Stories from Tuesday, March 8, 1994

Young people today grow up in a different learning atmosphere than their forebears. They are fortunate in that the means for acquiring knowledge are numerous and varied. However, the ample assortment of learning sources can also be confounding. One source that remains stable in this hodgepodge is the newspaper, which evolves with new technology but remains constant in its informational mission. ...

Marsha Murphy hopes to parlay social progressivism with fiscal conservativism to win a seat in the U.S. Senate. Also needed: "a few million dollars," she concedes. The county executive of Jackson County brought her campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination to Cape Girardeau Monday, using "career politician" as a derogatory phrase and promising to exact more efficiency from the federal government...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education is looking for a two-part tax issue, with one vote planned for June and the second for November. At a work session Monday night board members said they would like to see on the June ballot a request to waive Cape Girardeau's 37-cent Proposition C rollback. That money would be used, in part, for maintenance...

After more than a year-long wait in Cape Girardeau, Boyd Gaming Corp. officials Monday saw their hopes for a riverboat casino here culminate in the city council's endorsement of their riverboat gambling proposal. Although several people testified at the meeting on behalf of rival Lady Luck Gaming's $58 million proposal, when it came time for a vote, Boyd Gaming's 14-month gamble paid off...

After hearing testimony from several concerned citizens and church leaders against the development of a go-cart track, the Cape Girardeau City Council allowed the matter to die for lack of a motion Monday. Earlier in the day, several members of the city council attended a decibel test conducted by Southeast Missouri State physics professor Richard Cannon at the proposed site, the corner of North Kingshighway and Lexington...

Leaders in promoting development of the entire region were honored recently at the sixth annual banquet of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association. Honorees included the five original founders of the RCGA: Carl Penzel, Gene Rhodes, Earl Norman, Ernie Beussink and Jim Drury...

SIKESTON -- Delores L. Tubbs, 74, of Chaffee Nursing Center, died Monday, March 7, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 30, 1919, in Sikeston, daughter of Henry and Tina Williams Parks. She and James A. Tubbs were married in 1953. He died Nov. 1, 1970...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for James M. "Bud" Johnson of East Prairie will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel here. Bill Adkisson will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Johnson, 60, died Saturday, March 5, 1994, at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, from burns received in a house fire...

Funeral service for Erna Marie Pauly of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

SCOTT CITY -- Clarence Robert Sander, 76, of Scott City, died Monday, March 7, 1994, at his home. He was born Nov. 17, 1917, at Fornfelt, son of Herman Adolph and Martha Margaret Springer Sander. He and Wilma "Billie" Menz were married Dec. 29, 1942, in Clovis, N.M...

SCOTT CITY -- From the start, Scott City has had somewhat of a tumultuous relationship with the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association from the start. The city paid its first quarterly dues in April 1993, via a $1,250 "gift" received by the Scott City Chamber of Commerce from an anonymous donor...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen unanimously approved a contract negotiated with Allied Waste Industries Inc., for the future operation of the city landfill. Federally imposed regulations which take effect April 8, outlines strict requirements for the permitting and operation of a landfill. The requirements made it financially impossible for the city to continue to operate the city's landfill...

MARBLE HILL -- Janet Mooney, 81, of St. Louis, died Sunday, March 6, 1994, at St. Louis University Hospital. She was born July 22, 1912, at Drum, daughter of Louis August and Nora Owens Cunningham. She and John J. Mooney were married July 5, 1952. He died July 22, 1958...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Burley Lee Flanigan of Sikeston will be held at 10 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Bob Burns will officiate, with burial in Bernie Cemetery. Flanigan, 79, died Sunday, March 6, 1994, at his home. He was born Oct. 24, 1914, in Warm Springs, Ark., son of Joseph Newton and Margaret Elizabeth Wolridge Flanigan. He and Nora Noggle were married Sept. 1, 1979, in Sikeston...

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Dorothy Evelyn Friedrich of Burley, Idaho, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Calvary Baptist Church in Burley. The Rev. John Ramey will officiate, with burial in Pleasant View Cemetery in Burley. Payne Mortuary in Burley is in charge of arrangements...

MILLERSVILLE -- Graveside service for Iva B. Johnson of Blytheville, Ark., will be held at 2 p.m. today at New Salem Cemetery in Daisy. The Rev. Fred Rister will officiate. There is no visitation. Liley Funeral Home at Patton is in charge of arrangements...

