Stories from Sunday, May 2, 1993

Last June, the U.S. Supreme Court banned prayer at school graduations. In response, area schools have found ways to keep this tradition alive while remaining within the letter of the law. It's good to see area schools have found a way to work within court guidelines...

One of Cape Girardeau's oldest automobile dealerships is joining the new-car crowd and moving westward. Cape Girardeau businessman Gary G. Stanley announced Saturday that Crown Cadillac Oldsmobile has acquired the Nissan franchise. He also announced that the expanded dealership would relocated to 607 S. Kingshighway...

The Cape County Christian Women's Club will have its monthly meeting and luncheon May 10 at Holiday Inn. The theme is "May Flowers." The two-hour event begins at noon. Cost is $6.50 per person, with a complimentary nursery provided. To make reservations for the luncheon and nursery, call Linda Lummus at 334-4259 by Thursday...

St. Mary Cathedral School will be offering a full-day kindergarten five days a week in the fall. In the past, a traditional half day kindergarten has been offered. The kindergarten teacher, Rhonda Parenteau, said, "With the increased number of hours I will be able to offer a greater variety of activities and an expanded and a more in-depth curriculum."...

The Phi Kappa Phi Chapter at Southeast Missouri State University recently inducted 58 students at an initiation and installation ceremony in the University Center. Phi Kappa Phi is an international honor society for academic distinction that brings together individuals from a variety of disciplines...

The delivery of health care in Missouri how it is accomplished now and how it will probably be done in the years ahead was addressed by Missouri Hospital Association (MHA) President Charles L. Bowman while in Cape Girardeau last week. Bowman, who has been MHA president for eight years, addressed the more 900 attending the Southeast Missouri Hospital Association at the Show Me Center Thursday night...

A seven-student team from Cape Girardeau Central High School placed 11th out of 43 Missouri schools recently in the Knowledgemaster Open academic competition. The tournament, which was held April 22 via computer at Central High School, rates students based on their answers to 200 questions covering high school curriculum...

Ryan Kasten of Jackson will give an organ recital today at the Faith Lutheran Church in Fairfield Bay, Ark. Kasten, a freshman scholarship student at Southeast Missouri State University, is an accompanist for the university's Opera Workshop and serves as organist at Grace United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau and Eisleben Lutheran Church in Scott City...

Two Southeast Missouri State University piano students will present their junior recitals Thursday night at Academic Auditorium. The joint recital of Susan Ho and Akiko Kamimura will begin at 7:30 p.m. The recital is free and open to the public. Both Ho and Kamimura are students of James Sifferman...

Eight Southeast Missouri State University alumni, who majored in sociology or anthropology, will discuss career possibilities Thursday. The program is scheduled from 7-9 p.m. in the Missouriana room of the University Center. The panelists will discuss how to apply for a job, how to conduct an interview, and what to include on a resume...

Hillary's health care task force needs to remember that if God had wanted a freeze on doctors' salaries, he would have never made the 40-foot yacht. --- Gov. Carnahan still has many state positions unfilled. At the rate vacancies are being filled, the next judicial appointee may still be in law school...

In 1941, Rebecca West wrote, "There was a lot of emotion loose about the Balkans which had lost its legitimate employment when the Turks were expelled." Half a century later, the fall of Communism has unleashed the same loose, cruel emotions. These small, violence-prone Balkan nations always were an annoyance to Europe. ...

East Missouri Action Agency is announcing a change in office hours at the Community Service Outreach Offices in a number of counties. They include: Washington County Outreach at 411 E. High Street in Potosi; Madison County Outreach at 600 S. Chamber Road in Fredericktown; and Bollinger County Outreach on Presnell Street in Marble Hill...

MAKANDA, Ill. - The armies of the North and South will continue to do battle today near Makanda, Ill., during the 9th annual Makanda Junction Civil War Days and Arts and Crafts Fair. More than 400 Civil War re-enactors wearing Union blue or Confederate butternut gray are expected to participate in the two-day event as members of re-activated Civil War infantry companies, artillery batteries, and horse-mounted cavalry units. It began Saturday...

Martin Brummer, 89, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, May 1, 1993 at the Lutheran Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel.

Funeral service for Helen B. McMahan was held Saturday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel, with Art Kelley officiating. McMahan, 55, 1232 Larry, died Thursday, April 29, 1993, at her home.

JACKSON -- Esther B. Seboldt, 95, of Jackson, died Thursday, April 29, 1993, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 3, 1897, in St. Peter, Ill., daughter of August and Louise Bahde Borchelt. She and the Rev. G.B. Seboldt were married Aug. 20, 1922, in St. Peter. He died Aug. 20, 1973...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Loran Wooley of Anna will be held at 2:30 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Chapel here. The Revs. Gerald Bethards, J.D. Morrison and Robert Goins will officiate, with burial in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home until service time...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Louis Leland Whitlock, 82, of East Prairie, died Friday, April 30, 1993, at the John J. Pershing V.A. Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born June 9, 1910, at Wyatt, Mo., son of Henry Thomas and Gertie Keeton Whitlock. Whitlock married Elva Suits in 1937. She died in 1979...

