Stories from Tuesday, August 25, 1992

Cape Girardeau teachers will report today for a workshop in advance of opening classes on Thursday. Summer vacation ended Monday for 887 students in Scott City, and school starts Wednesday for Jackson students. Students at Notre Dame Catholic High School begin school today...

JACKSON - Monday's meeting of a group trying to develop a countywide economic development organization resulted in some frank discussion but no new action toward completing its work. Discussion focused on the roles of the city of Scott City and the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, where the director's office would be situated, and the authority of a seven-member board that would oversee the organization...

A public forum at Southeast Missouri State University today will feature a delegation from the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, formerly part of the Soviet Union. The forum will begin at 8 p.m. in Dempster Auditorium in Crisp Hall. A reception will follow...

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson has been appointed to a 28-member congressional committee formed to examine procedures and organization of the U.S. Congress. Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, is the only House Republican on the Joint Committee on the Organization of the Congress who hails from the Midwest...

The phrase "hazardous occupation" typically brings to mind the jobs held by steelworkers, miners or explosive experts. In fact, statistics seem to indicate that a closer-to-home vocation farming carries with it a heavy risk. While this probably comes as no surprise to farmers, the statistics become for them a useful reminder about the need to be safety-conscious ... and should give the rest of us a renewed appreciation for the work of the agricultural community...

The Southeast Missouri Regional Consortium on AIDS will hold a general meeting tonight in the private dining room located on the third floor of the University Center at Southeast Missouri State University. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. The public is invited. For more information, contact Bob Beodeker at 651-2280...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Rob Hendrix of Nashville, Tenn., Vanderbilt Medical Center there, 11:29 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 1992. Name, Elaine Michelle. Weight, 7 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Hendrix is the former Leann Elfrink, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Elfrink of Jackson. Hendrix is employed with the security department at Vanderbilt University, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Hendrix of Cape Girardeau...

Agnes Fischer of Washington, Mo., died Sunday, Aug. 23, 1992, at St. Mary's Medical Center in St. Louis. She married Edward R. Fischer, who died in 1989. Survivors include three daughters, Sister Mary Ann Fischer of Cape Girardeau, Helen Fick of St. Louis, Jane Fulhage of Columbia; three sons, Henry Fischer of Fort Wayne, Ind., Edward and John Fischer of Washington...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Ruth Slusher Garden, 69, of Ullin, died Saturday, Aug. 22, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Aug. 11, 1923, in Cairo, daughter of Earl and Veniva Murley Sitton. Garden attended First Baptist Church here, and was a volunteer at Smiles II...

JACKSON -- Gloria D. Burneson, 64, of Mt. Prospect, Ill., died Saturday, Aug. 22, 1992, at Holy Family Hospital. She was born May 16, 1928, in St. Louis. She and Raymond W. Burneson were married June 19, 1947, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death...

MARBLE HILL -- Reeda E. Wagner, 82, of Farmington, formerly of Marble Hill, died Monday, Aug. 24, 1992, at Farmington Community Hospital. She was born May 22, 1910, at Zalma, daughter of Charles F. and Cora E. Talley Back. She and Charles M. Wagner were married Dec. 10, 1927. He died Dec. 9, 1967...

Barbara Ann Compton, 50, 2031 Allen, died Sunday, Aug. 23, 1992, at her home. She was born Oct. 10, 1941, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Stanley and Lorena Dalton Whitson. She graduated from the School of the Ozarks. From 1972-80 she taught special education at Central High School, and was head of the G.E.D. program at Cape Girardeau Vo-Tech School. She was a member of Grace United Methodist Church and volunteer at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

Funeral service for Robert Oliver Kassel of Warrensburg was held Aug. 20 there, with the Rev. Phil Needles officiating. Kassel, 88, died Sunday, Aug. 16, 1992, at his home. He was born Sept. 26, 1903, at Egypt Mills, son of John Phillip and Mary Ann Faust Kassel. He and Mabel Mary Gladish were married in 1934, in Cape Girardeau. She died in 1973. He later married Louise Lee Mowery, who died in 1989...