Stories from Tuesday, February 23, 1999

To the editor: I am writing in respect to the Feb. 19 front-page article, "Concealed guns under fire."If anyone remembers, as soon as Clinton took office he fired all serving U.S. attorneys and replaced them with his own appointees, so it is hardly newsworthy when U.S. ...

The flock of Canada geese was small -- maybe 40 birds. But their honking was loud as they made their way over Capaha Park Lagoon late Monday in the traditional "V" formation. Winter is about gone, and so are many of the big Canada geese that made a late appearance throughout Southern Illinois last month...

Tomorrow night is the big night for the music industry. It's Grammy Awards night. You can find your all-access pass online. www.grammy.com Peggy: Wednesday night is the 41st Grammy Awards, but events start earlier online. Between the artists rehearsing on stage and those conducting live chats behind the scenes, the site has been busy since the weekend...

Agenda, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. Board of Education Office 614 E. Adams Action Items: -- Consider bus bids. -- Consider purchase of radios for schools and buses for emergency communications. -- Executive Session: Employment, Personnel Evaluation, and Real Estate. Authority is Section 610.021, Para. 2, 3 and 13, Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended...

Superintendent of Schools Dr. Dan Tallent addressed a PTA meeting at Alma Schrader School Thursday. Alma Schrader Principal Frank Ellis attended the school's PTA meeting Thursday night. Marvin McBride, a parent volunteer at Cape Girardeau Civic Center, took a prize ticket from 9-year-old Jimmy White Thursday night...

MY GRANDSON'S homework was to list character traits of a presidential candidate. He listed he should have good judgment, he should be trustworthy, honest, have integrity and decency, honor and moral values. What a shame he has a president who has none of these...

Parents who send their sons and daughters off to school every day expect their children to be safe as well as to learn. But incidents of school violence in recent years has taken away some of the comfort level for too many parents who ask, "When will it hit our schools." The concern has been intensified because there appears to be little anyone can do until an act of violence occurs. Then it is too late...

To the editor: The board of directors for the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri has made a decision to become more proactive. After many years of educating others about pet ownership, accepting all animals that arrive at our door, encouraging all to spay or neuter their pets and euthanizing thousands of animals year after year, we know we must do more...

To the editor: On behalf of the Cape Girardeau Cable TV Advisory Board, I would like to publicly thank Michael Maguire for his years of dedicated service to this community board. Mr. Maguire was the first member of this board when it was formed almost 10 years ago and provided leadership as its chairman during his tenure. ...

To the editor: As a subscriber to your paper, I am disappointed in the lack of balanced reporting in the Feb. 19 cover article, "Concealed-guns under fire." The article covered idle speculation by opponents to the concealed-weapons bill yet ignored any real data on the issue. ...

An ad hoc committee studying relocation of elementary school boundaries made a report to the Cape Girardeau Board of Education Monday night. The Attendance Area Study Committee was assembled in 1996 to study enrollment projections and to develop new elementary school attendance boundaries based upon the reduction of elementary buildings from six to five after the opening of a new elementary building. The committee was reconvened in January to take another look at the boundaries and projections...

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education voted to name the district's newest elementary school Barbara Blanchard Elementary School during a meeting Monday night. The board voted unanimously to name the building under construction at Sprigg and Bertling streets in honor of Blanchard, who retired last summer after working 37 years as an educator. Blanchard's name was one of seven recommended by an ad hoc committee for consideration by the school board...

Cape Girardeau's public access channel 5 isn't as widely used as it could be because people aren't aware that the service exists. But programming could expand if people would submit it, said Tracey Glenn, public information officer for the city. "It's not because of a lack of programming but a lack of people using it," she said...

Most people who live in the region will at most be inconvenienced when the Mississippi River bridge is closed to traffic during part of the day Wednesday. But for those who live on the Illinois side of the river, the bridge is more than a convenience...

Y2K. Millenium bug. Whatever you choose to call it, it's consuming the thoughts and conversations of the civilized world. The new millenium is on the minds of everyone from political pundits hoping to predict the presidential race to the Average Joe concerned about his direct deposit savings account at the local bank...

Southeast Missouri State University basketball coach Gary Garner firmly believes his team isn't 22 points better than Eastern Illinois. EIU coach Rick Samuels hopes Garner is right. Tonight, both men will find out. The Indians -- fresh off a 92-70 home victory over EIU in Saturday's regular-season finale -- will welcome the Panthers back to the Show Me Center for a 7:30 p.m. first-round Ohio Valley Conference Tournament game...

There has been some talk about Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team wanting to gain a measure of revenge against Murray State tonight. To heck with the revenge, said coach Ed Arnzen. The Otahkians simply want to continue their season...

