Stories from Friday, September 18, 1992

Missouri will experiment with cameras in the courtroom under a two-year study approved by the Missouri's Supreme Court. Cameras and recording devices will be allowed in selected courtrooms across the state. The move is long overdue. Missouri will become the 47th state without a total ban on cameras and recording equipment in the courtroom. Obviously, the concept works in the vast majority of other states, and there's no reason it shouldn't work here...

The Midwestern River Cities Chapter of American Association for Medical Transcription will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in Conference Room B at St. Francis Medical Center. Dr. Abdul Chaudhari will speak on neurologic disorders, and Pam Sellenger, registered nurse, will talk about infection control...

Three "Meet the Candidates" and voter registration sessions will be held next week at West Park Mall under the auspices of the League of Women Voters of Cape Girardeau County. Times for each session will be 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., in the mall's Center Court. League members who have been trained and deputized by County Clerk Rodney Miller will be registering voters...

BENTON -- Belt-tightening and budget cuts at Thomas W. Kelly schools last year paid off this year; teachers are getting a pay raise after all. In May, teachers at Kelly schools turned down an offer of a pay increase to help keep the district financially sound. That meant they would have been working this year for the same salary as the previous three years...

Those election polls can't be considered scientific until they list not only Bush and Clinton but just about everybody's favorite candidate: Nobody. --- GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Webster started his general election TV commercials early in the campaign. Bill has logged more time on television screens than Johnny Carson every did...

Presidential and gubernatorial campaigns are loudly touted as the time for the nation and the states to examine the issues and make important decisions for the next four years. We have been repeatedly told that if the United States or Missouri is to resolve pressing problems and face the future with optimism, the candidates for president and/or governor must provide us with the details of their proposal, and then we, the electorate, can make the intelligent decisions required for a great nation and a progressive state.. ...

Missouri Secretary of State Roy Blunt was traveling the state Thursday to drum up support for voter registration drives now under way in most counties. Blunt, who is the state's chief election authority, has set a goal of having 3 million Missourians registered to vote by Oct. 14, the deadline to register for the Nov. 4 general election...

In most places, Labor Day is considered the traditional kickoff date for general election political campaigns. But in Cape Girardeau County, the traditional kickoff is the SEMO District Fair. The county Democratic and Republican political committees work hard to staff booths and distribute literature on candidates. They know that for many people, the fair will be the first time they have given consideration to the choices they are facing in the November general election...

Work on three highway intersection improvement projects, two in Cape Girardeau and one in Jackson, are nearing completion, the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department reported Thursday. Meanwhile, the highway department said it appears a project to widen Route K to five lanes and install traffic signals in the vicinity of Wal-Mart will not begin until next spring...

Local television station officials Thursday hailed U.S. House action to approve a new cable TV bill a "great victory" for consumers. But Jim Dufek, a member of the Cape Girardeau's Citizens Cable TV Advisory Board, doubts whether the bill will accomplish much...

Southeast Missouri State University's first major capital campaign concluded with a balloon-filled dinner celebration at the Show Me Center Thursday night. The band played the university's fight song as pastel colored balloons rained down on more than 500 donors, university officials and campaign volunteers who turned out for what was billed as a "victory celebration."...

WASHINGTON - Head Start services in the Lead Belt area will be expanded due to a $142,716 financial assistance award to the East Missouri Action Agency. The award, announced this week by U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, will provide for an additional Head Start classroom in Bonne Terre and new home-based programs in Washington and Iron counties, along with upgrades to existing facilities...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Tom Tojo of St. Louis, Jewish Hospital there, 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 5, 1992. Name, Jordan Elizabeth. Weight, 6 pounds 14 ounces. First child. Mrs. Tojo is the former Julene Doemel, daughter of George and Shirley Doemel, Jackson Route 4. She is a contract coordinator at Worldwide Technology in St. Louis. Tojo is an advertising representative with Universal Midwest of St. Louis, and is the son of Frank Tojo and Marian Tojo of Columbia, Ill...

SIKESTON -- Louis L. Jackman, 42, of Monterey, Calif., died Tuesday, Sept. 15, 1992, at his home. He was born March 5, 1950, at Sikeston, son of Fred L. and Reva Holifield Jackman Jr. Jackman was a 1969 graduate of Sikeston High School. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War, and was a Green Beret...

VANDUSER -- Funeral service for Jack Hale of Vanduser will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Marvin Graham will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Hale, 75, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at his home...

ANNA, Ill. -- Wanda Kenney Mainer, 71, of Anna, died at 3:25 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 22, 1920, at Grayville, daughter of Abe and Nora Grammer Roberts. She maried C.E. "Red" Mainer in February 1988, at Jackson, Mo...

SCOTT CITY -- Louise Virginia Montgomery, 78, of Scott City died Thursday, Sept. 17, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 17, 1913, at Obion County, Tenn., the daughter of Walter Haynes and Clyde Carver Hollier. On Feb. 15, 1933, she married Jesse Lee Montgomery at Lake County, Tenn. He preceded her in death Sept. 14, 1963...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Mary F. Johnson, 91, of Cairo, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 25, 1900, in Milwaukee, Wis., daughter of Kalell and Helen Hanna Farah. She married Alex Johnson, who died in 1968...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Helen Marie Allen of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Johnny Newton will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Allen, 41, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

ANNA, Ill. -- H. Don Otrich, 81, of Anna, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at Union County Hospital. He was born Sept. 18, 1910, in Dongola, son of Fountain L. and Lula Kimmel Otrich. He and Elsie Vaughn were married Dec. 2, 1933. Otrich was vice president and cashier at Anna State Bank from 1947-77, and attended Anna Heights Baptist Church...

SCOTT CITY -- Bernice Cummins Crump, 76, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 22, 1915, at Bloomfield, daughter of David Omer and Zora Inez Brock Coombes. She first married Oravill "Wiggles" Cummins Dec. 15, 1934. He died Oct. 1, 1985. She married Carlos Crump April 27, 1990...

A memorial service for the Rev. William Wittrock Jr. of Chicago, Ill., formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Hanover Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy will officiate. Funeral service was held Sept. 9 in Newberry Springs, Calif., with burial in Victorville, Calif...

Dolores Sue Hileman, 41, of Turlock, Calif., died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at Turlock. She was the daughter of Leon and Mary Glastetter of New Hamburg. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Home.

"You Ought To Be In Pictures" is the theme for the Zonta Club fashion show extravaganza to be held Monday at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus. A parade of the latest fall fashions will be highlighted during the evening, which get under way with hors d'oeuvres at 6 p.m. The fashion show will start at 7:15 p.m...

WAPPAPELLO -- A group of handicapped anglers will spend the morning on Wappapello Lake Saturday in a special event designed introduce lake fishing to individual who are normally restricted to bank fishing, or no fishing at all. "The Missouri Department of conservation will provide a free, one-day fishing permit for those participating in the event," said Michael McClendon, of the U.S. ...

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Conservation Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting beginning at 8:30 a.m. Sept. 25 at the Cedar Stone Lodge in Eminence. Commission meetings are open to the public. Anyone with business for the Commission should contact: Director, Department of Conservation, Box 180, Jefferson City, Mo., 65102-0180, or phone (314) 751-4115, at least 10 days before the meeting date...