Stories from Monday, August 31, 1992

Jon K. Rust is the editor of Perspective. A curious drama has been taking place in Cape Girardeau over the past several months with the main protagonists being the two writers on the left and right of this page:Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle and the president of the local chapter of the American Family Association, Donna Miller...

The Cape Girardeau Community Traffic Safety Program (CTSP) has initiated several projects in the past six years that are designed to enhance traffic safety. Below is a list of prevention and enforcement projects under the direction of the CTSP. The Head and Spinal Cord Injury Prevention Program, which is done in cooperation with local hospital and ambulance service personnel. ...

As director of the Campus Assistance Center at Southeast Missouri State University, Linda Rabold sees her job as that of a mother, Chamber of Commerce and counselor all rolled into one. Her job and that of the other personnel in the center is to assist students with their myriad concerns, problems and questions...

Five years after its inception, Cape Girardeau's Community Traffic Safety Program (CTSP) is an enduring success. Sharee Galnore, program coordinator, said she's seen seat-belt usage increase from below 7 percent to nearly 70 percent and a decrease in drunk driving incidents two of the program's primary goals...

The 106 reflective center-line markers installed nearly five years ago on Route K between Silver Springs Road and Broadview have been a useful test case for the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department. When the markers were installed in December 1986, the highway department agreed to use them for a study to determine if they were feasible in other areas of the state...

The history of Cape Girardeau will bounce off the history books and onto a video that will document the region's 200-years in a mere one hour. Told through old photographs, artwork and current video footage, the story is a diary of events leading up to the present day...

With television's Emmy awards presented Sunday, the Southeast Missourian asked people how television plays a role in their lives. Doc Cain: "I enjoy watching television as an entertainment outlet. With all the choices that you have right now, you can watch just about anything you like. Late evenings is when I usually get to watch, with old movies and talk shows."...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Mary Lee Hunsaker, 71, of Chaffee will be at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. She died Aug. 29, 1992, at Jackson Manor Nursing Center in Jackson. The Rev. Aruil Huffman will officiate, and burial will be at Union Park Cemetery in Chaffee...

BLOOMFIELD -- Houston Clark, 75, of Bloomfield died Saturday, Aug. 29, 1992, at Doctor's Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born May 13, 1917, at Center, Ala., the son of John William and Tymae Sanders Clark. On June 23, 1938, he married Lottie Armstrong, who survives of the home...

ANNA, ILL. Harry H. "Sonny" Boyer, 67, of Miami, Fla., formerly of Anna, died Aug. 24 at his home as the result of Hurricane Andrew. He was found in the rubble of a collapsed retirement home. He was born June 30, 1935 in Anna, the son of Harry Hobart Boyer Sr. and Agnes Lorraine Oliver Boyer...

George Craiglow, 72, a resident of the Missouri Veterans Home, died Friday, Aug. 28, 1992 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born May 6, 1920 in Cape Girardeau, the son of Cleat and Cornelia Cormack Craiglow. He was a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam. He retired in 1970 from the Army and lived at Neely's Landing until 1981...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Michael G. Martin of St. Louis, St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, 3:43 p.m. Monday, Aug. 10, 1992. Name, Ryan Patrick. Weight, 8 pounds. First child. Mrs. Martin is the former Sarah Webster, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George H. Webster, Jackson Route 2. She is an ATM coordinator with First Community Credit Union of the St. Louis area. Martin is a staff administrator with MCI Telecommunications, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Martin of St. Louis...

Family and friends of Sherry Scheper are putting together a reward for information leading to the arrest of her killers. In a case where promising leads have been few, this seems a constructive way to help move the investigation forward. Scheper and her two sons were the victims of a triple-homicide Aug. 9. No arrests have yet been made in the case...

In 1980, Ronald Reagan politically destroyed Jimmy Carter when he asked, "Are you better off today than you were four years ago?" People weren't better off and, what's more, they knew it. Out goes Carter, in comes Reagan. In 1988, running against Michael Dukakis, George Bush used the Reagan yardstick to measure his presidency. "If you elect me president, you will be better off four years from now than you are today," he said...

Jeffrey Militti is Pastor of the First Baptist Church in Oak Ridge~, Mo. With all the talk we hear of pornography today, it makes me wonder why the BIG question is not being asked: "Why do we still have pornography?" There are, after all, laws against obscenity, as well as common agreement among many various and diverse groups (who agree on few other issues) that the spread -- and effects -- of pornography must be stopped. ...

Morley Swingle is Prosecuting Attorney for Cape Girardeau County. Over the years, zealous -- I would say over-zealous -- prosecutors have had people arrested on obscenity crimes for distributing to people who want to read them books like Ulysses by James Joyce, An American Traqedy by Theodore Drieser, Lady Chatterly's Lover by D. H. Lawrence, and God's Little Acre by Erskine Caldwell...

Jon K. Rust is the editor of Perspective. A curious drama has been taking place in Cape Girardeau over the past several months with the main protagonists being the two writers on the left and right of this page: Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle and the president of the local chapter of the American Family Association, Donna Miller...

Donna Miller is president of the local chapter of the American Not all elected officials act like public servants to the people who voted them in. One would think that they would be appreciative or in some way communicate with the same citizens in their jurisdiction. ...