Stories from Tuesday, February 28, 1995

Concertmaster Nina Bodnar's teaching style allowed members of a string quartet to laugh at themselves and learn quickly. "What can I do to light a fire under you?" she asked the second violinist, noting her slow pace on a particular piece. "I guess I'll just play your part. Get up."...

The Cape Girardeau Airport Board and city staff disagree over how the airport should be run. The advisory board has recommended that the airport operate as a separate department instead of as a division of the Public Works Department. The city's top administrators contend that the current arrangement has worked well...

If Cape Girardeau schools want to win a ballot issue, the school board must present a proposal voters want, says Don Bemis. Bemis, a former school superintendent in Detroit, works for A.G. Edwards, an investment firm with offices in Cape Girardeau. Bemis helps school districts get ballot issues passed...

Talk is cheap, particularly on the radio. It's amazing how many people are experts and want to talk about it on the radio. I'm convinced the First Amendment wasn't written by our nation's founding fathers. It was written by radio broadcasters who wanted to have plenty to talk about...

REGARDING THESE strip bars, if these same women were in a hotel room performing the same acts that they are doing in these bars, would they not be considered prostitutes? I HAD to laugh when I read the comment about the senior citizens center and all the old people having nice cars. Do young people understand that years ago we walked to work? We didn't even have a car to go to work in. Today every young person has a car, and then they wonder why they haven't got any money...

Scott County Donald F. and Helen C. Matthews to Lee O. John A. Matthews; John A. and Sharon Matthews to Lee O. and Lillian R. Matthews; Lee O. and Lillian Matthews to Lee O. and Lillian Matthews. Curtis M and Odessie Williams to James E. and Betty S. Robinson; James E. and Betty S. Robinson to Billy L. Smith et al.; Larry Thomas et al. to The Clayton Family Limited Partnership...

JOPPA, Ill. -- A Karnak man was killed early Monday when he ran a mini school bus off the road and into a creek. An Illinois State Police spokesperson said Marvin M. Wartenbe, 46, was a bus driver for the Shawnee Development Council, which serves disabled people. He was driving the bus to work on the Joppa-Grand Chain Blacktop when he ran off the Post Creek bridge in rural Pulaski County...

BLOOMFIELD -- Mark Allen Wrinkle, 29, of Bloomfield, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 1995, at Twin Rivers Medical Center in Kennett. He was born May 7, 1965, in Poplar Bluff. Wrinkle was a construction worker. He formerly worked in the circulation department of the Southeast Missourian Newspaper in Cape Girardeau...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Ronald Carden, 46, of East Prairie, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, following a brief illness. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Lelia M. Seabaugh, 82, of Jackson, died Monday, Feb. 27, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 12, 1912, in the Hog Creek community of Bollinger County, daughter of Harrison and Elizabeth Allen Reynolds. She and Jesse Seabaugh were married June 19, 1931. He died Dec. 1, 1979...

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Clarence Ole Weierke, 70, of Farmington, Minn., formerly of Cairo and Barlow, Ky., died Saturday, Feb. 25, 1995, at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. He was born Dec. 9, 1924, in Rich Valley, Minn., son of Paul and Emily Weierke. He and Verda Munsell were married Oct. 19, 1968. She died in 1977...

PERRYVILLE -- Mary Amelia LaRose, 93, of Perryville, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1995, at Perry Oaks Nursing Center. She was born April 17, 1901, in Perry County, daughter of August and Emma Herron Buff. She and Lawrence J. LaRose were married Aug. 5, 1919, at Silver Lake. He died Jan. 4, 1982...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Mary Patricia "Pat" Beeler, 66, of Metropolis, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1995, at her home. She was born Nov. 11, 1928, in Cairo, daughter of Albert and Mary Catherine Lieb Zanone. Beeler was a waitress. Survivors include a son, Adrian "Danny" Beeler of Kevil, Ky.; three daughters, Cindy Simpson and Susan Lewis of Metropolis, Pam Scott of Paducah, Ky.; a sister, Hortense Sullivan of Mounds; 14 grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren...

Funeral service for James F. Brady, 1618 Oxford, will be held at 8:30 a.m. today in the Mausoleum at Memorial Park. The Rev. John Owen will officiate, with entombment in the mausoleum. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Brady, 77, died Monday, Feb. 27, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Medrith Walker of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Ted Wimberly will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Walker, 79, died Saturday, Feb. 25, 1995, in Corinth, Miss...

BENTON -- The wife of a Scott County sheriff's deputy is leading fund-raising efforts to purchase bullet-proof vests for county deputies. Connie Drury, wife of head jailer Wesley Drury, has made the effort a personal project. "The deputies have been lucky so far," she said. "I want to give them this added protection before something tragic happens and someone is seriously hurt or killed."...

The Senate is scheduled to vote on the balanced budget amendment today. By last count, no one was sure if it would pass or fail. The final decision will come down to a handful of Democratic senators who supported the amendment in the past but who now face heavy lobbying from President Clinton and others in the Democratic leadership to oppose the measure. One thing is clear, however. The American people will know who to blame if the amendment is defeated...

