Stories from Friday, November 10, 1995

To the editor: I am writing to support the comments of Emily McIntosh. I believe that as this area continues to grow and people continue to move here from other areas, the Southeast Missourian's editors will get more and more letters like McIntosh's. ...

Workers at Tri-Con Industries Ltd., who will be laid off when the Cape Girardeau plant closes next year, can get help finding another job from the Missouri Rapid Response Team. The Tri-Con plant, which manufactures automobile seat covers and employs about 200 people, will close Jan. 3, 1996. It has been operating in Cape Girardeau since 1983...

JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County Auditor H. Weldon Macke recently was named a member of the National Association of Counties' Taxation and Finance Steering Committee. The association's 13 steering committees form its policy-making arm. Macke's committee focuses on financial resources of counties, fiscal management, federal assistance, municipal borrowing, county revenues and federal tax reform...

JACKSON -- Conscientious taxpayers are rushing to the Cape Girardeau County collector's office, responding to the call to pay this year's real estate and personal property bills. The second rush will be the week after Christmas, Collector Harold Kuehle predicted, but people who wait that long may be setting themselves up for trouble. ...

Missouri's fight against court-ordered desegregation in the Kansas City School District will soon head back to the courts. Negotiations broke down in late October, and Attorney General Jay Nixon says he will ask the court to rule that the district has been sufficiently desegregated. Such a ruling would release the state from court supervision...

Anyone who wonders why taxpayers are so angry about Missouri's funding of the Kansas City School District need only consider the latest example of the bureaucratic garbage dump the district has become. Throughout the years that Missouri taxpayers have been soaked for the failure called desegregation in Kansas City, there have been reports and then more reports about how the money has been squandered...

To the editor: This is a letter in defense of the auto repair shop referred to in Mike Royko's Nov. 3 column, "Car repairs no day at the beach -- maybe dunes."I am a retired auto mechanic who still is a consultant for friends, neighbors and children for auto problems...

To the editor: I could not agree more with Emily McIntoshs statements in her Oct. 31 letter to the editor, "More balance sought." I have held back critical responses to your right-wing news and commentary as well as your weekend offerings on Bible interpretations and sermons, which are presented as positively factual instead of being offered as an opinion of the writer. ...

Missouri's U.S. senators are urging expedited action on a bill to prevent the removal of a herd of wild horses from the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. The National Park Service and the Department of the Interior have been attempting to relocate the herd of about 30 horses since 1990...

Cape Girardeau and Jackson will observe Veterans Day Saturday with parades and commemorations. Veterans Day events kick off at 9 a.m. in Cape Girardeau with a parade from Capaha Park heading east on Broadway to the downtown area. Parade coordinator Burt Lehman said a Confederate infantry unit will march in the parade. The Goldstar Mothers -- women who have lost sons to war -- also plan to march, he said...

Southeast Missouri State University's next president should be an educator, lobbyist and fund-raiser. He or she must have a teaching background, as well as administrative skills that include being able to lobby state lawmakers. The 24-member presidential search committee decided on those and other qualifications at a luncheon meeting Thursday that lasted almost five hours...

The quarterback may be the focal point and get all of the applause, but he accomplishes nothing without the support of his teammates. Former Kansas City Chiefs passer and current state Sen. Bill Kenney hopes to cull enough support from fellow Missouri Republicans to lead the party back into the governor's mansion in 1996...

WASHINGTON -- Communities throughout the nation are encouraged to participate in an event to commemorate Veteran's Day and the end of World War II. Churches, county courthouses and any other facilities with bell towers are asked to ring their bells Saturday at 11 a.m. as part of the "Bells of Peace and Freedom" ceremony organized by the U.S. 50th Anniversary of World War II Commemoration Committee...

Here are a couple of tales to fill up one of those rare silences that occur when men group together into deer-hunting parties and go forth in search of meat for the dinner table. Hunters hereabouts know full well that deer season is here. For a veteran deer hunter, the rest of the world comes to a stop. ...

THE CASE of the Good Hope business district and other older business districts being abandoned because of excessive building regulations is just another example of the ever-growing intrusiveness of government. Building codes are written and enforced by those with a vested interest and see to it that they are complex and costly. ...

PADUCAH, Ky. -- The 39th annual "Lions Club/NewsChannel 6 Telethon of Stars," to be headlined this year by country star Steve Wariner, gets under way Saturday night and continues Sunday. The telethon will be held at J.R.'s Executive Inn in Paducah. For the first time this year, part of the proceeds from the 15 continuous hours of programming will go to the Kenny Rogers Cerebral Palsy Center in Sikeston...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Partharine E. McDaniel of Forest Park will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Algee Memorial Chapel in Cairo. Elder Freddie Green will officiate, with burial in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds. Friends may call at the funeral home from 10-11 a.m. Saturday...

