Stories from Tuesday, August 20, 1996

Lance N. Stott graduated from the University of Texas School of Law with a doctorate of jurisprudence degree on May 19. He is a 1989 graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School. He received his bachelor of arts degree in 1993 from the University of South Florida. He is the son of Dr. Gerald and Beverly Stott of Cape Girardeau...

A newly acquired grant will enable Scott City to build a much larger public works and recycling center than originally proposed. The grant came through the Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission. The city was looking to construct a 30-by-30-foot building at a cost of approximately $20,000. Now, due to the grant, it will probably have a 30-by-64-foot structure at a cost to the city of approximately $25,000...

Debra Nenninger of the Kelso C-7 School in New Hamburg attended a two day Student Assistance Team training program presented by the Missouri School Counselor Association and funded by the Freemasons of Missouri. The program provides information for school personnel, working as a team, to help students who are involved in drugs or who are at risk of becoming involved in drugs...

JACKSON -- Residents who oppose a plan to pave three city streets have until Sept. 3 to change their minds or the project will die. Aldermen Monday night heard comments about the project from residents along Independence, Olive and Forest streets. Engineering estimates for paving Independence and parts of Olive and Forest put the cost for residents at $46.68 per foot for the road frontages on their property. The total size of the paving project to be paved is 1,720 linear feet...

Howard Meagle doesn't want his children to be punished for being ill, but is concerned that a new districtwide attendance policy could do just that. "The idea of being retained because of being sick is a concern to me," Meagle said. The policy was adopted Monday night by the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. It has been considered at three recent meetings, but wasn't officially adopted until Monday. It will take effect next week when classes begin...

Carla Barker, Tina Rodgers, Ellen Wright and Gina Franklin will attend graduation ceremonies Aug. 22, along with 56 other graduates of the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School's Adult Basic Education program. Sandi Hendricks and Nancy Branson of the program encourage students to stay in school. Obtaining a General Educational Development diploma isn't an easy way out; the GED test is designed so that one of three graduating seniors can't pass the test, Hendricks said...

Tina Rodgers has been working at Dannie Gilder Inc. and credits her GED to landing the job. After finishing her GED, Ellen Wright was volunteering at the Social Security Administration office to get experience in her chosen field. Gina Franklin, holding her 9-month-old daughter, Cadie, has completed her GED and will take certified nursing assistant classes...

Two people from Union County, Ill., were killed Monday morning in an accident in Randolph County. Eric Yancey, 23, of Cobden Ill., was driving a semi-tractor trailer that collided with another semi at the intersection of Illinois Route 4 and Schuline Road. Yancey and passenger Joshua Williams, 16, of Jonesboro were pronounced dead at the scene. The accident occurred at 8:15 a.m...

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Unpacked boxes and drywall dust decorated Southeast Missouri State University's new College of Business building Monday as faculty moved in. Construction workers continued to put the finishing touches on the $15.8 million Robert A. Dempster Hall even as the college dean, Dr. Gerald McDougall, and his faculty prepared for a new school year...

Kindergarten enrollment hasn't really increased in the Cape Girardeau School District, although some schools already have reached their limit. "It's about the same as we have had in the past," said Dr. Richard Bollwerk, assistant superintendent of Cape Girardeau schools...

JACKSON -- Managed care, cuts in state and federal reimbursement and shifts in population growth are all factors in ambulance service operations, John Russell says. Russell, president of Cape County Private Ambulance Service Inc., presented an activity report on the service to Cape Girardeau County commissioners Monday...

Cape Girardeau voters will decide whether to issue $26.5 million in water system improvement bonds and pay for them with a quarter-cent sales tax. At its meeting Monday, the Cape Girardeau City Council unanimously decided to put two separate issues -- whether to sell the bonds and how to pay the debt service -- on the Nov. 5 ballot...

Tequila shots, slam dancing and stogies are little-known customs for the Big Day. Who knew? I suppose in 20 years, I may lie to the person writing my biography and tell them that my wedding day was the happiest day of my life but I cannot do such a disservice to my readers...

Two issues bounced between the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council finally were decided Monday. First, the council voted to rezone a tract of land at the intersection of Boulder Crest Drive and Kingshighway from R-1, single-family residential, to C-1, neighborhood commercial. The decision came despite the vocal objections of some nearby residents, including Bo Shantz...

City Hall Monday, Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m. Consent Ordinances -- Amended the code of ordinances by changing the zoning of the southwest corner of the northern intersection of Kingshighway and Boulder Crest Drive from R-1 to C-2. -- Amended the code of ordinances by changing the zoning of 1641 Kingsway from R-1 to C-2...

THE REPUBLICANS just better shut up whenever they say that Clinton waffles. They have the biggest waffler that ever waffled out: Jack Kemp. The two stands he made: affirmative action, which he fought for and practically went into convulsions for during cabinet meetings, and illegal aliens, he was one of the big protesters against the referendum they had on the ballot. ...

Although the secretary of state hasn't officially certified the petition signatures as yet, it appears likely that Missourians will vote Nov. 5 on an initiative that, if successful, would establish the nation's highest minimum wage. During the run-up to that vote, an interesting sequence of events has occurred. ...