SIKESTON -- Mary Elizabeth Martinez, 81, formerly of Crowder and a resident of the Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston, died April 30, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 11, 1911, in Sikeston to the late William J. and Rena F. Marshall Pratt. She was a seamstress, and was formerly employed at a dress manufacturing company in St. Louis...

DELTA, Mo. Clyde H. Smith, 74, of Delta, Mo., died Saturday, May 1, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born march 29, 1919, at Delta, Mo., son of Charles Henry and Lucresia Mahaffey Smith. He married Kathryn Ruth Edwards, Nov. 6, 1943, at Elkton, Md...

PERRYVILLE -- Margaret Ann Madalon of Patton, 52, died Friday, April 30, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 19, 1940, in Sikeston, daughter of Forest and Myrtle Boyd Parks. She was married to Kent P. Madalon on June 18, 1960. He survives...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Carl E. Sheible, Mounds Route 1, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Barkett Funeral Chapel here. Burial will be in Spencer Heights Cemetery. Sheible, 59, died Friday, April 30, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo...

Frieda A. Schoen, 94, died Saturday, May 1, 1993 at the Lutheran Home. Friends may call today from 5-8 p.m. at the Ford & Sons Sprigg St. Chapel. Funeral arrangements were incomplete by press time and will be announced later by the funeral home.

JACKSON -- Virgia M. Kamp, 83, of the Jackson Manor, formerly of Poplar Bluff, died Saturday, May 1, 1993, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 20, 1909, at Sedgewickville, daughter of Louis and Emma Conrad Statler. She married Otto A. Kamp, Oct. 29, 1938, at St. Louis...

Before Bill Clinton left Little Rock for Washington, officials of one of the nation's important freight transportation networks the barge industry were primarily occupied with checking on locks and dams along major waterways. Now, the Clinton Administration has given waterways officials another worry that could bring the barge industry to its knees...

As a classroom teacher, Southeast Missouri State University associate professor Richard Hansen wins praise from just about everybody. But the university's ready to send him packing. Hansen recently was denied tenure for not having done enough scholarly research...

An associate professor at Southeast Missouri State University who has been denied tenure says he was the victim of the institution's "publish or perish" philosophy. Despite being hailed as a good classroom teacher by students and faculty colleagues, Richard Hansen was denied tenure this spring on the grounds that he had not done enough research and scholarly activity since being hired six years ago...

POCAHONTAS -- While 79-year-old Anna Leimer keeps one eye on the wildlife shows she loves to watch on the Discovery Channel, she makes quilts. During the past year, Leimer made 41 quilts. That's a lot of lions and tigers and bears. Leimer isn't doing it just for fun, though she's been making quilts since she was a child. ...

Southeast Missouri State University will take over operation of a gymnastics program for youth under a plan approved Friday by the Board of Regents. The vote was 5-1. Regent Ann Dombrowski of Cape Girardeau cast the lone dissenting vote, arguing that the university was, in effect, acquiring a private business operated by university gymnastics coach Bill Hopkins and competing with private gymnastics ventures in Perryville and Sikeston...

Southeast Missouri State University students will be paying more to park in campus lots as part of a plan designed to help fund a day and night shuttle bus system. Parking fee revenue will also be used to blacktop, expand and maintain current parking lots, university officials said...

The Southeast Missourian received two third-place honors in the Missouri Associated Press Managing Editors writing contest awards announced Saturday. Marty Mishow won a third-place award in the spot sports coverage category for his story about Central High School's decision not to rehire three football coaches...

A Cape Girardeau man was critically injured in a two-car accident Saturday evening near the Town Plaza. Frank T. Springmeyer, 83, 105 N. Clark, was extricated from his white 1992 Ford Festiva by Cape Girardeau firefighters. He was transported to Southeast Missouri Hospital where he was listed in critical condition late Saturday...

A cold, steady rain at times increasing to a downpour didn't stop about 50 people from sloshing through Cape Girardeau's first Walk for Life Saturday morning. The walk, shortened to about half the scheduled six miles because of the weather, was a fund-raiser for the Southeast Missouri Effort for AIDS. The organization provides support to HIV-infected people living in the 26 counties of the region...

The SEMO Iris Society, under the auspices of the American Iris Society, announced that its Annual Iris Bench Show will be held May 8-9 at the West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau. Judging will begin at 10 a.m. on May 8. Iris will be on display until 5 p.m. on May 9...

Greg Reece was killed almost four years ago in an automobile crash, caused by a drunken driver. The rainy weather Thursday prevented the members of the Cape Girardeau MADD community action team from dedicating and planting a tree in his honor at Cherokee Park, but he was remembered during their monthly meeting at the Cape Girardeau police station...

