Stories from Sunday, March 10, 1991

To the Editor: Those of us connected with Southeast Missouri State University are gratified by your editorial of March 6 in which you argue that the university, despite a recent tuition increase, is still a good educational value. But your injunction to "look at student fees as a true user tax" is about as short-sighted as it is possible to be. ...

To the Editor: In response to a Southeast Missourian editorial captioned "Taxpayers should carry their anger to Congress," I suggest that citizens do just that. Fiscal irresponsibility on Capitol Hill is a national disgrace and voters must demand that it be stopped...

To the Editor: This is in regard to the article published in the Friday, February 22nd issue of the Southeast Missourian in which the City Council addressed the issue of hiring a city golf course manager. I feel that there is no need to have a golf pro at the J.C. Course. Hiring someone in this profession is costly; not only is his salary very high, but they usually get a revenue from the pro shop and the cart rental. Currently, this revenue is retained by the city and put back into the course...

Legislators from this region are taking a leading role at the state and national levels to designate English as Americans' "official language." Some may view the measure as irrelevant; those who don't might regard it as discriminatory. In fact, the measures being offered in the Missouri General Assembly and the U.S. Congress show foresight and good reasoning, providing a means to head off a problem before it exists. The measures are worthy of consideration...

The Jesus Seminar, a group of 200 biblical "scholars" last week concluded six years of voting on the accuracy of those statements attributed in the Gospels to Jesus. Their conclusions? Most of the words attributed to Jesus likely were made up by later authors...

My compliments and congratulations to the Coach Ed Arnzen and his Southeast Missouri State Otahkians for the remarkable tournament showing that has made us all so proud of them. We appreciate all your hard work and the rewards that you have earned. I have to confess considerable amusement at the eagerness with which so many CongressPersons and SenatorPersons now want to change the subject on their January "NO" votes on whether to go to war...

FROHNA -- Fire of undetermined origin has destroyed the West End Tavern in Frohna. Don Boettcher, chief of the Frohna Volunteer Fire Department, said the familiar landmark and all contents are a total loss. In addition to the tavern, Boettcher said the one-story, wooden-frame building housed a small restaurant, grocery store and barber shop. Only an adjoining meat-cutting room and cooler room were saved, he said...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Fifty-one artists from each of the 50 states and District of Columbia will be represented in a touring exhibit running through March 26 at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. "The National Invitational Drawing Exhibition," organized by Emporia State University in Emporia, Kan., is touring under the auspices of Exhibits USA, a national division of Mid-America Arts alliance...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority has purchased about 170 acres of land from West Lake Quarry that could spur port development, a port authority official said Saturday. Allan Maki, executive director of the port authority, said the property was acquired Friday in an out-of-court settlement, ending a two-year effort by the port to purchase the land...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Three people were killed and another critically injured in a house fire early Friday morning that has been described as the worst residential fire here in 46 years. The fire gutted a 2-story, wood-frame home at 731 N. Spanish. Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Carpenter identified the victims as Linda Terry, 18, and her stepsister, Lisa Probst, 16, both of whom lived in the house, and Ruby Simmons, 18, of Flat River...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Marvin Rosengarten has an added incentive to secure the funds necessary for Southeast Missouri State University's new athletic complex. "I have to make sure we get the rest of the money for the complex or there won't be any place to put the name on it," quipped Southeast's director of athletic development...

HN. JOSEPH H. GILMORE, III U.S. NAVY RESERVE HN Gilmore is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gilmore Jr., of Cape Girardeau. He is a Navy "Doc" assigned to the 2nd Marine Division out of Nashville, Tenn. He joined the Navy Reserves in 1987, and his unit was trained at Camp LeJeune, N.C. in November. He was deployed to the Persian Gulf on New Year's Eve...

