Stories from Friday, August 2, 1991

We can all have a hand in preventing crime. A watchful eye and good locks go a long way to assisting the local police department. In the last two weeks, nearly 40 cars have been ransacked in the city of Cape Girardeau. Some property was stolen. But consider this: All these vehicles were unlocked. ...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- More than 200 people concerned about children with behavior disorders will attend a conference Aug. 13 at Shawnee Community College. The conference is sponsored by "Project Deflection," a six-county partnership between public and private agencies. Teachers, school administrators, parents, social workers, psychologists, community agency staff, volunteers and community leaders have been invited...

The Wappapello Lake Army Corps of Engineers will hold its annual "Water Fest '91" Saturday and Sunday. The event is being held to educate the public about water safety. "We try to promote water safety by using games and activities people can relate to," said Andrew Jefferson, park ranger in charge of public relations and interpretation...

Information from throughout the world will be a computer command away when Southeast Missouri State University and other state campuses hook up to the Missouri Research and Education Network data system. The network will allow Southeast users to sign on to the mainframes of 12 other Missouri colleges and universities, with the University of Missouri-Columbia serving as the network's hub. ...

Ed Arnzen, women's basketball coach at Southeast Missouri State University, will be the speaker today at the Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee. The gathering will get under way at 7:30 a.m. at Drury Lodge. Wolsey Investigative Service Inc., will be this month's sponsor...

So, you want to know about Washington? It is the place irony goes to refine itself. The nation's capital may be the pristine hub of global democracy, but no one denies it can be a harsh place. For Clarence Thomas, it must seem forbidding. Thomas is almost five weeks into his nomination for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court. He has more than five weeks to go until his confirmation hearings before U.S. senators begin...

Fly Cape Aviation Days should provide a soaring good time this weekend, offering everything from aerial demonstrations, World War II vintage aircraft, plane rides and a "Star Spangled Banner parachute drop." The open house and air show at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport Saturday and Sunday should interest not just aviation enthusiasts, but the general public as well...

Cape Girardeau's population is slightly older and more diverse than it was in 1980, and the city's households are getting smaller, according to the 1990 U.S. Census Bureau's Profile Report. The city's population increased only slightly during the decade, from 34,361 to 34,438. But a larger portion, 9.8 percent, of the population now is black, compared with 6.8 percent in 1980...

A new laser procedure for treatment of obstructive heart disease began Thursday at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Regional Heart Center. The first surgeries using the excimer laser angioplasty system were performed at the center Thursday by Cape Girardeau cardiologists James B. Chapman and C.R. Talbert Jr...

Lone Star Industries of Cape Girardeau Thursday announced plans to convert its coal-burning cement kiln into a system that will burn toxic waste fuels. Harry Philip, director of operations at the Cape Girardeau cement plant, told about 60 local and state officials Thursday that the new facility could be operating by February 1992...

A lawsuit filed by a group of Missouri school districts could lead to a reduction in benefits for as many as 10,000 retired Missouri teachers, according to an attorney for the Public School Retirement System of Missouri, defendant in the suit. An attorney for the school districts said such reductions would not be automatic and are not the issue in the case...

Southeast Missouri State University officials are looking for an interim administrator to handle the combined duties of vice president of student services and dean of students for the coming academic year. The administrator would also serve as a consultant in helping the university frame the direction of student services for the coming decade, said Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president at Southeast...

The director of annual giving at Southeast Missouri State University has resigned to take a position as director of development for the University of Missouri School of Law in Columbia. Wednesday was James G. Salmo's last day at Southeast. He is scheduled to begin his new job Monday...

This summer, several area Boy Scouts will be attending the 17th World Jamboree, which will be held Aug. 8-16 in Korea. The World Jamboree is held every four years in a different country. The site of this year's jamboree is Sorak National Park, which is about 130 miles northeast of Korea's national capital, Seoul...

A group of school teachers and administrators in Missouri are attempting to exclude themselves and the school districts they work for from a lawsuit that would potentially cut teacher retirement benefits. The Association of School Business Officials of Missouri is spearheading an effort to fight the class-action lawsuit, which will affect all Missouri school districts, and names all of them as plaintiffs...

Louie the Lightning Bug will join Mr. Yuk and Freddie the Fire Truck at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau Saturday to join in the Building Blocks for Better Health and Safety program, which is being sponsored by mall merchants, St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital...

