Stories from Sunday, February 14, 1993

CHAFFEE - Pearl Ina Carter, 88, of 312 Gray, Chaffee, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 1993, at the Swain County Hospital in Bryson, N.C. She was born in Zalma, on Aug. 24, 1904, to King Anderson and Mary Etta Abernathy Gobble. On Oct. 14, 1921, she married Walter L. Carter, who preceded her in death on Feb. 2, 1976. One daughter, three sisters and three brothers also preceded her in death...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Clark Dugan of Charleston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:32 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 20, 1993. Name, David Hunter. Weight, 6 pounds 5 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Dugan is the former Sophie Rollins, daughter of Paul and Nora Rollins of Charleston. Dugan is a self-employed farmer, and is the son of Clifford and Shirley Dugan, Charleston Route 3...

Blessed are the peacemakers sometimes. Throughout the 1930s, with both Mussolini and Hitler in power, Europe tiptoed on the high wire of imminent war as the two dictators extorted their territorial gains. In 1935, Mussolini made his grab at Ethiopia. ...

A couple of Sundays ago, I had the tube on, listening to Charles Kuralt's "Sunday Morning" program as I got ready to go to church. Audrey Hepburn had just died, and Kuralt closed the show with a moving tribute to that wonderful actress, the very embodiment of elegance, innocence and timeless charm...

A report released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) in Washington, D.C. says the fatal Feb. 6, 1991 crash of a private airplane west of Dutchtown was due to pilot error and poor weather conditions. The crash of the single-engine Piper Cherokee claimed the life of the pilot, and lone occupant, Perryville City Alderman Robert V. ...

The Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts and the Senior Learning Program are offering an art class designed for those 60 and older. The class, entitled "Exploring Art in Two Dimensions," emphasizes design and composition in two-dimensional art. The subject matter will be the student's choice of still life. The class will meet on Mondays, from 3:30-4:30 p.m., beginning Monday and running through March 29 at the Senior Learning Center, 805 N. Sprigg. Cost is $15...

The Mississippi Valley Chapter of the Ozark Society will show a videotape about the Buffalo River in Arkansas at a meeting Tuesday. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Conservation Center at North County Park in Cape Girardeau. Saving of the Buffalo River was the original purpose of the formation of the Ozark Society...

Whenever a study is released isolating the nation's poverty pockets, few people in this region betray much surprise at the findings. In fact, the numbers haven't varied much in decades. In a dismal bit of national prominence, portions of Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois consistently rank high in poverty reports. ...

The L.J. Schultz PTA will host a potluck dinner and open house Feb. 23. The dinner starts at 6 p.m. at the school. Parents will be invited into the classrooms to view samples of children's work, the band will perform and a new computer purchased by the PTA will be on display in the library...

The AWAKE (Alert, Well and Keeping Energetic) sleep disorder support group will meet Monday at 7 p.m. in the St. Francis Medical Center Health and Education Center. Cape Girardeau neurologist, Dr. Abdual B. Chaudhari, will speak on the topic of periodic leg movement during sleep...

The Central Pool will be open from 1-8 p.m. Monday to accommodate those who have a Presidents' Day vacation. The pool's next round of classes also will start on Monday. Water babies, preschool, youth, adult beginners, basic water safety, emergency water safety, lifeguard training, swimnastics, springboard diving and snorkeling classes will be offered...

Citizens Electric Corp. will send two high school juniors on an all-expense-paid tour of Washington, D.C., June 13-18, as the grand prize of the 1993 Youth Tour essay contest. All high school juniors who attend school in Citizens Electric's service area are eligible to enter the contest...

MARBLE HILL -- Mildred O. Mouser, 82, of St. Louis formerly of Marble Hill died Friday, Feb. 12, 1993, at St. Mary's Health Center in St. Louis. She was born at Lutesville Dec. 31, 1910, daughter of the Rev. Daniel and Nola Eaker Mouser. She is survived by one nephew and two nieces she had raised, Michael Hester, Vivian Thurman, Dawna Donovan, all of St. Louis...

