Stories from Tuesday, June 6, 2000

Roanoke, Virginia, is nestled near the Blue Ridge Mountains in the western part of the state. Although it did not officially become the city of Roanoke until the 1880s, there were homes, farms, and plantations in the area long before then. Roanoke is nicknamed "the Star City of the South" because of the giant electric star that, since 1949, has shone its white light from the top of Mill Mountain. ...

It's hard to believe, but I'm leaving the Southeast Missourian. I have worked for Gary Rust for 23 years, first at the Bulletin-Journal and then at the Missourian. I have been managing editor of the Missourian for 14 years. I'm staying in Cape Girardeau. I love this town too much to move. I'm heading up the hill to Southeast Missouri Hospital. I'm going to be the hospital's first full-time Webmaster...

Today the Southeast Missourian launches "The Mystery of Roanoke," an adventure story that will be published 14 consecutive weeks in the Learning section of Tuesdays' papers. The story details the adventures of 8-year-old twins Melissa and Brian O'Donnell during a visit to their grandparents' farm in Roanoke, Va. The story is the first serial created by author Karen Adams Sulkin and artist Robert Lunsford and the second by the duo to run in the Southeast Missourian...

The back door of the old Notre Dame High School stood broken after it and other parts of the school were vandalized over the weekend. Vandals caused several thousand dollars in damage to the old Notre Dame High School Saturday night or Sunday morning, a representative of St. Vincent De Paul parish said Monday...

Taste owner Michael Pryor After much public debate and discussion, the Cape Girardeau City Council voted to grant a six-month probationary liquor license to a Good Hope night spot to which police are frequently called. The council's decision was unanimous, although some council members admitted having reservations about the decision to grant a probationary license to the Taste Restaurant and Lounge at 402 Good Hope St...

BENTON, Mo. -- Three Benton residents were injured Sunday afternoon in a two-car accident east of Benton. Driver Melissa Zimmerman, 22, and her passenger Sarah Butler, 17, were taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau after the 5:50 p.m. accident on Highway 77, a mile east of Benton...

(Editor's note: This column originally appeared in the Southeast Missourian on May 29, 1996.) Don't ask me for any money. I gave at the office. And at home. And at other people's homes. 'Tis the season that makes Christmas spending look paltry by comparison. Mailboxes fill with wedding and graduation invitations from people who don't necessarily want you to share in their weddings or graduations...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Being approved for eMINTS means being part of a project designed to show how cutting-edge technology, combined with first-class teaching, can take Missouri's classrooms into the 21st century. Those districts selected for the program receive instructional technology, typically for second-, third- or fourth-grade classrooms...

Cape County commissioners got their first look at preliminary plans for a new juvenile justice center at a meeting Monday morning. "It looks wonderful," said presiding commissioner Gerald W. Jones, "but of more interest to me is how much it's going to cost."...

SIKESTON -- One after one, current and former employees of the Delta Area Economic Opportunity Corp. (DAEOC) stood and told why they filed internal grievances and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaints against the not-for-profit community action organization...

JACKSON, Mo. -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday night unanimously rejected a controversial request to rezone as general commercial a parcel of property along the north side of East Main Street, ignoring a plea by the landowners' lawyer to delay the decision...

The Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee has approved Southeast Missouri Hospital's certificate of need application to redesign its obstetrics unit. The approval on Monday opens the way for the conversion of the hospital's Dennis B. Elrod, M.D. ...

Cape Girardeau residents likely will see a slight increase in their city utility bills next month. The City Council Monday night adopted two ordinances on first readings that call for increasing the solid-waste fees and water-usage rates. With adoption by approval of two more readings of the ordinance, the rate increases will take effect Sept. 1...

Justin Palmer and Matt Jones exchanged pitching gems Monday night as Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons and Charleston split an American Legion baseball doubleheader at Capaha Field. Charleston's Palmer hurled a four-hitter in the opener as the visitors prevailed 1-0 to claim their first-ever District 14 victory. Charleston began a Legion program last year and went winless in district play...

