Stories from Monday, January 11, 1993

Cape Girardeau Central High School has an award-winning problem: too many trophies. Athletic Director Terry Kitchen said three display cases in the school are crammed full of trophies representing years of achievement by Central students. The dilemma presented to Kitchen is what to do with all those trophies...

The United States houses more people in its prisons than any other country in the world. Crime rates increase every year, with no realistic end in sight. Prison overcrowding has become a problem that all states must deal with, most by coming up with alternative methods of punishment...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Not everyone here from Cape Girardeau for Gov.-elect Mel Carnahan's inauguration today is a Democrat. Laura Krone, who plays trombone for the Cape Central Marching Tigers, has Republican loyalties but says, "It doesn't really matter much to me. It's great to be going anyway."...

To remedy problems of massive overcrowding in state and local prisons, the courts and parole boards are searching for and using alternative methods of constraint. An electronic monitoring program providing intensive supervision in a home environment was established by law in Missouri in 1987...

Slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered at a community "celebration service" Friday. The service coincides with King's birthday. This will mark the second annual community service in Cape Girardeau in memory of King. The service will be held at 7:30 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church, 235 Broadway...

A full slate of activities has been planned on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University this month in conjunction with an all campus commemoration celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. "The celebration is important for Southeast because Dr. King was and still is popular role model for many Afro-Americans and many young people from different backgrounds," said Juanita Spicer, a volunteer at the Campus Assistance Center...

The Southeast Missourian asked people how they felt about riverboat gambling coming to Cape Girardeau and the City Council's decision to allow the people to vote on the issue. Tom Morris said, "Councilman Limbaugh said it best at the last council meeting. He said there were moral questions that need to be answered and people need to be deciding on those issues. I feel the council doesn't need to be deciding moral issues for the city."...

Perhaps one of the most puzzling aspects of the AIDS virus is the numbers. Sometimes the statistics appear as if this disease has reached epidemic proportions. Other times, the numbers show that the rise has slowed. A change in the AIDS definition on Jan. 1, 1993, adds even more confusion to this numbers game...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Dick Wilburn, 1549 Briarcliff, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:11 p.m. Monday, Dec. 21, 1992. Name, Austin Carter. Weight, 8 pounds 5 ounces. Third son. Mrs. Wilburn is the former Gina Carter, daughter of the late Kenneth Carter and Betty Carter of East Prairie. Wilburn is employed at AmeriFirst Bank, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wilburn of Matthews...

PULASKI, Ill. - Oma Mary Jones, 86, of Pulaski,Ill., died Saturday, Jan. 9, 1993, at the Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis, Ill. She was born Feb. 20, 1906, in Grand Chain, Ill., daughter of Charile and Kate Heisner Grubbs. She married Samuel N. Jones. He died June 22, 1979...

CHAFFEE - William Frank Schmitt, 83, of Chaffee, died Saturday, Jan. 9, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 8, 1909, in New Hamburg, Mo., son of Frank and Katherine Hagan Schmitt. He married Adella Mary Glueck on Aug. 26, 1947...

CHAFFEE - Leila Elizabeth Simmons, 80, of Chaffee, died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1993, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 28, 1912, in Marston, Mo., daughter of Frank and Leila Elizabeth Reeder Haubold. She married Ira Simmons Oct. 10, 1921. He died July 2, 1980...

CHAFFEE - Hilda Beatrice Heeb, 86, of Chaffee, died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1993, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 6, 1906, in Ester, Mo., daughter of Charles Edward and Myrtle Ann Lawrence Williams. She married Rufus Heeb in 1923. He died July 10, 1969...

THEBES, Ill. -- Gladys F. Clutts, 80, of Thebes, died Jan. 9, 1993, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 22, 1912. She was a homemaker who lived in Cape Girardeau and Thebes most of her life. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Thebes...

The Cape SEMO Chapter #519 of Parents Without Partners is sponsoring its annual Snowflake Dance on Saturday, Jan. 23. The dance will be held at the VFW Hall on Kingshighway from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Music will be provided by Loose Enze Band. Admission is $5 per person. The dance is open to the public...