Stories from Thursday, August 6, 1992

America's alienation from its supposed governmental extension, Congress, is more tangibly understood not in the context of scandals or headlines about congressional gridlock, but in simple calculations. The business of Washington, D.C., is government, and business is good. Unfortunately, the prosperity that comes from growth in America's legislature seems to be of inverse benefit to the rest of the nation...

People with chronic lung disease must deal with a variety of medical issues and lifestyle changes in order to cope with their condition. Those issues are the subject of a day-long seminar at St. Francis Medical Center Aug. 25. "Coping with Chronic Lung Disease" is cosponsored by the St. Francis Pulmonary Rehabilitation staff and the American Lung Association. Seminar activities will begin at 8:45 a.m. in the St. Francis Rehabilitation Center...

Summer fun will end for approximately 1,000 Central Senior High School students when they start back to school on Aug. 27. All students are required to meet the first day at 7:45 a.m. in the auditorium for a class assembly and then report to their individual homerooms...

A Thursday production of "Jack and the Beanstalk" by students of Don and Janet Presson has been moved to the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Free performances are planned at 1:30 p.m. and at 2 p.m. in the library's community room. In addition, a piano quintet will perform "Midnight on Boggy Creek."...

Nothing can light up an event like clowns, especially when kids are involved. That's the idea behind the Cape Shrine Club weekend at the St. Louis Iron Mountain Railroad in Jackson on Aug. 29 and 30. The Shrine Club clowns will be special guests on each train ride throughout the weekend, and entertain kids of all ages...

Applications are being accepted for the Music Preparatory Program at Southeast Missouri State University, which offers instruction in all band and orchestral instruments, piano, organ, guitar and voice. The non-profit program has offered music instruction since 1985 for first-grade students through adults. This year, a new program has been introduced for pre-school children...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Municipal Band will hold its last weekly concert at the band shell in the city park tonight at 8 p.m. The band will also perform Tuesday for the opening of Jackson Homecomers, and will play the season's final concert on Aug. 20 in the gazebo on the court house lawn...

HAYTI -- Planning is underway for the annual Harvest Festival Arts and Crafts Show & Fair in Hayti in October. Booth spaces for the one-day fair are now being reserved through the Hayti chapter of Missouri Upsilon Phi. The show will be held at the Hayti Junior High multipurpose building...

In an effort to be the best, a 14-year-old champion rider from Cape Girardeau spends hours every week training with her three-gaited equitation horse for shows. Amber Pool's hard work paid off several weeks ago when she brought home an award for being the Junior Challenge Cup Champion at a Lexington, Ky. horse show...

Missouriana Campaign sloganeers are saying this is the "year of the woman." Maybe so, but given the mood of the electorate, she'd better not be an incumbent. --- Republicans are still debating whether to dump Vice President Dan Quayle when they meet this month in Houston. Meanwhile Democrats around the country are praying this is one bird that escapes Texas sharpshooters...

Just hours after capturing a hard-fought Republican primary election battle for governor, Attorney General Bill Webster launched his general election campaign with five news conferences around the state. Speaking at the Cape Girardeau Airport, Webster said his fast start was "to symbolize a very aggressive campaign." He said, "Voters have a clear choice in the general election...

Geneva Johnson says her summer job helping youngsters learn traffic safety rules at Safety Village is preparing her for life. Johnson is one of 40 young people, ages 14 to 21, employed this summer through the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School's Summer Youth Employment program...

If the Southeast Missouri State University administration has its way, the institution would operate on a $77.7 million budget next fiscal year. That's the budget request that university officials propose to submit to the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education for fiscal year 1994. That fiscal year begins July 1, 1993...

In 1968, Vice President Hubert Humphrey advised congressional candidate Thad Bullock to "hang in there. Some day you will win." Twenty-four years and six congressional campaigns later, Humphrey's words of advice have come to pass. Thad Bullock is a winner...

For the first time in its 40-year history, the Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo in Sikeston includes one of the oldest cowboy events in rodeo history. Wild horse racing, popular in early American rodeos in the 19th century, has been popular on the West Coast since the mid-1970s...

DUQUOIN, Ill. -- Tickets for the DuQuoin State Fair grandstand entertainment are on sale. "I am very excited about our entertainment line-up this year," said Ron Summers, fair manager. "We have a wide variety of entertainers that will appeal to all ages."...

New Zealand is the focus of the next in a series of travelogue presentations at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Ann Swanson, owner of Gulliver's Travels in Cape Girardeau, will present "An Armchair Visit to New Zealand" on Aug. 20 at 7 p.m. Swanson has lived in Cape Girardeau for four years and has visited more than 30 countries on five continents. Her trip to New Zealand took place in 1986 and remains one of her favorite destinations...

Foreign films. You won't find them in Cape Girardeau's movie theaters. But to film enthusiasts like Southeast Missouri State University history professor Larry Easley, those subtitled foreign films are a treat a refreshing change from the standard fare of American movies...

