Stories from Sunday, August 4, 1991

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Word has been received here of the death of Letha Lucille Shamhart Dodge. Dodge, of Newton, Ill., formerly of Olive Branch, Ill., died Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991, at Newton Resthaven Nursing Home. Dodge, 83, was born Oct. 9, 1907 in Jasper County, Ill., daughter of Charles and Mary Shamhart...

SCOTT CITY -- Belle Barbeau of Scott City died Thursday, Aug. 1, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Barbeau, 97, was born May 9, 1894, at Oran, daughter of Achan Misplay and Elizabeth Mason Misplay. She married Jesse E. Barbeau on Sept. 10, 1911, at Sikeston. He preceded her in death Dec. 6, 1943...

Calvin C. Vogelsang, member of VFW Post 3838 in Cape Girardeau, has been appointed to a national committee for that veterans organization. He will serve on the convention committee on national by-laws, manual of procedure and ritual. Vogelsang was appointed to the position by VFW commander-in-chief James L. Kimery...

One concern of Southeast Missouri State University in jumping to Division I athletics is that fan support will wane in the transitional years, a university basketball coach told area business people Friday. "As we head into Division I, we hope people will accept the fact that we won't win 80 percent of our games," said Ed Arnzen, coach of the university's Otahkian basketball squad that finished second in the nation during its final year in Division II...

Former Sen. Tom Eagleton's column, printed alongside here today, makes many valid points and is, as usual, worth reading. He concisely and accurately describes the crushing burdens of urban governance that have shrunk his beloved City of St. Louis, leaving huge stretches of its north side looking almost like Berlin, 1945. Few there are who would dispute the Eagletonian conclusion that "Metropolitan St. Louis cannot flourish with a cancerous core."...

PATTON -- Life is painful for an 8-year-old suffering from the effects of and treatment for leukemia. But thanks to the Make-A-Wish Foundation and the employees of the Cape Girardeau Procter and Gamble plant, life will be a little more enjoyable for Robin Johnson...

Two articles, side by side in last Sunday's Post Dispatch, highlight the demise of the city of St. Louis as a viable governmental entity. Editor William Woo focused on racial politics of St. Louis and wrote: "One example of what I mean was the unanimous opposition of blacks to placing Forest Park under joint city-county ownership. ...

I WANT TO thank the person who called in letting me know that cocker spaniels could spend the winter on the outside as long as they had a nice, warm place to stay. I really appreciate the information. Thank you. THE GRAYS POINT school reunion was a great success. Almost 150 people attended from many states. Three teachers from the late 20s and early 30s were present. Just want to thank everyone for all the work and help. We will see you next year. Thank you very much, Speak Out...

PERRYVILLE -- The Auxiliary at Perry County Memorial Hospital has donated $10,000 to the hospital to be used for front lobby furnishings and the gift shop. The Auxiliary also purchased 18 Emergency Response Units, or Medi-Mates. The units are for people who live alone and are handicapped or have a health problem. The units allow the person to alert the hospital of a problem by simply pressing a button...

Southeast Missouri Hospital's School of Nursing will start classes Monday morning in its new facility, located at 2851 Professional Court. Sixteen area students will make up the first class, which offers a one-year program of licensed practical nurses wanting to become registered nurses...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Delmas C. McIntosh, 70, of Dongola, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at his home. He was born Feb. 16, 1921, in Dongola, son of William A. and Mary Arminda Lingle McIntosh. On Oct. 15, 1941, he married Fern Schluter. She survives. Other survives are two daughters, Judith Ann Riggin, Elgin, Ill., and Pat Medlin, Dongola; one son, Delmas M. ...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Pearl May DuRall, 85, of Mounds, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo, Ill. She was born March 8, 1906 at Ullin, daughter of Joshua and Norah Ledbetter Stull. She was preceded in death by her husband, John H. DuRall, in 1985...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Katy Polston, 67, of Cairo died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Cairo, the Daughters of Isabella, the Alter Guild of the church, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Ladies Auxiliary...

SCOTT CITY -- Manda Julia Dunger, 89, of Scott City died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 3, 1902 at Kelso, the daughter of Henry and Mary Roth Peetz. On April 18, 1922, she married William Henry Dunger. He died on July 28, 1988...

PERRYVILLE -- Lawrence "Lonnie" A. Tarrillion, 86, of Perryville, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 1991, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born March 31, 1905, at Milheim, son of Peter and Mary E. Horrell Tarrillion. He was a member of St. Vincent de Paul church of Perryville...

Winifred Knehans Schulz, 78, of Columbia, originally from Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at Lenoir Health Center in Columbia. She was born July 31, 1913 at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Oscar and Amelia Zimmerman Knehans. She had worked for the finance department of the federal government in Washington, D.C., St. Louis, and Indianapolis...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Pauline S. Cobb, 83, of Benton, formerly of East Prairie, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, a Missouri Delta Medical Center, Sikeston. She was born April, 11, 1908, daughter of Louis and Cora Dunn Long. She was a member of the Pulltight Church of God near East Prairie...

