Stories from Monday, August 22, 1994

Dorm life has perhaps never equated to living in the lap of luxury, but for the students living in Towers West at Southeast Missouri State University, a few more amenities can make a big difference. The newly-renovated residence hall costs residents a little more, about $600 more per year on average, but most students feel the rooms are worth the average price tag of $2,900...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Trying to serve the state's medically uninsured has been the State of Missouri's most expensive project since the days of the Ashcroft administration. The financial drain on the general revenue continues through two fiscal years of the Carnahan term...

The Southeast Missourian asked people in Jackson: "What do you like about Homecomers?" Roy Hanners, Burfordville "Visits with the people, eat, drink and be merry." Jami Kirn, Jackson "The rides and the dances." Jacob Beine, Jackson "The poster games, the rides and food."...

Round two of the lawsuit that pits the city of Cape Girardeau against Cape Central Airways, the fixed base operator at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport, will occur Thursday in Scott County. A judge heard a motion by Cape Central Airways Aug. 1 questioning the city's power to terminate a 12-year lease by way of an eviction notice. The lease began April 7, 1992...

JACKSON -- Fifty years ago, a rural Jackson man was part of a unique, and mostly unknown, floating repair depot island-hopping across the Pacific Ocean. Robert G. Aubuchon, 78, was a staff sergeant and worked as a supply clerk aboard one of the floating aircraft repair and maintenance ships that followed the U.S. bomber and fighter aircraft commands across the Pacific as they brought World War II to Japan...

PERRYVILLE -- Louis E. House of Perryville, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 20, 1994 at the Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. House, 60, was born Feb. 15, 1934, at Menfro, Mo., to Alvin and Jesse Bass House. He married Virginia Richey on July 9, 1966. She survives...

The Southeast Missouri University Foundation has received a sizable donation earmarked for the Charles H. Daues Scholarship Fund. George and Placide Schriever of New York, N.Y., recently donated $50,000 to the fund, which benefits students showing financial need and academic ability, giving preferential treatment to Missouri high school graduates. The couple previously donated $100,000 to the fund...

Riverside Regional Library in Scott County will offer extended hours starting Sept. 6 for library patrons. The hours will remain through the end of 1994. In Scott City, library hours will be 1-6 p.m., Tuesday through Friday, and 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. on Saturday...

Daughter to Rhonda Cook of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:42 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, 1994. Name, Kymberli Rachelle. Weight, 7 pounds. Second child, first daughter. Miss Cook is the daughter of Marilyn Cook of Cape Girardeau, and is a cashier at Kentucky Fried Chicken...

Loy (Bill) E. Seabaugh, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Aug. 21, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center. Seabaugh, 73, was born in Sedgewickville, Mo., to Fred and Rettie Winkler Seabaugh on February 12, 1921. He married Ruby B. Niswonger on Feb. 14, 1948 in Tupelo, Miss. She survives...

The CBS Evening News led Thursday evening with a report saying that on Capitol Hill health care reform is attached to life support, on the critical list and fading fast. The day of that report -- Thursday, Aug. 18, -- should go down as a turning point in the great health care debate of 1994. ...

There are certain "rights" most of us not only take for granted but demand: the right to possess firearms, drive an automobile and receive our proper share of federal checks or entitlements, as they're euphemistically called. Try to take away a citizen's revolver or rifle, his driver's license and his Social Security check upon reaching 65 --and you have a fight on your hands, maybe even a revolution...

A recent Associated Press poll that examined how some groups view racial equality yielded interesting results: While most people believe blacks and other minorities have the same opportunities as whites in the United States, individual groups of citizens believe otherwise...

To the editor: As president of the Historic Preservation Association, I am compelled to comment on the Aug. 16 article, "Student wants old Limbaugh home saved." I fully understand the need to edit for space, but one of the main points of the article didn't make it to press...

JACKSON -- When J. Mark and Donna Boardman decided to build a barn for their sons to practice cattle roping, they had no idea they would end up with a 55,000-square-foot arena. In a few short months the Boardmans' barn will be finished. The small barn is evolving into an enclosed one-and-a-quarter-acre arena. Kmart in Cape Girardeau is just a little bigger; at 64,000 square feet it is roughly one-and-a-half acres...

Cape Girardeau County coroner John E. Carpenter recently was inducted into membership in the American Board of Forensic Examiners. Induction is by invitation only. Carpenter was chosen because of his training and expertise in forensic pathology. Some of the programs he has taken part in: St. Louis University Department of Forensic Pathology graduate courses, FBI training seminars, St. Louis Police Academy, Cape County Sheriff's Department and Child Death Review Panel Training...

Lowe's Cos. Inc. has received the 1994 Retailer of the Year award from Building Supply Home Centers magazine in recognition of superior achievements and contributions in management, marketing and merchandising. Lowe's is the first and only three-time winner of the magazine's award, having previously received the honor in 1983 and 1977. ...

Jump-N-Space, a 4-year-old moonwalk business in Sikeston, is expanding its market to cover the Cape Girardeau area. A moonwalk is an inflatable "room" where children and adults jump and play. The business caters to birthday and company parties and events. Its inflation motor can be hooked up to a regular, 100-volt electrical outlet...

MARBLE HILL -- Crader Equipment Co. of Marble Hill is a winner of the Mississippi Valley Family Business of the Year award in the Missouri small-business category. The award, sponsored by the Family Business Forum of Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville, was given to the Crader family by SIUE President Nancy Belck during a recent luncheon in St. Louis...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Gail D. Woodfin, et al. to SEMO Rentals Inc.; the G. Keith Deimund Trust to Hey Martin Roe Beussink; Velma U. Lee et al. to James B. Orear and Amy J. Roberts...