Stories from Sunday, June 2, 1991

At the time of the nomination of Judge Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, we were told that all this country needed was a dose of "judicial restraint." The Neanderthal "original understanding" or "strict construction" crowd said that stare decisis should reign. Jesse Helms and company claimed that judges should ascertain the literal meaning of the words of the Constitution and write their opinions as narrowly as possible...

Racers for the annual Riverfest Turtle Race are asked to rev up their turtles in preparation for the Saturday, June 8, event. The turtle races are among the most popular activities at Riverfest, which will be held June 7-8 in downtown Cape Girardeau...

This is an unusual year for America's defensive capabilities to come under domestic attack. The showing of United States military expertise in the Persian Gulf was exemplary, practically flawless. Yet the worst enemy of these forces might prove to be our own Congress, which is aiming at making extreme cuts in defense, particularly in Strategic Defense Initiative funding. ...

Gerri Lawson's alert, calm and professional response to a medical crisis last week, might well have saved a young man from permanent brain damage after he suffered a seizure in a Cape Girardeau deli. Lawson, a licensed practical nurse who works at the Cottonwood Treatment Center on North Sprigg Street in Cape Girardeau, was in the Spanky's Texaco station and deli across from the center last Monday when Doug Hancock, another customer in the store, had a seizure...

"The proposed tax change is not the largest in Missouri history. (I rank it seventh). "The One Cent Proposition C education sales tax, adopted November 2, 1982, will produce about $414,405,144 in fiscal year 1991. "The One Cent increase in the state sales tax rate in 1963 produces an equal amount of $414,405,144 in FY 1991. Earlier one-cent increases in 1933 and 1937 also generate the identical amount...

The nation's society is "doomed" if lifestyle isn't addressed as a factor in surging health care costs, a leading health insurance official says. Roy Heimburger, chief executive officer of Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Missouri, underscored that point Saturday at a health-care symposium at Drury Lodge sponsored by Southeast Missouri Hospital. The symposium, "Health Care Costs: Understanding the Issues," drew about 190 people, including representatives of business, industry and education...

MARBLE HILL -- At 44, Dan Mesey is concentrating on giving back what 25 years of police work has given him. And he's picked a very public way to do it. The former investigator, police academy instructor and hostage negotiator was elected as Bollinger County's sheriff less than three weeks ago. And since then, one belief has shaped his every move...

The arrival of "The Greatest Show on Earth" June 10 will be marked by a "Grand Animal Walk" through the streets of Cape Girardeau. Elephants, camels, llamas, horses and a host of other animals of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus will be paraded on Broadway and Sprigg streets, en route to the Show Me Center where the circus will perform four shows in two days...

Cape Girardeau's cable company garnered good marks for overall quality in a recent telephone survey, but one of every two respondents complained about the service's price. A member of the city's Cable Television Citizens Committee, Jim Dufek, released the survey after announcing the results at the committee's Thursday evening meeting. ...

American agriculture would benefit from free-trade policies that would put the U.S. and other nations on "a level playing field," Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, said Saturday. "The American agricultural producer can out produce any area," Emerson told reporters at a press conference. "The problem is we don't have a level playing field."...

LAKE of the OZARKS - The Southeast Missourian newspaper received two first-place awards and one second-place honor in the Missouri AP Managing Editors News Writing Contest. The awards were presented Saturday at the group's annual convention at the Lake of the Ozarks...

A Cape Girardeau fire official said quick action by a mail carrier may have prevented a tragedy Friday after a car rolled backward and knocked over a gasoline pump at a local convenience store. "It could have been a real bad tragedy where a couple of small children burned up if it had not been for the quick action of the mail carrier," said Assistant Fire Chief Max Jauch...

CRYSTAL CITY -- A tanker truck carrying anhydrous ammonia overturned on Highway 61 near Interstate 55 in Jefferson County about 11 a.m. Friday, forcing the evacuation of an elementary school and tying up traffic. There were no injuries in the accident, authorities said...

A Cape Girardeau man sustained moderate injuries early Saturday morning when the motorcycle he was riding ran off Route N at Scott City and struck a ditch embankment. Two Perryville residents and a St. Marys resident were also injured in separate accidents Friday and Saturday. The Saturday accident left a 22-year-old Perryville man and a 20-year-old St. Marys man with serious injuries...

When Cape County Private Ambulance Service paramedics Dave Blackburn and Todd Soong were called to the Cape County Park at 7:18 a.m. Friday, they thought they were responding to a medical call involving a patient with a fractured leg. Instead, the paramedics found ambulance company President John Russell and Brian Miller, coordinator of emergency services for Cape Girardeau County, sitting at one of the picnic tables in the park...

