Stories from Thursday, May 11, 1995

ADVANCE -- Marzena Friedrich, 88, of Advance died Wednesday, May 10, 1995, at the Advance Nursing Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.

After two years of negotiations, the city of Cape Girardeau and TCI Cablevision of Missouri Inc. finally have reached agreement on a 10-year cable-TV franchise. Both sides say they are happy with the agreement, for which residents could ask no more after months of closed-door haggling and, presumably, compromise. ...

Once Missouri legislators decided to stop "horsing around," they passed the Missouri mule bill, and state Rep. Mary Kasten and Charles Woodford of the Cape Girardeau American Legion post kicked up their heels. "We finally got what typifies Missourians turned into an official symbol," Kasten, a Cape Girardeau Republican, said during a telephone interview Wednesday from Jefferson City...

"Arthritis and Joint Replacement" will be the topic of "Ask Your Doctor," a medical show with local doctors answering questions from local viewers calling in. Dr. Rickey L Lents and Donna Goodson of The Hand Center will be the speakers. "Ask Your Doctor" can be seen tonight at 8 on cable access Channel 5...

JACKSON -- It's called EAGLE in Sikeston schools, Explore, Probe and other names in Cape Girardeau and ALERT in Jackson, but the names all mean the same thing. They're titles put on advanced programs for gifted students. Unlike Sikeston, Cape Girardeau and many other area schools, Jackson's gifted students have to participate in special studies after school. The system's overcrowding didn't allow for the extra classrooms and teachers needed to have ALERT during the day...

ST. LOUIS -- Boatmen's Bancshares is moving its retail loan service center to downtown St. Louis, but Boatmen's officials here say it won't affect local customers. "We will still have our retail loan service center in Cape Girardeau," said Don Foley, a vice president in lending here. "People will still talk with their local bankers."...

PERRYVILLE -- How does "Bye Bye Birdie," a musical inspired by the departure of Elvis Presley for the Army in the 1950s, play in 1995? Though never revived on Broadway since opening in 1960, "Bye Bye Birdie" has become the most popular high school production in the country...

Missouri Hey Day, a horse show aimed at demonstrating the versatility of Tennessee walking horses, will be presented Saturday at Flickerwood Arena in Jackson. The competition will be held at 1:30 p.m. at the arena, 3026 Larch Lane in Jackson. Flickerwood is an indoor arena, so the show will go rain or shine...

J.J. Edmonds roams the tables and gets his kicks singing songs made famous by Sinatra. Citseka Staples and J.J. Edmonds were strangers until Edmonds captivated her attention with the tune "The Lady is a Tramp" during karaoke night at Papa Bear's Daquiris Tuesday...

The Kindermusik and Keyboards Conservatory will begin its summer session of classes in June. Sign-ups are under way for the summer musical "Jack in the Beanstalk" (ages 5 and up), Kindermusik (ages 18 months through 5 years) and Piano/Keyboards (5 years through adult)...

As the renewed debate over prayer in the public schools suggests, the cultural conflict of the modern era finds vivid and enduring focus in the legal dispute about the place of religion in the civic order. Here the battle is overt, relentless and pervasive - with traditional belief and custom retreating before a secularist onslaught in our courts and other public institutions...

SIKESTON -- Shawn D. Ergle, 20, of Sikeston died in a two-car accident around 6 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 61 just inside the northern Sikeston city limits. Scott County Deputy Coroner Randy Jones said he believed Ergle was killed instantly but hadn't made a definite determination yet...

MAKANDA, Ill. -- The Makanda Boardwalk Association and Village of Makanda will hold Makanda Fest '95 Saturday and Sunday in downtown Makanda. The seventh annual event will showcase artists from Indiana, Illinois and Missouri. All the handcrafts are selected by the association...

PERRYVILLE -- Duell Ray Yamnitz, 58, of Perryville, died Tuesday, May 9, 1995, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born Aug. 16, 1936, at Patton, son of Virgle and Wilma Presnell Yamnitz. He and Carol Unterreiner were married Feb. 8, 1980...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Anna I. Britton, 84, of Mounds, died Wednesday, May 10, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born April 11, 1911, in Union County, daughter of Willis "Chub" and Mary Kinder Cruse. She married John E. Britton, who died in 1981...

ORAN -- Clyde Mungle, 73, of Oran, died Wednesday, May 10, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Oran is in charge of arrangements.