ANNA, Ill. -- Gene Reineke, director of the Illinois Department of Central Management Services, will be speaker at the annual Union County Republican Lincoln Dinner to be held Saturday at the Sunshine Inn Community Center in Anna. A buffet dinner will be served at 6:30 p.m. and will be followed by a tribute to the U.S. troops serving in the Persian Gulf...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "Hospitals are not very efficient." When O.D. Niswonger, recently retired administrator at Southeast Missouri Hospital, said that Friday in a speech at Drury Lodge, he was not referring to inefficient health care, but to costs involved in a hospital's day-to-day operation...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Wanted: One three-story "run-down" Victorian home. Lyn Muzzy, director of the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau, is looking for an old home here to be used as a location set for a TV movie. "Salloum Productions is looking for the structure to be used for filming the movie, `Yellow Wallpaper,'" said Muzzy. "We'll be taking some pictures of various structures in the Cape Girardeau area and submitting them for evaluation."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Tina McCloskey, a seventh-grader at L.J. Schultz Middle School in Cape Girardeau, was the first runner-up in the District Spelling Bee held Saturday at Sikeston Middle School. The district champion was Laura Cato of Poplar Bluff Junior High School...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city's recycling efforts got a boost when Wahlco/DW Tool donated a forklift to the Recycling Center. The forklift will be used to move pallets of recyclables at the drop-off center in the Public Works building. Doug Kaminskey, the city's environmental services coordinator, said Friday he's pleased not only with the forklift donation, but the benefit of securing a new market for recyclable plastics...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Members of Louis K. Juden American Legion Post 63 will have a birthday dinner Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. at the post home as part of the legion's observance of its worldwide 72nd anniversary. The auxiliary will provide a covered-dish meal. Missouri American Legion Commander William R. Ball will be the speaker...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Linda Sue Terry, 18 years old, of 731 N. Spanish, died Friday, March 8, 1991, in a fire at her home. She was born July 29, 1972 in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Michael Wayne Terry and Clara Frances Probst. She was a senior at Cape Central High School and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Wilford J. Murphy of 1530 Whitener, died Saturday, March 9, 1991, at the Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and are being handled by Ford & Sons.

JACKSON - Minnie Evelyn Harris of the Monticello House in Jackson died Saturday, March 9, 1991. She was 89. Harris, who died at the Monticello House, was born Oct. 21, 1901 in Summersville, the daughter of Thomas L. and Jenive Dunivin Love. On June 16, 1922 she married Daniel E. Harris, who preceded her in death...

FLAT RIVER -- Ruby Agnes Simmons, 18, of Rt. 33, Flat River, died Friday March 8, 1991, in a house fire at 731 N. Spanish in Cape Girardeau. She is the daughter of Robert Simmons of Alabama and Nancy Jenkins Simmons Sample of Flat River. She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Sister Mary Magdola Knaup, a former teacher at St. Mary's Cathedral School in Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, March 7, 1991. She was 85. She died at the Villa Gesu Retirement Home for Sisters of Notre Dame in St. Louis. She taught at St. Mary's from 1970 to 1984 before retiring because of ill health. In addition to Missouri, she taught at schools in Mississippi, California, and Illinois...

MARBLE HILL -- Service for Elvia I. Roth was held Saturday at Baker Funeral Chapel of Lutesville, with Rev. George Young officiating. Burial was in Old Union Cemetery. Roth, 80 years old, of Marble Hill, died at Bond Nursing Care Center, Thursday, March 7, 1991...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Lisa Hope Probst, 16, of 731 North Spanish, died as a result of a house fire on Friday, March 8, 1991. She was born Sept. 27, 1974 in Cape Girardeau to James Probst and Jackie Malone Probst. She was a student at Cape Central High School and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ in Cape Girardeau...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- John Wayne Schnurbusch, 43, of Nantucket Island, Mass., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, March 8, 1991 at his home in Nantucket. He was born Feb. 2, 1948 in Cape Girardeau to Ralph and Tillie Recker Schnurbusch. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War, a member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church and the Men's Council-Curisillo. He was a former member of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees...

JACKSON -- Ernst O. Fuehler, 82 years old, of Jackson Route 1, died Saturday, March 9, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born June 13, 1908 at Oak Ridge, son of Paul and Matilda Schmidt Fuehler. He married Lillian Thauwald on March 5, 1935 at Shawneetown. She survives...

ANNA, Ill. -- Service for Mrs. Helen Louise Allen will be held Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the Crain Funeral Home in Anna, with Rev. George Pitts officiating. Burial will be in Mission Chapel Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral mass for Lucille Kinkelaar of Marble Hill will be said at 10 a.m. Monday at St. John's Catholic Church in Leopold. The Rev. Michael Casteel will officiate. Mrs. Kinkelaar died Thursday at her home. She was 79. She was born Nov. 4, 1911 in St. Louis. On Sept. 6, 1948, she married Leonard Kinkelaar, who preceded her in death March 2, 1991...

DONGOLA, ILL Mertie E. Cozine, 90, of Dongola, died Friday, March 8, 1991, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. She was born April 2, 1990, in Johnston County to Lemuel K. and Sarintha Jane Furguson Adams. In 1920, she married Fleatus Elmer Corzine. He proceeded her in death in 1940...

