Stories from Thursday, August 20, 1992

To the Editor: The on-going differences of opinion about harvesting timber on federal forest lands has become highly charged at times. The "harvest the timber" people have several strong points and so do the "save the forest" advocates. The writer and wife have owned some "poor" land as far as crop-growing potential is concerned for 30 years. ...

Students who attended the summer art workshops sponsored by the SEMO Council on the Arts will exhibit their works Aug. 30 at Gallery 100 and at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. The students range in age from 6 to 16, and the exhibits are the culmination of their summer work. They were taught by Brenda Seyer, Marion Weiss and Carol Horst, in the areas of drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture...

Intense colors on imaginative sculptural ceramic forms will greet visitors to the Southeast Missouri University Museum where the works of artist Sarah Roush will be on display from Friday to Sept. 25. The Paducah, Ky., artist also will exhibit watercolor paintings that contain colors and unusual shapes similar to her ceramics...

The Jackson Heritage Association and the Cape Girardeau Historical Association are teaming up for a unique historic dinner tour of Cape Girardeau County on Aug. 30. "This gives us a chance to do something more unique with well-known historic sights in the county," said John Bry, director of the Glenn House...

COLUMBIA -- "Tom Benton's Missouri," a film about the famous mural in Missouri's Capitol Building, recently won top honors at the Great Plains Film Festival in Lincoln, Neb. The 28-minute production, one of 159 entries in the festival, was honored as Best Short Film in an awards ceremony Aug. 2 on the University of Nebraska campus. The festival is designed to promote films and filmmakers in the Great Plains area and attracts participants from across the Midwest and Canada...

ADVANCE -- The Advance Knights of Columbus will sponsor a Miss Labor Day contest for females to age 19. The contest will be held Sept. 5 at the Lawrence Umfleet Jr. Park in Advance. Those interested should contact Kathy Hitt at 722-5625 or Debbie Nall at 722-5395. Entry forms must be received by Sept. 2...

Boy Scouting in Southeast Missouri will be featured in a special exhibit at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum in February of 1993. "February is Boy Scout Month," said Tony Smee, a district executive for the Southeast Missouri Council of Boy Scouts of America, "We're looking for Boy Scout memorabilia for the special exhibit...

GRASSY -- A Summer Bluegrass Festival will be held this weekend in Grassy. Bands featured are Tennessee Gentlemen, Liberty Station, The Shade Tree Pickers, First Impression, Shady Hill Bluegrass, Margie Ezell & Heartland, The Sitze's and Down the Road...

The Choral Union at Southeast Missouri State University will begin rehearsals Tuesday at 7 p.m. in Brandt Music Hall on campus. The Choral Union is an all-volunteer community choir open to the public. No audition is required. The group will be practicing to perform Bach's Magnificat in December. Coordinator John Egbert said men and sopranos are especially needed. For more information, call Egbert at 651-2342...

Instead of saying they were defeated, political candidates now say their message didn't come across. They sound like commercials for AT&T. --- Missourians weren't too enthralled by all the proposed constitutional amendments handed them on Aug. 4. Voting gets to be a real drag when we have to think...

Cape Girardeau County this week bids farewell to Stephen Limbaugh Jr. He leaves his post as a Cape Girardeau County circuit judge to become Missouri's newest Supreme Court justice. Limbaugh has served the 32nd Judicial Circuit well since his appointment in the fall of 1987...

Paul Hennrich is a resident of Cape Girardeau and an employee of Union Pacific Railroad. A couple of weeks ago something on the news shocked me. In Philadelphia, in an~ unheated dwelling without electricity or running water, a woman and her two children were killed in a fire. Another child was seriously burned. They were heating and cooking on kerosene stoves...

One year after the breakup of the Soviet Union, the new independent Republic of Belarus is struggling to reform its economy and education system. A delegation of four representatives of the Belarus Ministry of Education this week are visiting Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau to learn more about the U.S. system of higher education...

JACKSON - The Cape Girardeau County Commission is trying to make final changes in a proposed zoning ordinance it hopes to approve in the next few weeks to take effect Jan. 1. Earlier this week the commissioners met with J. Fred Waltz, attorney for the county planning commission, to clarify some concerns they had about the proposed ordinance and to determine if changes are needed...

While unseasonably cool temperatures have brought welcome relief from the normally hot, humid days of August, there apparently is no such relief in store for ragweed allergy sufferers. Dr. Jean Chapman, a Cape Girardeau allergist, said ragweed came into full bloom last week nearly two weeks earlier than usual. The plant is responsible for nearly 90 percent of the pollen in the air during late August and September, Chapman said...

