Stories from Monday, January 18, 1993

On the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth is celebrated, Cape Girardeau African Americans say more black role models are needed in positions of authority to knock down the remaining fences of discrimination. Especially needed are more black teachers, some assert...

Thousands of children across the country care for themselves on a regular basis. The case of David and Sharon Schoo, the Chicago couple that left their daughters, ages 9 and 4, alone for nine days while they went to Acapulco, has brought the issue to the national spotlight, raising compelling parental questions:...

The Southeast Missourian asked people what they thought the goal of the U.S. military should be now that it is once again actively involved in the bombing of Iraq's weapons and military sites. Nina Blanton said, "I understood our purpose for being over there was to stop Saddam. We need to make sure he no longer has power and make sure all the missiles and weapons have been clearly taken out of his possession and the people that make them have no more access to do so."...

Cape Girardeau parents of children ages 5-8 have a chance to learn more about their kids and ways to be a better parent. A series of parent meetings are being held through the Cape Girardeau school district's new Practical Parenting Partnership program...

To the Editor: There are so many reasons we all can be grateful for living in our "Captivating and Caring" Cape Girardeau. I'd like to call your attention to yet another reason for my pride in this area, which is the Central High School Band and their director, Mr. Ron Nall...

For the many people responsible over the years for espousing the need for a new Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau, progress comes in small, tantalizing morsels. The good news for these patient advocates is that the progress is tangible. This was most recently impressed upon local citizens by the news that land clearing will soon begin along the route leading from Interstate 55 to the planned bridge. ...

Political campaigns, tawdry as they often may be, are occasionally infused with small dreams dreams of what might be done if power were transferred from thee to me. Governance, crass as it often may be, is infused with booming realities realities of what cannot be done even if power were transferred from thee to me. ...

To The Editor: This town is really in a building process! New homes, new businesses, new restaurants and new industry. Even new roads and bridges, expansion in every direction. In most instances this growth is for the good of the community. If not now, then in the future...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Chalen Tatum of Cache, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:25 a.m. Monday, Dec. 28, 1992. Name, Katherine Marie. Weight, 8 pounds 15 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Tatum is the former Tammy Romans, daughter of Mary and Jerry Mayer of Evansville, Ind., and Michael and Sandi Romans of Grand Rapids, Mich. ...

SIKESTON -- John "Rance" Sherry, 87, of Sikeston died Jan. 17, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was a farmer, and in 1977 was inducted into the SEMO Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame. He was born Sept. 21, 1905, in Crowder, Mo., to the late William Sanford and Dora Ellen Acord Sherry. He married Bessie C. Daniels on Dec. 31, 1926, in Van Buren. She survives...

SIKESTON - Darcy M. Spradling, 78, of Sikeston, died Saturday, Jan. 16, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 12, 1914, in Herber Springs, Ark., son of Jan and Vernie Gay Spradling. He married Lorene Miller on Dec. 10, 1941 in Cape Girardeau...

MARBLE HILL -- Maggie R. Myers of Marble Hill, age 73, died Sunday, Jan. 17, 1993, at Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Oct. 17, 1919, at Canalou, Mo., to the late Seaman and Pearl Myers Shell. On Nov. 3, 1945, she married Johnie Myers. He preceded her in death on April 16, 1989...