Stories from Sunday, November 10, 1991

Bradley J. Langston, 40, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991 at the St. Francis Medical Center, following an extended illness. He was born Sept. 18, 1951 in Cape Girardeau to Fred and Gloria Bollinger Langston. Survivors include: his parents, Fred Langston of Cape Girardeau and Gloria Payne of Cape Girardeau; two sons, Ronald and James Langston, both of Jackson; three sisters, Tamra Macke of Burfordville, Debbie Tapley of Scott City and Janet Payne of Cape Girardeau; and maternal grandmother, Fern Bollinger of Cape Girardeau.. ...

Dear Women of Southeast and South Central Missouri: Did you know one in nine American women will develop breast cancer in her lifetime? Or that 44,000 will lose their lives to the disease this year? Every three minutes in this country another diagnosis of breast cancer is made. These are statistics we don't like to hear, but these numbers are unacceptable!...

GREENVILLE -- Two people were killed and three were injured in a three-vehicle accident south of Greenville Friday. A van hit a pickup truck and then a tractor-trailer. Killed were the driver of the van, Barbara Weber, 41, of Clubb, and a passenger in the van, Christan Stair, 1, of Poplar Bluff, the Missouri Highway Patrol said...

The international students at Southeast Missouri State University are hosting an International Bazaar Monday. The bazaar will be held in the University Center lobby from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Display booths will showcase a variety of cultures. Visitors may purchase foods and crafts...

The Cape Girardeau School District's Parents as Teacher program is hosting an activity night for 3- and 4-year-olds Tuesday. The program will be held from 7-8 p.m. at the Jefferson School Gym, 520 S. Pacific. Art activities and games will include cooking, pasting, coloring and group games...

The city of Cape Girardeau will begin leaf pickup service Monday in Zone C, which includes the area north of Broadway and east of North West End Boulevard, extending north. Zone C leaf service will conclude Friday. City crews also will be picking up leaves in Zones A and B Monday to try to "catch up" after last week's rainfall restricted collection, a city official said...

Kit Wesler, site director of Wickliffe Mounds in Wickliffe, Ky., will discuss the recent removal of exposed human remains at the Indian site at a meeting of the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau Monday night. The meeting will be held in the activities room of Chateau Girardeau. The public is invited...

FOR THE SENIOR citizen who called about being cold and lonely. Please call Area Agency on Aging, 335-3331 or 1-800-392-9771. Thank you. ON THE DAY AFTER the election, I've been perusing the papers and listening to the news reports on radio and television, and I'd just like to say to the proponents of Proposition B that you still don't get it. ...

It was a Democratic President and brilliant historian, Woodrow Wilson, who reminded his countrymen that the history of freedom is the history of attempts to restrain the power and reach of government to contain it within its proper and necessary sphere. Consider the following facts:...

An Open Letter to Missouri Elected Officials: Pull you respective heads out of the sand and wake up! How easy it is to say the vote on Proposition B was "A Clear Signal From The People" that they do not want to increase funding for education. It was a clear signal~ you just "Missed the Light"!...

For weeks now I have been seeing on TV news broadcasts and reading in the papers about all of the protests and complaints by the Indian activists, that they are being insulted, humiliated, demeaned, and just generally disgraced by the use of their names in various forms by schools, professional sports, organizations and a whole host of other sources. I can no longer hold my thick, dumb tongue...

Freedom. The Berlin Wall has crumbled and the Iron Curtain has tumbled. We watch spellbound as peoples across the globe give their lives for freedoms we too often take for granted: The right to vote for our leaders, the right to speak freely, the right of individual ownership, the right to pursue our own lives...

Last week's elections show once again how wonderful the electorate can be. Voters sometimes fib to pollsters. They seek retribution against the power establishment. They make oracles, national and local, look a bit silly. Fibbing to pollsters. Proposition B in Missouri was designed to sprinkle $385 million to all levels of education in an incomprehensible formula. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Michael A. Simmons, 2715 Independence, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 1, 1991. Name, Caitlin Marie. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Simmons is the former Lisa Hendrix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Hendrix of Cape Girardeau. Simmons is an account executive at KBSI-TV, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Simmons of Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Emil Voges, 88, of Jackson Manor, died there Saturday, Nov. 9, 1991. He was born Dec. 2, 1902, at Jackson. Survivors include a sister, Esther Dueschle of Washington, Mo., and two nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother and sister. Funeral service will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Sam Roethemeyer will officiate, with burial in St. James Cemetery at Tilsit...