JACKSON - Health insurance premiums for Cape Girardeau County employees climbed $42,000 or about 18 percent over last year, under a new insurance plan which took effect Saturday. Last week, the county commission awarded the health insurance bid to Mutual of Omaha, which they determined had the best propsal of about a half dozen submitted. For the last two years, the county's insurance has been with Blue Cross/Blue Shield...

CHARLESTON -- Willa M. Carthon of Charleston died Thursday, May 30, 1991, at her home in Charleston. She was born May 2, 1928, in Wyatt. She is survived by her mother, Essie B. Crenshaw of Charleston and five grandchildren. Visitation will be Monday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Sparks Funeral Home. Service will be at the chapel Monday at 1 p.m. The Rev. Wiley Reed will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery...

Emma Josephine Clark, 73, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, June 1, 1991, at The Lutheran Home. She was born July 9, 1917 in Perkins, daughter of John and Elizabeth Myers Reams. On July 22, 1933, she married Harry Russell Clark. He preceded her in death on Nov. 15, 1982...

JACKSON - James Leonard Johnson, of 1109 Corrine, died Saturday, June 1, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was 83. He was born June 19, 1907, in Newton County, the son of John Louis and Effie Miller Johnson. His parents preceded him in death...

Former Cape Girardeau resident Joseph H. Wells, 71, of Decatur, Ill., died Friday, May 31, 1991, at Decatur Memorial Hospital. Wells was born Oct. 1, 1919, in Kansas City, Kan., the son of Walter C. and Belle McDonald Wells. Both preceded him in death...

Shirley Ann Seabaugh, 41, P.O. Box 1415, Cape Girardeau, died Friday, May 31, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Nov. 26, 1949 in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Betty Perry Heuring of Scott City and the late Bernard Joseph Heuring. On Jan. 11, 1969, she married Peter Seabaugh, who survives of the home...

ANNA, Ill. -- Mrs. Beulah Finch, 86, of Anna, Ill. died Friday afternoon at Union County Nursing Home in Anna. She was born May 17, 1905 near Cobden, Ill. to Roy Franklin and Martha Catherine Brasel Adams. On Dec. 30, 1931, she married Eleazer Corydon Finch. He preceded her in death Sept. 8, 1938...

VANDUSER - Loyd R. Easter, 68, of Vanduser, Mo. died Saturday morning at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born May 23, 1923 in Hollis, Okla. to John and Katherine Baccus Easter. He retired in 1979 from Noranda Aluminum. Previously he had worked for many years at several Chevrolet dealerships as an auto mechanic. The companies included Mitchell-Sharp, Bud Davis, and Sonny Presley dealerships, all in Sikeston...

births 6-2 Son to Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Hurst of Millersville Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:16 a.m. Thursday, May 16, 1991. Name, Christopher Alan. Weight, 9 pounds 9 ounces. Mrs. Hurst is the former Carol Bowen, daughter of Arnold and Judy Bowen of Millersville, and is employed at Lee Rowan. Hurst is assistant pressman at M&W Packaging, and is the son of Dennis and Barbra Hurst of Jackson...

PERRYVILLE -- William Nelson Leonard, 93, of Perryville, died Friday, May 31, 1991, at his home. He was born Dec. 16, 1897, at Lutesville, son of Henry and Mary Bangert Leonard. He and Ester Blaylock were married Nov. 6, 1926. He was a farmer and raised livestock, and was a member of First Presbyterian Church...

Catherine E. Statler, 81, 3129 Themis, died Friday, May 31, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Nov. 19, 1909, at Jackson, daughter of Joseph and Mary Ann Hunter Schmuke. She married W. Hinkle Statler Dec. 10, 1928, at Jackson. He died April 23, 1962...

Long-time Cape Girardeau businessman William L. Shivelbine, of 1717 Ridgeway, died Saturday, June 1, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was a partner in Shivelbine's Music store with his brother, Leland, since 1949. Arrangements were incomplete Saturday and are being handled by Ford & Sons...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Members of the Cairo National Guard's 1244th Transportation Unit will return to Cairo Monday or Tuesday. The Guard unit was activated last September and served in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Iraq during the Persian Gulf War. The unit returned to Dayton, Ohio last Tuesday, and were then bussed to Ft. Benjamin Harrison near Indianapolis...

