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3 MAR 0 6 700Z 54 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH METRO WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2002 ST. LOUIS DEATHS Hearing Murphy presses his case for stadium vote Continued from Bl Paul Cuba Artist, co-owner of Venice Cafe me as a friend was to encourage me to reach the fullest of my potential. "That's the true sign of a friend where they lift you up. He made you feel like you could do anything," she said.

A native of St Louis, Mr. Cuba earned an associate's degree in commercial art in 1972 from St. "It's a matter of letting the people express their views." Tom Irwin, vice president of the Regional Chamber and Growth Association, was the only opponent of Murphy's resolution. He said because lawmakers will decide the issue, it will be a public vote. The Commerce Committee took no action Tuesday on Murphy's resolution.

Meanwhile, the separate proposals for funding the stadiums with some public money appear to be on the fast track. All the stadium-funding bills, one of which was filed Friday, will be heard in committees today. The bills have been given priority consideration over some other measures, some of which were filed in December. The House Commerce Committee will consider a ballpark funding bill co-sponsored by Reps. Jim Foley, D-St.

Ann, and Catherine Hanaway, R-Warson Woods. The Senate Pensions Committee will hear an identical bill sponsored by Sen. Maida Coleman, D-St. Louis, a Kansas City stadium funding bill and another measure that lumps all the projects together and adds money for exposition centers, arenas and convention centers in Springfield and Branson. Pulitzer owner of the Post-Dispatch, and Pulitzer's chairman, Michael E.

Pulitzer, are part owners of the Cardinals. Their combined stake is slightly less than 4 percent. The bills are HJR 48, HB 1889, SB 1279, SB 1164 and SB 1162. Reporter Terry Ganey: E-mail: tganeyposMispatch.com Phone: 573-635-6178 a mix of bizarre art objects that may be from around the world or from the nearest trash can much of it donated by customers. In a Post-Dispatch interview in August, Cuba Opened cafe in 1988 Mr.

Cuba said the peculiar art items donated to the cafe made it successful and allowed customers to have more control of the business. Mr. Cuba acknowledged in another Post-Dispatch interview that "the appeal of the cafe is going to be to anyone who appreciates art and something a little different But it's not for everybody." The cafe is also a showcase for local talent from comedians and poets to a kaleidoscope of bands playing reggae, polka, rock and jazz. Megan Jaycox worked at the cafe for eight years and was a friend of Mr. Cuba's for nearly twice as long.

"Paul was not only my boss, he was my friend," said Jaycox. "One of the things that he did for tary, junior high and middle schools. He also coached tennis and football. In 1954, he founded the Kirkwood Park Summer Tennis Program, where he was McCann Tennis enthusiast a teaching pro until 1967. He also taught tennis at Glen Echo and Sunset country clubs, Concord Tennis Club and Westchester Tennis Club.

He helped to organize the first Umpires and Linesman Association and the St Louis Tennis Professionals Organization, of which he served as its first president. As a young man, he played soccer on several championship FUNERAL Fontbonne School is switching to university in its name Continued from Bl and hang onto enrollment, and they make decisions to attract students," said McCormick. "They essentially come down to marketing decisions." In a flier mailed to alumni Fontbonne explained: "Over the years, the term 'college' has taken on a meaning that is not consistent with what we do. Many people believe that college stands for two-year institutions and community colleges. Students, alumni and others have told us that there is added value connected with a university degree.

Furthermore, the university stature is especially important to the recruitment and retention of international students." The letter invited alumni to a public unveiling of Font-bonne's new flag and logo March 14, when the new name takes effect The college will continue to be Catholic and affiliated with the Sisters of St. Joseph of Car-ondelet Private colleges and universities, like Fontbonne, generally are free to take whatever last names they please. Public universities may not have the same discretion. In Missouri, public colleges and universities can change their names only with the Legislature's approval. In Illinois, the Board of Higher Education has authority to approve names of private colleges and universities founded since 1961 and all public ones.