MARBLE HILL -- Dorothy Irene Limbaugh, 79, of St. Louis, died Monday, March 7, 1994, at Christian Northeast Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Nov. 6, 1914, at Millersville, daughter of Julius and Laura Lincoln Cook. She married Denver Limbaugh, who died June 11, 1975...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Rex V. Egelston, 84, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, March 6, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born Oct. 26, 1909, in Trilla, son of Asa Tilford and Arabel Clementine Rhodes Egelston. He and Wilma Loomis were married in 1933 in Charleston, Ill...

Margaret Little says the key to successful schooling for students is a partnership between teachers and parents. "It is essential for home and school to work together as a team to ensure the best possible educational experience for our students," said Little...

Discussions about developments in Bosnia, fraternity hazing and even the weather are just as common as questions about pronouns and multiplication facts in James Hickam's sixth-grade classroom at Jefferson Elementary School. Hickam's students are among thousands of students reading newspapers as part of their classroom assignments...

JACKSON -- Julie Ludwig of Jackson was named to the honor roll for the fall 1993 semester at Missouri Baptist College in St. Louis. Students named to the honor roll have earned a grade point average between 3.40 and 3.749. Ludwig is majoring in elementary education and is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ludwig...

The 12th annual Chemistry Bowl will be held Thursday from 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Organizers are expecting 220 students representing 30 schools to compete. The competition consists of a 35-question multiple choice test and two lab exercises...

Jamie Filer, a senior at Cape Girardeau Central High School, won the district Voice of Democracy contest, sponsored by the VFW. As district winner, she received a $100 savings bond and another $100 cash award. She also received an expense paid trip to Columbia to compete in the state contest...

A team of eighth graders from Cape Girardeau Central Junior High won top honors in the Thinking Cape Quiz Bowl. The seventh grade Scholar Bowl team from St. Vincent de Paul grade school won second place. The Thinking Cape Quiz Bowl is a computer contest for students in seventh or eighth grades in Missouri. In all, 82 teams competed...

Grand champion winners at this year's History Day/Science Fair at St. Vincent de Paul School were Laura Hoffman and Chad Heuschober. Hoffman completed a history project entitled "A Great American Tale: The Oregon Trail." Heuschober completed a science project called "Flooded Farmlands."...

The Girardot Chapter of Professional Secretaries International has announced that Linda Koenig of Perryville is the recipient of the spring 1994 PSI scholarship. Koenig is a sophomore at Southeast Missouri State University majoring in the two-year administrative assistant program. She is currently president of the Phi Beta Lambda organization, has been on the dean's list and is a member of her church youth group...

Shelly Froman of Zalma, Abby Seabaugh and Matt Waldron of Jackson, and Brian White of Perryville competed for Culver-Stockton College's top scholarship during an on-campus competition in January. Culver-Stockton will award approximately 10 "Pillars for Excellence" scholarships to incoming freshmen. The scholarship is worth $7,650 and may be renewable based upon academic performance during a student's years at Culver-Stockton...

Lance E. Haman of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a University of Missouri Curators Scholars Award. The scholarships are offered by the four campuses of the University of Missouri system to encourage academically superior high school students to attend the University of Missouri campus of their choice...

The Adult Learning Center at the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School will hold a tutor training workshop to train volunteers to teach "new readers." The session will be held March 19 from 8 a.m.-noon at the Vo-Tech school. Susan Clubb and Terri Hirsch will lead the workshop...

Fifth-grade students from the Nell Holcomb School District were recently recognized for their participation in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program. Officer Jeannie Daily of the Cape Girardeau Police Department worked with the students for about 12 weeks. Students learned drug-resistance techniques, the effects of peer pressure and how to say "no."...

Working in education you are constantly exposed to people going above the normal and beyond the call of duty. For whatever reason, these individuals commit themselves and their friends in this or that project. It happens so often it is almost commonplace to witness this activity; the parents of the swim program, basketball team, PTA parents working on spaghetti dinners or book fairs, and the list of examples goes on and on. ...

Shawnee School District will host a Child Fair at Shawnee Elementary North at Grand Tower on April 8 and at Shawnee Elementary South at McClure on April 15. The fair will be held from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at both locations. All families in the school district with children from ages birth to 6 are invited to participate in developmental screenings and visit exhibits...

Jennifer Lage of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a President's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1994-95 academic year. The President's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who rank at least in the upper 20 percent of their high school class and score 25 on the ACT or 1030 on the SAT...