Stories from Sunday, February 24, 1991

MORLEY -- Funeral service for Emory Bryeans of Morley will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran. The Rev. Mark McDaniel will officiate and burial will be in the New Morley Cemetery in Morley. Mr. Bryeans died at 3:57 p.m. Saturday at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was 75...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Mrs. Dorothy LaCroix Strange, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Feb. 10 at South Methodist Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. after a long illness. She was 66. Mrs. Strange was born Oct. 13, 1924 in Advance, the daughter of the late William O. LaCroix and Dewey Davis LaCroix. The family moved to Cape Girardeau in August 1930...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Ida Louise Biles of rural Charleston will be at noon Tuesday, Feb. 26, at the Sparks Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. Wiley Reed will officiate, and burial will be in the Oak Grove Cemetery near Charleston...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Eudene "Tobe" Robertson, 59, of Mounds, Ill. drowned Saturday morning near McClure. He was born April 29, 1931 at Athens, Ala., the son of Leoler and Christine McBride Robertson. He was married to Ozell Littrell, who survives of Mounds...

To the Editor: Contrary to some citizens' beliefs, the Cape Nutrition Center does not get full funding from the federal government nor does it have a big bank roll. In this letter, I will outline sources from which the Nutrition Center obtains money to operate. I will also review on what the money is spent...

CAIRO, Ill. -- The process of electing a new mayor and two new members to the city council will get under way here this week. A total of 18 persons have filed for a half-dozen vacancies on the Cairo City Council, and many of them will face competition in Tuesday's primary election...

To the Editor: Is there anything one individual can do to instill patriotism in a generation of young people who have grown up in a world relatively free of war? What can be done to re-kindle patriotism in those who have lived through former wars? Your newspaper featured a front-page article on Friday, January 25, 1991, about a rally held at Scott City High School in support of the American troops serving in the Persian Gulf war. ...

The little things in life add up. A number of items in the news recently are deserving of brief comment. We offer a thumbs up sign to items deserving of praise, thumbs down to those we would have preferred not to learn about. After scrubbing its European tour because of Persian Gulf hostilities, the St. ...

I had the opportunity to attend a conference two weeks ago in Washington, D.C. at which one of the speakers was former Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick. This remarkable woman, who has served America with such courage and distinction, observed that of all Ronald Reagan's accomplishments, perhaps his greatest was the restoration of confidence and pride to the American people. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Marvin Meier figures if the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association is good enough for Ronald Reagan, it's good enough for Cape Girardeau. "The rodeo that will take place in Cape Girardeau will have the same stock man who put on a show for Ronald Reagan in 1983," noted Meier, who is chairman of the Cape Shriners rodeo committee...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lorene Stancil of Sikeston and formerly of Dogwood will be at 2 p.m. today at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Harold Norton will officiate and burial will follow in the Dogwood Cemetery. Mrs. Stancil died Friday at the Hunter Acres Care Center in Sikeston. She was 78...

BENTON -- Funeral service for Christina C. Diebold, formerly of Benton, will be at 10 a.m. Monday at the St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton. Fr. Oscar Lukefahr will officiate, and burial will be in the church cemetery. Mrs. Diebold died Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center, where she had been a resident since January. She was 91...

SCOTT CITY -- Word has been received here of the death of Elizabeth D. Hovis. Hovis, of St. Louis, died Feb. 15, 1991. She was born March 10, 1933. She is survived by her husband, Utah T. Hovis; sons, Thomas Hovis of St. Louis, Frank Schlechter and James Schlechter both of St. ...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Billy Gene Graves of Anna will be held at 11 a.m. today at Crain Funeral Chapel here. The Revs. Lloyd Sullivan and George Pitts will officiate, with burial in St. John's Cemetery. Graves, 46 years old, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1991, in Tulsa, Okla...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Frank Johnson of Anna will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Chapel here. Dr. Charles Owen will officiate, with burial in Meisenheimer/Mt. Olive Cemetery near Dongola. Johnson, 73 years old, died Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for James Luther Kirby of East Prairie Route 1 was held Saturday at St. James General Baptist Church. The Rev. Buddy Hannah officiated, with burial in Anniston Cemetery. Shelby Funeral Home here was in charge of arrangements...

ALTENBURG -- Funeral service for Hugo E. Richter of Altenburg will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Immanuel Lutheran Church in New Wells. The Rev. Walter Patzwitz will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson until noon today...

