Stories from Sunday, January 24, 1993

We have our new president. He campaigned almost exclusively on domestic issues, especially the economy. He pledged to focus his immediate attention on dealing with, if not solving some of the multitude of problems besetting America at home. That's what Bill Clinton fully intended, but the world does not stand still for even the best of political intentions. Vexing international dilemmas are on the Clinton presidential plate and they necessitate immediate attention. The most vexing is Iraq...

Cape Girardeau businessman Earl Norman was presented the John T. Crowe award Friday night in recognition of his innovative efforts to promote the region. Norman, president of Health Services Corp. of America, headquartered in Cape Girardeau, was honored at the fifth annual banquet of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association. Over 450 people attended...

ZALMA -- Funeral service for Elvis Luther Walker of Zalma was held Saturday at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Keith Price officiated, with burial in Berrong Cemetery near Gipsy. Walker, 89, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 1993, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center...

In May of 1988, Southeast Missouri State University decided to make the transition to Division I. But it wasn't until the fall of 1991 that the move became a reality. University officials pointed to many advantages of Division I - both in the sporting arena, and in recruiting of students...

State employee unions want $200/month increase" "UAW sets organizing drive for Missouri state employees" We are witnessing the opening scenes of a major battle that will determine what sort of state Missouri becomes as we head into the 21st century...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Esther Thorne of Anna will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Chapel here. Steve Shepherd will officiate, with burial in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until time of service. Thorne, 80, died Thursday, Jan. 21, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

LAKELAND, Fla. Arthur "Pete" Simpson, 76, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died at the Lakeland, Fla. Convalescent Center on Jan. 12, 1993. He was born Dec. 29, 1916 in Cape Girardeau, son of Arthur and May Underwood Simpson. He worked for General Motors in Michigan until he retired. He lived at Whitewater until moving to Florida eight years ago...

COBDEN, Ill. -- Kyle Eugene Kissar, 8 months old, died Friday, Jan. 22, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 23, 1992, at Carbondale, son of Ronald E. Kissar and Candice Johnson. The parents survive. Other survivors include maternal grandparents, Marvin and Karen Sperry of Dongola; maternal great grandparents, Collin and Marie Newberry of Dongola; maternal great, great grandmother, Irene Johnson of Dongola; paternal grandparents, Larry and Carolyn Kissar of Dongola; paternal great grandmother, Erna Franklin of Grand Tower, Ill.. ...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Dimples E. Hileman, 66, of Mill Creek, died Friday, Jan. 22, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 23, 1926, in Mill Creek, daughter of Guy and Minnie Harvel Smithey. She was married to Wayne Hileman in Jackson, Mo., in 1941...

Does anyone want one of the oldest buildings in Cape Girardeau? The short answer is yes. The Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation Task Force, charged with scouting for ways to buy and maintain St. Vincent's Seminary as a museum, will hold its first meeting Monday afternoon...

(First in a series) Private funding has been a big-time player in Southeast Missouri State University's move to NCAA Division I athletics. University officials and athletic boosters say private funding totaling about $1.3 million in cash and $100,000 to $200,000 in in-kind gifts and services has been vital to the Cape Girardeau school's ability to move up from Division II to Division I...

Southeast Missouri State University's booster club has been a big backer of the institution's move to Division I athletics. Carl Ben Bidewell of Poplar Bluff is an ardent booster and president of the school's Board of Regents. He was a member of the board when the decision was made to step up to Division I of the NCAA...

CHAFFEE -- Two children died about midnight Friday and their parents were hospitalized with serious burns from a fire that destroyed their mobile home near Chaffee. Scott County Coroner Scott Amick said the two children, Dewayne Andrew Sadler, 6, and Ashley Dawn Sadler, 7 months, died of asphyxiation from smoke inhalation...

Cape Girardeau public-school officials have set a $25 million price tag for improvements that would be carried out under an upcoming bond-issue proposal. That $25 million would buy two new school buildings, an addition to Jefferson Elementary School, earthquake resistance, air conditioning and electrical updates for existing buildings...

A Cracker Barrel Old Country Store opens Monday off Mount Auburn Road, between Holiday Inn and Doctors' Park. Stephen Price is general manager of the restaurant and gift shop, which will employ about 180 people. Ken Lovasz is senior associate manager and John Amelotte and Michael Stone are associate managers...

Attorney General Jay Nixon announced Saturday the creation of a Drug Prosecution Task Force in his office, which will be a team of experienced prosecutors ready to assist local authorities in drug cases. Creation of the task force was a promise he made during his campaign last year. Nixon made the announcement at a luncheon speech in Cape Girardeau, hosted by the area chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police. Law enforcement officers from around the area attended the event...

Styles of leadership, motivating workers, and steps in the process for planning and organizing work activities by construction supervisors were among topics discussed during a three-day workshop conducted at the Holiday Inn last week. More than 30 people from area companies, including Girardeau Contractors Inc. and Penzel Construction Co., attended the workshop, titled "Introduction: The Construction Supervisor."...