John Lester Goodman, 79, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 1993 at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. He was born May 16, 1913 in Jackson, the son of James and Martha Jorden Goodman. On Aug. 12, 1933 he married Mildred Fisher in East St. Louis, Ill. She preceded him in death on Feb 5, 1988...

JACKSON - Mrs. Eula Link, 86, formerly of the Jackson area, died Friday Feb. 12, 1993 at the Meridian Nursing Center in Longwood, Fla. She was born May 24, 1906, the daughter of Clarence and Della Taylor Graves. In 1930 she married Henry Link, and he preceded her in death in September of 1958...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Marie J. Schenck of Perryville will be held at 2 p.m. today at the United Methodist Church. The Rev. Fred Shrum will officiate, with burial in Home Cemetery. Miller Family Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Schenck, 86, died Friday, Feb. 12, 1993, at American Care Center...

JACKSON -- Evelyn J. Nanney, 50, of Jackson, died Friday, Feb. 12, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Aug. 30, 1942, at Friedheim, son of Murphy and Corene Berkbigler Kern. Nanney had worked at Ralph Edwards, Jackson Hosiery Mill, Chateau Girardeau, and had been a surgery transport technician at St. Francis Medical Center since 1985. She was a member of Immaculate Conception Church and St. Ann's Sodality...

Graveside service for William Gee of Cape Girardeau was held Saturday at Memorial Park, with the Rev. Louis Launhardt officiating. Ford and Sons Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Gee, 74, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

Henry Elmer Fowler, 76, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 1993, at his home. He was born April 15, 1916, at Zalma, son of James Daniel and Josie Gray Fowler. He and Florence L. Parsons were married Oct. 3, 1942, in Yuma, Ariz. Fowler was a weight vatcher 26 years at Cape Ready Mix Co...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Charles F. Simpson of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church. The Rev. Charles E. Buck will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

SHERMAN, Tex. - Verna Maurine Conrad, 65, of Sherman Texas died Saturday Feb. 13, 1993 at Medical Plaza Hospital in Sherman. She was born in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Caractacus C. and Helen Lamb Conrad. She graduated from Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., attended Southeast Missouri State University for two years, and earned her B.A. and master's degrees from Texas Women's University in Denton...

SIKESTON - Lonnie D. Russom, 59, of Canalou, died Saturday, Feb. 13, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born May 9, 1933, in Montezuma, Tenn., to J. R. and Eva Jane Gentry Russom. Russom married Sara Ellen Naney, who survives at the home in Canalou. ...

Gary Wadlington, 51, of Crystal Lake, Ill, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Feb. 11, 1993 at Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Ill. He was born Sept. 16, 1941 in Cape Girardeau, the son of Elbert "Pete" Wadlington of Cape Girardeau and the late Marjorie Welter...

The University of Missouri Extension will provide a series of child-care provider training seminars. The two-hour programs are contracted through the Division of Family Services. On Thursday at the Perry County Extension office from 7-9 p.m., Rick Sparks, business and industry specialist, will discuss the management of child-care businesses. The program will be repeated March 4 at the Cape Girardeau County Extension office...

PINCKNEYVILLE, Ill. - Irma Del Bloodworth, 72, formerly of Kelso, died Friday, Feb. 12, 1993 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born in Owensville, Ind. on June 17, 1920 to Ross and Annabelle Garrison Barrett. On July 13, 1949, she married Glenn M. Bloodworth. He preceded her in death Aug. 16, 1985...

SIKESTON - Elsie Jines Sutton, 75, of 122 Winter Drive in Sikeston, died Friday Feb. 12, 1993 at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Jan. 3, 1918 in Sikeston, the daughter of Charles G. and Lelia F. Shipman Oliver. She was first married to Essie Jines and then married William Carol Sutton, who preceded her in death in 1958...

PERRYVILLE -- Tommie Lea Holland, 68, of Perryville, died Friday, Feb. 12, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born April 5, 1924, in Black Rock, Ark., daughter of Thomas and Emma Burns Norris. She and Clifford D. Holland were married Feb. 3, 1946, in Walnut Ridge, Ark...

