Stories from Sunday, March 24, 1991

ANNA, Ill. -- Catherine Burlison, 70, of Anna died Saturday, March 23, 1991 at her home. She was born Aug. 27, 1920. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Anna and was a retired dietitian at the Choate Mental Health Center. She is survived by one son, Kerry Neal of Cobden, and by two grandchildren and one great granddaughter...

Dear Editor: This is an open letter to all parents, teenage students, schools, and other interested folks. I would like to take this opportunity to talk to everyone who is concerned about our kids in school. Who cares about our kids' future? Who cares about the relationship between parents and children? Who cares about our country's education system?...

Dear Editor: A recent column by Peter Kinder ask the question how gay liberation plays in Peoria. The column concerned the St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York in which Mayor David Dinkins marched with Irish homosexuals rather than lead the parade. For several miles along the parade route, he was routinely booed and showered with beer...

Dear Peter Kinder: Like a shot from the dark, Dr. David Clark's sudden passing hit me, too! I was too shook up to write at that particular time, those words of appreciation, but you did it for me in The Missourian, March 7. You said it even better. Thank you!...

Dr. Neyland Clark of Sherpherdsville, Ky. will lead the Cape Girardeau Public Schools as its new superintendent. We welcome Dr. Clark to our community. His good-natured manner and innovative ideas are appealing. His "team" approach promises to involve the staff in changes that may await the district. We feel he is a good choice, and we're not alone. Feedback from staff and community to the board rather overwhelmingly favored Clark...

While spending a weekend at the Lake of the Ozarks, Governor Ashcroft discovered some illegal fishing traps. Probably put there by Democrats hoping to catch a live senatorial candidate. --- Despite two Republican senators, the Pentagon has targeted Missouri for large civilian employment reductions, canceled McDonnell-Douglas weapons contracts and ordered a sizable cut in National Guard units. Without Danforth and Bond, the military would probably have targeted the state with Patriot missiles...

As we contemplate the possible implosion of Iraq, we might recollect the genesis of its creation: oil. David Yergin puts it this way in his recent book The Prize: "World War I had made it abundantly clear that petroleum had become an essential element in the strategy of nations; and the politicians and bureaucrats, though they had hardly been absent before, would now rush headlong into the center of the struggle, drawn into the competition by a common perception that the post-war world would require ever greater quantities of oil for economic prosperity and national power. ...

I NOTICED YOU didn't print what I called in about thefts from Bollinger County. Well, you can bet your boots if it had been Wayne Cryts it would have been printed. Remember the way you smeared his name all over the paper when he stole his own beans? Thanks for nothing...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- A Cape Girardeau woman was injured in an accident Saturday and a Villa Ridge man was charged with leaving the scene of the accident. Illinois State Police reported that Jennifer Schearer, 19, of Cape Girardeau, was injured in the accident on Mounds Road three miles west of Mounds at 11 a.m. Saturday. She was treated and released from St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

Dear Editor: Just recently former Mayor Tooke listed the Cherokee and Shawnee Parks as two of the outstanding projects accomplished during his terms in office. I am glad he recognized the importance of these parks and publicly recognized them. Perhaps it would be interesting for the citizens of Cape Girardeau to know just who was responsible for the city of Cape Girardeau to have the opportunity to purchase each tract...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Otto F. Dingeldein will be held at 2 p.m. today at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Lawrence Eatherton will officiate. Burial will be at 10 a.m. Monday at IOOF Cemetery in Bismarck, with the Rev. Charles Dickinson officiating...

BLOOMFIELD -- A memorial service for Robert C. (Plupe) Buck will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at the Methodist Church here. Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Buck died Thursday, March 21, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. A native of Bloomfield, he was the son of James B. and Nina Duncan Buck. He attended Westminster College in Fulton, and was manager of Buck Store Co. here many years...

Dear Editor: How I wish every voter in Cape County could have been on the Cape County Transit van when I made this month's trip to the Delta area. There I picked up seven women passengers who qualify to ride the van as senior citizens of this county. They all were looking forward to their trip to Cape Girardeau although for two it meant a trip to the doctor's office...

SIKESTON -- Funeral mass for Dow L. White of Farmington, formerly of Charleston and Sikeston, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at St. Francis Xavier Church here. The Rev. Amel Shibley will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel after 5 p.m. Monday...