One would be hard pressed to find a basketball team in Southeast Missouri that has improved more throughout the year than Cape Girardeau Central. The Tigers started the year 1-5. They were seeded sixth in two early-season tournaments in an area that bears no local prominent Class 3A or 4A teams...

The third time was not the charm for Lance Schlick. But that certainly doesn't detract from what was a sensational high school wrestling career for the Jackson senior. Schlick's hopes of a state championship fell just a bit short Saturday as he lost to Jake Hopson 15-9 in the Class 4A 135-pound title match in Columbia...

Without standout middle distance runner Tammy Wenkel in the lineup, Southeast Missouri State University track and field coach Joey Haines knew it would be a real challenge for his women's team to win a third straight Ohio Valley Conference indoor title...

PARK HILLS -- Perryville's girls turned up the defense in the second half and transformed a tight game into a comfortable 73-53 victory over Ste. Genevieve Monday night in the opening round of the Class 3A, District 2 basketball tournament. Perryville, the No. 3 seed, improved to 16-9 on the season and will face the winner of Monday's late game between No. 2 North County and No. 7 Potosi Wednesday at 8 p.m...

John H. Null, of Dexter, formerly of Chaffee, was born March 13, 1916 at Lutesville, the son of the late Leander H. Null and Louisa Beel Null. He passed away Saturday, Feb. 20, 1999 at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. at the age of 82. John was a retired butcher, a member of First Baptist Church of Chaffee, a veteran of WWII, serving in the U.S. Navy, and a member of VFW Post #5900, Marble Hill...

CHAFFEE -- Oscar Charles Griffin, 78, of Chaffee died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

TAMMS, Ill. -- Jessie Dillow, 93, formerly of Tamms, died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at City Care Center in Anna. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.

Irmina Catherine Glasscock, 92, of Oran died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements were incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran.

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral Mass for Herbert L. Hennemann of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church. The Rev. Kevin Fausz will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 6:30-9:30 a.m. today...

NEW WELLS -- Aaron A. Wallman, 91, formerly of New Wells, died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at Jackson Manor. He was born Sept. 19, 1907, at New Wells, son of Henry and Emma Hoehl Wallman. He and Hilda Walther were married March 28, 1932, at Pocahontas. Wallman lived on a farm east of Pocahontas from 1933 until moving to Jackson Manor three years ago...

ADVANCE -- David John Alton, 72, of Sodus, Mich., died Friday, Feb. 19, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was in Advance visiting his sisters. He was born Aug. 1, 1926, in Tomato, Ark., son of Christopher J. and Edna Robinson Alton. He and June McCoy were married April 16, 1949, in Benton Harbor, Mich. She died Aug. 26, 1994...

PATTON -- Graveside service for Dempsey F. Honeycutt of Hayden, Ala., will be held at 3 p.m. today at Union Light Cemetery. The Rev. Julius Mills will officiate. There is no visitation. Liley Funeral Home at Patton is in charge of arrangements. Honeycutt, 61, died Friday, Feb. 19, 1999, at his home...

MARBLE HILL -- Grace Leslie, 91, of Marble Hill died Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 30, 1907, in Casey, Ill., daughter of Hosea and Agnes Mungle Seabaugh. She and R.F. "Jack" Leslie were married Dec. 26, 1928. He died Dec. 8, 1997...

MILLERSVILLE -- Donald H. Knapp, 56, of Millersville died Monday, Feb. 22, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Funeral for Peggy Ann Barr of Jackson will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Randy Newell will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

Harry H. Lee, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born April 15, 1910, in rural Cape Girardeau, son of William and Emma Cato Lee. He married Ollie Mae Hensley, who died May 25, 1997. Lee retired as custodian at the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. He was a member of St. James AME Church and Harmony Lodge 40 F&AM, Prince Hall Masons of Missouri...

Son to Russell D. and Melissa G. Keller of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:54 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 9, 1999. Name, Justin Tyler. Weight, 7 pounds 11 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Keller is the former Melissa Kaiser, daughter of Gary and Patsy Kaiser of Cape Girardeau. She is an administrative assistant with Rugby Building Products. Keller is the son of Sharon Rogers and Onie Rogers of Scott City and Russell E. Keller of St. Charles. He is a salesman with Missouri Great Dane...

Milton W. Ueleke, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Feb. 20, 1999 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 13, 1915 in Cape Girardeau the son of A.J. and Mary Martha Hartman Ueleke. On Dec. 23, 1946 he and Mary Ellen Miller were united in marriage in Cape. ...

JACKSON -- Dan Hecht, who teaches history and current events classes at Jackson High School, believes in making education fun and fulfilling. For Hecht, who also is an assistant baseball coach, the quotation: "Preparation Prevents Poor Performance" provides a basis for teaching and living...