SCOTT CITY -- Paul Joseph "Bozo" Enderle Jr., 67, of Scott City died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at his home. Arrangements were incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Scott City.

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Louie Fox, 90, of Alto Pass, died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1995, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born May 19, 1905, in Alto Pass, son of John and Sarah E. King Fox. He and Ruby Lyerla were married Nov. 22, 1927, in Alto Pass. Fox was retired from U.S. Rubber Manufacturing Co...

John W. Brown Sr., 67, 1836 Herman, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Billy G. Bollinger, 65, of Advance, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at his home. He was born July 12, 1930, at Mesler, son of Pearl and Sadie Obannon Bollinger. He and Wanda Hill were married July 10, 1957, in St. Louis. Bollinger was a retired truck driver with Teamsters Local 574 in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of Full Gospel Tabernacle...

DEXTER -- Funeral service for David I. Richardson of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. The Rev. Tim Russell will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Sikeston. Richardson, 46, died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1995, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis...

WAPPAPELLO -- Funeral service for Oscar Lavelle Strop of Wappapello will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Cy Smith will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 5-8 p.m. today...

Irma Fredericka Dankel, 86, 2001 N. Kingshighway, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born March 26, 1909, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Emil and Rosa Mayer Umbeck. She and Albert Dankel were married Sept. 20, 1928, in Cape Girardeau. He died Jan. 23, 1993...

JACKSON -- Jerry Andrew Mouser, 59, of Shumway, Ill., died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1995, in Shumway. He was born Nov. 21, 1935, in Millersville, son of Willie and Reda Runnels Mouser. He and Mariam Blair were married Sept. 28, 1985. Mouser was an auto transport driver. He was a member of Effingham Masonic Lodge in Effingham, Ill., and Ainad Shrine Temple in East St. Louis, Ill. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

Gene Raymond Slinkard, 60, 2611 State Highway V, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born June 17, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, son of Raymond Lee and Margaret Hood Slinkard. He and Vickie Ward were married June 1, 1971, in Hernando, Miss...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Funeral service for Clarence B. Rucker of Mound City will be held at 11 a.m. today at Zion Traveler Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Carlton Berry will officiate, with burial in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds. Friends may call at the church from 9 a.m. to service time...

Funeral service for Mary Louella Thompson, 436 S. Spring, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel. Hal Greene will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from noon to service time. Thompson, 76, died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1995, at the Lutheran Home...

CHARLESTON -- Lon Thomas "L.T." Howard, 80, of Charleston, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at Charleston Manor. He was born Sept. 11, 1915, in Cape Girardeau, son of Emery J. and Clara Edith Kinder Howard. He and Willie Barnhill were married May 20, 1938...

VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Memorial service for John H. "Jack" Wheeler of San Antonio, Texas, will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds. The Rev. David Wyatt will officiate. Private burial will be later in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge...

Irene Elizabeth Hohler, 85, 150 Parkwood Lake, died Tuesday, Nov. 7, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Dec. 29, 1909, in Dupo, Ill., daughter of Harry C. and Alma F. Thomas Wagner. She and Frank H. Hohler were married April 13, 1936, in Cape Girardeau. He died Nov. 20, 1980...

ANNA, Ill. -- Michael R. Cunningham, 44, of St. Louis, died Thursday, Nov. 9, 1995, at his home. He was born July 24, 1951, in Anna, son of William R. and Alice Mae Wall Cunningham. Cunningham was a graduate of the University of Illinois. He was president of Transcraft Corp. in Anna...

CHARLESTON -- Leo L. Bruenderman, 77, of Wilsonville, Ore., died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1995, in Wilsonville. He was born April 10, 1918, in Charleston, son of Ben and Louise Renaud Bruenderman. He and Leona L. Heisser were married Sept. 22, 1945. She died July 14, 1968...

PERRYVILLE -- Mary Harriet Sandfort, 93, of Houston, Texas, died Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1995, at Spring Branch Hospital in Houston. She was born Oct. 9, 1902, at Silver Lake, daughter of William and Elizabeth Layton McLain. She and Emory H. Sandfort were married Aug. 2, 1934. He died July 3, 1982...

Son to Steve and Amy Ressel of Oran, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 18, 1995. Name, Seth William. Weight, 6 pounds 6 ounces. First child. Mrs. Ressel is the former Amy Kraus, daughter of Dwayne and Sue Kraus of Oran. She is employed in accounts payable at CPS Trailer Co. Ressel is an estimator and coordinator at Stockade Buildings. He is the son of Herman J. Ressel and Doris Ressel of Oran...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Grover Marks of Cairo will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in Mounds. The Rev. Ronald Lash will officiate, with burial in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds. Friends may call at the church from 6-8 p.m. today...