Stories from Sunday, September 15, 1996

The Bill Emerson Good Samaritan Food Act recently passed both the House and Senate by wide margins and is on its way to President Bill Clinton for his signature. The legislation eases the way for donations to the hungry, one of the late congressman's main priorities...

Brandon Blattel shows there's more than one way to kick a ball at a recent soccer practice. Zane McClard, junior, is a strong left-footed kicker, Garret Fink waits his turn behind McClard. Ben Turner shoots and scores while Derrick Johnston looks on at practice...

Sarah Culbertson serves at the match against Sikeston. Culbertson is one of two returning varsity players. Lynn Casteel plays the baseline during the match against Sikeston. Casteel is the top ranked player on the Jackson team. The Jackson Lady Indian Tennis Team has lost five players from last year's 12-2 district runner-up team, but can look forward to a promising season as long as the team improves on their mental game...

Co-headliner Rhett Akins had to leave the SEMO District Fair stage Friday night after just two songs because of an illness, but Bryan White and an estimated audience of 2,500 that included many screaming teen-age girls carried on a love fest quite well without him...

The long-range outline has been drawn and the puzzle is almost complete for the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. Only the financing of a construction and renovation project in the school district remains incomplete. The board met Saturday morning at the Holiday Inn to gather more financial information and begin forming a complete long-range plan...

Competition among the classes at Notre Dame High School will be fierce during Activity Week next week. Activity Week begins Friday and is a fund-raising event for the Catholic high school. Classes will compete to see who can raise the most money. King and queen candidates from the winning class will be crowned during a dance Sept. 28...

The Cape Girardeau County Republican headquarters will officially open Tuesday at 231 S. Broadview in Cape Girardeau. An open house will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. with local and state Republican candidates and officials in attendance. The Cape Girardeau Republican Committee will meet Thursday at 8 p.m. in Jackson at the County Administrative Building...

WELL, MRS. McDougall goes to jail for refusing to testify against President Clinton and Hillary. That's what the Republicans tell you. Remember when Jimmy Carter was president and our men were held hostage in Iran. Well, Reagan was running for president against Jimmy Carter with Ollie North's help and Bush. ...

Contemporary politics is a blend of money, strategy, timing and luck. To win the presidency, you need them all. Having three out of four won't do. Having two out of four creates a loser. One out of four means disaster -- and that's where the Dole campaign may be headed...

Our family once had a great basset hound who, for reasons that now escape me, was named Wellington. Although he had many lovable characteristics, such as coexisting with numerous other family pets including two cats, rabbits, turtles and hamsters, one of the most endearing was his ability to ignore anything threatening his serenity and anyone who didn't measure up to his canine standards. ...

National Guard troop strength and funding are under attack in the opening scenes of what may turn out to be a "war" against the guard. That's according to Brig. Gen. Thomas E. Whitecotton, commander of the Missouri National Guard's Engineering Brigade at Fort Leonard Wood. Whitecotton gave an impressive presentation at the monthly First Friday coffee of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...

As the Republican candidate for Missouri attorney general, Mark Bredemeier of Lee's Summit said it was worthwhile to travel over 300 miles to come to the SEMO District Fair. "Everybody knows about this fair," Bredemeier said. "It's the place to be."...

PERRYVILLE -- Quick! Which president had the most children? Who was the youngest president to take office? And who was the youngest president elected to office? Tune into "The Late Show" with David Letterman Monday night to find out the answers to these and other presidential trivia tidbits...

Many Southeast Missouri State University faculty members get failing grades when it comes to morale. They have a bad attitude about the administration and their teaching jobs, surveys show. Two surveys by the Higher Education Research Institute at UCLA revealed that negative attitudes among Southeast's faculty increased between 1992 and 1995...

If the EPA is really interested in reducing pollution, exterminate ragweed and make fairs safe for us all. For most people, the SEMO District Fair is loads of fun. For allergy sufferers, it is more like walking through a field of land mines waiting for the certain eruption of itchy eyes, scratchy throat and uncontrolled sneezing...

Many volunteers and professionals help to protect the waters of Missouri. To recognize the efforts of these people, Gov. Mel Carnahan signed a proclamation declaring September "Quality Water Month." My job is to monitor water quality in the Mississippi River as part of the Long Term Resource Monitoring Program (LTRMP), a 15-year project that began in 1987...

