Stories from Thursday, January 5, 1995

In a little more than a year, Cape Girardeau County has put to rest many of the concerns and questions regarding implementation of Enhanced 911 emergency telephone service. It was in 1991 that county voters overwhelmingly approved E-911, despite its $1.1 million price tag, which was to be financed with tariffs on county phone bills. ...

The Air Mobility Command Band of Mid-America will perform at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 24 at the Central High School Auditorium. The band, sponsored by the The United States Air Force, performs primarily in the Midwest and is based at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois...

The 1995 Southeast Missouri Honors Wind Ensemble will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Saturday in Academic Auditorium. The band is composed of 50 high school students chosen by audition from 40 Missouri School districts. The program will include Norman Dello Joio's "Satiric Dances," Daniel Bukvitch's "Dinosaurs" and marches by Gene Kenney and Henry Filmore...

"International Reflections," an exhibit of photographs taken abroad by Southeast Missouri State University faculty, will open Monday at Gallery 100, 1707 Mt. Auburn Road. A reception for the photographers will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Jan. 13 at the gallery. Admission to the exhibit is free...

Many people are familiar with the rousing strains of "Carmina Burana" even if they don't realize it. They've heard it in this year's promo for the NFL playoffs. Or they remember the music from the score of the modestly successful 1980s film "Excalibur."...

JEFFERSON CITY -- A dramatic battle for control of the Missouri House of Representatives that will continue today could result in Mark Richardson of Poplar Bluff taking over the powerful speaker's post. Richardson's election would be highly unusual because he is a Republican and Democrats control the House 87-76...

JEFFERSON CITY -- What was supposed to have been about a 20-minute reign as presiding officer of the Missouri House turned into an excruciating experience for Secretary of State Rebecca Cook. It also made her the target of sharp criticism from the Republicans...

Cape Girardeau should tighten its budget belt and scale back a proposed sales tax to fund transportation projects, one civic leader said. Planning and Zoning Commission member Harry Rediger said it is important to involve the business community in any transportation tax proposal...

While the Cape Girardeau City Council decides whether to put a half-cent transportation sales tax before voters, Jackson and Perryville are enjoying the benefits from their own measures. Cape Girardeau voters defeated transportation taxes in 1986 and 1987, but now the council lists 12 unfunded projects that could be completed with the $3.5 million estimated annual revenue from the tax...

Jan. 5, 1995 Dear Patty, DC and I had an unforgettable New Year's Eve. Unforgettable like bubble gum on your shoe. First, we made reservations at a restaurant remarkably devoid of other diners. The food was tasty, but isn't conviviality the idea on New Year's Eve? DC's brother was visiting and prophesied that we might be in for a bumpy night...

Nathan Adams was born and raised on a dairy farm in Gordonville. He plans to return to the farm after college. No doubts and no questions in his mind. Adams was among about 400 Future Farmers of America members from Southeast Missouri high schools who attended a motivational conference Wednesday featuring national FFA officers. The conference was held at Southeast Missouri State University...

Notre Dame girls basketball coach Larry Trickey filed Wednesday for one of two open seats on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. Trickey, 54, has two grown daughters, two stepdaughters and a stepson. The younger children all attend private, Catholic schools, but Trickey said that will help him maintain objectivity as a member of the public school board...

SCOTT CITY -- An ordinance requiring city employees to move to the city within six months and another setting entry-level pay rates were given first-round approval this week by the Scott City Council. New employees must move inside the city limits within six months of employment unless it would be an undue hardship. In that case, employees may live within 10 miles or 15 minutes as long as the number of employees living outside the city doesn't exceed 30 percent...

Ida Kiehne, 89, of Arkansas City, Kan., died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995, at the home of a daughter there. She was born April 13, 1905, in Advance, daughter of Peter and Rosetta Pouthies Hay. She and Carl Kiehne were married Jan. 9, 1932, at Bloomfield. He preceded her in death...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Steven Lynn Jones, 38, of Nashville, Tenn., died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1995, at Centennial Towers Medical Center, following a brief illness. He was born Aug. 10, 1956, in East Prairie, son of Harley and Nervy Woodward Jones. Jones was a 1974 graduate of East Prairie High School, and received an associate degree in business administration from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale...

DEXTER -- Graveside service for Earlene Glapenske of Dexter will be held at 11 a.m. today at Memorial Park Cemetery in Malden. The Rev. Kenneth Biggs will officiate. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Dexter is in charge of arrangements. Glapenske, 89, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter...

COBDEN, Ill. -- Joseph Highland Yates, 75, Cobden Route 1, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995, at Harry S Truman Veterans Center in Columbia. He was born Jan. 25, 1919, in Cobden, son of Franklin Samuel and Myrtle May Highland Yates. He and Neda M. Wilder were married Aug. 28, 1943, in Lecompte, La...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mildred I. Williford of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home. The Rev. Ernest Brown will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Williford, 80, died Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995, at East Prairie Nursing Center...

MORLEY -- Leo Milam, 82, Morley Route 1, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 18, 1912, in Stokes, Ark., son of Robert and Ella Koster Milam. He and Erma Ella Mayfield were married July 12, 1938, in Maynard, Ark. She died Aug. 15, 1993...

JACKSON -- Alma Piercey, 92, of Jackson, died Wednesday, Jan. 4, 1995, at Community Memorial Hospital in Staunton, Ill. She was born Jan. 25, 1902, at Sedgewickville, daughter of Jacob and Minnie Drum Crites. She first married Lloyd Snyder, who preceded her in death. She later married Lorne Piercey May 13, 1970...

Daughter to Timothy Wayne and Tammy Kay Campbell of New Madrid, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:19 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 14, 1994. Name, Dallas Paige. Weight, 7 pounds 5 ounces. First child. Mrs. Campbell is the former Tammy Palmer, daughter of Mark LaValle of New Madrid, Delores James of Hayti and the late Robert Palmer. She is employed in the meat department at Ramey's Supermarket, Campbell is a shift supervisor with Louis Dryefus Corp., and is the son of Wayne and Betty Campbell of Marston...

Divorces granted in Scott County Circuit Court John Lawrence Cray, 38, and Janice Carol Holifield Cray, 47, both of Sikeston. Larry Russell Swift, 40, and Debra Lynn Hanbock Swift, 35, both of Sikeston. Jason Colby Hicks, 22, Sikeston, and Helena Marie Robideau Hicks, 22, Morley...

Cape Girardeau County Roger Lee Williams Jr., 22, and Leslie Carol Cauble, 19; Todd Corbin Woodfin, 24, and Cheryl Lena Owens, 27; Horace Junior Fraliz, 58, and Joyce Jean Cole, 61. Brent Gregory Brune, 24, and Jennifer Dawn Foeste, 24; Wayne Travis Hunter, 45, and Joyce Ann Hinze, 38; James Ewing Corwin, 24, and Joy Evonne Mier, 21...

Good news for area sports junkies in need of an ESPN fix but not within access of cable television: All-sports radio has come to Southeast Missouri. Beginning last Friday, KCGQ-AM 1220 in Cape Girardeau switched to an all-sports format. According to station president and general manager Tom Stine, the new format is "a CNN Headline News approach to sports."...

Building projects highlight 1995 improvements in two area towns while a gambling boat is expected to spur growth in a third. At Jackson, a middle school will be almost compete by April and a water tower is planned for the fall. At Chaffee, a high school addition is being built while construction is under way on a business in the industrial park...