Stories from Tuesday, June 18, 1996

Christina Nichole Crowell, a graduate of Cobden High School, was presented with an annual scholarship from the Masonic lodges of Alexander, Pulaski and Union counties. Crowell is the daughter of Allen and Peggy Ann Crowell of Cobden. She was active in Spanish Club, Science Club, Varsity Club, softball, Beta Club (treasurer), Student Council, band, Press Club, Gifted Class, and was Junior Class secretary. ...

Bryn McDougall, a 1996 graduate of Central High School, has received the Bellingrath Scholarship from Rhodes College. It is considered one of the three most prestigious scholarships given to entering freshmen. Approximately 639 students were nominated for the three scholarships, which were based on academic record, leadership, character and personal achievement. McDougall is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald McDougall of Cape Girardeau...

MARBLE HILL -- Linda Haynie Price wants her students to be informed citizens, so she offers them a new word, quote and news tidbit every day. Price teaches history, geography and current issues classes at Woodland High School. "After the class, they may never again remember the details of a particular event," she said, "but perhaps they will remember the basics of history, recognize geographical locations and have an interest in being an informed member of society."...

Dr. Robert Keith Butler has graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla with a doctorate in electrical engineering. Butler is a graduate of Cape Central High School. Dr. Butler is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald Butler of Cape Girardeau and is married to the former Tracy Owens...

Southeast Missouri State University will offer a residual ACT assessment exam on Aug. 15. The test is scheduled for 1 p.m. in the third floor lounge area of the Scully Building. Those taking the exam should bring a photo I.D. or a signed letter of identification. Students taking the exam may ask that their score be reported only to Southeast Missouri State University. This differs with the national test days when the students may ask for their score to be reported to many institutions...

Six area students made the Dean's List or the President's List at Arkansas State University. Mark Kiehne of Jackson made the Dean's List, maintaining an average grade point of 3.6 to 3.79. Carrie Allen, Lisa Burrow, Tisha Jones and Jerry Snow of Malden and Connie Grobe of Sikeston made the President's List, averaging a 3.80 to 4.0 grade point...

Terrance Hamilton has been awarded the degree of Doctor of Chiropractic by Logan College of Chiropractic in Chesterfield, Mo. He is the son of Saundra Hamilton of Jackson and Paul Hamilton of Clearwater, Fla. Dr. Hamilton graduated from Jackson High School...

Lori Fritsche, a Cape Central High School graduate, earned a spot on the Dean's List at Missouri Valley College in Marshall, Mo. She had to maintain a minimum GPA of 3.3 to 4.0 while carrying a full-time course load of 12 semester hours. Fritsche is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Erwin Fritsche of Cape Girardeau...

Sara Kay Jansen, a recent graduate of Notre Dame High School, has accepted the following scholarships to attend the University of Missouri-Columbia: Curators Scholarship, University of Missouri-Columbia Freshman Engineering Scholarship, Bright Flight, 1996-1997 State of Missouri Knights of Columbus Luke E. Hart Scholarship and the 1996-1997 St. Vincent's Knights of Columbus Council 1111 Scholarship. Jansen is the daughter of Mike and Marilyn Jansen of Cape Girardeau...

Wendy M. Wooldridge of Benton was recently recognized at the Honors Assembly for the College of Human Environmental Sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She received the Natalie R. Reid/Wheeler Memorial Scholarship and was recognized as an outstanding senior as well as a member of Phi Upsilon Omicron, a national honorary fraternity stressing leadership, scholarship and service. She graduated in May with a B.S. in textile and apparel management...

Alisha R. Walther of Jackson was selected to be a part of The Missouri Ambassadors of Music, who are on a 16-day tour of seven European countries. The group is made up of select concert band, choir, string orchestra and jazz band members. Walther will be singing for the Missouri Ambassadors. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Walther of Jackson...

Charlie Farrow, left, explained what he does on the job at Buchheit's while students toured the store with Shannon Tarrillion. Students from Perryville Elementary School toured Rudy Buchheit's General Store to learn what it takes to work at the store...

