Stories from Friday, February 22, 1991

The American business community faces challenges not only with competitive marketplaces but with often inhibiting regulations created by its own government. The line that separates necessary rules from those that create undue or prohibitive hardships on the nation's commercial enterprises is frequently hard to distinguish. ...

Establishment of regional presidential primaries sounds like a better idea than it is. Sen. Alan Dixon of Illinois has resurrected the proposal by introducing legislation to divide the country into eight regions for purposes of holding the primaries. This is his third try...

You've heard about the generation gap, fabled in story and song. Here's what it is: people casting a critical eye on those who came before and those who come after. No one is satisfied and nothing could be more cleansing. It is a sweet toxin and natural as breathing...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Central High School Orchestra hopes to raise about $5,000 in the next few weeks to help fund a concert tour to Washington, D.C. The orchestra, along with the school's choir and band, will make the trip March 23-28, during the school's spring break...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Larry Horman of Patton Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:57 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, 1991. Name, Hannah Dawn. Weight, 6 pounds 5 ounces. Mrs. Horman is the former Angela Thorne, daughter of Eldon and Velda Thorne of Patton, and is a crew leader at Hardee's in Jackson. Horman is employed at Gilster-Mary Lee at Perryville and Straightway Feed in Jackson. He is the son of Mary Horman of Chaffee and the late Larry Horman...

JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County coordinator for emergency preparedness Thursday told members of the League of Women Voters that the area has a good emergency management plan. But the emergency official, G. Brian Miller, also encouraged the league to continue to work to inform residents of the need for disaster planning...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Construction activity has been at a near standstill in the Centre of Cape Girardeau shopping strip development during the past year but that may change in the near future. "We want to make some things happen there," said Jack Davis, president of Futura Properties, Inc., St. Louis. "There's a strip of vacant buildings just south of Food Giant Grocery and we'd like to see them filled."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A committee investigating the possibility of a 911 emergency system for Cape Girardeau County will be touring the communications center in Washington, Mo. today. An upgraded 911 system went on line in Washington in July 1990. A six-member committee from Cape Girardeau County will develop recommendations on equipment and financing of a 911 system. The committee is visiting various cities throughout the state with enhanced 911 systems...

STE. GENEVIEVE - State Rep. Herb Fallert is hoping that he has a compromise that will satisfy both agricultural and tourism interests about when schools should open each fall. Several years ago, the General Assembly passed a law requiring schools to open after Labor Day, largely because of concerns from the state's tourism industry that schools were starting too soon. The early openings reduced August vacations and dried up youth labor pools in mid- to late August, tourism officials complained...

PERRYVILLE -- A seat on the Perryville Board of Alderman vacated by the death of former Board President Robert V. Pirrie may be filled by early March. Perryville Mayor Robert Miget said he is narrowing a list of possible replacements and may appoint one of those people by the board's next scheduled meeting March 6...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Ralph Ford, a longtime member of the Cape Girardeau County Republican Central Committee and the party's state committee, has been elected chairman of the GOP county committee. Ford was elected at a central committee meeting on Tuesday to replace Roger Ellis, who held the post for nearly four years. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Some City Councilmen are upset that the Golf Course Advisory Board this year apparently won't recommend the city hire a professional manager at the Jaycee Municipal Golf Course. Last year, council members particularly Al Spradling III said they wouldn't support a fee increase at the city's golf course unless a "golf pro" was hired to manage the course and improve its condition...

SGT. BRUCE MENARD U.S. ARMY SSgt. Menard is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Don Menard of Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Central High School in 1978 and attended Southeast Missouri State University for two years. While a student there, he was a member of the Delta Chi Fraternity...

Lacewell's name and position as a social worker were listed in a sentence about four people who spoke. His name and position were followed by a semicolon, which was intended to offset him from the fourth person, who is a member of the Socialist Workers Party. However, the name of the fourth person was not listed. (RAN 2-24-91, PAGE 14A)...

PERRYVILLE -- Joseph Aloysius Hayden, 78, of Perryville died Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991 at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 12, 1912, the son of Lon L. and Lunnette Magdelen Brewer Hayden. He was a retired dairy farmer. On Nov. 9, 1933 in Perryville he married the former Lucille E. Hoffman. She survives...

ANNA, Ill. -- Billy Gene Graves of Anna died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1991, in Tulsa, Okla. He was 46 years old. He was born Sept. 1, 1944, in Anna, son of John Franklin and Mamie Elizabeth Gibbs Graves. Survivors include two sons, Brian Graves of Michigan, Billy Graves of Anna; mother, Mamie Graves of Anna; four sisters, Gerri Patterson and Janice Murray of Anna, Shirley Penrod of Flint, Mich., Donna Long of Mounds; three brothers, Leon Graves of Tulsa, Vernon Tibbs of Jackson, Mo., and Charles Tibbs of Orville, Ohio.. ...

