Stories from Tuesday, April 29, 1997

Several students have received Regents' Scholarships to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1997-98 academic year. The Regents' Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who have achieved an Enhanced ACT score or 27 or SAT score of 1220. ...

A Buffalo, N.Y., telemarketer pleaded guilty to cheating an elderly Cape Girardeau woman out of thousands of dollars and faces up to seven years in prison. Martin T. Boyd, 30, pleaded guilty Monday to two felony consumer fraud charges brought by Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon...

LEOPOLD -- Jenny Nenninger's students thought they had planned the perfect surprise birthday party, but the surprise was on them. Their hours of planning resulted in a surprise party for Nenninger. Her birthday was months away. Nenninger has taught business and home economics at Leopold High School for 28 years, and surprises are part of the job...

Twenty-seven young writers in grades four through 12 won honors at the annual Southeast Missouri Writing Achievement Awards earlier this month. They were among 337 students from 67 schools in Southeast Missouri and the St. Louis area who competed for the awards...

The blaze orange vest made the students who are crossing guards visible to motorist in all types of weather conditions. A number of students at area schools are being well-versed in traffic safety as members of the School Safety Patrol program. The program, which is in its 76th year, teaches students to be crossguards at intersections before and after school. ...

Cybertip: All these fashion sites can be found in the Resource Room of www.semissourian.com, along with more than a hundred other hot links. It's an easy way to traverse the World Wide Web. Fashion is often in the eye of the beholder. The Internet offers an insider glimpse at the fashion world -- from the hottest magazines to the top designers...

Southeast Missouri State University has announced several students have been awarded President's Scholarships for the 1997-98 academic year. The President's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who score 24 on the Enhanced ACT or 1110 on the SAT. ...

A railway company says its priorities are cleaning up wreckage, environmental remediation and repairing damaged tracks after a freight train it owns derailed and caught fire in Cape Girardeau. "Obviously, that's our first order of business," said Mike Martin of Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. in Fort Worth, Texas...

Larry Reiminger quit his Cape Girardeau banking job and will move halfway across the country after being reunited with his lost love of 25 years ago. David Roll sold his business in Australia and traveled halfway across the world to meet a new friend face-to-face...

The St. Louis Bread Company, Ruby Tuesday, Lacey's on the Hill, Whitfield's and Peppy's Sports Bar should be collecting the 1 percent restaurant tax from customers and sending it to the city of Cape Girardeau, according to city records. But the city hasn't been billing them, the records show...

The preferred site for a new $100 million, gas-fired combined cycle power-generation plant is Dunklin County. The favored site, said Max Cates of Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., is west of Glennonville on the east side St. Francis River. But he said other sites are under consideration. They include a location near Essex, between Dexter and Sikeston, and north of the Arkansas state line near Fagus, Mo...

House Republicans spent two hours behind closed doors at the state Capitol Monday night but adjourned without deciding the legislative future of state Rep. Mark Richardson. The meeting of the GOP's 76 state representatives ended shortly before 8:30 p.m., with its members agreeing to reconvene at 9:15 a.m. today...

The other day, a friend of mine leaned his head out of the window and wolf-whistled at a smartly dressed, attractive young lady who was walking toward the courthouse. He continued gawking long enough to get her reaction. "Nothing," he sighed, turning his attention back to the front...

SIKESTON -- The Missouri Department of Transportation is exceeding its usual speed limit in completing its planned improvements to Route HH in north Sikeston. Transportation representatives met with about 60 Sikeston and Miner residents last week to collect information about a four-step plan the department intends to complete by the end of 1998...

WHY DO people have to have labels instead of black or white, Jew, Anglo or whatever? Why not just call the people by their name? I WANT to comment about the piece that was on TV about Ol' Miss having a Confederate flag and naming its team the Rebels and having a statue of a Confederate soldier. ...

For a nation whose birth was made possible by a revolutionary war and whose history has seen thousands of lives lost for the sake of liberty and freedom, it is both appropriate and honorable to memorialize those who died in the service of their country...

For many reasons, the number of immigrants to the United States is growing by leaps and bounds. In 1992, some 300,000 immigrants applied for citizenship. This year, the number is expected to be an overwhelming 1.8 million people. This surge in citizenship applications has had one clear effect: It has emphasized the fact that there is not standard test for those who seek to become naturalized Americans...

To the editor: The news article about the city's tax on restaurant receipts which appeared in the April 24 edition of the Southeast Missourian named Marriott's Lacey's on the Hill as one of the restaurants which had not paid the 1 percent tax earmarked for the city's convention and visitors fund...