JACKSON -- Arthur Elmer Jackson Sr., 88, of Jackson, formerly of Charleston, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991, at the Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. He was born Nov. 7, 1903, in Mississippi County, son of George W. and Lizzie Fox Jackson. He had lived in Mississippi County most of his life and was employed with Simpson Oil Company until his retirement...

MARBLE HILL - Charles E. "Dutch" Hilderbrand, 67, of Marble Hill, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991 at his home. He was born April 17, 1924 at Lutesville, the son of Hilary Hilderbrand and Semantha Cole Hilderbrand. He was a self-employed maintenance man who lived in Bollinger County all his life...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Mildred Pearsall, 85, of Charleston was held at 2 p.m. Saturday at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Glen Rogers officiated. Burial was in Oak Grove Cemetery. She died Nov. 2, 1991 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Lester "Ted" Rinehart, 82, of Jonesboro, died Thursday, Nov. 7, 1991, at Union County Hospital in Anna, Ill. He was born May 29, 1909, son of Lee and Grace Mowery Rinehart. He married Velma Hock on Oct. 8, 1934, in Jonesboro. She survives of Jonesboro...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Dorothy E. Holmes, 75, of Paducah, Ky., formerly of Cairo, died Friday morning, Nov. 8, 1991, at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah. She was a member of the First Southern Baptist Church in Cairo. She married Loren L. Holmes, who died in 1964...

CHARLESTON -- James L. "Floyd" Cogdill, 78, Charleston Route 2, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 11, 1913, at East Prairie, son of James H. and Hazel Lang Cogdill. Cogdill was a member of St. Henry's Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus. He farmed until retiring in 1989. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...

PERRYVILLE -- Jasper N. Hollingsworth, 44, of Fredericktown, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 20, 1946, at Qulin, son of Elton C. and Emily A. Robertson Hollingsworth. He was a UAW-GM auto worker...

PERRYVILLE -- Arthur James Markham, 79, of Perryville, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born May 20, 1912, at Advance, son of Elmer F. and Frona E. Scott Markham. Markham was a retired farmer. He married Blanche A. Niswonger Aug. 6, 1938...

SCOTT CITY -- Tracy Ann Davis, 24, of Scott City, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.

ORAN -- Bertha Dumey, 77, of Oran, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born June 21, 1914, at Kelso, daughter of August and Annie Martin LeDure. She married Ervin Dumey April 21, 1935, who died Aug. 24, 1975. Dumey was a member of Guardian Angel Catholic Church, its St. Ann Sodality, and Oran Senior Citizens...

SIKESTON -- Charles Lynn Gaddis, 22, Sikeston Route 3, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1991, in a fire at his home. He was born July 27, 1969, at Normandy, son of Charles D. and Vernell Tippy Gaddis. Gaddis was a 1987 graduate of Sikeston High School, and was employed at Noranda Aluminum. He was formerly employed at MAB Paint Store here. He was a member of Bethel Baptist Church...

SIKESTON -- Alice Fleming Lumsden, 87, of Biloxi, Miss., formerly of Sikeston, died Thursday, Nov. 7, 1991, at East Jefferson Hospital in Metairie, La. She was born Dec. 12, 1903, at Creed. She married Herbert Lumsden Aug. 21, 1930. He died July 21, 1968...

The state's HIV care coordinator for Southeast Missouri says she hopes basketball star Magic Johnson will have some inspirational off-the-court influence with boosting the outlook of her HIV patients. Coordinator Susan Smith said she encourages her patients to stay positive about the future, "to stay involved in life, to stay on the job if they can." Johnson, she said, is "so positive about what he's going to do in the future."...

The Sierra Club plans to hold a statewide conference on Missouri's public forests this spring in Cape Girardeau. Plans for the conference were discussed at a meeting of the executive committee of Missouri's Ozark Chapter of the Sierra Club being held in Cape Girardeau this weekend. Seventeen executive committee members attended Saturday's session. The meeting continues today...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- The realignment of the new Illinois congressional district map came as no surprise to 22nd Congressional District Rep. Glenn Poshard, D-Carterville. "The map came down in exactly the same manner as we had predicted and feared," said Poshard. "It is unfortunate and unfair for Southern Illinois, disregarding the regional unity which has been ours since the beginning of our state in 1818."...

