Stories from Wednesday, April 17, 1991

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Students from St. Vincent de Paul grade school earned district honors last weekend in a math contest. The contest, sponsored by Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics, was held in Sikeston; 17 area schools participated. Jeremy Bratton took first place and Tommy Berkbigler took fourth place in the seventh grade competition. As a first place winner, Bratton will advance to state competition May 4 in Columbia...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational School offers six summer classes for children. The classes begin June 10 and enrollment is open now. Three sessions of each course will be offered through the summer. Children, ages 6-12, who have just completed kindergarten through sixth grade are eligible to attend. Enrollment is accepted on a first-come, first-served basis...

DELTA -- Mildred L. Reynolds says she wanted to become a teacher since she was a little girl. She teaches second grade at Delta R-5 Elementary School, but her career began 40 years ago near Gordonville. "I began teaching at the Needmore School," Reynolds said. "At first I was nervous, but at the end of that year I was excited about my new career...

JACKSON - "Lyme Disease: What Makes It Tick?" is the subject of a free seminar this Thursday at the St. Francis Information Center in Jackson. The program will begin at 7 p.m. Gail Schumer will be the guest speaker. Schumer is a licensed practical nurse who serves as the Lyme disease coordinator for Cape Girardeau physician Charles L. Crist...

Warranty deeds compiled at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County Recorder of Deeds: Bruce H. and Brenda L. Schoen to Benjamin O. Uzoaru; Dru Reeves and Rhonda Govro to Dean and Kerry Reeves; Kyle Welke, et al, to Robert E. and Madonna H. Sanders; Edna M. Baker to Hobart F. Baker and Gloria S. Gleason; Cora Marie and Rufus William Lindsay to William J. Lindsay, et al...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Sal~aries for Cape Girardeau public school teachers and administrators will rise an average of 2.8 percent for the 1991-92 school year. The Board of Education approved a salary package at a special meeting Tuesday. The package will cost the district an additional $553,732, said Larry Dew, business manager...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Thanks largely to the efforts of Robert Briner, crime laboratories across the country are benefiting from the knowledge of one of the Soviet Union's foremost authorities on forensic genetic technology. The authority, Pavel Ivanov, is in Cape Girardeau this week visiting Southeast Missouri State University's Crime Lab, of which Briner is director. The visit here is part of Ivanov's two-week stay in the U.S. to lecture and exchange information about DNA profiling...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Picket lines were to be set up early today at the Burlington Northern Railroad offices in Cape Girardeau and Chaffee as part of a strike by railroad unions against the nation's major railroads. Pickets at the St. Louis Southwestern ("Cotton Belt") Railroad yard office in Scott City also were scheduled to be set up today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A $425,000 expansion to St. Vincent De Paul elementary school in Cape Girardeau began this week. Six classrooms and a number of administrative offices will be added to the school, which has experienced substantial increases in enrollment...

TERRY SLATTERY Occupation: Manager, Howard's Athletic Goods. The best part of my job is: "Every day presents new and different challenges." What do you do in your spare time? Enjoy my 5-year-old and 2-year-old boys." The book I'd recommend is: "Fatherhood by Bill Cosby."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- More than 750 students participated Tuesday in Southeast Missouri State University's 14th annual Math Field Day. Students from 38 schools participated in the competition, which featured 26 individual events, five team events and one problem-solving event...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Congressman Bill Emerson plans to leave Thursday for a five-day journey to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq, Emerson's office announced Tuesday. The congressman will be part of a bi-partisan delegation that includes Congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery, D-Miss., chairman of the House committee on Veteran's Affairs...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Georgia Jennings Clark, 87, of 3020 Independence, died Tuesday April 16, 1991 at the Chateau Health Center. She was born Aug. 27, 1903 in Troy to the late E.M. and Willie Archer Jennings. She was married to Harold Hebbeler in 1927. He proceeded her in death in 1937. On Aug. 27, 1941, she married Claude Clark. He proceeded her in death on Feb. 9, 1969...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Darrell Keys of Memphis, Tenn., Baptist Memorial Hospital East there, 3:59 a.m. Saturday, April 6, 1991. Name, Tyler Lee. Weight, 9 pounds 8 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Keys is the former Teresa Deevers, daughter of J.E. and Sally Deevers, Cape Girardeau Route 1. Keys is a carpenter, and is the son of Art Keys of Randles and Betty Keys of Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Barbara Janie McDowell of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Lawrence Eatherton will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8:30 a.m. until time of service...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for the Rev. Keith Charles Grams, 1141 Cypress Court, will be held at 3:30 p.m. Friday at First Assembly of God Church. The Rev. William N. Sachs, district superintendent of the Assemblies of God in Springfield, will officiate. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Emma E. Barnes of Pine Bluff, Ark., was held Tuesday at First Presbyterian Church there. Dr. Lawrence A. Wood and the Rev. James B. Miller officiated, with burial in Old Bellwood Cemetery. Ralph Robinson and Son Funeral Home of Pine Bluff was in charge of arrangements...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Haywood (Kay) Young of Camdenton, formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park, with graveside services by VFW...

Today marks the 30th anniversary of the beginning of the Bay of Pigs invasion, when American-backed Cuban rebels set about liberating their homeland from the communist grip of Fidel Castro. You might have noticed that three decades have passed and, while communism has lost favor in a good many nations, Castro's name still tops the presidential stationery in Cuba...

