifts at the department have more than 100,000 miles on them...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Since coming to Congress in 1981, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson has maintained that the constitution should be amended to require a balanced budget. Starting with his first term and every new term since, Emerson has introduced on the first day of the session, a resolution requiring a balanced budget...

Missouri voters will decide the fate of riverboat gambling at a statewide election in November. The measure was approved in the 1991 legislative session. Rep. Herb Fallert, D-Ste. Genevieve, sponsor of the riverboat gambling bill, feels the measure has a good chance of passing this fall. He expects some kind of statewide promotion, although he's not sure who will organize it at this point...

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Officials with Players International are gambling that a riverboat casino based in Metropolis will pay off. In fact, the company is betting $18 million on the success of the venture, said David Fishman, vice chairman of Players International...

The Southeast Missourian dominated this year's Missouri State Teachers Association annual Media Awards. The newspaper and a Malden radio station were selected to receive a newly-created recognition for "outstanding education reporting and commitment to education in their own communities."...

Alma Schrader School's loss of a teacher is the gain of a singer for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Pat Long, who has taught music at the Cape Girardeau elementary school for the past 20 years, will retire Friday. But her retirement won't be a quiet one in Florida...

JACKSON - Avis E. Sneed, 86, of Jackson, died Saturday, May 30, at the Bond Nursing Home in Marble Hill. She was born Oct. 10, 1905 at Scopus to Mattison and Bernie Gilliland Crain. She married Clyde Sneed on May 9, 1921, in Piggott, Ark. He preceded her in death on Oct. 21, 1977...

JACKSON - Jessie C. Bruce, 71, of Jackson, died Friday, May 29, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 4, 1920, in Sikeston, to John and Priscilla Irwin Bruce. On April 21, 1948, Bruce married Annadell Kelly in Osceola, Ark. ...

ORAN -- Otto Louis Schlitt, 94, of Oran died Saturday, May 30, 1992 at his home. He was born Nov. 10, 1897 in New Hamburg, son of Karl and Madeline Catherine Kielhoefner Schlitt. He was a farmer, retiring in 1958. On Aug. 30, 1921, he married the former Mary Josephine Dohogne. She preceded him in death April 21, 1984...

PERRYVILLE -- John Milton Abernathy, 85, of Perryville died Saturday, May 30, 1992 at his residence in Perryville. He was born April 7, 1907 in Longtown, the son of R.V. and Nora Abernathy. On July 21, 1928, he married the former Violet Mae Graves. She preceded him in death Nov. 20, 1986...

Mrs. Kathleen Outland, 82, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, May 30, 1992 at St. John's Regional Health Center in Springfield, Mo., where she had lived the past three years. She owned and operated Kathleen's Beauty Shop on South Sprigg for many years...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Vivian R. Murphy, 82, of Lacon, died Thursday, May 28, 1992, at Parkhill Nursing Home in Chillicothe. She was born March 17, 1910, near Mounds, daughter of Ira Monroe and Eva Catherine Scurlock Robinson. She married William Paul Murphy, who survives...

Funeral service for ET3 Mark W. Singleton, 20, 821 Jefferson, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-6 p.m. today. Singleton, 20, died Thursday, May 28, 1992, at St. John's Mercy Hospital Burn and Trauma Center in St. Louis...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Gladys Flewellen, 82, of Cairo, died Thursday, May 28, 1992, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo., after a brief illness. She was born Jan. 1, 1910, in Sandusky, daughter of William C. and Ibber B. Randall. She married Willie Flewellen in 1943...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Robbie Beatrice Skinner of Scott City will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. Pastor Bob Alarcon will officiate, with burial in Skinner family cemetery at Commerce. Skinner, 81, died Friday, May 29, 1992, at her home...

PERRYVILLE -- Lillie N. Sterling, 71, of Perryville, formerly of Altenburg, died Friday, May 29, 1992 at her residence. She was born Aug. 1, 1920 at Booneville, Miss., the daughter of George C. and Roxie L. Walley McCalmon She was a homemaker. On Nov. 14, 1945 she married Willis D. Sterling. He preceded her in death June 21, 1986...