TAMMS, Ill. -- A small group of people are continuing their efforts to bring a halt to logging in the Shawnee National Forest. A dozen people from the Shawnee Defense Fund group held what they described as a "tree top" press conference from the Burner Hill area of the forest Saturday to relay their message to the public...

Former Southeast Missouri Hospital administrator O.D. Niswonger has received the Missouri Hospital Association's Distinguished Service Award, the highest honor given by the association. The award, presented Thursday, highlighted the three-day annual Missouri Hospital Association convention at Tan-Tar-A in Osage Beach...

The American Red Cross and various organizations are sponsoring several upcoming blood drives. The drives will be: Nov. 16 at the Latter Day Saints Church, Cape Girardeau, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., sponsored by the Boy Scout Troop No. 222. Nov. 18 at the Chaffee High School Gym Lobby, 2-6 p.m., sponsored by the school's Beta Club...

POCAHONTAS -- The Lutheran Family and Children's Services Auxiliary Fall Rally will be held Wednesday at St. John's Lutheran Church here beginning at 9:30 a.m. Mara Berry will speak on "Child Abuse." She is a coordinator of Family Life Enrichment at Lutheran Family and Children's Services of Missouri...

The Department of Labor has approved money to help laid-off workers from Brown Shoe Co. plants in Southeast Missouri find new employment. U.S. Sens. John Danforth and Christopher S. Bond and U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson announced approval of the Worker Adjustment Assistance Friday...

In 1916, Elves L. "Hap" Goodman joined the U.S. Army. The veteran is now 97. Goodman is one of the legion of veterans honored with a parade in Cape Girardeau today and a national holiday Monday. The veterans who fought this nation's wars comprise a living history book of military conflicts...

Dear Mrs. Mosley: This is to acknowledge receipt, last week, of your children's book manuscript, "Head Frog of Rustling Brook." All 250 readers here at the publishing house agree that it is utterly charming and the best book we have ever received, or read, for that matter. It portrays fundamental truths in easy-to-understand concepts. We can't find words to express our thanks for your having sent this precious manuscript to us...

PERRYVILLE -- A free public health seminar on "Advances in Pancreatic/Renal Transplant" will be held Tuesday at the Perry County Memorial Hospital at Perryville. The seminar will be presented by Dr. Paul Garvin, professor of surgery at St. Louis University School of Medicine. Garvin is also Director of the Renal/Pancreas Transplant at St. Louis University School of Medicine and John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis...

As the saying goes, "You can't win 'em all." Last week the Ladybug wrote about preparation of plants before the frigid blasts of winter descended. Then what happened? Those frigid blasts came and all the tips in the column were for nought. This is what happens sometimes with an early deadline and no indication temperatures would drop so precipitously or so quickly...

Cape Girardeau's Girardot Rose chapter of Sweet Adelines has a new director, Pat McClain of St. Louis. The group rehearses every Tuesday from 7-9:30 at Westminster Presbyterian Church, Perryville Road and Cape Rock Drive. McClain begins her duties Nov. 26...

Carlos E. and Emmagene Ratliff have announced plans for a nursing home to be constructed at 717 N. Sprigg. The 16,500-square-foot structure will house Ratliff Nursing Home and Ratliff Accounting and Tax Service. The nursing home will be a 46-bed facility...

The House of Brides is under new ownership. Sherry James of Cape Girardeau purchased the bridal shop at 26 N. Pacific. "We provide complete service for weddings," said James, a Southeast Missouri State University graduate with majors in management and marketing. "We can outfit the bride, mother of the bride, groom, and others in the wedding party."...

Lerner New York has taken on a new look at West Park Mall. The store, with entrances on both the JCPenney and main mall entrance concourses, now encompasses more than 13,000 square feet of retail space and features expanded merchandise lines. "The store has been under a two-stage remodeling and expansion plan since July of 1991," said Maggie Friend, assistant manager of marketing at the mall. ...