REYNOLDSVILLE, Ill. -- A newly-formed Native American club will meet Saturday at 6:30 p.m. The meeting will be held at the Trail of Tears Club in Reynoldsville, Ill. People of native American blood or interested in native American ways of life are welcome to attend. They are asked to first call 335-3993 for more information...

ALBUQUERQUE -- New Mexico climatologist and inventor Iben Browning has ended his brief hiatus following the New Madrid earthquake debacle with a fresh batch of "projections." At a recent Albuquerque civic group gathering, Browning said there is a 70 to 80 percent "probability" that the city will receive twice as much rain within 50 years as it gets today, transforming New Mexico's desert into corn fields...

SCOTT CITY CITY Hall has made me get rid of my goat. Now I've got to buy a lawn mower. Ain't that a crock? I HAVE BEEN a patient in both hospitals in Cape within the past three years. In both places the care I received and the facilities were excellent. ...

Would you rather pursue something or stalk it? Your answer, of course, would be "Depends on what it is." Well, let us consider happiness. Our Declaration of Independence says it is man's inalienable right to pursue happiness. When we speed-oriented Americans think of the word pursue, we generally think of speed such as "They followed the robber in hot pursuit," or "Here comes Whirlaway in pursuit of the Triple Crown." The one maybe killing some innocent person along the way, the other, not seeing anything but the rear of the horse in front of him.. ...

He's fat, lazy and cynical ... and Southeast Missourian readers love him. Garfield, that fat feline who loves lasagna and hates Mondays, stalked away with top honors in the 1991 Southeast Missourian Comics Survey. Snoopy, Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang came in second...

The abundance of rain during the month of May has left many gardeners far behind with gardening chores. Growth of shrubs and trees, particularly newly planted ones, has been abundant, and flowers have never been more magnificent or lasted as long. Check flowering perennials and remove old flower heads to prevent seed formation. ...

Families looking for physical recreation can find it Friday at the 9th Annual Kohlfeld Riverfest Run. The run will be held the first day of the Riverfest '91 celebration at the Cape Girardeau riverfront. Run activities will begin at 7:30 p.m., rain or shine...

ALTENBURG -- The Harnagel and Palisch Genealogy Foundation will hold its annual reunion June 9 at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Altenburg. The church service is at 9 a.m., with informal activities to begin immediately after. A buffet-style dinner will be served by the women of the church at noon, and a light supper will be served at 5 p.m...

Chrisman Art Gallery & Outfitters has returned to downtown Cape Girardeau with a new look, and more and different merchandise, following a 10-year absence, since it moved to West Park Mall in 1981. David Vinson realizes that the traffic flow may be less in his new downtown location, but he is preparing for that by providing an attractive setting, and more and varied lines of merchandise for his customers...

JACKSON Construction of a one-story, 3,500 square-foot banking facility will get under way soon following a ground-breaking ceremony at the site here Thursday. Jim Limbaugh, president and chief executive officer of Boatmen's National Bank of Cape Girardeau, turned the first shovel of dirt. Also attending the groundbreaking were Jackson Mayor Carlton Meyer; Ted Williams, vice president, Jackson loan manger, and Denise Pittman, Jackson operations officer...

Bob Uthoff is new manager at the Storey Food Giant, 201 S. Broadview in Cape Girardeau. Uthoff replaces Kevin Groves, who will be manager of a new Storey operation at Sikeston. Uthoff, who owned a supermarket five years, has been in the grocery industry 26 years...

Six members of the Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors were honored recently as member of the Lifetime Million-Dollar Club, during the monthly meeting of the board. Arthur D. Blaylock of Heartland Realty; Marilyn S. Duffey of Bridgeport Inc., Realtors; Shirley Gregory, Century 21-Key Realty; Ricki A. Ing, Coldwell Banker-Blanchard & Associates; Jack D. Johnson, Ashland Realty; and Sandra Schooley, Coldwell Banker-Blanchard & Associates qualified for the lifetime memberships in 1990...

WESTCHESTER, Ohio Sally Ralph of Westchester, Ohio, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has qualified as a team manager and earned the use of a new car with Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc. In her new position, Ralph will work with her sales associates, both in Cape Girardeau, and Westchester...

Judi Naeter of Cape Girardeau has joined the staff of the Southeast Missourian as receptionist. Her duties include handling incoming phone calls, greeting visitors, proofreading and assisting with administrative correspondence and records. Naeter previously worked at Colonial Federal Savings and Loan Association in the same capacity. A Cape Girardeau resident since 1953, she attended Central High School and Southeast Missouri State University. Naeter has three children and three grandchildren...

