Stories from Thursday, January 14, 1993

Leading up to Wednesday's allied attack on missile sites in Iraq, the "butcher of Baghdad" had engaged in what became known as a "cheat and retreat" strategy, flagrantly defying the terms of the 1991 pact that ended the Persian Gulf War, then taking a step back when the heat became too great. Since the cease-fire document was forged, Iraq has tried the patience of its opponents by continually testing their limits regarding enforcement of the accord...

Ahmad Alaadeen asks if you want to hear a story about a fledgling Kansas City musician in the full-blown days of bebop. In 1950 he was a sophomore enrolled in the band sequence at a vocational school. He likens it to a present-day fine arts school, one that graduates people ready to be working musicians...

Louisa Panou-Takahashi, associate professor of voice and opera at Southeast Missouri State University, will give a recital at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Old St. Vincent Church. She will be accompanied by Paul Thomson on flute, Gary Miller on piano and tenor Christopher Goeke...

Applications for the 16th annual Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking contest are now available. The contest is set for May 20-22. The application must be received by Feb. 1. The purse this year is $25,000. Last year the award was $10,000. Two hundred teams are expected to participate. A "Patio Porkers" division of 40 teams allows competition among novice or small teams...

PADUCAH, Ky. The Paducah Symphony will hold its first Young Artists Competition this year. The competition is open to high school students in two divisions piano and other orchestral instruments. Participants must prepare a movement from a concerto in the standard orchestra repertoire, or a work of similar stature for which an orchestra accompaniment is available...

DEF LEPPARD Country classicist George Jones and heavy metal stars Def Leppard both will play the Show Me Center within the same week in February. Appearing along with Jones in the Feb. 7 concert will be Marty Stuart and Tracy Lawrence. The English band Def Leppard will follow with an appearance in the round on Feb. 10...

The Thin Mints are coming: Girl Scout cookie sales begin Friday. Girl Scouts in the 11-county area of the Otahki Council will be taking cookie orders through Jan. 31. "The Thin Mint that's still the number one seller and probably always will be," said Millie Turner, public relations director for the Girl Scout council...

On June 8, the people of Cape Girardeau will make a major decision for the community. That decision will roughly amount to whether or not the citizens want to advance into the future or remain as they are and let the future leave them standing in their boots. In these trying times we live in, one must realize that the passive route only leads to complacency and for a community such as Cape, this complacency is not the right path to choose...

It may be gratuitous, but the best advice we can given President-elect Clinton is to keep his inaugural address short, which to him apparently means anything under four hours. --- President Bush appears to be enjoying himself immensely, traveling hither and yon while adding to his record. Makes you wonder if he's forgotten he lost the election...

Just graduating from high school is not enough in today's high-technology world, secondary school principals were told Wednesday. At a meeting of the Southeast Missouri Secondary School Principals' Association Wednesday, the more than 60 school administrators were urged to support the new "Tech Prep" programs...

JEFFERSON CITY - Legislators generally had kind remarks about Gov. Mel Carnahan's first State of the State address Wednesday. But some wondered how the governor could talk about tight revenues and also outline major new programs he wants implemented...

Although Cape Girardeau officials have joined with a local citizens group to draft a minimum property maintenance code, not everyone thinks the measure is a good idea. The city's Board of Appeals will conduct a public meeting at 7 p.m. Thursday at City Hall to discuss proposed property maintenance standards...

Lower gas prices, which people across the state have enjoyed for some time, have finally come to Cape Girardeau. Motorists here Wednesday found prices at gas pumps to be a pleasant surprise. Over recent weeks, regular unleaded gas prices fell from $1.06 per gallon to 99 cents, and then to 94 and 95 cents per gallon...

In choosing to send their daughter to a private school, Bill and Hillary Clinton gave her what all children in America deserve "attention to their individual needs," Mary Frances Berry told the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Fund Banquet Wednesday night...

Organizers of a new club hope to preserve and promote the art of wood carving in Southeast Missouri. A group of area woodcarvers, ranging from professionals to beginners, decided to form the organization, offering support and advice to others interested in carving...

Silo Inc., which entered the Cape Girardeau market in May 1988, will close its retail store here. The local store has been closed this week for inventory and merchandise markdowns. It will re-open Saturday for a going-out-of-business sale. Silo Inc. announced Wednesday the Cape Girardeau store is one of 42 that will be closing. They include stores at Paducah, Ky., Carbondale, Ill., Nashville, Tenn., Memphis, Tenn., and St. Louis. Other stores will close in Kansas, Indiana, and Oklahoma...

The Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts is sponsoring four juried shows to help aspiring and professional artists get their big break over the next few months. "We're trying to give artists more exposure and more opportunities to show their work," said Laura Brothers, administrative assistant for the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts. "At the shows the artists receive critical appraisal on their work."...

There apparently is considerable interest in Cape Girardeau in state-funded housing assistance programs for low- to moderate-income residents. About 60 realtors, developers, contractors and representatives of area lending institutions Wednesday attended a meeting at Cape Girardeau City Hall to learn about various state programs...

JEFFERSON CITY - Gov. Mel Carnahan said Wednesday he will fight any efforts by legislators to load up his education tax increase plan with other programs. Adding funding for other programs to the plan will only diminish its chances of winning voter approval, the governor said...

BENTON -- Funeral service for Albert Franklin Baldwin of Benton will be held at 1 p.m. today at Benton United Methodist Church. The Rev. John Gregory will officiate, with burial in Essex Cemetery. Military graveside rites will be conducted by Morley VFW Post...

Helen C. Matthews, 86, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 17, 1905, in Decatur, Ill., daughter of John and Clara Walker VanGundy. She and Guy B. Matthews were married July 25, 1925, in Cape Girardeau. He died Nov. 17, 1958...

Funeral service for Myrtle Womack of Cape Girardeau was held Jan. 10 at McSpadden Funeral Home in Van Buren. The Rev. Garry Reagan officiated, with burial in Van Buren City Cemetery. Womack, 67, died Thursday, Jan. 7, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center...

Ethel Juanita Edmonds Daume, 78, of Prineville, Ore., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1993, at her home. She was born Nov. 22, 1914, in Corning, Ark., daughter of Frank and Mae Greely Frazier. She married Custer Edmonds in 1938 in Arkansas. He died in 1951...

CHAFFEE -- Lucille Agnes Eftink, 61, Chaffee Route 1, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1993, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Aug. 22, 1931, at Illmo, daughter of Edward Phillip and Josephine Griffin Blattel. She and George Herman Eftink were married May 29, 1954. He died Nov. 6, 1959...

SIKESTON -- Russell R. McMinn, 76, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1993, at Hunter Acres Caring Center. He was born Feb. 1, 1916, son of Henry Daniel and Helen Sharp McMinn. He and Estell Ocie Manes were married Feb. 23, 1932. McMinn was a farmer, and member of Cornerstone General Baptist Church...

PERRYVILLE -- Henry Odell Creech, 77, of Perryville died Wednesday, Jan. 13, 1993, at the American Care Center in Perryville. He was born March 13, 1915, at Theo, Ark., the son of William and Lucy Smith Creech. On Nov. 27, 1937, he married Mary Naomi Childress, who survives of the home...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Mike Reed of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:27 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 6, 1993. Name, Phillip Michael. Weight, 8 pounds 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Reed is the former Patricia Seyer, daughter of Dorothy Seyer of Jackson, and the late Lawrence Seyer. Reed is employed in the proof department at Boatmen's Bank. Reed is owner of Jackson Plumbing Co., and is the son of Robert and Betty Reed of Dutchtown...

Visibility, access and parking are three major factors for selecting a site to headquarter the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. "Number one on that list is visibility," said Harry Rediger, who recently assumed duties as chairman of the chamber's board of directors. "We are looking seriously for a new chamber location and visibility is a critical factor."...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for William Cullen Bryant III, East Prairie Star Route, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Paul Lathum will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery near Charleston. Bryant, 46, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

Applications are now available for the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts' 23nd Annual Spring Arts and Crafts Fair, to be held March 27-28 in the A.C. Brase Arena Building. Exhibitors must sell only their hand-made products. No kits, commercial products, supplies or non-members' work are permitted. Membership in Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts is required as a part of the application form...

The City of Roses Charter Chapter of the American Business Women's Association will hold its monthly meeting tonight at 6 p.m. at Drury Lodge. The program for the evening will be "The Fifty Thousand Mile Marriage Check-up," by Shelba Branscum. For more information about the City of Roses Charter Chapter and American Business Women's Association, please contact Sharon Dirnberger at 334-2420...

The students at St. Mary Cathedral School take a collection on the first Friday of each month to benefit a charity. "It's something unique that the students do," said Brenda Schoenberger, a parent and school board member. "It's not a lot of money, but the students feel they are helping others."...

ST. LOUIS The U.S. Forest Service has purchased 6,900 acres of land surrounding, and including, Greer Spring in southern Missouri. U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson joined officials at the Old Courthouse in St. Louis Wednesday where officials exchanged the deeds to the property...