Stories from Tuesday, September 26, 1995

Mary Livingston pointed out the parts in a friendly letter during her third-grade class at Woodland Elementary School. Jill Cowell from Woodland Elementary School wrote a letter to her pen pal Heather Ross who attends Delta Elementary. Writing letters to a pen pal is a lesson in patience for students at Delta Elementary School...

Aleen Vogel Wehking, an ardent supporter of Southeast Missouri State University, died Monday at her Cape Girardeau home. She was 87. Wehking was a Southeast cheerleader with the Tomahawks pep squad in the 1920s and never stopped cheering for her alma mater...

Coloring inside the lines takes on a new meaning when you're talking about outlining and painting a 500-foot mural. Just ask Anthony Spinazola -- it's been his job for 15 years. Spinazola is a muralist and painter for Weatherford Sign Co. of Carbondale, Ill...

Cape Girardeau's public schools want to know what ideas and suggestions people have for the district's future. Collecting information from the community is the first step in developing a long-range strategic plan, and the process officially begins at 10:15 this morning with a press conference at Central High School...

Money is tight and its building is too small, but University officials and state lawmakers have no intention of letting the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Lab close. School officials met with state Reps. Mary Kasten, Joe Heckemeyer and Pat Naeger recently to discuss creative ways to pay for a new crime lab building...

For shopaholics, nothing can compete with the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minn. It is bigger than big. The parking garage alone is larger than many towns. The four-story mall itself is larger than most Third World countries. My wife, Joni, and I recently journeyed to the Twin Cities. Like other tourists, we had to stop at America's largest mall, if only to get lost...

The support group for bereaved parents will meet tonight at 7 at Lutheran Family and Children's Services, 2911 Breckenridge Drive in Cape Girardeau. The program for the evening is "The Unique Grief of Parents," which takes a look at the diverse feelings and emotions that most parents experience when their child dies...

I WAS pleasantly surprised that the Cape Girardeau City Council did not cave into the lifestyles of the rich and famous in the Sylvan Lane area. Rather they did the decent thing and approved the plat for the subdivision. Whether these are rental properties or sales homes, I don't see how they can hurt the Cape Girardeau school system, and low-income families in this town need some housing options...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Edward Harold Falkoff, 75, of East Prairie died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at Baptist Hospital Central in Memphis, Tenn. He was the retired owner of Falkoff's Ben Franklin store in East Prairie. He served on the East Prairie school board and city council and was a member of the East Prairie Kiwanis Club, the Board of Financial Shares in East Prairie and the B'Nai Israel congregation in Cape Girardeau. He was a 32nd degree Mason...

Daughter to Larry and Jane Schnurbusch, 1941 David, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:55 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1995. Name, Bailey Alexis. Weight, 7 pounds 10 ounces. First child. Mrs. Schnurbusch is the former Jane Harold, daughter of Frank and Mary Harold of Atlanta, Ga. Mr. and Mrs. Schnurbusch are employed at St. Vincent's School in Perryville. He is the son of Everett and Alma Schnurbusch of Perryville...

WHITEWATER -- Beulah Stroder, 83, of Whitewater, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at the Lutheran Home. She was born June 29, 1912, near Advance, daughter of Henry and Pearl Lowe Kynion. She and Emery Stroder were married Oct. 25, 1930. Stroder had worked at Lowenbaum Dress Factory in Cape Girardeau. She was a charter member of Star Homemakers Club, former leader of Hickory Grove 4-H Club, and attended Lake Girardeau Assembly of God Church at Crump...

PATTON -- Mattie E. Heitman, 86, of Patton died Monday, Sept. 25, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 26, 1908, at Patton the son of James and Laura Yount Mungle. On March 23, 1929, she married Truman Heitman, who died July 16, 1977...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mildred Marie Johnson of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Revs. Lloyd Engleman and Dan Upchurch will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Johnson, 82, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Mellie E. Brune, 100, of Sedgewickville, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at Perry Oaks Health Care in Perryville. She was born Dec. 13, 1894, in Daisy, daughter of John H. and Julie Seabaugh Crites. She and Oscar H. Brune were married Sept. 6, 1918. He died March 4, 1973...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Fred Kenser of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. Pat Hogan will officiate, with burial in Forest Hills Cemetery near Morley. Kenser, 51, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at his home. He was born Dec. 20, 1943, in Sikeston, son of Louis and Elizabeth Austin Kenser. He and Patti Hosey were married Oct. 29, 1977...

DEXTER -- Grace B. Collins, 68, Dexter Star Route, died Saturday, Sept. 23, 1995, at the home of a son in Dexter. She was born Jan. 30, 1927, in Bell City, daughter of Alex and Naomi Bowman McRoy. She and Ernest T. Collins were married July 11, 1954. He died Sept. 8, 1983...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Graveside service for Jerrod Hollis Henderson of Tamms will be held at 1 p.m. today at Mt. Zion Cemetery near Olive Branch. The Rev. Billy Don Heady will officiate. Crain Funeral Home at Tamms is in charge of arrangements. The infant, 4 months, died Sunday, Sept. 24, 1995, at his home...

Good highways are the backbone of commerce and industry as well as providing good access for motorists going to and from work or other destinations. Rapid growth in areas like Cape Girardeau County has put considerable stress on the some highway routes. Now the Missouri State Highway and Transportation Department is taking a fairly scientific approach to finding out what changes and improvements need to be made in this area...

Decades of misguided attempts to integrate the nation's schools appears to be collapsing under their own weight. The Chicago public schools are the latest to face the reality that court-mandated quotas, busing and importing or transporting students to and from suburban districts doesn't work...

To the editor: We would like to commend and thank the Cape Girardeau Police Department, especially Homer Markart, Chief Howard Boyd, the detective squad, the 911 rescue people and the emergency-room personnel at Southeast Hospital who were on duty during the early morning of Dec. 30, 1994...

To the editor: After having had the opportunity to voice our concerns to the city council regarding the proposed plans for government-subsidized rental housing at the corner of Sprigg and Bertling streets, Councilman Richard Eggimann allowed himself the opportunity to address us. In so doing, Eggimann indicated an unwillingness to allow us a response to his allegations. Therefore, we feel compelled to respond by way of this medium...