Stories from Wednesday, October 4, 1995

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- James A. Hogendobler, 78, of Villa Ridge, died Monday, Oct. 2, 1995, at Meridian Manor in Mounds. He was born Oct. 8, 1916, in Alexander County, son of James Arthur and Minnie Olive Redden Hogendobler Sr. His wife, Dorothea, died Aug. 13, 1985...

The SEMO Business Group on Health will elect and re-elect members of the board of directors at its annual membership meeting Thursday. The meeting starts at 7:30 a.m. in the Drury Inn's State Room. The slate for the board of directors includes incumbents Anne Poston of Dana Corp., John Johannes of Major Custom Cable and Dominic Feragotti of Noranda Aluminum, all seeking three-year terms. ...

To the editor: Dear sponsors of Newspapers In Education: Thank you for generously supporting Immaculate Conception School with weekly newspapers for the Newspapers In Education program. It is through your sponsorship that spreads the importance of literacy...

The elderly and others in need of flu shots will be able to get them through the Cape Girardeau County Public Health Center. Vaccinations are available for adults age 65 and older and adults or children with chronic pulmonary or cardiovascular disorders. A donation of up to $5 will be requested from those who aren't eligible for Medicare. The health department will bill Medicare for those who present their Medicare cards...

Two parcels of property in Cape Girardeau County were among those sold during a Resolution Trust Corporation sale at Kansas City Monday. Properties sold at the auction included a truck stop-convenience store at 14840 Highway 177 and two 216,400-square-foot corrugated metal warehouse buildings at 14916 State Highway 177, both north of Cape Girardeau...

Twenty physicians will be welcomed to the Cape Girardeau area with a special reception Oct. 22. The new doctors, whose specialties range from emergency medicine to orthopedics to neuroradiology, are being welcomed at a time that some health-care experts say exists a persistent shortage of primary-care physicians nationally and in the Cape Girardeau area. Of the 20, one specializes in family medicine and one in internal medicine, both considered primary care...

Missouri has fulfilled its Farm Service Agency restructuring goal four years ahead of the national schedule and on target with its own goal. Effective immediately, producers in Dent, Reynolds and Taney counties will be serviced out of Texas, Shannon and Christian county agency offices, respectively...

Cape Girardeau city officials have scaled back plans for the Osage Park community center and Shawnee Park sports complex. At this point, the reductions don't appear to have diminished either project. It was only common sense to scale back both projects to fit within cost estimates, since only a limited amount of funding is available...

On the other hand, living within your means has never been a notion to catch on in the federal government. Billions of dollars in deficits have been the status quo for many years. The U.S. Postal Service, a quasi-governmental agency, is jumping into the debt explosion by offering credit cards as a payment option to customers. ...

To the editor: Thank you for having the coloring contest so that I could enter, win and have the most fantastic time of my life watching "Snow White on Ice." Thank you kindly. STEPHANIE JORDAN Cape Girardeau

Sponsors and walkers are being sought for the 22nd annual Eagles Lodge charity walk Saturday, Oct. 28. Funds raised by walkers will benefit the Kenny Rogers Cerebral Palsy Center in Sikeston. Registration will start at 9 a.m. Oct. 28 at the Sikeston Kmart...

VIENNA, Ill. -- Findings of the Southern Illinois Poverty Conference that met in May will be discussed here Friday at a Poverty Summit. Issues and recommendations from the summer conference will be presented, and a special "reaction" committee will discuss the findings...

DEXTER -- Funeral service for Helen Margurite Taylor of Dexter will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Rainey Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. Wayne Dismuke officiating. Burial will be in Dexter Cemetery. Taylor, 78, died Monday, Oct. 2, 1995, at Dexter Memorial Hospital...

ANNISTON -- Funeral service for Irvin Wheatley of Anniston will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Martin Lucas will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Wheatley, 64, died Monday, Oct. 2, 1995, at his home, following a brief illness...

Jerald Amos Nelson, 46, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Oct. 2, 1995, at New Wells. He was born July 30, 1949, in Cape Girardeau, son of Amos S. and Christine Garner Nelson. Nelson had worked at the former American Greeting Card Co. He had been an engraver and diemaker 20 years at Cape Art Engraving. He was a member of Jackson Trail Riders...

