Stories from Thursday, August 31, 1995

The Arts Council of Southeast Missouri will host its annual membership meeting, election of new officers and presentation of the Otto F. Dingeldein Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts on Saturday, Sept. 23. The 6:30 p.m. event will be held at the Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant in downtown Cape Girardeau. Entertainment will be provided by Bud Miget...

More than 130 paintings, drawings, sculptures and works of fiber art created by local children will be on display at Gallery 100 beginning Friday. Titled "Artists and Their Art," the exhibit consists of work created in July during the annual summer art workshops sponsored by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri...

Music-lovers in Cape Girardeau and Jackson are familiar with the weekly programs played by their municipal bands, usually a mix of marches, excerpted musicals and popular tunes adapted for concert band instrumentation. Those bands have finished their seasons, but the St. Louis-based Compton Heights Concert Band will travel to Cape Girardeau on Labor Day to cap the summer with a concert offering marches, nostalgic music, two top soloists and a fireworks display...

The Southeast Missouri State University faculty remains divided over the merits of merit pay. "It has created an amazing amount of bitterness on this campus," said Terry Sutton, an economics professor who chairs Faculty Senate. "I am just philosophically against the whole idea, but I am not sure what would be better," he said...

Long lines greet customers when they renew their driver's licenses at offices around Illinois, officials with the Illinois secretary of state's office say. That is because the new National Voter Registration Act, mandated by a federal court order earlier this month, results in extra paperwork for personnel at licensing offices...

JACKSON -- After three terms in office, Beverly Nelson may be Jackson's last elected city collector. Nelson announced she won't run again after her term expires in April 1997. She has worked in the collector's office for 24 years, watching Jackson grow...

Aug. 31, 1995 Dear Patty I'm dreaming of a white Halloween, just to offset white-hot August. Temperatures in the 100s, no rain. Thirsty earthworms are abandoning the hardening ground only to fry and shrivel like bacon topside. We've finally gotten the house air conditioned, thanks to DC's dad. When you want a job done right, I always say, call your father-in-law...

RIVERFEST, Balloonfest, Bar-B-Q Fest. Can't you people do anything original? REPLY: Riverfest is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Riverfest Association. The president is Tom Ross (339-5237). Balloon and Arts Festival is sponsored by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri (P.O. ...

Publishedl: 08-31-95 A Cape Girardeau man was in satisfactory condition Wednesday at St. Francis Medical Center after he accidentally shot himself. Cape Girardeau police said the victim, Robert Ramon Hoffman of 2027 Montgomery, was cleaning his gun just after noon Wednesday when it went off. The bullet entered and exited his leg...

For the 15th year, KFVS-TV in Cape Girardeau will broadcast the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon on Labor Day to benefit people with muscular dystrophy and associated illnesses. The telethon began on a small New York station in 1966 and has been helping people since, said MDA District Director Ken Lucy...

Former employees of the R. Lowenbaum Manufacturing Co. will hold a reunion Saturday at South Cape Girardeau County Park, Shelter 21. The picnic will start at noon. Persons attending are asked to bring a covered dish and utensils. The Lowenbaum dress-making firm was situated for years on Minnesota Avenue. The former Cape Girardeau plant has been closed more than 20 years...

Cape Girardeau County Ronald and Ann Farrow to Paul and Madeline Ruehling; Charles and Evelyn Walker to Timothy and Pamela Stearns; Greg and Sharon Nagel to Gary and Vicki Lane; Appleton Valley Farm Inc. to Robert Manns and Brenda Thiele; Anthony and Pamela Cagle to Ronald and Julie Osborne...

JACKSON -- Noma M. Allen, 82, of Jackson died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 11, 1913, at Sedgewickville, daughter of Thomas B. and Louvina J. Hartle Crites. She and Clarence Allen were married Jan. 7, 1933. He preceded her in death Oct. 12, 1991...

SIKESTON -- Bobby Ralph Slayton Sr., 63, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1995, at the Clearview Nursing Rehabilitation Center. Arrangements are incomplete at the Watkins and Sons Funeral Service in Morehouse.

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Hugh H. Held, 85, of Wolf Lake died Wednesday, Aug. 30, 1995, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Hileman and Parr Funeral Services in Jonesboro, Ill.

MARBLE HILL -- Oren S. Estes, 74, of Marble Hill, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1995, at his home. He was born April 11, 1921, at Grassy, son of Louis and Lury Like Estes. He and Mary Lou Lawson were married Jan. 21, 1971. She died Oct. 27, 1991. Survivors include a son, John Estes of Marble Hill; a brother, Charles Estes of Marble Hill; two sisters, Goldie Guthrie and Dorothy Swan of Marble Hill...

WAPPAPELLO -- Donald Ray Propst, 54, of Wappapello, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1995, at his home. He was born Feb. 23, 1941, at Sikeston. Propst was a retired factory worker. Survivors include a son, David Propst of Chicago; two daughters, Donna Propst of New York City, Jamie Blissett of Sikeston; his mother, Opal Rose of Wappapello; a brother, Dale Propst of Kansas City, and a sister, Becky Conklin of Cape Girardeau...

MARBLE HILL -- Harley Roosevelt Jaco, 90, of Marble Hill, died Tuesday, Aug. 29, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 21, 1905, son of William and Amanda Vernom Jaco. He and Alice Carver were married Dec. 29, 1932. Jaco was a member of Grassy Friendship General Baptist Church...

Son to Ryan and Misty Yamnitz of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:04 a.m. Friday, Aug. 25, 1995. Name, Devin Tyler. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Yamnitz is the former Misty Morris, daughter of Will and Janet Morris of Scott City and Larry and Brenda McKinnis of Lewisville, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Yamnitz are employed at Yamnitz Auto Sales in Jackson. He is the son of Loy and Wilma Yamnitz of Jackson...

Tuesday evening I flew to Springfield, Mo., there to join five other panelists in what was billed as a "Firing Line"-style debate on education reforms in Missouri. The Greene County Christian Coalition sponsored the event, which received plenty of advance publicity and was well-covered by local news media and attended by a U.S. congressman, a Senate colleague of mine and by more than 200 citizens...

MDI Corp.'s pending purchase of Air Evac Aviation's fixed-base operation at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport apparently will ensure that, for the time being, only one fixed-based operator, or FBO, will do business at the airport. That there was interest by both MDI's Prestige Air Services and Air Evac Aviation in operating FBOs at the airport is a positive sign that this underrated and often ignored regional asset is turning the corner. ...

In their zeal to cut government spending and reform expensive budget-buster programs, Congress apparently forgot about President Clinton's brainchild: Americorps. Granted the $155 million earmarked for the jobs program is small change when compared with Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare. But one has to wonder, how did Americorps slip the budget axe?...