Stories from Tuesday, August 27, 1996

The United States Achievement Academy announced that Ryan B. Kasten of Jackson has been named a United States National Award winner in foreign language. Kasten attends Jackson High School and was nominated by his teacher, Darlene Houchins. Kasten will appear in the United States Achievement Academy Official Yearbook, which is published nationally...

Shawnee Community College is offering an informational seminar called Successful Money Management: A Course in Financial Planning Basics on Sept. 12, 19, 26 from 6-9:30 p.m. in the River Room. This motivational course covers money management concepts in practical, easy-to-understand language...

LaQuisha Session of Cape Girardeau spent much of this summer getting a head start on her future. Ten students in the Minority High School Student Research Apprentice program and two in the new Student Training and Research program took their first steps toward medical school at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine...

Southeast Missouri State University named 361 students to its Dean's List for academic achievement during the summer 1996 semester. Area students Advance: Kimberleigh D. Foster, Lorna M. Middleton, Lori A. Williams. Altenburg: Mark E. Gihring. Benton: Katina B. Wahlers...

Tina M. Bahner of Cape Girardeau has earned recognition from the Medical Transcriptionist Certification Program at the American Association for Medical Transcription by being designated a Certified Medical Transcriptionist. The CMT credential is the highest honor of professional achievement available for medical transcriptionists...

The Cape Girardeau County Women of Law Enforcement will holds a fall membership meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3 at First Presbyterian Church, 235 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. The topic for this first meeting is firearms training. Child care will be provided...

ABE-GED classes will begin Monday, Sept. 9 at R.O. Hawkins Junior High School. Parking and entrance is at the north entrance of the building. These classes are free for adults 16 and over who are not enrolled in school. Any adult who desires schooling in basic skills for employment, enrichment, college or preparation for the General Equivalency Degree test is urged to attend...

Jason A. LeGrand of Cape Girardeau has graduated from the 1996 Leadership Academy held in conjunction with Lambda Chi Alpha International Fraternity's General Assembly. The academy is a three-day experience designed to build confidence and teach a values-based leadership process that participants can use throughout their life...

Wesley J. Wrucke, principal of Trinity Lutheran School in Cape Girardeau, attended the annual Lutheran Administrator's Conference in Jefferson City recently. The main emphasis for this year's conference was "Building Relationships." Sixty-five Lutheran elementary and secondary school administrators from across the state met to discuss issues...

Bryan Schaefer of Cape Girardeau has been selected to receive a 1996 Dean's Scholarship at Centre College in Danville, Ky. He is one of five incoming students chosen for the scholarship, which is renewable and carries a four-year value of nearly $40,000...

Douglas England pointed to objects heard on audiotape as Christina Musgrave, health aide, provided a hearing test at Head Start. children at Head Start learned food groups in a social setting with dramatic play time. From left, Keith McMullen, Kaneisha Bryant and Jonathan Tackett...

Jenni Reisenbichler of Jackson has been named to Southwest Missouri State University's honor roll for the 1996 summer semester. Students named to the list earned at least a 3.5 grade point average on a 4.0 scale and completed at least six credit hours during the summer semester...

Michael McCowan represented Cape Girardeau as a member of the Missouri Lion's Band at the Lion's International Convention in Montreal, Canada, July 7-12. The Missouri band marched in the international parade and also performed for the international delegation. They also marched in the St. Louis Fair Parade prior to their departure for Montreal and at the East-West football game held in Jefferson City on July 27...

Cybertip: If you want to surf the net but don't have a computer, visit the Cape Girardeau Public Library. It has two public access Internet terminals, which can be used free of charge. Beginners need to take half-hour Internet introduction classes, offered four days a week...

Children with new backpacks, hoes and pencils arrived at Cape Girardeau public schools this morning to begin a new school year. "Things have gone great," said Dr. Dan Tallent, Cape Girardeau superintendent. First-day enrollment was 4,120 students, down a couple of hundred from last year. But Tallent said that number will grow over the week...

Free tickets will be distributed beginning at 10 a.m. today for President Bill Clinton's campaign rally in Cape Girardeau. Clinton, Vice President Al Gore and their wives will attend a rally at Capaha Park Friday afternoon before the campaign hits the road with a bus tour to Memphis, Tenn...

PERRYVILLE -- Voters will decide in November if they want a new multipurpose building in Perryville. On Monday, The Perry County Commission voted unanimously to put a $9.5 million bond issue and an accompanying half-cent sales tax on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. Today at 5 p.m. was the deadline to do so...

Vicki Abernathy hopes to hitch a ride with President Bill Clinton on Air Force One. The Jackson woman is a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, which opened Monday in Chicago. Abernathy, 48, said she wants to be on hand when Clinton visits Cape Girardeau Friday...

With a full-time wife, son and job, I have little time anymore for discussions with my three younger brothers. But the relatively little time I do get to spend with them always includes interesting, humorous conversation. This time it was John Gotti, margaritas and new identities...

THE PEOPLE of Cape Girardeau voted an emphatic no on the sports complex being built on North Kingshighway, not once but twice. Now the sign tells us that it is a community center built with convention and visitors tax revenue funds. The most recent reported expenditure is $5 million, it was stated. ...

One issue that seems unlikely to bob to the surface of the presidential campaign this year is gun control. After the Democrats lost some 20 to 30 congressional seats in 1994 because of their support of the ban on sales of semi-automatic weapons, it's improbable they'll propose similar measures as a follow-up...

State Auditor Margaret Kelly filed suit earlier this year in Cole County Circuit Court in Jefferson City alleging that Gov. Mel Carnahan's administration is underestimating the size of refunds owing to Missouri taxpayers. Carnahan says that next year his administration will refund $147 million. Kelly says the correct figure is more like $600 million...

