Stories from Thursday, October 16, 1997

One of the headliners of this weekend's first-ever City of Roses Festival provides the fun-filled answer to the question, What if "Dr. Zhivago" went Vegas? The answer is Dr. Zhivegas, a highly popular St. Louis party band that will perform on the festival's Water Street Stage beginning at 7:40 p.m. Saturday...

In the 1970s, Gus Pappelis was a science major attending SIU on an athletic scholarship to play the piano for the gymnastics team. With his father Aristotel a professor in the SIU Department of Botany, Pappelis's interest in science ran deep. While doing graduate work in gerontology at SIU, Pappelis had published 17 manuscripts, including "Nuclear Dry Mass and Area of Human Buccal Mucosa Cells."...

U.S. Sen. Kit Bond taught first-graders at Franklin Elementary School how to maintain strong friendships and to say "ribbet" on cue by reading them a story during class Wednesday afternoon. Bond visited two first-grade classes on the eve of Franklin's 70th school anniversary to stress the importance of having adults read to young children. He read stories to some 40 children while teachers, parent educators and others looked on...

NASA's Kurt Restemeyer, who spoke Wednesday to students at Cape Girardeau Central High School, brought back a plaque with a Central High School pin that flew on the space shuttle Columbia last year. NASA simulator crew leader Kurt Restemeyer returned to Cape Girardeau Wednesday to deliver inspirational words and a piece of space history to Central High School students...

If you've been looking forward to celebrating Missouri Day, it's too late. Missouri Day was Wednesday. Missouri Day has existed since 1915, when the Missouri General Assembly set apart "a day commemorative of Missouri history to be observed by the teachers and pupils of schools with the appropriate exercises."...

Oct. 16, 1997 Dear C.C., Days before we are to receive house guests, musicians from St. Louis, DC and I are trying to restore order to our house. We decided that cleaning one room per day for a week would sort of get the job done. So far we've straightened up two rooms in one day and no rooms during the rest of the week...

When John Schneider turned 35 years old, he thought he should get "a little more active," so he started training for a triathlon. On Saturday, the former Cape Girardeau resident will race in the premier event for the sport, the Ironman Triathlon World Championship in Hawaii...

Southeast Hospital will participate in "Voices for Hospice" with a choral performance Saturday at West Park Mall. "Voices for Hospice" was started six years ago by a United Kingdom-based charity, and more than 40 countries now participate in the event, according to Carol Keppler, volunteer coordinator at Southeast Hospice. This is the first time the United States has participated...

To the editor: On Oct. 24, the peoples of the world will commemorate the 51st anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. Fifty nations gathered in San Francisco in June 1945 to sign the U.N. charter first proposed by President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill in 1941...

There are many special benefits of being a resident of the Cape Girardeau area. The familiar ones include friendly people, good employment opportunities, well-kept neighborhoods, top-quality schools, abundant health-care facilities, active churches, thriving civic organizations, outstanding shopping and great weather...

Something else many newcomers to Cape Girardeau notice is how motorists here interpret the changing colors of traffic signals. In many instances, it appears that when the light turns yellow too many drivers push down on the accelerator. As a result, running red lights is one of the top complaints the police department receives from other, more safety-conscious motorists. So the police are going to do something about it. They are cracking down on red-light violations...

To the editor: According to the latest news, Missouri's excess revenue keeps growing. Refunds to taxpayers have not been issued as mandated by the Hancock Amendment due to legal challenges. One of these contends that the excess revenue has come from a variety of tax sources, and refunding the revenue equitably would be indeterminable. State sources suggest that such excess revenue may continue for several more years...

Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball coach Ed Arnzen always looks forward to the opening of practice, but he's maybe even a bit more fired up this year. Arnzen, you see, can't wait to start working toward wiping away the memory of last year's dismal season...

Although official practice doesn't begin until Saturday and the season doesn't open until November, Southeast Missouri State University's basketball team will be on public display for the first time Friday. Southeast students and fans will have an opportunity to meet members of the men's and women's teams during a Roundball Rally from 8-9 p.m. at the Student Recreation Center...

For the most part, Gary Garner has only heard about and watched film regarding what Southeast Missouri State University's basketball players can do. Saturday, he'll begin to see first-hand just what kind of talent his initial Indians' team has to offer. That's the first day college basketball teams can begin practice under NCAA rules...

As Kelly High's string of district softball championships continues to expand as faithfully as the national debt, Rhonda Evans indubitably knows what people want. How does she know? They tell her. "Everybody keeps telling us `it's time; it's time for that state championship,'" said Evans, Kelly's coach...