Stop signs will be placed Monday in the 2000 block of Perryville Road where it intersects with Lexington Street, Cape Girardeau Police Chief Howard Boyd said. The signs will be used to stop motorists traveling on Perryville Road and are designed to alert motorists that Lexington and Perryville will be a four-way stop intersection, the city's police department reported. Lexington is under construction...

Kala M. Stroup, president of Southeast Missouri State University, has been elected vice president of the Council on Public Higher Education for Missouri. The Council is made up of the presidents of all public four-year higher education institutions in Missouri. It provides a forum to discuss common concerns and promotes cooperation among member institutions...

The age of barnstorming came alive again as a Red Baron Boeing A-75 Stearman from Marshall, Minn., colored the skies of Cape Girardeau. Tom Womack, a professional aerobatic pilot in a red-and-white open cockpit biplane, flew into Cape Girardeau's Municipal Airport recently to give rides to area store managers and media representatives...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral mass for Alene Catherine Heisserer, Scott City Route 1, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Augustine Catholic Church. Msgr. John Westhues will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements...

Funeral service for Annabelle Kozlowski of Lakewood, Calif., was held July 28 in Long Beach, Calif. She was 67. She was the daughter of John and Minnie Arnzen of Lakewood, formerly of Cape Girardeau. Kozlowski graduated from Notre Dame High School, and was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral. She was a retired secretary with Pacific Ocean Pumps in Long Beach...

Raymond W. Burneson, 71, of Mt. Prospect, Ill., a former instructor at Southeast Missouri State University, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1992, at Lutheran General Hospital. He was born June 16, 1921, in St. Louis. He and the former Gloria D. Havelka were married June 19, 1947, in Cape Girardeau...

CHARLESTON -- Sammy D. Branigan, 57, of Charleston, died Sunday, Aug. 2, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, following an extended illness. He was born Aug. 8, 1934, in Macon, Miss., son of Phillip and Corine Robinson Branigan. Branigan was formerly of Chicago, and had worked in the steel mills...

Graveside service for Harriet H. Little of Gulf Shores, Ala., was held Tuesday at Longview Cemetery in Union City, Tenn. Ransom-White Funeral Home in Union City was in charge of arrangements. Little, 79, died Saturday, Aug. 1, 1992, in Gulf Shores. She was born Sept. 18, 1912, in Union City, daughter of John and Mamie Calhoun Hefley. She married Henry W. Little, who died in 1946...

SIKESTON -- E.R. "Buddy" Largent, 79, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1992, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews. He was born Jan. 24, 1913, at Portageville, son of William W. and Edith Rathbone Largent. He first married Mildred Smith June 18, 1933, who died Jan. 10, 1958. He later married Esther Vancil Feb. 16, 1964...

PERRYVILLE -- Ronald Eugene Kisner, 33, of Perryville, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1992, in a truck accident on Highway 51. He was born Sept. 5, 1958, in Salina, Kan., son of James W. and Macie Adamson Kisner. Kisner was a truck driver with Hoehn Ready Mix here. He was a member of the National Guard in Perryville, president of River Hills Eagles Lodge 4034 here, and member of Poplar Bluff Eagles. He served with the U.S. Marines in Granada and Beirut...

Funeral service for Chester G. Myklebust, 1512 Jessica, will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Mark Lutheran Church. The Rev. Craig Nessan will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 6-8 p.m. tonight...

MOUND CITY, Ill. - Hazel M. Salmon, 88, of Mound City, died Wednesday, Aug. 5, 1992 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born in Mound City on Aug. 31, 1903, daughter of the late Elisah and Lottie Guinn Ashworth. She was a retired sales clerk for the P.N. Hirsch Co. in Cairo...

CHARLESTON -- Lennie Lewis Duncan, 61, of Route 2, Charleston died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1992, at the Bertrand Nursing Facility. She was born Dec. 27, 1930, in McClellan, Ark., the daughter of the late Len and Edna Wood Allen. On Nov. 20, 1948, she married Dorsey Duncan, who survives of the home...

PERRYVILLE -- Edna L. Nolting, 79, of Perryville died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 1992, at the Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Sept. 26, 1912, in Tennessee, the daughter of Ed and Willie Bailey Mayo. On March 21, 1947, she married Willard Beinlein, who preceded her in death July 24, 1959. She then married Elmer Nolting July 12, 1962. He preceded her in death March 18, 1977...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Ellis of Huntsville, Texas, Conroe Doctors' Hospital in Conroe, Texas, 3:08 p.m. Tuesday, July 21, 1992. Name, Cody William. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. Mrs. Ellis is the former Brenda Mattingly, daughter of Delano and Shirley Mattingly of St. Marys. Ellis is the son of Vernon and Judy Ellis of Waco, Texas...

CHARLESTON -- Willie Seals of Charleston died Sunday, Aug. 2, 1992, in Chicago, Ill. Friends may call from 7-8 p.m. Friday at Sparks Funeral Home. Graveside service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Oak Grove Cemetery.