Stories from Monday, February 21, 1994

The Cape Girardeau City Council Wednesday will consider whether to proceed with plans to activate a public housing authority. On Dec. 20, the Cape Girardeau Housing Assistance Task Force, an advisory group appointed by the council to research public housing issues, reported that government-funded housing is needed in Cape Girardeau...

At the close of 1993, the Cape Girardeau Police Department reported it had worked more traffic accidents that year than any year prior. Police also found that the vast majority of people involved in accidents were between the ages of 16 and 25. It is for reasons such as this that a group of critical care nurses began a program at St. Francis Medical Center nearly four years ago; it is designed to impress upon young traffic offenders the dire consequences of unsafe driving...

Before one bucking horse, bronco bull or cowboy has reached the Show Me Center for this weekend's rodeo, a competition is under way. It's not between the professional players who make a living riding, roping and wrestling, however. Rather, this competitive arena involves the Animal Rights Action Team of Southern Illinois University and the promoters of the Longhorn World Championship Rodeo...

The Southeast Missourian asked people about their favorite event in the Winter Olympic games. Stacy Jordan, Cape Girardeau: "Hockey and the super giant slalom. Hockey, it's not as rough as I'd like it to be, but it's fun just to watch hockey and I like the super G because they're going about 60 miles per hour and it's fun to watch them wreck every once in a while."...

Last week, a bill was introduced in the Missouri legislature that, if enacted, would radically change the practice of medicine, as well as health care delivery for every Missourian. Breathtaking in scope, brazen in design, a virtual state version of the Clinton health care plan, House Bill 1622 would effect a gigantic increase in the power and size of state government. Precisely what it would accomplish toward its stated goal -- improving health care for all Missourians -- is unclear...

Diane Shackles, 45, of 2426 Windy Hill Lane, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 25, 1948, at Conway, Ark., daughter of Phillipand Erma Lee Trafford Mallett. She married Kenneth Shackles, June 24, 1967, at Chaffee...

Lorna Richardson Baker, 70, of Shreveport, La., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, in Shreveport. She was born April, 15, 1923, at Cobden, Ill., daughter of Daniel David and Clara Mae Musgraves Richardson. She married James Russell Baker, who preceded her in death...

SCOTT CITY -- Edgar J. Barber, 88, formerly of Scott City and Chaffee, died Sunday, Feb. 20, 1994, at the Carrier Mills Nursing Center in Carrier Mills, Ill. The Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time...

CHAFFEE -- Mary Hedger, 70, of Chaffee, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born April 6, 1923, at 10 Mile Island, Ark., daughter of Marvin and Della McNeal McIntyre. She married Euial Samuel Hedger. He died Jan. 8, 1975...

GORDONVILLE -- Paul Dean Rhodes, 51, of Gordonville, died Sunday, Feb. 20, 1994, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 14, 1942, at Whitewater, Mo., raised by Owen and Virginia Rhodes Flowers. He married Myra Kight, Aug. 5, 1967, at Cape Girardeau...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Maudie L. Williams, 76, of Cairo, Ill., died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, at the Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. She was born Jan. 26, 1918, at Wickliffe, Ky., daughter of John and Ellen Dennis Hall. She married Jesse A. Williams. He died in 1980...

CHARLESTON -- Mary Elizabeth Toombs, 73, of Charleston, died Sunday, Feb. 20, 1994, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Oct. 8, 1920, at Harrisburg, Ill., daughter of Ephram and Mary Story Hicks. She married Kenneth Toombs, Oct. 19, 1980...

BENTON -- Emitt Vincent, 77, of Benton, died Sunday, Feb. 20, 1994, at the Missouri Veteran's Home in Cape Girardeau. The Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

PATTON, Mo. -- Ronald Lynn Fulton, 49, of Patton, Mo., died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 19, 1945, at Marble Hill, son of Chester Odell and Lilly C. Fulbright Fulton. He married Brenda Sue Owens, June 16, 1973...

SIKESTON -- Della Mae Jones, 70, of Sikeston, died Saturday, Feb. 19, 1994, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 31, 1923, at Blodgett, Mo., daughter of John H. and Minnie Adams Eskew. She married Morris A. Jones, Jan. 7, 1951, at Piggott, Ark...

Small is big! Ask Roger Mainor. Mainor, who is founder and president of Magnetic Collectables Inc., manufactures small items -- millions of them each year. "We make magnets," said Mainor. "We make more souvenir magnets than anybody else in the United States."...

Missouri's per capita income is on the rise. The state's unemployment is down. In 1993, more than 120 new and expanding manufacturing companies created 7,783 jobs and $697,688,000 in new investment in the state. Missouri exports are expected to increase...

Leslie A. Simmons, manager of finance and administration at the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority, recently passed the Certified Public Accountants (CPA) examination. Simmons, a native of Scott City, has been employed at the Port Authority since November 1992. She previously worked for five years in public accounting and served two years as an auditor for the Missouri Department of Revenue...

ST. LOUIS -- Joyce Capshaw has been elected as president of the St. Louis County Bar Association. She is the daughter of Robert H. Capshaw and Juanita C. Capshaw, both of Chaffee. She was installed at a ceremony held Jan. 28 at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in St. Louis...

Gary Rust, president of Rust Communications, has announced the addition of "The Malden Journal" to its family of area newspaper publications. The Malden Journal will begin publication March 1 with a free distribution circulation of 11,000. Included in the circulation zones will be the counties of Dunklin, Stoddard, New Madrid, Butler and Clay County, Arkansas...

ANNA, Ill. -- Union County Women in Business will host a Union County Business Exposition Feb. 26, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event, which will showcase the variety of businesses in Union County, will be held at the Sunshine Inn Community Center in Anna...