Stories from Sunday, April 18, 1993

Monsignor Joseph Henry Huels, 83, pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau for 10 years and associated with the cathedral parish for almost 26 years, died Friday, April 16, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. Msgr. Huels was born Sept. 8, 1909, in St. Louis, son of Joseph and Mathildis Richter Huels...

Cape Christian School, 1855 Perryville Road, will add a seventh grade class to its curriculum this fall. "Many parents who have children in our grade school at present have suggested that we continue the program to the ninth grade," said Bonnie Nations, administrator and principal of the school, which currently has class for kindergarten through sixth grades."...

Earl Norman has been in the health services business for almost a quarter century. As founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Health Services Corporation of America headquartered in Cape Girardeau, Norman keeps a close watch on the world of medicine...

An architecturally stunning multi-million-dollar retail-professional office complex and corporate home to Health Services Corporation of America is now open at 840 S. Mount Auburn Road. "We're very pleased with the new complex," said HSCA Chief Executive Officer Earl Norman. "One of our major goals has been to have our corporate headquarters under one roof."...

The Safe House for Women has received approval from the Missouri Department of Economic Development to conduct a $28,000 fund-raising campaign offering qualified businesses and individuals credit on their state income taxes. The safe house will use the funds raised to complete payments on its mortgage, do some needed repairs, and staff its program...

JACKSON -- The director of Riverside Regional20Library says public response to the library's extended hours of operation during January, February and March was "very positive," and the board of directors has decided to make the extra hours20permanent...

"Developing Cross-Cultural Sensitivity" will be the topic of an interactive teleconference, which will be broadcast via satellite Friday at Southeast Missouri State University. The program is scheduled for 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the University Center Party Room...

Southeast Missouri State University inducted 95 students into its Phi Eta Sigma Freshmen Honor Society chapter during a ceremony held in the University Center recently. This was the 10th initiation ceremony held at the university. The Southeast chapter was founded in 1984. A reception honoring the new initiates also was held in the University Center...

Nearly 20 people rallied outside the house of a Cape Girardeau couple Saturday morning, appealing for fairness in housing standards and for increased controls over area landlords. The house, situated at 825 Hickory St., is rented by Marsha Brown and Anthony Northern. A Cape Girardeau police officer was called in to log a complaint against the landlord, Mark Werner of Jackson...

Proposed legislation in the Missouri General Assembly would remove Yellow Pages revenues when determining future Southwestern Bell telephone rates. The proposal is disturbing. Our main concern goes beyond the issue of phone rates. This debate simply doesn't belong in the legislature. ...

Saturday morning, I traveled to Charleston for the 25th annual Dogwood-Azalea Festival. I participated in the Queen crowning ceremony and walked in the parade that followed. It was a beautiful way to spend a Saturday morning. Charleston's annual festival continues today, and beautiful weather is the forecast. ...

"Bosnian Muslims must be transported like cattle in order to avoid dying like sheep." MacNeill-Lehrer Report Of the Serbian order to decimate Srebrenica: "I hope that their sleep is punctuated the screams of the children and the cries of their mothers."...

MARBLE HILL -- Jerry Wayne Moore, 38, of Marble Hill, died Friday, April 16, 1993, at his home. He was born Aug. 13, 1954, at Cape Girardeau, son of Harry Edward and Alma Alice Cox Moore. Moore was a 1972 graduate of Jackson High School. He was voted "Most Inspirational" by his former classmates at his 20-year reunion in 1992...

PERRYVILLE -- Mary Evelyn Stokely, 89, of Perryville, died Friday, April 16, 1993, at St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood, Mo. She was born Feb. 25, 1904, at Perry County, daughter of Pious L. and Fanny O'Mare Hagan. She was married to Russell A. Stokely, Jan. 21, 1922. He died in October 1972...

PERRYVILLE -- Herman J. Ponder Sr., 84, of Perryville, died Friday, April 16, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 8, 1909, at Perry County, son of Joseph and Josephine Schneider Ponder. He married Cardula Winschel, Sept. 23, 1930...

SCOTT CITY -- The Rev. Charley Alvin Owens, 81, of Scott City, died Friday, April 16, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 13, 1911, son of Charles and Sarah Hartsey Owens. He was married to Mattie Cook, July 29, 1940. She died April 16, 1978...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Graveside service for Alma Louise Freeman of Las Vegas, Nev., will be held at 2 p.m. today at Lindsey Cemetery. The Rev. Raymond Oxford will officiate. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is in charge of arrangements...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Graveside service for Calvin Oberts of Olive Branch was held Saturday at Rose Hill Cemetery in Thebes. Crain Funeral Home at Tamms was in charge of arrangements. Oberts, 53, died Thursday, April 15, 1993, at his home. He was born April 26, 1939, at Thebes, son of Lawrence H. and Myrtle Foltz Oberts...

Delbert J. Faust, 85, 3909 Valley View, died Friday, April 16, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born July 6, 1907, in Cape Girardeau, son of Joseph and Eva Gregory Faust. He and Aleta Stevens were married Dec. 20, 1933, in Cape Girardeau...