JACKSON -- Service for Lloyd Casteel will be held at McCombs Funeral Home here Monday at 11 a.m., with Rev. O. Otto Steinhaus officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4 to 8 p.m. today. Casteel, of Jackson, died Saturday, Feb. 23, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

BLOOMFIELD -- Service for Otto Metcalf will be held at 2 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home here. Burial will be in the Gravel Hill Cemetery near Bloomfield. Metcalf, 90 years old, of Bloomfield, died at Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter Saturday, Feb. 23, 1991...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Service for Mrs. Ruth I. Rickard will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. Ford & Sons Funeral Home, Mt. Auburn Road, with Rev. Jim Dace officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home on Mt. Auburn Road from 4 to 8 p.m. today...

ANNA, Ill. -- Services for Robert R. Cavitt will be held Tuesday at 1 p.m. at Crain Funeral Home here with Rev. Carl Fisher officiating. Interment will be in Dongola American Legion Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home in after 6 p.m. Monday...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Greg and Erin Taylor were eking out a living in Chicago in 1977. They knew they didn't want to continue living from paycheck to paycheck. The couple, originally from Ullin, Ill., put their dreams of a better life to work and designed a board game called "Luck of Life." The game is now in print and may be available nationwide by this summer...

HARLEY HEAVEN: Club members proudly wear this emblem. CAPE GIRARDEAU Asked to name one of the largest social organizations in the world, most people would miss one of the least obvious the international Harley Owners Group (HOG). The Harley-Davidson motorcycle aficionados are rapidly swelling in numbers, surpassing older, broader-based groups...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Todd Shaw was 10 years old the first time he cautiously placed his bladed feet on a smooth, white sheet of ice. He did it because he thought the other kids looked "cool" gliding around the rink, showing off their newly-learned skating skills and hoping they didn't fall down in front of their friends...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Eleven-year-old Beth Shivelbine's Girl Scout troop faced a dilemma two years ago: find a new troop leader or forget about scouting. So to keep the troop together, one of Beth's parents volunteered to become the troop's new leader and it wasn't her mother...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city has extended its application deadline for the position of Parks and Recreation Department director, vacated when former director Steve Bone accepted a position last fall at Lake St. Louis. The position has been filled on an interim basis by parks superintendent Dan Muser, who's applied for the permanent director position...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Pride in the American military showed itself in full force Saturday as a large gathering participated in an Operation Desert Storm support rally here. Ian Sutherland, a retired army colonel, told those present to "be proud that you're an American" and to show their support to the area men and women serving in the Persian Gulf area...

McCLURE, Ill. - A 59-year-old Alexander County, Ill. man, drowned Saturday morning when the logging vehicle he was operating slipped off a low-water bridge into Devil's Chute, located between Devil's Island and McClure, Ill. The chute separates the island from the Mississippi River and the East Cape-McClure levee...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Lauchette Low experienced a ~"pause" in her active life a year ago. She was diagnosed with breast cancer. "I've always been one to try to make the best of a bad situation," Low said. "I try not to worry about what went wrong but instead think of how I'm going to change it."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- About 35 students and parents from area high schools learned Saturday how to organize drug- and alcohol-free graduation and prom parties in their communities. The Cape Girardeau Community Traffic Safety Program sponsored a seminar Saturday to emphasize alternative ways to celebrate graduation and prom other than through the use of alcohol or drugs...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- After years of running to stay fit, Steve Jackson says he's found a better way. "Running is really hard on you," he said. "With swimming, there's absolutely no way it can hurt you, and it works every muscle in your body." For 11 years now, Jackson has been taking part in the early bird swim at Cape Central Pool. The long-time Cape Girardeau resident swims from 5:30 to about 6:15 each morning, usually five days a week...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dean Winstead first got the inspiration to build a recording studio in Cape Girardeau as a way to help songwriters in the area produce their work. Winstead is president of the Heartland Songwriters Association in Cape Girardeau, a group of 20 to 25 local people who meet and try to hone their songwriting skills...

