Stories from Wednesday, September 16, 1992

Thanks. It hardly seems possible, but this year's YELL campaign was even more enthusiastically embraced than last year. Hundreds of spirited volunteers hawked newspapers from street corners; thousands of people gave to this special cause in Cape Girardeau and Scott City. Last year, 7,000 copies of the special YELL edition sold out by morning. So we printed more this year, just hoping more would sell. By day's end, all 10,000 copies were sold...

When the gates open each day at the SEMO District Fair, it's no accident that the fairgrounds are clean, with no litter or trash in sight. It's the result of a well-planned and executed clean-up operation that takes place every morning during fair week...

JACKSON -- Colds, flu and upset stomachs can make anyone miserable, but those illnesses can mean double trouble for a person with diabetes. That's the subject of the next "Living With Diabetes" program at the St. Francis Information Center at Jackson...

SCOTT CITY -- The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority board of commissioners voted Monday to advertise for bids next month for phase two of the river port's railroad spur project. The board also received an update from the port's executive director, Allan Maki, on the status of the Economic Development Agency (EDA) grant application to fund the second phase of the railroad spur project. ...

A display of captured Iraqi weapons and equipment from Operation Desert Storm is on display this week at the Missouri Army National Guard tent at the Southeast Missouri District Fair. The exhibit, situated near the Missouri Department of Conservation pavilion, is sponsored by the 135th Combat Engineer Group, based at the Cape Girardeau national guard armory...

Residents of Cape Girardeau County are finding that the summer and fall seasons of 1992 are a busy period in the area's history. Always a politically minded area since before the Missouri Territory became a state in 1821, this year the county residents are more informed and eager to vote than in past elections. Every voter questioned has an idea about who should be elected and does not hesitate to express his or her opinion...

As most of us know, the Bill of Rights turned 200 years old this year. So did The Farmer's Almanac. The Special Commemorative Edition of the almanac lists what else dates back 200 years. Would you believe tomato ketchup, commercially-baked crackers, the presidential veto, and women's rights?...

Girls in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades are invited to a day of sports recreation at Cherokee Park Saturday. Sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Junior Girl Scouts, the 8:30 a.m.-noon event will feature Southeast Missouri State University gymnastics stars Aimee Bernier and Heather Markle. Any girl who attends and later joins the Girl Scouts will have earned her first badge, the Sports Sampler Badge...

Michael A. Session resides in Cape Girardeau with his family. He is a native of Stoddard County and is currently a graudate student at Southeast Missouri State University. Think for a moment of yourself as simply an American, not a generic Asian-American, Black-American or White-American, just an American...

Tuesday was a beautiful day ... not only weather-wise but community spirit-wise here in Cape with the second YELL DAY. Almost $38,000 was raised for literacy, NIE, and United Way participants. The NIE funding for 2,900 newspapers delivered daily to area school children helps the Southeast Missourian with its $120,000 commitment to literacy, better grades...

Presidential candidates are courting Missourians in a big way this year. Missouri is considered one of a handful of toss-up states in the presidential vote. It seems almost every few days that George Bush, Bill Clinton, or someone associated with their cam~paigns is making a swing through some part of the state...

Fall Storytimes begin the week of Oct. 5 and run through Nov. 18 at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. A new program called Toddler Time welcomes 2-year-olds to the library at 11 a.m. Mondays and Tuesdays. They will be entertained with stories, nursery rhymes, fingerplays and more...

The second YELL for Newspapers edition sold out, thanks to some last-minute heroics, topping the money raised last year in Cape Girardeau by more than 60 percent and generating a lot of enthusiasm for literacy in the community. And it's not over: the Cash-Book Journal's edition of YELL will be sold in Jackson this morning...

Over the years, famous visitors to the SEMO District Fair have been limited to entertainers who were scheduled to perform on the grandstand stage. But that will change today when the First Lady of the United States, Barbara Bush, arrives at Arena Park for an hour-long visit to the fair...

