Stories from Wednesday, March 1, 1995

Missouri will spend an additional $24 million in the coming fiscal year to help alleviate overcrowding in the state's prisons, if Gov. Mel Carnahan's proposals are approved. The state has more than 17,000 inmates, well over 100 percent of the system's capacity, and the additional money will allow the state to start construction of more than half of the governor's planned 6,500 additional prison spaces...

Five Southeast Missouri State University graduates will be honored with the Young Alumni Merit Award. The honorees are John C. Tlapek of Cape Girardeau, Peggy Dersch of Brentwood, Catherine Florich Villhard and Marietta Hannigan, both of St. Louis, and Dr. Mark A. Stacy of Columbia, the son of alumni services director Jane Stacy and former Southeast president Bill Stacy...

Nine Cape Girardeau firefighters and a police officer received awards of valor Tuesday. Fire Chief Robert Ridgeway presented the awards in a brief ceremony at Fire Station No. 1. The city employees were honored for their actions in battling four major fires last year, including the Plaza Tire blaze on Nov. 19...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Larry Oller hopes to walk away from the Tamms prison site for the last time in early May. "Our work here should be done by then," said Oller, project superintendent for River City Construction, which has been building the four-structure, 200-bed work camp near the site of the proposed 600-bed Super Max Prison to be built here. "Everything should be completed on the work camp by mid-May."...

Some people just need deadlines to keep from bailing out of ambitious New Year's resolutions. I'm one of those people. Every year I promise I will test myself in a legitimate road race. So I sign up for the St. Patrick's Day Run in St. Louis. Once I've paid my money, I feel obligated to make an effort to prepare for the 5-mile race...

THIS IS in regards to Dr. Chris Jung who is concerned with the volunteer department in Gordonville Fire district. If he has a lot of concerns about this, why doesn't he volunteer with the Gordonville Fire District and help. I am a member and one of the original people who started the East County Fire Protection District. It's the guys who criticize and don't lift a finger who are the deadbeats as far as I'm concerned...

ANNA, Ill. -- Anna voters selected eight of 10 candidates during Tuesday's primary for the Anna City Commission. Allen James, a student at the Southern Illinois University School of Law, garnered the most votes, finishing with 565. David Tellor, Alan Roberts, Glenn Rosson, Elbert Gee, Roy Dillow, Robin Dillon and Lawrence Boyer followed...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Mayor James Wilson came out far ahead of other mayoral candidates in Cairo's primary election Tuesday. Wilson had 831 votes and will run against city councilman Cordell McGoy, who received 476 votes, in the April 4 general election. Candidates Loretta Burns and Phillip Matthews were eliminated...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mary Evelyn Myers of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. Mike Johnson will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Myers, 44, died Monday, Feb. 27, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, following an extended illness...

GRAND CHAIN, Ill. -- Marvin Wartenbe, 46, of Grand Chain died Monday, Feb. 28, 1995, from a car accident. He was born Jan. 1, 1949, in Springfield, Ill., to Alonza and Wilma Mueller Wartenbe. He married Patricia Wild July 29, 1974. Survivors in addition to his wife and parents are a daughter, Deanna Wartenbe of Grand Chain, and three brothers, Pat, Ron and Ray Wartenbe, all of Springfield...

SIKESTON -- Archie Eugene Berlin, 70, of Sikeston, formerly of East Prairie, died Monday, Feb. 27, 1995, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born March 11, 1924, in Caldwell to Archie and Ida Woodworth Berlin. Berlin was a retired farmer...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Lawrence L. Barks, 86, of Sedgewickville died Feb. 28, 1995, at Perry Oaks Health Care Center in Perryville. He was born at Crossroads, Mo., Oct. 23, 1908, to Samuel and Francis Blaylock Barks. He was a retired carpenter. He married Ione Johnson Nov. 24, 1936. She survives...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Ronald O'Dell Carden of East Prairie will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Larry Smith will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park. Carden, 46, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

CHARLESTON -- W.R. Nally, 82, of Charleston, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1995, at Charleston Manor. He was born Aug. 1, 1912, in Wickliffe, Ky., son of W.R. and Carrie Price Nally Sr. He and Doris Nell Campbell were married Feb. 21, 1935. She died May 8, 1970. He and Maxine Campbell were married June 23, 1971...

Michael M. Halter, 71, 625 S. Pacific, died Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1995, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

EAST PRAIRIE -- Myrtle Evelyn Nolen, 65, of East Prairie died Monday, Feb. 27, 1995, at her home. She was born Nov. 16, 1929, in Mississippi County, daughter of William and Dura Duty Nolen. Nolen resided in Mississippi County most of her life. She was a graduate of Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield and was a former teacher in the Anniston, Wyatt and Crosno school systems...

PERRYVILLE -- Emanuel S. Klump, 83, of Perryville, died Sunday, Feb. 26, 1995, at Perry County Nursing Home. He was born Jan. 12, 1912, in Perry County, son of August S. and Martha E. Thorpe Klump. Survivors include a son, James Klump of Las Vegas, Nev.; a sister, Alameda Meintz of Jackson, Calif.; a half sister, Margaret Kenson of Jackson, Calif.; a brother, Emmett Klump of Miami, Fla.; two half brothers, Gilbert Barnes of St. ...

Son to Jason Michael Garms and Jennifer Louise Campbell of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:06 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, 1995. Name, Allen Jason. Weight, 5 pounds 4 ounces. First child. Campbell and Garms are students at Jackson High School. She is the daughter of Rick and Debbie Campbell of Jackson. Garms is the son of Mike and Kathie Garms of Jackson...

PERRYVILLE -- Perry County voters will decide April 4 whether to pay 80 cents to $1 more a month for an improved 911 emergency response system. Currently Perry County residents pay 4 percent on their basic phone bills for a 911 system that records the telephone number of the caller. The system on the April 4 ballot would give the telephone number, the address of from where the call is made and the name of the person who lives at that address...

For Boy Scouts, past and present, who have a knack for taking advantage of chances of a lifetime, the VFW Hall is the place to be this weekend. Both current and former Boy Scouts will participate in the second annual Troop 5 Traderee, a fair designed to help Boy Scouts sell and trade Scout memorabilia...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Industrial Development Co. meets every month, but its president sometimes wonders if his term will end without a single new industry. Sure, the city's industrial park off Highway PP boasts three large employers, ACF Industries, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. and Midwest Sterilization. Four smaller companies are there, too, and NLC, formerly Lenco, owns land in the park...

Warm sunshine of late February has brought out the bright colors of spring flowering bulbs. Bright little spots of yellow crocus are peeping out to tell us that other varieties of crocus and their friends, the minor bulbs, are on the way. Ours has been a mild winter in comparison with some. Many gardeners were concerned because their spring flowering bulbs were sending up foliage, and then the seven-degree temperature hit and there was cold weather for more than a week...

Ashley Anderson, left, put some of the new, miniature furniture for her doll house in place while her sister Alyssa offered advice. Ashley Anderson peered through the window into one of the more than five rooms in the doll house that she and her sister Alyssa share...