Stories from Friday, April 12, 1996

A.J. Foyt's Indy car, the Kenny Wallace "Red Dog" NASCAR, a $200,000 1940 three-windowed coupe and other NASCAR-related and speedsport products will be on display at Motorama '96, to be held this weekend at the Show Me Center. The annual extravaganza, presented by KFVS-TV and sponsored by Auto Tire and Parts, will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is $2 at the door. Children under 10 are free when accompanied by an adult...

Learning to call 911, applying a bandage and answering the telephone are part of first-aid lessons offered by high school students to area kindergarten and other elementary classes. The program was offered by the American Red Cross which recently spent two days in kindergarten classes at Alma Schrader School...

Southeast Missouri State University will hold several events this week in remembrance of the Holocaust. All of the events are free and open to the general public. A memorial observance will be held at noon Monday in the University Center Ballroom. The movie, "The Hiding Place," will be shown Tuesday. The film tells how Christian writer Corrie Ten Boom and her family risked their lives to hide a group of Jews from the Nazis...

Trail of Tears State Park will hold its annual spring wildflower event this weekend. The event includes a program on wildflowers and a walk through the park. The program will be headed by state parks naturalist Denise Dowling and Dr. Charles Wilson, a local naturalist and photographer...

The patriarch of the Limbaugh family was laid to rest Thursday afternoon next to his bride, who died almost 19 years before him. For the most part, the funeral service for Rush Hudson Limbaugh Sr. was of typical United Methodist fanfare, probably the way the Limbaugh would have wanted it. ...

Gasoline prices are up again, about 3 cents a gallon. Tight oil supplies following an unusually cold winter and decline in U.S. production mean gasoline prices could increase further as summer begins, an Energy Department forecast said Wednesday. Jay Hakes, energy information administrator, said motorists are expected to drive more than 7 billion miles a day this summer...

Given the right opportunity, all students can find some area in which they succeed, says Barbara Lohr. Lohr is one of four teachers to be honored as Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce 1996 Educators of the Year. In addition to Lohr, a high school office technology teacher at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, honorees are Richard B. ...

ALTENBURG -- German delegates may have found a little piece of home here Thursday afternoon as they clustered around a monument to Martin Luther and visited a Lutheran church founded by Saxon immigrants. The delegates attending the 13th annual Congress-Bundestag Seminar are here to discuss far-reaching governmental issues, said Manfred Richter, "but a little part of it is also tourism. ...

Violence isn't usually the answer to a problem, but in this case there just doesn't seem to be a good alternative. Here's the deal: I am about to launch my semiannual whining and moaning about daylight-saving time. Because you, dear reader, don't have a remote device to turn the page for you (see below), you may want to manually avert your eyes or physically turn the page, particularly if you are tired of time as a column topic...

JACKSON -- Fern J. Davis, 86, of Jackson, died Thursday, April 11, 1996, at the home of a daughter in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 6, 1910, at Neelys Landing, daughter of John C. and Nora E. Clingingsmith Craft. She and Ivan H. Davis were married July 13, 1929...

MORLEY -- Funeral service for Pearl Gracie Hudson of Morley will be held at 1 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton, not at Morley Baptist Church. The Rev. Dennis Zebulak will officiate, with burial in Forest Hills Memorial Park near Morley...

Mildred Tygett, 93, 3120 Independence, died Wednesday, April 10, 1996, at Chateau Health Care Center. She was born Aug. 12, 1902, in Anna, Ill., daughter of Robert M. and Eva Crowell Norris. She and Dr. Glenn J. Tygett were married June 7, 1924, in St. Louis. He died June 12, 1977...

SIKESTON -- Larry L. Clabaugh, 55, of Hazelwood, died Wednesday, April 10, 1996, at DePaul Health Center in Bridgeton. He was born June 3, 1940, in Garnett, Kan., son of Lewis W. and Eva M. Rollo Clabaugh. He and Ruth Ann Stacy Taylor were married Sept. 7, 1990, in Las Vegas, Nev...

SIKESTON -- Myrtle B. Casey, 90, died Wednesday, April 10, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 26, 1905, in Boone County, Ark., daughter of Henry and Nancy Coker Matlock. She and Claude Casey were married Oct. 26, 1927. He died July 16, 1969...

SIKESTON -- Clarence Cowley, 82, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, April 9, 1996, at St. James Hospital in Chicago Heights, Ill. He was born April 18, 1913, in Union County, Miss., son of Tom and Annie Ivory Cowley. He and Lucresia Visor were married July 14, 1933, in Union County. She died March 23, 1992...

Son to Eric and Jill Clinton of Waco, Texas, Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center there, 4:01 p.m. Wednesday, March 27, 1996. Name, Alex Benjamin. Weight, 8 pounds 3 ounces. Mrs. Clinton is the daughter of Ray and Susan White of Perryville. Clinton is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Doug Clinton of Ripley, Tenn...

Irene Segraves, 88, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, April 11, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 9, 1907, in Jackson, daughter of August Henry and Mabel Elizabeth Dormeyer Sander. Segraves was a cook with Missouri Barge Lines for a number of years. She was a member of Grace United Methodist Church and West Side Senior Citizens...

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Joann Simpson of Advance will be held at 11 a.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Harry Wilkerson will officiate, with burial in Brownwood Cemetery at Brownwood. Simpson, 58, died Wednesday, April 10, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

Dwight John Kinsey, 68, of Centralia, Ill., died Tuesday, April 9, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 9, 1928, in Centralia, son of Ernest Gilmore and Conway Ruth "Connie" Hoyt Kinsey. He and Harriet Louise Bierman were married Oct. 28, 1951, in Centralia...

Scholar Bowl teams from Southeast Missouri will compete Saturday for the district championship and a chance to compete at state. The district finals at Cape Girardeau Central High School are the first ever held under Missouri High School Activity Association guidelines. This is the first year Scholar Bowl has been incorporated under the state regulations...

RECENTLY I had a flat on a very busy street. Being a widow, I locked my door and turned my flashers on. It was not very long until a nice man stopped. I told him my problem. He said he would try to find someone to fix it. If not, he would come back and do it himself. ...

For three days, some of Germany's top officials and lawmakers will be visiting Southeast Missouri, making Cape Girardeau their headquarters for the 13th annual Congress-Bundestag Seminar. The fact that the meeting is being held here instead of the East Coast or West Coast is something of a coup for 8th District Congressman Bill Emerson. ...

About 50 National Guardsmen from Southeast Missouri are in Panama building roads as a humanitarian project. This has been a long-term endeavor, and there is little doubt that the effort has been worthwhile and has produced positive results, both in providing much-needed infrastructure and in giving guardsmen valuable training...

In a compromise among several landowners on and near North Kingshighway, Cape Girardeau planning commissioners voted Wednesday to recommend rezoning nine acres of residential property while requiring a 40-foot green space. Lucile Sadler and Ellen Mantia requested at a March Planning and Zoning Commission meeting that their property be rezoned from single-family residential to general commercial. ...

The Couple to Couple League is holding a natural family planning workshop this weekend. The two-day event will be held today from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The workshop will by held at the Catholic Newman Center located at 512 N. Pacific St. in Cape Girardeau...