Stories from Thursday, April 1, 1993

CAIRO, Ill. -- Dustin Keith McAdoo, 13, of Cairo, Ill., died Tuesday, March 30, 1993, at Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., as a result of injuries sustained in an auto-pedestrian accident. He was a seventh grade student at Camelot Parochial School in Cairo, Ill., and attended Cairo Baptist Church...

To the Editor: The Clinton watch: As the Clinton administration and the Congress rush inexorably to pass the largest tax increases in American history voters, please note that every Democrat in the House and nearly every Democrat in the Senate voted in favor of the tax-and-spend package and the ultimate welfare state, other socialistic countries are rushing to dismantle, as much as possible, their welfare states...

The monthly meeting of the City of Roses Charter Chapter of the American Business Women's Association will be today at 6 p.m. at the Drury Lodge. The program for the evening will be dinner followed with a talk by Betty Deardorff. The vocational speaker will be Carol Roth of Larron Laboratories...

The Cape Girardeau Evening Toastmasters Club 3804 will meet today and next Thursday at 7 p.m. in the parlor at the First Presbyterian Church, located at 235 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. Persons interested in learning how to speak better before a group and gain confidence in doing so are welcome to attend the meeting and perhaps join the Toastmasters Club...

The Fifties Cape Central High School Joint Reunion Planning Committee will meet tonight to discuss plans for the 1950s graduates' reunion July 16-17 at the Arena Building. The planning session will be held at Mr. B's Restaurant, Kingshighway and Independence, at 7 p.m...

From 5:30 to 7:30 every morning, and again for four or five hours in the evening, 40-year-old Linda Mann pumps iron and leads step aerobics classes. Mann, who works as a service representative for Southwestern Bell, is fending off the final stage of Lyme disease by transforming her body into a shape it has never before known...

Every time some politician in Jefferson City or Washington proposes an increase in the cigarette taxes, persons around me applaud with all the enthusiasm of a revival preacher who finds himself in the midst of a passel of sinners. When Missouri House Speaker Bob Griffin proposed higher cigarette taxes to finance a state health care program, it was like Fiesta Time in Rio, and when former Missourian Bill Bradley suggested raising the federal cigarette tax from 24 cents to $1 a pack, you would have thought it was Mardi Gras all over again.. ...

Commercial concerns like to locate near the market for their wares. Were it a business enterprise, the Bootheel Food Bank in Sikeston would have found the ideal home. Within its regional purview are seven of the poorest counties in Missouri. The food bank's impact, then, is considerable, and its work remains important in the lives of Southeast Missouri's needy. We applaud the efforts of this organization...

To the Editor: The first issue we would like to address is the proposed new elementary school. Many times when we send our youngest child off to Washington School, we worry about the danger of the earthquake potential. If a strong earthquake should occur, we don't feel the survival rate would be very high at Washington, May Greene or Schultz. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Rob Janet, 2117 Yorktown, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:37 p.m. Wednesday, March 24, 1993. Name, Taylor Elizabeth. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Janet is the former Beth Werner, daughter of Vernon and LaWanda Werner of Jackson. Janet is vice president of Auto Tire and Parts Co., and is the son of Melvin and Nancy Janet of Cape Girardeau...

PERRYVILLE -- Rayford B. Statler, 83, of Perryville died Tuesday, March 30, 1993, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born Aug. 12, 1909, in Perry County, the son of Daniel and Clara Bell Miller Statler. On May 21, 1936, he married Alma F. Conrad, who survives of the home...

CHARLESTON -- Mattie L. Thomas, 74, of Charleston, died Wednesday, March 31, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Shelby Funeral Home in Charleston is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

MILLERSVILLE -- Lyman E. Craft, 59, Millersville Route 1, died Wednesday, March 31, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born May 20, 1933, at Neely's Landing, son of Jason and Lillian A. Williamson Craft. He and Dean Jones were married Dec. 21, 1957, at Millersville...

Funeral service for Jack Clifford Palmer, Wentworth Route 1, was held Monday at Lakin Funeral Home in Pierce City. Burial was in Schooling Cemetery near Pierce City. Palmer, 61, died Thursday, March 25, 1993, at Cox Medical Center in Springfield, following an extended illness...

