Stories from Thursday, July 1, 1993

The saying goes that good things come to those who wait. Cape Girardeau is due some good things where its new Mississippi River bridge is concerned. The process for getting funding for this project continues on its halting path, with the most recent development being a setback generated at the federal level. We wonder why...

Rep. Chris Kelly of Columbia is chairman of the Missouri House budget committee. After a Missouri court found that our schools were unconstitutionally unequal and inadequate, Gov. Carnahan asked the legislature to enact a tax increase to improve the quality of Missouri's elementary and secondary education. ...

Nobody can say Bill Clinton hasn't been a consensus president. After only five minutes in office, both Democrats and Republicans agree he's made plenty of mistakes. --- Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson will fill in for the governor while the chief executive is vacationing in Europe. This represents the first opportunity Columbia has had to move the state capital out of Jefferson City...

The Jackson Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing next week to discuss details of the city's new zoning ordinance. Jackson Mayor Paul Sander urged realtors, developers, home builders and property owners to attend the hearing, which begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at city hall...

Southeast Missouri State University administrative, managerial and executive staff will make just over $53,000 on average for the 1994 fiscal year, officials said Wednesday. The new fiscal year begins today. Among Southeast's 403 faculty members, the average salary totals $41,351, said Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president...

JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri Senate President James Mathewson accuses U.S. Rep. Mel Hancock of playing partisan politics in his criticism of the General Assembly for passing an education tax increase without a vote of the people. Hancock, a Republican serving his third term in the U.S. House from a district in Southwest Missouri, is the author of a tax and spending limit approved as a constitutional amendment by voters in 1980...

For the past month, Cape Girardeau police officers have been carrying little vials of granulated chemicals which can determine whether the person they have stopped is driving while intoxicated. The Missouri Safety Center, located on the campus of Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, selected Cape Girardeau as the test site for the new DWI field test units...

MEMPHIS -- Former Cape Girardeau steel-and-scrap-metal businessman Sydney Pollack met movie director Sydney Pollack for the first time last year while the latter was filming "The Firm" in Memphis. They met because both were named for the same grandfather a Jewish tradition. They had different grandmothers and very different lives...

On the heels of Saturday's seat-belt safety checkpoint, Cape Girardeau police did a seat-belt survey Wednesday and found more people than ever buckling up. Sharee Galnore, head of the police community traffic safety program, said they found 74.4 percent compliance with state seat-belt laws within the city...

"Bicentennial Fashions" is the theme for the July 12 luncheon sponsored by Christian Women's Club of Cape Girardeau County. The event will be held at noon at Holiday Inn. Cost is $6.50 per person. A complimentary nursery will be provided. Guest speaker will be Cyndy Straub, teacher and seamstress from Tennessee. Music will be provided by Patricia Renard of Cape Girardeau, and Patty Mulky of Cape River Heritage Museum will show bicentennial fashions...

A two-day blood drive opens today at West Park Mall. Officials hope to collect more than 200 units of blood. The drive will be conducted today from 2-7 p.m. in a storefront near the Famous Barr Court. On Friday, the drive will be held from 11 a.m.-4 p.m...

The Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Missouri's hospice program has become the first in Southeast Missouri to earn Medicare certification. VNA Hospice, which serves the counties of Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Perry, Mississippi, Scott, New Madrid and Stoddard, received certification June 24...

CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo. Columbia Sussex Corp. is serious about establishing a riverboat gambling casino development along the downtown riverfront here. "We have already leased five acres of riverfront land," said Paul Kreft, a spokesman from Columbia Sussex, headquartered at Fort Mitchell, Ky. "We're ready to start developing the project if we're selected."...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson said Tuesday he is pleased with the work accomplished by a Welfare Simplification and Coordination Advisory Committee. The group was formed as a result of an amendment offered by Emerson in 1990 to the Farm Bill, and the final report suggests that existing programs and benefits should be simplified, coordinated, and have a component that is tied to progress toward self sufficiency...

Alexis McDowell sat under a tree with youngsters listening to a story at Nell Holcomb school Tuesday, part of her duties as a volunteer at summer school. McDowell and six other pre-teens are helping teachers and working with youngsters enrolled in the school's remedial summer program...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Bill Dorris of Thebes, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:06 a.m. Friday, June 4, 1993. Name, Mackenzie LaRae. Weight, 8 pounds 10 ounces. Mrs. Dorris is the former Gretchen Rendleman, daughter of Gary and Sherry Rendleman of Wolf Lake, Ill. She is a surgery assistant for Dr. J.L. Sheets. Dorris is a tree trimmer with Shade Tree Co., and is the son of William and Rhonda Dorris of Waterloo, Ill...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Edna E. Keeton, formerly of East Prairie, will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. Bill Meeks will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie. Keeton, 78, died Tuesday, June 29, 1993, at Sikeston Health Care Center...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Daisy Bostian of Anna will be held at 1 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Home here. The Rev. Christine Erdmann will officiate, with burial in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Bostian, 88, died Tuesday, June 29, 1993, at Hillside Terrace Nursing Facility in Cobden...

