Stories from Tuesday, July 30, 1996

To the editor: Thanks for Peter Kinder's July 21 column about School to Work. School to Work is closely tied to Outcome Based Education. School to Work should not be confused with vocational education. Furthermore, it should not be necessary to change our entire system of education to achieve a smooth transition from school to the workplace...

K. Brad Verhines of Cape Girardeau recently attended the 132nd national convention of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in Las Vegas. He was commended for the lodge's dedication to the organizational philanthropic endeavors, which include youth athletic and drug education programs, aid for people with disabilities, scholarships and veterans service. ...

Entries are still being accepted for the Aug. 13 Miss Missouri Peach Fair Pageant at Campbell. The pageant will be at 7 p.m. at the Campbell Community Building. People interested in the pageant should contact Earline Lawrence at 264-2086 or 264-2133 or Margee Hays at 264-3171. The deadline for entries is Aug. 5...

Members of the National Faculty tour group discussed the effects of zero gravity on the human body with a former NASA engineer. Biologist Selina Heppell, left, instructed Judy Gau on the use of an underwater breathing apparatus used in SCUBA diving...

Gov. Mel Carnahan has named three Southeast Missouri residents to the U.S.S. Harry S. Truman Commissioning Committee. They are lawyer Diane Howard of Cape Girardeau, former Southeast Missouri State University regent Lynn Dempster of Sikeston and 8th District congressional candidate Emily Firebaugh of Fredericktown...

Freedom of movement shouldn't take a back seat to security, says a Washington, D.C., airport official. The official, Dan Alcorn -- who grew up in Ellsinore in Southeast Missouri -- is vice chairman of the board for the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority, which runs Dulles International and Washington National airports...

Dan Alcorn's bid for Congress never got off the ground. His short-lived effort ended because he couldn't secure the nearly 3,700 petition signatures needed to get on the ballot by Monday's deadline. A native of Ellsinore in Carter County, Alcorn sought to run for the 8th District seat as an independent candidate after incumbent Bill Emerson died of lung cancer...

A Baptist minister will challenge state Sen. Jerry Howard for the 25th District Senate seat. The minister, Ray Rowland, 46, of Dexter, will run on the U.S. Taxpayer's Party ballot in the November election. Independent candidates and new parties such as the Taxpayer's Party must have filed with the secretary of state's office by Monday to be on the November ballot...

Missouri legislators want to learn more about managed health-care options, availability and quality. The newly formed Joint Interim Committee on Managed Care will conduct a series of public hearings in Jefferson City starting Aug. 12, to gather comments and data from employers, insurance companies and consumers about managed health-care plans...

Kevin W. Hunt, son of Carl and Evelyn Hunt of Bell City, was recently selected for the Navy's Baccalaureate Degree Completion Program (BDCP). Under the BDCP, the Bell City graduate will be paid up to $1,500 a month while completing his four-year degree. He is studying business administration at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. He will also be entitled to all of the military medical and dental benefits and well as accumulating 30 days of paid vacation a year...

Terrace Gardens Community Employment Service has been informed by CARF, The Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission, that it has been accredited for a period of three years for its Supported Employment and Job Placement programs. This is awarded to organizations that show fulfillment of the standards established by CARF and indicate that present conditions represent a pattern of operations likely to be maintained and improved...

To the editor: The person who wrote the letter to the editor a few days ago about Cape Girardeau not having a bus station brought back to mind an incident of the recent past. Some families were asked to house some foreign students who were on a tour of industry in different states. We volunteered to keep two students. We were to pick them up at the bus station. Several families went to where we were told to pick up the students. We waited until almost noon, and no bus came...

Illinois counties can now demand room and board costs from inmates who hold full-time jobs. The new law is aimed at the growing number of prisoners on work-release programs who serve sentences on the weekends. Taxpayers are tired of the growing financial burden that prison systems are placing on states. This is a good way to recoup some of those costs from people who can pay...

The Aug. 6 primary may prove to be a real test of the much-heralded motor-voter push throughout Missouri. There is no doubt thousands of new voters have been registered as they applied for food stamps, dealt with a motor-vehicle office or visited an unemployment office. But what's the benefit of registering thousands of voters who never intend to vote?...

The membership of the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission voted at its July 23 meeting to go on record in support of passage of the Missouri local use-tax proposal which will be before many voters in cities and counties on Aug. 6...

The Democratic party of Cape Girardeau County gave Vicki Abernathy a special send off party at Bent Creek Golf Course on Thursday. Abernathy was selected as an at-large delegate from Missouri to attend the Democratic Party National Convention in Chicago...

Leah Ulrich of Cape Girardeau painted a still-life with acrylic paint on canvas. Earthenware pots wait to be fired in the kiln. Kim Clark of Cape Girardeau silk-screened a phoenix rising design on paper in the print processes class. Morgan Ruppel pressed the moist, chocolate-colored clay between a folded piece of burlap, giving texture to it...

Darcy Catherine Buerkle, daughter of Julia Juden Westhoff of Denver and Joe Buerkle of Cape Girardeau, has been granted the prestigious J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship. Established under Congressional legislation introduced by former Sen. J. William Fulbright of Arkansas, the program is designed to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and other countries...