PERRYVILLE -- Howard P. "Mike" Moll, 76, of Perryville died Wednesday, March 31, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 16, 1916, at Belgique, the son of the late William and Ella Mattingly Moll. On Nov. 15, 1941, he married Alvera Gibbar, who preceded him in death Jan. 6, 1993...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Leslie Chisholm, 92, of Tampa, Fla., died Saturday, March 20, 1933, in Tampa. He was born Dec. 6, 1900. Chisholm taught school at Olive Branch many years. Survivors include his wife, Neva; two sons, Leslie Chisholm Jr. of Tampa, and George Chisholm of Lincoln, Neb...

BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Carl Lee Taylor of Bloomfield will be held at 2 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dolan Rogers will officiate, with burial in Mounds Cemetery near Lilbourn. Taylor, 81, died Tuesday, March 30, 1993, at his home...

The name of a daughter was incorrectly listed in the obituary Wednesday of the Rev. Alonzo L. Rhodes, 823 Locust. The daughter's name should have read Nancy Markhart. Rhodes, 76, died Monday, March 29, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. today at Southside Baptist Church. The Revs. Kendal Hicks and Joe McCullough will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery...

BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Earl Rodney Williams of Bell City will be held at 10 a.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Ted Stone will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery at East Prairie. Williams, 66, died Tuesday, March 30, 1993, at his home...

Three of the four candidates for the Cape Girardeau Board of Education support two school-funding measures on Tuesday's ballot. They say the fourth candidate should take a stand, not sit on the fence. One of the candidates who support the measures, incumbent John Campbell, said those running for the school board should not duck the issue...

Earlier this year, L.J. Schultz student Nora Renka was asked which landlocked country is home to the semi-arid region known as the Chaco. The fact that she answered Paraguay sets her apart from many Americans. The American ignorance of geography has become well known in recent years. A 1990 Gallup survey of 10 countries found that Americans know less about geography than people in Sweden, West Germany, Japan, France and Canada and that Americans between the ages of 18 and 24 know least of all...

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JEFFERSON CITY - Two new members of the board of regents at Southeast Missouri State University were confirmed by the Missouri Senate Wednesday afternoon, after winning approval from the gubernatorial appointments committee earlier in the day. Approved to six-year terms on the university's governing board were Don Dickerson, an attorney and lifelong resident of Cape Girardeau, and Patricia Washington, a native of Cape Girardeau who is editor of the St. Louis American newspaper...

For seven student teachers at Jackson High School and Alma Schrader Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri is a whole new world. The student teachers are from the Swansea Institute in Wales and are here as part of a Student Teaching Exchange with Southeast Missouri State University. Eight Southeast students also will spend two months teaching in Wales...

Turn-of-the-century photographs of Cape Girardeau will be feature during the spring opening of the Glenn House Saturday. Local historians will be on hand to answer questions about their collections from noon-4 p.m. Bernice Coar-Cobb, an associate professor at Southeast Missouri State University, has assembled a collection of photographs and memorabilia on the history of African Americans in the city...

JACKSON - Nine candidates are competing for the three seats on the Jackson Board of Education that will be filled Tuesday. School officials said that's the most candidates to file for a single school board election in the Jackson School District in at least 23 years. ...

The Alpha Eta chapter of Kappa Delta Pi will host a regional conference Saturday at Southeast Missouri State University. The conference will be held in the University Center at 9 a.m. Members from 19 chapters in seven states have been invited to the conference, which is planned around a theme of "Celebrating Diversity."...

CAIRO, Ill. -- A 13-year-old Cairo youth was struck and killed by a drunk driver while on a school trip to Washington D.C. Dustin Keith McAdoo was crossing a street near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., U.S. Park Police said. He died about 11 p.m. Tuesday at Washington Hospital Center...

CHAFFEE -- Voters in the Chaffee School District will elect three members to the Chaffee Board of Education Tuesday. At least two will be newcomers to the school board. Because of legislation approved last year by the Missouri General Assembly, the number of seats on local school boards in the state will expand from six to seven. That means voters in most school districts will be voting for three instead of two candidates on Tuesday...