Stories from Friday, June 18, 1993

Former Cape Girardeau dentist Dr. Thomas G. Tygett, 57, of Scottsdale, Ariz., died Tuesday, June 15, 1993, at his home. He was born Dec. 11, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, son of Dr. Glenn and Mildred Norris Tygett. He married the former Anita Crowe June 23, 1959, at Poplar Bluff. He later married Michele Gruett in October 1982...

Ballet students from the Academy of Dancearts have been selected by national audition to attend ballet programs sponsored by individual ballet companies. Tania Morris has been selected to attend State Ballet of Missouri on a full scholarship. She was also selected to attend Boston Ballet, Joffery Ballet, and Pacific Northwest Ballet. She will be attending State Ballet of Missouri and Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Wash...

When state Rep. Don Prost went to Jefferson City in January as a freshman state representative, he had few preconceived notions about what to expect. He had been to the state capital only a few times; the first time he saw the legislature in session was March 1992, when he filed for his seat...

SIKESTON -- Eight people were injured in a two-car accident Wednesday about five miles north of Sikeston in the southbound lanes of Interstate 55. A spokesman for the Missouri State Highway Patrol said that at about 3:25 p.m., a car driven by Jennifer Carson, 22, of Crystal City, struck a parked car on the shoulder of the interstate...

A one-on-one medical show with local doctors answering questions from viewers calling in will be featured Thursday on "Ask Your Doctor." The show airs on cable channel 5 at 8 p.m. It is sponsored jointly by St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital in conjunction with the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society and channel 5...

The American Red Cross announced three upcoming blood drives will be held in the area. On June 27 from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., a blood drive will be held in the parish center and school of St. Joseph Catholic Church, 604 Sycamore, in Scott City. On June 29 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., a blood drive will be held in the fitness room of the student recreation center at Southeast Missouri State University. Donors will receive a complimentary T-shirt...

SCOTT CITY -- Several Scott City High School graduates have received scholarships for college study. Rebecca Jo Vetter, daughter of Bob and Marie Vetter, received the Scott City Women's Club Scholarship, the Scott City Parent-Teacher Organization Scholarship, and the First Financial Bank of Southeast Missouri Scholarship. She plans to study accounting at Southeast Missouri State University...

An estimated 4.6 million adolescents per year throughout the United States suffer health impairments, are involved in accidents, or are arrested as a result of drug and alcohol abuse. The Ancient Free & Accepted Masons of Missouri is sponsoring a statewide program to train school administrators, teachers and others how to target and prevent substance abuse in the schools...

Southeast Missouri Hospital's Doctors' Park Laboratory has been awarded a two-year accreditation by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists based on results of an on-site inspection. "The inspection process is a rigorous one," said Lab Director Tony Williams. ...

Here's an admission that will strike some as unimportant and others as vile: I eat meat. Being a carnivore lacks fashion these days. Paul McCartney insists vendors at his world tour stops serve only vegetarian franks. He was, after all, the "cute Beatle" and would not give us a bum steer (in any sense of that phrase)...

Single parents are getting a helping hand from a program offered by the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational Technical School. Since its inception in 1990, the Single Parent Program has grown from less than a half dozen participants to more than 100, testimony to the need for such an endeavor...

To the Editor: I'm writing this letter in response to the June 17 front page article about Lenco, Inc. The caption under the picture said that the Lenco employees did not receive their retirement benefits. That's incorrect. Lenco had two retirement plans: a pension plan and an ESOP stock plan. All employees received 100 percent of their monies from the pension plan, over $700,000 in total!...

June 20 Velo Girardeau Kelso to Chaffee Backroad Boneshaker ride, 2 p.m., from Cape Airport. June 23-24 Missouri Conservation Commission meeting, St. Louis. June 27 Y-P-G Loop, 2 p.m., from Kent Library. July 3-4 Waterfest '93, Peoples Creek Beach, Wappapello Lake...

To the Editor: Thank you to everyone who gave their support to the riverboat proposition. You are to be congratulated for your efforts and commended on your concern for the future of Cape Girardeau. I would also like to salute the members of the opposition for their determination and perseverance. It is not necessary for me to agree with what you say for me to adamantly support and defend your right to say it; such is the nature of debate in a free society...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Floyd E. Karraker, 87, of Dongola, died Wednesday, June 16, 1993, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born Sept. 20, 1905, in Dongola, son of Dennis and Minnie Sheffer Karraker. He and Frances Allen were married June 3, 1938. Karraker was owner/operator of Karraker Feed and Seed Co. here from 1930-78, and had managed the company from 1926-30...

BLOOMFIELD -- Graveside service for Lodema E. Miller, formerly of Bloomfield, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Walker Cemetery, with the Rev. Kevin Eskew officiating. Friends may call at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home at noon Saturday. Miller, 80, died Tuesday, June 15, 1993, in Glendale, Ariz...

