Stories from Sunday, October 17, 1993

E. Wayne Morrow, 53, of 1743 Belleridge Pike died Saturday, Oct. 16, 1993 at 12:30 p.m. at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

In the aftermath of the Oct. 5 election failure of a school improvements package for Cape Girardeau, the second time such an issue has failed, the Southeast Missourian published a clip-and-mail coupon seeking comments on the negative outcome. What follows is a continuation of some of the more detailed responses we received...

If many Americans had concerns about the domestic agenda of President Clinton, they must really be aghast, even frightened, by what they see of his foreign policy exploits. His waffling over the Bosnian conflict early in his presidency was daunting in itself, but steps he has taken in response to crises in Somalia and Haiti have been true head-scratchers. Worse, they have put American fighting forces needlessly at risk...

"We may gather out of history a policy, by the comparison and application of other men's forepassed miseries with our own like errors and ill deservings," wrote Sir Walter Raleigh. The forepassed miseries of America's participation in the Vietnam War a generation ago have emerged as a myth that haunt our smaller scale involvement in Somalia...

A job training resources forum will be held Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, 301 N. Clark, from 9 a.m. to noon. The forum will bring together representatives of agencies with money available for job training, said Dorothy Hardy, director of the Single Parent Program at the vocational school...

Planning is under way for the American Cancer Society's annual Jail and Bail set for Oct. 28. Jail and Bail raises thousands of dollars each year for various American Cancer Society projects, which range from research into cancer prevention to services for cancer patients...

To the Editor: Having just concluded reading the article about the "No" group in the Oct. 8 Southeast Missourian, correction is once again necessary. With opponents so carelessly, if not intentionally, misstating the facts, we must continue to set the record straight...

MARBLE HILL -- The Rev. Pansy A. Bentley, 80, of Leesburg, Fla., formerly of Lutesville, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1993, at Lake Port Nursing Center in Leesburg. She was born in Lutesville on May 7, 1913, daughter of George and Della McCormick Sample. She moved to Leesburg in 1954. She was a retired minister with the Assembly of God denomination, having served for over 50 years...

CHARLESTON -- James Virgil Stroud, 86, formerly of Charleston, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1993 at the Carriage Hill Retirement Center in Bedford, Va. He was born Oct. 27, 1906 at Brashear, Mo., son of Cleophus A. and Mabel Robertson Stroud. He was a retired school teacher and a member of the Southside Baptist Church in Charleston...

BELL CITY -- Imogene Chapman, 77, of Bell City, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1993 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 9, 1916 at Idalia, Mo., daughter of Att Cook and Eva McKee Cook. She was a homemaker and attended the Apostolic House of Prayer in Bell City...

SCOTT CITY -- Marjorie Gail Chapman, 59, of Scott City, died Friday, Oct. 15, 1993 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 20, 1934 in Battle Mountain, Nev., daughter of Franklin Landon and Emily Jewkes. On July 12, 1954, she married Lester M. Chapman. He survives...

The mother of one of the most well-known men in America recently received national recognition herself. Millie Limbaugh, whose son is conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh, was named Honorary Homemaker of the Year by Eagle Forum, a national conservative pro-family organization headed by Phyllis Schlafly...

Changes in the way city officials issue building permits and enforce construction codes are aimed at stemming the possible flight of development from Cape Girardeau. City Manager J. Ronald Fischer said Ken Eftink, the city's planning services coordinator, will be given the added responsibilities of coordinating building permit demands and helping to speed the permit process...

The razing of an 86-year-old house by Southeast Missouri State University has prompted an outpouring of concern by a group of the school's historic preservation students. They question how a school that prides itself on having one of the few undergraduate, historic preservation programs in the nation could tear down what they view as an architecturally significant building...

BENTON -- Catholic Bishop John J. Leibrecht says Missouri seems headed on a dangerous course toward dependency on gambling revenue to fill state coffers. A friendly game of bingo is a far cry from what Leibrecht and other Missouri Catholic bishops see as a troublesome public policy in the state...

SCOTT CITY - Despite very limited activity this summer because of Mississippi River flooding, the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority is on target to triple its annual tonnage over 1992. Last year, net tonnage at the SEMO Port was 74,128, and through nine months of 1993, 171,016 net tons have passed through the port. During the month of September, net tonnage was 22,614...

A longtime friend of Southeast Missouri Hospital has left the hospital's foundation a legacy of more than a half-million dollars. A check for $531,116 was presented to the foundation Friday by Carol Rapp Bumb, daughter of the late Dorothy Rapp-Mitchell, on behalf of herself and her brother, Charles Rapp of Nashville, Tenn...

ANNA, Ill. -- The Southern Illinois Prison Committee is urging area residents today to contact Gov. Jim Edgar and Howard A. Peters to voice support for a new state super-maximum security prison in the Tamms area of Alexander County. "We need to keep emphasizing our support until the final site is selected," said Jerry Reppert, spokesman for the group. "It's up them now."...

October days stir the gypsy blood. I want to close the doors behind me and take to the woods, literally. The Missouri woods, that is. I'm sure the maples in Vermont and the aspens in Colorado are lovely, but give me the whole crazy colored patchwork of Shepherd, Stono, Brown, Buford and Simms Mountains. Throw in Tip Top, Proffit Mountain, the hills of Trail of Tears, and the maples at Glennon for good measure...

The artistic notions of Don Greenwood have been "immortalized" upon the south wall of one of his favorite haunts, Port Cape Girardeau. Two large, plexiglass sheets protect dozens of delicate four-inch by four-inch cocktail napkins, which have succumbed their functional worth to Greenwood's pen while he enjoyed a beer or two and a South American cigar with friends...

Centenary Methodist Church and the American Red Cross will host a blood drive on Monday, Oct. 25. It will be held at the church, 300 N. Ellis, from 4 to 7 p.m. Blood donations are needed for surgeries, for accident victims, and for cancer and other medical treatments. Thousands of people depend daily on blood donated by the quiet heroes at community and organizational blood drives, says Jeanne Farrar...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: James D. and Nancy Richards to Errico and Barbara Sue Ianniello; JB Properties Inc. to Robert L. and Shirley Mackenroth; Robert L. and Shirley Mackenroth to Kelly M. and Donna T. Thornton...