Stories from Sunday, February 12, 1995

"I would present a five-year plan to balance the budget." -- Bill Clinton on "Larry King Live", June 2, 1992. The growth of federal spending has accelerated at a breakneck pace so amazing that it helps to step back and gain some historical perspective. ...

Have you tried every diet in the book? Are you frustrated and want to live life lean? If so, a practical class has been designed for you that will focus on modifying behavior. With the registration fee, you will receive a copy of a weight loss and control manual, "Weight Control Ways."...

Yields of more than 250 bushels an acre netted two Southeast Missouri farmers No. 1 positions in the 1994 National Corn Growers Association National Corn Yield Growers Contest in Missouri. The highest yield reported was by Tim and Tom Davis of Perryville. The Davises harvested 251.50 bushels an acre, good for first place in the Class AA Non-Irrigated Division of the contest in Missouri...

Lee Langston is tired of hearing speeches about problems in the black community and divisions between whites and blacks. He wants to see some action. Many at the community unity breakfast Saturday echoed that sentiment. About 40 attended the meeting by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and House of Prayer Church...

Southeast sets hospice information session Thursday An informational session about volunteering with Southeast Hospice, a service of Southeast Missouri Hospital, will be held Thursday. The program will be held at 7 p.m. at hospice offices, 760 S. Kingshighway...

NEW MADRID -- U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson will speak at the Elected Officials Conference Friday at New Madrid. The fifth annual meeting at Becky Sharp's Restaurant will start at 2 p.m., with registration at 1:30 p.m. The event, said David R. Humes, chairman of the Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission, is designed to bring together elected officials and community leaders from throughout the Bootheel to meet with state legislators and discuss various state legislation...

The Claudia Co. will offer six scholarships for Three Rivers Community College for the 1995-96 school year. This is the seventh consecutive year these scholarships have been available for area women. The deadline to apply for the Claudia Bloodworth scholarships is April 1...

The Cardiac Rehabilitation Program at St. Francis Medical Center will conduct a series of "supermarket tours" during Cardiac Rehab Week, beginning Sunday. The free tours, designed to help people make heart-healthy choices when grocery shopping, will be held Wednesday at Schnucks at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Thursday at 7 p.m...

Cape Girardeau pulmonologist Dr. Brad Bittle will speak at Monday's meeting of the AWAKE sleep disorder support group at St. Francis Medical Center. The group will meet at 7 p.m. in Conference Rooms C and D of the St. Francis Health and Education Center...

Southeast Missouri Hospital's Fitness and Wellness Center will present a Stress Management Workshop Wednesday between 7 and 8 p.m. at the Drury Lodge Heritage Room. The topic will be "Understanding the Basics of Managing Stress," with instructor Yvonne Menke...

Thirty boars were sold for an average price of $450 at the 35th performance tested swine sale. Southeast Missouri State University, the University of Missouri Extension Service and the SEMO Swine Improvement Association were sale hosts. A Landrace boar fetched the highest price, $900, paid by H&H Hog Farm of Marston...

The Historical Association of Cape Girardeau will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the activity room at Chateau Girardeau. The speaker wil be Dan Schaoeneberg who will come dressed as a Civil War soldier and will explain the uniform piece by piece. He will also talk about how the soldiers lived and what they ate...

BENTON -- Scott County's presiding commissioner and sheriff both think additional funding is needed for law enforcement services. Scott County voters will decide April 4 if they agree. The county has two sales tax increases on the ballot -- 0.25 percent for funding general operations and 0.25 percent for building a new jail...

Matt Buttrey and Sarah Booth placed 12 at the U.S. Figure Skating National Championships held in Rhode Island last week. The team performed their long program Thursday. In a telephone interview from Rhode Island, Buttrey's mother Betty Buttrey said, "Twelfth in the nation isn't bad."...

Southeast Missouri State University has named 1,255 students to its dean's list for academic achievement during the fall 1994 semester. Students named to the list earned at least a 3.5 grade-point average on a 4.0 scale and completed at least 12 degree credit hours during the fall session...

A Freedom from Smoking clinic will be held Tuesday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Cape Vo-Tech School. The clinic was designed by the American Lung Association and presented by health care professionals (including ex-smokers) from Southeast Missouri Hospital. It is a way to quit smoking...

UNIONTOWN -- Wilma Rolens Ochs, a gospel singer from Uniontown, will appear on a TV show titled "The Nashville Starseek." The show features singers of country, gospel and easy listening music who are competing for a recording contract. Viewers are given a 900 number to place their vote...

The American Red Cross has scheduled two area blood drives. One will be held Sunday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church in Cape Girardeau. A blood drive will also be held Tuesday through Thursday on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Geronimo's in the Towers Complex. The goal is to collect 300 units...

Washington, D.C., is simultaneously a symbol of our nation's greatness as a democracy and a frightening example of the failure of local governance. Those who fervently believe that turning our social problems over to governors and mayors is a panacea might take a closer look at Washington's flirtation with bankruptcy...

