Stories from Thursday, June 26, 1997

"Catherine II," 1782, by Richard Brompton "Wine Cooler," 1720-1770s, Charles Kandler I ST. LOUIS -- While previewing the new exhibition at the Saint Louis Art Museum recently, Chicago's British consul bemoaned the fact that not much attention is paid to English art these days...

People wanting to serve an eight-month term on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education have until 10 a.m. Friday to apply. That is the deadline for handing in a letter to the school board office at 61 N. Clark. At noon Friday, board President Ferrell Ervin will meet with board members Bob Fox and Steve Wright at an open meeting to look over the letters and possibly recommend three names for the board to choose from, Ervin said...

House Speaker Newt Gingrich will talk of tax cuts and a balanced budget when he visits Cape Girardeau Friday to raise money for U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson's re-election campaign. He also is expected to talk about the future of the Republican Party and conservative philosophy...

The Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge will be lighted when it opens early in the next century. Installation of aesthetic lighting on the Cape Girardeau Mississippi River bridge will be included in the final bid for the bridge, which will also include the final decking...

To prepare for the speech he gave to the Copper Dome Society at the Show Me Center Wednesday night, Dr. Robert Archibald visited the Old Lorimier Cemetery and read all the gravestones. Archibald, the president of the Missouri Historical Society in St. Louis, said he had only seen Cape Girardeau before from Interstate 55, a view that didn't distinguish the city from any other...

June 26, 1997 Dear Pat, Because our schedules are so different, DC and I are avoiding many traditional battlegrounds of marital discord. We don't race each other for the first shower in the morning, we haven't signed an uneasy peace treaty certifying who washes and who dries the dinner dishes, we don't hide the remote control and we don't have sex (just kidding)...

Resolved, by the House of Representatives that the Congress apologizes to African-Americans whose ancestors suffered as slaves under the laws and Constitution of the United States until 1865. News reports say President Bill Clinton is considering whether to throw his support behind the above proposed congressional resolution of "apology" to African-Americans for slavery imposed on their ancestors more than 130 years ago. ...

I ADMIRE Bobby Joe Allen Jr. for taking on the opinion of Gary Rust about the facts of marijuana. However, he does have one problem with his letter. He claims that heroin and methamphetamine are Schedule 1 drugs. Heroin is a Schedule 1 drug not to be used or experimented with. But methamphetamine is a Schedule 2 drug sold under the brand name Dezoxin, and doctors can prescribe it...

This month marked the 25th anniversary of the Watergate break-in that led to the fall of a president. Most observers agree that the single break-in on June 17, 1972, wouldn't, by itself, have led to the first-ever presidential resignation. Rather, it was President Richard Nixon's ineptness in confronting rogue illegality and his complicity in the subsequent coverup that made his departure a political and practical necessity...

To the editor: This is in response to Tamara Zellars Buck's column June 21. To begin, let us quote from Romans 14:10, "You, then, why do you judge your brother? Or why do you look down on your brother? For we will all stand before God's judgment seat."...

To the editor: Once again, the Cape Girardeau Roadrunners Club did a wonderful job with the Riverfest Run on June 13. The night of the race was exciting, fund and, despite the rain, pleasant. It is the events that followed the race that concern me. The information that was around town, mailed to our homes, in the paper and at health clubs gave runners the opportunity to sign up for an age group, gender and early or regular start. ...

To the editor: A final assault on American citizens' freedom was launched at the president's summit on America's future in Philadelphia in April. It was attended by aspiring dictator Clinton, ex-Presidents Bush, Carter and Ford and aspiring future dictator Gore. The main theme of this fiasco seems to have been an attempt to convince the American people that they should give up their remaining freedoms in favor of becoming citizen-servants...

A Trans State Airlines flight from St. Louis to Cape Girardeau Regional Airport had a scary moment Wednesday when the plane's landing gear deploy light did not activate. The flight had 11 people aboard including nine passengers. The pilots determined that the landing gear was down and locked and performed an emergency landing...

Southeast Missouri Hospital earned first-place recognition in the Missouri Community Education awards this week. The hospital was nominated by Cape Girardeau schools Superintendent Dan Tallent. The Outstanding Community Education Organization Award recognizes an agency, organization or institution that operates exemplary programs benefiting statewide community education...