Brian Scott Knight, 31, of Griffin, Ga., died Monday, June 28, 1993, at Spalding Regional Hospital in Griffin. He was born Feb. 25, 1962, in Cape Girardeau, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Knight. Knight was a stone mason. Survivors include his parents of Williamson, Ga., and paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Wheeler of Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- Annie Golda Howell Mundt, 84, formerly of Sikeston, died Monday, June 28, 1993, at Zurbrugg Hospital in Riverside, N.J. She was born March 8, 1909, at Morehouse. She married Howard C. Mundt, who preceded her in death. Mundt had lived in Haddonfield, N.J., the past 30 years. She was a former supervisor at the Cinnaminson Home in Cinnaminson, N.J. She was a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Cherry Hill, N.J.; Daughters of the American Revolution, and AARP...

PERRYVILLE -- Chlora C. Cashion, 96, of Perryville, died Wednesday, June 30, 1993, at American Care Center. She was born April 27, 1897, at Crosstown, daughter of John and Philomine Petot Schroeder. She and Noah Cashion were married Feb. 10, 1920. He died May 8, 1980...

BENTON -- Tillman Luther Turner, 73, Benton Route 1, died Tuesday, June 29, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 30, 1919, at Benton, son of Thomas Richard and Dora Belle Dickerson Turner. He and Willie Lee Caraway were married Nov. 22, 1941, in Yuma, Ariz...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Lee Baker of Paragould, Ark., will be at 1 p.m. today at Liley Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Randy Poole will officiate, with burial in Glen Allen Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to service time...

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County begins another two-year depository agreement with Capital Bank today, but with a considerably lower interest rate. Capital has been the county's depository for a number of years by providing the best bid every two years...

A Honor Roll Freshmen Gretchen Balsman, Jennifer Balsman, Jennifer Besand, Dana Bock, Bradley Buerck, Aimee Clements, Suzanne Courtois, Robert Davis, Barry Decker, Leticia Ehlers, Melissa Fritsche, Rachel Hacker, Tracy Haertling, Amy Hemmann, Masanori Hirose, Andrew Hudson, Richard Johnson, Andrew Kammler, Stephanie Krauss, Scott Lohmann, Valerie Lohmann, Timna Lowes, Elizabeth Lukefahr, Angela McAtee, Anthony Moore, Elizabeth Parks, Maria Pontillas, Nathan Randolph, Sarah Schilling, Theresa Schindler, Darol Schuessler, Kevin Stueve, Cole Taylor, Nathan Yamnitz, Tori Zoellner.. ...

COLUMBIA -- Several area students have been named to the dean's honor roll at the University of Missouri-Columbia for the winter 1993 semester. Those honored are listed by county below: Cape Girardeau County Matthew C. Hosler, junior; Daniel F. Jung, freshman; Lesli A. ...

The Cape SEMO Chapter of Parents Without Partners has scheduled an orientation for prospective new members July 7 at 7 p.m. at the Community Counseling Center. Another orientation meeting is scheduled July 15 at 7 p.m. at the Community Counseling Center...

Coping skills clinics for people who are separated, divorced or widowed will are planned July 5 and 12. On July 5 the topic is "Discovering and trusting yourself." On July 12 the topic is "Dealing with your former spouse or the memory of your deceased spouse."...

Cape Girardeau businessman Thad Bullock has been appointed governor of the Toastmasters clubs in Anna and Carbondale, Ill. and in Farmington and Cape Girardeau. Bullock has been involved with Toastmasters since 1962 and was named area governor at the meeting Tuesday of the High Noon Toastmasters at Reed's Restaurant in the Town House Inn motel...

Barbara S. Loggins of Cape Girardeau has received the William T. Jenkins Memorial Scholarship at Southeast Missouri State University. The scholarship covers one semester's incidental fees and is presented to a junior or senior who is pursuing a bachelor of arts degree in history, a bachelor of science in education degree in social studies or a bachelor of arts degree in a social science with a history minor. ...

Laura Unger of Cape Girardeau attended Missouri Girls State held June 20-26 at William Woods College in Fulton. Girls State was sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary and is designed to learn about the political process through a government-in-action program...

BENTON -- Tom Arteme, a junior at Kelly High School, was named to the B honor roll for the fourth quarter. His name was inadvertently left off a list of honor students provided to the Southeast Missourian newspaper.