Stories from Thursday, May 27, 1993

To the Editor: Education reform is a major topic of conservation these days. And I agree, we need education reform. However, those who think that our education systems will be brought to where they should be activities of a governor, or the legislature, are mistaken. As badly as local school systems need things that money will buy, the infusion of new money is not going to completely solve the problem...

The National Guard remains an important part of America's military design. Finding their roots in the militias of our nation's early history, the citizen-soldiers of today comprise a force that is cost-effective, well-trained, flexible and ready. In addition, the local presence of the National Guard is meaningful to Cape Girardeau and its region. ...

Grant Lund is a professor of art at Southeast Missouri State University. He had worked in Nevada for four summers. The gambling issue is being widely discussed, but the issue of morality, which is often brought up with it, is little understood. Every society which wants to survive encourages (either through beliefs, customs or laws) behavior which has been found to be for the long range good of that society. ...

LILBOURN - An audit requested by citizens of Lilbourn has revealed that city funds are missing, financial decisions made by city officials are questionable, and millions of gallons of water pumped by the city water system are unaccounted for. State Auditor Margaret Kelly performed the audit, which she is authorized to do if requested by a certain number of residents in a city. Last year citizens petitioned Kelly to conduct the audit because of concern about how city finances were being handled...

Former Cape Girardeau city manager Gary Eide resigned as city manager of Salem, Ore., last month amid a state investigation of that city's financial procedures, including his travel expenses. But friends and former colleagues in Cape Girardeau defended Eide. They described him as a man of high integrity who never engaged in any financial misdeeds while running the city government here...

The Boyd Group, a gaming and resort company, will strive for a 10 percent return on its investment of a proposed riverboat casino project in downtown Cape Girardeau, says Charles L. Ruthe, president of the Las Vegas-based company. "If we come into the area, we have the potential to make a profit of about $4 million our first year," said Ruthe, whose firm has proposed a $37.5 million riverboat casino project along the Mississippi River...

The muffled thud of a basketball meeting pavement, the grunts and taunts of blacktop roundballers, children laughing and shouting, and hands clutching warm, rolltop 40 ouncers wrapped in paper sacks. Such is the setting for the hundreds of mostly central- and south-end Cape Girardeans who frequent Indian Park, at the intersection of William and Lorimier streets...

A message from Cape Girardeau second graders, set adrift in a bottle in 1986, was found Sunday by a youngster near Wyatt, Mo. Students of Jan Jarrell, teacher at Charles C. Clippard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, sent their message seven years ago...

Employees of Cape Girardeau's school district will earn an average of 3.5 percent more next year than this under a new salary package adopted by the Board of Education Wednesday. The board approved the package during a special session Wednesday night at the Central High School Auditorium. The proposal was approved by the Community Teachers Association Wednesday afternoon...

Cape Girardeau's Board of Education pledged proceeds from the sale of old Campster School toward renovation of the Central High School auditorium. But board members expressed doubt the $75,000 the building is expected to bring would be enough to fix problems at the auditorium...

An exhibit of art work by Roberta Grindstaff will be on display today at an open house of Someone's Treasure Clubhouse, a community-based program of the Community Counseling Center. Grindstaff recently won the 1993 Director's Creative Showcase Award for Missouri...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Willie Elbert Phillips of Charleston will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Phillips, 89, died Tuesday, May 25, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

Teondra Michelle Jackson, 2, 148 S. Lorimier, died Tuesday, May 25, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, after being struck by a truck. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Son to Sandra Harris of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:36 p.m. Wednesday, April 28, 1993. Name, Shaquille DeAngelo. Weight, 6 pounds 6 ounces. Third child, second son. Harris is the daughter of Eddith Jones of Cape Girardeau and Robert Harris of St. Louis...

DELTA -- Funeral service for Tula Waddle of Delta will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. Virgil Bunch will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Bill Dickey. Burial will be in Kenyon Cemetery at Delta. Waddle, 87, died Monday, May 24, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Dudley C. Smith of Marble Hill will be held at 11 a.m. today at Liley Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Gene Robbins will officiate, with burial in Dry Creek Cemetery near Marble Hill. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m...

JACKSON -- Albert LeRoy Beattie, 80, of Jackson, died Wednesday, May 26, 1993, at his home. He was born Oct. 10, 1912, at Jackson, son of John Albert and Eunice Lillian Hinkle Beattie. He was married to Ruby Elaine Webb, Aug. 11, 1938, at Jackson. Beattie was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Jackson. He was a member and volunteer of the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri...

DELTA -- Lillian Irene Tidwell, 73, of Delta, died Wednesday, May 26, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 17, 1919, at Chanoia, Mo., daughter of Philip Elmer and Ella Taylor Rievley. She was married to Jess Lee Tidwell. He died in 1980...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: John G. and Karen S. Buchheit to Brian L. Gilliland; Bent Creek Developers Inc. to John J. Hummel; Neil and Denise Renee Boxdorfer to Todd Richard and Michelle Dawn McDowell...