State Senator Roger Wilson, D.-Columbia, a former educator, visited here this week to explain to educators and to the public why Missourians need to dig deep for nearly a half-billion dollars in new taxes for education. He was generally well received as he explained the need for the $462 million tax hike, the largest in state history, which he and the Senate majority voted to place before the voters. ...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Freddie Wolfe, Sr., 36, of Poplar Bluff, died March 21, 1991 at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born Jan. 2, 1955 at Kittanning, Penn. to Helen Chaplin Wolfe and the late Edwin Lee Wolfe Sr. He married Judy Goodwin on Nov. 7, 1977. She survives...

SIKESTON -- Victor Lee Raby Sr., 66, of Sikeston died Friday, March 15, 1991 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Oct. 24, 1924 in New Albany, Miss., the son of Albert and Maggie New Raby. He is survived by three sons, Levey Raby, George Raby and Victor Raby, all of Sikeston; two daughters, Vickie Wyman, Sikeston, Edna Anderson, Granby, Mo., and 11 grandchildren...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Florine I. Winkler of Perryville will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Vincent's Church. The Rev. Edward Wilson, C.M., will officiate, with burial in Mt. Hope Cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home after 3 p.m. today, and from 6:30-9 a.m. Monday. A wake service will be held at 7 tonight, with the Ladies Sodality of St. Vincent's Church participating...

(Game story on Page 1B) CAPE GIRARDEAU - The Southeast Missouri State University Otahkians were unable to overcome the final hurdle in their quest for an NCAA Division II women's national championship Saturday. But the 81-74 setback to North Dakota State didn't send the record attendance, some 7,064 Otahkian fans, scurrying out of the Show me Center when the final buzzer sounded...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- As of May 1, cable television subscribers in Cape Girardeau and Jackson will be paying more for the service. But they will also benefit from increased programming as the result of the addition of some cable channels to the system, including Cinemax and the Prime Sports Network, said Roger Harms, general manager of TCI Cablevision in Cape Girardeau and Jackson...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Three Republican state officials made it clear here Saturday night that they do not believe a primary race for governor next year would have a detrimental effect on the party. Still, only one of the three - State Treasurer Wendell Bailey - acknowledged he was definitely in the race. Bailey formally announced his candidacy earlier this year...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The attorney who prosecuted Ray Copeland says the convicted serial killer has "finally received his just due." The attorney, Kenny Hulshof, former Cape Girardeau County assistant prosecuting attorney who now works for the state attorney general's office, said: "It came out during testimony that, for over 40 years, he's been abusing the criminal-justice system. I just think a jury finally told Ray Copeland that he must be held accountable,"...

SPEC. 4 GARY B. KNOTTS U.S. ARMY Knotts is the son of Mr. and mrs. Ervin Knotts of Chaffee. A member of the Missouri National Guard since 1986, Knotts was deployed to Saudi Arabia Jan. 18th from Fort Sill, Okla. Just this week, his mother said he had been notified he would be stationed in the Middle East until the fall...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Edu~cators across the state are expressing interest in a new reading program set to begin in Cape Girardeau next year. Training for the program, called Reading Recovery, will begin at Southeast Missouri State University during the fall semester...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The MO BUCKS program is money in the bank as far as the state's economy is concerned, says State Treasurer Wendell Bailey. "It's the number-one program in the nation in linked deposits," Bailey said during a visit Friday to Cape Girardeau, where he announced $6.8 million in state deposits will be used to create 272 jobs spread among three Cape Girardeau area manufacturing firms...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- U.S. Rep. Glenn Poshard is visiting every county in his 22nd District of Southern Illinois. "I need to make myself available to answer questions, discuss issues, and, where I can, solve problems for people in Southern Illinois," said Poshard. "Town meetings are a good opportunity for that, and I invite everyone to come out and participate."...

JEFFERSON CITY - During his first 10 years in the Missouri House of Representatives, Dennis Ziegenhorn had it made. The Sikeston Democrat avoided getting caught up in the Capitol political scene; he dodged the ego building, backslapping efforts practiced regularly by lobbyists and special-interest groups on legislators, and made no secret of the fact that he'd rather be home in Sikeston than working in the Capitol...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - Volunteers gathered Friday to make plans for the American Cancer Society residential campaign. The annual education and fund-raising campaign is scheduled for April, which is also designated "Cancer Control Month." Volunteers will be going door to door in Jackson and Cape Girardeau, and throughout the rest of the county, said Adelaide Parsons, county chairman of this year's drive. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Members of the Perry County Board of Education and a consultant are expected to come up with two or three finalists for the position of district superintendent following a weekend retreat. A spokesperson for the board said the retreat was being held at an undisclosed location that was not in Perryville and was expected to end late Saturday...