CAIRO, Ill. -- The Cairo City Council is faced with a "lose-lose" situation in a $6 million federal civil lawsuit filed against the city by the family of a man who was shot to death by a Cairo police officer in December 1991. "Even if we win the suit we still lose," said Cairo Mayor James Wilson. "Legal expenses are a concern. We can be out a substantial sum of money and Cairo can't afford that."...

MARION, Ill. -- The Marion junior and senior high bands are hosting their fourth annual craft fair on March 13-14 at the Marion High School. The craft fair will feature handmade crafts from a multistate area. There will also be refreshments and free parking available...

The Army Corps of Engineers Motor Vessel Mississippi V, now nearing completion at a Mississippi shipyard, will make its first stop at Cape Girardeau this spring on its maiden voyage up the Mississippi River to St. Louis. The occasion is the start of the annual High Water Inspection Tour held each April by the Lower Mississippi River Commission at Vicksburg, Miss...

Memorial service for Arthur Mehrle Jr. of Houston, Texas, was held Wednesday at Trinity Episcopal Church, with the Rev. Garrett Wingfield officiating. Mehrle, 69, died Monday, Jan. 18, 1993, in a Houston hospital. He was born Feb. 4, 1923, in Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Tulane University, attended Chrysler School of Management in Detroit, Mich., and the School of Business Management in Oxford, England...

Louie Mae Wilkinson, 93, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Patton, died Friday, Jan. 22, 1993, at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 9, 1899, at Marquand, Mo., daughter of Henry Jefferson and Emma Ella Hawn Slinkard. On March 26, 1922, she married Leslie Wilkinson. He preceded her in death in June of 1983...

SIKESTON -- Terry Wilburn, 39, of Sikeston, died Friday, Jan. 22, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 30, 1953, at Sikeston son of Melvin and Bessie Wilburn. He married Barbara Overton on Dec. 23, 1987. She survives...

Mary Marguerite Horton, 76, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died at her home in Osprey, Fla. Thursday, Jan. 21, 1993, in Osprey , Fla. She was born Nov. 9, 1916, in Fredericktown, daughter of the Rev. E. C. Ellis and Mary Gregory Ellis. She married Frank Horton on Feb. 26, 1949, in Cape Girardeau. He survives...

JACKSON -- Joe Kurre Jr., 55, of Route 4, Jackson died at his home Friday, Jan. 22, 1993. He was born Sept. 9, 1937, at Cape Girardeau, son of Joe Kurre Sr. and Linda Marie Pierce Kurre. He married the former Florence Zoellner on March, 29, 1959. She preceded him in death on March 29, 1985...

CHAFFEE -- Cora Nordin, 76, of Route 1, Chaffee, died Friday, Jan. 22, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born in Kelso, July 27, 1916, daughter of Adam and Rofina Schlosser Schaefer. She was retired from the housekeeping department at Thorngate Ltd...

Albert B. Dankel, 89, of 615 Sycamore Circle, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 1993, in his home. He was born Dec. 27, 1903 in Tilsit, Mo., son of Charles and Sophie Wolpers Dankel. He married Irma Umbeck Sept. 20, 1928 in Cape Girardeau. Dankel was a member of the Evangelical United Church of Christ in Cape Girardeau...

Vivian M. Nichols, 80, of 611 South West End Boulevard, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 21, 1912, at Leora, Mo., daughter of Leroy and Ethel Wright Hyslop. She formerly worked at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was a member of Red Star Baptist Church and the Cape Garden Apartment Bible Class...

FARRAR -- John B. Muench, 82, of Farrar died Friday, Jan. 22, 1993, at Cape LaCroix Nursing Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 15, 1910 in St. Louis County, son of Emanuel and Barbara Buettner Muench. He married Norma Olga Schuessler on April 17, 1932. She survives of Farrar...

NEW MADRID -- Funeral service for Florence Lee Masterson of New Madrid was held Saturday at First Pentecostal Church. The Rev. Orvil McKinney officiated, with burial in Mounds Park Cemetery. Richards Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Masterson, 90, died Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

Funeral service for Alicia Jane Gozora of Clear Spring, Md., was held Friday at Zion Lutheran Church in Williamsport, Md. The Revs. W. Gregory Martin and Afred Smith and Vicar Anke Deibler officiated, with burial in Greenlawn Memorial Park at Williamsport...

BENTON -- Funeral mass for Coletta Barbara Hebenstreit of Benton will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Denis Catholic Church. The Rev. Art Basler will officiate. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery in St. Louis. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Benton after 2 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Edgar G. Nagel of Southaven, Miss., will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Steve Howell will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-9 p.m. today...

LEOPOLD - William J. Landewee, 87, of Leopold, died Saturday, Jan. 23, 1993, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 10, 1905,in Leopold, son of Herman and Mary Engelen Landewee. On April, 11, 1934, he married Rosa Beel. He was a retired farmer and a member of the St. John's Catholic Church in Leopold...

