Stories from Thursday, September 17, 1992

Dear Editor: I have been reading with interest your coverage of the legislation now before Congress to re-regulate the cable industry. I think we have a good old fashioned case of a "wolf in sheep's clothing" when it comes to the cable industry's current media campaign...

The River City Rodders will hold their 15th annual car show at Capaha Park on Sunday beginning with registration at 9 a.m. Awards will be presented at 3 p.m. Local car enthusiasts are invited to bring their pride and joy to the park and give the public an opportunity to view their handiwork. Entry fee is $8...

The Cape Girardeau Parks & Recreation Department is planning a concert to top all concerts as a way to send summer packing. A Country-Pop Showcase on Sept. 27 will feature seven bands that will perform in Capaha Park. The family-oriented concert is free...

CAIRO, Ill. -- The third annual Riverboat Days Quilt Show will be held in Cairo Oct. 3 and 4 at the St. Joseph's gymnasium. The show features five categories of machine or hand-made quilts by area crafters. The categories are pieced, appliqued, other techniques, wall or baby quilts and miniature quilts...

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus' voyage, classical guitarist David Burgess will perform the program "500 Years of Spanish Music in the Americas" at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. Burgess, a protegee of the great Spanish guitarist Andres Segovia, is regarded as one of the country's finest young guitarists. ...

The distinctive sound of contemporary country and the distinctive tastes of the area's finest restaurants will come together in November under starry country skies when the Southeast Missouri Hospital Foundation hosts its fourth annual Southeast Showcase...

Heart disease will be the topic of tonight's "Ask Your Doctor" cable show on Channel 13. It begins at 8 p.m. The one-on-one medical show features local doctors answering questions from local viewers who call in. Dr. William Lafoe will present this week's program...

Julie Antill believes that children learn best from experience. So her fifth grade students at Jefferson Elementary School benefit from her philosophy by taking part in lots of different activities. "I try to present as many hands-on experiences as possible," Antill said. "I enjoy trying to make learning exciting and fun...

ByliJULIE BOLLMAN Neal McCoy likes to make a good impression. "I'm not real good at holding back," said the 34-year-old country singer who loves to stir up an audience. "I like to make them laugh, think, cry, and leave them physically and emotionally drained but happy, because that's the way I leave every show."...

Mark Vittert is a writer with St. Louis Business Journal. "Well, just where is Jackson, Mo.?" I asked. Just being a big-city fella, I wasn't familiar with lots of the smaller cities in outstate Missouri. From now on, I may hesitate on exactly where Sedalia or Bowling Green is, but I'll never forget where Jackson is...

Dear Editor: Legislation is pending in Congress to reregulate the cable television industry. Some of the legislation claim that it is "pro-consumer." But ironically, if that legislation were enacted, it would probably raise cable rates rather than lower them: And it would most certainly curtail the growth in quality programming that consumers have come to enjoy...

Congress must take steps to reform its institutional behavior. A recognition of this is spreading at the U.S. Capitol and a committee has been formed to study possible changes. Beyond adding internal controls, though, Congress should close some arteries of funding that members utilize for their elections. ...

JACKSON -- Area Wide United Way officials in Jackson reported the 1992 edition of YELL for newspapers sold out less than 90 minutes after going on sale at street corners Wednesday morning. "It was overwhelming," said Joyce Hinze, a member of the Area Wide United Way board and Jackson YELL project coordinator...

Rob Landgraf stood nervously in the Show Tent at the SEMO District Fair as First Lady Barbara Bush presented him a purple ribbon. The 13-year-old Jackson 4-Her had a tight rein on his champion Brown Swiss heifer calf, but that didn't stop the calf from mooing during Bush's comments, especially in response to her remark concerning beef trade to Japan...

In an effort to bring different attractions to the SEMO District Fair, officials Wednesday introduced a new event: the Big Bull Chute-Out. The event features rodeo's most popular competition the wild bull ride. Wendell Ratchford, producer of Wild Horse Rodeo Productions in Wynnewood, Okla., said the single-event rodeo is steadily gaining popularity across the nation...

First Lady Barbara Bush touched briefly on a variety of topics during a 50-minute visit to the SEMO District Fair Wednesday, but it was her personality, sincerity and humor that won over the crowd that greeted her. Bush fielded questions and comments from nine people in a crowd of mostly senior citizens at the fair's Rest and Relaxation Tent, talked briefly with about two dozen media representatives from around the area and then went to the livestock area to present championship ribbons to FHA and 4-H members for cattle.. ...

