Stories from Tuesday, September 29, 1992

Floyd C. Womack, 82, 608 S. Sprigg, died Sunday, Sept. 27, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born July 10, 1910, at Oran, son of Harry and Edith Tenkhoff Womack. He and Ruth Craig were married July 14, 1932, in Cape Girardeau. She died Aug. 9, 1986...

To the Editor: This is for Congressman Emerson. We do not need your British friends or any other foreigners coming into our district to advise us on how we should vote in the upcoming presidential election. Mr. Banks and Mr. Hawkins should return to England and ask their mums to teach them some manners...

St. Francis Medical Center's fifth annual Fall Fitness Fest is set for Oct. 18 with all events beginning and ending on the medical center grounds. This year's Fitness Fest events include a 5K run, a 10K run, a 5K wheelchair race, a 3.1-mile non-competitive walk, and a one-mile fun run-walk...

The fire department of Cape Girardeau, or of any other city, encounters a common misconception, one suggesting that nothing much happens if nothing is blazing. The reality obliterates this notion. The measure of a fire department is more completely gauged not by what occurs when alarm bells ring, but by the preparation that goes on before those critical moments. ...

Jim Drury hero or villain? For clarification any time you read anything about Mid America Hotels you are reading about Jim Drury. Jim Drury is Mid America. Several weeks ago many articles appeared in Speak Out about trees being removed from a road-side park across from the Veterans Home in Cape...

FRIEDHEIM -- The 1992 Klaus family reunion will be held Oct. 4 at the Trinity Lutheran Church parish hall in Friedheim. It will begin with a noon basket dinner. Those attending are asked to bring a "white elephant." Family members are requested to bring memorabilia and old photos also...

JACKSON -- Almost $6,000 has been received so far by the Jackson Chamber of Commerce as part of an effort to raise $20,000 for the purchase of new public Christmas lights and decorations. Jeff Moore, chairman of the Christmas Decorations Fund, said the next public event will take place Nov. 7, with the Jackson Elks Club, Knights of Columbus and American Legion each participating in a joint activity to raise money for the Christmas decoration fund...

A Sikeston woman was among four people injured Monday in two separate accidents in Southern Illinois. Illinois State Police said Karen Riley, 19, of Sikeston, was taken to Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis, Ill., with major injuries after the pickup truck she was a passenger in collided with another vehicle...

To the Editor: Fellow Americans, do you remember what you felt when you heard in February, March, April ... that Ross Perot offered himself as a possible presidential candidate? Do you remember why you wanted to jump foursquare into an effort to accomplish something which had not been done since 1860 that is, to elect an outside-party presidential candidate?...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. George Hopper, 3418 Glenview, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:25 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, 1992. Name, Blake Alan. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. First child. Mrs. Hopper is the former Cindy Haugh, daughter of Ivan and Mary Lou Haugh of Topeka, Kan. Hopper is a co-director at Wal-Mart, and is the son of Audy and Virginia Hopper of Colby, Kan...

PERRYVILLE -- Rhoda F. Lorenz, 59, of Perryville, died Monday, Sept. 28, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Nov. 22, 1932, in Jefferson City, daughter of William and Grace Birdsong Vaught. Lorenz was a painter 22 years at International Shoe Co. here. She was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church and AmVets Post 94 Auxiliary...

Graveside service for David F. Saffold, 415 S. Sprigg, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Fairmount Cemetery. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate. There is no visitation. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Saffold, 27, died Saturday, Sept. 26, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, from injuries received in a car accident early that morning...

MARBLE HILL -- Travis W. Abernathy, 67, of Marble Hill, died Sunday, Sept. 27, 1992, at his home. He was born May 19, 1925, at Morley, son of Walla and Della Wilkinson Abernathy. He and Della Eakins were married March 22, 1952, at Glen Allen. Abernathy was a plant operator with Mobil Oil Co. He retired in 1987 from the plant in Thomas, Okla., and moved to Marble Hill. He was a member of Marble Hill First United Methodist Church, and served in the U.S. Coast Guard...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Funeral service for Madelon R. LeDisle of New Madrid was held Monday at St. Eustachius Catholic Church. The Rev. Ferguson Mongham officiated, with burial in Portageville Cemetery. DeLisle Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. DeLisle, 70, died Friday, Sept. 25, 1992, at New Madrid Nursing Center...

THEBES, Ill. -- Patricia Ann Bell, 61, of Clarendon Hills, died Friday, Sept. 25, 1992, in a hospital there. She was formerly of Thebes. She was born Nov. 21, 1930, in Chicago, daughter of Clifford C. and Edith King Caldwell. She married Mitchell Bell, who died in 1990...

The presidential campaign spotlight likely will move back to Cape Girardeau Friday, as preliminary planning is under way for a visit by Vice President Dan Quayle. Final plans have not been made for the visit; however, Secret Service and campaign aides have been laying the groundwork for a visit since the middle of last week...

