Stories from Thursday, July 25, 1996

A Jackson resident's complaint about loud, rowdy teen-agers in her neighborhood on a recent summer night has the Jackson Board of Aldermen thinking about adopting a citywide juvenile curfew. It would be a good idea to do so -- not because youths are running wild in town at night but because police would be equipped with an ordinance to get off the streets the few young people who are out late at night for no good reason. They are the ones who could end up in trouble before the night is over...

The Area Wide United Way is on the right track in seeking detailed financial records from the Cape Girardeau Civic Center. It can be assumed that the United Way, which solicits donations from thousands of area residents and businesses each year and then doles out the proceeds to a number of qualifying agencies, expects the same kind of fiscal accountability from each of the organizations it assists...

I WAS watching the baseball game, and I saw the U.S. Postal Service game summary. This is just a wild guess, but I'm going to think that the Postal Service had to pay to have that game summary up there. You know, like a sponsor. If the Postal Service is so broke, why are they sponsoring baseball games?...

A variety of entertainment is scheduled for the Balloons & Arts Festival '96 at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Headlining Friday night will be Rob Caudill, who will present a Rod Stewart tribute called "Tonight's the Night." Caudill and his band will perform at 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. at the Main Stage...

George Andre learned to fly at the U.S. Air Force base in Malden in 1955. Missions in the Vietnam War followed, and a career as a Lockheed test pilot who pushed the envelope on the F-104 Starfighter and the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. With a top speed of Mach 3 -- 2,000 mph --- the latter is still the world's fastest plane...

For Jo Ann Emerson, it takes more than votes to get elected to Congress from the 8th District. It takes a petition effort to get her name on the November ballot as an independent candidate to succeed her late husband, Bill Emerson. Jo Ann Emerson expects to deliver the necessary petitions to the secretary of state's office in Jefferson City by Friday...

Cape Girardeau has maintained its aging school buildings well but should close May Greene, Washington and Louis J. Schultz schools and build a new elementary school, a facilities review committee suggests. A 35-member facilities committee will make its final report tonight at 7 in Room 214 of the Vocational-Technical School. The committee divided into three subgroups -- elementary, secondary and vocational-career -- to study the district's building needs...

Capt. Robert Gauthier hasn't seen anything like it. The Salvation Army officer handled thrift stores in Minnesota and North Dakota before coming to Cape Girardeau, but none of them attracted as many clothing donations as the one at the corner of Morgan Oak and Sprigg Street...

July 25, 1996 Dear Carolyn, I came home from work a few days ago to find DC in a funk over the dogs. Can't even remember if it was because Lucy ate her green sandal or because Hank had stolen into the spare room and gotten into the box of Christmas ornaments again...

POPLAR BLUFF -- A Poplar Bluff man has died after his pickup went through an intersection struck a tree head-on, said a the Missouri Highway Patrol. Larry Buhler, 42, of Poplar Bluff, was pronounced dead on the scene Wednesday morning after he failed to stop at an intersection at Butler County Roads 461 and 484, a spokesperson for the Highway Patrol said...

Traffic along a stretch of Route AB will be re-routed for several months while the roadway is widened and reconstructed. A half-mile stretch of road will be widened three lanes and resurfaced, with curbing and storm sewers added, said John Nordin, a highway designer with the Missouri Department of Highways and Transportation's district office in Sikeston...

Residents of Cape Girardeau County escaped severe weather Wednesday afternoon, but people in other areas weren't so lucky. The National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm warning for the area around 2:30 p.m. A line of storms moved through Butler and Bollinger Counties soon afterward...

The Jackson Municipal Band will perform at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Band Shell located in the City Park. Special guests for this performance will be Mike Dumey and friends. Dumey is a graduate of Jackson High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He has served as a music instructor for both Oak Ridge and Schultz Schools, where he is presently teaching...

Son to Timothy Keith and Deborah Ann Litchfield of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:38 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, 1996. Name, Jonathan Michael. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. Third son. Mrs. Litchfield is the former Deborah Spooler, daughter of Jerald and Joann Spooler of Jackson. She is a student aide at Jackson R-2 Schools. Litchfield is the son of Everett and Barb Litchfield and Sharon Litchfield of Peoria, Ill. He is a forklift operator at Lee-Rowan...

SIKESTON -- Patricia Long, 59, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, July 23, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 23, 1936, daughter of Noah and Mabel Vanover Harlow. She married Charles Long, who died in November 1979. Survivors include two sons, Jerry Williams of Blodgett, Dennis Clements of Bertrand; a sister, Virginia Petty of Sikeston, and 10 grandchildren...

ANNA, Ill. -- Bobby Mixen, 50, Anna Route 1, died Wednesday, July 24, 1996, at his home. Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home at Anna is in charge of arrangements.

ADVANCE -- Bessie Clary Abernathy, 84, Advance Route 2, died Tuesday, July 23, 1996, at the home of a son in Swartz Creek, Mich. She was born May 28, 1912, at Zeta, daughter of Walter and Minnie Bush Palmer. She first married Cecil Clary, who died Dec. 6, 1956. She later married Arthur Abernathy, who died July 3, 1986...

RANDLES -- Funeral service for Marjorie Keys of Randles will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. Jo Payne will officiate, with burial in Kenyon Cemetery at Delta. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

DEXTER -- Graveside service for Betty Edwards of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Hagy Cemetery in Dexter. Friends may call at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Edwards, 61, died Tuesday, July 23, 1996, at Dexter Memorial Hospital...

BELL CITY -- Raymond M. Phelps, 73, of Bell City died Tuesday, July 23, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born Jan. 15, 1923, in Sturdivant, son of Warren and Daisy Reed Phelps. Survivors include a son, Jerry Phelps of New Lebanon, Ohio; two brothers, Virgil Phelps of Bonne Terre and Bill Phelps of Granite City, Ill.; and a sister, Louise McKennon of Granite City...