Stories from Thursday, October 20, 1994

Funeral service for Floyd Duff of Springfield was held Saturday at Greenlawn Funeral Home South in Springfield, with the Rev. Edgar Burks officiating. Burial was in Hazelwood Cemetery, with Masonic graveside service. Duff, 87, died Wednesday, Oct. 12, 1994...

Lt. Cmdr. Donald R. Taylor knew about the S.S. Cape Girardeau for some time. It was listed in the 1994 Almanac of Seapower, only one of two "Cape G" ships in the Ready Reserve Force fleet. During a recent trip to visit relatives in San Francisco, Taylor had an opportunity to tour the ship named for Cape Girardeau. He serves as commanding officer of the Naval Reserve Center here...

The Cape Girardeau Eighth Grade, Freshman and Central High School orchestras will perform Tuesday at the high school auditorium. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. The high school orchestra will perform "Folk Tune and Fiddle Dance" by Percy Fletcher, "Autumn" by Antonio Vivaldi and "Pink Panther" by Henry Mancini...

The Cape Girardeau Central High School Marching Band won first place overall as well as in its class at the "Champion of Champions" competition Saturday at the University of Missouri in Columbia. Twenty bands participated, 10 of them in the large-school category in which Cape Central competed...

Candidates for five Cape Girardeau County offices have been invited to participate in a forum tonight, organized by the League of Women Voters. The forum will begin at 7 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Co-sponsors are the political science and mass communications departments at Southeast Missouri State University...

Power Rangers Halloween costumes are so hot, area retail and wholesale stores can't get enough of them to meet the public demand. Toys R Us Manager Barb Essner said she sold the last Power Rangers costumes last Friday and is looking for any way possible to bring a new batch into her store before Oct. 31...

The Drifters The Shangri-Las Reminded of Wavy Gravy's famous observation that the '90s are just like the '60s except upside down, Wolfman Jack loosed a howl that might have been heard all the way from Minneapolis. That is where he was calling from, on tour with the Wolfman Jack Fabulous '60s Party...

No one really knows for sure how long a herd of wild horses has been wandering along the Current and Jacks Fork rivers in what is now the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Although their exact origin is unknown, they likely are descendants of horses that were released or escaped before the concept of "open range" ended in Missouri in the 1950s...

SCOTT CITY -- A light display again will highlight Scott City's Christmas Celebration in the Park. "The popularity of drive-through Christmas light displays is apparent with the traffic volume in Sikeston, Cape Girardeau, and even our town of Scott City," said Phyllis Spinks, parks and recreation director here. She said the park display usually draws people from throughout the area...

Cape Girardeau County Mark E. and Dena R. Brewington to Charles A. and Rebecca M. Groh; the James W. Trust et al. to Larry W. Crosier; the Mary J. Jones Trust et al. to Kathleen A. Crosier. Kevin E. and Joyce E. Hahn to Byron S. and Renee C. Wilkerson; Richard E. J. Krewinghaus to Erma L. Seabaugh; Tom L. and Vanita M. Jones to Evelyn Ann Oxley...

When the 103rd Congress convened at the beginning of 1993, President Clinton and Speaker of the House Tom Foley declared that it would be famous for reform. The country demanded change, they said, and Washington was going to produce. Their confidence was founded in their party's control of both houses of Congress and the presidency...

When I read Jay Eastlick's column Oct. 1, "Government's burden is on citizens," what came to mind immediately was the bumper sticker, "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." From the title, I thought that the article was going to remind us that there are no free lunches, that the things government does for us are costly, and that we citizens eventually pay this cost. ...

Mary Elizabeth Schlitt, 64, 1808 Scotts Lane, died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Oct. 23, 1929, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Carlyle Edward and Stella Mae McDaniel Kendrick. She and Charles W. Schlitt were married May 22, 1954, in Cape Girardeau. He died Nov. 13, 1991...

Funeral service for J. Owen Brown, 2601 Marvin, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel, with the Rev. S.S. Borum officiating. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- William Gus Colbroth, 67, of Olmsted, died Tuesday, Oct. 18, 1994, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born July 26, 1927, at New Burnside, son of Gus and Ola Choate Colbroth. He married the former Margaret Crammer. Colbroth was a retired log grader with Cairo Dry Kilns in Urbandale...

GIPSY -- Funeral service for Harold N. Hastings of Tunnel Hill, Ill., will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance, with the Rev. Rudy Pittman officiating. Burial will be in Berrong Cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4:30-8 p.m. today...