Southeast Missouri State University has 3,135 students enrolled in campus and off-campus classes this summer. The headcount is for the eight-week session that began June 17. School officials said enrollment is up 75 students or 2.4 percent over a year ago...

Congress has given final approval for three new veterans' clinics in Missouri, including one in Cape Girardeau. The others would be in West Plains and St. Joseph. U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond and Rep. Jo Ann Emerson announced plans for the clinics Wednesday...

Each year more aid requests are received and fulfilled by the American Red Cross, which is why the local chapter paid tribute this week to the people who make it happen: the volunteers. Mary Burton, executive director of the Southeast Missouri chapter of the Red Cross, said 95 percent of all work performed by the Red Cross is done by volunteers. ...

The start of college football practice is still more than a month away, but Southeast Missouri State University took some time Wednesday to promote what figures to be a new-look team in 1997. During an afternoon news conference at the Rosengarten Athletic Complex, Southeast officials trumpeted the arrival of five NCAA Division I-A transfers who figure to lend major -- and much-needed help -- to the Indians this coming season...

Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team is building plenty of momentum as it gears up for some of its tougher district foes of the season. Ford & Sons won its third straight District 14 doubleheader Wednesday night when Cape hammered Poplar Bluff twice, 9-0 and 6-2, in games played at Capaha Field...

The Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian Football League will continue to sport a Southeast Missouri State University flavor this season. Last year, running back Kelvin "Earthquake" Anderson was the CFL Newcomer of the Year while two other former Southeast standouts -- Dione Tyler and Frank Russell -- also played for the Stampeders...

Chaffee High athletic director Terry Glenzy says the football calender scam that has been going on around Cape Girardeau is also happening in Chaffee. Cape Central High athletic director Terry Kitchen initially reported the scam last week. Area merchants should be aware that neither Cape Central nor Chaffee is currently involved with any type of calender promotion, so they should not make any purchases...

Mark Hutchcraft is looking to a brighter future. Hutchcraft has spent the past five years "fixing up" the 26-room house that he and his wife, Donna, purchased in 1992 at 817 Illinois Ave. in Cape Girardeau. But when he was injured more than a year ago, he had to put everything on hold...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Bert M. George of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Howard Myers and Billy Harbison will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery near East Prairie. George, 82, died Tuesday, June 24, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Frances Joyner, 80, of Paducah, Ky., died Tuesday, June 24, 1997, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. She was born Aug. 22, 1916, in Bardwell, Ky., daughter of William and Frances Denney Pickett. She married Virgil Joyner, who died in 1978...

Donald David Jewel, 83, 1525 N. Henderson, died Wednesday, June 25, 1997, at the Lutheran Home. He was born May 21, 1914, in Richland Center, Wis., son of Robert Wilson and Pearl B. Chandler Jewel. He first married Allene Gillingham Jan. 18, 1936, in Richland Center. She died in January 1964. He later married Dolly Pohnert April 16, 1965, at Thayer...

CHAFFEE -- Fay Frances Slaughter, 84, of Chaffee died Tuesday, June 24, 1997, at her home. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements.

ADVANCE -- Jefferson M. Slinkard Sr., 78, of Advance died Tuesday, June 24, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 8, 1918, at Lutesville, son of Marion Jerome Slinkard and Blanche V. Pair Slinkard Slinkard was a farmer, and served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral Mass for William H. "Bill" Ponder of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Apple Creek. The Rev. Terry Borgerding will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Miller Family Funeral Home from 4-9 p.m. today, and Friday from 6:30-9:30 a.m. The parish wake service is at 7 tonight, followed by an American Legion service at 7:15. The rosary will be recited at 9 a.m. Friday...

Daughter to Christopher Lynn and Shonda Michelle Miller of Sikeston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:13 a.m. Saturday, May 31, 1997. Name, Hailey Christina Marie. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. First child. Mrs. Miller is the former Shonda Hayes, daughter of Retha Hayes of Sikeston and Wayne Graham of Charleston. Miller is the son of Marie Champion of Memphis, Tenn., and Charles Miller of Byhalia, Miss...

BENTON -- Funeral Mass for James Monroe "Tex" Urhahn, Benton Route 1, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Denis Catholic Church. The Rev. Normand Varone will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton after 4 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7...