The U.S. House and Senate will soon take final action on the Cable Television Consumer Protection Act, which is designed to bring the cable television industry under tighter controls. The vote could come this week, according to a spokesman for Sen. John Danforth, one of the bill's principal sponsors...

The arrival today of First Lady Barbara Bush has the College Republicans ready to sing songs and carry signs that welcome their party's matriarch. About 50 members of the organization jammed into a small room in the University Center Tuesday night to make posters welcoming the president's wife...

WENDY LEGRAND Occupation: Sewing machine operator, Tri Con. Birthplace: Cape Girardeau. Now lives in Oak Ridge. Pet Peeve: "Someone being afraid they'll have to do more than the next person." The best part of my job is: "The people I work with." What do you do in your spare time? "Take care of my 1-year-old daughter and her pet rabbits."...

Southeast Missouri State University President Kala Stroup doesn't just ask others to invest in the institution. She gives herself. A $25,000 gift to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation's capital campaign from Stroup and her husband, Joe Stroup, to provide venture capital for "creative academic initiatives" was announced Tuesday by Don Ford, the university's director of development...

Mission accomplished. That sums up Caryl Smith's brief tenure at Southeast Missouri State University. Smith came to Southeast Missouri State last fall as interim vice president of student affairs. Her task: restructure student services and help hire a permanent vice president of student affairs...

More than two months after firing the last Jaycee Municipal Golf Course manager, the city last week hired Kimberly Laws for the job. Laws, 26, comes from Carlyle, Ill., where she worked at a public golf course owned by her family. She replaces Robert Casey, who was hired April 19 after city officials decided a full-time manager would hasten play and further improve the condition of the course...

Mattielou McIlhaney Oliver, 90, 3120 Independence, died Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1992, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born July 19, 1902, in Mayo, Fla., daughter of J.B. and Daisy Dyess Horne. She was a graduate of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee (now Florida State University), and taught several years before her marriage to the Rev. Bernard A. McIlhaney in 1929, who died in 1959. He was pastor of First Presbyterian Church from 1941-47...

JACKSON -- Robert H. Cooper, 74, of Jackson, died Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1992, at his home. He was born Aug. 13, 1918, in Pittsburgh, Pa. Cooper was a retired security guard from Grace World Outreach Center in St. Louis, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He moved here five years ago from St. Louis...

Effie Hatcher, 72, 2852 Independence, died Monday, Sept. 14, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 14, 1919, at Sikeston, daughter of Joseph and Dixie Casteel Morris. She married Cleo Miller, who died in 1938. She then married Carl Pedigo, who died in 1967, and later married Raymond Hatcher, who also preceded her in death...

Son to Shawn C. Nunley and Nicole Williams, 921 William, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:40 a.m. Monday, Sept. 7, 1992. Name, Kristopher Danglo. Weight, 7 pounds 6 ounces. Second son. Ms. Williams is the daughter of Hattie Baker and Shelby Baker of Cape Girardeau. Nunley is the son of Shirley Nunley and Joe W. Nunley of Cape Girardeau...

PERRYVILLE -- The annual Leo and Theresa Kiefer Halter family reunion will be held Sunday at Perryville City Park. A covered-dish meal will be served at noon. Each family should bring drinks, tableware and food for the buffet. Anyone with family history that has not been submitted may bring it to the reunion, or mail it to Family Tree, 900 N. Scott Avenue, Scott City, Mo., 63780...

Virgil Odell Moore, 78, of 329 N. Main in Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Nov. 19, 1913, at Daisy, the son of William H. and Effie Friese Moore. On July 3, 1953, he marred Irene Meyer in Cape Girardeau. She survives of the home...

Astronauts for NASA's planned trip to Mars are ~~fourth-, fifth- or sixth-grade students today. "And we haven't decided who it will be yet," said L.B. Marshall Jr., an aerospace education specialist from NASA's George C. Marshall Space Flight Center at Huntsville, Ala. "Actually, we don't decide. You do."...