Stories from Saturday, January 29, 1994

Dear Sir; I read the January 24, 1994, Southeast Missourian article headlined "State Senate committee to consider bills aimed at curbing juvenile crime" with disbelief and dismay. The article states that two State Senators were endorsing laws that would make it illegal for juveniles "to carry a concealable firearm" or to "make it illegal for anybody under 21 to carry a concealed weapon." (Would that make it legal for those OVER 21 to carry concealed weapons?)...

Bill Clinton offered his view of the state of the union Tuesday night, forcefully challenging the American people and the Congress of the United States. Four days later, he and his staff are already distancing themselves from some of his stronger points...

Mention tubes and tonsillectomy to Sabrina Newman of Sikeston and her smiling face reflects a mother's relief. Newman's young sons had suffered from repeated ear infections. They were constantly in and out of doctors' offices, and on various antibiotics. The infections continued to reappear like a bad dream...

The busy weekend planned at the Show Me Center -- Thursday's Oak Ridge Boys concert followed by two days of monster trucks and concluding with a Sunday gymnastics meet -- will run smoothly, thanks to a strict itinerary. But Will Lofdahl, events coordinator, said it's actually a relatively easy weekend...

PERRYVILLE -- A bill introduced this week by Sen. Peter Kinder of Cape Girardeau dominated discussion at a legislative forum held Friday at St. Vincent's High School in Perryville. Kinder joined Rep. Herb Fallert and Lloyd Smith, chief of staff for U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, as panelists at the hourlong forum, where educational issues affecting private schools were discussed...

A 10-member Show Me Center crew headed by center Director David Ross is going to the Super Bowl in Atlanta. But they don't expect to see much of the game -- they'll be working in the Georgia Dome selling Super Bowl merchandise. "We're going down to man four booths in the Georgia Dome," Ross said Friday afternoon, shortly before the crew took to the road. "We've got the entire third tier of the Georgia Dome."...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Richard Whitton counted 109,000 geese. Don Wollard had 95,000 geese on his tally sheet. A third spotter found only 65,000 geese. The three men, huddled into the right side of a two-engine Cessna 337, peered out the window as the pilot made another pass around the Horseshoe Lake Wildlife Refuge in Alexander County...

ANNA, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Conservation site technicians Mark Clary and Harold Green are used to helping wildlife, but Friday they helped a life that wasn't so wild. About 2 p.m. some passersby notified conservation officers that a dog was on a floating log in the Union County Wildlife Refuge about one mile from the conservation office...

John C. Seay will be president of the new Golden K Kiwanis Club of Cape Girardeau, which was founded here this week. "The new club will hold a charter presentation ceremony Feb. 17," said Narvol A. Randol Sr., chairman of the sponsoring committee of the Kiwanis Club of Cape Girardeau...

Robert Hamblin, professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University and author of the recent book "Win or Win," will discuss the making of the book during a publication party Monday on campus. The event is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. in the University Center Party Room and is being sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts...

The Southeast Missouri State University Orchestra will present a symphonic orchestra at 8 p.m. Feb. 22 in Academic Auditorium. The concert will feature students who were winners in the 1993-1994 Concerto and Aria Competition. Winners include: Keith Bales, trumpet; Yuko Fujiki, piano; Thomas Harte, string bass; Cary Nall, soprano; and Stephanie Rushin, flute. Pianist, Susan Ho, also a competition winner, will perform with the University Orchestra at its April 12 concert...

"The Clinton Presidency: The First Year," and "South Africa: Forging a Democratic Union" are among the topics to be discussed when the Great Decisions Program reconvenes for the spring 1994 semester at Southeast Missouri State University. Great Decisions is a national program sponsored by the Foreign Policy Association, a non-partisan organization in Washington, D.C., which seeks to promote understanding of American foreign policy choices. ...

ADVANCE -- Versa Mae Garner, 82, died Friday, Jan. 28, 1994, at her home in Bell City. Morgan Funeral Home of Advance is in charge of arrangements, which will be announced later.

Funeral service for longtime businessman Charles W. Cauble, 810 E. Rodney, will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

SIKESTON -- Elizabeth Clyde Hart, 85, Poplar Bluff Route 5, died Thursday, Jan. 27, 1994, in Destin, Fla. She was born Nov. 16, 1908, in Mt. Vernon, Ind., daughter of Taylor G. and Emily Gertrude Joiner Todd. She and Henry Hart were married Aug. 20, 1927, at Bloomfield. He died May 25, 1971...

PERRYVILLE -- Adrian M. Hurst, 75, of Marion, Ill., formerly of Kaskaskia, Ill., died Friday, Jan. 28, 1994, at the Veterans Hospital in Marion. He was born July 30, 1918, in Kaskaskia, son of Edward Luke and Ada Mary Layton Hurst. Hurst was a retired farmer, and life member of American Legion Post in Chester, Ill. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

Dean Armentrout, 88, 430 N. Frederick, died Thursday, Jan. 27, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Robert L. Prevallet of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. today at Christ the Savior Catholic Church in Brewer. The Rev. Felipe Martinez will officiate, with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 6:30-9:30 a.m. today...

The Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation is still committed to its project of preserving St. Vincent's College and the college grounds, a spokesman said. "We've had several telephone calls of concern since the announcement recently that a gaming group had taken an option on the property," said the spokesman, David Murphy, executive director of the foundation. "We have not abandoned our efforts of preserving and restoring the college as a national historical museum and regional culture center."...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Carl A. Lingle, 80, of Jonesboro, died Thursday, Jan. 27, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Sept. 10, 1913, in Union County, son of Charles E. and Edith Dillow Lingle. He and Esther Crumbley were married Jan. 11, 1933. She died Dec. 15, 1986...

SIKESTON -- Helen Roberta Slinkard, 73, of Kansas City, Kan. died at the Betheny Medical Center in Kansas City Thursday, Jan. 17, 1994. She was born Sept. 10, 1920 in Blodgett, daughter of James Henry and Mamie Lemond Wood Gunter. She was a graduate of Benton High School...

Son to Curtis D. Roussel and Althea Sutton of Sikeston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:14 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 25, 1993. Name, Curtis Austin. Weight, 8 pounds. Miss Sutton is the daughter of Bonnie Sutton of Portageville, and is employed at R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. in Paducah, Ky. Roussel is employed by Roussel Construction in Sikeston, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Roussel of Cape Girardeau...

Funeral service for Lee Porter of Oklahoma City, Okla., will be held at 9 a.m. today at Penwell-Gable Funeral Home in Topeka, Kan. Pastor E.L. Eckhardt will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park at Topeka. Porter, 62, died Wednesday, Jan. 26, 1994, in an Oklahoma City hospital, following a brief illness...