Some kids give their mothers flowers for Mother's Day. Others give their moms candy. Still others bring their moms breakfast in bed and give them a great, big hug. "No matter what happens on Mother's Day, one thing's for sure...kids thank their moms just for being mom every day of the year," says 12-year-old Tara Koosak...

As part of the observance of National Day of Prayer on Thursday, Cape County American Family Association will sponsor "Meet Me at City Hall." Concerned citizens are asked to meet at City Hall, 401 Independence, or the flagpole at the courthouse in Jackson, from 12:20-12:40 p.m...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funds for second-phase construction of a four-phase Mounds city park have been released by the Illinois Department of Conservation (DOC). "The funds are a matching grant," said Mounds Mayor Marguerite Ward. "They will be used for construction of a pavilion, parking lot, a small children's basketball court, and installation of other playground equipment."...

SPARTA, Ill. -- "Leaping Lizards," the lizard people are invading the U.S.: "Wham! Zowee! Skla-Boooom~!" The good guys arrive in the nick of time to save the day. Justice prevails. In the little town of Sparta, workers at one of the nation's largest color press facilities have gone through millions of "whams, zaps, powees and kablooies!"...

SPARTA, Ill. -- After a decade of corporate buyouts, mergers, wage cuts, employee layoffs and threats of plant closure, a new model of doing business has emerged at Spartan Printing Company in downtown Sparta. "The Spartan employee buyout in late 1992 is a real-life David-and-Goliath story," says Illinois Treasurer Patrick Quinn, who helped engineer the successful buyout of the company, saving more than 1,100 Southern Illinois jobs...

Beginning May 10, the Southeast Missourian's Business section will be published in Monday editions. The section moves from its accustomed Sunday publication date. The move to Monday will get the business pages out of the heavier flow of news sections in the Sunday edition. The Southeast Missourian hopes the move to Monday will provide the Business section with better exposure...

American Superstores opened its new Cape Girardeau facility Saturday. Bernard Chaudoir, sales manager of the Cape Girardeau store, said the new business, located at 201 S. Broadview, will be open six days a week. Hours for the store will be 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday and Saturday...

Leslie Martin and Cathy Clark, who have been involved in the operations of A Small World Pre-School for a number of years, have purchased the school. "We bought the school and will lease the facility at 1215 N. Kingshighway," said Martin, who will serve as director of the school...

John Heuer of Heuer Sons Implement Co., 533 Morgan Oak, Cape Girardeau, has won a free trip to Palm Springs, Calif., from AGCO Corp., parent company of White Tractor. Heuer Sons was one of AGCO's top performers in farm equipment and parts sales in 1992, rating fifth in the nation among more than 550 White dealers in the U.S. The company's products include tractors in the 40- to 200-horsepower range, combines and other farm implements...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Wayne A. and Kathryn A. Mattes to Craig E. and Sandra S. Wells; Della Hutson to Billy W. and Helen D. Hutson; Wesley W. Farrow Sr. et al. to Larry and Darlene Driskill...

JACKSON -- Edward D. Jones & Co. will observe the grand opening of its new office at 810 E. Jackson Blvd in Jackson May 14. "We'll have an open house from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.," said Dave Beasley, a Jackson investment representative of Jones, which is headquartered in St. Louis...

Roger P, Kirn, a master optician, has recently joined the staff of Regional Eyecare Center, Inc., at 1749 Independence Square. Kirn retired from the Navy in 1989 after 20 years of service. He spent the last 15 years in the service as a Navy optician. After retirement, he joined the staff at a large optical lab in Chicago as a lab and retail manager. His experience includes surfacing and finishing of lenses, as well as the dispensing of eye wear...

GORDONVILLE -- A roadside fruits and vegetable operation has grown into a full-time business for Jim and Judy Coleman. Jim's Produce and Plants, located near the Highway 25-Route K intersection near Gordonville, opened recently with a new retail sales building, new greenhouses and new products...

The Sandwich Shop in Doctors' Park has reopened under new ownership. "We offer soup, sandwiches, baked potato and a salad bar for lunch, and homemade muffins, bagels, fruit and toast during the breakfast period," said Carol Dougan-Stephenson. The new restaurant is open from 7 a.m.-3 p.m. at 37 Doctors' Park...

Angela Razer of Chaffee and Caryn Rainely of Zalma have joined Cutt'n on the River beauty salon, 211-A S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. Both are recent graduates of Stage One The Hair School, at Cape Girardeau. --- ST. LOUIS Robert Schmidt, formerly of Cape Girardeau, has joined the Atkinson Group, Inc., St. Louis, as controller...

Ted Kneidl and Michael Glorioso are not looking for a big share of the soda market. "We'd settle for one to two percent of the sparkling water market," say the two partners who have teamed up to produce a new natural soda brew that is catching the attentions of soda drinkers in the St. Louis area and the state...

The annual FISH volunteer appreciation banquet will be held on May 24 at 6:30 p.m. The banquet will be hosted by Southeast Missouri Hospital and held in the hospital's Harrison Room. FISH volunteers will be recognized for service. In addition, there will be an election for the new board of directors...