In a world of 5.3 billion people, it's often easier to go along with the crowd than to stand alone. Sometimes, it's hard to imagine that one person can really make a difference. Not so, say a number of area citizens who are doing their part to improve the quality of life in our corner of the world. In particular, we salute two individuals LaDona Henderson and Nancy McGrew who are helping to better our schools through volunteerism and innovative programming...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The original writings of two L.J. Schultz Middle School seventh graders are featured in the 1991 issue of "Missouri Youth Writes," published by the Missouri Association of Teachers of English. "Fiery Beasts," a poem by Diana Bartosik, and "The Trap Door," a short story by Abram Jackson, are among student selections from around the state chosen for this year's publication...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- The Dodge Memorial Public Library District of Olive Branch will co-host its fourth "Always a River" reading and discussion program Monday at 7 p.m. at the library. Jane Adams, assistant professor of anthropology at SIU-Carbondale, will discuss "houses and homes."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Janet L. Jarrell and Stacey Elfrink have been named Students of the Month by the Cape Girardeau Elk's Lodge 639. Jarrell, 18, is a senior at Cape Central High School. She is involved in orchestra, Red Dagger, the International Thespian Society and the National Honor Society...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jennifer A. Mehrle of Cape Girardeau has received a President's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1991-92 academic year. The President's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who meet the following criteria: Rank in the upper 15 percent of their high school class and score a 23 on the ACT; rank in the upper 20 percent of their high school class and score a 24 on the ACT; or graduate as their class valedictorian or salutatorian...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Cape Headstart program will present its spring concert Thursday at the gazebo on the grounds of the Common Pleas Courthouse. Mrs. Nancy Godwin will open the program at 6:30 p.m. with a short discussion on how parents can prepare their children for kindergarten...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Southeast Missouri State University College of Science and Technology will honor its outstanding students at an honors ceremony Thursday. The event is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Twenty-three students will receive scholarships and 54 will be recognized for outstanding academic achievements...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Melina Gray, a senior at Southeast Missouri State University, recently won a top prize at the regional meeting of the Society of Physics Students in Springfield. She was recognized for her presentation of a paper on "Microwave Dielectric Response of High-Tc Superconductor."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Four students from Cape Central High School earned honors in the VFW Voice of Democracy contest. The contest was sponsored by VFW Post 3838. Tanya Matzat won first place honors and received a $500 savings bond. Kyle Chasteen won second place and received a $250 savings bond. Mark Shoger won third place and received a $100 savings bond; and Scott Bryan won fourth place and received a $50 savings bond...

SCOTT CITY -- Donald R. Sturm, a senior at Scott City High School has received a Regent's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University for the 1991-92 academic year. The Regent's Scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who are in the top 10 percent of their graduating class and who score above the 90th percentile on the ACT or SAT. The scholarship covers tuition and is renewable...

FARRAR -- Randy Farrar of Farrar has received an Adult Learner Dean's Scholarship for the 1991-92 academic year at Southeast Missouri State University. Farrar is a sophomore majoring in biology at Southeast. The Adult Learner Dean's Scholarship at Southeast is awarded to students classified as adult learners who have completed at least 30 hours with a 3.0 grade point average. Students classified as adult learners are over 25 years of age and/or married, veterans, or have dependents...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Members of the SEMO District Fair catalog committee are planning for the 1991 season. Chairman Marilyn Schott said each year the catalog contains information about rules and regulations in the different judging categories. It also includes information about events, exhibits, tents, activities and everything that is going on at the fair...

JACKSON -- Farmers are ahead of last year in the amount of fieldwork already completed this spring statewide, but unless the rain stops, area farmers are going to be a little late in the very near future. "Compared to last year, farmers here are ahead," said Terry Birk this week. "But, right now, we're in a wet period, and not much is being accomplished."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Students from 26 high school vocational agriculture education programs competed in the annual District Vocational Agriculture and Future Farmers of America contests recently, at Southeast Missouri State University. First and second place winning teams will advance to state competition Thursday and Friday at the University of Missouri-Columbia...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Members of the SEMO District Fair Tractor Pull committee recently honored area equipment dealers at a meeting and dinner. Committee chairman Sam Below said the success of the tractor pull would not be possible without the many hours of time and the equipment area dealers have been willing to donate...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Tina McCloskey, a seventh grader from L.J. Schultz Middle School, finished 11th among 58 district spelling champions at the Regional Spelling Bee in St. Louis April 6. Kelly Lasiter, an eighth grader from Coolige Junior High in Granite City, won the bee in her fourth year of spelling in the regional competition...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- David Martin, district manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone in St. Louis, will be the guest speaker at the April 25 Volunteer Awards ceremony in Cape Girardeau. The awards are sponsored by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Martin directs statewide advertising campaigns and oversees news media contacts for the telephone company's Missouri division...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Several area teenagers have been selected to attend the 1991 Missouri Scholars Academy, a three-week program held in June at the University of Missouri-Columbia. More than 300 high-school sophomores from across the state were selected to attend the academy. They represent the top one-half of 1 percent academically of all Missouri sophomores...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The daily newspapers continue to blast the public with the need to increase the educational budget and upgrade the educational system of Missouri's schools. The goal is to continue improving education for the next five years to prepare students for the SPACE AGE...

For a reason few of us understand, the subject of making English our nation's official language is up for consideration again. English is our official language. Our constitution is written in English. English is the language used in our courts of law, by our government, our schools, and in the business world...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. William K. LaFoe will discuss acute myocardial infarction (heart failure) on this week's "Ask Your Doctor." The program airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13. "Ask Your Doctor" is a medical show featuring local doctors answering questions from local viewer who call in...