Stories from Monday, November 18, 1991

The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will consider a contract with Mid-Missouri Engineers Inc. for management, operation and maintenance of the city's water system. It's the first action the council will take regarding the water system since voters earlier this month approved the city's purchase of the utility. The city plans to take over water system operations sometime next spring...

Although the number of deer killed this weekend in Southeast Missouri is down from last year, local wildlife experts said they doubted there are fewer deer in the area. Saturday marked the start of the nine-day firearm deer season in Missouri. Hunters in Cape Girardeau County tagged a total of 408 deer over the weekend, down from 477 killed in the first weekend of the season last year...

Louisiana voters Saturday elected to put a rogue in the governor's mansion rather than a racist in an election that took on national significance, two local political science professors said Sunday. Democrat Edwin Edwards Saturday resoundingly defeated ex-Klansman David Duke, reclaiming the governorship he lost in 1987...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Yesterday's news is today's recycled product. Recycled newspapers are being used as bedding for farm animals and as a mulch to help grow grasses and alfalfa on reclaimed strip mine areas to provide wildlife habitat. Recycling firms in several states, including Illinois, are producing both the mulch and the bedding with good success...

With the federal government proposing changes in the labeling of food, the Southeast Missourian asked people what they read on food labels. Ann Hayes: "I generally read the labels for information on sodium, calories and cholesterol because I have become more health-conscious in the last couple of years. Sometimes I will put an item back if it has a higher level of sodium than I think it should."...

Cape Girardeau Public Schools are opening their doors to this public this week in celebration of American Education week. Nell Holcomb and Jackson schools have also planned special activities to commemorate the week. American Education Week is designed as a tribute to teachers, administrators and school boards who all work to educate students...

The newly opened Safe House for Women in Cape Girardeau has announced its winter schedule of group classes for women who are or have been battered. The free classes will be held at 7 p.m. beginning this week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Today the class will be "Dealing with Violence in Your Life." "Self-Esteem Building," "Assertiveness Training," and "Sex Education" will be taught Wednesday...

Louisiana may be the first state in American to declare political bankruptcy. --- You know the economy is suffering when not a single politician will try to take credit for it. --- The next proposal to improve Missouri's public education system had better include provisions for first educating the public...

This is American Education Week. It offers a chance for us to take a long, hard look at our schools. We feel that examination will pay off with a new appreciation for today's schools. Despite all the financial problems, teachers are doing a good job, day in and day out, providing our kids with a solid foundation of learning...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Ruby W. Collie, 65, of Jonesboro, Ill. died Sunday, Nov. 17, 1991, at her home. She was born July 5, 1926, the daughter of the late Roy L. and Anna A. Lence Wilkins. On Jan. 4, 1946, she married Ernest Collie in Jonesboro, who preceded her in death Jan. 8, 1990...

Mary Alice "Mamie" Adams, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 1991 at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was 96. She was born Dec. 19, 1894 to Matthew Fulliger Humphreys and Gertrude Farner. On Dec. 28, 1914, she married Carroll Blaine Adams in Murphysboro, Ill. He died Jan. 18, 1973...

Long-time Cape Girardeau businessman Charles L. Huckstep, 65, died Sunday, Nov. 17, 1991 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 27, 1926 in Cape Girardeau to Albert and Marie Seibert Huckstep. He married Betty Winfrey on Nov. 9, 1947 in Poplar Bluff. She died in April 1972...