CHARLESTON -- Jack S. Ketchum, 84, Charleston Route 2, died Tuesday, May 9, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born April 5, 1911, in Napier, Tenn., son of R.T. and Milbree Lee Rector Ketchum. He and Gladys Josephine Perry were married Jan. 27, 1934...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Clyde "Moma T" Turner of Jonesboro will be held at 10 a.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Revs. Scott Harner and Ralph Lee will officiate, with burial in Jonesboro Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of service...

SIKESTON -- Everett Freshour, 91, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, May 10, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Aug. 11, 1903, in Sabougla, Miss., son of Elmer M. and Ella Jane Cooper Freshour. He and Lydia L. Bounds were married March 20, 1926, in Greenville. She died Feb. 2, 1988...

ZALMA -- Frances J. Morineau, 87, of Cahokia, Ill., died Wednesday, May 10, 1995, at Cahokia Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born April 8, 1908, at Zalma, daughter of John and Mary Hovis Bess. She married Louis Morineau July 15, 1950. He preceded her in death...

PERRYVILLE -- Valentine Joseph "Val" Taylor, 79, of Perryville, died Wednesday, May 10, 1995, at his home. He was born March 16, 1916, at Perryville, son of Arthur and Floy Tucker Taylor. He married Doris M. Kelley. Taylor was district manager of Singer Sewing Machine Co. ...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- William D. Bunch, 73, of McClure, died Tuesday, May 9, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born March 9, 1922, in Allentown, Mo., son of Jackson P. and Mayme Leonard Bunch. He and Dorothy Wilson were married March 20, 1945, in Ava...

Twin sons to Jeff and Beth Rush, 684 County Road 635, Southeast Missouri Hospital, Tuesday, May 2, 1995. Tyler James was born at 10:28 p.m. and weighed 5 pounds 13 ounces. Dylan Thomas was born at 11:15 p.m. and weighed 6 pounds 13 ounces. Mrs. Rush is the former Beth Bowman, daughter of Devise Renee and David Barton of Poplar Bluff. ...

G. Keith Deimund, a developer and retired Cape Girardeau dentist, bought a piece of local history Wednesday as he closed the deal on the old Kage School. Deimund wants to preserve the 30-by-50-foot one-room school, completed in 1880. The origins of the school began in 1854...

Cape Girardeau's revenue from property taxes has nearly doubled over the past 10 years because of levy hikes and an ever-growing assessed valuation. Property taxes brought in $685,000 in 1985-86. In 1993-94, they brought in $1.25 million. This fiscal year, property taxes will generate an estimated $1.3 million, a 6 percent increase...

Jess McLain spread knowing laughter over the phrase hurry up and wait. It aptly described his job as a firefighter before he retired in 1980 and defines his job as a part-time Main Street Levee District keeper of the floodgates. There are three other keepers who work part time...

May 11, 1995 Dear Julie, At 12, I fell in love with golf and a pretty girl in my class who was a foot taller. She was kind of untouchable for a short shy boy. But when my clubs arrived on Christmas Day, I looked at them for a long time, then ran my hands over the dimples on the irons and the unbelievable smoothness of the woods, and squeezed the soft grips...

AS A mother of a student from a local school I think it is plain crazy to have a prom at a motel. I do know one and only one school that has its prom at the school. That is great to hear something like that. When I went to school, we had the prom in our gym, and the mothers of the junior class cooked the meal at school. It would and could probably be done that way now too. It wouldn't cost the junior class as much as it does. How do other parents feel about proms the way they are now?...

Jim Govro is new manager of West Park Mall. Govro, who has been serving as operations manager at Mid-Rivers Mall in St. Charles, assumed his duties here Tuesday. He was operations manager at South County Mall in St. Louis four years before transferring to Mid-Rivers Mall, which has 130 tenants, including three anchor stores...

JACKSON -- St. Paul Lutheran School will offer a summer school program for students in grades one through six who need remedial reading and math classes. Class size will be limited to eight students per teacher, and teaching will be done on an individualized basis. The cost of the program will be $250 for a four-week period, June 12-July 10...

The "baby" bawled. Cradling the life-like doll in her arms, Sherri Sparks couldn't have been happier. As director of the PARENT Project at Southeast Missouri State University, Sparks and her staff work with teen-age parents. They provide them with parenting skills and work to prevent child abuse and neglect...