To the editor: It seems that the tendency of a segment of the U.S. clergy to force their noses into things that aren't any of their business is matched only by the capacity of the U.S. people to put up with their brassy intrusions over and over again. ...

To the editor: I want to thank you for the great articles about secretaries, Professional Secretaries Week and Prfessional Secretaries International. We appreciate the interest and the wonderful cooperation we get from your organization. Thanks Peggy O'Farrell and Ray Owen for your ongoing support!...

Perhaps the most understandable human response to the increasingly frequent boast that modern technology is infallible is to point to the fallibility of the claim. As mere mortals who find ourselves more and more at the mercy of some new electronic gadget, we would be wise not to develop a world-class case of paranoia or at the very least a bad case of nerves characterized by an uncontrollable eye twitch or the involuntary tapping of our right index finger...

Two women's relay teams from Southeast Missouri State University established new school records while placing high in this past weekend's prestigious Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa. The sprint medley relay team of Shannon O'Dell, Shauna Birge, Yvonne Hente and Tammy Wenkel timed 3:54.64 to place second behind Arizona as over 18,000 fans watched at Drake Stadium...

Five area runners got to experience the thrill of participating in last week's Boston Marathon and two received the additional thrill of being among the best runners in the prestigious race. Bernadette Huston and Ron Keller, both of Cape Girardeau, finished extremely high in the overall standings of the 26.2-mile event that included approximately 12,000 runners...

SIKESTON -- The Jackson golf team quite possibly gave a glimpse of things to come in district action by winning the six-team Sikeston Invitational. Jackson, with a score of 318, beat district rivals Sikeston (321), Cape Central (329), Farmington (330) and Poplar Bluff (330). Notre Dame took sixth with a 338...

Southeast's baseball team will host Missouri Wednesday at 7 p.m. at Capaha Park in a `Bud Night' game that will be sponsored by River Eagle Distributing. Prizes will be given away throughout the night. Hats, posters, coolers and Budweiser seat cushions will be prizes which fans can win. In addition, River Eagle Distributing will host a tailgate party for the Southeast Booster Club...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Graveside service for Mary Evelyn Ward of Olive Branch will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Mt. Vernon Memorial Gardens near Mt. Vernon. The Rev. Verlee Eaker will officiate. Friends may call at Jones Funeral Home in Tamms from 8-11:30 a.m. today...

PUXICO -- Judy Carlos, 70, of Puxico died Saturday, April 26, 1997, at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She was born July 22, 1926, at Clarkton, daughter of Martin Luther and Nancy Prichett Barnes. She and Nick Carlos were married in April 1964...

Mabel Andrews, 59, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, April 27, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Opal Nickerson of Chaffee will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Revs. Gary Allen and Larry Gray will officiate, with burial in Union Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel after 4:30 p.m. today...

Memorial service for Susan Elizabeth Newberry of Cobden, Ill., will be held at 10 a.m. today at Memorial Park Mausoleum. The Rev. Joel Sarrault will officiate. Entombment will follow. Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Newberry, 54, died Sunday, April 27, 1997, in Union County Hospital at Anna, Ill...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Leonard E. Wilson, 79, of Cairo died Monday, April 28, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 5, 1917, in Bertrand, son of Edwin and Ida Winders Wilson. Wilson had worked at the U.S. Postal Service in Cairo 35 years. He was a member of First Christian Church, IOOF Lodge in Lincoln, Rebekah Lodge in Metropolis, Cairo VFW Post 2649, American Legion in Cairo, and Disabled American Veterans...

ZALMA -- Ollie M. Pate, 94, of Zalma died Sunday, April 27, 1997, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. She was born May 21, 1902, at Zalma, daughter of Huey S. and Annie Louisa Barker Speer. She and Ernest Pate were married Feb. 14, 1928. He died May 31, 1972...

Daughter to Jeff Owen and Kristin Lynn Dye of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:52 a.m. Sunday, April 20, 1997. Name, Kaitlyn Paige. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Dye is the former Kristin Fernandez, daughter of Vince Fernandez of Scott City and Linda Fernandez of Cape Girardeau. She is an administrative assistant at Magna-Tel. Dye is the son of Owen and Valma Dye of Cape Girardeau. He is a carpenter with Cape Girardeau Public Schools...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Marjorie L. Brooks, 74, of Olive Branch died Monday, April 28, 1997, at her home. She was born Feb. 6, 1923, in Brookport, daughter of Jessie and Sally Farris Maedaker. She married Silas Brooks, who died in 1991. Survivors include two daughters, Sherry Walter of Elgin, Linda Whitfield of Panama City, Fla.; three sons, William Walter III of Elgin, William Walter and Chris Brooks of Olive Branch; a friend, Norman Fisher of Olive Branch; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.. ...