Stories from Wednesday, December 26, 1990

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Henry Neef, 94 years old, of 2525 Boutin Drive, died Monday, Dec. 24, 1990, at the Cape LaCroix Manor in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 15, 1896 in Cooper County, son of Frederick A. and Sophia C. Wehling Neef. He married Annie L. Glazier in 1925 in Cooper County. She died in 1955...

If General Walker is gagged, it's now Saddam's move. He may make the move that has been whispered around Washington for a couple of months: partial withdrawal, "the nightmare scenario." An absolute, unqualified, unequivocal and total pull out from Kuwait is what President Bush wants, but it's a price Saddam can't pay even if D-Day is now in February. It's pretty hard to justify a zero minus result to a nation still recovering from the miscalculation of the eight-year war with Iran...

ONE OF MY pet peeves is when people call and let the telephone ring two or three times, and before you get to the phone they hang up. Please give people time to get to the phone. Thank you. TO THE PERSON WHO called in on Dec. 19: Where did you get this information that Iran was going to drill from the border side of Iraq and get it sideways? Please get your information straight. Thank you...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Niswonger of Chaffee Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:11 p.m. Monday, Dec. 17, 1990. Name, Joshua Keith. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. Mrs. Niswonger is the former Sharon Bell. Niswonger is a dispatcher with Union Electric Co., and is the son of Jess and Jane Niswonger of Jackson...

PERRYVILLE -- Service for Woodrow Wilson will held be Thursday at 10 a.m. at Young & Sons Chapel with Rev. Jerry Statler officiating. Burial will be in Home Cemetery in Perryville. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Wilson, 78 years old, was born Nov. 25, 1912 at Temple, Tex., son of Hershel B. and Alice Harris Wilson...

GLEN ALLEN -- Funeral service for Evia M. Toombs of Glen Allen will be at 1 p.m. today at the Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill. The Rev. Clinton Maffa will officiate and burial will be at the Grassy Cemetery. Mrs. Toombs died Sunday at the Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. She was 78...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Walter J. Oberndorfer of Cape Girardeau will be Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel. The Rev. David V. Dissen will officiate, and burial will be at Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Oberndorfer died Sunday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was 82...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Alvin P. Zickfield, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Dec. 24, 1990 at the Lutheran Home. He was born Oct. 16, 1905 in Cape Girardeau, the son of August Zickfield and Augusta Friederide Zickfield. He married the former Edith Cargle. She preceded him in death in 1978...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Service for Kathryn M. Stein will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel, with Rev. S. S. Borum officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Leona Snedeker, 96 years old, of Dongola, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1990, at 11:38 a.m. at the City Care Center in Anna, Ill. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Crain Funeral Home in Dongola.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- James Locust, 424 Jefferson in Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Dec. 25, 1990, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Homes.

In the medical field, one becomes accustomed to change. New equipment and techniques constantly upgrade hospitals and medical facilities and services. Come Tuesday, Southeast Missouri Hospital will experience a distinct kind of change. After 29 years in administration, O.D. Niswonger will retire. In turn, James Wente will take over the helm...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Robert A. Price of Mounds, Ill. will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Jones Funeral Home in Villa Ridge, Ill. The Rev. Jerry Herring will officiate and burial will be in New Hope Cemetery, east of Ullin, Ill. Mr. Price died Sunday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was 76...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Loretta E. Lively will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at the St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church. The Rev. Art Basler will officiate and burial will be in St. Marys Cemetery. Mrs. Lively died Tuesday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was 80...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Ernest G. Lawrence of Perryville will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church in Perryville. The Rev. Henry Grodecki, C.M., will officiate and burial will be at St. Marys City Cemetery. Mr. Lawrence died Monday at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was 79...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. Wilbur Thornton Meek, former chairman of the Social Science Department at Southeast Missouri State University, died Dec. 8, 1990 at a Knoxville, Tenn. nursing home. He was 90 years old. Meek taught at Southeast, beginning in 1962. He retired as chairman of the Social Science Department in 1970 at the age of 70...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Christmas season for 1990 is ending. Before packing the ornaments and other decorations give some thought to why certain things have remained popular for many years, and continue to be used in homes and public places. When tin became available, it was the fashion to handcut a piece of tin in the shape of a star for the top of the tree. ...

Weeks before the New Madrid Fault was expected to quake, a word-conscious critic announced that the advance warning was not a prediction, it was only a projection. I consulted American Heritage about "projection" and settled for number 3: "a plan for an anticipated course of action." Number 7 seemed to be the choice of many: "the naive or unconscious attribution of one's own feelings...