Stories from Monday, March 13, 1995

Teri Ford cleared a table at Pop's Pizza where she works as a waitress. You've prepared your vacation budget, down to the last dollar, including tips. Or, have you? Normally, bellboys will graciously take your bags at the desk when you check in a hotel and accompany you to your room...

The equine marketplace accounts for 20 percent of Rio Vista Sales, which added up to more than $12 million last year. So, who accounted for the remaining 80 percent? Two-legged critters called humans. Rio Vista, a product line designed more than a year ago, includes Rio Vista Tail & Mane Detangler, Rio Vista Equine Shampoo and Rio Vista Hoof Manicure...

If some of your mail has been returned to sender lately, maybe you didn't get the message. The message, officially delivered to postal customers 18 months ago and now being enforced, was this: Mail to be delivered to a post office box must be addressed to the box number and no longer will be forwarded from the street address...

The Southeast Missourian received more than 2,000 phone calls from subscribers looking for Sunday's edition, delivered in some cases several hours past its 7 a.m. delivery deadline. Problems with the newspaper's inserting machines forced employees to place Lifestyles and classified ad sections manually into the main paper...

Cape Girardeau Board of Education is scheduled to discuss its American Express credit card and a list of questions submitted by school volunteer Amy Randol at its meeting Monday. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. at the board office, 61 N. Clark. It is open to the public...

An aerial view of Camp Legendre, the base camp for Task Force Mule. The camp was set up for 500 to 550 men and women. CAIMITO, Panama -- Although Panama was invaded by U.S. troops in December 1989, the only gunfire heard last week at Camp Legendre was from the tent with the television and video cassette recorder...

With St. Patrick's Day this Friday, the Southeast Missourian asked students at May Greene School what they knew about leprechauns. Alexis DePree: "A leprechaun is something small, and it likes gold and rainbows. It wears black shoes, white vest, green hat and green shirt. It was something made up."...

New soap opera? COULD SOMEONE please enlighten me? I keep seeing the O.J. Simpson trial on the television. Is this actually a trial that's going on in California or is this a new soap opera called "The O.J. Simpson Trial"? Against hunting farms WOULD ANYBODY out there know if there are hunting farms in Missouri? On CBS, it came to our attention that there are farms in several states where older and surplus exotic animals from zoos and petting farms are sold off. ...

PEKIN, Ill. -- Ruby Bright Dockum, 73, of Pekin, formerly of Union County, died Sunday, March 12, 1995, at the Pekin Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Hileman & Parr Funeral Services in Jonesboro.

Agenda Monday, March 13 5 p.m., Board of Education Conference Room, 61 N. Clark Reports of superintendent, Finance Committee, Building and Grounds Committee, Treasurer and Secretary -Student recognition -NEA/CTA -Payment of Bills Action items -Personnel (Dr. Niggle)...

Jackson Board of Education 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Action Items Set date and time for a special board meeting for the reemployment of teachers. Adopt school calendar for the 1995-96 school year. Amend budget to equip Jackson Middle School during the 1994-95 school year...

Scott CountyPaul David Cohen et al. to James Luther and Lora Darlene Brown; Kenneth and Bulah P. Fitzgerald to Kenney Wayne and Peggy Jean Bright; Lone Star Industries Inc. to Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. Garry J. and Sherry A. Mason to James E. and Elizabeth Brewer; Orville D. and Kathryn Freeman to Leo C. and Carolyn Schott; Mike and Debra Evans Nelson to Linda Kay Hodges; Gerald D. and Connie J. Krueger to the Krueger Revocable Trust...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Woodrow Wilson McDaniel, 82, of Eureka, Mo., formerly of Mound City died Sunday, March 12, 1995, at the St. Joseph Hills Nursing Home in Eureka. He was born Aug. 3, 1912, at Mound City, the son of Benjamin and Nettie Gilmore McDaniel. He was a Navy veteran of World War II...

Mary Amelia Farrar Souers, 93, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, March 12, 1995, at the Chateau Girardeau Health Center. She was born March 21, 1901, in Advance, the daughter of Dr. J.C. and Emma Kappler Farrar. She married Ethan E. Souers on July 22, 1932. He preceded her in death in 1963...

Chaffee -- James H. Miller, 62, of Chaffee, died Sunday, March 12, 1995, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

HICKORY RIDGE, Ark. -- Charlotte Jean Gillihan, 43, of Hickory Ridge died Saturday, March 11, 1995, at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Survivors include her husband, Robert Gillihan of Hickory Ridge; her father, Oliver Amos Snider of Delta; two brothers, James E. Snider of Chaffee and Oliver Snider of Jackson; and two sisters, Verna Blue of Delta and Carman Brown of Charleston...