The National Weather Service 30-day outlook for August suggests a change to cooler and wetter than normal weather for the Cape Girardeau area. If so, it will be a welcome change from the hot, dry weather of the past several months. But the weather service's 90-day weather outlook, through the end of October, indicates warmer than normal temperatures, with near average precipitation for Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Tony Colbert of Jonesboro, Ark., Methodist Hospital there, 7:28 a.m. Tuesday, July 30, 1991. Name, Justin Tony. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. First child. Mrs. Colbert is the former Beth Henderson, daughter of Bobbie Henderson of Scott City and the late Howard Henderson. Colbert is a salesman with Douglas Inc., and is the son of Wesley and Betty Colbert of Beebe, Ark...

THEBES, Ill. -- Wanda L. Dunn, 64, of Thebes, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born July 25, 1927, at Oran, daughter of Clarence and Nellie Bryant Abernathy. She married Floyd Williams Oct. 13, 1948, in Gary, Ind. He died Jan. 26, 1981. She then married Clyde Dunn Aug. 25, 1988, in Wickliffe, Ky...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Dorothy O. Langan, 77, of Paducah, Ky., died Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. She was born March 6, 1914, in Cairo, daughter of Rudolph and Olivia Tolles Dixon. She married William J. Langan. Langan was a member of First Presbyterian Church here, and the McCracken County Humane Society...

Civic and community leader Paul Bernard Loiseau, 65, 2509 Allendale, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991, at Baptist Hospital East in Memphis, Tenn. He was born Jan. 31, 1926, at Perryville, son of Louis Arthur and Cornelia Gieringer Loiseau. He and Margie Powers Hall were married Dec. 14, 1971, in Cape Girardeau...

SCOTT CITY -- Belle Barbeau, 97, of Scott City, died Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home of Scott City is in charge of arrangements.

Business owners who don't pay their annual city license fees could face up to a $500 fine per day under a crack down started by the city's prosecutor. The prosecutor, Assistant City Attorney John Treu, said the crack down, which began last week, is targeting between 20 and 25 businesses...

The Nell Holcomb School District has received a $3,000 grant for an outdoor classroom project dealing with soil conservation. The Cape Girardeau County Soil and Water Conservation District Board of Supervisors presented the grant to the elementary district north of Cape Girardeau. This is the first time the board has awarded the grant, which it plans to award annually...

PUXICO -- The Missouri Department of Conservation and U.S. Fish and wildlife Service, will jointly sponsor a hunter education course Aug. 24. The day-long course will be held at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center near Puxico, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m...

A 20th anniversary celebration of National Hunting and Fishing Days will be held at John A. Logan college at Carterville Sept. 28-29. The event will get under way at a "Gala-Benefactors BAnquet," Sept. 27, at 6:30 at the college. Activities for the Saturday and Sunday events get under way at 10 a.m.. Outside and inside exhibits will include taxidermy competition, decoys and carvings, gun show, bass fishing seminars and bank-fishing seminars...

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Conservation Commission has added the late Edward D. "Ted" Jones, Jr. and the late Alexander Timon Primm, III to the Missouri Conservation Hall of Fame. Membership in the Hall of fame is limited to persons who have made lasting contributions to Missouri's outdoor resources and who have died...

Fishing ranges from fair to good at various area lakes and water impoundments this week. Clearwater lake is Clear and normal with crappie hitting good at night. White bass fishing is good with other species only fair. Duck Creek is clear and normal with bass and bluegill good and crappie fair. Vegetation on the lake is heavy...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Brent Manning, Illinois Department of Conservation director, reminds boaters that the federal government has started charging a new annual recreational boat user fee. "The Department of Conservation is not levying or collecting the fee," said Manning. "But, I thin is important for the DOC to notify its constituents of this new requirement...

WAPAPELLO -- Registrations are being taken for persons wanting to place duck blinds on Wappapello lake. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers requires those registering for a permit to present a 1991 Missouri hunting permit, or evidence of exemption from needing a permit...

The new 1991-92 Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp, more commonly known as the Federal Duck Stamp, is now available. The new stamp, designed by Vermont artist Nancy Howe the first woman ever to win the Duck Stamp contest features a pair of king eiders...

Two hunter safety courses are scheduled in Cape County this month. The Cape Girardeau VFW Post 3838 and Ladies Auxiliary will host a day-long class, Aug. 3, to be held at 1049 N. Kingshighway, from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.. The Jackson Elks Lodge, Route 3, will host a three-night course, Aug. 13, 14, and 15, from 6 to 10 p.m. Attendance at all three sessions is required for certification...

JEFFERSON CITY -- The Missouri Conservation Commission approved the purchase of three tracts of land during its recent meeting here, including 7.76 acres in Cape Girardeau County as an urban wild acres natural history area; 65 acres in Andrew County, as addition to the Northwest Missouri Wetland Area and 40 acres in Vernon County as an addition to Osage Prairie...