Stories from Wednesday, November 18, 1992

Dear Editor: I would like to take this opportunity to applaud all those individuals who gave of their time and talents in finding the best use of the excess funds from the Show Me Center bonds. Not only did they demonstrate extreme wisdom, patience, courage and vision, but more importantly, they demonstrated a willingness to cooperate and compromise...

With the release of every new study, America's public schools take a lot of heat. Schools are an easy target, and people tend to concentrate on what schools do wrong. The fact is public schools do a lot of things right. They take all students the brightest and the not-so-bright and prepare them for a changing world. Today's schools are teacher, parent and social worker all rolled up into one...

The American Cancer Society has expanded the Great American Smokeout into the workplace this year. The cancer society is sponsoring the 16th annual Great American Smokeout Thursday to encourage smokers to quit for a day and possibly for good. Dr. Richard Martin is chairman of this year's event...

A workshop on self-esteem will be presented Thursday at 7 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran Day Care, 55 N. Pacific. The workshop is sponsored by the Workshop on Wheels program of the human environmental studies department at Southeast Missouri State University and the Area Licensed Providers Association...

Eleven student vocalists in Southeast Missouri State University's music department competed recently in the National Association of Teachers of Singers (NATS) Auditions hosted by Avila College in Kansas City. Among those advancing to the semi-final round at the auditions on Oct. 31 were Alan Bruns of Cape Girardeau and John Ginther of Sikeston, university officials announced recently...

Leanza Cornett has appeared before millions of people as "The Little Mermaid," at Disney World in Orlando, Fla. "I was Miss Mermaid for nine months," said Cornett, 21. "Those nine months were the best nine months of my life." That was before Sept. 28, the night she was crowned Miss America 1993. Cornett is still appearing before large crowds in her new role...

A long-awaited project to upgrade the Capaha Park lagoon is progressing through the use of city workers and materials retrieved from the pond. Dan Muser, the Cape Girardeau parks and recreation director, said Tuesday that earlier estimates for the cost of the project ranged from $30,000 to nearly $100,000...

A new administrator has been named for the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. John B. Angelle Jr., who has more than 15 years experience in health care management and is a Licensed Nursing Home Administrator, will start his new duties Dec. 1...

SHAREE GALNORE Occupation: Coordinator of CapeGirardeau Community Traffic Safety Program Pet Peeve: "People who say `it can't be done.'" Thebest part of my job is: "Being able to work with people of all ages." I've always looked up to: "My parents because of the good examples they've set for me."...

The Florsheim Shoe Inc. facility located at the intersection of West End Boulevard and Highway 74 will expand its work force at a result of corporate restructuring. "The Boulevard plant will take on 50 to 60 new workers," said Jim Orso of Fleishman-Hilliard, a public relations agency in St. Louis. "Some of the work being done at the Anna, Ill., plant will be moved to company's Boulevard plant."...

Swimmers take heart, the new bubble has arrived and is set to be inflated today. After several delays, the Central municipal swimming pool likely will open next week with its new cover, a new paint job and several other improvements, said Randy Barnhouse, aquatics coordinator...

JACKSON - The Shawnee District Boy Scouts are hosting a dinner train ride Monday on the St. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, catered by the Pasta House Company. The train is scheduled to depart from Jackson at 6:30 p.m., with dinner served shortly afterward. The ride should last about two hours...

The Cape Girardeau branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in cooperation with the MS Frances Travel Club in Columbia will host the Black Expo `93 Extravaganza Tour Feb. 25-28 in Atlanta, Ga. There are 25 seats available from Cape Girardeau for the tour at $160-$180 per person...

The on-again, off-again status of a Kent Drive extension to Lexington is in limbo as the Cape Girardeau City Council Monday voted against a subdivision plan that would have left the street a dead end. The council Nov. 2 approved first reading of an ordinance to accept the subdivision plan by P. David Gerlach, the developer of the area where Kent Drive's situated...