CHAFFEE -- Notre Dame High's volleyball team made short work of host Chaffee Wednesday night, losing just one point in romping to a 15-0, 15-1 decision. Jennifer Glueck had six kills while Jessica Hency added four kills and Sarah Westrich contributed 14 assists...

Southeast Missouri State University punter Justin Terrill has been named NCAA Division I-AA National Special Teams Player of the Week by Football Gazette. Terrill averaged 48.9 yards per punt on nine attempts during last Saturday's 17-14 loss to Tennessee Tech. He had a long punt of 74 yards...

As the old saying goes, the supposed demise of Eastern Kentucky's football team has been greatly exaggerated. The Colonels, a perennial NCAA Division I-AA and Ohio Valley Conference power, lost their first three games of the season -- all coming against teams at one time or another ranked among the nation's top 10 squads this year...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Rosa Belle Bunch, 85, of Gahanna, Ohio, formerly of East Prairie, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, at St. Ann Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.

SIKESTON -- Dr. C. Edward Felker III, 47, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Jan. 13, 1950, in Sikeston, the son of John Russell and Mary Jolene "JoAnne" Edwards Felker. He married Jan Colton Sargent on Dec. 28, 1970, in Sikeston...

SIKESTON -- Raymond F. McClain, Jr., 71, of Dallas, Texas, formerly of Sikeston, died Saturday, Oct. 11, 1997, at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas. He was born Nov. 16, 1925, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Raymond F. and Julia R. Maloney McClain...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Sylvia Hamilton, 86, of Cairo, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, at her home. She was born Nov. 27, 1910, in Cairo, daughter of John and Nora Peterson Hamilton. She was the kitchen manager of the Hotel Cairo before her retirement. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and The Daughters of Isabella...

GIPSY -- Troy A. Jackson, 82, of Gipsy died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 4, 1915, in Gipsy. He married Sylvia Welch on Sept. 29, 1941, in Marble Hill. She survives. He was a retired mail carrier and a member of the Abernathy Chapel Methodist Church. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army, serving during World War II...

BENTON -- Paul C. Pattengill, 82, of Benton, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 11, 1915, in Sikeston. He was the son of W.C. and Nellie Pray Pattengill. He married Cleta Kirby Dec. 31, 1936, in Sikeston. She preceded him in death...

JACKSON -- Anna Elizabeth Adams, 68, of Jackson, died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 11, 1928, at Glennon, daughter of Henry and Mary Laurentius Eftink. She married Leonard M. Adams on April 19, 1947, at Glennon. He survives...

CHARLESTON -- Rosie Lee Whitney Fennell, 71, of Charleston died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born May 23, 1926, at Clarksdale, Miss., daughter of Walter and Susie Mix Whitney. She married Huriah Fennell on Aug. 12, 1944, at Tunica, Miss...

MORLEY -- Clara Jo Dollins, of Mabelvale, Ark., died Tuesday, Oct. 14, 1997, in Jacksonville Nursing Center in Jacksonville, Ark. She was 48 years old. She was born Jan. 24, 1949, in Charleston, daughter of Van Authur and Addie Connelley Dollins. She was a member of Calvary Apostolic United Pentecostal Church in Little Rock, Ark...

Adath Tilley, 87, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, at the Monticello House in Jackson. She was born Dec. 15, 1909, at Toga, Mo., daughter of Albert Rees and Zelma Jane Hefner Rees. She married Robert Tilley on Aug. 4, 1927, at Mound City, Ill. He preceded her in death...

JACKSON -- Karen Jean Hobbs, 45, of Jackson, died Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born June 20, 1952, in Ironton, daughter of Raymond and Wanda Lee Cook Bowen. She married Darrell Hobbs Feb. 1, 1975, in Cape Girardeau...

Son to Aaron Scott and Kimberly Renee McCarroll of Lexington Park, Maryland, St. Mary's Hospital, Monday, Sept. 29, 1997. Name, Sterling Aaron. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. First child. Mrs. McCarroll is the daughter of Larry and Linda Wilson of Jackson. McCarroll is the son of Scott McCarroll of Fayetteville, Ark., and Jayme McCarroll of Murphysboro, Ill. He is an aircraft electronic specialist in the U.S. Navy, stationed at Patuxent Naval Air Research Center...

Bryan Fred Swan died on Oct. 3, 1997. He was 90 years old. He was born into a farming family on May 12, 1907, to Charles and Caroline Gratz Swan, and grew up in the town of Wittenberg. When he was 19 he received a congressional appointment to the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and his life on the farm changed forever. Upon graduation, he served in the Pacific on the USS West Virginia, and in China on the USS Isabelle...