JEFFERSON CITY -- At least one group of Missourians would like the General Assembly to emulate Congress in considering one portion of Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract With America. Hoping to end so-called unfunded mandates, the Missouri Association of Counties wants the Missouri Legislature to stop sending its members the same kind of non-financed orders the states receive from Washington...

Let's talk about television schedules. Many of you have noticed recent changes in TV Update, the weekly TV magazine in each Friday's Southeast Missourian. And you don't like the changes. Neither do I. During the past few months you have repeatedly suggested that you want 24-hour listings. ...

The Commission on Performance is a 28-member group appointed pursuant to 1993's passage of Senate Bill 380, Gov. Mel Carnahan's tax-and-reform plan for Missouri schools. Of the 28 members, only seven -- the governor and six lawmakers -- are elected officials who know the accountability that comes from actually having to face the voters...

Steven J. Popp of Jackson has been named one of the Missouri Jaycees' ten Outstanding Young Missourians for 1995. Popp is a real estate appraiser for Cunningham Bros. Appraisal Inc. The award, sponsored by Missouri Public Service, recognizes 10 Missourians between the ages of 21 and 39 each year...

"Orthodontics for All Ages" is the topic of the February Woman to Woman Luncheon at St. Francis Medical Center. The meeting will be held at noon Thursday in conference rooms A and B. Dr. Don Dennington, an orthodontist, will discuss orthodontic options for different family members and offer tips to improve a person's smile...

Members of the Jackson Optimist Club and Noon Optimist Club recently named three Jackson High School students winners in the annual Optimist International Essay Contest. The essay contest is sponsored by the Optimist International Foundation and asked students to expound upon the topic "Freedom, Our Most Precious Heritage."...

Charles "Sonny" Grojean turns the pages of "Leatherneck," a magazine dedicated to the exploits of the Marines during World War II. Grojean received a Purple Heart on Iwo Jima, and still has two pieces of shrapnel in his chest. This platoon of Marines would soon ship out for Hawaii, then Iwo Jima. Many would not return alive. Charles Grojean of Gordonville is in the front row, second from the left...

Claueda Barks of Jackson receives her diploma from Terry Evans of the Nashville Auction School. Claueda Barks is a full-fledged colonel in what is truly a man's profession. She hasn't joined the military. Barks, who owns and operates Rainbow Auction with her husband Bobby, recently graduated from auction school, earning her the name "Colonel," a title traditionally given to auction school graduates. ...

The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School will celebrate American Vocational Association Week with an open house today to show off programs available at the school. The open house will be held from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Teachers and students will be on hand to demonstrate skills and talk about courses offered...

Bad hair days are a common occurrence, but I never heard of bad earring days until I experienced one. I should have known it was going to be some kind of a bad day when I saw driblets of snow falling from the sky. Snow always puts me in a bad mood, so a good day can quickly turn into a bad day when the flurries are flying...

JEFFERSON CITY - Even though it passed nearly two years ago, Senate Bill 380 remains a focal point of debate among members of the General Assembly. The legislation, aggressively pushed through the Legislature by Gov. Mel Carnahan with few votes to spare, re-wrote the school foundation formula for elementary and secondary schools and also included a series of education reforms...

By the time Tony turned 6, no foster family would take him. When he was 3, the state took him from his parents. For the next few years, he went from foster home to foster home, never lasting more than a few weeks. Tony tried to hurt himself, biting his arm until it bled or hitting his head against a wall...

Hundreds of Missouri and Illinois communities will share in the federal "Cops Fast" program, created in last year's federal crime bill to put more police officers on the nation's streets immediately to fight crime. Some $26 million will be allotted to Illinois communities to hire 406 police officers. Missouri counties and municipalities will get checks worth more than $14 million to hire 281 officers...

Educators, counselors and parents give the May Greene Elementary School's Community Caring Program high marks, but the time has come to either ante up or allow the project to die. "We need to come up with some kind of funding in the next two months or the project will not be here next fall," Community Caring Project Coordinator Jo Boyer said. "I believe there are enough people who have seen this model project work that will want to help keep it going."...

I'M A DEMOCRAT, and I voted for Clinton, but I'm wondering if I made a mistake. What in the world is he doing by sticking his nose in the business of the baseball strike? What with everything else going on in this country and around the world, why would he be concerned about a group of millionaire owners and a group of millionaire players and not take care of the business at hand? I'm not against anyone making all the money they can, but I do believe that the owners should be able to determine what they can and should pay their players. ...

Stavros thinks he knows half the people in Cape Girardeau because they eat at the restaurant he manages or wave at him as he walks around the city. Stavros knows them. They don't know him. All they know is that "I cook here and it's good," he said, sitting at Dino's Pizza...

The Zonta Club of Cape Girardeau has been selected recipient of the Missouri Easter Seal Society's award for outstanding service. The Cape Girardeau Zonta Club was recognized for its longstanding financial and volunteer support of the Easter Seal Society's Early Learning Center in Cape Girardeau...

CHAFFEE - Clifford Lacy, 83, of Chaffee died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home of Chaffee.

Mary Margaret Walker, 71, of 2042 Woodlawn Ave., died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 4, 1923, at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Jess and Zora Hodge Morton. She and Paul E. Walker were married Jan. 15, 1953, in St. Louis...