A special legislative committee held five days of hearings last week in Jefferson City on the subject of managed health care. The 10-member committee heard from 150 witnesses on all aspects of the controversial topic. They heard from witnesses who said no changes are needed in this area of the evolving health-care marketplace, and from others, physicians mostly, who strongly argue that quality care is severely compromised by managed care...

Two upcoming blood drives have been scheduled by the American Red Cross. On Wednesday, a blood drive will be held at St. Andrew Lutheran Church Fellowship Hall, 804 N. Cape Rock Drive, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. On Friday, a blood drive will be held at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Jackson Outreach Services at West Main Fitness, 410 W. Main, Jackson, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m...

SIKESTON -- Lucien M. Stoner, 75, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996, at his home. He was born Jan. 27, 1921, in Bowling Green, son of Thomas E. and Effie Bell Moss Stoner. He and Alice Louise Peters were married April 5, 1941, at Benton. Stoner had farmed, and since 1949 had owned and operated Pyramid Roofing Co...

Jack C. Trickey Sr., 81, 2326 State Highway 177, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born March 4, 1915, in Cape Girardeau, son of Linley and Cora Steinhoff Trickey. He and R. Fern Green were married in 1938 in Cape Girardeau...

BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Kenneth Thrower of Bell City will be held at 10 a.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. Kenneth Krippner will officiate, with burial in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Bell City. Thrower, 63, died Saturday, Aug. 17, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

Funeral service and burial for Robert E. Unnerstall of Northglenn, Colo., was held Saturday in Northglenn. Olinger's Funeral Home in Thornton, Colo., was in charge of arrangements. Unnerstall, 73, died Friday, Aug. 16, 1996, in Lakewood, Colo. He was born Dec. 22, 1922, in Cape Girardeau. He and Mary Helen McKee were married May 2, 1942, in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Roy W. Woeltje, 88, of Jackson, died Monday, Aug. 19, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 26, 1907, at Tilsit, son of Arthur and Wilhelmina Sander Woeltje. He and Ruby Allers were married Oct. 27, 1932. She died Nov. 24, 1981. He later married Eleanor Carter Aug. 15, 1983. She died March 18, 1996...

Herbert L. Bedell, 49, of Matteson, Ill., died Friday, Aug. 16, 1996, in Delavan, Wis. He was born March 1, 1947, in Cape Girardeau, son of Maple Harris and Louise Maxley Bedell. He married the former Sharon Van Tuyle. Bedell worked in sales and as a truck driver at Central Distributors Old Style Beer 27 years. He was a member of St. Lawrence O'Toole Church in Matteson, and Union Local 744...

JACKSON -- Vernon Carl Ladreiter, 83, of Jackson, died Monday, Aug. 18, 1996, at his home. He was born Feb. 24, 1913, in Nezperce, Idaho, son of Earnst and Hattie Gerharter Ladreiter. He and Trula Blaylock were married Sept. 14, 1934, at Jackson. Ladreiter was a 1931 graduate of Jackson High School. He had worked in the service station business 40 years, including Phillips 66 two years; Mobil Gas from 1933-1970 including a 10-year partnership, and 1970-75 at a Sinclair Station...

BUNCOMBE, Ill. -- Joanna Mae Gee, 65, Buncombe Route 1, died Monday, Aug. 19, 1996, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. She was born April 11, 1931, in Carbondale, daughter of Joe T. and Gladys Smith Duncan. She married Harold E. Gee Jan. 20, 1951, in Carbondale...

COBDEN, Ill. -- Eric Yancey, 23, of Cobden, died Monday, Aug. 19, 1996, from injuries received in a vehicle accident. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Joshua C. Williams of Jonesboro, 16, died Monday, Aug. 19, 1996, from injuries received in a vehicle accident. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home.

SIKESTON -- David Eugene Wilkinson, Jr., 5, of Sikeston died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996, at Children's Hospital in St. Louis of complications from pneumonia. He was born Dec. 24, 1990, son of David E. and Elizabeth Ann Pawelczyk Wilkinson, Sr. He was a member of the Greater Works Church of Jesus Christ in Sikeston...

Son to Patrick James and Tina Marie Abbott, 609 Mechaw, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:18 p.m. Monday, Aug. 12, 1996. Name, Maxwell Lee. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Abbott is the former Tina Jordan, daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Ernest Jordan of Fruitland. She is an accountant at SEMO Ready Mix Inc. Abbott is the son of Ann Abbott of Cape Girardeau and Fred Abbott of Salisbury. He is a salesman at Cape Toyota-Suzuki...

CHARLESTON -- Margaret Gemeinhardt, 60, of Charleston, died Sunday, Aug. 18, 1996, at her home. She was born Sept. 23, 1935, in Iowa, daughter of Earnest and Oakel Mae Rader Davis. She and Charles Gemeinhardt were married March 15, 1958. Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Terri Golightly of East Prairie, Lori Gemeinhardt of Charleston; three brothers, Darrell Davis of Amarillo, Texas, Lyle Davis of Des Moines, Iowa, Paul Davis of Richland, Iowa; and a grandson...