Stories from Friday, August 15, 1997

It is described as a vicious cycle: Less traffic enforcement means more accidents, which mean police officers have less time for traffic enforcement. That cycle has been developing in Cape Girardeau since 1992, when 4,506 hazardous traffic citations were issued. That year there were 1,831 street accidents, 224 with injuries...

In three years' time, a quarter of Southeast Missouri State University faculty members have been replaced, resulting in a changing climate on campus, school officials said. Thirty-five new faculty members are participating in a five-day orientation to campus and Southeast Missouri...

An areawide parent advocacy group has been organized to help exceptional students in parochial and home schools get educational opportunities most often available to public school students. Cape Area Citizen Advocates of Parochial School Gifted Students, or CAPS, was developed by president Carol Morrow and president-elect Aaron Horrell about a year ago. ...

ST. MARY -- Sabreliner Corp. is expanding in Southeast Missouri. The diversified aviation service, maintenance and modification company headquartered in St. Louis, plans to open a new sheet-metal fabrication plant at St. Mary Monday. The plant will be in an existing 5,225-square-foot building in St. Mary Industrial Park, which is about 12 miles from the Perryville Municipal Airport. Sabreliner has a plant at the Perryville airport. It is one of 13 the company already operates...

OK. That's a bit much. But the tomato deserves a bit of laudatory prose, and maybe a poem to call its own as well. The noble tomato. If I had any sense, I would stop right there. There are two things that I try to write about every year, because neither of them get their due. ...

Some 22 years of service has ended for longtime voter registration clerk, Lois Boston of Cape Girardeau. She was forced to retire because of her health. After two heart attacks within three months of each other, she decided it was time to pass the job onto someone else...

Classes won't be affected if the city council doesn't act on special-use permits for trailers to house kindergartners until its Sept. 2 meeting, school officials say. The trailers, which will be used at Clippard and Franklin schools, won't be here anyway...

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is looking for backyard gourmets to compete in the fifth annual Cape BBQ Fest Aug. 22 and 23 at Arena Park. The Chamber's agribusiness committee will sponsor the barbecue competition to promote the area's beef and pork industries. During the two-day event, teams of two or more people will compete in six different grilled meat categories, hamburger, beef filet mignon, beef kabab, pork steaks, pork ribs and pork Boston butts...

Recent reports regarding the sale of tobacco products to underage youths and advertising aimed at youngsters indicate that the many federal and state laws passed to curb smoking aren't working very well. New laws require merchants to ask tobacco purchasers under the age of 21 for appropriate age verification. ...

WELL, CAPE Girardeau, I am very shocked at what I saw yesterday. Our new theater complex has only been open two weeks. The first week I went there it was brand new, and everything was beautiful. The second week I went there, someone was sitting with his feet up on the chair in front of him. ...

The Kohlfield Capahas baseball team from Cape Girardeau upheld its long tradition of tournament excellence again this year. The Capahas were finally eliminated Monday from the National Baseball Congress World Series in Wichita, but not before tying for seventh place out of a field of 32 of the best teams in the nation...

To the editor: I would like to take this opportunity to extend our appreciation to Mr. Don Shrubshell, your staff photographer, for his assistance in two recent cases in Cape Girardeau. As a result of Mr. Shrubshell's quick thinking and willingness to get involved, we were able to recapture a prisoner who had walked away from a work program, as well as identify two juveniles responsible for the theft of private property...

To the editor: Concerning the Southern Baptist boycott of Disney, we should consider three points: 1. In recent years, Disney has a deliberate pattern of corporately promoting (to an audience won by wholesome entertainment) homosexuality, heterosexual immorality and anti-Christianity. ...

To the editor: Without a doubt, the angels welcomed Donald Ford with open arms as he bid his life on Earth farewell. It was a precious moment for all the souls in Heaven. Donald Ford lived up to all the tributes that were given to him. Nothing was too much for him to do. He was known to accept the bad with the good, and he was sure to make the good dominate. He was generous in every walk of life. Everything gave him a feeling of satisfaction and joy...

KELSO -- The Bootheel Bandits used the one-hit pitching of Molly McKinney to win their opener in the 1997 Babe Ruth National Tournament Thursday night. The Bandits advanced to today's fastpitch softball quarterfinals with a 2-1, eight-inning victory over Varina, Va...

SCOTT CITY -- Irene Louise McClanahan, 76, Scott City Route 1, died Thursday, Aug. 14, 1997, at her home. She was born Jan. 7, 1921, at Kelso, daughter of Andrew and Clara Zent Scherer. She and Harland Bradley McClanahan were married Dec. 17, 1955, at Kelso. He died Jan. 14, 1982...

PULASKI, Ill. -- Ricky G. Everett, 33, of Pulaski drowned Thursday, Aug. 14, 1997, while working near Sikeston, Mo. He was born April 21, 1964, in Cairo, son of Bill and Shirley Pettit Everett. He married Carol Middlecamp. Everett was a deckhand with CGB Waterfront. He was a member of Sandusky Trinity Pentecostal Church. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps...

MARBLE HILL -- Ruth E. Rhodes, 88, of Marble Hill died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 26, 1908, at Hahn, daughter of Sherman and Emma Fowler Eaker. She and the Rev. Maurice "Shorty" Proffer were married Nov. 20, 1924. He died July 21, 1946. She later married the Rev. Milas Rhodes June 21, 1947. He died Dec. 27, 1991...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Eleanor L. Pike, 81, of Vienna, Va., died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1997, at her home. She was formerly of Mound City. She was born Jan. 10, 1916, in Pulaski County, daughter of Chris and Dollie Jenkins Bauer. She married William Harvey Pike, who died in 1989...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Wesley Joseph "Joe" Ford of Charlottesville, Va., will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church in Charlottesville. Dr. H. Cowen Ellis and Joel Jenkins will officiate. Burial will be in Holly Memorial Gardens...

PUXICO -- William D. "Bill" Harmon, 71, of Puxico died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1997, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Popar Bluff. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Puxico is in charge of arrangements.

SIKESTON -- Marylin L. Smith, 62, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1997, at Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter. Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Son to David Michael and Danni Sue Jobe, Chaffee Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:25 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 5, 1997. Name, Ryan Davis. Weight, 7 pounds 14 ounces. Third child, first son. Mrs. Jobe is the former Danni Whitlow, daughter of Dennis and Flora Whitlow of Chaffee. She is employed at Scott County Transit. Jobe is the son of Fred and Marjorie Jobe of Chaffee. He is a commercial salesman at Plaza Tire Service...

Marvin H. Borgfield, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Aug. 13, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Nov. 11, 1919, near Fruitland, son of Henry G. and Wilhelmina Aufdenberg Borgfield. Borgfield attended May Green School, and served in the Army Air Force during World War II. He had lived in Sterling, Ill., moving to Cape Girardeau in 1979. He had worked at Lawrence Brothers manufacturing company in Sterling many years...