Stories from Saturday, December 2, 1995

Notre Dame High School continues to grow in Cape Girardeau. Enrollment has grown an impressive 46 percent over the past six years. It stands at about 340 students today. To meet the growing enrollment demand, the high school is looking to build a new facility that could accommodate 500 students. School officials hope to settle on a new location soon. They have looked at 40-acre locations both inside and outside Cape Girardeau's city limits...

It wasn't a good week for the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. First, Trans World Express, the regional carrier that flies to Lambert Field in St. Louis, announced it would cut back on its flight schedule due to a reduced federal subsidy. One flight was eliminated daily as well as all weekend flights. ...

The die is cast. American troops will go to Bosnia. We must now put aside disagreements and unanimously back the soldiers. Sens. Bob Dole, R-Kan., and John McCain, R-Ariz., are two opponents of the deployment who are sponsoring a resolution in support of the troops...

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce has pledged its support to keeping the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport tower open and adding a flight to the Trans World Express schedule. "We will join city officials in a meeting with Trans World representatives next week," said John Mehner, president of the chamber. "We have also offered to help in any way to keep the tower open at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport."...

Cape Girardeau residents can expect to pay 3 percent more for city water, effective Jan. 1. The City Council will consider approving the rate hike when it meets Monday night. The rate hike had been expected: It was included in the fiscal 1996 budget approved by the council earlier this year...

JEFFERSON CITY -- When it comes to where highway tax dollars are being spent, Missouri's two metropolitan areas are in the fast lane, with more than a fourth of the state's counties facing a 45-month project detour. A computer analysis of the current $2.6 billion highway improvement program shows that $1 out of every $5 to be spent by the Missouri Highway Department for new and improved roads through 1998 has been earmarked for projects in St. ...

In its third month in business, the Salvation Army's new gymnasium is getting a good workout. Basketball is the game of choice most afternoons, but Scott Porter said he hopes to add other activities soon. "We're trying to get some chess games, some checkers, dominoes -- games that kids can use to keep them busy for a couple of hours and games that make them use their heads and think a little," said Porter, director of the Salvation Army's community center...

Housekeeping has always been something of a hobby for Mrs. F. She keeps everything tidy and in its place; she always has and likely always will. Recently Mrs. F's husband died and she moved into a small apartment that she can better afford. But she is troubled because the apartment has very little storage space. Not everything has a place...

Mike Seabaugh hopes the Christmas spirit kicks in soon. Seabaugh, Cape Girardeau Jaycees co-chairman of the 1995 Toy Box toy drive, said organizers are anxiously awaiting donations so they can start filling orders. The Jaycees and Southeast Missourian are sponsoring the drive...

When people find out you write a column for the local newspaper, everybody becomes a comedian. Sometimes their suggestions turn into great columns, and I take all the credit. Other times I just can't drag 17 inches of copy out of Aunt Myrtle's hip replacement. And sometimes the ideas just aren't funny...

DO YOU know that the Serbs, Muslims and Croatians all have by issue or capture a high-powered sniper rifle made by the former Soviet Union that does not have to see what it is shooting at? This terrible weapon senses movement from up to two miles away. ...

About 90 percent of all crime can be deterred, the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee was told. Alan Foust, founder of Security Consultants Inc., told about 100 people attending Friday's event that by being more aware of surroundings and using intuition people might avoid being crime victims...

The announced resignation of House Majority Leader Bob Ward will mean new faces in the two most powerful leadership positions in that chamber. Ward, D-Bonne Terre, said Wednesday he is stepping down due to health problems resulting from a stroke he suffered last year. His resignation is effective today...

SCOTT COUNTY Ag-Lands Investment Co. to Carla Paul and Billie Jo Bick; Marcus F. and Georgiana Ressel, Lucas and Alice Ressel, et al to Larry J. and Nancy McClain; Joan M. and Joseph Gleason to Larry J. and Nancy McClain; Richard F. Weber Sr. to Larry J. and Nancy A. McClain; Henry J. Niederkorn Voluntary Trust to Robert J. Niederkorn; Donald H. and Judi Niederkorn to Robert J. Niederkorn; Timothy R. and Donna Niederkorn to Robert J. Niederkorn...