HARRISBURG, Ill. -- The Cape Girardeau Riverdogs fell to 1-2 as they suffered an 8-6 loss at the hands of host Saline County (Ill.) Monday night. The Riverdogs, a baseball team made up of college-age players, trailed 7-3 after three innings and then staged a rally before coming up short...

Yvonne Cross of Mount Vernon, Ill., carded a hole-in-one in the Braves/Squaws Tournament this past weekend at Cape Girardeau C.C. Cross used a 9-wood to ace No. 13, a 135-yard hole. Witnesses were John Cross, Don Horrell and Judy Horrell.

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Funeral for Edith Hester Gibbs of Bloomfield was held Saturday at Boone Funeral Home in Mt. Vernon, Ind. The Rev. Franklin Dumond officiated. Burial was in Bethsaida Cemetery in Stewartsville, Ind. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Dexter was in charge of local arrangements...

GORDONVILLE, Mo. -- Althea Johanna Lukow, 79, of Gordonville died Monday, June 5, 2000, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 23, 1920, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Arthur and Anna Bartles Krueger. She and Lester Lukow were married Oct. 10, 1941, at Jackson...

DEXTER, Mo. -- Eva Harvey, 73, of Dexter died Monday, June 5, 2000, at Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter. She was born March 20, 1927, in Essex, daughter of Monroe and Marie Bradshaw Dement. She had lived in Gray Ridge and Morehouse and in Dexter for 30 years. She was a member of the Pentecost church...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Christine Lalumondiere, 69, of Perryville died Sunday, June 4, 2000, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Sept. 14, 1930, at Perryville, daughter of Emanuel and Canzada Hand LaRose. She and Ardell A. Lalumondiere were married Nov. 19, 1959. He died Jan. 29...

WAPPAPELLO, Mo. -- Rayma Slagle, 74, of Wappapello died Saturday, June 3, 2000, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Sept. 23, 1925, in Moberly, daughter of Frank and Ida Mae Halleburton Lawrence. She and Robert L. Slagle were married June 18, 1944, in Norman, Okla...

Alice Summers Hulett, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, June 5, 2000, at her home. She was born Nov. 10, 1904, at Caruthersville, daughter of George Stephen and Maude Vinyard Summers. She and Bonfoy "Bonnie" Hulett were married in 1938 in Columbia. He preceded her in death...

Daughter to Tim and Cim Schetter of Maryland Heights, St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur, 6:47 a.m. Thursday, June 1, 2000. Name, Jensen Danielle. Weight, 6 pounds 3 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Schetter is the former Cim Steinmann, daughter of Robby and Lana Ferrel of Hannibal and Mr. ...

U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of Cape Girardeau is fighting a battle inside Congress and her party against embargoes on sale of agricultural products to Cuba and a handful of other nations the federal government lists as terrorist sponsors. Republican congressional leaders, especially majority whip Tom DeLay, oppose any trade with terrorist countries...

An Illinois judge last month barred the Rev. Jesse Jackson from attending the ceremony for graduating high school seniors in Decatur. Ill., because he led protests last fall of the expulsions of six students who brawled at a football game. The judge upheld his earlier order that neither Jackson nor his Rainbow/PUSH Coalition protesters could come within 50 feet of the city's three high schools without permission. ...

Five law firms representing Ohio hit the jackpot: a combined fee of $265 million for suing Big Tobacco in one of the many cases that helped forge the national tobacco deal. Big as it was, their windfall is but a small portion of the record-shattering fees awarded in the past 17 months to trial lawyers who sued the industry on behalf of the states. The lawyers' take so far: $10.4 billion...

To the editor: The John Guild Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution held a grave-marking ceremony Oct. 19, 1977, at the Ware Cemetery north of Jackson at the Fruitland exit on Interstate 55. The DAR marked the grave of Col. Christopher Hays, a Revolutionary War soldier. The DAR marker is now gone...