Memorial service for Herman W. Marshall, Cape Girardeau Route 1, former postmaster here, will be held at 4 p.m. today at St. Mark Lutheran Church. The Rev. Craig Nessan will officiate. There is no visitation. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Carrel A. Anderson of Chaffee was held Jan. 15 at Cook-Walden-Forest Oaks Funeral Chapel in Austin, Texas. Anderson, 73, died Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1993, in Austin. He was the son of Mary and Alfred Anderson of Chaffee. Survivors include his wife, Georgia; three daughters; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, and a sister, Claudia Lynch of Cape Girardeau...

CHAFFEE -- Dewayne Andrew Sadler, 6, and Ashley Dawn Sadler, 7 months, died early Saturday morning, Jan. 23, 1993, in a house fire. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Amick-Burnett Funeral Home. They were children of Andy and Janie Menz Sadler...

In the middle of the seminary's circle drive off Morgan Oak Street, which actually is the rear of the building, words inscribed on the pedestal of a statue of Christ read: "You have not chosen me but I have chosen you." Those who were chosen were visited by several calamities during the seminary's long life, including one flood that destroyed all the college's crops and an epidemic that killed two members of the faculty early in its history...

FOR SALE: 150-year-old former religious educational institution, scenic view of Mississippi River; 23.38 acres plus another 4-acre tract with river frontage. Includes two tennis courts, two handball courts, swimming pool, 2,100-square-foot maintenance building, 5,000-square-foot gym. Main building 52,600 square feet and approximately 75 rooms, includes offices, libraries, meeting rooms, classrooms, sleeping space for 100, spacious chapel with red carpet...

Unless you keep hinges oiled on the often-used doors they will eventually develop a squeak. Like thumbprints, I imagine there are no two squeaks alike. My back door, the one most used, has developed a squeak. It might be its 150th rendition. If opened slowly it sounds exactly like the goldfinch that feed nearby. Not the goldfinch chatter, but the sweet, little low-toned songs they sing when their stomachs are full and they are sitting in the sunshine on the telephone wires...

African Violets are more than 100 years old. They had their birthday last year and now are almost 101. It was in East Africa's mountains that Baron Adalbert Emil Walter Radcliffe Le tonneux von Saint Paul-Illaire (How's that for a moniker?) found them in 1892 and gave them their official name Saintpaulia...

Tourism is big business in Missouri, surpassed only by manufacturing as the largest revenue-producing industry in the state. A detailed study prepared for the Missouri Division of Tourism reveals that the tourism and travel industry contributed more than $11.2 billion to the state's economy in 1991. Direct expenditures by tourists accounted for $7.8 billion of the total...

Cape Girardeau Produce and Repackers Inc. has begun operations. "We repack produce," said Tom Frudden, a partner in the company. "We purchase tomatoes, onions, potatoes and other vegetables in bulk. We package the vegetables in tubes, small baskets or boxes, and ship them to retailers."...

Helping Hands Computer Service has opened in Cape Girardeau. Michael Busby of Cape Girardeau and his wife, Merrie, are owners of the company. The business offers a number of services, including medical claims service, a "You Select" diet service; assistance in finding financial aid for college students; and a mailbox system...

Thomas R. Higgins, special representative in Cape Girardeau for Franklin Life Insurance Co., has earned one of the company's top sales honors. Higgins qualified for the company's Centurion Club based on outstanding personal sales totals. Franklin, headquartered at Springfield, Ill., has more than 3,000 sales associates serving approximately one million policy owners in the U.S...

Birdie Rader, broker-associate with Century 21 Key Realty, has achieved the level of centurion for 1992. It is the fourth year Rader has achieved the honor, which goes to the top 2 percent of Century 21 sales associates worldwide. Rader had more than $5 million in gross closed sales in 1992...

When Norverta Velez talks about food to go, he's really talking about a very fancy dinner to go. Velez is owner of the Healthy 'n Delicious Restaurant, an on-wheels operation on Town Plaza Shopping Center's parking lot in the 2100 block of William. "This is a home-cooking operation featuring a lot of low-fat, low-cholesterol foods," said Velez. "At this time all of our food is prepared to go."...

Judy Moss, economic developer for the city of Cape Girardeau for three years, is now a business and industry specialist with the University of Missouri-Columbia. "I work with the Extension Division," said Moss, one of two certified economic developers in the UM Extension system...

Coming up: Monday: Jackson Chamber of Commerce general membership meeting, Delmonico's, Jackson, 6 p.m. Tuesday: Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors, Mr. B's, The Gathering Place, 8:30 a.m. Feb. 5 Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce annual meeting and dance, Show Me Center, 6 p.m., social hour; 7 p.m., dinner; 9 p.m., dancing...

When students join a new deckhand training program at Shawnee Community College near Ullin, Ill., they get more than classroom training. "We take them on board a boat where they receive hands-on training," said Don St. Arbor, the college's new coordinator and instructor of the deckhand program...

Capital Bancorporation Inc. has announced a number of promotions effective Dec. 31. They are: Lisa J. McDowell, from assistant vice president to vice president. McDowell, of Jackson, has been with the bank since 1980. Richard E. Robert, from assistant data processing manager to vice president and assistant data processing manager. Robert, of Cape Girardeau, has been with the bank since 1987...