Funeral service for James R. Downs Sr. of Herculaneum was held Tuesday at Vinyard's Hillcrest Funeral Home in Pevely. The Rev. Ronald Rubbelke officiated, with burial in Herculaneum Cemetery. Downs, 71, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Nov. 14, 1992, in Herculaneum...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Rebecca June Forbey of St. Louis will be held at 10 a.m. today at Kutis Funeral Home in St. Louis. Burial will be in Resurrection Cemetery in St. Louis. Forbey, 43, formerly of Charleston, died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis...

SIKESTON -- Robert Marshall, 64, of Sikeston died Nov. 15, 1992, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston following an extended illness. He was born July 8, 1928, in Coahoma County, Mississippi, to the late Robert and Murlee Jones Marshall. He had lived in Sikeston for more than 31 years...

BENTON -- Marcella Cannon, 95, of Benton, died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1992, at Country Meadows Rest Home in Flat River. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.

SIKESTON -- Pribanou Clodine "Peggy" Godwin, 71, of Sikeston, died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born July 29, 1921, at Neelys Landing, daughter of George W. and Maggie Robinson Ackman. She and Wilson B. "Moon" Godwin were married June 24, 1939, in Cape Girardeau...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Travis Dale Freed of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Charles E. Buck will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery here. Freed, 25, died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, in Butler County...

ORAN -- Maude Marie Cauttrell, 92, of Oran, died Tuesday, Nov. 17, 1992, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews. She was born Oct. 2, 1900, at Oran, daughter of Wilson Brown and Mary Cora Evans Myers. She married Farest McCoy Cauttrell, who preceded her in death...

JACKSON -- Joseph D. Livers, 68, of Jackson, died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, shortly after arrival at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He had an apparent heart attack while deer hunting. He was born April 22, 1924, at Advance, son of James Thomas and Ethel Hendrickson Livers. He and Anna L. Crites were married Dec. 23, 1943...

MORLEY -- Funeral service for Roy Arnold of Morley will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church here. The Rev. Jim Matthews will officiate, with burial in New Morley Cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Oran from 8 a.m. to noon...

PERRYVILLE -- Rosilda B. Neislein, 71, of Rockwood, Ill., died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, at Chester Memorial Hospital. She was born July 10, 1921, in Beemer, Neb., daughter of Martin August and Marie Wilhelmina Pagels Roth. She and Waldo C. Neislein were married March 12, 1942...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Robert Harold Patrick, 69, of East Prairie, died Nov. 17, 1992, at his home of an apparent heart attack. He was born Sept. 8, 1923, in Lake County, Tenn., the son of Henry and Myrtle Merryman Patrick. He had lived in Mississippi County most of his life...

CHARLESTON -- Louie McCormick, 84, of Charleston died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Jan. 18, 1908, in Scott City, the son of Charles Edward and Donnie Oliver McCormick. He lived in Charleston for the past 62 years, where he was a member of the Elm Street Baptist Church. He was a farmer and had been employed with the Simpson Oil Co. until his retirement in 1963...

Daughter to Jonathan Brown and Lorie Barlow of Delta, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:29 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 10, 1992. Name, Jessica Danielle. Weight, 5 pounds 11 ounces. Miss Barlow is the daughter of Peggy Barlow of Delta. Brown is the son of Susan Brown and Brad Brown of Whitewater...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mae Secoy of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. Pastor Dave Bowden will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park. Secoy, 82, died Monday, Nov. 16, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

Speech and language therapist Mary Talley works with students to turn their comments of "I can't" into ones of "I can." Talley teaches children in kindergarten through grade 12 and an early childhood special education program for three to five year olds at Meadow Heights School District in Patton...

The Southeast Missouri State University Choir will team with the Sikeston High School Chamber Choir in presenting its annual Fall/Christmas Concert Thursday. The event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in Academic Auditorium. The first part of the program, presented by the University Choir, will consist of sacred music by Samuel Scheidt, J.S. ...