Starting Aug. 28, Missourians will pay more for car, truck and motorcycle safety inspections, and in larger cities, vehicle emission tests. Motorists will also pay an additional 15 cents when registering vehicles or renewing vehicle licenses. However, those who purchase new vehicles, or renew the license of a new vehicle for the first time, no longer will be required to have the vehicle inspected prior to license renewal...

Police hope a $10,000 investment in a solar-powered speed monitoring device will help reduce the community's economic loss from vehicle accidents, reported to total last year an amount equal to half the Cape Girardeau city budget. The device believed to be the only one of it's kind in Missouri was obtained Thursday through a state grant awarded to the Cape Girardeau Community Traffic Safety program, said police. It is expected to hit the streets around the first of September...

The Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board wants to have a special meeting with the City Council. "We're requesting a working lunch session with members of the council," said Bob Hoppmann, chairman of the advisory group. "We want to discuss establishing a contingency fund of $50,000."...

JACKSON -- A six-week arthritis self-help course designed to help people with arthritis as well as their families and friends will be held on six consecutive Thursdays beginning Sept. 3. The program will continue through Oct. 8 at the St. Francis Information Center at Jackson...

SCOTT CITY -- Douglas Monroe Patterson of Richmond, Va. and formerly of Scott City died Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1992. He was a salesman for R. L. Polk and Company and a member of the Broadway Methodist Church in Scott City. Survivors include his wife, Marion R. Patterson, a son, Cpl. Christopher G. Patterson of Camp Lejeune, N.C., and his mother, Vivian A. Patterson of Scott City...

WYATT -- Myrtle Ware, 87, of Wyatt, died Monday, Aug. 17, 1992, at Sikeston Health Care Center. She was born June 8, 1905, in Memphis, Tenn. She married John Ware March 18, 1957, who died Feb. 22, 1989. There are no known survivors. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. today at Sparks Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. T.R. Tyus will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lloyd Edward Treece of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dolan Rogers will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 9 a.m. to service time...

EAST PRAIRIE -- John Arnold Crosswhite, 65, East Prairie Route 2, died Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1992, at his home. He was born Dec. 20, 1926, in Cleveland, Okla., son of Frank Marion and Stella Mae Oliphant Crosswhite. He and Myrtle Anna Mae Bush were married Nov. 25, 1951, in Piggott, Ark...

Kay F. Baker, 51, 1720 Oak Hills, died Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1992, at the Lutheran Home. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Paul D. Cook, 70, of Sarcoxie, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Aug. 19, 1992, at the home of a son in Carthage. Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Funeral service for Lola Harris Windeknecht, 85, 920 Themis, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. S.S. Borum will officiate, with entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Windeknecht died Monday, Aug. 17, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center...

NEALAdopted daughter to Mr. and Mrs. James W. Neal of Kansas City, Thursday, March 26, 1992. Name, Marissa Nicole. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Neal is the former Karen Tucker, daughter of Coy and Shirley Tucker of Plymouth, Mich. Neal is owner of Neal Interiors Inc. in Kansas City, and is the son of Yvonne Neal of Cape Girardeau and the late James R. Neal...

ANNA, Ill. -- At least one management position will be eliminated at the Illinois Department of Public Aid (DPA) office in Union County within the next three months. The consolidation of two regions in Southern Illinois Marion and E. St. Louis will eliminate as many as 40 positions in the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS)...

The course "Total Quality Management" will be offered for the first time at Southeast Missouri State University during the fall semester, which begins Monday. TQM will be offered through the management department. The class is scheduled to meet every Wednesday during the semester, from 6-9 p.m...

The Adult Learning Center at 301 N. Clark in Cape Girardeau is now open for fall classes. Anyone 16 years of age and older who wants to study for the GED tests may enroll for the free classes. Persons who need tutoring in reading may also enroll and receive one-on-one tutoring...

The American Red Cross blood services will hold its community blood drive on Wednesday, Aug. 26 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center, from 2-7 p.m. With the Labor Day holiday coming up, the need for blood will increase, say local officials. Anyone 17 years of age and older may donate. No doctor permit is needed for a senior citizen in good health to give blood...

Nursing 2000 will be the topic of tonight's "Ask Your Doctor" television program on Cable Channel 13. The show begins at 8 p.m. Two nurses will speak at the show, including Karen Hendrickson from Southeast Missouri Hospital, and Jennifer Fowler from Washington University Hospital in St. Louis...