PERRYVILLE -- Lillian Frances Huber, 76, of Perryville, died Friday, April 16, 1993, at St. Louis University Hospital. She was born Nov. 19, 1916, at Belgique, daughter of Robert F. and Emma Steinbecker Cissell. She and Lester Huber were married Oct. 21, 1937, at Belgique...

Five Southeast Missouri State University graduates have been selected as recipients of the university's 1993 Young Alumni Merit Award. They will be honored at a graduation dinner next Sunday in the Show Me Center. The honorees include Karl W. Mueller of Ballwin, Ray L. Butler of University City, Perry J. Rhew of Holcomb, Curtis L. Waggoner of Rock Island, Ill., and Nita Na-Songkhla of Bangkok, Thailand...

Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle wants the state to change the way campaign disclosure laws are enforced. Swingle last week chose to not file charges against the treasurer of the Elect-A-Neighbor Committee for alleged violations of state campaign disclosure laws...

The rising Mississippi River forced the closing of six Cape Girardeau streets by late Saturday. A revised National Weather Service Report predicts the river should crest Tuesday at 40.1 feet - eight feet above flood stage. "Several homes and businesses could be affected if the river reaches the 40-foot level," said Sgt. Carl Kinnison of the Cape Girardeau Police Department. "A number of streets will also be closed."...

The Cape Girardeau City Council is flirting with the possibility of placing before the voters a transportation and capital improvements tax measure to fund infrastructure development. At a city council retreat held Friday at the Black Forest, north of Cape Girardeau, the city administrative staff demonstrated that a quarter-cent hike in the capital improvements tax and a half-cent transportation tax could generate $92.5 million in 20 years...

EGYPT MILLS -- There are some people who collect stamps, some dabble in dolls or some get a charge out of collecting spark plugs. But in Egypt Mills, there's a group of area men who collect antique tractors. Not the little toys you played with as a child, but huge, fully operational diesel and steam-powered tractors...

Gloria Steinem, Sean Connery, and Oprah Winfrey credit libraries for making a difference in their lives. "Libraries Change Lives" is the national theme for National Library Week, which will be observed this week at libraries across the nation, including the Cape Girardeau Public Library, 711 N. Clark...

The Cape Girardeau Salvation will announce results of its capital building campaign during its annual civic and victory dinner to be held at the Drury Lodge Monday. The Salvation Army kicked off a million-dollar, capital campaign for a new building in March of 1992. The new, 17,200 square foot building will be constructed near the South Sprigg-Good Hope intersection in Cape Girardeau...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- James Burd wants another term as mayor. "Construction of the Olmsted Dam is expected to get under way on the Ohio River here soon," said Burd, 24-year mayor of Olmsted. "I've been involved with this project from the start, and I'd like to see it through."...

Workshop On Wheels will present a workshop entitled "Guidance and Discipline" Monday at 7 p.m. This presentation will be held at Gingerbread House, 608 Rosamund, in Jackson. Gloysis Mayers will discuss issues related to developmental levels and expectations of children. Participants will have an opportunity to share situations that have occurred and discuss alternative solutions...

The Corps of Engineers' newly-commissioned inspection vessel, Mississippi V, will make its first stop at Cape Girardeau Friday, during its maiden voyage and first high-water inspection trip down the Mississippi River. The $22 million Mississippi V, so named because it is the fifth vessel in the history of the Corps to bear that name, is the flagship and inspection vessel of the Mississippi River Commission. The boat was commissioned April 8, during a ceremony along the Memphis waterfront...

More than 250 Civil War re-enactors will gather south of Jackson next Saturday and Sunday to conduct a "living history" encampment. These soldiers will produce one of the largest Civil War re-enactments ever held in this region, said Frank Nickell, of Southeast Missouri State University Center for Regional History and Cultural Heritage...

The Leukemia Society's Walk-A-Thon will be held May 1 from 10 a.m. to noon at Cape Girardeau County Park North. The event is sponsored by Town and Country Extension Club. Sponsor forms may be obtained at Cape County Park, University of Missouri Extension Office and at Ross Furniture in Jackson...

THE AUSTRALIAN BOYS CHOIR WILL PERFORM ON OCT. 2 AS PART OF CONCERT SERIES The community concert association begins its 1993-94 membership drive this week with a new name, a new partnership and a new program series offering double the usual number of performances...

ST. LOUIS Children's auditions for upcoming Muny productions will be held from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Saturday in Forest Park on The Muny's West Rehearsal Platform. Children will be cast in chorus positions for "Peter Pan" and "Oliver!" Auditions also will be held for principal roles in "The South of Music," "Peter Pan" and "Fiddler on the Roof."...

"Vacant Quarter: The End of Prehistory in The Middle Mississippi Valley" will be the topic when the Southeast Missouri State University Museum and the university's sociology and anthropology department co-host the 1993 Annual Thomas Beckwith Memorial Archaeology Lecture today...

A banner contest and a five-block walk are among highlights of National Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week in Cape Girardeau this week. Area residents who want to spread "The Light of Life Pass It On" theme are invited to take part in the sixth annual walk, to be held Thursday...

