Stories from Friday, April 14, 1995

Isabel A. Roberts, 56, of 555 Spring died April 13, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home.

Scott County Danny Ray Little, 31, Chaffee, and Chong Yoo Little, 30, Cape Girardeau. Brian Lee Bryant, 37, Memphis, Tenn., and Paula Dean Warfiled Bryant, 30, Sikeston. Nam Yim Choi, 44, and Lin Li Pun, 42, both of Cape Girardeau. James Lee Roper, 26, Oran, and Beverly Faye Cochran Roper, 24, Beloit, Wis...

A logger lost control of a felled tree on County Road 313 Thursday morning and caused a mishap that damaged Union Electric and TCI Cablevision equipment. The tree hit a 34,500-volt power line on a UE utility pole and also temporarily knocked out power service lines used by TCI. However, TCI was able to use a portable generator to restore power and resume service for its customers in the area...

Individual and team winners in the annual Math Field Day competition held April 11 on the campus of Southeast Missouri Sate University have been announced by the University's Department of Mathematics. About 700 students from 34 area schools competed in the event sponsored by Southeast's Department of Mathematics and the Southeast Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics. ...

Five students from St. Vincent De Paul Grade School will compete at a national history event June 11 through 16 at the University of Maryland-College Park, just outside Washington. Ten St. Vincent students won on the district level in Cape Girardeau and advanced to state competition in Columbia...

Cape Girardeau County environmental sanitarians say folks can patronize the county's restaurants with little worry, because most owners comply with regulations and fix problems quickly. But Diane Gregory of the county health department doesn't like to give the go-ahead to eat, drink and be merry all the time. One mistake, like an employee failing to wash his hands or a roast thawed the wrong way, and there could be major health problems...

When Rep. Nathan Deal of Georgia announced Monday that he was becoming a Republican, he became the third congressional Democrat to switch parties since the 1994 mid-term elections."During the last 100 days, I have observed my party at the national level simply not willing to admit that they are out of touch with mainstream America," said Deal, a former state senator who is serving his second term in the House.Deal joins Sen. ...

And then there were four. The Cape Girardeau Board of Education has taken more twists and turns in recent weeks than an Agatha Christie thriller. On Wednesday, Kathy Swan and Pat Ruopp resigned from the school board. Ruopp had served the district since 1982, Swan since 1992. ...

To the editor: I think it's a travesty that in the past few days, because of the recent incident of a junior high student making a bomb, that the Internet has been portrayed as some sort of forum for child molesters and terrorists who tell small kids how to make bombs and kill people...

Scott County Calvin LeGrand to Gary Senciboy Jr; Ronald Allen and Laura Lyn Sanders to Ellen Kryn Graser; E.H. and Virginia Welton to Stephen and Cheryl Welton. Janey Frances Taylor to James C. Taylor; Michael Wayne and Patricia Garner to Lynn A. and Patricia A. Hedgecorth; Maurice E. and Beatrice R. Stauffer to Steven and Helen D. Seyer...

To the editor: I speak on behalf of the KRCU 90.9 FM staff and its licensee, Southeast Missouri State University, when I extend a hearty thank you to the 120 on-air and telephone volunteers, 20 businesses and restaurants and almost 300 listeners who responded to the stations first on-air membership campaign April 1-7...

SIKESTON -- Thelma L. Black, 70, of Sikeston, died Thursday, April 13, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Aug. 25, 1924, in Dyersburg, Tenn., to Tull G. and Lucy O. Arnold Johnson. She married Don Black on Nov. 13, 1949, in Sikeston...

Shelby R. Baker, 47, 130 S. Henderson, died Wednesday, April 12, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Aug. 25, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, son of Emmett and Evelyn Abernathy Baker Sr. He and Hattie Williams were married Aug. 22, 1980, in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for M. Marie Ruehling of Jackson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul Lutheran Church. The Rev. David Johnson will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m. today...

Son to David and Tracy Kirchdoerfer, Chaffee Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:03 p.m. Friday, April 7, 1995. Name, Cory David. Weight, 9 pounds 13 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Kirchdoerfer is the former Tracy Dooley, daughter of Betty and Mert Mirly of Chaffee. She is an elementary teacher at Chaffee Public Schools. Kirchdoerfer is a computer programmer with Cape Computer Service, and is the son of Leon and Joann Kirchdoerfer of Chaffee...

WARE, Ill. -- James O. Short, a tractor-trailer driver from Marion, was listed in fair condition Thursday night at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau following an accident near Ware. Illinois State Police reported Short was eastbound on State Route 146 at about 12:20 p.m. Thursday when a gust of wind caused him to drive off the right side of the road. He got back on the road, then hit the Clear Creek Bridge guard rail on the left side...

One reason the new technology is inadequate for teaching the English language is that computers have a language all their own. Time magazine has added a special spring issue for subscribers, with a two-page spread of computer "vocabulary" to help us understand what the world of cyberspace is all about...

JACKSON -- Less than 24 hours after Presiding Commissioner Gerald Jones realized he would play a part in Cape Girardeau's unfolding school board controversy, six people had called to tell him they want to be school board members. Under a rarely, if ever, used state law, the county commission will appoint three members to Cape Girardeau's school board...

Area agribusiness leaders leveled charges of what they called heavy- handed government regulations Thursday at a hearing sponsored by U.S. Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond at the Show Me Center. Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, also listened to the group after his own testimony on the Republican Congress' role in cutting the regulatory bureaucracy...

New building requirements for earthquake design will make commercial buildings more costly, but safer, area architects and engineers say. And, even though Cape Girardeau doesn't enforce seismic design requirements on residential construction, the escalating costs of earthquake insurance will likely force homeowners to opt for stricter safety measures to protect their investment...

There are skiffs of snow all over the hills near Cape Girardeau. In some yards in town there are mounds of the white stuff. What? This has been the mildest winter and warmest spring in recent memory. What's all this talk about snow? Take a look. The dogwood is in its glory. Drifts of the white flowers cascade down the hills...

I TOOK my daughter to the Easter egg hunt that was held at Capaha Park. While I waited at the top the of the hill with other parents as we were instructed, the announcer said that the field had been divided into different segments for the different age groups. ...

We won't go back I WATCHED the rally on the mall in Washington, D.C., on April 9 where I saw millions of both genders marching to protest both male violence against women and any threat to a woman's reproductive rights. "We won't go back" is more than ideological slaying. It's a fact...

An attempt to bring a company to the state that would rank as one of Missouri's largest fell through last week, but the bill designed to give the state leverage to attract industry is alive in the General Assembly. Jim Gardner, spokesman for the Missouri Department of Economic Development, said the deal had "subsequently fallen through," after it gathered legislators' support...

The completion of the Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation's purchase of St. Vincent's Seminary will be delayed until the end of April, foundation president Loretta Schneider said Thursday. "Once again we're close," Schneider said, referring to the second two-week postponement of the closing date...

Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and Southeast Missouri State University officials met Thursday to renew efforts to get the St. Louis Rams to hold their summer training camp here. The chamber and the university made some preliminary inquiries earlier this year, but the effort was halted last month when National Football League owners barred the Rams from moving to St. Louis...