ALTENBURG -- Funeral service for Mrs. Alma Irene Holt of Altenburg will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. Willard Kassulke will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons East Perry Chapel after 5 p.m. Saturday and until 11 a.m. Sunday...

PERRYVILLE -- The name of a surviving daughter was incorrectly listed in the obituary Thursday of Mrs. Ida M. Klaus of Highland, Ill. The daughter is LaVerne Barber of Highland. Other survivors include a sister, Lydia Klaus of Jackson; three grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren...

CANALOU -- Funeral service for Mrs. Grace Mae Hastings of Canalou will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Burial will be in Matthews Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. Mrs. Hastings, 81 years old, died Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Georgia E. (Jodie) Westmoreland of Chaffee will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Kelly Tolbert will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

ANNA, Ill. -- Frank Johnson of Anna died Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born Nov. 17, 1917, in Dongola, son of Guy and Iva Casper Johnson. Johnson was a member of First Baptist Church, Anna Masonic Lodge, Order of Eastern Star, and Operating Engineers Local in Paducah, Ky...

CHAFFEE -- Woodrow Freeman, 76, of Chaffee died Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991 at Chaffee General Hospital. He was born Dec. 13, 1914 in Chaffee, son of William and Mary Black Freeman. Freeman worked as a foreman for the Ford Motor Company in Ramsey, N.J. He retired in 1970...

SIKESTON -- Beulah F. Luber, 67, of Sikeston died Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born July 9, 1923 in Brinkley, Ark., the daughter of John Walter and Emily Henrietta Holder Boatner. She was the owner-operator of the SEMO Beauty School in Sikeston for over 20 years...

CHARLESTON -- Flora Emily Regelsperger, 86, of Charleston died Tuesday, Feb. 19, 1991 at the Charleston Manor Nursing Home. She was born Oct. 6, 1904, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marion Steward. She was a housewife. On May 20, 1944, she married Isidor Jake Regelsperger, who preceded her in death in 1974...

PERRYVILLE -- Louisa M. Weith, 94, of Perryville died Thursday, Feb. 21, 1991 at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Feb. 14, 1897, daughter of William Difani and Mary Cissell Difani. She is survived by two sons, Jack W. Weith, Jackson, G. James Weith, Philadelphia; three sisters, Ulva Phillips, Ft. Worth, Texas, Cleta Govro, Perryville, Willie Slagle, Tucson, Ariz., 15 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren...

BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Orville William Duncan of Bloomfield will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Kevin Eskew will officiate, with burial in Bloomfield Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Blood supplies locally have shot up since the start of the Persian Gulf War, and an official with the American Red Cross said the war effort has kept local hospitals supplied to the maximum level during the normally high-demand winter months...

COLUMBIA -- The Missouri Conservation Commission will hold its regular monthly meeting March 1 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center here, starting at 9 a.m. Commission meetings are open to the public. John Powell of Rolla is Commission chairman. Other members of the four-man board are Jerry P. Combs of Kennett, Andy Dalton of Springfield, and Jay Henges of St. Louis...

DECATUR -- The Illinois taxidermist Association will hold its annual spring convention March 2-3, at the Holiday Inn Conference resort here. Taxidermy display will be exhibited both days, starting at 9 a.m. Various taxidermy awards will be presented during the Saturday evening banquet...

GOLDEN POND, Ky. A weekly fishing report which gives lake elevations, water temperature, weekend weather forecast, and fishing updates for various species and fishing tips is now available for Kentucky and Barkley Lakes. The report is changed each Thursday, following checks with various marinas, bait shops and fishing guides...

MOLINE, Ill. -- The Illinois Waterfowlers Alliance Regional duck and goose-calling contest will be held at the Moline Viking Club here March 2. Roy Rhodes, the 1990 world duck calling contest, will be one of the judges for the contest. The regional duck calling contest here is a sanctioned contest of the World Championship Duck Calling contest, and the winners qualified to compete in that event, held at Stuttgart, Ark...

DONIPHAN -- Eileen Melton of Doniphan recently captured first in the Missouri Department of Conservation's annual Trout Stamp Competition. Melton painted a scene of a man casting for a rainbow trout. This is the second time around for Melton, who won the competition in 1987...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A "Bart Simpson Beach Party" is the theme of this year's American Red Cross Swim-A-Cross planned for March 9 at the Central High School pool. The Cape Girardeau Chapter of the American Red Cross will sponsor the 11th annual event, where participants will swim laps or jog to raise money for the organization. Participants will recruit sponsor commitments of a minimum of 10 cents per lap...