Cape Girardeau superintendent Arthur Turner for the past 16 years has strived to lead a strong public school system for students and the community. Along the way, he has been quick to share credit for the successes. "This is not my story. It never has been," Turner said. "It's a story about progress and success for the district."...

Jerusalem, Judea Scribe Jonathan Spring, 30 A.D. Salome and Zebedee, prominent citizens from Bethsaida by the Sea of Galilee, arrived recently in Jerusalem. They had come, so they said, to observe the Passover, a Jewish feast day dating from the time their people had been liberated from slavery in the Land of Goshe, Egypt...

SPRING IS HERE! Wednesday was the day of the vernal equinox the official beginning of spring when the day and night are the same length, which came at 9:02 p.m. Spring means daffodil time, and this year they were opening well on the first day of spring. Often, they come earlier and sometimes later, but this year many of them were ushered in with spring...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jerry Walters, dean of the evening school and chairman of the department of art at Mineral Area College, will present a slide lecture of his work Monday at 7 p.m. in room 300 of the Art Building on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "The stereotypical truck stop has died. It's extinct as dinosaurs," said Gene Rhodes, who is building a new truck stop to replace the existing one he built 25 years ago south of the city along Interstate 55. "The old concept went out with deregulation," he added. "The market is much tighter and more competitive now."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Along with the expected conveniences and services, Gene Rhodes said his new truck stop at Nash Road and Interstate 55 will have a unique service - counseling and ministry for drivers who stop there. With that, drivers will be able take care of their spiritual as well as temporal needs as they travel the interstates...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- John J. ("Jack") Stack is no stranger to the business world. The president of Springfield Remanufacturing Corp. (SRC), Springfield, has been featured in `Fortune' magazine in its "People to Watch" column; and `INC' magazine where he was identified as a member of the INC. start-up, all-stars "Dream Team."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Partners Jerry Bittle and Tom Rebert have opened Broadway Arcade and Sports Cards at 1030 Broadway. Both men will be managing the operation. "We have at least 15 viceo and pinball machines," Bittle said. "They are from Lemons Coin Machines Inc." The machines are locted on the upper and middle levels of the building, which previously housed a sportswear shop...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "Quality and Your Business A Compelling Link" will be the theme of a day-long business conference, to be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus April 2. Michael J. Roarty, executive vice president for corporate marketing and communications for Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., will be keynote speaker during the luncheon, to be held at noon...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- `Holiday Happenings' has expanded its lines. "We are now a full-service party store," said Mike Thies, one of the store's owners and operators. "We have added a full line of party decorations and supplies. We have everything from mylar balloons to wedding candles and tuxedos."...

ST. LOUIS Gary Bays has been appointed purchasing warehousing director at the Doe Run Company. In his new position, he will coordinate all the operation divisions' purchasing and warehousing activities, including the Resource Recycling Division in Boss, Mo., and the Smelting Division in Herculaneum...

GREENSBORO, N.C. A former Cape Girardeau man was featured recently in the April, 1991 issue of `Private Pilot,' for his performance in a Venture aircraft constructed from a kit. Don Godwin, now of Greensboro, N.C., son of the late John Godwin, finished second in his Venture craft during last year's Sun 190 Race at Lakeland, with a speed of 286.92 mph. Another pilot, Rich Gritter, placed second in the race, in a factory-built Venture...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Employers are bracing for a 45-cent hike in minimum wage, effective Monday April 1. The new level carries the wage floor to $4.25 an hour, the first time the figure has topped $4. The increment is expected to have some repercussions in the service industry, where sales clerks traditionally earn relatively lower salaries than in other industries...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jean Gooden has been named respiratory therapy director at St. Francis Medical Center. Gooden, R.R.T., joined the medical center in 1976. She served 12 years as the hospital's assistant director of respiratory therapy and has been interim director since August of 1990...

