Stories from Saturday, September 2, 2000

Top hat and tails, heels and a mink stole, hardly. Even when we talk about dressing our best, rarely would clothes such as these have been the norm for Sunday morning worship service. Men in suits, women in dresses and children "spit and polished" are a little more in line...

Members of the River Campus Board of Managers walked across the grounds of old St. Vincent's Seminary Friday, scouting out a possible site for the River Campus museum. Board members again voiced support for building a museum on the northeast side of the seminary grounds near Morgan Oak and Spanish streets...

JACKSON, Mo. -- For the past three and one-half weeks, people in cars stopped at Jackson's busiest intersection have been honking their horns and pointing their thumbs skyward at a man with a chain saw. Chain-saw sculptor August W. Birk usually doesn't work as publicly as he did turning the stump of a pin oak tree on the front lawn of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce building into the statue of an Indian brave, the Jackson High School mascot...

St. Francis Medical Center officials will dedicate the hospital's recently completed 125th anniversary brick mural at 7 p.m. Thursday. The mural, which is 45 feet long and 7 feet high, is a brick wall sculpture that overlooks the hospital's Healing Garden between the medical center and Healing Arts Center...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Two Sikeston men were charged with first-degree murder Friday in the shooting death of a 22-year-old acquaintance after an argument, police said. Antonio T. Flye, 22, and William M. Rogers, 22, were charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Reginald D. Sales, police Capt. Dan Armour said...

My husband and I have been reminiscing lately about when our love was new. Actually, it started out as a joke. One evening after I'd had a particularly long day, Patrick asked me to iron some clothes for him so he could go "hang out with the fellas" for awhile...

The Scott City Rams earned a hard-fought victory and lots of respect with a 40-33 win over rival Malden at Scott City on Friday night. The Rams, who lost several key players through graduation, came in as underdogs to a Green Wave team that had most of its starters returning from last year...

JACKSON, Mo. -- While the Sikeston Bulldogs were geared up to stop Mario Whitney, it was Mark Wade who provided the knockout punches Friday night. Wade blocked three punts and Jackson played on a short field all night as the Indians crushed Sikeston 30-3 at Jackson Stadium...

Cape Central 35, St. Charles West 0 Jackson 30, Sikeston 3 Scott City 40, Malden 33 Chaffee 40, Grandview 14 Waynesville 38, Perryville 0 St. Vincent 22, Park Hills 19 Fredericktown 49, Crystal City 18 Kennett 19, Charleston 6 Poplar Bluff 29, Dexter 7...

Cape Girardeau Central High's football team has its sights set squarely on a major turnaround season and, if Friday night's performance is any indication, the Tigers may well be on their way. The Tigers, who struggled to a 1-9 record last year, opened the 2000 campaign with an impressive 35-0 whipping of St. Charles West in front of an appreciative and enthusiastic gathering or orange-clad Central supporters at Houck Stadium...

MUNCIE, Ind. -- Southeast Missouri's women's soccer team scored three second-half goals as it opened the inaugural Cardinal Classic on the Ball State campus with a 4-1 victory Friday over Western Illinois. The victory upped the Otahkians' record to 1-0-1 on the aseason...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- St. Vincent quarterback Jonathan Paulus rushed for two touchdowns and threw for a third as the Indians held off Park Hills 22-19 in Friday's season opener. Paulus, who had 44 yards rushing on five carries and threw for 101 yards on 3-of-8 passing, rushed for both of St. Vincent's first-half touchdowns...

Edna Wilma Frede, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Feb. 8, 1908, at Shawneetown, Mo., daughter of Stephen and Mathilda Landraf Kasten. She and Walter A. Frede were married June 16, 1946, at Cape Girardeau. He died June 12, 1985...