JEFFERSON CITY - The walls of Mary Kasten's first-floor Capitol office are covered with photographs, plaques, letters and other memorabilia that reflect a lifetime of public service service that has earned Kasten a reputation for compassion, integrity, and sincere dedication to helping others...

Previous to the Christmas holidays there was a wonderful little sketch on TV. It may have been a commercial for a soft drink. Several weeks before Christmas, as intimated, a grandfather takes his grandson by a planter overlooking Rockefeller Center where the annual Christmas tree is erected and subsequently lighted. ...

Bedding plants are showing up all over town. They are at the greenhouses, local stores, garden centers, supermarkets, and hardware stores. How great the fresh, new displays look after a winter of gray days and dreary vegetation. Then came our late spring, and never has one been more beautiful or colorful. ...

Black Forest will host the spring Craftsfest next Saturday and Sunday. The scenic-drive quilt will be on display on Sunday. Chances for the quilt and other prizes will be sold for $1, with proceeds going to support the Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive...

PERRYVILLE -- A new jewelry store will open here this summer. Lepco Systems Inc. of Cape Girardeau has purchased equipment, fixtures and furniture of the former Rudert Jewelers of Perryville, and is leasing the building from its owners, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Rudert of Perryville. The Ruderts recently retired after 43 years in the jewelry business...

SCOTT CITY -- The Tackle Box has opened at 1414 Main in Scott City. The Tackle Box, a retail operation of Crappie Co., U.S.A, also headquartered at Scott City, will provide a large selection of bass and crappie rods, reels, and other fishing supplies...

The year was 1962. Business in Southeast Missouri was booming, and Sears, Roebuck & Co., which had a small catalog operation in downtown Cape Girardeau, wanted to a bigger part of the community's business. Two years earlier, the city's first shopping center Town Plaza had opened with several stores and more than 1,000 shopping spaces. The Kroger Store was the center's anchor store. Shoppers could also find books, fabrics, lighting supplies, gifts, office supplies, and more in the new center...

Dr. B.L. Ogborn recently completed a workshop demonstrating the use of the HGM Krypton Laser. He also toured the HGM manufacturing plant in Salt Lake City. The laser is designed to remove facial skin lesions and to perform oral surgical procedures. Ogborn has practiced oral and maxillofacial surgery in Doctors' Park since 1970. ...

MARION, Ill. -- A Missouri-based investment group will build eight Sonic drive-ins in Southern Illinois over the next six years, starting with one at Marion this summer. Construction on the Marion facility, to be at Walton Way near Wal-Mart, Sam's Club and Interstate 57, is expected to get under way within six weeks. Completion is targeted for early July...

JACKSON -- A Jackson used-vehicle operation has changed names. Friedrich's Auto Sales recently became Mouser Auto Inc. "We're the same business and we provide the same, good service," said Milton Mouser, who has been involved in the operation at 125 E. Adams for more than 20 years...

A new reception hall along Highway 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson is now available for bookings. The 1,600-square-foot building, at 101 Tower Circle Drive, will seat 100 to 150 persons. The hall is across the highway from the waterslide. Electronic Information and Communications Systems owns the new structure, which is available for wedding receptions, dances, training sessions, conventions and other meetings...

Southwestern Bell Telephone and co-sponsors are offering $110,000 in Economic Excellence grants to fund economic growth projects in Missouri. "Applicants must be state, regional or local industrial or economic-development organizations, Chambers of Commerce, government entities or organizations identified with economic-development goals," said Craig Felzien, local area manager-community relations for Southwestern Bell here...

Herbert Annis and Patti Morrow of Century 21 Ashland Realty Co. of Cape Girardeau attended the first 1993 session of Operation Orbit, a yearlong management training system available through the Century 21 System. Operation Orbit offers brokers, owners and managers the opportunity to learn and refine business skills...

Thomas E. Poston has joined Todt-A Division of PSP Inc. of Cape Girardeau. Poston, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, has more than 20 years experience in power-transmission, hydraulic material-handling systems and construction-management and engineering services...

Sweetbriar Estates, designed by Creative Concept of Dallas, Texas, will offer a variety of floor plans in a four-building complex at Brookshire and Amblewood in Cape Girardeau. "We offer two-bedroom and three-bedroom units," said Doris Jean Arnold of Gary M. Arnold Customs Homes and Century 21 Ashland Realty. "This location was selected to offer easy access to businesses, shopping, medical centers and entertainment."...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: George D. Baron to Peggy L. Campbell; Marcia A. Hobbs to George Wesley Smith III and Angela M. Smith; Robert J. and Gay Pilsner to Julian E. Bray et al...

JACKSON -- Boatmen's Bank has announced the site of its banking facility to be constructed in Jackson. The facility will be on the northwest intersection of West Main and Russell streets. "No specific date has been announced for completion of the new structure," said John Thompson, president of Boatmen's in Jackson. "We're anticipating occupancy some time within the next two years."...

SIKESTON -- Steven D. Gregg, owner of the S. Gregg Gallery in Cape Girardeau, has been selected to judge the ninth annual Judged Art Show sponsored by the Sikeston Art League. The show will be open from April 25-30 at the Savings of America building, 810 N. Main St. in Sikeston...