Cape Girardeau Airport Manager Mark Seesing is leaving his position Friday to become operations manager for Cape Central Airways, Inc., the fixed base operator (FBO) at the airport. When he was appointed in 1989, Seesing became the first full-time manager in the airport's history...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Reflecting back on 20-plus years of military service as Missouri's Adjutant General, Maj. Gen. Charles M. Kiefner says his greatest satisfaction is having watched the Missouri Army and Air National Guard evolve into a proven fighting force...

Cards, hearts, roses and candy aside, Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love, even young love. Children ages 7, 8 and 9 in Ann Muench's second-grade class at Charles C. Clippard Elementary School reflected on the holiday while preparing for their big party Friday...

Soap star Andrew Jackson, Dr. Steve Hamill on ABC's "All My Children" program, stirred hearts Saturday during a Valentine's weekend appearance at West Park Mall. About a year and a half ago Jackson switched from Shakespearian acting to the soaps, a change he's enjoying. The hundreds of fans on hand to meet Jackson seemed to agree...

The new Bloomfield Street Bridge over Cape La Croix Creek is scheduled to open for traffic this week, City Manager J. Ronald Fischer said Saturday. "The contractor (Dumey Excavation, Inc. and Brenda Kay Construction Co.) on the Cape La Croix/Walker Creek flood control project informs us the bridge is ready to open. We have tentatively scheduled a ribbon-cutting to mark the official opening of the bridge at 3 p.m. Friday," Fischer said...

The Statesmen Quartet, The Wilburns and God's Country groups will appear at a benefit concert to be held at the A.C. Brase Arena Building in Cape Girardeau Friday. The Statesmen Quartet, of Nashville, Tenn., will appear at 7:30 p.m. The Wilburns, God's Country and other local talents will appear from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m...

Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and the Area Wide United Way are accepting nominations for the fifth annual Bell Volunteer Awards recognition program, which will be held in April during National Volunteer Week. Nomination forms have been mailed to service clubs, organizations, churches and various agencies. Competed forms must be returned to the Area Wide United Way by March 22...

ST. LOUIS - Despite a three-fold increase in fourth quarter earnings, Union Electric Company says its overall 1992 earnings declined more than five percent from the year earlier. Most of the decline was blamed on unusually mild weather last summer, which reduced the need for electricity to power air conditioning. Last summer was Cape Girardeau's fifth coolest in 47 years. In addition, the cost of refueling the company's Callaway nuclear plant added more than 20 cents a share to expenses in 1992...

Shortly after 2 p.m. today, before 100 friends and family members gathered at Lynwood Baptist Church, Angie Menz and "Wild Bill" Lamberson will say their I do's. How romantic, you say, marrying on Valentine's Day. Well, Angie's reasons were practical as well...

V~alentine's Day! Some of the old, fold-out, stand-up, three dimensional Valentines are making their way back to the market via Hallmark. Good. Bring back some of the other good things we once had but lost somewhere in the Sixties. I recently acquired from my sister and old Valentine that Grandma Bell gave to her way back in the early part of the second decade of this century. ...

If the crocus are up, can the jonquils be far behind? They and the hyacinths and the tulips and the scilla and the dwarf iris. Then the whole blooming bunch of flowers on into summer. Well, the crocus purple, blue, yelow, white and assorted other colors are splotching the landscape in singles and clumps...

The Four Seasons chapter of the National Audubon Society will host a meeting on rare and endangered reptiles and amphibians of Missouri Thursday. Tom Johnson, state herpetologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation, will speak at 7:45 p.m., following the organization's business meeting, which starts at 7 p.m...

SEMO Hardwood Floor Sanding Co., a hardwood-floor sanding, staining and refinishing company, has opened in Cape Girardeau. "We'll refinish floors in residential and commercial buildings," said James Farrar, who recently established the firm. "I have more than 12 years experience in the business."...