EAST PRARIE -- James Franklin Smith, 71, of East Prairie, died Saturday, Aug. 3, 1991, of a heart attack. He was born April 18, 1920 in Carrie Mills, Tenn., son of James F. and Bessie Brice Smith. He lived in Mississippi County most of his life where he was a farmer and carpenter...

Barbara Jean Jaco, 907 South Sprigg, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was 47. She was born Feb. 26, 1944 in Dearborn, Mich., daughter of Edward and Helen Anna King Paynter. She was waitress at the Pasta House Restaurant for five years. She was a member of the Potter's House...

Vera A. Gentry, 81, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991 at the Bond Nursing Home in Marble Hill. She was born in Southeast Missouri Sept. 10, 1909 to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Robert Young. Gentry lived in Cape Girardeau for a number of years, but for the past year has lived at the nursing home. While living in Cape Girardeau, she worked as a waitress at various restaurants...

CHARLESTON -- Arthur Lee Goodin, 73, of Charleston, died Friday, Aug. 2, 1991, at Baptist Central Hospital in Memphis. He was born Sept. 8, 1917, in New London, Ark., son of Arthur S. and Betty Williams Gooden. After his natural parents died, he was adopted by Mr. and Mrs. Walter Lee...

The North Central Association of Colleges and Schools is expected to take final action this week on the reaccreditation of Southeast Missouri State University. While this status is not exactly surprising (the university has an outstanding track record with the association) it should not be regarded lightly. The reaccreditation resulted from a great deal of hard work and soul-searching, and the North Central report documents the good health of a vibrant local institution...

A crowd of more than 1,400 people turned out for Fly Cape Aviation Days Saturday, despite sweltering heat that prompted many spectators to seek shade beneath the wings of some of the huge aircraft displayed. The open house and air show at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport continues today, from noon to 5 p.m...

Marriage and divorce rates in Cape Girardeau County over the past decade have remained fairly constant, but a family counselor says issues these families face are changing. The average number of marriages in Cape County for the 10-year period is 748. The average number of divorces is 330...

The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday will consider whether to adopt its own financial disclosure law for city officials. The action would put the city in compliance with new ethics requirements mandated by the Missouri General Assembly. The council also will conduct public hearings on new utility franchises with Union Electric and on next year's city property tax rate...

Ninety graduate students and 225 undergraduates will receive degrees at Southeast Missouri State University's summer commencement Friday at the Show Me Center. Ernest L. Kern, winner of the 1990 Faculty Merit Award, will present the commencement address...

She may have been dressed up like a nurse, but Mandy Johnston, 11, saw herself years in the future as a doctor. Mandy and her cousin, 7-year-old Carrie Maloney, both of Jackson, were just two of the children Saturday at West Park Mall who donned surgical gowns and masks, along with stethoscopes, as make-believe surgeons and nurses...

PERRYVILLE -- Perry County Memorial Hospital has begun offering a new type of gallbladder surgery that greatly reduces the recovery time, costs, scarring and pain involved with traditional gallbladder surgery. The procedure, called laparoscopic cholecystectomy, is considered a breakthrough because is eliminates the need for an incision...

WASHINGTON -- Congress last week gave final approval to the 1991 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, which includes continued funding of the Cape LaCroix Creek-Walker Branch flood control project in Cape Girardeau. The House approved the bill by a vote of 399-32, sending the measure to the Senate, which approved $10.3 million for the Cape Girardeau project Wednesday...

Mary Poppins would be proud: her tradition of practical but tender care for tots is being carried on thanks, in part, to Annie's Midwestern Nannies. Nannies from Southeast Missouri are being exported to New England under the direction of Mary Susan Trainor, who discovered a need for live-in child care and developed a business to meet that need...

If I want a little mini-vacation for myself, one that will leave me reassured that America is still on a steady foundation, give me a sense of security and erase from my mind, at least for a while, the horrible things that are going on in the big cities, all I have to do is drive by or walk through the corn fields of America...

Can it be August so soon? Where has the summer gone? It seemed we would never get the annuals set out this spring and now the struggle is to keep them alive. This is a difficult month in the garden because the hot, humid, dry weather is not conducive to working outside. However, there are still garden chores to be done and one must get these accomplished in early morning or late afternoon...

Following are unemployment rates for counties in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois, with June figures first, followed by May figures and June of 1990 figures. Southeast Missouri Bollinger: 11.8, 12.6, 7.7. Butler: 9.0, 9.5, 6.3. Cape Girardeau: 5.2, 5.0, 3.9...

