Stories from Sunday, November 21, 1993

Pauline F. Hartle, 89, 22 N. Hanover, died Saturday, Nov. 20, 1993 at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

A few weeks ago, I published a column that likened the Clinton Health Care plan, as it relates to struggling entrepreneurs and small business owners, to Joe Stalin's extermination (by state-planned and enforced famine) of 10 million Ukrainian peasants during the 1930s. ...

Seated next to a lawyer from Kansas City the other evening at a dinner observing the anniversary of the election of a mutual friend, we began discussing the State of the Nation. We reached quick agreement that America is in a sad state, citing numerous facts to reach the conclusion that the Good Old US of A is seriously in need of transformation...

Those wishing to reserve copies of "Images of the Past in the City of Roses" are reminded that the deadline for pre-publication orders is Thursday. The pre-publication price of the 240-page book is $25 per book, including sales tax. Books can also be reserved with a $5 deposit per copy...

An item from Southeast Missouri State University's Brodsky Collection is on exhibit at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. William Faulkner's hand-drawn map of his fictional Yoknapatawpha County, completed in 1945 in red and black ink, is featured in an exhibit of literary maps entitled "Language of the Land: Journeys Into Literary America."...

Since taking office in January, President Clinton has waffled on issue after issue, big and small, causing us to wonder if he could make a decision without doubling back on it when the going got tough. But his hoisting of the NAFTA banner the past three weeks answers questions about his ability to commit. Even if the North American Free Trade Agreement had failed Wednesday, the president showed he could fight for a cause to its conclusion...

MATTHEWS -- A Matthews man was killed early Saturday morning after his car was struck by a freight train at a railroad crossing, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. James S. Lewis, 21, was killed in the accident at Route H in Matthews at 12:45 a.m. Saturday...

Ethel E. Graves, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Nov. 19, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 2, 1913, at La Motte, the daughter of Pink and Mary Burcham Mabuce. On Sept. 27, 19958, she married Roy L. Graves at Jackson. He preceded her in death on April 18, 1980. A sister and two brothers also preceded her in death...

PERRYVILLE -- Harold John Balsman, 72, of Perryville died Friday, Nov. 19, 1993, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born March 27, 1921, in Perry County, the son of Frank F. and Elizabeth Seiferd Balsman. On June 13, 1945, he married Rita M. Guyot, who survives of the home...

SCOTT CITY -- Virginia M. Hildebrand, 67, of Nashville, Ill. and formerly of Scott City, died Thursday, Nov. 18, 1993, at St. Louis University Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Feb. 28, 1926, at Scott City, the daughter of Rudolph and Grace Hensley Palmer. On Oct. 14, 1946, she married Stanley H. Hildebrand, who preceded her in death Oct. 8, 1960...

Charles F. Seibert, 79, of Nashville, Ill. died Saturday, Nov. 20, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 2, 1914, at Perry County, Ill., the son of Louis D. and Emma L. Nehrkorn Seibert. On June 2, 1945, he married Florence K. Elermeyer, who survives of the home...

PATTON -- Pinkney P. Presnell, 79, of St. Louis died Friday, Nov. 19, 1993 at Delmar Gardens in Chesterfield. He was born March 19, 1914 in Patton, the son of Robert E. and Callie Yount Presnell. He married the former Bessie L. Yount on April 2, 1941 in Marquand. She preceded him in death Dec. 1, 1992...

BERTRAND -- Mozell Hartwick, 74, of Bertrand died Saturday, Nov. 20, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

SIKESTON -- Wilbur Hershel Van Pool, 69, of Sikeston and formerly of Bertrand died Friday, Nov. 19, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Dec. 30, 1923, at Bertrand, the son of Otha and Anna Thompson Van Pool. On June 14, 1946, he married Betty Bishop, who survives of the home...

