Stories from Wednesday, January 27, 1993

Some of the most important people in town don't live here they just pass through. But on the way these tourists spend millions of dollars each year in our restaurants, stores and motels. Tourism benefits both our region and all of Missouri. It is the second largest revenue-producing industry in the state - second only to manufacturing. Tourism generated $11.2 billion to the state economy in 1991...

CAIRO, Ill. -- The sounds of a paddlewheeler's calliope and the yell of "Steamboat a' c oming" will be missing during the July 4 celebration planned here. "The boats won't be stopping here this year," said Cairo Mayor James Wilson. The boats are the Delta Queen and the Mississippi Queen, which conduct a 1,039-mile New Orleans-to-St. Louis race during the July 4 holiday...

GORDONVILLE -- The Gordonville Public Water Supply District No. 4 Board is considering a $261,000 expansion project to replace and improve its existing water lines. The board reviewed a report Tuesday night, prepared by a Cape Girardeau accounting firm. The report projected cost margins of the project and its affect on the community water rates over the next several years...

Advantages of breastfeeding will be the topic of the Feb. 4 meeting of the LaLeche League. The meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. at 1757 Cecelia. Nursing babies are welcome. This is the first in a series of four discussion meetings to offer encouragement and breastfeeding information...

The Midwestern River Cities Chapter of American Association for Medical Transcription will meet Thursday at St. Francis Medical Center. The meeting starts at 6 p.m. Drs. David Westrich and Lyle Brown will speak on "Aids for the Visually Impaired" and "Cardiovascular Problems and Procedures."...

JACKSON -- Elizabeth Link, director of Riverside Regional Library, says it's too soon to know if extended operating hours at the library's main center in Jackson have attracted more patrons. Last month the library board of trustees voted to extend the operating hours of the library for a 90-day trial period beginning this month...

SCOTT CITY -- In 15 years of teaching business education, Martha Nothdurft has changed virtually everything she teaches. Nothdurft teaches business education for students in grades 9-12 at Scott City High School. In fact, she said, while the courses technically stay the same from year to year, something always changes...

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson expressed optimism Tuesday that a joint committee on congressional reform will come up with ways to improve legislative operations. As a guest on a 45-minute viewer-call-in show on C-Span, Emerson said the committee has broad jurisdiction...

For Lori Buckner, getting around town now will be easier on the pocketbook. Thanks to a new taxi coupon program, Southeast Missouri State University students like Buckner can get around town for the price of a 50-cent one-way ticket. The new program, which expands on the city's successful taxi coupon program, began Monday with the sale of coupons on the Southeast campus. About 450 coupons were sold the first day, according to university staff...

WASHINGTON -- U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson joined other congressmen and senators in urging President Clinton to reconsider his position regarding homosexuals in the U.S. military. In a letter to the White House on Tuesday, Emerson said his offices have been inundated with telephone calls and letters from constituents in southern Missouri expressing support for keeping the ban in place...

ELLIE KNIGHT Occupation: Director, Retired Senior Volunteer Program of Scott and Cape counties. Pet Peeve: "Negative attitudes." The best part of my job is: "I get to know so many really neat people." What do you do in your spare time? "Enjoy family and friends."...

As the abortion debate continues to flair, Dolores Mier and her volunteers at Birthright of Cape Girardeau quietly go about their business of helping pregnant women. Mier, director of the Cape Girardeau Birthright center, has been honored for her work the past nearly 20 years by being named director of the year for Missouri. She was nominated by volunteers at the local center...

The dean of the College of Science and Technology at Southeast Missouri State University has been invited to participate in a National Science Foundation (NSF) conference on reforming math and science education in the nation's schools. Jesse Snowden will attend the conference titled, "Beyond National Standards and Goals: Excellence in Mathematics and Science Education K-16," Feb. 9-11 in Washington, D.C...

Southeast Missouri State University's chapter of Alpha Delta Pi social sorority will present its annual benefit fashion show Feb. 9 in Academic Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. The fashion show will benefit the Ronald McDonald House, Alpha Delta Pi's national philanthropy. ...