A national report issued last week said that in 1996, Missouri students scored above the national average on the American College Test. Missouri's high school seniors averaged a composite score of 21.4 on the ACT, compared with 20.9 nationwide. At Southeast Missouri State University, the scores are better still. Entering freshmen at Southeast this year average just over 23. That's up from a 22.6 last for year's freshmen at Southeast...

JACKSON -- The traffic flow from Jackson to Cape Girardeau is always heavy on weekdays. Thousands of cars pack Highway 61's southbound lane, the drivers readying for another long workday. On Monday, one traveler slowed the others down a bit. Ed LaRose was walking against the traffic in the emergency lane, carrying a 13-foot-long, 70-pound cross on his shoulder...

SCOTT CITY -- Edward V. "Jack" Gage, 80, of Scott City died Sunday, Aug. 25, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 19, 1916, in Neelyville, son of George Loren and Sallie Mattingly Gage. He and Nellie Morgan were married Sept. 5, 1942...

PUXICO -- Elmer P. Goble, 94, of Puxico died Sunday, Aug. 25, 1996, at Pine Lawn Residential Care Center II in Puxico. He was born Aug. 15, 1902, at Fairview, son of Frank and Bertha Wills Goble. He and Rilla Maddox were married May 12, 1924, at Kennett. She died July 20, 1987...

Funeral service for Omega Burton will be held in St. Louis, with burial today in Laurel Hills Cemetery. Burton, 79, died Saturday, Aug. 24, 1996, at Delmar Gardens in Chesterfield. She was born Nov. 26, 1916, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Robert and Anna Geldmacher Bacon. She and William M. Burton were married in 1941 in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death...

Edward T. "Tiny" Regenhardt, 88, of San Diego, Calif., died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996. He was born April 2, 1908, in Cape Girardeau, son of Edward F. and Alvina Regenhardt. He and Ferne Fowler were married Sept. 17, 1933, in Cape Girardeau. She died Aug. 10, 1985. He then married Wilma Harrison Oct. 3, 1986, in Yuma, Ariz...

Mary Marie Green, 71, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 8, 1925, at Des Arc, daughter of Harry and Laura Worley Staples. She and Norvel Green were married April 21, 1943. He died Dec. 16, 1989. Green was a member of Bethany Baptist Church...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Robert Elmer Freeman of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jerry Harris will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Freeman, 67, died Sunday, Aug. 25, 1996, at Sikeston Convalescent Center, from injuries received in an accident Nov. 15, 1995...

NEW WELLS -- Norma A. Versemann, 77, of New Wells died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. She was born June 11, 1919, at Farrar, daughter of Theodore and Lydia Bachmann Mangels. She and Wilbert Versemann were married Jan. 10, 1943, at Farrar...

JACKSON -- Bessie M. Sachse, 87, of Jackson died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 3, 1909, at Mayfield, daughter of Leo and Carrie Killian Yount. She and Leo W. Sachse were married Sept. 7, 1940. He died in March 1957...

KELSO -- Keith Eugene Wipfler, 25, of Columbia, formerly of Kelso, died Sunday, Aug. 25, 1996, in an automobile accident near Kansas City. He was born March 10, 1971, in Cape Girardeau, son of Charles and Susie Glastetter Wipfler. Wipfler was a 1989 graduate of Scott City High School and an All-Conference football player. He was employed at One-Tuff Muffler in Columbia, and was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church in Kelso...

Mary Townsend, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 25, 1996, at Meridian Manor Nursing Home in Mounds, Ill. She was born Aug. 6, 1921, in Olive Branch, Ill., daughter of Clarence I. and Mattie Orr Holmes. She first married Elmer "Jack" Johnson, who died in 1954. She then married Russell "Swede" Warner, who died in 1982, and later married Charles Townsend, who died in 1989...

Barbara Jeanne Juden, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 24, 1925, in San Francisco, Calif., daughter of Roy Thomas and Alta Nadine Underwood. She and Kenneth Neher were married in 1947 in Santa Cruz, Calif. He preceded her in death. She and Dr. A.G. Juden were married March 8, 1955, in Jackson. He also preceded her in death...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Evelyn L. Gregory, 88, of Lambertville, Mich., formerly of Cairo, died Tuesday, Aug. 20, 1996, at Northwest Ohio Hospice in Perrysburg. She was born June 1, 1908, in Henderson, Ky., daughter of Albert and Birdie Eblen Robinson. She married Robert A. Gregory, who preceded her in death...

Son to Richard Keith and Deborah Evonne Snell, 2854 Whitener, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:45 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996. Name, Dylan Keith. Weight, 7 pounds 10 ounces. First child. Mrs. Snell is the former Deborah Ward, daughter of John and Judi Ward of Millersville. She is a lab technician at Spartech Compounding. Snell is the son of William and Doris Snell of Gale, Ill. He is an operator at Spartech Compounding...

FRUITLAND -- A Bloomfield man was listed in stable condition Monday night at Southeast Missouri Hospital following a construction accident. The victim, Gary Hayes, 38, an employee of Lillie Ann Construction of Cape Girardeau, fell into a ditch for a sewer line on Walnut Street near the Mulberry Edition mobile home park near Fruitland about 4:30 p.m. Monday...

PERRYVILLE -- Faye E. Hager, 39, of Perryville, died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 14, 1957, in Perry County, daughter of Nolan J. and Irene Clifton Hager. She was a cashier at Country Kettle Restaurant and a member of Bethlehem Baptist Church...