ADVANCE -- Violet "Vie" Phelps, 87, of Advance died Saturday, March 11, 1995, at the Advance Nursing Care Center. She was born Jan. 29, 1908, in Brownwood, the daughter of John and Rebecca Fears Black. On March 4, 1924, she married Fred Phelps at Brownwood. He died on Feb. 21, 1973...

Michael Dennis Sweet, 13, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 10, 1995, at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 2, 1981, in St. Louis, the son of Michael and Rachel Sweet. He was in the seventh grade at Schultz Middle School and previously attended May Greene and Jackson schools. He was a member of the Junior Church Department and the Pioneer Club at the First Baptist Church in Jackson...

To the editor: There has been a glut of media coverage in the United States on the supposed Republican cutting of school lunches, starving our children in schools. This has been perpetuated by our lying administration when the opposite is true. More money will be spent under the new program than under the old. ...

To the editor: In about three weeks, on Tuesday, April 4, we will once more be voting for new members of the Jackson Board of Education. Our votes will be shaping the future of our district. Therefore, they should be educated votes. One way voters can make that educated vote is by marking Tuesday, March 21, on their calendars so they won't forget to attend the "Meet the School Board Candidates Forum." The forum, hosted again this year by the Jacksonian chapter of the American Business Women's Association, is a tremendous way to gauge the candidates and find out just where they stand on issues that are important to voters and the children of the district.. ...

On behalf of the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport Advisory Board, I want to publicly thank the Southeast Missourian for its support of the airport and the board. The board also would like to publicly thank the mayor, city council and city administrators for their support and willingness to consider the board's recommendations and their strong support of the airport during recent years. ...

Meetings held at all six elementary schools in Cape Girardeau last week generated moderate attendance at best. The meetings were part of the district's efforts to come up with recommendations for balancing class sizes and racial mix at the schools. Interestingly, the school with the largest minority student population and the smallest class sizes, May Greene, attracted the fewest participants in the meetings: 16...

The billion-dollar-plus desegregation effort in the Kansas City school district -- paid for by all of Missouri's taxpayers -- has never made sense. Missourians have watched with curiosity and indignation as the district, with the help of a federal judge in Springfield, embarked on a doomed-to-failure attempt to create the perfect school system with the most modern state-of-the-art buildings and equipment. Again, all of this was paid for by Missouri's taxpayers...

A meeting the other day with the three most powerful members of the Missouri General Assembly produced this reaction to a critically needed balanced federal budget: Congress can stop Washington's red ink, with or without a constitutional amendment, by just rolling up its sleeves and getting to work on the job. It's as easy as that, according to Senate President Jim Mathewson, House Speaker Bob Griffen and Senate Minority Leader Franc Flotron...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Last week's training session in Jefferson City for county commissioners was informative for new officials, said several participants. Bob Kielhofner, Scott County's presiding commissioner since January, said the commissioners were busy attending seminars and discussions from Sunday afternoon through Tuesday noon...

Developer Stephen Strom sent a message to area historians this week. Take photos, take measurements, take a tour, but the Meyer farmhouse is beyond preservation and must be demolished. Strom recently purchased part of the Emil "Jim" Meyer farm, including the retired farmer's birthplace off Lexington Street. The developer said he must tear down the house before it falls down, and sent a letter to various preservation organizations inviting members to examine the structure Saturday, May 18...

The Country Music Hall on Highway 25 near Gordonville will be the site of a Springfest Pageant Saturday, beginning at 1 p.m. Contestants will compete in eight divisions from Baby to Miss. Prizes will be awarded in each division for the winners and the alternates. All contestants will receive a certificate of participation...

Raben Tire Co., Airport & Nash Road. recently held a pancake and sausage day for its customers and their families. Shown here, chef Chris Cakes, left, demonstrated his pancake flipping abilities to Pat Zellmer, advertising director of the Southeast Missourian newspaper, and Herman, Lintner, right, manager of Raben Tire...

Ronald J. Long, a native of Cape Girardeau, has received a promotion from the British Petroleum Co. Long will coordinate global tax planning initiatives for the company in its home office in London. Long, a certified public accountant, previously served as director of tax planning for BP Oil Co., the U.S. refining and marketing segment of the company's operations...