SGT. BRYAN KEITH DRISCOLL, SR. U.S. AIR FORCE Sgt. Driscoll is the son of James and Cathy Driscoll of McClure, Ill. He is a 1984 graduate of Shawnee High School. He was previously stationed at Scott Air Force Base near Belleville, Ill., where his wife, dorothy and sons Bryan and James live...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- John Oliver endures many Wednesday and Saturday afternoons in ardent anticipation of warfare on the hardwood floor of the Show Me Center. From the time he was an eager, wide-eyed lad of 3, Oliver has religiously attended the Cape Girardeau spectacle of Southeast Missouri State University basketball...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A visitor to the Cape Girardeau Public Library can find books, periodicals and often, Clarence Schade. One of several regulars at the facility, the 75-year-old retiree regularly keeps up with several newspapers and magazines as well as various books...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jeff Biester is far from the age-old image of the typical beer-drinking pool player. When he plays, he's usually drinking a Coke, and what he wants most is to improve his skills of the game. Biester, 18, is a regular at The Billiard Center in downtown Cape Girardeau. As pool halls go, The Billiard Center is up-scale, with 20 pool tables, a sports lounge, a television in nearly every corner and a small bar and deli...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Garry Pirch, 36, finds gratification in subtle ways. For 11 years he has volunteered his time and talents to help young girls develop their basketball skills. Pirch, a basketball coach and physical-education teacher at Nell Holcomb School since 1976, also coaches three girls basketball teams in the Kiwanis Church Basketball League...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Charles Hood, although just a lad at the time, remembers the second decade of the century as a time when people in Cape Girardeau lived simpler, though not necessarily easier, lives. Hood was born here in 1906 and has lived in Cape Girardeau his entire life. He was graduated from Central High School in 1923 and spent the next six decades in the construction business...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- As volunteers go, Sue Russell and Anita Baker are two of the most giving. They hold hands with, listen to, and cry with terminally ill patients and their families. And they try to help them get through one of the toughest emotional trials of life: losing a loved one...

JACKSON - A Jackson businessman is one of 10 "Outstanding Young Civic Leaders" for 1991 in Missouri. The honoree, Kevin W. Sawyer, 33, of 913 Kent, operates Sawyer Insurance and Realty. He is one of the youngest members to serve on the Jackson Board of Aldermen and one of the youngest people to serve as president of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce, a position he has held for two years...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Southeast Missouri State University Theatre production of "Bits of the Bard: Shakespeare's Ladies" has been extended. The play, directed by Ellen Seyer and compiled by Dennis C. Seyer, was originally scheduled to be performed Feb. 20-23. Play dates that have been added are Feb. 27, 28 and March 1 and 2...

ORIOLE -- Most weekends, you can find Larry Neal hunting turkey, or deer, or geese, or quail, or dove.... The list goes on and on, and includes coyotes and frogs. And it all started when Neal was 11 years old. "I usually hunted with my father and one of his friends," he said. Now, as a self-employed carpenter, he is able to plan his work schedule around his hunting...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. David Hoelscher of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:22 p.m. Friday, Feb. 15, 1991. Name, Laura Catherine. Weight, 9 pounds 4 ounces. Mrs. Hoelscher is the former Melissa Pevehouse, daughter of Joe and Beverly Pevehouse of Midland, Tex. Hoelscher is employed at Lenco, and is the son of Olga Hoelscher of San Angelo, Tex...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A two-week bridge-sounding project will get under way here Monday. The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department announced Friday that the bridge sounding crew would start drilling for the proposed bridge over Interstate 55, about 1,700 feet south of Bloomfield Road...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city's Historic Preservation Commission is promoting a new program, "Vanishing Missouri," that seeks old photos for publication in the state's official reference manual. Secretary of State Roy Blunt has asked Missouri residents to submit pre-1940s photographs for publication in the "Official Manual of the State of Missouri."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Southeast Missouri State University continues to search for a new vice president of business and finance to replace Betty Fulton. Fulton is resigning to return to full-time teaching. Her resignation takes effect Friday. She is scheduled to resume teaching economics classes full time this fall, said Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president at Southeast...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The 1980s was a decade of striking, but subtle social change. Although violent political uproars far from symbolized the decade, attitudes and lifestyles changed dramatically. "It was a time when people just wanted to re-do things, they just wanted to straighten things up," said Cindy Ross, 24, of Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Being on the verge of becoming an adult in the 1990s almost automatically means you have a lot on your mind. Ask some high school seniors what they think about most and you'll hear answers that are nothing like you would have heard 10 years ago...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- On the heels of a high-energy and turbulent 1960s, the 1970s saw a return to quieter times; but not before the decade was well under way. In the transition period of the 1969-70 school year, 1,792 anti-war demonstrations brought about 7,561 arrests, eight deaths and 462 injuries. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ask most any adult to select the stormiest decade of the century, and the response would be the 1960s. Nearly every part of America was challenged - its politics, laws, attitudes, sociological mores, authority, and more. More than 2 million Americans took to the streets in anti-war demonstrations that resulted in 9,000 casualties, 200 deaths and 70,000 arrests. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Sociol~ogists looking back at the 1950s could well call it the decade of the "Cs." It was, after all, the decade that America witnessed the new conformity, conservatism, a Communist scare, a Cold War, censorship, common sense, Chuck Berry, corporate power, crinolined skirts, Perry Como, crewcuts, Davy Crockett, cocktail parties, and commuting...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- With a population of about 10,000, Cape Girardeau, like most small towns across the nation, suffered in the 1930s from high unemployment and financial hardship as the country reeled from the effects of The Great Depression. But the troubled times also fostered a deep sense of community as residents here were more than willing to "lend a helping hand" to neighbors in need...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Most young men and women graduating from high school are concerned about the future. The thoughts of what career to choose or whether to enroll in college normally weigh heavily on their minds. But in 1941, when Mack Estes graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School, such thoughts were supplanted by the encumbrance of national service...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- It was a time of street cars, excursion boats and the dawning of the jazz age, and the fledgling Southeast Missouri city of Cape Girardeau was steeped in the "Roaring '20s." Three residents of Cape Girardeau remember well the 1920s as a time of innocence, prosperity and growing community pride...