FROHNA -- Marvin F.G. "Tommy" Petzoldt, founder of the East Perry Lumber Co. in Frohna, died Friday, Feb. 10, 1995. He was 85. In addition to founding the lumber company, Petzoldt was instrumental in the development of a ferry in Wittenberg, a pallet mill in Frohna and a rock quarry in Old Appleton...

SIKESTON -- Martha Wallace, 86, of Sikeston died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born May 23, 1908, at Essex, daughter of John H. and Luella Duty Causey. She married to Dallas Wallace Nov. 10, 1928. She was a member of the First Baptist Church...

BENTON -- Theon Emil Robert, 92, of Benton died Friday, Feb. 10, 1995, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 23, 1902, at Benton, son of Andrew and Anna Dohogne Robert. He first married Emma A. Ledure Nov. 3, 1926, at Kelso. She preceded him in death July 30, 1934. He then married Genevieve Lotfin Jan. 26, 1937, at New Hamburg...

ADVANCE -- David Raymond Rhodes, 55, of Advance died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 12, 1939, at Whitewater, son of Raymond and Amy Rhodes. He was a police officer in Advance and a merchant. He also served on a committee to purchase war memorial monuments for the Advance Park. Rhodes was a veteran of the Navy...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Pearl Lemons, 74, of East Prairie died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at East Prairie Nursing Center. She was born July 11, 1906, at East Prairie, daughter of Jess and Fannie Largent Davis. She and Robert Lee Lemons were married in 1924. He preceded her in death Jan. 20, 1973...

SIKESTON -- Jeffery Shane Householder, 24, of Sikeston died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Aug. 15, 1970, in Sikeston. He is survived by his father and stepmother, Jeff and Diana Householder of Benton; his mother and stepfather, Linda and Phil Harper of Sikeston; his paternal grandparents, Sonny and Melba Householder of Sikeston; his maternal grandparents, Chick and Toy Reynolds of Sikeston; a brother, Nathan Householder of Benton; four sisters, Shannon Carter and Sarah Householder of Benton, Melissa Householder of Cape Girardeau and Melanie Householder of Sikeston.. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Glenna L. Fadler, 81, of Yount died Saturday, Feb. 11, 1995, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born March 27, 1913, at Silver Lake, daughter of James and Carrie Coffey Heaps. She married Thomas P. Fadler. He preceded her in death Aug. 26, 1973...

Scott CountyLila Bussey Realtors Inc. to John E. and Gloria L. Crowley; Ruth Ann German Standley to Raimus Will Yates; Ruth Ann German Standley to Henry Loomis Eward Yates. Helen C. Matthews to Lee O. and Lillian R. Matthews; Randal E. and Sue M. Scott to Dixie Ray; Dixie Ray to Gene and Barbara Shaw...

COLUMBIA -- Cape Girardeau Central High swimmer Jonathan Younghouse claimed state championships in two events and was named co-most valuable swimmer at the Missouri state swim meet Saturday. Younghouse won the 200-yard freestyle with a time of 1:44.71 and the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4:41.83. The Cape Central junior, who shared the most valuable swimmer award with a competitor from Country Day, is the first state swimming champion in school history...

The national symbol, the bald eagle, not long ago was conspicuously absent in the feathered flesh over much of America. The once common raptor, a species whose majestic image historically has been interwoven with an entire republic and its people, was sinking dangerously close to becoming a creature of history only. In the Lower 48 states, bald eagles had dwindled to a relative handful of their former ranks...

The second annual Friends of the NRA Banquet will be held Thursday, March 9 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Cape Girardeau. Tickets to the banquet are $25 per person or $40 per couple and available at Phegley's Shooting Supply (335-1007) and Beards Sporting Goods (334-2266) in Cape Girardeau and Hartlein Archery & Sporting Goods (243-5384) in Jackson. All proceeds go to the National Rifle Association...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Hunters who want to take part in managedspring turkey hunts at Weldon Spring Conservation Area and August A. Busch Memorial Conservation Area in St. Charles County should obtain application forms now. The managed hunts will take place during the regular spring turkey season April 24 through May 7 under statewide regulations. ...

Bald eagles are the whoppers of North America's raptors. Packing a wingspread of up to seven and a half feet, a large bald eagle an weigh up to 16 pounds. The largest are the mature females, which can weigh up to about a third more than their male counterparts...

Gene Copeland listens to House debate with Rep. James Graham, R-Fredericktown, Feb. 8 in Jefferson City. JEFFERSON CITY -- To see Gene Copeland in action today, you would never imagine that during his first few years as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives he was miserable...

Do I expect a box of candy Tuesday? No. A dozen red roses? No. A big, lacy, honeycombed tissue paper decorated valentine? No. Do I even expect to take notice of Valentine's Day? Yes! In non-exciting February when the window curtains hang a little limp and the green grass of the lawn is splotched with great areas of light tan, it is good to celebrate a crisp red and white semi-holiday, even if one does it by him-herself (That is my solution to the longer form of himself or herself. ...