Stories from Friday, June 2, 1995

When it comes to highways, very few decisions about location, construction or improvements can be made in isolation. While communities throughout Missouri want and expect the best possible highways services, costly projects must vie for limited funds...

It may be time for the United Nations to declare defeat and come home from Bosnia. This has been a mission that was never quite sure of its mission. It has been a partnership effort of United Nations forces mostly seeking to operate like the Red Cross and NATO air forces once in a while seeking to act like Gen. Jimmy Doolittle. It has been a mess from the beginning and now is moving closer to its messiest...

The Gold Award, the highest recognition given to a Girl Scout, will be awarded to 22 girls at First General Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau Sunday. To achieve this honor, girls are required to achieve the leadership award, career exploration pin, give service, earn at least four interest patches and complete the Senior Girl Scout Challenge. Each girl also designed and carried out her own Gold Award project...

JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County Commission unofficially decided to rank possible Interstate 55 interchanges at Oak Ridge and Jackson. It will submit its findings to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission. The decision followed a meeting Thursday with Highway Department District 10 Engineer Jim Murray, who had originally requested the county commission's input...

The Dow Jones industrial average hit a new high for the second day in a row Thursday, closing at 4,472.75, up 7.61. On Wednesday, the Dow closed at 4,465.14, up 86.46. Marsha Limbaugh of A.G. Edwards and Sons said the rise in the average isn't a big surprise: Bull markets go up...

Although the Mississippi River is dropping at a snail's pace, American Red Cross and Salvation Army workers are busy preparing for the cleanup operation. Both agencies are preparing cleanup kits for flood victims that contain brooms, mops, buckets and cleaning supplies...

Strangers become friendly suppliers of produce. A link to the past is preserved. And the tastebuds -- ah, the sumptuous delights that can be attributed to one large bowl at mealtime. This is the time of year when your mouth is watering for wilted lettuce (recipe below) and cornbread (you're on your own)...

Creative minds gathered Thursday night at the Show Me Center to recognize winners of the area's first ADDY awards. The Advertising Federation of Southeast Missouri presented the awards to local competitors in six divisions. More than 80 entries were judged by the Advertising Federation of Memphis. Thirty-one entrants from Illinois, Missouri and Kentucky were honored with awards...

The Cape Girardeau area Chapter of AARP (American Association of Retired Persons) will meet at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Grace United Methodist Church. Gilbert Degenhardt, consultant/counselor with Small Business Development Center, will present the program on "What's Happening In Social Security."...

The 800 block of North Henderson Street has become a buzz of construction activity, as bulldozers and other heavy equipment have begun clearing the site for the Dempster business building on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Construction is on schedule for the new $15.8 million Dempster Hall of Business, according to David Garuvogl, construction manager for Sverdrup Facilities...

On Wednesday, 900 theater seats were removed from the Central High School Auditorium. On Thursday, a renovation crew began chipping acoustic tiles from the ceiling By the time school starts next fall, 900 burgundy, upholstered chairs will fill the auditorium, 300 of them new and 600 of them refurbished. The ceiling will have a new coat of acoustic spray sealant. The house lights will be new...

The American Red Cross hopes to educate people on the need to donate blood this summer. Blood supplies drop from Memorial Day to Labor Day because of summer activities, said David Palmer of the American Red Cross. A new program, called BloodWatch, was designed to remind people about low or dangerous blood-supply levels...

TROY, Mich. -- Kmart Corp. will close 72 "poorly performing discount stores this year," eliminating about 5,800 jobs as part of its continued restructuring. Kmart closed 110 stores late last year and early this year. The company also relocated, consolidated or closed 120 stores earlier in 1994. Those changes eliminated about 7,100 jobs...

"Midwest Minis '95," the new national juried show opening today at Gallery 100, proves what the "Mona Lisa" does: that bigger isn't necessarily more beautiful. All the two- and three-dimensional works entered in the show are 14 inches or smaller. Giving small works their own show is more than a gimmick, says Laura Brothers, administrative assistant for the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri...

Cape Girardeau attorney Donald A. Fee, 69, 1815 N. West End Boulevard, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at Heartland Care and Rehab Center. He was born May 16, 1926, in Cape Girardeau, son of Ira Arthur and Vada Gaines Fee. He and Peggy Pettigrew were married Oct. 2, 1948, in Piggott, Ark...

Margaret Ann Crowe, 79, 727 Bellevue, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at her home. She was born Aug. 8, 1915, in Des Moines, Iowa, daughter of LuVerne Kenyon and Beatrice Thompson Ellis. She and Dr. John T. Crowe were married in 1941 at Ozark. He died in 1988...

CHARLESTON -- Willie Jarrett, 51, of Chicago, formerly of Charleston, died Friday, May 26, 1995, at Ingalls Memorial Hospital. He was born Aug. 31, 1943, in Charleston, to Isaiah and Minnie Swope Jarrett. He was a graduate of Lincoln High School in Charleston and a former member of the Charleston Police Department. In 1976, Jarrett moved to Illinois and became a security officer for the state...

George R. Merritt, 89, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Feb. 21, 1906, in Webster County, Ky., son of George Alan and Fannie Harvey Merritt. He and Roma Winstead were married Dec. 24, 1926, in Dixon, Ky...

HAZELWOOD -- Sandra Ann Farries Henry, 33, of Hazelwood, formerly of Charleston, died May 27, 1995. She was born March 20, 1962, in St. Louis, to Ophelia Watson of Charleston and Charles Franklin Carthell of St. Louis. On Dec. 25, 1981, she married Alex Lee Henry Jr...

BELL CITY -- Hassie Cody, 82, of Bell City died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at the Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.

Son to Mark and Kimberly Shepard of Wichita, Kan., St. Joseph Hospital there, 2:05 a.m. Thursday, May 11, 1995. Name, Brandon Demarkas. Weight, 8 pounds 15 ounces. First child. Mrs. Shepard is the former Kimberly Scofield, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Scofield of St. Louis. Shepard is employed at Boeing Aircraft. He is the son of Doris Shepard of Cape Girardeau...

EUREKA--Margaret Ann Parker, 79, of Eureka, formerly of Sikeston died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at Price Memorial Nursing Home in Eureka. She was born Dec. 23, 1915, at Fancy Farm, Ky., to the late Robert Lee and Minnie Pearl Sullivan Hayden. She married the Rev. Freeman Parker Dec. 24, 1933, in Charleston...

Tamara "Emma" Hunt-Cole, 34 of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, May 31, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born April 29, 1961, at Sikeston, daughter of Inez Jones Hunt and the late Jake Hunt. Hunt-Cole was a graduate of Sikeston High School and a member of the Green Memorial Church of God in Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Barbara Parlee Reed, 76, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, May 31, 1995, at Sikeston Health Care Center. She was born April 5, 1919, in Brownsville, Tenn., daughter of Arthur S. and Bertha Parlee Warren Staggs. She and Clifford Reed were married Oct. 21, 1933. He died July 30, 1979...