"Extra size means extra comfort in the new Oldsmobile... "The body is bigger, the seats are wider, the interior is roomier, and the performance is livelier... "Stops are few and far between ... Olds needs so little gasoline..." Although the words above were written a half-century ago to describe a new Oldsmobile sedan, they can be hauled out of the Oldsmobile archives to describe the company's latest family car the Oldsmobile 88 Royale LS introduced to news media representatives and St. ...

When you think of a family sedan, you think of a bulky, two-ton, four-door set of wheels designed for comfort, not looks. That's not the case with the Oldsmobile Eighty Eight Royale LS. The vehicle has more than its share of head-turning quotient, blending the sensibility of a four-door sedan with the sleek look and feel of a sports car...

A year ago, the unemployment rate in Cape Girardeau County was at one of its lowest points of the year, at 3.9 percent, with more than 35,000 of its work forces employed. That was in June of 1990. A year later, the unemployment rate had edged up to 5.2 percent, but more than 34,700 people are still employed in Cape County...

William R. Vickery of Cape Girardeau has opened a "voice mail" service for the area. "Voice Mail is a voice-activated system that allows individuals to call a central phone number, enter an identification code, and leave or retrieve their messages," Vickery said. "And for additional flexibility the system can forward message to another local phone number automatically."...

Bill Needham Designs of Cape Girardeau has added carpeting to its line of decorating products. "We have added a new designer line of quality carpets in a wide range of patterns, textures and colors," Needham said. "This new carpet line will complement our existing custom window treatments and bedspread lines."...

NEVADA -- Farm and Home Financial Corporation had a 61 percent increase in net income for the second quarter of 1991, jumping from $2.8 million to $4.5 million. Its earnings doubled for the first half of 1991, reaching $8.7 million, compared to $4.3 for the first half of 1990...

JACKSON -- Bangert Ford Tractor Sales, Highway 61 East, has received national honors from Stihl Incorporated. The Jackson firm received the Stihl Gold Medal for customer service, sales performance and in-store product merchandising. Stihl, a leading manufacturer of chain saws, trimmers and related outdoor power equipment, has more than 8,000 dealers nationwide. Only a few dealers receive the gold medal certification...

Chris Wrigley, vice president of Associated Industries of Missouri (AIM), will be speaker during a "Understanding Wage Garnishments" seminar to be held Aug. 27 at the Holiday Inn. Wrigley, who has researched and coordinated the development of several publications concerning the Federal Consumer Credit Protection Act of 1979 and its impact on the Missouri Garnishment Laws, will discuss the employer's responsibility in meeting requirements of the law...

A historic building in downtown Cape Girardeau has been purchased to expand an existing business. Doc and Karen Cain of Cape Girardeau bought the building at 40 N. Main St., which extends to 39 N. Water St. It is adjacent to their antebellum building at Water and Themis streets, which houses Port Cape Restaurant and Lounge and River City Yacht Club...

FORT WORTH, Texas Burlington Northern (BN) Railroad Company has announced two promotions. James B. Dagnon, who has been senior vice president, labor relations for BN since 1987, has been appointed to senior vice president of human resources and Donald W. Scott has been named vice president, corporate support services...

David Goncher, an agent with Minnesota Mutual Life Insurance Company, has been recognized for sales achievements for the first half of 1991 by the JR Mentel District agency of St. Louis. Goncher was the leading salesman for life and disability insurance products for the agency for that period...

Janet and Don Presson of Keyboards and Kindermusik recently attended a workshop in Dallas, Texas, where they received certification in the latest teaching techniques utilizing digital keyboards, sound modules, sequencers, and computers. Mayron Cole, a noted author, composer/publisher and teacher, was instructor at the workshop...

KFVS-12 television in Cape Girardeau has made two staff changes in its sales department. Darla Gale Matlock has been promoted to Missouri sales manager from her previous position of account executive, according to general sales manager Jim Wareham. She previously was sales manager for KGMO/KAPE radio in Cape Girardeau and for WKHK/WPVA radio in Richmond, Va. ...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Liz Curtis Higgs, a humorist from Lousiville, Ky., and Kathy Buckley of California will be keynote speakers during the annual Women Aware Conference to be held at Three Rivers Junior College at Poplar Bluff Aug. 8. This year's theme is "The Juggling Act." Women have many responsibilities that they juggle daily marriage, children, career, homemaking, friendships...

Roger Champ has joined the staff of I.V. Care Inc., 63 Doctors Park. The firm provides in-home intravenous infusion therapy to patients. It includes medical, anesthetic and nutritional service. "This is for patients who require IV therapy but are medically stable, not requiring hospitalization. It is an alternative setting to a hospital," said Randy Morse, who owns the firm...

Stereo One Inc., an audio and video store, will move to a building under construction at 345 S. Kingshighway from its present location at 240 Silver Springs Rd. "The 10,300 square foot facility will expand Stereo One's display and service areas by 30 percent over its present operation," said company president John Selby...