Stories from Monday, January 23, 1995

Jay Young installed down pins and river reed between sections of oak staves that will become the lids for the barrels. Jim Sauer, production manager at Seguin-Moreau USA in Perryville, stood near the wood yard where stacks of oak are watered with an automatic sprinkler and will dry for up to 18 months before the wood can be processed...

Drab old tan is out. Either trendy hot pink, deep purple or royal blue is in. Maybe. First it was Old Elvis or Young Elvis on postage stamps. Now it's the color for the candy that melts in your mouth, not in your hand...(just in case some M&M's do melt in your hand the manufacturer at least wants you to like the color)...

When it comes to guns, area security guard agency owners prefer to leave the shooting to local police departments. Total Security Regional Vice President Steve Gill said a client has to persuade him security guards need to carry guns before he even considers it...

About 100 Catholics shivered in the cold as they clutched rosary beads and recited prayers for unborn children on Sunday, the 22nd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade decision that legalized abortion. The group met in front of the pro-life cross display near the intersection of Route K and Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau...

Kim Hagler wants her children to attend Franklin Elementary School. Pat Hodge feels just as strongly that her children should attend Jefferson Elementary School. Therein lies one problem faced by a Cape Girardeau School District committee looking at how to redraw boundary lines for the city's elementary schools...

Helping children under 17 years of age in Cape Girardeau, Bollinger and Perry counties is the goal of the Court-Appointed Special Advocate, or CASA, volunteer. And the CASA program, part of the Community Counseling Center, will be looking for volunteers again next month...

It is getting harder and harder to find a place to light up. West Park Mall will ban smoking in its public areas as of Feb. 1, joining a growing number of malls nationwide that have declared themselves smoke free. Such bans don't sit well with smokers like Ralph Sharp, who feels discriminated against and ostracized by society...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think about the L.A. Rams coming to St. Louis?" Gary Gerler, St. Louis "I think it's great. I think it's a good deal that St. Louis is finally getting another football team back in. They should not have gotten rid of the Cardinals, but it's just a good thing we've got a new team in."...

I WISH that someone would seriously consider starting a cab service in Jackson. They need one badly. There are a lot of seniors who are no longer driving. They need to be taken to the doctor, grocery store, hospital, stuff like that. They could get out a lot more if there were cabs working here...

MARBLE HILL -- Truman L. Green, 82, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Jan. 21, 1995, at the Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. He was born Aug. 22, 1912, at Patton, the son of Levi and Minnie Bollinger Green. On Aug. 21, 1945, he married Lela Price, who survives...

DEXTER -- Sally Elizabeth Hampton, 77, of Dexter died Saturday, Jan. 21, 1995, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born in Malden on Jan. 9, 1918, the daughter of John E. and Minnie Ola Rootz Shelton. On March 6, 1946, she married Kermit Allen Hampton. He preceded her in death on May 13, 1987...

ADVANCE -- Lottie P. Skinner, 87, of Advance died Saturday, Jan. 21, 1995, at her home. She was born Feb. 23, 1907, at Leora, the daughter of Thomas and Virginia Crews Dublin. On Jan. 23, 1923, she married Archie Berry, who preceded her in death. On Aug. 2, 1972, she married Carl Skinner, who also preceded her in death...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Leona Trip of Anna will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. Trip, 81, died Sunday, Jan. 22, 1995, at City Care Center in Anna. Friends may call after 6 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home...

GOREVILLE, Ill. -- John Lavern Dawes, 71, of Goreville died Saturday, Jan. 21, 1995, at Veterans Administration Hospital in Marion. He was born Oct. 1, 1923, at Makanda, the son of Andrew Jackson and Nellie Highland Dawes. On Dec. 23, 1956, he married Dorothy Williamson, who survives...

Plans to open a bar in Cape Girardeau that would offer strippers as entertainment for its patrons has touched a raw nerve. More than 1,900 residents signed petitions opposing the granting of a liquor license for the new establishment. Opponents cite moral and religious grounds, and by and large the community seems fairly well united on this issue...

It is possible to read the latest figures from the Missouri Department of Revenue and become downright euphoric about the economy, both in our state and across the country. At the end of the calendar year, Missouri's general revenue tax collections were 13.9 percent ahead of the same period a year before, and both sales-use and personal income tax collections were up more than 10 percent. Corporate income tax funds had increased 65.9 percent, while all other categories had increased 28 percent...

If Dr. Richard Martin's method of treating acute sinus infections catches on, more and more patients will be clearing things up at home instead of at the doctor's office. The Cape Girardeau ear, nose and throat specialist discovered a way to treat acute and chronic sinus infections without the use of needles, drugs or surgery...

From his research into the effects of the aspiration-irrigation maneuver on acute sinus infections came a grant for additional study on the resistance of strep pneumonia to antibiotics. Bristol-Myers Squibb has given Dr. Richard Martin a $1,000 grant to study how drugs like penicillin battle strep pneumonia...

Nominations are welcomed for St. Francis Medical Center's Womancare Award presented each year at its Womancare Conference. This year's conference is scheduled for March 3-4 at the Cape Girardeau Holiday Inn and Convention Center. Any group or organization interested in nominating a woman for the sixth presentation of the Womancare Award should send the nominee's name and a brief summary of the nominee's personal achievements to Womancare, St. ...

Individuals who have been diagnosed with fibromyalgia, a form of soft-tissue rheumatism, are invited to attend the first meeting of a support group from 7-8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 9, in Classroom A of the Regional Cancer Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

The Historic Preservation Association of Southeast Missouri State University will sponsor a Contra dance Jan. 28. The dance will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. Dance instruction will be given. Contra dancing is a variation of English country dancing...

The final numbers are in and boardings at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport are up for 1994. Boardings for the year, 6,330, were up 27.8 percent from 1993 boardings. Included in the boardings are Trans World Express, Procter & Gamble Shuttle and the fixed-based operator's charter flights...

Doris Dreyer Gerecke has joined Town & Country Realty, 1558 Independence, in Cape Girardeau as a sales associate. Gerecke was previously employed with the U.S. Army in Frankfurt, Germany, where her husband, Harold, was working with the U.S. Department of Defense Contract Administration...