Stories from Tuesday, June 17, 1997

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Martha Huch looked at blood cells during the visit to the lab at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Julie Antill taught a kindergarten class about Africa during summer school at Franklin School in Cape Girardeau. The school's theme this summer is "Around the World."...

Notre Dame High School held its Awards Day May 30. Musical Awards Senior award: Melanie Beel, Beth Essner, Natalie Jones, Sean Seyer. Scholarships University of Missouri-Columbia Curator's Scholar awards: Julie Eftink, Derek Fenwick, Nathan McGuire, Jeffrey Mueller, Amber McCormick...

Tony Anthony Smith was only 4 when he became aware of Jim Abbott, then a one-armed pitcher for the California Angels. Now Tony is pitching in the Atom League of the Tamms Khoury Baseball League. Having the full use of only one arm didn't stop Abbott from becoming a major-league baseball pitcher with some productive years...

The furor over Watergate died long ago, buried in the pages of history. But the scandal that toppled President Nixon left behind a legacy of public distrust of government and its leaders, political experts and politicians say. "Watergate has now become an adjective to describe whatever is wrong with government," said Dr. Peter Bergerson, who chairs the political science department at Southeast Missouri State University...

More than 14 months after Cape Girardeau voters approved a city charter amendment creating a city Ethics Commission, the members have been appointed. Monday night, the City Council appointed as members: Mark Slinkard, 44, a painting foreman and estimator, and Stephen Stigers, 42, an anesthesiologist, to five-year terms; Bo Shantz, 37, a State Farm Insurance agent and Dennis Dobson, 55, technical manager at Lone Star Industries, to four-year terms; William Donnelly, 68, a semi-retired insurance consultant, to a three-year term; John Egbuka, a 40-year-old cook, to a two-year term; and William Killian, 50, a medical technician, to a one-year term.. ...

The City Council voted against recommendations of the Planning and Zoning Commission twice Monday night. In preliminary votes, it voted to allow George and Lora Lee Eaker to build a double-wide mobile home on a street of conventionally built homes and to allow the extension of Kent Drive south to Lexington Avenue...

It's rare that you pick up a paper these days without coming across a story about some group or another burying a time capsule like dogs burying a bone, trying to leave behind something of today for those of tomorrow. A recent article estimates that 10,000 time capsules are out there -- somewhere -- filled with everything from Beanie Babies to Buns-of-Steel workout videos...

Monday June 1, 1997 Public Hearings: The 1997-98 annual operating budget. The request of George and Lora Lee Eaker for a special use permit for a double-wide mobile home in the 500 block of Vincent Park Drive. Appearances: Mike Smith regarding a connection to water and sewer lines for property outside the city limits...

JACKSON -- A seven-member committee to study proposed recommendations regarding a mobile-home ordinance was appointed Monday night by the Board of Aldermen. City Administrator Steve Wilson said the committee would study a proposal that was reviewed by the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission...

To the editor: As a citizen of the village of Tamms and a member of the Board of Trustees, I am obliged to respond to the recent letter by one of Tamms concerned citizens, Mrs. Nelson. I recognize that some of the concerns expressed by Mrs. Nelson are shared by a number of citizens in our community, as exemplified by the number of citizens present at recent board meetings and as signatories of the citizens petition...

Week-before-last saw Gov. Mel Carnahan sign into law a three-cent cut in the sales tax on food passed by the Legislature last month. It is the major portion of a $322 million tax cut for Missourians. The other major feature is a provision making equal the tax treatment between government and private-sector pensions that will be phased in over five years. ...

Lawmakers in Washington and Springfield have decided that the welfare system that has existed for 60 years will be gone as of July 1, replaced by a stricter code requiring healthy adults to find work after two years and spend less than five years of their lives on the dole...

Old Boatmen's Bank red and white signs are out. New red, white and blue NationsBank signs are in. There was little public hoopla marking the official NationsBank Day One in Cape Girardeau Monday, but behind the scenes the newest company in town made its presence felt, with a number of philanthropic gifts to the area and a morning visit by a top NationsBank executive, Kenneth D. Lewis...

The music of George Gershwin will be featured at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band concert Wednesday. The concert, held at the Capaha Park Band Shell beginning at 8 p.m., is free. Patrons are advised to bring lawn chairs. Special guest entertainment will be provided by the Jerry Ford combo featuring vocalist Pat Blackwell...

PERRYVILLE -- After six months of planning, the Perry County schools' Board of Education adopted a five-year plan that will guide the district through the year 2002. School administrators and parents said the long-range plan could have a major effect on the overall quality of the district because the plan includes idealistic dreams as well as realistic aspirations...

CHAFFEE -- The Chaffee Police Department has been a little more aware of cracking down on drunken drivers since late December, when the son of one of its officers was killed by an alleged intoxicated driver. The question of whether the officers have been cracking down too hard was brought before the Chaffee City Council Monday night...