BENTON, Ill., Southern Illinois goose hunters will have some additional hours of hunting time this weekend. Starting Friday, the goose hunting hours in the Southern Illinois Quota Zone and the Rend Lake Quota Zone will be extended until sunset the final three days of the season, which ends Sunday...

CHAFFEE -- With only five days remaining until the filing deadline, there still are no races in the Chaffee aldermanic or Chaffee school board elections. Most filing activity since Jan. 5 has been in Jackson, where there is a mayor's race and races in aldermanic wards 1 and 3, and races for three seats on the school board...

Two Southeast Missouri State University faculty members have been appointed to posts with the Conference on English Education (CEE). The group is a teacher educators' organization within the National Council of Teachers of English. Katherine Parrish, an associate professor of English, will serve as a member of the Commission on the Preparation and Professional Development of English Language Arts Teachers...

Matthew G. Hecht of Cape Girardeau received his master of science degree in computer science from the University of Tennessee on Dec. 20. While in graduate school, Hecht was named the Association of Computer Machinery Teaching Assistant of the Year for 1990-91...

Staci Lynn Huey of Cape Girardeau has been named to the dean's list at Culver-Stockton College for the 1992 fall semester. Dean's list students have earned between a 3.5 and a 3.99 grade point average and were enrolled in a minimum of 12 credit hours with no grade lower than a C...

Christina Brumbaugh of Cape Girardeau was the second alternate in the Junior Miss Pageant at the Winter Wonderland Pageant held Jan. 9 at Holcomb, Mo. Brumbaugh is the 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Brumbaugh of Cape Girardeau. Pageant categories included Tiny Miss, Tiny Mr., Little Miss, Young Jr. Miss, Junior Miss and Miss. Contest winners ranged from age 3 to 18 years old. Winners were from the Southeast Missouri and the Bootheel area...

Kum Choy Chan of Cape Girardeau was among 1,397 students named to the dean's honor roll at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, Okla. To be eligible a student must earn a 3.25 grade point average or better for the semester. The University of Central Oklahoma is the third largest university in the state...

Dorothy Sullivan, 56, 2115 Good Hope, died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, at her home. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City is in charge of arrangements.

Vincent F. Schmidt, 84, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1993, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. He was born Oct. 15, 1908, in Cape Girardeau, son of Joseph A. and Agnes Roelker Schmidt. He and Mildred Rose were married June 14, 1928, in Cape Girardeau. She died July 3, 1986...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Dewayne Andrew and Ashley Dawn Sadler, Chaffee Route 2, will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 6 at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Robert S. Smithey will officiate, with burial in Williams Cemetery at Perkins. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Feb. 6...

ADVANCE -- Bessie Bollinger, 88, of Advance, died Monday, Jan. 25, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Feb. 12, 1904, in Stoddard County, daughter of James and Clara Henson Cooper. She and Dave Bollinger were married in 1926 at Bloomfield. He died Aug. 6, 1964...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Davie of Evansville, Ind., St. Mary's Hospital there, 12:10 a.m. Sunday, Dec. 13, 1992. Name, Taylor Elizabeth. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. Mrs. Davie is the daughter of Fred and Jan York of Evansville. Davie is the son of Carl and Lillie Davie of Cape Girardeau...

Effective March 1, cable television channel numbers will change and basic-service customers will get three fewer channels in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson areas. Roger Harms, general manager of TCI Cablevision, said: "The channel change is necessary because of some changes in the services which will be offered. Under the new configurations, our signals going into the home operate better if we group the networks on each service level together."...

Lucille VanDuson, 94, of Sikeston, formerly of Marietta, Ohio, died Monday, Jan. 25, 1993, at the home of a son in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 11, 1898, at Mount Pleasant, Penn., daughter of Joe and Mary Hartwick Malesky. In 1921, she married Richard VanDuson Sr...

The Cape Girardeau Jaycees awarded KFVS news anchorwoman Mary-Ann Maloney the Distinguished Service Award Monday during the annual banquet. "I'm very pleased to get this award," Maloney told the audience of past DSA winners and current and past Jaycee officers. "Thank you so very much."...