Stories from Tuesday, March 26, 1991

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau Assistant City Attorney Allan E. Moss, Jr. will resign next month to begin a new job as manager of the Missouri Attorney General's branch office in Jackson. John Baker, an aide to the attorney general in Jefferson City, said Monday that Moss has been hired to replace Jeff Dix, who resigned March 1. Dix held the job since the Jackson office was opened 2 years ago...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Twenty-one days and counting. That's the situation facing thousands of Missouri taxpayers today as they look to the April 15 midnight mailing deadline for U.S. income tax returns. With three weeks remaining before the penalty deadline, only 900,000 Missourians have filed their taxes for the 1990 tax year...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- This spring a new look will unfold along the Cape Girardeau downtown riverfront. Ever since the 1960s, crab apple trees have grown in the grassy strip east of Water Street between Themis and Independence. But those trees are now coming out to make way for new pear trees...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A newly funded women's treatment center might purchase the building that formerly housed WISER, Inc. The Missouri Department of Mental Health's Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse has awarded an $880,000 contract to the Family Counseling Center of Cape Girardeau. The money will be used to operate an alcohol and drug abuse treatment facility for women here...

LANCE CPL. ERIC RICHARDSON U.S. MARINES Richardson graduated from Cape Central High School in 1988 and left for basic training to Camp Pendleton, Calif., in Dec. 1989. He was deployed to Saudi Arabia in February. His parents, Pastor and Mrs. Carl Richardson of Cape Girardeau, said their son will probably be in Saudi Arabia for several more months doing reconstruction work...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Storyteller Folke Tegetthof claims fairy tales are for adults, not children. "Most people's first association with fairy tales is that they have something to do with children," Tegetthof said. "In my work with fairy tales for the last 12 years, I have learned that fairy tales are not for children; they are for adults...

HATS OFF TO the Southeast Missouri women's basketball team. Way to go, ladies. We're really proud of you. Congratulations especially to Coach Ed Arnzen for a spectacular season, and thank you for providing us with wonderful basketball all year long. Couldn't happen to a better man...

We'll be back tomorrow night on Channel 13 at 8 p.m. with a program of interest to every voter and taxpayer in Cape Girardeau County. Behind the Headlines, which airs Wednesdays at 8, will feature the Senior Citizens tax proposal that's before county voters one week from today...

The Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair embodies the ingenuity of today's teenagers. The fair, which kicks off today, represents a tradition of academic excellence in Southeast Missouri. The 1991 event will feature 231 exhibits created by 245 students in grades seven through 12 throughout Southeast Missouri. Many students are repeat participants, which speaks well of the enduring quality of the program...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A memorial service for Mrs. Charlotte Given Black of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Charles Grant and Dr. E.C. Brasington will officiate. Private entombment will be in the family mausoleum in New Lorimier Cemetery before the service...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for James J. Harris of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. today at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Caroll Gibbons will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. until time of service...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for William Earl Morton of St. Charles will be held today at Baue Funeral Chapel there. Pat Campbell will officiate, with burial in St. Charles Memorial Gardens. Morton, 60 years old, died Friday, March 22, 1991, at his home...

JACKSON -- While other Southeast Missouri communities were disappointed with the results of the 1990 U.S. Census, Jackson was a notable exception. The community continued to display a strong growth in population during the past decade. Kevin Sawyer, outgoing president of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, said the growth was no accident. When it comes to marketing Jackson to the rest of the world, Sawyer said, "It's no secret; the city literally sells itself...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cape Central High Schools speech team captured second place honors in the district speech contest held March 22-23. Earning the first place Sweepstakes Award in the competition was the team from Poplar Bluff. Doniphan's team placed third...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Betty Sue Jenkins of East Prairie will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Frank Breeden will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston. Mrs. Jenkins, 43 years old, died Sunday, March 24, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Dr. Charles E. Brown of Carbondale, Ill., was held Saturday at First United Methodist Church in Carbondale. Burial was Sunday in Humansville. Brown, 84 years old, died Thursday, March 21, 1991, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ora Proffer, 1231 Marquette Drive, died Monday, March 25, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was 67 years old. Arrangements are incomplete at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson.

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Mrs. Lova V. Taylor of Mounds will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church here. The Revs. Eugene Williams and Verlee Eaker will officiate, with burial in Beechwood Cemetery at Mounds. Friends may call at the church after 5 p.m. Tuesday, and from 8 a.m. until time of service Wednesday. Jones Funeral Home at Villa Ridge is in charge of arrangements...

SIKESTON -- Romona Holland, 48, of Vanduser died Monday at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. The body is at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, where arrangements are incomplete.