THANK YOU TO the sponsors who brought the St. Louis Symphony to Cape Girardeau. It was a wonderful, wonderful concert. I feel that everyone there enjoyed it immensely. I hope that they will return to Cape Girardeau again and possibly perform in the Show Me Center, where more people would be able to hear their wonderful music. Thank you...

A person should declare for himself, every once in a while, an Aunt Polly Day. Such a day isn't noted on a calendar nor does it appear in any book describing holidays or any other special kind of day. Only a few persons scattered up and down the river valley community knew, first hand, what such a day would be like. They were Aunt Polly's contemporaries...

At left, the cyclists ride to the starting point of an eight-mile course. Above, Jim Schneider, left, cycling coach for the St. Louis Spirits, synchronizes watches with Bill Logan. Brian Glaspell pedaled trance-like on a stationary bicycle while an array of wires and tubes fed information about his cardiovascular efficiency into high-tech equipment...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Michael J. Roarty, executive vice president of Anheuser-Busch Companies Inc., St. Louis, will be luncheon speaker during a day-long business conference to be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus April 2...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Localities trying to woo industries looking for new plant sites play against one another other in a mutual game of high stakes poker. As site selection executives narrow the process down to the finalists, the players remaining around the table play their best cards - advantages their communities have that others do not...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jana Jateff recently held a Mary Kay Cosmetics hostess appreciation meeting at the Victorian Inn here. Patty Gains was named "high hostess" of the month and received a hip-length black rabbit fur coat. Sonya Lappe of Bonne Terre was named Queen of Retail Sales and received a dinner ring. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- If you're a bartender in a small area of Southwest Missouri, you can figure on a salary range of $4.25 to $5.25 an hour. That's in addition to tips. If you're a bus driver, you may be in the range of $420 to $520 for a 40-hour week...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Amy Elizabeth Snyder has joined the Targeted Publications Department of the Southeast Missourian as an account representative. Snyder, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a B.S. degree in mass communications, with an emphasis in advertising, is a native of Charleston...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Sung Won Choi, of Seoul, Korea, was a visitor at the Rotary Club of Cape Girardeau last week. Choi, director of the Taechang Company, Ltd. in Seoul, is in the U.S. to investigate the possibility of locating a clothing manufacturing plant in the U.S...