Rainy days and colder-than-usual temperatures have been the norm so far in June. From June 1 to 15, the Automated Surface Observing Station at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport recorded varying amounts of rain on nine days. It rained again Monday...

Bottle rockets, Roman candles, firecrackers, sparklers, fountains and more. Local fireworks retailers are raising their red, white and blue-striped tents to kick off the annual fireworks season Friday. But they can't reap the patriotic payoffs until they obtain proper licenses from state, county and city offices...

New Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball coach Gary Garner received a three-year contract worth $72,000 annually to take over the Indians' program. That salary makes Garner the highest-paid coach at Southeast, which is also the status that former men's basketball coach Ron Shumate held prior to his dismissal last month amid an NCAA investigation...

Ballwin American Legion baseball manager Ken Eckert says his teams have always enjoyed facing Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons. "We try to get Cape (on the schedule) every year," said Eckert. "We've really developed a good rivalry with them. I really respect their program and they've always got one of the top five or six teams in the state."...

BENTON -- Steve Plieman took advantage of a final lap mishap to capture the Pure Street Feature Saturday at Missouri International Racepark. Cline Myers Jr. appeared to be in control of the race as the Scott City driver took the white flag ahead of Plieman. But as Myers headed into turn three, the perfect race crashed down on him...

John Owen has coached some pretty talented basketball teams to the AAU Ozark Association Championships without ever bringing home a gold medal. "We've played AAU for years and have been to the nationals, including last year, but we'd never won the gold medal," said Owen...

A threat to win anytime he tees the ball up, Tiger Woods has definitely made an impact on the PGA. But to really see the far reaching impact of the 21-year-old sensation, one needs to be in the `golf trenches' like part-owner/club manager Mike Litzenfelner at Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Erma E. Grant of Sikeston will be held at 9:30 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Nathaniel Pyron and Dan Norton will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Grant, 98, died Sunday, June 15, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Pete Thurman of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Mike Johnson will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Thurman, 67, died Sunday, June 15, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

Harlyn "Harley" Eakins, 49, of San Diego, Calif., died Sunday, June 8, 1997, at a brother's home in San Diego. He was born March 24, 1948, son of Carl and Dorothy Eakins. He grew up in Cape Girardeau and was a 1966 graduate of Central High School. Survivors include four sons, Cale and Scott Eakins of Rockford, Ill., Ian and Ryan Eakins of San Diego; his mother of Pacific; two brothers, Ron Eakins of St. ...

CHARLESTON -- Lou Ella Davis, 55, of Charleston died Saturday, June 14, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Aug. 2, 1941, in Denver, Colo., daughter of Mike and Elnora Henderson Davis. Davis was a member of Mercy Seat Baptist Church...

PERRYVILLE -- Catherine Marie Hurst, 43, of University City died Saturday, June 14, 1997, in Franklin County. She was born Aug. 6, 1953, in Perryville, daughter of Donald Benedict and Mary Ellen Niederschulta Hurst. Hurst was a secretary at Chubb and Son Insurance Co. in Clayton. She was a 1971 graduate of Perryville High School, and graduate of Hickey Secretarial College in St. Louis...

Helen H. Creglow, 81, 3120 Independence, died Monday, June 16, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 15, 1915, at Patton, daughter of Tivis Damon and Maggie Evie Heitman Robinson. She and Glenwood H. "Speed" Creglow were married Dec. 24, 1937, in St. Louis...

SIKESTON -- Margaret H. Joyce, 88, of Sikeston died Saturday, June 14, 1997, at St. Sophia Health Center in Florissant. She was born March 19, 1909, at Vanduser, daughter of William and Eugenia Grojean Hamilton. She married Cecil "Ted" Joyce, who died Sept. 5, 1968...

SIKESTON -- David Roberts, 53, of Sikeston died Sunday, June 15, 1997, in the Emergency Room of Columbia Pinelake Regional Hospital in Mayfield, Ky. He was injured in a motorcycle accident near Mayfield. He was born June 29, 1943, in Winfield, Ala., son of Leelon and Irene Stockton Roberts. He and Phyllis Knight Ditto were married Aug. 1, 1986, in Jackson...

Virginia C. Lundin, 71, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, June 15, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb. 9, 1926, in Waldo, Ark., son of Henry and Josie Thrailkill Wilson. She and Lonnie D. May were married Dec. 25, 1948, in Camden, Ark. He died Oct. 1, 1964. She later married Carl Lundin Aug. 31, 1968, in Pine Bluff, Ark...

Son to Robert Carl and Peggy Ann Scott, 23 N. West End Boulevard, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:24 a.m. Tuesday, June 10, 1997. Name, Daniel Allan. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. Fourth child, second son. Mrs. Scott is the former Peggy Brockmeier, daughter of Allan and Elizabeth Brockmeier of Festus. ...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Maggie DeWitt, 89, of Tamms died Monday, June 16, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.