Stories from Tuesday, November 3, 1992

JACKSON - County Clerk Rodney Miller is anticipating a record number of voters could go to the polls today in Cape Girardeau County. But, because this will be one of the longest ballots ever, Miller is urging voters to come to the polls prepared, to avoid long lines...

The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday advanced a plan to annex Twin Lakes subdivision, the city's first major annexation effort in several years. The subdivision, situated just west of Interstate 55 along Hopper Road, is comprised of nearly 100 homes...

JACKSON - The first time Betty Hahs worked an election as an employee of the Cape Girardeau County Clerk's office, Lyndon Johnson was president and Warren Hearnes was midway through his first term as governor. Now, 26 years and 13 general elections later, Hahs has decided to call it quits. Today's election is the last one she will work as a deputy county clerk/elections supervisor...

Higher education in Missouri is having its ups and downs in enrollment, with public four-year institutions in general experiencing a decline and community colleges showing an increase. But state and local education officials don't view the news as gloomy...

On Oct. 27, 1967, Cape Girardeau's first city manager, Paul Frederick, and then-Fire Chief Carl Lewis watched as two 1967 American La France fire engines worth almost $60,000, were unloaded from railroad freight cars in downtown Cape Girardeau. Twenty-five years later, Acting Fire Chief Max Jauch and City Manager J. Ronald Fischer were at Fire Station No. 1 Monday to inspect the $184,000 replacement for one of the old 1967 American La France fire trucks, a 1992 Pierce Arrow pumper fire engine...

The Arthur W. Harrison and Louis Hecht Board Room was dedicated Monday at Southeast Missouri Hospital. The room is named for the fathers of Cape Girardeau businessmen Donald L. Harrison and Martin Hecht, who gave a combined gift of $75,000 to the Southeast Missouri Hospital Foundation to memorialize their fathers...

Today is Election Day. Publication of that sentence, we understand, brings all degrees of smirks, sighs of relief and upward glances acknowledging divine benevolence. Campaigns have a gift for wearing us down, and Americans are to be excused for their delight in seeing a particularly long one concluded. ...

To Jim Drury: We have studied your proposal for the Osage Park/John T. Crowe Center in the October 18, 1992 Southeast Missourian. It has raised several questions and suggestions we would like to share. Our first concern is spending the excess funds collected from the hotel and restaurant tax and property taxes intended to fund the cost of the "Show Me Center" to pay for a sports complex that has been soundly defeated at the polls by the taxpayers of this city. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Patterson, Cape Girardeau Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:20 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24, 1992. Name, Randi Logan. Weight, 6 pounds. First child. Mrs. Patterson is the former Geraldine Branson, daughter of Johnnie Branson of Houston, Texas, and Carole Branson of Mineola, Texas. She is manager of Jackson Dry Cleaners in Jackson. Patterson is an installer with Auto Trim Design South Central, and is the son of Rosco Patterson of Salem...

Norman Lee Allen, 60, of Potosi, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 1992, at his home. He was born Nov. 22, 1931, at Portageville, son of Luther and Edna Mae Tucker Allen. Allen was a heavy equipment operator 24 years with Quadri Construction Co. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

Funeral service for Lowery B. Miller of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. David Dissen will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Miller, 83, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

JACKSON -- Motorists in Jackson likely will be pleased to see new speed limit signs on East Jackson Boulevard. That's because the Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday voted to raise the speed limit on the five-lane highway between Cape Girardeau and Shawnee Drive in Jackson...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Paul D. Terrell of Sikeston will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at Illinois Avenue General Baptist Church. The Rev. Sam Book will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 11 a.m. to service time...

SIKESTON -- Pauline Worley, 78, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born July 27, 1914, in Kellin, Texas, daughter of William H. and Sara Ellen Burgess McGee. She first married Woodrow Watson, who died in 1944. She later married Clyde Worley, who died in 1979...

CHAFFEE -- Zada Mae Fisher, 79, Chaffee Route 1, died Monday, Nov. 2, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Feb. 2, 1913, at Randles, daughter of Rossell and Sarah Ellen Barker Hester. She and Elmer Lester Fisher were married April 20, 1931. He died Aug. 2, 1975...

Elliot Engel, an authority on literature and the English language, will be guest speaker at the Nov. 14 meeting of the Cape Girardeau Executives Club. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Drury Lodge. Engel will discuss "Our Slippery Mother Tongue: A Humorous History of English."...

A public forum, "Older Adult Health Care Initiatives for 1993," will be held Friday from 1-2:30 p.m. at Cape Girardeau Public Library. The forum is sponsored by Cape Girardeau chapter of the Missouri Association for Social Welfare. Panel presenters will be Evelyn Richardson, regional manager, division of Aging, "Long-term Care Options Program;" Eddie Warren and Daisy DeBoard, Silverhaired Legislature, "Missouri Health Care Bills for the 1993 Session;" and Marie Nowak, American Association of Retired Persons, "AARP's National Health Care plan and Missouri health care efforts.". ...

The Cape Girardeau Christian Women's Club will host a "Holiday Dressing" dinner Nov. 9 from 7-9 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. The program is a holiday fashion show by Ruth A. Glass. Glass, of Bentonville, Ark., is involved in gourmet cooking, interior decorating, fashion coordinating and jewelry designing. She is married to David Glass, president and chief executive officer of Wal-Mart. She speaks to groups across the country...