Heather Burger and Steven Trankler are the recipients of the First Financial Bank of Southeast Missouri Scholarships for 1996. Burger, daughter of Robin and Nancy Burger of Oran, has been one of the top honor students at Kelly High School. She was involved in the Future Homemakers of America, Future Business Leaders of America, the Beta Club, Pep Club, Future Farmers of America (secretary/treasurer), varsity basketball, softball, Student Council, New Hamburg 4-H (president), St. ...

John Byrd, chairman of the Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District Board, announced the winners of the 1996 poster contest. For the fifth grade: Jennie Rawls, Scott County Central, first; Stephen Mills, Scott County Central, second; Stephen Gaskins, Scott County Central, third...

Michelle Bennett, daughter of Mike and Gwen Bennett, and Tim Mayfield, son of Barbara Mayfield and Joe Mayfield, both graduates of Cape Central High School, have each won a $1,000 All-College Scholarship from the Aid Association for Lutherans. Bennett and Mayfield are two of 1,000 graduating high school seniors to be honored as recipients of this scholarship...

The eighth annual Freedom Celebration at First General Baptist Church will focus on the founding fathers and the role religion played in the creation of the United States government. Every year the musical, which incorporates singers from 17 different churches, changes its theme. But one thing remains consistent with the Freedom Celebration: its popularity...

Kathleen A. Brown will become manager of the Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co. plant at Cape Girardeau. Brown, who has served as an operations group manager at the plant here since 1991, joined P&G in 1978 at the Augusta, Ga. plant, following graduation from the University of Florida. She received a bachelor of science degree in industrial engineering from Florida...

Lonnie Hansen cringes at the thought of hitting a deer. "I commute by bicycle," said Hansen, a Missouri Department of Conservation wildlife research biologist at Columbia. "I keep close watch for deer." Hansen adjusts his riding habits at least twice a year...

Cape Girardeau city and county governments have offered a combined $50,000 for job training in an effort to land a service company that would employ about 200 people. Both the Cape Girardeau County Commission and Cape Girardeau City Council met separately Monday and agreed to contribute $25,000 each to job training provided that the company decides to locate here...

The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night renewed a liquor license for Regina's House of Dolls strip-tease bar even though the establishment continues to operate without an adult-business license. The council voted 5-1 to renew the retail-liquor-by-the-drink license for the bar at 805 Enterprise. Councilman Melvin Gateley was the lone dissenter. Councilman J.J. Williamson was absent...

Monday, June 17, 7:30 p.m., City Hall Public HearingRegarding petition for annexation of land from Lynwood Baptist Church. Consent Ordinances* Granted a special use permit for an addition to St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church at 741 Forest Ave.* Granted a special use permit for apartments at 99 S. ...

It's tough being Mr. Mom. When my wife, Joni, left town for a few days last week to attend a business conference, I was left the task of being Mr. Mom to my two children. With two kids in our family -- Becca, 4, and Bailey, 6 months -- I'm used to dealing with them on a one-on-one basis...

JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County Commission Monday heard officials describe a study that will determine how the county's public transportation needs can best be served. Currently, the county's public transportation needs are met by a variety of agencies that provide uncoordinated transportation for handicapped and senior citizens...

SCOTT CITY -- Scott City Councilman John Rogers put all the speculation to rest Monday night: He submitted his resignation to Mayor Jerry Cummins and accepted the public works director's position. The move, which was made at the regular City Council meeting, comes after the finance committee set the new Public Works director's salary at the base pay of $27,000 a year, including benefits...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education approved a $22.6 million tentative budget for the 1996-97 school year during its meeting Monday night. The proposed budget is identical to the current budget and will allow the district to continue paying bills, said Dr. Steve DelVecchio, business manager for the district...

FOR MANY years women were treated unfairly and deprived of many of their rights and opportunities, especially in the workplace. Their efforts to exercise their rights were rebuffed by men who feared that giving women more rights would result in men losing some of theirs. ...

Last week, 41 cities and counties, including the city of Cape Girardeau and Cape Girardeau County, filed suit against the Missouri Department of Revenue. Their argument is that they shouldn't be required to repay use-tax revenue or the 12 percent interest the state is also demanding...