ST. LOUIS Sabreliner Corp. has won a one-year $4.6-million contract to repair and modify fuel controls used on T-53 engines that power the Army's big UH-1 "Huey" helicopters. The contract provides for potential second- and third-year orders that could make the total value of the contract worth more than $30 million...

Five new directors were elected by the Greater Cape Girardeau Development Corp. recently. Named to the board were Cord Dombrowski, Mike Edwards, M.E. "Bud" Leming, Jim Lansmon and Mike Richey. Five board members are elected each year to three-year terms...

Construction continues on a building that will house Sanders Enterprises Inc., a plastics recycling center on Nash Road. "The building is going up," said Harry Sanders, president of the new firm. "Hopefully it will be ready soon. That's all we're waiting on; we have our equipment in storage here and hope to be in operation by March 1."...

Boatmen's Bank has announced two promotions. Terri Drury has been named facility manager of Boatmen's Bank branch at 800 N. Kingshighway and Jim Ham has been promoted to credit administration manager. As facility manager, Drury will be responsible for customer service, financial control and ensuring efficient workflow...

Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan will be keynote speaker at the annual Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Business Conference at the Show Me Center April 7. Carnahan will speak at a luncheon of the daylong conference. Theme of the conference is "Surviving the Business Climate of the '90s."...

Metropolitan Reference Laboratories (METRO), which maintains a Cape Girardeau service office at its new medical testing laboratory in St. Louis, processes some 5,000 medical samples each night. The new, 70,000-square-foot state-of-the-art lab opened recently...

Jack Mehner, armed with a franchise for Olivetti Office Equipment for Missouri's Bootheel, founded what he called Advanced Business Systems in 1963 as a "cottage industry." Working out of his home and utilizing an answering service at Sikeston, Mehner, who had moved to Cape Girardeau from the St. Louis area, called on clients throughout the Bootheel...

Ratliff Nursing Home has taken on a new look. The nursing home is in its new quarters at 717 N. Sprigg. Construction of the 16,500-square-foot structure was completed last year. Service at the nursing home, which has 46 beds, was not interrupted during construction. The new building is adjacent to it older facility...

Everyone knows the mail must go through, but where it goes through is a mystery sometimes. Last Tuesday, Linus Meyer of 1013 Elm received a workers' compensation check mailed to him from Philadelphia on Dec. 22. Where does mail go when it spends seven weeks in postal oblivion? In this case, the possible explanations are numerous...

SIKESTON -- Ultimate Tan, a tanning salon, has opened at 1024 County Line Road in Sikeston. Nancy and Leann Priest are owners of the salon, which features six VIP tanning beds, each with built-in air conditioning and stereos. Hours are 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Mondays through Fridays; 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturdays; and noon to 6 p.m. Sundays...

The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in three areas this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Feb. 24 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for an appointment...

MALDEN - Officials of First Community Bank of Malden recently donated $5,000 to the Bootheel Education Center (BEC), which BEC Citizens Advisory Committee officials say will be used for the addition of a second computer laboratory. Bank President Charles Rushing presented the funds to officials of the BEC and Southeast Missouri State University in January...

Marta Green, broker of Classic Real Estate Ltd., Better Homes and Gardens, and six sales associates have earned membership in the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate Service 1992 Medallion Club. Memberships are awarded to associates who achieve residential-sales and listings-sold volume of $1 million or more during the year...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Irving J. Berry et al. to Matthew J. and Barbara M. Berry; Leston O. and Virginia L. Morrison to Joseph K. and Winnie A. Essmyer; James A. and Thelma R. Irwin to Dorothy F. McDonald...

Debbie Leoni, director of Southeast Missouri Hospital's Fitness and Wellness Center, has been certified in systematic stress management by the American Institute for Preventive Medicine. She recently completed sessions at Chicago that included courses on determining stress levels, identifying causes of stress, organizing time more effectively and reducing stress...

W.C. and Caroline S. Cole braved some elements when they opened the White Way General Store in Marble Hill in 1933. Businesses were failing, people were losing their jobs, farmers were losing their farms, and banks were closing. The Great Depression had hit the United States...