ANNA, Ill. - Helen Louise Allen, 65, of Anna, died Friday, March 8, 1991 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 13, 1925 in Union County, the daughter of Arthur Maine and Mary Ethel Sims Linton. She married Howard F. Allen May 10, 1941...

DONGOLA, Ill. - Dorothy Rochel, of Route 1, Dongola, formerly of Chicago, died Friday, March 8, 1991 at her home. She was 63. She was born in Chicago Feb. 22, 1928 to Otto and Catherine Abhan Hoffman. She was married to Richard Rochel. She is survived by her husband, who lives in Dongola; a daughter, Linda Kelley, and sons Kevin, Daniel and Gary Kelley, all of Chicago; two step-children, Diane Churillo of Dongola and Richard A. ...

VANDUSER -- Arnold Miles, 73 years old, of Vanduser, died Friday, March 8, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born April 14, 1917, in Oran, son of George Hilary and Birdie O'Neal Miles. He married Theola McArthur in August 1948. She died in 1958. He married Frances Sievers in May 1962. She died in 1985...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Janie Bell Edwards of East Prairie was held at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. James Bolden officiated and burial was in the East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Edwards died Thursday at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was 79...

MILLERSVILLE -- Gilbert Lee Daniels, 66, of Millersville, died March 8, 1991, at his home. He was born Oct. 25, 1924, at Bernie to Edward Orville Daniels and Pearl Annis Daniels. He was a retired truck driver and worked for Consolidated Forwarding of St. Louis...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Marty Menz of Delta, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:52 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, 1991. Name, Jodi Marie. Weight, 6 pounds 4 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Menz is the former Jerri Bond, daughter of Sue Bond of Oran and Jerry Bond of Delta. She is employed by Dr. Karen Yates. Menz is employed at Fruitland Dressed Meat...

An association member had previously reported incorrectly that the meeting would be held Tuesday night. CAPE GIRARDEAU The Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Chateau Girardeau. Sharon Sanders, Southeast Missourian librarian, will present "A Pictorial History of Cape Girardeau" and slides of past and present buildings in Cape...

Since early September, Army Spec. 4 Jerry A. Walls has been in Saudi Arabia. His mother, Nona Walls of Scott City, said excerpts of his frequent letters to her and to his 5-year-old daughter, Miranda, provide a look into what daily life is like in the desert...

Rounding the end of a high-shelved store aisle a day or two after the war's end, I ran into an old friend, the revolving seed rack. My mind has been so recently full of war thoughts and concerns, early planting time had slipped up on me. I was unprepared for this encounter, but it was so good. ...

The month of March is the begining of the real garden work. Garden activities pick up considerably this month as warm, longer days give the signal to many spleeping plants to awaken. It is the snowdrop that first peeps its head above the ground, often as soon as snow has melted. They grow in clusters and send up tiny white drooping flowers, with bright green dot trim on their irregular petals, and often grew wild as a menace in the orchards...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Traci Smith has been named service assistant at the Country Companies, Insurance and Investment Group. Smith, a graduate of Cape Central, attended Sanford Brown Business College at St. Louis, graduating with a degree in secretarial/computers...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Michael J. Ballou has been named general sales manager of Y105 Radio here. J. Mark Huffman, president of Chartres Media Inc., announced the appointment recently. Ballou is currently the Missouri sales representative for WSIL-TV. Previously he was sales manager for KWOC-FM Radio in Poplar Bluff, and KEZS in Cape Girardeau...

COLUMBIA -- Paul F. Roth, formerly of Cape Girardeau, president of Texas Division of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Co., Dallas, is one of five engineers who was honored Friday by the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Engineering and the Engineering Foundation for their service in the engineering profession...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Keith Sander has joined South East Missouri Bank as an assistant vice president-consumer loan officer. Sander has 11 years' experience in the banking industry. "A lot of that has been in real estate and consumer loans," said Sander...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Southeast Missouri Area Labor-Management Cooperation Committee, an association comprised of local business, labor, and community leaders, reached a goal this week. For more than a year, the group has been working on an agreement between area building contractors and area representatives of local building trade unions for a "Memorandum of Understanding."...

(First of two in series) CAPE GIRARDEAU Sears Roebuck & Co. was to be celebrating its 50th anniversary of operating in Cape Girardeau by opening the doors of a new store in West Park Mall this spring. And West Park Mall was thinking of celebrating the opening as part of its 10th anniversary observance...

ULLIN, Ill. -- A Career/Job Fair will be held at Shawnee Community College in April. The event, scheduled April 17, is the first of its kind at Shawnee College, and is expected to draw businesses and participants from Southern Illinois and surrounding areas...