State Auditor Margaret Kelly is pressing her claim that Missouri taxpayers are owed far more than Gov. Mel Carnahan is planning to refund them under the Hancock Amendment. Kelly's attorneys were in state appeals court last week in Kansas City, after a Jefferson City circuit judge had earlier dismissed her lawsuit seeking the increased amount on behalf of the state's taxpayers. ...

To the editor: Daniel A. Ludwig, national commander of the American Legion, writing in the June 14 Southeast Missourian, expressed the view that the Constitution needs to be improved by amending it to allow Congress to proscribe the desecration of the U.S. flag, which act is protected as things now stand by interpretations of the First Amendment. I couldn't disagree more...

BELL CITY -- Fred A. Green Sr., 80, of Bell City died Monday, June 17, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.

Funeral Mass for Simon Leo Westrich, 812 Good Hope, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Old St. Vincent's Catholic Church. The Revs. Glen Eftink and James Seyer will officiate, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements...

JACKSON -- Lillie Jane Seabaugh, 96, of Jackson, died Sunday, June 16, 1996, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 4, 1899, in Sedgewickville, daughter of Alexander and Nora Kate Fulbright Seabaugh. Seabaugh worked at International Shoe Co. in Jackson 43 years, retiring in 1964. She was a member of New McKendree United Methodist Church and its Wesleyan Circle...

PERRYVILLE -- Esther T. Hagan, 69, of Perryville, died Saturday, June 15, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 25, 1926, in Perry County, daughter of Henry and Emma Parres Klump. She and Lilburn "Shorty" Hagan were married Oct. 19, 1942. He died Oct. 15, 1971...

SIKESTON -- Mamie King, 83, of Sikeston, died Monday, June 17, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Dec. 8, 1912, in LaForge, daughter of Newt J. and Pearl Holden McRoy. He and Paul E. King were married July 6, 1935, at LaForge. He died Oct. 1, 1976...

SCOTT CITY -- Lucille Ellen Hertel, 77, of Scott City, died Monday, June 17, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 1, 1919, in Advance, daughter of William A. and Hattie Harmon Sledge. She and Loraine A. Hertel were married Aug. 31, 1942. He died Feb. 13, 1989...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Chris LeRoy Pinzon, 26, of East Prairie, drowned Sunday, June 16, 1996, near here. He was born Sept. 14, 1969, in Phoenix, Ariz., son of Daniel Lucero and Clara B. Whitney Woodson, both of Phoenix. Pinzon and Shelley Denice Boyer were married July 23, 1989...

ANNA, Ill. -- Randy Lee Davis, 39, of Cartersville, Ga., died Sunday, June 16, 1996, at his home. He was born Dec. 17, 1956, in Paducah, Ky., son of Maurice and Jean Jerolds Davis. Davis was employed by Bartow County Sheriff's Department. He was a member of the Methodist Church...

DELTA -- Nathan Joe Hendershott, six weeks, died Sunday, June 16, 1996, at Children's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born May 4, 1996, in Cape Girardeau, son of Donald "Marty" and Denise McHughs Hendershott of Delta. Survivors include his parents; a brother, Ricky Hendershott of Delta; maternal grandparents, William and Mary McHughs of Thebes, Ill.; paternal grandparents, Ricky and Ann Hendershott of Delta; maternal great-grandparents, Vernon and Dixie McHughs of Thebes and Leo and Minnie Benefield of Anna, Ill.; paternal great-grandparents, Clara Thurston of Cape Girardeau, Billy Bice of Vinegar Bend, Ala., and June Hendershott of Marble Hill.. ...

BROWNWOOD -- Elsie V. Johns, 83, of Brownwood, died Monday, June 17, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 16, 1913, in Arkansas, daughter of W.T. and Alice Lamons Ford. She and Fred Johns were married Feb. 4, 1934, in Tag, Ark. He died Sept. 26, 1986...

BLOOMFIELD -- Pearl Stone, 82, of Bloomfield died Monday, June 17, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born in Arkansas March 13, 1914, and married Howard Stone, who preceded her in death. She and her husband farmed and operated a country store near Sikeston before moving to Blytheville, Ark., where she was employed by American Greeting Cards for 34 years. She was a member of the First General Baptist Church in Bloomfield...