Missouri House Speaker Bob Griffin recently made a rather puzzling announcement. Griffin said he might not run for that position next year. One is tempted to answer: "Yes, and we might not swim the English Channel next year, either." Griffin has held the powerful top House leadership post since 1981 and is the longest-serving speaker in Missouri history. ...

The Cape Girardeau Public Library will host a low-fat diet program and cholesterol screening March 11. From 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and from 11 a.m. to noon, Linda Lawrence, a cardiac rehabilitation nurse at St. Francis Medical Center, will present "Don't Eat Your Heart Out!" It is a program on how to lose weight and reduce the risk of heart disease by limiting fat in the diet...

Cape Girardeau Board of Education member Lyle Davis sported an American Express credit card pinned to his lapel Monday as he went about business and attended a school board study session Monday night. The card was in response to Southeast Missourian articles Sunday that detailed American Express card uses by Cape Girardeau public schools...

Jason Green of Cape Girardeau has placed in recent competitions as a member of the Nebraska Wesleyan Forensics Team. He finished second in informative speaking and sixth in dramatic interpretation at the Concordia College Bulldog Tournament in Seward, Neb., Jan. 28. He finished second in the quadrathon, third in impromptu speaking and fifth in prose at the Hawk Invitational Tournament at Norfolk, Neb., Feb. 10-11...

Timothy L. Hutteger, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Hutteger of Cape Girardeau, was among 3,100 students at the University of Kansas named to the honor roll for the fall semester. He is a junior at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Kelli Pierce of Cape Girardeau qualified for the graduate college honor roll with a 4 grade-point average during the fall semester at the Health Sciences Center of the University of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City.

CHAFFEE -- Amy Lynn Debrock of Chaffee has received a Missouri Leadership Award to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1995-96 academic year. The Missouri Leadership Award is a one-year award for Missouri students who have achieved an ACT score of 24 or SAT score of 990, and a 3.0 grade-point average. Recipients also must demonstrate leadership abilities. The award is applied toward residence hall fees...

Rebecca J. Neumann of Jackson and John S. Loucks of Chaffee have been awarded Regents' scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1995-96 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class and who have achieved an ACT score of 28 or SAT score of 1,160. Regents' scholarships also are awarded to class valedictorians and salutatorians who have achieved an ACT score of 25 or SAT score of 1,160...

Student winners of the 1995 Missouri Collegiate Entrepreneur Award and their faculty nominators will be rewarded with a financial leg up on their competitors. Students in Missouri's colleges and universities are eligible to compete for the award. The contest is co-sponsored by the Missouri Small Business Development Centers and the Jefferson Smurfit Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at St. Louis University...

The St. Vincent de Paul seventh- and eighth-grade scholar bowl teams, coached by Mary Sue Sharp, recently received state honors in the Missouri Thinking Cape Quiz Bowl. The eighth-grade team received a trophy and ribbons for its second-place finish in the state, competing with 78 other teams and scoring 1,244 out of a possible 1,500. Team members are Andrew Buchheit, Joe Essner, Ryan Fenwick, Cecilia Kuntz, Stephanie Miller and Brent Schumer...

Emily Shanks, a senior at Kelly High School near Benton, attended a weeklong training session last month at Future Homemakers of America's National Headquarters and Leadership Center in Reston, Va. The organization's national vice-president of community service, Shanks is one of 10 student members of the National Executive Council elected in July. She also visited Washington, D.C., and met with Missouri congressional leaders...

Stan Clark, a student at Cape Central High School, participated in the Presidential Classroom's 1995 Senior High School Program in Washington, D.C. He was among 210 high school juniors and seniors from 34 states who spent a week with government officials learning about the democratic process. ...

An orientation session for parents who anticipate having a child in kindergarten next school year at Kelly Elementary School near Benton is scheduled for March 7 at 7 p.m. in the elementary gym. All parents of children who will be 5 before July 1 should attend. Topics include kindergarten screening, student eligibility, enrollment, registration information, curriculum, and suggestions for parents to better prepare their children for school...

JACKSON -- Tammy Mueller is the third generation of her family to teach at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson. "My family has been a big influence to my becoming a teacher," she said. Her grandfather, W.T. Palisch, was principal at the school when Mueller attended...

In addition to author Jim Trelease, who will be the main speaker at the third annual Parenting Conference, there will be four workshops offered at the March 4 event. The conference will feature a workshop beginning at 10:45 a.m. titled "Raising Confident Kids." The workshop, which will be run by Phyllis Schnell, will provide ways to help children develop a healthy sense of self-esteem. Schnell is a registered nurse and coordinator of the Family Learning Center in Cape Girardeau...

Most parents know what their children's reading levels are. But what about their listening levels? "Listening comprehension comes before reading comprehension, and it's usually two to three years ahead," said Jim Trelease, author of the best-selling 30-page booklet "The Read-Aloud Handbook."...