Notre Dame High School students receives a number of awards and scholarships this year. Students were honors at a recent awards assembly. Students earning recognition included: Julie Kirchdoefer, senior: Curator's Scholarship, University of Missouri; Regent's Scholarship, Southeast Missouri State University; Presidential Academic Fitness Award; George Washington Carver Award; senior medals for English, mathematics, social studies and science; and honor certificates for religion IV and English IV.. ...

To grace the cover of a major fashion magazine is a dream of many young women, and that dream could come true for Kelly Russell. Kelly, 15, leaves today for a weeklong all-expenses-paid trip to New York City for Seventeen magazine. She could be chosen to appear on the cover of the October issue...

In rural America, Memorial Day usually means going back home, specifically to cemeteries where loved ones are buried. It is a homecoming that includes those who are living and those who have gone on but still remembered. Sometimes there are picnics right under the big elm which shades the graves of Uncle 'Lige, Aunt Polly, and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. It is a celebration of life and death and continuity...

Much has been written about annuals and perennials for summer color, but summer's grand parade of color is also dependent upon summer flowering bulbs. Half a hundred genus of bulbous plants flower in the summer, with dahlias being the most popular followed by lilies, gladioluses and tuberous begonias...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County Recorder of Deeds: Cletis Henry and Patricia Ann Shirrell to Mercantile Bank of Perryville; J.W. and Lennie L. Denning to Michael L. Annis Inc.; Russell D. and Marilyn Jane Obermann to Bruce A. and Sherri Gerecke...

Ground work is under way on one of the largest construction projects to emerge in Cape Girardeau in recent years a four-level, 105,000-square-foot Southeast Missouri Hospital East Clinical Services Building. Kiefner Brothers Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau, general contractor for the project, started the work Wednesday, taking out the parking lot to the east of the hospital, which is the site of the expansion...

ST. LOUIS Drury Inns Inc., a St. Louis-based hotel operator, is testing an all-suite hotel market. The Drury Suites, a new all-suites hotel, will debut in San Antonio, Texas, in July. Drury Inns Inc. already operates four motels in the San Antonio area: two Drury Inns, a Hampton Inn and a Thrifty Inn...

JACKSON -- Linda R. Hodge of Jackson has been recognized for excellence in safety by CRST Inc., a truckload carrier specializing in rapid, long-haul transit from coast to coast. Hodge received an award for completing 10 years of accident-free driving with the firm...

Southeast Missouri Hospital and HealthSouth Rehabilitation Corp. have entered into an agreement in regard to operation of the Work Place, 208 Linda. Effective Wednesday, HealthSouth, headquartered at Birmingham, Ala., began managing the Work Place, an industrial medicine facility, as HealthSouth Industrial Rehabilitation Center of Cape Girardeau...

Debra Siegfried and Peggy Enoch, registered nurses with Bi-State Home Health in Anna, have received promotions. Siegfried has been named director of nursing. She previously served as quality assurance director. Enoch has been promoted to quality assurance director...

Nation Brothers Starter and Alternator is in a new location. "We've moved operations to 2210 Kingsway," said Bob Nations, who will manage the operation. Nation Brothers, which has been in operation in Cape Girardeau since 1930, rebuilds generators, starters and alternators and electrical system parts...

Grams Decorating has opened in Cape Girardeau. "We specialize in paper hanging and interior painting," said Millie Grams, who has more than 25 years of wallpapering experience. "Prior to moving to Cape Girardeau 12 years ago, my husband was in construction as a home builder, and I helped decorate the new homes."...

The deadline for contestants to enter the Miss Riverfest and Little Miss Riverfest pageants is today. A mandatory meeting will be held from 2-4 p.m. at Cape Budget Inn. Girls who are interested in the competition must attend the meeting. The pageant will be held on Saturday, June 13, during Riverfest...