Stories from Tuesday, December 29, 1992

When is a recession not a recession? When is an economic recovery equal to that designation? The bad news for President Bush is that reports of an improving economy didn't surface in time to help his re-election efforts. The confusion exists in that these reports ascended so soon after the November votes were cast. The good news, politics notwithstanding, is that the economy at last has turned around...

Now that Ronald Reagan himself has hailed Rush Limbaugh as "the No. 1 voice for conservatism in our country," it's high time that I weighed in with a few comments of my own about this amazing man. Limbaugh utterly dominates talk radio today. According to the latest figures, his three-hour weekday radio programs leave all competitors in the dust, being heard by 14 million people every week - three and a half million at any given time...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Dale Irvin Anderson, 42, of San Francisco, Calif., and formerly of McClure died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1992, at San Franciso General Hospital. He was born Oct. 1, 1950, in Anna, the son of Edward Dwain and Frieda Dickerson Anderson. He was a partner with Clean Team office cleaning supply company in San Francisco. He was preceded in death by his father in 1988...

WYATT -- Funeral service for George E. Woodruff of Wyatt will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. Leroy Thornton will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Woodruff, 50, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

CHARLESTON -- Richard Morrow, 81, Charleston Route 2, died Monday, Dec. 28, 1992, at Miner Nursing Center. He was born March 12, 1911, at Red Bay, Ala., son of Robert and Sarah Belle George Morrow. He and Pearl Strickland were married Sept. 6, 1931...

Funeral service for Floyd J. Moore, 436 S. Spring, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Raymond Oxford will officiate, with burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Fruitland. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

MATTHEWS -- Funeral service for Leila B. Evans of Matthews will be held at 11 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Revs. Don Slaten and DeWayne Coleman will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Evans, 87, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1992, at her home...

SIKESTON -- Reatha Joyce Taylor, 56, Sikeston Route 1, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 20, 1936, at Matthews, daughter of Arngie R. and Ruth Hickman Hall. She married Hugh Loyd Taylor in 1957, who died in 1982...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Jesse Lee Brown of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Jim Guffie will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Brown, 72, died Saturday, Dec. 26, 1992, at the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tenn...

Willis (Bill) Andrew Springer Sr., 76, of 215 N. Sunset Blvd. died Dec. 28, 1992, at Southeast Hospital. He was born to James Cuba and Mary Sandifur Wilkins in Pleasonton, Texas, on Feb. 18, 1916. He married Betty Hallenbeck on Aug. 24, 1940, in Puerto Barrios, Guatemala...

JACKSON -- Bertha L. Krouse, 99, of Jackson died Dec. 28, 1992, at the Jackson Manor in Jackson. She was born Oct. 27, 1893, at Dogwood Ridge, Mo., to the late James and Cora Thetford Presson. She married William W. Krouse on Dec. 21, 1913. He preceded her in death on Aug. 22, 1963...

CHAFFEE -- Jessie R. Glency, 91, of Chaffee died Monday, Dec. 28, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dorothy A. McGuire, 58, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Dec. 25, 1992, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Nov. 7, 1934, at Hannibal, the daughter of Henry F. Wells Sr. and the late Dora Isabell Williams Wells. On June 9, 1951, she married George H. McGuire at Ferguson. He survives of rural Ellington...