BENTON -- Trash, tires and extraneous items burned for two hours Saturday afternoon when sparks from a lawn mower ignited the dry grass and the fire spread. The tires were part of a former salvage yard near Benton, said Greg Schwartzkopf, deputy fire chief of New Hamburg/Benton/Chaffee fire department...

SCOTT CITY -- Francis Eugene "Gene" Schoen, 32, of Scott City died Friday, Sept. 13 at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Dec. 23, 1963, at Advance, son of Ulysees Eugene and Joyce Darlene Cassout Shoen. Schoen was a maintenance worker at Larry McKinney's cleaning service for some years...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Virgil Munsell, 79, of Cairo died Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996, at Daystar Care Center. He was born Nov. 28, 1916, in Barswell, Ky., son of Sam and Cora Phillips Munsell. Munsell was of the Baptist faith. Survivors include two sons, Darrell Munsell of Barlow, Ky., and Delbert Munsell of Cairo; a brother, Travis Munsell of Fancey Farm, Ky.; nine grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren...

GRAND CHAIN, Ill. -- James Robert "Gus" Reichert, 70, of Grand Chain, Ill., died Friday, Sept. 13, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was the son of Robert and Mary Johnson Reichert. He married Mary Jo McCluskey. Reichert was a retired farmer and served as president and chairman of the board of directors of the First State Bank of Olmsted. ...

CHARLESTON -- Dorothy Hathhorn, 83, of Charleston died Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996, at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

HONEY GROVE, Texas -- James Lester Chambers, 74, of Honey Grove, formerly of Anniston, Mo., died Thursday, Sept. 12, 1996, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Dallas after an extended illness. He was born March 10, 1922, in Anniston to the late Frank and Emma Pollock Chambers. He had lived in Honey Grove for the last three and a half years...

Cape Girardeau County Eric Bernard Ware, 29, and Dorcel Yvette Jackson, 35, both of Cape Girardeau; Joseph Robert Scott, 25, of Jackson and Amy Sue Zoll, 24, of Cape Girardeau; Terry Matthew Bollinger, 20, and Amy Michel Perry, 24, both of Cape Girardeau; Timothy Wayne Seabaugh, 34, and Kelly Michelle Roberts, 18, both of Jackson...

Cape Girardeau County The Larry Haertling Trust to Darrell L. Long and Deborah A. Long; Dillard O. Dale, et al. to Max Media Properties LLC; The JoAnn Hahn Trust to Todd R. Reiminger and Cathy F. Aufdenberg; William E. Pinkerton et al. to James L. Goodpasture and Cynthia S. Goodpasture...

Russell A. Renner, 80, of 614 Sycamore Circle died Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born June 15, 1916, in St. Louis, son of the late Frank and Theckla I. Hurtig Renner. He married Rosemary Boos on June 24, 1940. She survives...

ADVANCE -- Modest J. Scott, 81, died Friday, Sept. 13, 1996, at Advance Nursing Center. She was born June 25, 1915, in Salem, Ark., to the late John and Louisa Shirley Mask. She married Robert Scott in 1935 at Salem, Ark. He died Dec. 12, 1986. She was a homemaker and Pentecostal...

SIKESTON -- R.H. "Rusty" Cope, 83, of Sikeston died Saturday at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Sept. 20, 1912, in Blodgett to the late Milton and Alma Marshall Cope. He was a 1931 graduate of Blodgett High School and a former member of the Sikeston Jaycees. Cope was a member of First Baptist Church in Sikeston and had formerly owned Alabama Feed and Produce Co. in Sikeston. For many years he transported mail by truck for the U.S. Postal Service as a private contractor...

Steven Johnson doesn't lose his marbles. He just buys and sells them. The Carbondale, Ill., college professor has his share of marbles. "It is a good investment," said Johnson who is a computer teacher at Shawnee Community College's Anna campus. Antique marbles can increase in value 20 to 30 percent in a year, he said...

The crickets, with their comforting little fiddlin's, were late in coming this year. All through July and August I listened for them. Didn't even hear the sound of a tune-up on an E natural string, which is two octaves above Middle C as entomologist S.H. ...