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- It's happening again: the Illinois State Lottery Lotto jackpot is inching up. The weekend jackpot, valued at $25 million, rolled over again and is approaching momentous proportions. Wednesday's Lotto jackpot will be worth at least $32 million to a single winner, lottery officials said Monday, and it could be even more...

JACKSON -- The first phase of construction of a Veterans' Memorial in Jackson is scheduled to begin next week. Gwen Winningham, chairman of the Memorial to Veterans of All Wars Committee, said the 36-foot diameter concrete foundation for the memorial will be poured next week, weather permitting...

Parents who want to help their children with school work will get a boost from Cape Girardeau public schools. The school district has opened a Parent Resource Center at Washington Elementary School for parents with children enrolled in the district's Chapter 1 program...

Cape Girardeau's new aquatics coordinator says a new bubble for the Central municipal pool will be worth the wait for swimming enthusiasts. Randy Barnhouse, who was hired earlier this month as aquatics director, said Monday the city plans to have the new bubble installed by Nov. 1...

Republican Peter Kinder maintained a huge lead over Democrat Betty Hearnes in fund raising for the 27th District state Senate race, according to campaign finance reports filed last week. The reports, due 40 days before the Nov. 3 general election, showed that Kinder had $13,385 in his campaign account while Hearnes had $4,634...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Magnolia Manor will become host to four fall luncheons to be held in October and November. "The first luncheon for the fall schedule will be held Oct. 6," said Helen Bishoff, a member of the Cairo Historical Society, which operates the historic Victorian mansion. "Additional luncheons will be held in November."...

St. Francis Medical Center's 14th annual Older American Health Fair, a day of free screenings and health information, is scheduled Saturday in the St. Francis Health & Education Centre. The event will begin at 9 a.m. and continue until 3 p.m. Anyone age 60 or older is welcome to participate. No appointment is necessary and ample parking will be available next to the Health & Education Center...

JACKSON - Charles M. Ireland of Jackson has been elected chairman of the board of directors of Missouri Protection and Advocacy Services. He is a professor at Southeast Missouri State University. Protection and Advocacy Services is a private, not-for-profit agency mandated under three federal laws to protect and advocate the legal rights of Missourians with disabilities...

U.S. Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond will hold a listening post forum on Wednesday in Ste. Genevieve, Perryville, Marble Hill and Jackson. Tom Schulte, district office director, will be on hand to talk with constituents. Bond's forums will be held in Ste. ...

Kent Tranter of Jackson has successfully completed training to join the Brigade of Midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. Tranter, a 1992 graduate of Jackson High School, is one of 1,240 members of the Naval Academy Class of 1996. The Naval Academy is the undergraduate college of the Navy. Upon graduation, midshipmen receive bachelor of science degrees and are commissioned as officers in the Navy or Marine Corps...

Sabrina K. Youngs of Cape Girardeau has received the John T. Lawrence Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1992-93 academic year. The Lawrence scholarship is awarded to a graduate student in education. Students must have an undergraduate grade point average of 3.25 and be recommended by a member of the education faculty...

BENTON -- Katherine Marie Hulshof Fennewald, a graduate student majoring in business education in the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia, was inducted into the Mu Delta Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, an international education honor society...

Linda Wiggs was awarded the doctor of philosphy degree from Southern Illinios University at Carbondale. Her major is education with a specialization in business education. The title of her dissertation is "Document Origination and Factors Contributing to Selection of Origination Methods: Implications for Business Curricula."...

CHARLESTON -- A Charleston woman was recently named Ms. Universal/1992 at an international pageant in Nashville, Tenn. Donna DeLaney Adams, 39, won the title. She won a preliminary pageant and then won the state title Ms. Missouri. Adams, who is a radio announcer and program director at radio station KCHR, was also selected "Queen of the Hop" at a '50s party held the night before the pageant. Contestants and their families voted for the queen...

Byron Karathanos, son of Mr. and Mrs. Demetrius Karathanos of Cape Girardeau, has been selected to study during this academic year in Oxford, England through William Jewell's Oxford honors program. Karathanos will be participating in the Oxford Overseas Study Course, an independent program organized and directed by Francis Warner, vice master of St. Peter's College, Oxford University...

Jennifer Lynne Hamilton of Cape Girardeau was named to the dean's list at the University of the South at Sewanee, Tenn. for the 1992 spring semester. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Hamilton and is a sophomore at the university. Students named to the dean's list must achieve a semester grade point average of 3.625 or higher...

Two Cape Girardeau educators attended the Missouri State Teachers Association's annual leadership conference in August. Barbara Kohlfeld, CTA vice president and gifted facilitator at L.J. Schultz School, and Mary Hart, CTA president and eighth-grade basic reading teacher at Central Junior High School were among those attending the conference...

When it comes to volunteering, Harry Rediger has trouble saying no. The manager of Cape Girardeau's JCPenney store, Rediger has long been active in civic and charitable affairs spending countless hours a week volunteering his time. When he's not at work, he's likely to be out working for the good of the community...