JACKSON -- Four hair stylists and fashion consultants from The Style Shop, Highway 61 East, Jackson, recently participated in the Zotos Trend Release, "Expansion," held at Henry VIII Hotel in St. Louis. Aleda Phillips, Zotos International designer; Bobbi Jo Renner, associate Zotos designer; Brenda Stokes and Ruth Evans, hair designers and cosmetic and fashion consultants, were among the approximately 1,500 persons who attended the new spring/summer hair show...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Shirley Gelsheimar of Sikeston was winner of the $1,100 diamond ring which was presented during West Park Mall's 10th Anniversary Celebration last weekend. Other big winners included Nancy Anthony of Advance, $500 shopping spree at Famous Barr; Mark Hayes, Scott City, $500 shopping spree at JCPenney; and Jo and Brenda Bless, Scott City, $500 shopping spree at Venture...

Attends show CAPE GIRARDEAU Holloway Floor Covering, 831 S. Kingshighway, has expanded its services by adding an interior design department. Interior designer Lisa Pobst has joined the staff. "We have had freelance designers in the past," said company president Eugene Holloway. "This new department will be located in the store and be available full time. On site service will be available."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A.M. Spradling Jr., of the law firm of Spradling & Spradling, will be guest speaker during the March 15 meeting of the Cape Girardeau Association of Life Underwriters. Spradling will discuss wills and trusts during the noon meeting, to be held at the Holiday Inn Oak Room...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The former Fischer's Market, a neighborhood grocery store for 50 years, is being converted to a church. The building, located at the corner of North West End Boulevard and Harmony Street, has been unused for almost four years since the grocery closed...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dennis J. Vollink has been promoted to president of Drury Development Corporation, according to spokesman Robert A. Drury, who is president of Drury Industries, the parent company of Drury Development. Vollink was appointed vice president last year. He joined the company ten years ago and had served as a construction engineer...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Del Wakley of Milwaukee, manager of eastern operations for the retail sales development arm of the national Newspaper Advertising Bureau, will join other speakers at a day-long business conference, to be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus here April 2...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ann Swanson, manager of Gulliver's Travel Agency, recently returned from a week's tour of Copper Canyon in northern Mexico. Swanson also visited El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, prior to boarding the Copper Canyon train in Chihuahua...

JACKSON -- Marc Cook has been promoted to marketing manager for Northeast Diesel Service of Jackson. Cook, who has been involved in the mining and trucking industry for a number of years, and had been serving as sales and public relations representative for the firm, is also currently working toward a degree in marketing at Southeast Missouri State University...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Rainbow Counseling services opened here recently. The new business, which offers Christian counseling along with drug abuse and other counseling, is located at 1440 Kurre Lane, and is open six days a week by appointment. "We'll be offering a variety of services," said Betty Statler, M. A., L.P.C., who opened the service. "We'll offer diagnosis services and social evaluations for schools, agencies, industries, and courts."...

CARBONDALE, Ill. -- A satellite office of the Illinois World Trade Center will open in the Southern Illinois Small Business Incubator at Southern Illinois University here. Rhonda J. Vinson, executive director of the university's Office of Economic and Regional Development, and Robert Newtson, president and general manager of the Chicago-based trade center, make the joint announcement recently...

JACKSON -- Rapco International Inc. announced Friday that its principal financial investors Capital Resource Lenders and C1 Capital had committed additional funding to the company. The new funding brings the Capital group's commitment to over $5 million since its initial involvement in 1989...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Holly Rust Payne of Concord Printing Services, recently attended the National Association of Quick Printers (NAQP) Executive Conference, held at Nashville, Tenn. Concording Printing Services received two national awards at the convention one of them the noted NAQP Sam Tract Attaboy Award...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Regional Commerce And Growth Association (RCGA) will conduct a membership drive throughout the area March 13-14. "We have identified some local prospects and hope that interested business leaders will contact us about membership," said Jim Riley, membership drive chairman...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Glik Stores, headquartered in Granite City, will donate all proceeds from the sale of Desert Storm T-shirts, sweatshirts and buttons to military family support services. Proceeds will go to Scott Air Base's Air Force Family Support Center, which benefits families of Air Force, Marine and Naval personnel, and to the Melvin Price Army Support Center at Granite City, which benefits Army personnel...

KANSAS CITY -- Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A., Inc. established an all-time record for car sales in its Kansas City region in February. "Our Toyota dealers in the six-state region sold 1,673 new cars in February, an 8.1 percent increase over February of 1990," said Jim Byers, general manager of the region. "This also broke a record established in February of 1981."...