DEXTER -- Two Poplar Bluff women were killed Wednesday afternoon when their car turned into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on a Highway 60 overpass one mile north of Dexter. Pronounced dead at the scene of the 3:15 p.m. accident were the driver of the car, Delinda Cozad, 45, and her passenger, Maggie Piercy, 64...

Robert Hout approaches voting like most of us would a vacation: he's downright enthusiastic. The 21-year-old Southeast Missouri State University junior from Sikeston said he can hardly wait for the November election to arrive. Hout, who is publicity chairman for the Young Democrats club on campus, has been a registered voter since he turned 18. "The day I turned 18, I went and registered."...

SCOTT CITY -- Octoberfest will kick off fall in Scott City, replacing the annual Summerfest celebration. The city's Parks Department Oct. 3 will host the one-day event, complete with parade, pony rides for the kids and live musical entertainment. The Octoberfest will take place in the Scott City Park...

The local chapter of the NAACP is working with a state agency to try and implement a community-based self employment fund that will promote opportunities for entrepreneurship among low income people. The plan, known as the Good Faith Fund, has worked in the state of Arkansas as well as Bangladesh. The idea is being proposed around the state by Mark Miller, director of Minority Business Development for the Office of Administration...

Operation of the fluidized bed boiler continues to move along in halting fashion. The fluidized bed boiler was running at Southeast Missouri State University earlier this week, even as physical plant officials scrambled to find a new source of limestone for the high-tech equipment...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Gregory Cain, Route 1 Tamms, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:41 a.m. Friday, Aug. 28, 1992. Name, Alan Michael. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. Fourth child, third son. Mrs. Cain is the former Cathy Clements, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Clements of Jackson. Cain is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Orville Cain of Tamms...

DELTA -- Funeral service for Ralph Strange of Wood River, Ill., was held Sept. 11 at Marks Mortuary there. The Rev. Mark Scandrett officiated, with burial in Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Strange, 68, died Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1992, at Cochran VA Hospital in St. Louis...

JACKSON -- Funeral mass for Harry Allen Cracraft, 62, of Houston, Texas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Immaculate Conception Church. Msgr. Edward Eftink will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. There is no visitation. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

MILLERSVILLE -- Memorial service for Ivan E. Nelson of Bradenton, Fla., was held Aug. 29 at Griffith-Cline Funeral Home. The Rev. W.A. Gillett and Tom Winters officiated. Nelson, 68, died Thursday, Aug. 27, 1992, at his home. He was born in Newark, but the family later moved to Millersville when he was very young. He attended school at Millersville and Jackson. He married the former Marie Daume of Cape Girardeau...

ADVANCE -- Funeral service for Catherine B. Vogel, Advance Route 2, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Virgil Bunch officiated, with burial in St. Paul Lutheran Cemetery in Telford, Pa. Friends may call at Morgan Funeral Home after 9 a.m...

MARBLE HILL -- Lynn H. Higgins, 57, of Garfield Heights, Ohio, died Wednesday, Sept. 16, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 12, 1934, at Lutesville, son of James A. and Billie E. Abernathy Higgins. He married the former Naomi Watson...

Judges selected the top 4-H and FFA livestock at the SEMO District Fair Wednesday. The top livestock will auctioned today, beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the 4-H Building. Winners included: 4-H swine: Eric Hinkebein, grand champion; Tiffany Binford, reserve champion...

The state Democratic ticket will be coming to Cape Girardeau Friday, beginning a two-day swing to seven cities around Missouri. The trip is being organized by the Missouri Coordinated Campaign, which is an effort to have statewide candidates working more closely together with the Democratic Party...

Funeral service for Flora M. Harris of Cape Girardeau was held Tuesday at McDaniel Funeral Home in Kennett. The Rev. Joe McCullough officiated, with burial in Oak Ridge Cemetery at Kennett. Harris, 83, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1992, at Cape LaCroix Manor...

JACKSON -- Hazel Judd, 84, of Jackson, died Monday, Sept. 14, 1992, at her home. She was born Dec. 19, 1907, at Aurora, daughter of Theodore and Effie Deevers Steger. She married Clinton Judd June 27, 1933. He died Dec. 1, 1981. Judd moved to Fruitland in 1943 from St. Louis, and then to Jackson in 1967...

Funeral service for Effie Hatcher, 2852 Independence, will be at 1 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. Raymond Oxford will officiate, with burial in Lightner Memorial Cemetery at Scott City. It was incorrectly stated in Wednesday's Missourian that the service would be at East Cape Baptist Church...