A spokesman said the board is "fairly lenient" in allowing schools with graduate programs to call themselves universities. That Fontbonne's new initials will be shorthand for an obscenity was not lost on planners. "Oh yeah, we went around that merry-go-round pretty heavily," said Parti Eis-chen, of the public relations agency advising the college on the name change. "We decided it was a nonissue because there are plenty of other colleges and universities with those letters. And when it really gets down to it, Fontbonne is known as Fontbonne." Reporter Susan C.

Thomson: E-mail: Phone: 314-209-1315 comparable to injuries he has treated of accident victims who were not restrained. Cosco's attorney, Dan Rabbitt, said he planned to ask for a new trial and appeal the jury verdict if it is upheld by McCullin. McGhee said Cosco had offered the family $500,000 before trial to settle the case, an offer the family rejected. McGhee said Cosco has been sued in the past by the U.S. Consumer Products Commission over what the commission claimed were defective high chairs and play pens.

The drunken driver, Victor Marconi, of St Louis, pleaded guilty in August 2000 of two counts of assault arising from drunken driving and was placed on five years' probation. Reporter William C. Lhotka: E-mail: Phone: 314-615-3283 Proponents say a new facility is needed to keep the team competitive. They say a new ball-park and surrounding development would generate more in tax revenue than the public would pay for the project. Murphy disagreed, saying studies by economists including those at the Federal Reserve in St.

Louis had found that stadiums do not produce economic development Among those joining Murphy and Rice in favor of the public vote were Kathleen Carico, a lobbyist for Missourians for Tax Justice; William Joiner and Tom Mitchell, both St. Louis residents; and the Rev. Craig McNelly, a minister from Joplin. At one point in the hearing, Rep. Tom Villa, D-St Louis, challenged Carico on where legislators should draw the line between what they decide and what they refer to the public to decide.

Villa said his constituents "send me here to make intelligent decisions for them." "They don't understand a downtown St. Louis that is bereft of a baseball team," Villa said. "Give us some credit." Carico replied that lawmakers often want it both ways. She said they sometimes turn over controversial issues like tax issues to the public to decide. "It's not a matter of trusting or distrusting you," Carico said.

Award Car seat firm is told to pay 10.5 million Continued from Bl McGhee said in an interview Tuesday. The family plans to place the award in an account to pay past and future medical and therapy bills. The defense maintained that the seat did its job and blamed the boy's injuries on the severity of the crash. Among defense witnesses were an expert from Duke University and Dr. Mary Case, St.

Louis County medical examiner. But Dr. Michael Noetzel, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital, said the boy's injuries were Syphilis declines By Rhashad Pittman Of the Post-Dispatch St Louis dramatically reduced the rate of syphilis infections in 2000, thanks to special programs aimed at eliminating the disease. The rate of another sexually transmitted disease, gonorrhea, remained about the same from 1999 to 2000. Those are the findings of a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that were presented Tuesday at a conference in San Diego.

St Louis' record on gonorrhea stood in marked contrast to that of Kansas City, where the infection rate increased 37 percent. Even so, St Louis has the fourth highest rate of gonorrhea in the United States, with Kansas City ranked No. 8. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention figures showed that the syphilis rate in St Louis fell 78 percent to 3.3 cases per 100,000 people in 2000 from 15.3 cases per 100,000 people in 1999. Outreach screenings and partnerships with advocacy and church groups led to the improvement, said Mary Menges, an official with the Missouri Department of Health.

Federal money helped pay for the programs, as part of a national effort to eradicate the disease entirely. But public health officials here got no federal Paul Timothy Cuba, an artist and co-owner of the Venice Cafe, a popular eclectic gathering spot in the Benton Park neighborhood, died Monday (March 4, 2002) at his partner's studio near the cafe after suffering a heart arrhythmic disruption. Fie was 49 and lived in St Louis. With Jeff Lockheed, Mr. Cuba co-owned the Venice Cafe, 1903 Pestalozzi Street, for about J4 years.