John Reck Kinder is a May graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine at Memphis. Upon graduation, he was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honorary society. Kinder is serving a year's internship at the Methodist Hospital of Memphis and his opthamology residency will be at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, starting next July. Kinder is married to the former Stacy Blakeslee of Hot Springs, Ark. He is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Kinder...

JACKSON -- Almost a month after they asked questions, landowners that would be affected by a Bollinger-Cape Girardeau County lake will get the answers they have been waiting for. Any landowner directly affected by the lake can attend a meeting at 7 tonight at the Knights of Columbus Hall, 3305 N. High St. The meeting will present answers to specific questions about legislation...

Internet usage is growing by leaps and bounds, but guess what? Most studies show that people return to the same 10 sites again and again and again. Hey surfers: It's a World Wide Web. We've seen it. Let us be your virtual tour guides. Who are we? Newbies. OK, we admit it. But we're willing to learn and take you along...

There aren't many all-terrain vehicle accidents in Southeast Missouri, but when they happen they are often tragic. Sgt. Brent Davis, public information officer for the Missouri Highway Patrol, said Troop E of the patrol only has between one and three such accidents a year. Most of them involve young people, and many are serious or fatal...

SENATH -- Unlike some elementary students, Ramirro Nava Jr., 7, likes going to school during the summer. It is about the only time he attends classes regularly; his parents are migrant workers. "I like coming to school," he said. "This year we might stay."...

KENNETT -- Mari-Cruz Salinas, 19, and Veronica Sustaita, 20, wanted a job that would get them out of the fields and give them work experience. As children of migrant workers, the women were looking for a way to break the migrant traditions of their families. For several years their families have migrated from southern Texas to Southeast Missouri to harvest farm crops...

Surprise 8th District congressional candidate David Zimmer filed for office Monday on the Natural Law Party ticket. The Cape Girardeau businessman is one of six Missouri candidates running for congressional seats on the Natural Law ticket. The party also has candidates running for state treasurer, lieutenant governor and secretary of state...

My single friends tell me it's time to say goodbye to all the things in my life that I hold dear. They say after I get married, in just 11 days, there will be no more Baywatch posters, after-work happy hours, nights out with the boys or decorating the apartment with strategically placed old socks and not-quite-empty beer bottles that are more sentimental in value than they are practical...

KENNETT -- Spanish music videos play on the television screen while preschool children gather around a table to color pictures in the waiting room of the Migrant Health Center in Kennett. Their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles or older siblings wait patiently in chairs that line the perimeter of the room for a turn to see a nurse...

SIKESTON -- Graveside service for Glenn Franklin Clark of Farmington, formerly of Sikeston, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Memorial Park Cemetery. Dr. Jim Guffie will officiate. Clark, 72, died Sunday, July 28, 1996, at Anna-Dodson Nursing Home in Farmington...

DELTA -- Mandy McClain, 84, of Delta, died Sunday, July 28, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 2, 1911, at Malden, daughter of Charles Wesley and Nora Bolen Cook. She and William Henry McClain were married Nov. 6, 1926. He preceded her in death...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Ronald Dale Humphries, 221 Brandy Lane, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Andrew Lutheran Church. The Rev. Louis Launhardt will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements...

Sally A. Passe, 56, of Adamstown, Pa., died Monday, July 29, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Nov. 6, 1939, in Bonne Terre, daughter of John H. and Louise A. Washer Edmonds. She and Alex Passe were married July 4, 1983, in Lancaster, Pa...

Michael H. Koessel, 51, 2628 Azalea, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Lura Lee Sandvos, Scott City Route 1, will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. Mark Carbaugh will officiate, with burial in Lightner Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-9 p.m. today...

Graveside service for Clara Crites of Cape Girardeau will be held at 3 p.m. today at Fairmount Cemetery. Dr. John Owen will officiate. There is no visitation. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Crites, 97, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at Heartland Care and Rehab Center...

PUXICO -- Kenny Clark, 16, of Puxico, died Sunday, July 28, 1996, at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born April 17, 1980, in Poplar Bluff, son of Tony and Catherine Clark. Clark would have been a junior at Puxico High School, was a member of the band two years, and was active in sports. He was a member of Future Farmers of America and was to be chaplain this year. He was a member of Duck Creek Church...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Blanche Marie Mayr, 95, of Jonesboro, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at City Care Center in Anna. She was born Dec. 16, 1900, in Jonesboro, daughter of Sidney A. and Luella Reinhart Ury. She and Oscar Rudolph Mayr were married July 7, 1922, in Mound City. He preceded her in death...

Craig Allen Stevens, 35, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Morgan Funeral Home in Advance is in charge of arrangements.

WHITEWATER -- Robert Sawyer Jr., 53, of Whitewater, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Sept. 23, 1942, at Whitewater, son of Robert and Hazel Grindstaff Sawyer Sr. He and Saundra Felty were married June 2, 1962...

Son to Terry L. and Renee F. Marquis, Marble Hill Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:42 a.m. Tuesday, July 23, 1996. Name, Terry Jacob. Weight, 9 pounds 9 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Marquis is the former Renee Leslie, daughter of Jack and Geneva Leslie of Marble Hill. She is employed in the Bollinger County Courthouse. Marquis is the son of Rose Templeton of St. Louis and the late Terry Marquis. He is employed at Gilster-Mary Lee...

Roy Metje, 63, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.