Son to Johnathon and Deanna Niederkorn of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:45 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995. Name, Caleb Joseph. Weight, 9 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Niederkorn is the former Deanna Schuessler, daughter of Gene and Dorothy Schuessler of Cape Girardeau. She is a secretary at Advanced Pest Control. Niederkorn is employed by Niederkorn Farms in Chaffee. He is the son of Bob and Sally Niederkorn of Chaffee and Marilyn and Morris Welsh of Cape Girardeau...

BLOOMFIELD -- Pierce Burton, 89, of Bloomfield died Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, at Bloomfield Nursing Center. He was born Jan. 10, 1906, in Johnson County, Ark., son of John and Sarah Whitley Burton. Burton, formerly of Sikeston, had been a resident of Bloomfield since 1972...

Elmer E. "Pete" Saupe, 89, of The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, at the home. He was born Oct. 19, 1906, at Shawneetown, son of Leo and Lena Kutscher Saupe. He and Elsie Ruth Winter were married Nov. 19, 1931. She died Dec. 18, 1984...

JACKSON -- Ruben E. Bogenpohl, 82, of Jackson, died Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995, at Deal Nursing Home. He was born Feb. 20, 1913, in Jacob, Ill., son of Paul and Lena Kranawetter Bogenpohl. He and Bernice Schweer were married Aug. 7, 1938. She died Feb. 24, 1990...

MOREHOUSE -- Jesse Moore, 84, of Morehouse, died Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. He was born June 17, 1911, at Ardeola, son of Nelson and Martha Bradshaw Moore. He and Irene Breeden were married in October 1966 at Clines Island...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Robert L. Zook, 63, of East Prairie, died Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, following an extended illness. He was born March 8, 1932, in St. Bernice, Ind., son of Willie and Lillie Phillippe Zook. He grew up in the Mounds community near here...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Robert "Bob" Wallis, 86, of Dellrose, Tenn., died Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995, at his home. He was born Jan. 20, 1909, in Martin, Tenn., son of Henry A. and Elinora D. Deaton Wallis. He and Frances Mosley were married Feb. 4, 1937. Wallis retired as a sheet metal worker at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. They moved to this area in 1974. He had served as treasurer of Tamms and also served on the Tamms Volunteer Fire Department...

MARBLE HILL -- Mary Lou Hoxworth, 79, of Marble Hill, died Thursday, Nov. 30, 1995, at her home. She was born March 31, 1916, in Parma, daughter of Gotlieb and Stella Skelton Grampp. She and Paul E. Hoxworth were married Nov. 19, 1932. Survivors include her husband; three sons, Leo Hoxworth of Conway, Ark., Jerry and Kenneth Hoxworth of Marble Hill; three daughters, Shirley Barks of Marble Hill, Judy Bryant of Evansville, Ind., JoAnn Knoll of Jackson; two brothers, Edgar Grampp of Dallas, Texas, Richard Grampp of Fairview, Okla.; a sister, Jeannie Heath of Fayetteville, Ark.; 17 grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren.. ...

SCOTT CITY -- Curtis Ronald Amos, 61, Scott City Route 1, died Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, at his home. He was born Nov. 8, 1934, in Ancell, son of Goldia Brant Collier. He and Ann Garnell Barnes were married July 1, 1955. Amos was retired from SEMO Carpet Cleaners. He was a member of American Legion in Benton, and was a veteran of the U.S. Navy...

ORAN -- Francis Inez Comer, 81, of Oran, died Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, at her home. She was born Dec. 31, 1913, in Jackson, daughter of John Henry and Dora Lee Link Schrader. She and William Calvin Comer were married Jan. 1, 1952, in Arkansas. He died May 4, 1994...

JACKSON -- Edna F. Hopkins, 100, died Friday, Dec. 1, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 10, 1895, near Sedgewickville to Francis M. and Melvina Crites Hahs. She married Ora Hopkins Nov. 22, 1922. He died Nov. 28, 1982...

During the holidays, it doesn't take long for visions of sugarplums to turn into a dieter's worst nightmare. It's not easy to lose weight, or even maintain it, when so much food is available in so many places. But all that holiday cheer adds up fast when it's time to step on the scale...