Financial Planning and Information Services Inc., a local investment advisory firm, is offering a new service. "We're making our American Funds market-timing service available to clients," said Philip Dame, owner of the firm. "Most people are disappointed with interest rates available in the market place and would like to increase the yield on their invested assets," he said...

CHAFFEE -- Plans for a new bank building here have been announced by First National Bank. "A new building has become a necessity in order to continue to provide the services our customers have come to expect throughout all our facilities," said Troy Wilson, president and chief executive officer of First National Bank...

Stephen Quick, an instructor at Stage One, The Hair School in Cape Girardeau, compiled the highest point total for a professional during the recent Southeast Missouri Cosmetologists Competition and Trade Show held at Drury Lodge. Lee Ann Blankenship, a student at Stage One, compiled the highest total points for a student...

JACKSON -- Gene E. Wills Insurance Agency, 612 West Main, Jackson, has added two national insurance companies. One of them is Preferred Risk Group of West Des Moines, Iowa, a nondrinkers insurance company. It offers auto, home, health, life insurance and annuities for nondrinkers as well as church insurance. It is comprised of four companies: Preferred Risk Mutual, Preferred Risk Life, Preferred Abstainer, and Midwest Mutual...

Plants Plus, 910 S. Kingshighway, has added a lawn care service. Joe Touchette, manager of Plants Plus, will serve as manager of the new service. Touchette, a Southeast Missouri State University graduate, has a degree in horticulture, botany and agriculture...

Oak Tree Furniture has added a "Wood Doctor" department to its operation at 2118 Broadway. The department will provide furniture repair, stripping, refinishing and antique restoration. "This operation goes along with our Oak Tree operation," said Mike Shaffar, owner. "Oak Tree, which is observing its third anniversary, sells finished and unfinished furniture. We often sell the unfinished furniture, then custom finish it for the consumer."...

Resign Exchange in the Nash Road industrial area has announced its expansion into a 110,000-square-foot plant in Raleigh, N.C., and the signing of a contract with Monsanto. The expansion comes as the local company observes its 10th anniversary this month. Dale R. Schumacher, president and chief executive officer of the firm, said the company was founded in November 1981, with two employees and a $500 investment. The firm now employs 85 people and its gross revenue exceeds $20 million...

Debbie Keene of Cape Girardeau has joined ERA Cape Realty as a real estate agent. Keene, a Jackson native, is a member of the Missouri Board of Realtors. She is a member of St. Mary's Parish in Cape Girardeau, and is active in school activities at St. Mary's. She is also active in Vision 2000...

Ken Scheer will be the featured speaker at the regular meeting of the Cape Girardeau Association of Life Underwriters at noon Friday. The Scheer's topic will be "MIAs and POWs." Steve Fritzler of Aid Association to Lutherans will discuss "Understanding Medicare" during the association's bonus hour, which starts at 11 a.m. at the Holiday Inn...

Two students enrolled in adult education programs at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School have received scholarships from the Zonta Club. Dorothy Sullivan and Tina Broshuis each were awarded a $250 scholarship based on financial need and academic achievements...

Ken Voepel of Cape Girardeau, agent for American Family Insurance Group of Madison, Wis., attended a five-day comprehensive life seminar at Madison. Voepel participated in specialized sales instruction in life products, estate planning and business life insurance. He was one of 14 agents invited to the seminar...

Santa's Surplus is back. The seasonal holiday store has opened in Town Plaza for a second-straight holiday season. Store manager Linda Kern said the store will be open until a few days after Christmas. The store, at 2140 William, is one of more than 900 Santa's Surplus stores in the United States. Merchandise consists of holiday decor, gift items, and toys and games for children and adults...

A.G. Edwards & Sons Inc. has earned a five-star rating for service to individual investors. Using seven investment and service attributes, Kiplinger's Personal Finance magazine reported in its November issue that only one broker firm in the nation A.G. Edwards & Sons earned the special rating...

Heartland Antique Emporium will open in downtown Cape Girardeau Friday. The antique and collectibles market, which will feature more than 23 dealers when it opens, is at 5 N. Main. "We're opening the ground level of the building," said Greg Hahs, owner. "We have more than 13,000 square feet on the first floor; we have another 13,000 square feet upstairs, which will open in the future."...