JACKSON -- Susan Mills, who has nine years' experience with Missouri University Extension, has transferred to the Jackson office as food and nutrition specialist, serving Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Iron, Madison, Perry, and Wayne counties. Mills, who most recently served in the same capacity in Carter County, is a former teacher. She taught home economics at Perryville High School before joining the extension service...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jodi Harrison recently passed the C.P.A. examination. Harrison, daughter of Marilyn Harrison and the late Jim Harrison, graduated summa cum laude from the University of Missouri-Columbia in May of 1990. While at Mizzou, she was a curator scholar, competed on the gymnastics team, and was a member of several honor societies...

PERRYVILLE -- The Bank of Perryville has been recognized as one of the safest banks in the country by the independent research firm of Veribank, Inc. It was the only bank in Perry, Ste. Genevieve and Cape Girardeau counties to receive a Blue Ribbon rating from the firm. The award is based on asset quality, capital strength, management, earnings and liquidity...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Don Harris of United Senior Assurance, Inc. has won several honors for insurance sales. Harris won the December Get Away Promotion a trip to Can Cun, Mexico by Senior Security Benefits Inc. of Cape Girardeau; was the top Final Expense agent in the nation for National Western Life Insurance Co.; and was 1990 Agent of the Year in the Final expense market for National Western Life...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Mary Vickery has been appointed to the Project Management Department for national accounts at General Sign Co., 780 Nash Road, which has expanded its national accounts program. Vickery will computerize the national account file and assist in servicing accounts such as BP Oil, Clark Oil, and the Dairy Queen restaurant chain...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Elizabeth Seesing, owner of West Park Travel Agency, recently completed a tour of the Walt Disney World area at Orlando, Fla. Included in the tour were visits to the Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, and MGM Studios. She also visited Universal Studios while in the Orlando area, and the Kennedy Space Center at Port Canaveral...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Steve Stewart has joined KFVS-12 here. Mike Beecher, news director, announced Stewart's position as news reporter/anchor. Prior to joining KFVS, Stewart was a reporter/anchor for WSIL-TV at Carterville for three years. He has also worked as a reporter/anchor at KSTF-TV in Scottsbluff, Neb. He previously served as a baseball and soccer league announcer...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Myra Eichhorn of Cape Girardeau has been named account manager for General Sign Company's national contract for Ramada and Howard Johnsons signage. The Cape Girardeau firm, located at 780 Nash Road, was awarded the contract through its Nashville, Tenn., office. All manufacturing will be at the Cape Girardeau plant...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. James B. Chapman was guest speaker at a recent conference sponsored by the St. Louis University School of Medicine. Chapman, a Cape Girardeau cardiologist, discussed directional coronary atherectomy (DCA) at the conference held at St. John's Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ford & Sons Funeral Home here is being honored as an outstanding funeral home by The International Order of the Golden Rule (IOGR). IOGR, a funeral association founded in 1928, is comprised of more than 1,500 funeral homes. "We're proud to recognize Ford & Sons as an exceptional firm," said IOGR Executive Director Dale L. Rollings. "The funeral service has continually shown concern for meeting the community's needs with the highest quality of funeral service."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Members of Aid Association for Lutherans (AAL), Branch 1622, Cape Girardeau, has received national recognition of volunteer efforts. The local group has been cited as a regional winner in AAL's 1991 National Fraternal Awards Program, which annually cites AAL volunteer groups from each of the AAL's 78 agencies nationwide...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The SEMO Home Builders Home/Garden/Crafts Show will be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus April 5-7. The show will feature seminars on home selling and buying, interior and exterior decorating, and lawn and garden care. Exhibitors include representatives from area developers, real estate offices, home building and supply companies, remodeling companies, interior decorators, and lawn and garden companies...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- ABF Freight Systems, Inc. has installed state-of-the-art satellite equipment at its terminal facility here. "This will enhance our communications between almost 300 terminals throughout the U.S. and Canada," said Jerry Bell, ABF Director of Operations Systems for the firm, which is headquartered at Ft. Smith, Ark...

LAKE OZARK -- Convention and meeting facilities at Lodge of the Four Seasons resort will be back at full strength April 1 when the Granada ballroom reopens. The room was closed Feb. 14 following an explosion caused by a gas leak in an area adjacent to the ballroom...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Rental Land, Inc., 1922 Independence, has been selected as a Black and Decker Tool Co. representatives. "All types of repair and service work will be performed on any Black and Decker tool," said Mark Kasten in making the announcement this week...