Stories from Sunday, August 13, 1995

ANNA, Ill. -- Jessie Inez McCarver, 84, of Anna died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at the home of her grandson near Golconda. She was born Sept. 17, 1910, in Cobden, the daughter of Joseph and Martha Henderson Hankla. She married Von Ollis McCarver Dec. 24, 1930. He died Nov. 28, 1983...

Whenever government tries to conduct its business behind closed doors, everybody loses. Taxpayers are kept in the dark about how their money is being spent and about how their elected officials are performing. Elected officials are cut off from good lines of communication about the problems they are handling and the decisions they are making. Businesses and individuals who do business with government are preventing from knowing what their competition is doing to get tax dollars...

When VisionAire Corp. announced it had picked Ames, Iowa, as the site for a plant to produce a new single-engine business jet, there was some disappointment in Cape Girardeau, where city and industrial development officials had been working to attract the plant. Cape Girardeau made it down to the wire as a finalist, but in the end it was a matter of which community would put up the most money up front...

As noted in a recent column, Missouri has a crisis that most citizens are, at the moment, choosing to ignore, either because they lack sufficient information or because they have become traumatized by its troubling reality. Either way, the danger of continuing to sublimate the cascading presence of virtually unchecked crime and its threat to public safety in our towns and cities means that too few remedies will be sought and inadequate steps will be taken in the weeks and months ahead...

Kathy Green and Leigh Ann Green refurbish picture frames in the workshop of their business. Furniture is stripped and brass is polished in the workshop, which is behind the showroom of their antiques store -- Through the Years. The building is said to be over 100 years old and that, say the four women who recently opened Through the Years there, is an appropriate setting for their antiques store...

Junior Travis Reiminger kicks the ball during a practice session last week. The Indians' first game will be on Sept. 1 against Malden. Head Coach Carl Gross bellows out a command to one of his players. Gross led the Jackson Indians to the championship game last year, the team's best year ever...

Jeffrey A. and Teresa A. Thomas to Jeff S. and Abby Ra Williams; David Michael and Susan Dubs to Tina L. Baker; the Julia A. Beussink Trust to the Robert J. and Betty Ann Basler Trusts. The Paul J. Beussink Trust to the Robert J. and Betty Ann Basler Trusts; Boyd J. and Sandra L. Stewart to Kim Arnold Duckett; Randall K. and Susan K. Davis to John A. and Karen M. Huber...

Some men think some women can drive well sometime and some men think no woman can drive well anytime. This woman finds it impossible to please Boulware's driving thoughts at this time. I think it has something to do with the fact that Boulware is forced to ride in the passenger seat these days. Due to surgery, he has orders from his physician to relinquish his driving privileges for four weeks...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Bobby Gene Woods, 59, of East Prairie, died Friday, Aug. 11, 1995, at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born Nov. 11, 1935, in East Prairie, the son of George and Ethel Thurmond Woods. On Sept. 23, 1957, he married Mildred Marie Kirby...

SIKESTON -- Odis Andrew Hill, 82, of Sikeston died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Oct. 4, 1912, in Center Ridge, Ark., to Ance and Dovie Johnson Hill. On July 2, 1932, in Center Ridge, he married Giva B. Hill...

Iva Davis, 90, of 1916 Brink died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at her home. She was born Aug. 11, 1905, in Thebes, Ill., the daughter of James Thomas and Cassie Buster Hazel. She married Stephen Davis in 1923 at Benton. He died April 8, 1974. Davis was a member of Southside Baptist Church. She formerly worked for the Thomas A. Edison plant in Cairo, Ill., and Brown Shoe Co...

PERKINS -- Jerry Lee Wagoner, 54, of Perkins, died Friday, Aug. 11, 1995, at his home. He was born Aug. 1, 1941, in Perkins, the son of Pearline Rosemary Spane Wagoner of Perkins and the late Edward Wagoner. He was formerly married to Wanda Wagoner Vogel...

CHARLESTON -- James D. Sims, 53, of Charleston, died Friday, Aug. 11, 1995, at Fillmore, Utah, from injuries received in a truck accident. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

Vanita H. Bell, 76, of 838 Rodney Vista died Friday, Aug. 11, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 6, 1919, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Joseph and Francis Simpher Logel. She married Russell Bell Sept. 26, 1946, in Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- Other entertainers at the Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo did their shows and left, but country star Ken Mellons literally got down and dirty with his fans. He played a softball game in Saturday afternoon's intense heat to benefit the Kenny Rogers United Cerebral Palsy Center...