The two were business partners since the late 1970s, starting on various construction and rehab projects. "He was doing it (rehabbing) for a living at the time, and I was doing odd jobs," said Lockheed. "We worked on a job together and became very good friends and opened the cafe in 1988. He was a great partner and great friend more like a brother, I should say." The artfully decorated cafe, described by Lockheed as a "showcase of junkarama," features mosaics of glass and tile on the walls, ceiling and floors as well as Joseph E. McCann Retired Kirkwood principal Joseph E.

McCann, a former principal in the Kirkwood School District, died Monday (March 4, 2002) of complications from cancer at St Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis County. He was 79 and lived in south St. Louis County. Mr.

McCann spent 32 years as a teacher, coach and principal in the Kirkwood School District before retiring in 1983. After serving in the Navy in World War II, he attended Washington University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in 1951 and a master's degree in 1952. He began his career in the Kirkwood schools in 1951 as an elementary teacher. He went on to work as a principal at elemen- Rev. Vergil Defreece Retired Baptist minister The Rev.

Vergil Elmer Defreece, a retired Baptist minister in Farrnington, died Sunday (March 3, 2002) of cancer at his home in Farrnington. He was 89. The Rev. Mr. Defreece was pastor for 22 years at the Esther Baptist Church in Esther, before he retired in 1976.

In 1980 he became pastor of the First Baptist Church of Doe Run, retiring in 1999. He had served for 18 years on the board of the Baptist Home for the Aged in Ironton, Mo. The Rev. Mr. Defreece was born in Newark, Ark.

He graduated in 1946 from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark. A funeral service will be at 2 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church of Farrnington. Burial will be at Parkview Cemetery in Farrnington. Among the survivors are his wife of 70 years, Sylvia Defreece; a son, Dale Defreece of Chesterfield; a daughter, Jeanie Griffin of Farrnington; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Gideon Memorial Bible Fund, P.O. Box 242, Ball-win, Mo. 63011 uoscnption Customer Service department at (800) 365-0820, ext. 8888. For questions after hours, leave a voice mail message and we will return your call as scon as possible.

ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Walk Marie Wells White Wilson, Claude E. Wischmeyer, Irene M. Zavorka Zimring, Ben dramatically in St. Louis, study shows Louis Community College at Me- ramec.

He had worked as a fire-J fighter and as regional coordinator of visual display Famous-Barr before opening the cafe. A memorial visitation will from 3 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Ku-I tis Funeral Home, 10151 Gravoisl Road, Affton. The body will be! cremated. Among the survivors are his wife, Gail Cuba; a son, Christopher A.

Cuba; a daughter, Lauren Cuba, all of St. Louis; his mother, Florence Cuba of Affton; two brothers, Jim Cuba of Boca Raton, and Jerry Cuba of Peve-ly; and two sisters, Michelle Cuba-Voss and Julie Jenkins, both of St. Louis County. The cafe will be. closed until this weekend.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association. teams, and founded a youth soccer program in Kirkwood. He also helped to start the varsity soccer team at Kirkwood High. He was a past president of the St. Catherine Laboure Men's Club.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. today at St Catherine Laboure Catholic Church, 9740 Sappington Road in south St Louis County. Burial wiU be at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery. Among the survivors are his wife of 52 years, Irene McCann; two daughters, Maureen Billy of Arnold and Barbara Motta of south St Louis County; a son, Michael McCann of Maryland Heights; and three grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.

NOTICES BRAUN, JOHN March 3, 2002; beloved husband of the late Bernice Braun (nee Riedy); dear father of Donna (Mitchell) McNeely, Deborah (Thomas) Danner and the late John H. Braun Jr. and Sandra L. Braun; dear grandfather of Joseph (Kristin) and John Danner; dear great-grandfather of Jason Danner; dear brother of Edmund, Frederick and the late Allen Braun and Viola Zinsel-meier; our dear brother-in-law, uncle, great-uncle, cousin and friend. Funeral from KUTIS AFFTON Chapel, 10151 Gravois, March 6, 1 p.m.

interment Park Lawn Cemetery. Member of Graphic Arts Int'l. Local 505. In lieu of flowers, donations to American Cancer Soci-ety, appreciated. Visita-tion 4-9 p.m.