Debbie Atchison and Misty Bell have joined Special Effects Styling Salon, 121 S. Broadview in Cape Girardeau. Atchison, who had been working at the salon on a part-time basis, is now full time. She previously served as manager at Regis Hair Salon and worked at other Cape Girardeau salons, including JCPenney's...

Cape Girardeau free-lance photographer LouAnn Stokes recently had a photo published in the National Collegiate Athletic Association News. The photo was taken during the Division II Womens Basketball Championship March 23 at the Show Me Center. It showed players in the North Dakota State-Southeast Missouri State University Game...

SIKESTON -- Mary Kay Cosmetics consultants from a wide area recently attended a comprehensive glamour training workshop in Sikeston. The workshop concentrated on product knowledge and new glamour tips. Bettye Sisco of Dallas, Texas, conducted the training session...

Twelve drivers for Commercial Transport Terminal in Cape Girardeau received safe-driving awards during the firm's Safety Awards banquet held at Belleville, Ill., recently. The local terminal received the "Terminal of the Year" award, based on the number of drivers qualifying for awards...

SIKESTON -- Ronald C. Milbach has been elected president of the Federal Land Bank Association (FLBA) of Southeast Missouri. Milbach will also serve as president-elect of the Sikeston and Caruthersville Production Credit associations. When the three organizations have completed a proposed restructuring of their business operations, Milbach is slated to serve as their chief executive officer...

GORDONVILLE -- H. Weldon Macke, center, and George "Butch" Koeppel, left, recently accepted awards from J-STAR Industries, Inc., for Macke Farm Equipment Inc. The Gordonville firm received the Grady Comstock Top Performer Award, recognizes the highest dollar increase in sales of Jamesway and J-STAR equipment in 1900 over 1989...

Chafin & Associates, a national health care consulting company, has relocated from Memphis to Cape Girardeau. The seven-year-old firm provides private practice physicians with various management services. This includes marketing and business planning, collection systems, insurance claims preparation, personnel selection and evaluation, patient education programs and information on health maintenance organization and preferred provider organizations...

Small retailers feeling pressure from large retail chains and discounters may pick up survival tips at upcoming seminars in the area. "Retail Survival Training For the 1990's" will be presented in June in a joint effort by the Small Business Development Center of Southeast Missouri State University and the Institute of Retailing of the University of Arkansas...

Now in the 10th year of operation, the Lickety Split Water Slide, located on Highway 61, west of Interstate 55 intersection, has made some changes in its accommodations. "We have added two new sun bathing decks," said owner P.J. "Bud" Leuckel. "And we expanded the concession area and the food line, adding Hawaiian ice snow comes, pizza and hot dogs." A shaded, carpeted area for group gatherings has also been added...

Dana M. Sullinger has joined Craftsman Office Supply, 835 Broadway, of Cape Girardeau as a sales representative. Sullinger majored in marketing at Southeast Missouri State University and previously worked as a customer service representative for Spartech Plastics of Cape Girardeau...

Chuck McGinty of C.P. McGinty Jewelers Inc. was installed as president at the Downtown Merchants Association at its regular meeting last week. Other officers of the group will be installed later. The association approved borrowing money for construction of the pavilion on the south parking lot. ...

ST. LOUIS Schnucks Markets Inc. has received its third annual award from the St. Louis Heritage and Urban Design Commission in the new construction division. Shnucks was selected for its new store at 3430 S. Grand at Gravois, which opened last year. The award is based on positive contributions to the city for construction, landscaping and other improvements...

The A. G. Edwards, Inc. board of directors has declared a three-for-two stock split, in the form of a 50 percent stock dividend, to be distributed July 1, to shareholders of record June 7. The firm, headquartered in St. Louis, has a branch office in the Crossroad Center, at the intersection of Kingshighway and Independence...

A Cape Girardeau mini-storage service is under new ownership. Loy and Mary Kay Welker and George and Pat Bockhorst, partners in Firebird Investments, bought Cape Self Storage, 321 N. Broadview. They purchased it from Buena Financial Corp. of Ventura, Calif., which took over the operation three years ago. The 12-year-old complex has 188 units and was built by Larry Haertling, according to Loy Welker...

Bob and Martha Nelson, owners of Dove Crete Castings, 1217 S. Kingshighway, recently sold the rights to manufacture molds of 23 of its products. The purchaser, Nunnikhoven Co. of Mediapolis, Iowa, is one of the largest mold producers in the U.S. It will produce rubber molds from the Dove Crete Castings original pieces...