Temperatures, which reached nearly 100 degrees Saturday afternoon in Ste. Genevieve -- as evidenced by this thermometer -- added some real heat to the 29th annual Jour de Fete in Ste. Genevieve. Jean Hollingsworth weaved baskets from pine needles during the Jour de Fete in Ste. Genevieve Saturday. A large basket can take over a month to finish...

Coming off a win for Cape Girardeau's transportation sales tax, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education thinks some strategies that helped the sales tax pass could be used to help the school district. Board members met Saturday in Cape Girardeau for their annual planning session. They agreed to develop a five-year strategic plan by March...

JACKSON -- It takes a world war to stop Jackson Homecomers. The annual street carnival, which begins Tuesday night and runs through Saturday, is easily the town's largest event. Streets around the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse are closed off and filled with food stands and rides; people plan their vacations around Homecomers...

PERKINS -- Jerry Lee Wagoner, 54, died in a mobile home fire about 9:30 p.m. Friday. Scott County Coroner Scott Amick said cause of death probably was smoke inhalation from the fire that may have originated in a bedroom. The Perkins and Oran fire departments responded to a report of the blaze...

JACKSON -- Arguments over paving Oak Hill Road have spanned months, but Jackson's mayor says the debate will end permanently. All property owners along the road are invited to a Jackson Board of Aldermen study session at 7:30 p.m. Monday, where aldermen and residents will hash out the Oak Hill Road issue once and for all, Mayor Paul Sander said...

WICHITA, Kan. -- Two-time defending National Baseball Congress champion Kenai, Alaska, ended the Capahas' season for a second straight year, defeating Kohlfeld 10-1 Friday in the NBC World Series. The Capahas, who finished the year at 30-18 and 3-2 in the tournament, came away with a seventh-place finish...

SPRINGFIELD -- Cape Girardeau's comeback kids did it again Saturday night. As a result, the Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team is just one victory away from its second consecutive state championship. Ford & Sons pulled off its third straight comeback victory in the 1995 Missouri American Legion State Tournament, rallying from a 3-0 deficit to beat the Blue Springs A's 8-4...

SPRINGFIELD -- Just a couple of weeks ago, Jeff Lappe was helping lead Cape Girardeau's SEMO Bank baseball team to the 1995 Junior American Legion state championship. Saturday afternoon, Lappe helped Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons baseball team stay alive in the 1995 Senior American Legion State Tournament...

Kelso Supply fast-pitch coach Rodney Dock is a staunch supporter of the sport, a recreation he sees as slowly dying. This summer Dock provided a beautiful windmill delivery of his own. He helped to inject a dosage of fast-pitch fever into a new generation of players...

You could invent a new lure and spend the national budget on promotions and not get the popularity burst that the Bomber Fat-Free Shad received in a single sweep. Before hitting tackle shelves, Arkansas angler Mark Davis used the deep-diving crankbait in winning the 1995 BASS Masters Classic. The result: a guarantee it will sell like snowcones in Hades...

RIVERS: Castor (above Zalma): Clear, low; sunfish good on crickets and ultralight crankbaits; catfish good at night on worms and minnows; black bass good on live bait and topwater lures. Current: Clear, normal; all species fair on artificial and natural bait...

The antique shop offers primitive collectables from toys to tools. Students posed for a Campster School photo in the spring of 1957. From left to right in the front row, Stephen Golden, Stephen Schonhoff, Kermit Melton, Richard Golden, Danny Niswonger, Bonnie Schwepker, Kathy Compas, John Melton, Darrel Hobbs, Patrick Suzuki and Terry Juden. ...

August is the colorful time in the kitchen. Even if one doesn't can the abundant garden and orchard produce and place the gleaming glass jars on some open shelf to be admired, there is usually a little basket of yellow, pink-rouged peaches atop some table or counter. ...

Community Counseling Center Foundation is currently accepting registrations from area crafters for its 11th Annual Benefit Craft Fair to be held Oct. 21 to 22 at the A.C. Brase Arena Building in Cape girardeau. Proceeds from the craft fair's 25-cent admission fee and concession stand will benefit Community Counseling Center Foundation...