Carl E. Morrison, 78, 1710 Stoddard, died Thursday, June 17, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born April 23, 1915, at Poplar Bluff, son of Fred and Jewell Friday Morrison. He and Idell Gilder were married Sept. 11, 1937, at Poplar Bluff. Morrison was a pipefitter 50 years with Local 562 of St. Louis, retiring in 1977. He was a member of First Baptist Church. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...

SIKESTON -- Esther Brookshire Hinton, 96, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, June 16, 1993, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born May 30, 1897, at Granola, Kan., daughter of Elam and Myrtie Savely. She and Harley R. Brookshire were married June 20, 1915, in Oklahoma. He died in 1930. She later married Jacob M. Hinton July 21, 1931. He died Dec. 9, 1971...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Leodies Robinson of Charleston will be held t 1 p.m. today at Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. William Watson will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Sparks Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

Harold M. Cobb, 71, 1318 North West End Boulevard, died Thursday, June 17, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born July 13, 1921, in Cape Girardeau, son of Milton and Willie Mae Harris Cobb. He and Jewell Crawford were married Dec. 25, 1940, in Cape Girardeau...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Alfred Franklin Brown of Chaffee will be held at 11 a.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Dennis Breland will officiate, with burial in Bell City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. until service time...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Darrin Baker of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:49 a.m. Saturday, June 12, 1993. Name, Macy Alexandra. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. First child. Mrs. Baker is the former Misty McClard, daughter of Dennis and Pat Koch of Jackson, and William McClard of Dexter. Baker is a route salesman with Coca-Cola Bottling Co., and is the son of Mike and Joyce Baker of Jackson, and Sharon Hamilton of Palm Springs, Calif...

They're tiny critters. They weigh much less than a fraction of an ounce. Their lifespan is less than two weeks. Yet they're making life difficult for many people in the Cape Girardeau area. Entomologists call them qulex pipiens, but we know them as mosquitoes, or more specifically, the northern house mosquito. And, as warm-blooded humans, we are an endless source of food to fulfill their voracious appetite...

Missouri's new school-funding law provides a financial boost for school districts to offer summer school. Cape Girardeau Superintendent of Schools Neyland Clark said his team will be looking at those funds to see whether summer school might be reinstated and even expanded here...

Children this week have been cheering for their science and math assignments. They have raced bugs, played cards and eaten popcorn, and today will fly hot-air balloons and construct giant mazes as part of math and science camps. Math camp is new this summer; science camp is in its fifth year, said director Judy Gau...

After just over eight weeks on the job as director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development, Joe Driskill is pleased with the department's new direction and optimistic it will lead to greater job creation around the state. "For the past eight or nine weeks I have had a great deal of pleasure getting to know the state again, and putting into words and policies my ideas and those of Gov. Carnahan of what we feel is needed to create jobs in this state," Driskill said Thursday...

MARBLE HILL - Missouri State Auditor Margaret Kelly has begun an audit of Bollinger County. State law requires the auditor's office to perform regular audits of counties that do not have an elected county auditor. Only 1st Class and most 2nd Class counties in Missouri have elected auditors...

Southeast Missouri State University President Kala M. Stroup was among about 200 women presidents who attended a summit in Washington, D.C., earlier this month and met with First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton. The Women Presidents' Summit, held June 2-4, included a visit to the White House as guests of Mrs. Clinton...

Cape Girardeau's Biokyowa Inc., an animal feed manufacturer, has agreed to pay a $15,000 fine to the Missouri Department of Natural Resources for releasing excessive ammonia into the air. Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon charged the company with violating the Missouri Air Conservation Law...

Shappert Engineering Inc. of Rockford, Ill. is the apparent low bidder for the Walker Branch segment of the Cape LaCroix Creek/Walker Branch flood control project in Cape Girardeau. The Army Corps of Engineers and opened seven bids on the project. Shappert's bid of $6.5 million is within the range of the Corps of Engineers estimate...

Stereotypical Trekkers are people who spend their days and nights lost deep in space thoughts about Klingon justice and worm holes, leaving it to the rest of us intelligent life forms to cure cancer and take out the garbage. "Get a life," William Shattner, the unsinkable Capt. Kirk of the classic Star Trek series, once advised them in a "Saturday Night Live" skit...

Mark Lenard, who played Sarek of Vulcan in the Star Trek series, and Robin Curtis, who portrayed Lt. Saavik in Star Trek III and IV (the movies), will make appearances Saturday and Sunday at CONtinuum '93. Both will speak and sign autographs. Also appearing will be science fiction writer M.S. Murdock, author of "Web of the Romulans," "Vendetta," "Dynteryx," "Prime Squared" and several Buck Rogers novels...

Free tickets for the July 4 pops concert by the Missouri Symphony are available at various Cape Girardeau locations. The 7 p.m. concert will be held at the A.C. Brase Arena Building, and will be followed by fireworks at 9:15 p.m. in the grandstand area at Arena Park...

BERTRAND -- Academic Year in the U.S.A. an international exchange-student agency, has appointed Allen Syre community counselor for the Bootheel. AYUSA is a nonprofit organization designed by the U.S. Information Agency as a Teenage Exchange Visitor Program...