Son to Rory Joseph and Frances McMahon of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 10:15 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, 2000. Name, Joseph Patrick. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Mrs. McMahon is the former Frances Eggimann, daughter of Richard and Joan Eggimann of Cape Girardeau. She is employed at Swim Central in Fort Lauderdale. McMahon is the son of Judge Daniel McMahon of Peachtree City, Ga. He is owner of McMahon and Associates Ivestigations of Fort Lauderdale...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Bettie Mae Helton of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Blanchard Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dennis Gregory will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 11 a.m. until service time...

Wilda Louise Pogue, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 1, 2000, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Lorene C. Templeton, 95, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 1, 2000, at Ratliff Nursing Home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Lydia Almedia Sanders of Chaffee died Friday, Sept. 1, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born the daughter of Peter Monroe and Barbara A. Betteau Craig. She and George R. Sanders were married March 28, 1942. He died Jan. 2, 1980...

PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Euline Thilenius Wirth, 90, of Perryville died Friday, Sept. 1, 2000, at her home. She was born Dec. 17, 1909, in Silver Lake, daughter of Theodore and Arabelle Thieret Thilenius. She and Robert C. Wirth were married Dec. 17, 1933. He died April 20, 1978...

ORAN, Mo. -- Deanna Rose Pobst was stillborn Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She is the daughter of Brian Charles and Kimberly Deanna Criddle Pobst of Oran. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Oran is in charge of arrangements...

Velma Drucille Allen Holshouser, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 1, 2000, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Velma was born Sept. 18, 1914, in Steele, Mo., daughter of Thomas Lindell Allen and Bertha Belle Baker Allen. Her father died in 1916. Her mother later married Otto Gross who raised her like his own. They moved to Cape Girardeau in 1924 from Kennett, Mo...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Cecil Clayborn Wallace, 88, of Sikeston died at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 1, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born March 8, 1912, in Doniphan, son of James Franklin and Ida Smith Wallace. He and Burdine Phillips were married in September 1936 in Benton. She died in 1972...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Graveside service for Christian Xavier Ward Moore will be held at 10 a.m. today at Memorial Park Cemetery. The Rev. Don Heitmen will officiate. Nunnelee Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. The infant was stillborn Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis...

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Reginald "Reggie" Damon Sales, 22, of Sikeston died Thursday, Aug. 31, 2000, of a gunshot wound. He was born Aug. 16, 1978, in Sikeston, son of Patricia Sales of Sikeston and R.D. Jones of Columbia. He was a 1997 graduate of Sikeston High School...

Several years ago when the General Services Administration announced plans to build a new federal courthouse in Cape Girardeau, officials said it would complement -- not replace -- the existing federal building at 339 Broadway. The plan was for judicial agencies to occupy the new courthouse while other federal bureaucracies, some of which are spread all over town, would take over the old building...

If the decision belonged to AmerenUE customers in Cape Girardeau, the company could forget it proposed 20 percent rate increase for natural-gas service. About 45 people last week attended a hearing on AmerenUE's proposal held by the Missouri Public Service Commission, which will ultimately decide the issue. As could be expected, no customers at the hearing supported taking more money out of their own pockets and giving it to the company...

Al Gore is telling George Bush to "put up or shut up" and begin dealing with the specifics of campaign issues. My fervent hope is that Bush doesn't permit Gore to become his campaign manager. Besides, Gore's charge is inaccurate. Bush does have specific plans on most issues which are readily accessible to voters, and Gore knows it. ...

Clinton IS giving billions and billions to Russians, Chinese, Africans and Tanzanians, but the American taxpayers cannot have a tax cut. After all, whose money is it? As A liberal Democrat, I am absolutely furious about this book that is out about Richard Nixon. This is just unconscionable. These people are dead. Only their family survive. What good does it do even if it is true?...

To the editor: Recently, my grandson, Elijah, found a turtle. He wanted to keep it as a pet. I told him the turtle should be set free, but his Nana told him he could keep the turtle if he kept it in a box in our backyard. I protested by saying the turtle would die of hunger, but Elijah insisted he would make sure the turtle had something to eat...