Stories from Sunday, October 20, 1996

To the editor: In a radio interview on KZIM in September, Emily Firebaugh, Democratic congressional candidate for the 8th District, was asked a call-in question: Who is the person who claims to be a Democrat appearing in those TV ads for Jo Ann Emerson? Mrs. Firebaugh replied, "Oh, that was just some Washington lobbyist."...

October has arrived, and with it the charges and countercharges characteristic of the election season. Take Missouri's spirited race for lieutenant governor. The Republican nominee is Sen. Bill Kenney of Lee's Summit, who is challenging Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson, the Democratic incumbent...

Running for president, former Alabama Gov. George Wallace would delight his hard-scrabble audience by declaring "There isn't a dime's worth of difference between the two." The line always drew applause, shouts and whoops from audiences on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. Actually, Wallace was telegraphing a warning not to believe that either party would restore the segregation rules that characterized American society during the first half of this century...

If Clinton says crime has been reduced so dramatically, why are we building three new prisons in Missouri? Democrats Clinton, Carnahan and others are using two buzzwords -- scheme and plan -- in debating taxes. The Republican tax policy is a scheme, while theirs is a plan. The Clinton plan has increased the national debt from $4 trillion to $5 trillion in the last four years...

On Thursday, the city of Cape Girardeau will host a public information meeting regarding the city's water system. Citizens are encouraged to stop by City Hall between 5-8 p.m. There will be two water-related questions on the Nov. 5 general election ballot. Cape Girardeau voters will decide whether to fund system improvements by issuing revenue bonds and whether to pay off the bonds with a new quarter-cent sales tax...

Zane McClard in the open field against Cape Central Thursday afternoon. Dee Jones kept running into a tight Cape defense that wouldn't allow a goal on Thursday. Dee Jones loses his defender on his way to an unsuccessful shot on goal Thursday. Jackson was on the attack against Cape Central Thursday, but it was the Tigers that came out on top 1-0...

Idell Dockins listens to her tapes from the Hollins Communications Research Institute. The tapes have ehlped her keep practicing the skills she learned at the school to help her speak clearly. For 58 years Idell Dockins knew she had a speech problem and for 58 year she tried every possible remedy she could get her hands on and they all failed, but one...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Staff writer Heidi Nieland has volunteered to go through a diet plan new to the Cape Girardeau area. This is the fourth of seven stories about her successes and failures. When my weight was published in the newspaper three weeks ago, I wondered what the community's reaction would be...

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Wearing a feathered Indian headdress, nose ring and bright red military jacket, savage-looking Ted Belue walked to the front lines to discuss terms of surrender between the French and British troops. The British commander took one look, pulled his knife and stabbed him...

Community interest, duplicated services and the possibility of joining forces with the Cape Civic Center will be top topics at Monday's meeting of the task force looking into the feasibility of a YMCA in Cape Girardeau. The meeting will be held at Southeast Missouri Hospital Monday at 7 p.m. and those who are interested are invited to attend...

There's lot of house-hunting going on around Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City this year. Steady mortgage rates have helped boost real estate sales throughout the area during the first nine months of 1996. Housing, both on the local and national levels, remains a bright spot in the economy...

When you become parents, the real meaning of childhood suddenly hits you. It's not bedtime stories and jungle gyms. You go through childhood so you can get all those childhood diseases before you grow up. That way you don't have to miss a lot of time at work, which makes employers happy...

Attention anglers. The nighttime gigging season on streams in now open. Some people may say, "What is gigging?" Basically, gigging is catching a fish with a long-handled spear. You have never lived until you have sat around a fire on a gravel bar with friends telling lies and eating freshling gigged fish...

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SIKESTON -- Jimmy Dale Holland, 58, of Kewanee, died Thursday, Oct. 17, 1996, in Sikeston, of an extended illness. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

ST. LOUIS -- John W. Grimsley, 32, of St. Louis, died Friday, Oct. 18, 1996, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born June 22, 1964, son of John R. and Iris J. Walters Grimsley. Survivors include his parents of Sikeston; three sisters: Teena Jones of Sikeston, Teresa Wassilar of Rolla and Vicky Jones of Holland; and one grandmother, Louise Grimsley of Marble Hill...

MARBLE HILL -- Mary Emmeline McGlothlin, 91, of Marble Hill, died Friday, Oct. 18, 1996, at the Bond Nursing Care Center. McGlothlin was born Sept. 19, 1905 in Lodge, daughter of Robert Carl and Mary Emmeline Minter Alexander. She and Lee Alexander McGlothlin were married on June 1, 1927. He preceded her in death on May 18, 1975...

SCOTT CITY -- Alvin Gene Harty Jr., 42, of Scott City, died Friday, Oct. 18, 1996, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.

Willie Melvin Tallent, 90, of Jackson, died Friday, Oct. 19, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 18, 1906, son of the late Henry A. and Jane Jones Tallent. He married Opal Niswonger on Nov. 1, 1939. Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Mary Hill of Lawson, Margaret Morgan of Scopus and Martha Garrett of Paducah, Ky.; five grandchildren; one step-grandchild; and four great-grandchildren...

Southeast Missouri State University student John Foster browsed through comic books on the day they are distributed. Foster said he spends about $10 a week on comic books. A foldout of the inside back cover of the latest issue of DC Comic's Superman comic book features Superman's marriage to Lois Lane...

"So you didn't fall on your cluttered basement steps?" said my alter ego. "NO?" "Nor on the stairs going up to the attic where you predicted you'd fall and wind up tied in fancy, colorful ribbons and silk flowers? A bribe for St. Peter?" "NO." "On the uncluttered concrete sidewalk, you say?"...