BUFFA See Wahl BURROWS, ROBERT E. SR. 'BOB' 71, of Belleville. IL, born Dec. 29, 1930 in N.

County, MO, died Mar. 4, 2002 at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Belleville; he was preceded in death by parents, Tom Ellen (nee Churchill) Burrows and brother, Wesley Burrows; survived by wife, Joyce L. (nee Oberschelp) Burrows; sons, Bob E. Burrows Jr.

of St. Louis, MO and Jim C. Burrows of Foster City, CA; daughters, Lori A. (Dennis) Jobm of Belleville, IL and Amy L. Burrows of Kirkwood, MO; brother, Tom (Marie) Burrows of St.

Charles, MO; grandchildren, Jessica, Melissa and Adam Jobin; brother-in-law. Art (Judy) Oberschelp; sisters-in-law, Mildred Biemslager and Millie Burrows; dear uncle, cousin and friend. He was a retired owner of Taylor Paper St. Louis, MO, member of Signal Hill United Methodist Church, Mid-town Chapter of Kiwanis. Funeral service 8 p.m., Mar.

6, 2002 at KURRUS Funeral Home, 1773 Frank Scott Parkway West, Belleville, IL; with Rev. Terry Clark officiating. Visitation 2-8 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials to Kiwanis Camp Wyman, Eureka, MO.

CHEELY, CLEO E. (nee Quintan), March 4, 2002; dear wife of the late Orville Cheely; dear mother of Frances Carter and Barbara Coffman; dear grandmother, great-grandmother and Visitation at PAYNIC Home for Funerals, 618 E. Airline Rosewood Heights, IL, 4-8 p.m, Wed. Service 10 a.m., Thurs. Burial Roselawn Memory Gardens.

Bethalto, IL. CLARK, ANNA 'ANNA', 84, of 501 West 30th Street, died Saturday morning at Southeastern Regional Medical Center, In Lumberton, North Carolina. The funeral was conducted Tuesday. March 5, 2002. at the First Baptist Church in Pembroke, North Carolina.

Reverends, Kent Chavis. Billy Oxen-dine, and Hilton Deese officiating. Burial will be in the New Prospect Methodist Church Cemetery. She is preceded in death by a son. Paul Kenneth Clark: a brother.

Carlie Dial and a sister. Beulah Sanderson. Anna Mae is survived by her husband of 63 years. Joseph Clark, and four sons, Joseph F. Clark and wife, Fran of High Ridge.

MO, James W. Clark of Lone Dell, MO. Aubrey Clark and wife, Fran of High Ridge, MO and Earl Clark of Nashville. TN: and 2 daughters. Gwendolyn Graham and husband.

Erastus of Pembroke. MC. Audrey Yarbrough and husband. Jim of 0 Fallon. MO; foster son.

James BeHew of El-rod. NC; foster daughter, Lucille Anderson of Maxton. NC, a brother and sister, WiHie A. Dial of Fairmont. NC and Roxie Sanderson of Villa Ridge, MO Mae was further blessed with 16 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren.

Anna Mae was born September 24, 1917 In Robeson County. North Carolina, to Plumer and Qottie Dial She was a loving wife and devoted mother to her famriy and many foster children, beu of flowers, memonals in her name may be made to the Paul K. Dark Scholarship fund, in care of Family Advocacy and Community Trammg. FACT 2260 Blu-cstone. St Charles.

