Stories from Thursday, October 7, 1993

James R. Brown, 65, of Chaffee died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1993 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by the Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee.

PERRYVILLE -- This week marks the 175th anniversary of the founding of the first college chartered west of the Mississippi. St. Mary's of the Barrens in Perryville was founded in October 1818, the first seminary in the Louisiana Purchase. The seminary continued to function until 1985, and today the historic facility is home to several ministries of the Congregation of the Mission, more commonly known as the Vincentians...

THURSDAY, OCT. 7 At 3:41 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to Woodlawn and Perry streets for medical assistance. At 4:53 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to Bloomfield Road and Nancy Lane for medical assistance. At 6:42 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to 1457 N. Water for a report of an illegal burn...

State Rep. Mark Richardson, R-Poplar Bluff, will speak to the College Republicans in the University Center University Room at 7:30 tonight. Richardson will address current issues facing the state and will discuss his plans to run for Congress in the Eighth District...

Citizens Against Riverboat Gambling will have a press conference at 4:30 p.m. today in the parlor of First Presbyterian Church, 235 Broadway. The press conference will precede the kick-off of the campaign to defeat riverboat gambling in Cape Girardeau...

A program to step up enforcement of a 1990 law that imposes strict sentences on anyone carrying a gun within 1,000 feet of school grounds will kick off today with a ceremony at Franklin School. The event will begin at 10 a.m. at 215 N. Louisiana in Cape Girardeau...

GORDONVILLE - The Missouri Highway Patrol said no one was injured Wednesday morning, when a pickup truck struck the rear of Jackson school bus stopped on Route Z. The patrol said the accident occurred at about 7:22 a.m., on a level stretch of roadway, just west of the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railroad tracks at Gordonville...

Congressman Bill Emerson said late Wednesday that the National Park Service has backed off its plan to remove a herd of wild horses in Southern Missouri. The park service announced that efforts to remove the horses within the Ozark National Scenic Riverways will be "indefinitely postponed."...

Now that voters of Cape Girardeau have turned down, for a second time, a proposal that would replace some of the deteriorating school buildings in their district, supporters of education are left only to throw up their hands in dismay ... or perhaps just throw up. ...

PATTON -- Camillus "Michael" Forey, 79, of Patton, died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1993, at his home. He was born June 25, 1914, in Pocahontas, Iowa, son of Edward and Nellie McCabe Forey. Forey was a retired realtor. He was a member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus in Perryville...

Iva Roberts, 92, 542 S. Hanover, died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 23, 1901, near Delta, daughter of Edward and Elmira Lape Nothdurft. She and Ray Roberts were married April 17, 1920. He died Dec. 3, 1966...

That Missouri thing Oct. 7, 1993 Dear Dixie, I came to Larrupin' last Friday with my new bride and Julie F. We were so disappointed to discover you were gone. We've come to enjoy watching our friends' faces as we tell the story of how we met 30 years ago and decided last July to get married...

Ina Lee Campbell, 72, 47 S. Park, died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Sept. 20, 1921, in Simpson County, Ky., daughter of Isiah Calvin and Alma Alice Wakefield Grace. She married Charles Campbell, who preceded her in death...

Funeral service for Clella Pippinger Bretz of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Robert Fezor will officiate, with burial in Memorial Gardens at Poplar Bluff. Bretz, 85, died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1993, at Cape LaCroix...

Heidi Bergman went to the Bearden Violin Shop in St. Louis recently to have her instrument adjusted. To her amazement, she left with a priceless Stradivarius violin she will play in a recital Sunday at Old St. Vincent's Church. Bergman, an instructor of music at Southeast Missouri State University, was fingering her own violin for owner Gene Bearden when he offered to let her try his Stradivarius. ...

Although next year's Cape Girardeau City Council election is yet six months away, potential candidates soon will be gathering nominating signatures for their election petitions. The one-month filing period for the April 5 general election begins Nov. 10, but candidates must first be nominated by at least 50 registered city voters...

JACKSON -- The Jackson landfill will remain open for at least six more months because of an extension announced this week by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. The landfill and several others in Southeast Missouri would have been forced to close Friday or Saturday because of stringent requirements announced two years ago by the EPA...

COMMERCE -- Federal Emergency Management Agency officials told Commerce residents who favor a federal buyout plan for the city that they should remove their elected officials from office if the city council does not approve the plan. "If your elected officials are not doing what the majority of the people want them to do, then it is up to you to vote them out," Bob Blair, a hazard mitigation specialist with FEMA, told a group of residents Wednesday...

JACKSON -- Jackson's half-cent transportation sales tax continues to provide benefits in the form of street upgradings and improvements, said Mayor Paul Sander. By the end of the year, the city will have spent more than $500,000 on street improvements and repairs in the commercial and residential areas of town...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- It's festival time at Olive Branch. "We had to cancel our Labor Day Festival this year," said Doris Maze, "but there will be a festival atmosphere when area people join us Saturday for Volunteer Day." Volunteer Day activities have been designed to acknowledge people who have helped the Olive Branch-Miller City community during the Flood of 1993, sid Maze, president of the Horseshoe Lake Chamber of Commerce...

The Faculty Senate at Southeast Missouri State University Wednesday recommended school officials not use an experiment with student evaluations of faculty in making personnel decisions. The university plans to test three different types of student evaluations -- one a semester -- beginning next spring...

The funny thing about born loser/ clown-faced comedian Tom Smothers is how reflective and ungoofy he really is. "I'm like a majority of comics. Put three comics together, it's a very serious conversation not funny," he said in a phone interview from Endicott, N.Y...

Thirteen local women artists who call their group WOMART will display their work in an exhibit called "Go Figure!" through Oct. 29 on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The 25 pieces, which feature a variety of styles, subjects and media in oil, watercolor, pastel, marker, colored pencil, etchings, fiber collages and photographs, will be exhibited in Kent Library...

A musical based on the life of Cape Girardeau founder Don Louis Lorimier will be presented Oct. 22-24 as the final major event of the city's bicentennial. "Lou-ee," written and composed by David Kaempfer, tells the story of Lorimier's dream to establish a town called Lorimont (alas, Girardot was too well established)...