Stories from Saturday, April 10, 1999

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education approved a bid during a special meeting Friday to install air-conditioning units at Alma Schrader and Clippard elementary schools. After the equipment is installed, all five elementary buildings scheduled to open next year will be air-conditioned. Central Junior High is also air-conditioned...

Touring overseas woke Christian music artist Ray Boltz up to the abundance of freedoms available in America. He pays tribute to those freedoms in his latest CD, "Honor and Glory." Tickets are still available for the concert Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Show Me Center...

The Southwestern Bell Foundation has pledged a $200,000 grant to fund an instructional television classroom at Southeast Missouri State University. Officials of Southwestern Bell and the university announced the grant Friday. The four-year pledge to the school's capital campaign will fund an instructional television classroom in the Otto and Della Seabaugh Polytechnic Building...

James Gray said Cape Girardeau reminds him of his own home town in England. "Perhaps we should sit up a `sister-city' relationship," said Gray. A member of the British Parliament, Gray was speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Coffee Friday at the Show Me Center...

CANALOU -- Once upon a time, Canalou was a New Madrid County hotspot on Saturday nights. The movie theater, pool halls, a skating rink, restaurants and stores drew people from all around to the town that sprang up around the Himmelberger and Harrison sawmill at the beginning of the century...

CANALOU -- Kenny and Jackie Whorton remember a Canalou far different from the town they are preparing to move away from. Kenny and his family moved to Canalou, a small agricultural town southwest of Sikeston, when he was 12, and as a child Jackie spent many summers visiting her grandmother here...

Elijah Wingo, 3, played with his grandmother while some 15 adults attended the first day of a workshop regarding his new educational curriculum. Vince and Michelle Wingo formally withdrew their son, who is autistic, from the Cape Girardeau School District's early childhood special education program Friday. Instead, they will pay consultant Debbie Rausch to oversee a team of therapists using applied behavior analysis therapy...

For 50 years, cities have been planning streets and neighborhoods with automobiles in mind, but times are changing. Dan Burden, director of Walkable Communities, says communities across the country are looking at ways to encourage walking and bicycle riding. He spoke at a daylong conference Friday at Cape Girardeau's Osage Center. City planners and engineers from area communities attended...

School district administrators say a federal law that governs special education programs has handcuffed their ability to discipline students. About 40 Southeast Missouri educators from 18 school districts met with U.S. Sens. John Ashcroft and Christopher "Kit" Bond Friday afternoon at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School...

It's spring cleaning time, and I refuse to allow my house to be a refuse refuge any longer. Does anyone remember the television comedy 'Roc'? The show, which starred Charles S. Dutton, was about the life of a simple man who worked as a garbage collector. He and his wife, Eleanor, shared their home with Roc's retired father and out-of-work, musician-by-trade, brother...

To the editor: Although Jim Drury's lawsuit may have more than one motive, I cannot help but salute him. The voters went to the polls and were asked to vote on two separate issues. Yes, the money was approved. The question, though worded to sound as if it were for a simple issuance of bonds, was really: "Should money be spent to help fund the River Campus?" The voters voted. ...

Compromise. It is both an art and a necessity for people in positions of leadership. Compromise means that both sides are working toward settling differences. It is a foundation of democracy and key to keeping voters and taxpayers involved and supportive...

To the editor: Once in a great while, Missourians are faced with an issue entailing such controversy it divides families, professions and sometimes communities. One recent issue was Proposition B, which would have given qualified citizens the right to carry concealed firearms...

They fox trot and swing dance, they sing the Alma Mater, they portray memorable characters from Southeast Missouri State University's past, and they read aged rules of conduct that weren't supposed to be funny when originally written but now provoke belly laughs...

Kyle Yount breaking a major career record and the return of Shawn Pemberton figure to highlight Southeast Missouri State University's weekend baseball series. The Indians will entertain Belmont from Nashville, Tenn., in a three-game, non-conference set at Capaha Field. There will be a 1 p.m. doubleheader today and a 1 p.m. single game Sunday...