JACKSON -- Stephen M. Grebing of Jackson has joined the Jack D. Hollingsworth Agency of Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL). As an AAL district representative, Grebing will call on Lutherans and their families in Altenburg, Dexter, Doniphan, Friedheim, Frohna, Kennett, Longtown, Malden, Piedmont, Poplar Bluff, Shawneetown, Sikeston, Uniontown and Van Buren...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A downtown new and used office equipment company which opened this week is under new ownership and has a new name. Office Furniture World was founded Friday when Cape Girardeau businessman Frank Klueppel assumed operations of the OFMCO Company, located at the corner of Independence and Main, in the former Montgomery Ward building most recently occupied by Cheatham's Furniture...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Richmond A. Payne, Holly Rust Payne, and Wes Wade, of Marcon Enterprises, Inc., joined hundreds of specialty advertisers to the 1991 Winter Specialty Advertising Showcase, held at Dallas, Texas, recently. The emphasis of the conference, titled "Excellence `91," was on educational workshops on customer care, diagnostic selling, telemarketing and becoming a promotional agency...

NEW MADRID -- Heartland Industries Inc. of Dexter is expanding to New Madrid. The company, which has developed technology to recycle waste tires in an "environmentally-sound" manner, will recycle from three to five million tires annually at the new facility, which will be located on a site adjacent to the slack water harbor of the New Madrid County Port Authority...

JACKSON -- Pam Sander, CPA with the accounting firm of Stanley, Dirnberger, Hopper and Associates, will be guest speaker at the general membership meeting of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce Monday. Sander will present an update on the changes in the tax laws for 1990 and 1991...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Larry Neville has been named manager of the new Venture store which will open in University Mall here next month. Neville has 20 years' retail experience. He worked of JCPenney 15 years before joining venture in 1985. He has been serving as a co-manager at Venture's Paducah, Ky., location...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Joe Crain, a Cairo native, was one of six finalists in the Gavin Media Professionals smaller markets "Music Director of the Year" competition at San Francisco recently. Crain, the music director and assistant program director for WIXX-FM, Green Bay, Wis., is the son of Bill and Sharon Crain of Cairo...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Warren Cash has been named service manager at Sears here. Cash, a native Kentuckian, has been with Sears 24 years, most of them in the Louisville area. His responsibilities here will be in customer service in the home appliance, heating and air conditioning, and electronic departments...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The 1991 Home Show will be held at Southern Illinois University Arena here March 1-3, hosted by the Homebuilders Association of Southern Illinois. A wide variety of seminars will be held, with topics ranging from new-home constructions to remodeling and interior decorating of existing home, and lawn care...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ted J. Hahn, account representative for Horace Mann Insurance Co., was honored recently at the annual Missouri Agency Kick-off meeting, held at Tan-Tar-A, Lake of the Ozarks. He received five awards (1) annuity agent of the year, (2) first among Missouri Horace Mann agents in total productions and 12th in the entire company, (3) Life Agent of the Month, (4) group agent of the year, ranking number one in the entire company, and (5) Honors Medical Division honors for $2.5 million in production.. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Susan Cole has joined Bridgeport Realtors, 109 South Broadview, as a broker-salesperson. Cole has almost 10 years' experience in real estate sales, and is a life-time member of the Million Dollar Sales Club. She is a native of Cape Girardeau, and graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. She is a member of the Centenary United Methodist Church, PEO Chapter and Zonta Club...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A course in beginning WordPerfect 5.1 is starting March 12 at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School. The six week class, which costs $35 plus book, will be held 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. "This course is designed to acquaint students with word processing software on IBMs," said Karen Wunderlich, adult business and office education coordinator. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Small Business Development Center at Southeast Missouri State University will conduct counseling sessions for area small business persons and individuals planning business ventures at three locations this month. Gil Degenhardt will be available for sessions from 10 a.m. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dates have been established for two Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce "open" board meetings. The first open meeting will beheld March 19, with another one scheduled Sept. 17. Both meetings will be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus...

ST. LOUIS River traffic has increased on the upper Mississippi River. "Record tonnages have been reported on the locks and dams along the Mississippi within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District," says Anson Eickhorst, chief economist for the St. Louis District...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Icon Electronics Corp., founded in October of 1989 when the former Lenco Inc. Electronics Division was disbanded, recently acquired the electronics testing equipment from NIC, which purchased the Lenco company during its bankrupt proceedings...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- McFarland's Restaurant, 24 S. Spanish Street in downtown Cape Girardeau, has reopened its doors after a three-month hiatus. Some changes have been added but most of the operation carries on with the familiar status quo. Customers entering the front doors are greeted, usually by their first name, and with a mug of good strong coffee. ...