Stories from Thursday, August 10, 1995

Five years ago, Alan and Bonny Riggs bought five acres on a hillside overlooking Puget Sound in Washington. It was the perfect site for their dream home. Then the trouble began. To get a house-building permit, the Riggses had to sign a 32-page document calling for nearly all of their newly cleared parcel to revert to forest. ...

STE. GENEVIEVE -- More than 600 vendors will offer their arts and crafts for sale Saturday and Sunday during Ste. Genevieve's annual Jour de Fete. Missouri's largest arts and crafts fair has been held annually in the historic town since 1966, except when the Flood of 1993 forced its cancellation...

Carl Faulkenberry of Chicago was one of two comedians who entertained. Carl Faulkenberry was a reserved teen-ager, Mo Alexander was, in his words, "the class fool." Neither ever expected to be standing on a stage someday joking about their lives, but there they were...

Patrons of the Salvation Army and Safe House for Women Inc. will be more comfortable this summer with a donation of electric fans and supplies from local electricians. The donations were provided by The Quality Connection program, a joint effort of the Cape Girardeau office of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers local union and the St. Louis Chapter of the National Electrical Contractors Association...

SEDALIA -- Entertaining at this year's Missouri State Fair will be country stars George Strait, Brooks & Dunn, Alan Jackson, Sawyer Brown and Little Texas, along with rockers Bad Company and Ted Nugent, and contemporary Christian performer Larnelle Harris...

Louis Schmitt cheered along with other parents and fans during Scott County's all-star game at Arena Park Monday evening. A scorecard wasn't needed at Arena Park Monday night to figure out what was at stake for Scott County's 11- and 12-year-old all-stars...

American agribusiness not only enhances our nation's economic strength, but it also provides our population with something we often take for granted: the safest, most abundant and affordable food supply in the world. The American economy has become integrally tied to the world economy. To prosper in this world market, America will need to continually increase its competitiveness, producing the highest-quality goods and services at a reasonable cost...

SIKESTON -- It isn't a question of whether you will get hurt; it is when. Rodeo clowns chant the words like a mantra -- memories of recent pain still fresh in their minds. Little wonder -- their job is to distract wild bulls while cowboys get away. If it is a choice between the cowboy's life or the rodeo clown's, the clown takes the heat...

Extreme temperature changes can literally tick off the clock at the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse. It is a sensitive timepiece that requires constant care. But that makes Scott McDowell appreciate all the more the job he inherited from former clock caretaker Robert Dougherty...

Aug. 10, 1995 Dear Pat, A school teacher reminded me that half the world is walking about with a bad dream in their eyes these days. It's back to school time. Not time to go back to school, but the time of year when kids start counting how many days of freedom are left. Kind of like prisoners in reverse...

Who was involved? I THINK you are missing a valid point in the Meadow Heights School situation. You must remember the attendance and enrollment records are kept by the elementary principal and the high school principal, and the complete records are then turned in to the superintendent's office. It would be impossible for the records to be falsified without the cooperation of more than one person...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Two men remain hospitalized after a plane crash early Tuesday evening near DeSoto, Ill. Both men were natives of Bombay, India. The pilot, Iyer Ranganathan, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center. He was listed in critical condition at the hospital's surgical intensive care unit...

Cape Girardeau's more-than-30-year-old concrete floodwall and earthen levees remain sound, a two-day inspection shows. The entire length of the Mississippi River floodwall was inspected by representatives from the Corps of Engineers, the local levee district and the city...

The Missouri law enacted this year designed to keep certain felons in prison longer is not having an immediate effect on the prison population, but may eventually help keep already increasing numbers up. Senate Bill 763, popularly known as the Truth in Sentencing Law, requires people convicted of one seven particular felonies to serve at least 85 percent of their terms. The law applies only to those who were charged after Aug. 28...

OAK RIDGE -- Lonnie Joe Grebe, 32, of Oak Ridge died Aug. 9, 1995, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

EGYPT MILLS -- Lucille Elizabeth Bryant, 77, of Egypt Mills, died Wednesday, Aug. 9, 1995, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 17, 1918, in Egypt Mills, daughter of Otto W. and Elsie Heise Kirchhoff. She and Horace Bryant were married Oct. 4, 1941, at Trinity Lutheran Church in Egypt Mills. He died in 1970...

COBDEN, Ill. -- Timothy Free Yates, 38, of Cobden, died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 1995, following an extended illness. He was born Nov. 28, 1956, in Detroit, Mich., son of Joseph Highland and Neda M. Wilder Yates. He and Deborah Spiller were married Jan. 12, 1995, in Paducah, Ky...

MALDEN -- Funeral service for Ira James Grubbs of Malden will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. The Rev. Vernon Reese will officiate, with burial in Parma Cemetery at Parma. Friends may call at the funeral home from noon to service time...

Cape Girardeau County Odell and Brenda Bunch to Hazel Moore et al.; Ivan L. and Patricia J. Irvin to Verle G. Bray Jr. and Brenda E. Bray; Alonzo A. and Glenda P. Frissell to Steven J. Hoffman and Margaret A. Waterman. Meier Angus Farms Inc. to Brant D. Henson and Jennifer Heady; Jeffrey B. Briney to Karen Bazzell; Ashland Land Development Corp. to Micahel L. Annis Inc...

Son to Daniel and Tracy Landewee of Murphysboro, Ill., Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill., 10:16 a.m. Sunday, June 25, 1995. Name, Jordan Denis. Weight, 8 pounds 5 ounces. Third son. Mrs. Landewee is the former Tracy Whitworth, daughter of Jay and Sybil Whitworth of Scott City. Landewee is manager at Wal-Mart in Carbondale. He is the son of Edward and Rita Landewee of Scott City...

Action Wednesday, Aug. 9, 7 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings Request for special-use permit for a mobile home at 1140 N. Frederick. Request for special-use permit for auto parts business at 833 N. Spanish. Request for special-use permit for apartments in Timberlane Subdivision and 2910 Kage Road...