Stories from Thursday, June 20, 1996

Win, Eleanor, Paul and Lela Grace In 1974, Win Grace bought an autoharp, taught herself to play and soon found herself standing in Paris in front the Louvre busking for coins. Grace still plays music in sometimes unusual places, and now her husband and two daughters are part of the band...

The Scott County Commission spent $812,000 less than it budgeted for last year. That excess cash is going to help Scott County with a larger budget this year. The commission has established its expenditures in the 1996-97 budget at $3,190,952.85 with an estimated revenue of $2,504,000. The $812,552.73 in cash carryover from last year will help the commission, but may not be needed. Scott County Clerk Rita Milam said the county will probably spend less again this year than it has budgeted...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. -- The Pink Palace was never designed to be a museum, even though the Memphis landmark has always drawn visitors. When Clarence Saunders, founder of the Piggly Wiggly grocery store chain, announced construction of the mansion in 1922, it quickly attracted media attention and public interest...

"The Pipeline" at the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii, is the most famous surf break in the world. The scene is featured in the IMAX film "The Living Sea." MEMPHIS -- Whether it's a volcanic eruption or a swim through a coral reef, the four-story screens and surround sound of Image Maximum theaters are always showing a blockbuster movie...

If you have ever wondered what it would have been like to sit in on arguments between Socrates and Plato, or Freud and Jung, or Einstein and Bohr, then imagine what it might have been like to hear debates between all of them and you get an idea of what took place in Tucson, Ariz., recently. ...

MINER -- A fire in a mobile home Wednesday killed three children who were unable to escape. All that remained of Bill and Rebecca Beck's mobile home late Wednesday morning were smoldering ashes and charred rubble. Their three children died in the blaze...

C.W. Knuckles was a "yellow Dog Democrat." But that was before he met Bob Dole while the two recuperated from war wounds in an Army hospital in Battle Creek, Mich. Since 1976, the Poplar Bluff city councilman has voted Republican, although he describes himself as an independent. Knuckles backs Dole for president as he has in Dole's previous presidential bids...

A month after missing out on a transportation grant to buy St. Vincent's Seminary, the Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation is looking for another way to get money through the city. This time members approached the Convention and Visitors Bureau. At a CVB Advisory Board meeting Wednesday, director Mary Miller said the foundation wants $250,000 that the CVB has budgeted for a new building. In return, the bureau could locate its offices inside the seminary...

PERRYVILLE -- Sabreliner Corp. will roll out a reconditioned T-2 aircraft at Perryville Municipal Airport in special ceremonies for Navy officials Friday. Sabreliner executives from the company's headquarters at St. Louis, naval officers from the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Fla., Perryville and Missouri officials, and a representative of U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson will be on hand for the first T-2 to undergo maintenance...

June 20, 1996 Dear Patty, Received a surprise package at work this week. The return address was only "Martien" and a P.O. box number. Inside the carton was a book, "Shell Game: A True Account of Beads and Money in North America." By Jerry Martien. Foreword by Gary Snyder...

JACKSON -- City officials have redefined nuisances. The city's new nuisance abatement ordinance spells out precisely what will and will not be tolerated in terms of property upkeep, trash, weeds, noxious odors, old vehicles and a variety of other unpleasantries...

ORDINARILY I do not agree with Peter Kinder's writing. However, his commentary June 14 concerning Norm Lambert was exceptional, very well written and very right. I'D LIKE to share my idea with the ladies of Cape. We should take one check with us to the store and leave the purse at home. ...

The wheels are beginning to turn in an effort to bring all of the various public-supported transportation services in Cape Girardeau County under a single, coordinated program. Based upon concerns that the Cape Girardeau County Commission has been hearing recently, such a coordinated program is needed. County commissioners agree that it should lead not only to improved transportation services for the people who need them, but to tax savings as well...

In this world of computerization, it makes sense for Cape Girardeau County to quit storing reams upon reams of documents and instead put all of them onto computer disks for permanent storage and convenient retrieval. As the county is finding out, storage space for documents generated by virtually every office in the courthouse is becoming limited. As times wears on, it will become even more so...

To the editor: Thank you, Southeast Missourian, for sponsoring me to the Freedom Forum in Cape Girardeau. The forum helped me to better understand American principles of small businesses and individual freedom. I especially enjoyed listening to motivational speaker Mindy Hawkins. Her lecture, "Making the Most With What You've Got," really made me realize what a great country we live in...

Foreign language majors at Southeast Missouri State University now have $13,000 more to draw on for scholarships to study abroad. Participants in an 11-day German tour donated some of the money and the Southeast Missouri University Foundation contributed matching funds...

Son to Wayne and Christy Montgomery of Advance, Doctors' Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, 6:25 p.m. Tuesday, June 11, 1996. Name, Dylan Francis. Weight, 8 pounds 8 ounces. First child. Mrs. Montgomery is the former Christy McBride, daughter of David and Patty Fussell of Florida and David and Sandy McBride of Chaffee. She is employed at Paramount Headwear. Montgomery is the son of Dorothy Bowman of Advance and the late Clyde Montgomery. He is employed at MFA in Advance...

Mary L. Cardwell, 84, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, June 19, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

CHARLESTON -- Harold Bumpos, 49, of Charleston, died Wednesday, June 19, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, of an apparent heart attack. McMikle Funeral Home at Charleston is in charge of arrangements.

PERRYVILLE -- Cecelia J. Robinson, 88, of Perryville, died Wednesday, June 19, 1996, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born June 2, 1908, in Perry County, daughter of August and Emma Herron Buff. She and Clarence Robinson were married in 1930 at Silver Lake...

PULASKI, Ill. -- Maxine Smoot, 78, of Pulaski, died Tuesday, June 18, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 25, 1918, in East Prairie, Mo., daughter of Olvie Ray and Billie Jo Tudor Drennan. She married Irl R. Smoot, who died April 28, 1986...