JACKSON -- Six runs isn't bad for a team who managed just three hits and was held hitless in the final four innings. But the Jackson Indians took advantage of some early opportunities and excelled on the field Friday as they knocked off visiting New Madrid 6-1...

Call it Southeast Missouri's version of the McDonald's All-American game. Twenty of last season's best senior basketball players will share Richland High School's basketball court in the first-ever North vs. South "Area's Best" All-Star game at 7 p.m. on April 23....

Six local athletes have recently been named to the academic all-state team by the Missouri Basketball Coaches Association. Jackson's Chrissi Glastetter, Perryville's Amy Verseman and Sara Westrich, Jason Rubel and Michael Wehner from Notre Dame were among 79 athletes selected as being players who excel academically and who perform with distinction on the basketball court...

Jackson's American Legion baseball program will hold tryouts for its senior and junior teams this weekend at the Legion Field in the Jackson City Park. Senior tryouts, for players ages 17 and 18, will take place today from noon-3 p.m. Junior tryouts, for ages 16 and under, will be Sunday from 2-5 p.m...

ST. LOUIS -- Cape Central fell to 4-7 on the season with a 17-3 loss in five innings to Christian Brothers College Friday. Starting pitcher Travis Klipfel was tagged with the loss. He went 1 2/3 innings and allowed 10 runs (eight earned) on 10 hits. Klipfel did not walk or strike out a batter...

Sevella Eileen Bock, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, April 8, 1999, at her home. She was born Aug. 31, 1919, at Brownwood, daughter of Seth and Amy Wilson Wagoner. She and Norman E. Bock were married Aug. 13, 1949, at Jackson. He died Nov. 30, 1997...

McGEE -- Hubert M. James, 73, of McGee died Thursday, April 8, 1999, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born Nov. 10, 1925, at Zalma, son of William and Myrtle Pittman James. He and Eula Wills were married Jan. 24, 1953, in Piggott, Ark. James was a mechanic at Ford Motor Co. in St. Louis and then at Bud Shell Ford in Dexter. He was a member of Zalma Masonic Lodge. James served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...

CHARLESTON -- Alberta "Bertie" Housmon, 85, of Charleston died Friday, April 9, 1999, at Miner Nursing Center. She was born Sept. 7, 1913, in Sharon, Tenn., daughter of John and Rosie Hobbs Kinney. She and Oscar Housmon were married Jan. 8, 1930. He died Aug. 12, 1980...

Delbert G. Masterson, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, April 8, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Dec. 19, 1920, in Cape Girardeau County, son of Gilbert D. and Lula M. Clementz Masterson. He and Juanita F. LaCroix were married May 2, 1942, in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Wilbur Orville "Jack" Yancey, 77, of Jackson died Friday, April 9, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 15, 1921, at Pocahontas, son of Robert Theodore and Jesse McLard Yancey. He and Dorothy Thompson were married May 28, 1949, in Piggott, Ark...

Visitation for Master Sergeant Richard A. Whitaker will be Saturday, April 10, 1999 from 4-8 p.m. at the Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. Funeral services will be Sunday, April 11, 1999 at 1:30 p.m. at the Mt. Auburn Chapel with the Rev. S.S. Borum officiating. Entombment will follow at the Memorial Park Mausoleum. Whiteman Air Force Base will conduct full military honors...

Son to Scott and Jeannie Van de Ven of Cape Girardeau, St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, 12:27 a.m. Monday, Feb. 15, 1999. Name, Austin Allen. Weight, 7 pounds 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Van de Ven is the former Jeannie Hayes. She is manager at Eddie Bauer Inc. Van de Ven is the son of Melvin and Jo Ann Van de Ven of Cape Girardeau. He is a CPA at Schott and Van de Ven...

CHAFFEE -- Harold Richard Foulk Jr., 39, of Chaffee died Friday, April 9, 1999, in Chaffee. He was born Sept. 24, 1959, in Cape Girardeau, son of Harold Richard and Nancy Jane Schoen Foulk Sr. Foulk was employed by Chaffee Sanitation Department. Survivors include his mother, Nancy Webb of Scott City; a brother, Robert Foulk of Scott City; and a sister, Milissa Biggs of Chaffee...