W.C. "Clifford" Kirby 79, of 1539 Dunklin died Saturday, Nov. 20, 1993 at his home. He was born Feb. 18, 1914 in Hayti, the son of Wiley and Dolly Hawks Kirby. In January 1933, he married Carolyn Dale in Cape Girardeau. She survives of Cape Girardeau...

The first phase of a project to improve traffic safety and the appearance of the I-55-Highway 61-34 interchange between Cape Girardeau and Jackson is under way. Work began last week to remove a hill between the eastbound and westbound lanes of Highway 61 on the west side of the interchange...

TAMMS, Ill. -- The survey team is waiting on the weather, the design engineers are waiting on the survey team, the Department of Corrections is waiting on the engineers, and Tamms officials and residents are waiting for all four. "We're anxious here," Tamms Mayor Walter Pang said Friday. "Once everything comes together we'll have a better idea for a timetable on construction of a new prison."...

Cape Girardeau retailers are reporting near-record sales as early Christmas shoppers get a jump on the after-Thanksgiving crowds. "There's no word to describe it other than incredible," said Tony Stephens, manager of West Park Mall. "The fourth quarter of '92 was very strong, and this year, talking with retailers, a lot of them are looking at double-digit increases over last year."...

Applications for two annual holiday gift programs, Toybox and Christmas Baskets, open Monday. Toybox is a joint project of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees and the Southeast Missourian newspaper designed to provide toys to needy Cape Girardeau children. Christmas Baskets is the Salvation Army program to provide a holiday meal and gifts to needy residents of the area...

The Depressive and Manic Depressive Association of Southeast Missouri will have its monthly meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in Room B of the Education Department at St. Francis Medical Center. Sandy Spalding from Southeast Missouri Hospital will talk about the effects of holiday stress...

DEXTER -- Ruth Sprinkle is going "home for the holidays." Sprinkle, a patient at Bloomfield Nursing Center, is one of several nursing home patients in Stoddard County who will receive free rides from nursing homes to visit their families for the Thanksgiving holidays...

The American Red Cross will host a community blood drive Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., in the convention center at the Holiday Inn. There is a need for type O blood. Anyone 17 years or older and weighs at least 110 pounds may donate. The blood drive is sponsored by Knights of Columbus Auxiliary and the goal is for 110 units of blood...

U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson Friday renewed his call for the administration to take action to help victims of recent flash flooding in southern Missouri. Emerson made his request in separate letters to President Bill Clinton and Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency James L. Witt...

ST. LOUIS -- Pat Washington comes at you with truckloads of enthusiasm and a smile that's every bit as contagious. Washington's enthusiasm extends from her job as press secretary to St. Louis Mayor Freeman Bosley Jr. to her roots in Cape Girardeau. That characteristic also applies to her role as a member of the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents...

`Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home' - Thoreau The time of the tender twilights and beautiful sunsets is upon us. Dusk falls like a soft benediction on the day. A sweet sense of coming home to rest and revitalize for another day descends over the city...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will sponsor its sixth annual "Calls From Santa" program Dec. 13-16. Parents can register their children by mailing in the form from the Parks and Recreation Fall Brochure, filling out a form at the A.C.Brase Arena Building, or by calling in the information to the Parks & Recreation office at 335-5421...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Rhodes City Truck Plaza Inc. to Francis E. and Edvira A. Rhodes; John D. and Verla F. Evans to the John D. and Verla F. Evans Trust; John P. and Donna S. Lichtenegger to Roger L. and Vicky K. Hyslop...

The University of Missouri Extension is offering a weekend college class in education at the Perryville Extension Center beginning Jan. 15. The class will fill on a first-come, first-served basis with a minimum of 20 students. The classes will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Jan. 15 and 29, Feb. 12 and 26, and March 12 and 26...

Shirley Ramsey and Jo Boyers will be the speakers when the Cape Girardeau branch of the American Association of University Women meets Monday night at Chateau Girardeau, 3120 Independence. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m., with Frances Crowley and Darlene Duben as hostesses. Branch president is Joan Gones...