Son to Dr. Mark and Maria Gates, 2118 Cambridge, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:19 a.m. Monday, Sept. 25, 1995. Name, Matthew Joseph. Weight, 6 pounds 8 ounces. First child. Mrs. Gates is the former Maria Mussatti, daughter of Robert and Barbara Dempsey of Milwaukee, Wis., and Joseph Mussatti of St. Francis, Wis. Gates is a radiologist with Cape Radiology Group. He is the son of Leon and Evelyn Gates of Parker, Colo...

NEW WELLS -- Linda L. Nelson, 40, of New Wells, died Monday, Oct. 2, 1995, at her home. She was born Jan. 2, 1955, in Perryville, daughter of William R. and Agnes Kiefer Whiteside. He first married Mike Allmon. Nelson was a graduate of Jackson High School...

Mamie E. Lemonds, 89, of Fountainbleau Lodge, died Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Aug. 19, 1906, in Bollinger County, daughter of James W. and Josephine Beatty Gobble. She and Orville Gaines Lemonds were married March 5, 1927. He preceded her in death Feb. 8, 1985...

SIKESTON -- Mary M. Ellison, 71, of Sikeston died Tuesday, Oct. 3, 1995, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born Nov. 7, 1923, in Sikeston, daughter of Clarence and Daisy Smith Carter. She married Max Ellison Jr., who preceded her in death July 19, 1980...

CHARLESTON -- John Henry Davis Sr., 80, of Charleston, died Saturday, Sept. 30, 1995, at Charleston Manor. He was born Nov. 2, 1914, in Charleston, son of James Henry and Mary Lola Dixon Davis. He and Quintella Louise Dawson were married April 24, 1943...

Laura Ritter wants to be sure her daughter gets the best education possible, so she attended a meeting Tuesday night to share her ideas about what Cape Girardeau needs to do about its public schools. Ritter, whose daughter attends Franklin Elementary School, was among 34 people who attended the first community meeting held by the Vision Planning Committee of Cape Girardeau public schools...

I often wonder why Cape Girardeau isn't a bigger city for live music. Here we are in a scenic riverfront town strategically located on the interstate between two other Mississippi River cities with fine musical reputations -- St. Louis and Memphis -- yet rarely do bands based in those locales play here...

Another trial? I HAVE a question. If they ever find O.J.'s bloody clothes and his knife, could they try him again? No faith in system AS A result of the O.J. Simpson trial, I would like to state that I have lost all faith in the jury system. As a white person, I claim this decision was racist...

JACKSON -- Nobody gets really specific about which good ol' days are celebrated each year in uptown Jackson. Just wear something turn-of-the-century. That's safe. Jeff Moore, chairman of Saturday's Good Old Days Celebration along with Judy Leist, said declining to specify a period lets celebration organizers pick any decade they want...

JACKSON -- They love a parade, those Jackson folks. Schools, homes and businesses emptied Tuesday afternoon as people hurried to positions on streets near Jackson High School and the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse. Nineteen school bands from around the area were scheduled to make a short trip around downtown for the 51st annual Jackson Band Festival...

The Southeast Missourian asked people what they thought about the new Jackson water tower being painted with "Jackson -- Home of the Indians" in red and black lettering. Christy Wilkinson: "It will look good. It would feel good for living in Jackson and it would be a positive thing."...

The Friends of the Cape Girardeau Library will host an event titled "A Second Steamboat Journey" from 9:15 a.m.-noon on Oct. 18. The journey will include a 30-minute tour of The American Queen, a new riverboat, while it is docked in Cape Girardeau and a box luncheon back at the library. After the tour, local steamboat enthusiast Danny Back will give a slide presentation called "Steamboats on the Western Waters."...

JACKSON -- Roll call was answered by 10 clubs at the meeting of Family, Community and Education Association Sept. 7 at the extension office in Jackson. Devotions were given by Verna Vogel of Northernaires Club. Margie Reisenbichler reported on the Red Cross Blood Drive held in June...

That button-up-your-overcoat weather we had in September's declining days may or may not have set a record for so early in the season, but it surely received a lot of attention from gardeners and farmers. In the early morning hours of Sept. 23 the temperature dropped to a chilling 37 degrees, and even lower on various thermometers over the area...

From rotini and linguine, orzo and ditalini to bow ties and wagon wheels, names of pasta shapes are as varied -- and can be as colorful -- as the dishes in which they star. Although October is called National Pasta Month by the trade association for the U.S. ...