MO U303 telephone (636 949-2425 1 money for gonorrhea, she said. Gonorrhea can be treated with antibiotics. Left untreated, it can facilitate the spread of HIV and cause chronic pelvic pain and in- INDEX Albers, Bonnie Kay Bardon, Monica L. Bennett, Clifford Bettag Bommarito, Rose Braun, John H. Buffa Burrows, Robert E.

Sr. 'Bob' Cheely, Cleo E. Clark, Anna 'Mae' Cobb Cuba, Paul T. Danner Devlin, Darrell Roy Droesch, Deacon Francis A. 'Bud' Dunker, Harvey Edleson, Edward M.

Egan Elmendorf Engelberg, Joyce S. Ernst, Joseph M. Evans Fallen, Vincent T. Farr, Dorothy Frank, Melba Fern French, Aubrey Wade Frosch, Howard F. Golterman, Daniel E.

Gronemeier, Beryl V. Hauck, Adele Katherine Henson, Ursula M. 'Sweetie' Holt, George Washburn Houston Huth, Dorothy E. Imhof, Warren C. Imig, Clyde E.

Jones, Bertha Marie, Justice, Kathryn Kemp, Janet C. Kern, Augusta C. Kolb, Robert M. ALBERS, BONNIE KAY (nee Bulliner), March 2, 2002 forever in our hearts; wife of Eric Albers; mother of Melissa (Daniel) Walker, Kathrine (Gregory) Allen, Steven (Margaret) Ray, Sandra Ray and Sarah Ray; dear Gran to Samantha, Megan, Kyle, Kia, Steve Joshua, Alexis, Kayla, Tylor, Kacee and Baby Kay; dear sister, aunt, niece and friend to many. Visitation 10 a.m.

until funeral service beginning at 12 p.m. Wednesday, March 6, at ARCHWAY MEMORIAL Chapel, 111 Taylor Hazelwood. Interment at Sacred Heart Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to American Cancer Society. In memory of our President and Chief Operating Officer Jeffrey M.

Clinton Grey Eagle Distributors will be closed on Wednesday, March 6, 2002 BARDON, MONICA L. (nee Pitchford). March 1, 2002, fortified with the Sacraments of Holy Mother Church; beloved wife of the late Melvin J. Bardon dear mother of Julie Pusa-teri and Mel (Nancy) Bardon loving grandmother of Kellie tRick Lawler, Cindi and Abbie 'usateri, Jason and Ronnie Bardon; great-grandmother of Sierra Lawler; our dear sister-in-law, aunt, great-aunt, cousin and dear friend to many. Mrs.

Bardon was a musician and music teacher, active with the Girl Scouts and garden club, was a gentle and loving soul. Funeral from WHTTE-MUL-LEN Mortuary, 118 N. Florissant Ferguson, March 8, 9 30 a.m. to Sts. John James Church, for 10 a.m.

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2002. 10 a m. at PAUL Funeral Home. 240 N. Kings-highway, St.

Charles. MO. Visitation will be Thursday, March 7, 2002 from 4-8 at the funeral home. Interment wiH be in New St. Marcus Cemetery, St.

Louis, MO. Memorials may be made to donors choice, in care of the Paul Funeral Home. q. TT 1 I -4 a. Xt -f i I i I $1 JuttX! Kramer, Helen M.

LaMore Lesinski Lippel, Leonard A. Lucas Mabry Magee Matlock, Lois Margaret Jensen Maufas, Luther Sonny, McNeely McSwain, David Lee Melly, Ray C. Michalski, Richard E. Mitchell, DC Mueller, Audrey J. 'Mim' Myers, Paschall 'Pat' Narkiewkz, Joseph F.

Nitchman, James J. Sr. Oberbeck, Dorothy A. Pashia Paul Pet, Ching Pong Pillsbury, Ruth E. Polk, Lottie M.

Prettj Rieansnider Roth Sayetta, Sidney Schuman, William R. Shipman, Mildred Wilkinson 'Becky Simpher, Dolores T. Sprague, Edward Louis Sullens, George E. Swehla Taylor, MehraM. Toler, Russell E.

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