SIKESTON -- Everett L. Taylor, 59, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1994, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Nov. 2, 1934, in Devener, son of William Fred and Nola Elizabeth Roach Taylor. He and Norma Cantrell were married Dec. 3, 1959, in East Prairie...

PERRYVILLE -- Ann C. Hatch, 49, of St. Louis, died Wednesday, Oct. 19, 1994, at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis. She was born Nov. 20, 1944, in Brooklyn, N.Y., daughter of Francis Anthony and Mary Stevens Contee. Hatch was employed with marketing research and consumer information surveys...

OAK RIDGE -- Memorial service for Hurshel L. Jones of Fallon, Nev., was held Oct. 6. Smith Funeral Home in Fallon was in charge of arrangements. Jones, 68, died Thursday, Sept. 29, 1994, at Churchill Community Hospital in Fallon. He was born May 7, 1926, in Cape Girardeau County, son of John H. and Hattie Ramsey Jones...

Son to James H. and Rose M. Marberry, 124 S. Pacific, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:26 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1994. Name, Jacob Cordell. Weight, 10 pounds 4 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Marberry is the former Rose Cutright, daughter of Hollie and Lucille Cutright of Cape Girardeau. She is employed by Cape Neurosurgical Associates PC. Marberry is employed at Crader Tire and Retread, and is the son of James and Phyllis Marberry of McClure, Ill...

Funeral service for Audrey M. Cummins of St. Louis was held Tuesday at Fey Funeral Home. Burial was in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery. Cummins, 78, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 1994. She was born April 2, 1916, in Oak Ridge, daughter of Everett and Nora Weisbrod Smith. She married James C. Cummins...

The enthusiasm of one United Way volunteer has led her fellow employees to contribute more than five times as much to this year's campaign than last. The 220 employees at M&W Packaging, next door to the Procter & Gamble Co. plant north of Cape Girardeau, have contributed more than $7,900 this year, compared to $1,500 in 1993...

Southeast Missouri Hospital wants to replace its oldest cardiac catherization lab. The hospital has filed a letter of intent with the staff of the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee. Approval from the state board is needed before the project can proceed...

Southeast Missouri is looking to Southern Illinois for help. With unemployment in Cape Girardeau and Perry counties consistently under 4 percent, help is needed for existing and new-industry jobs. "There is a shortage of workers for entry level and unskilled positions," said Jackie Cecil, director of the Missouri Job Service office, which serves Cape Girardeau, Perry and Bollinger counties...

Southeast Missouri State University will turn many of its sidewalks into a "lighted corridor" that will include emergency telephones to improve campus safety. Most of the trench work already has been done by university crews. School officials hope to have the new light poles, fixtures and telephones installed next month...

Dear Pat, Missed your birthday. Did Alan take you out for a night at the video arcade? Enjoy it while you can. All the books say there is an age when the boy has to reject his mother for the world of manly things. Don't worry. He'll be back. If he's 30 and still wearing camouflage gear to tune up his car on Saturday nights, a little concern might be appropriate...

Participants in Southeast Missouri State University's Great Books program will have an opportunity to ask questions of a Pulitzer-Prize-winning author when the group meets at 2 p.m. today Participants will have a chance to speak to J. Anthony Lukas via a telephone conference call. Lukas is author of "Common Ground," a book that focuses on the integration struggle in the Boston schools...

The Franklin School PTA will present Career Night for parents and students at 7 tonight at the school. Children in all grades will participate and have an opportunity to learn about three careers. There will be 22 speakers talking about 19 different careers...

The Cape Girardeau Public Library will launch a federally-funded program Monday to help new parents and their babies. The program, called Baby Bags, Books and More, is being funded by a federal Library Service and Construction Act grant. Canvas bags filled with adult books on parenting, videos for parents and babies will be provided. In addition there will be board and cloth books as well as developmental toys for babies...

STE. GENEVIEVE -- The first Ugly Truck Parade will precede the sixth annual Voyage de Sainte Genevieve balloon lift-off Saturday. Both events are part of Ste. Genevieve's Fall Harvest Fest, two days also offering a farmer's market, craft and food booths, a special choir concert, and tours of historic homes...

A production of the Neil Simon farce "Rumors" will open Nov. 4 at Southeast Missouri State University. The play will be presented Nov. 4, 5, 9, 10, 11 and 12 in Rose Theatre. Interpretation for the hearing impaired will be provided by Valerie Kline during the Nov. 11 performance...