Stories from Monday, April 29, 1996

Quilters had Paducah, Ky., covered last week, and the city couldn't be happier. Almost overnight, Paducah's population more than doubled as 30,000 people from 49 states and 10 foreign counties converged on the western Kentucky community of about 28,000 for the annual four-day American Quilter's Society Quilt Show and Contest...

Large ammonia compressors are used to cool the ice making plant. Glennon Harter stood in one of the freezers were block and cubed ice are stored. Ask Glennon Harter or his brother, Richard, what they do for a living and they say they make ice. But their ice making is a little different than filling a cube tray and sticking it in the freezer...

Colors burst from the walls of Cape Public Library on Sunday, forming delicate flowers and haunting crosses, crumpled soda cans and complicated kaleidoscopes. It was an eclectic collection -- the best Central High School art students had to offer. Judy Barks-Westrich, high school art instructor, presided over the show, conducted in the Hirsch Community Room. The display will hang there for three weeks, to be removed in mid-May...

April showers bring May flowers, but they also brought flash floods, hail and rising creeks to Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois Sunday. Severe thunderstorms, hail and strong winds ripped through the area early Sunday evening, but no major damage was reported. A severe thunderstorm watch was in effect for most of the area until 1 a.m. today...

Funding for the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport traffic control tower soared in the Missouri House but crashed in a Senate committee. The House had included $77,000 in the 1996-97 budget to help fund the airport tower in the wake of the Federal Aviation Administration's decision no longer to fund it...

When Chief Beverly Baker Northup and the tribal council of the Northern Cherokee Nation meet Saturday at Trail of Tears State Park it will be the first "official" presence of the Cherokee in Southeast Missouri since thousands of Indians came through the area in a forced relocation to Oklahoma...

A drive to collect and send thousands of books to Cambodia was successful, according to drive coordinator Dr. Alan Naslund. Naslund was working as an English professor in Japan when he heard about Cambodia's need for books. Two Cambodian teachers, Chhun Bora and Peou Hor, visited Japan to talk about their country and ask for books...

Pauline Caldwell Brune, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, April 28, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Aug. 1, 1911, at McClure, Ill., daughter of Ernest and Edith Lightner Caldwell. She and Robert W. Brune were married in October 1952, at Piggott, Ark. He preceded her in death...

BELL CITY -- Harold "Jack" Tilley, 74, of Bell City died Sunday, April 28, 1996, at his home. He was born Oct. 27, 1921, in Vanduser, the son of Alonzo W. and Bennie Mae Walton Tilley. He married May Green on Jan. 11, 1946, in Shady Dell. Tilley was retired from Missouri Litho Printer in Cape Girardeau as a letterpress printer. He was an Army veteran of World War II and was of the Pentecostal faith...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral Mass for Henry Antone Wilhelm, 85, who died April 26, 1996, will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, with the Rev. Pat Wissman officiating. Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. A joint parish prayer and Knights of Columbus service will be at 7...

SCOTT CITY -- Naomi Tharp, 72, of Scott City died Sunday, April 28, 1996, at The Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 10, 1923, in Illmo, the daughter of Joe and Bessie Goddard Tharp. She had worked as a seamstress at Thorngate in Chaffee and was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Scott City...

Gladys M. Matlock, 87, formerly of McClure, Ill., died Sunday, April 28, 1996, at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.

To the editor: To the person who called Speak Out and was so upset while attending Sunday Mass on April 14: We too heard the homily against the killing of innocent children. We attended the Holy Mass and were very proud to be a member of St. Mary's Cathedral and understood Father's condemning this killing of the unborn, half-born and, soon to be, the unwanted and nonproductive elderly...

Cape Girardeau County may soon revisit the matter of planning and zoning. A new state law signed recently by the governor streamlines the process for counties to consider zoning. The change is long overdue. Previously, counties were forced to hold two elections: first to elect a temporary zoning commission to draw up a plan, and second to approve the plan. ...

Q: When is nothing better than something? A: When Washington writes a revised farm law. No one seems to know what propelled President Bill Clinton to sign the misnamed Federal Agricultural Improvement and Reform Act, which provides the nation with yet another new acronym: FAIR. ...

MAKE ABORTIONS obsolete. Prevent these unwanted pregnancies by birth control, and there will be no abortion issue. I CAN'T really understand some of these Republicans' thinking on the minimum wage. Are they telling me if everyone worked for nothing, then everything would be free? That's the way they sound like it is on the minimum wage by saying it should be cheaper...

To the editor: I would like to respond to state Sen. Peter Kinder's April 19 column in which he so very poetically said, "A Freedom Tide promising to shrink government, lower taxes and make liberals forever irrelevant crashed onto American shores on Nov. 8, 1994."...

Ivan H. Nothdurft didn't care much for the monkey meat or the lightheaded sleeplessness at 9,000 feet above sea level, but his days in South America, and especially Argentina, "were the most satisfying years of my life," he says. Now 79, Nothdurft recounts his experiences in South America in his recently published book "Reflections on That Other America."...

The St. Louis Cardinals baseball team spent a considerable amount of money in the off season to hire several high-priced players and a new manager. What do you think the Cardinals' chances are of making it to the World Series? Donald Zuck, Sikeston "I think they've got a pretty good chance. I think it's about time they get back. I think they'll do OK. They need a little help and I think they're getting it."...

Equine Medical Services of Southeast Missouri opened recently, Shelley Daume of Friedheim, has been practicing small animal medicine, is branching into equine medicine and surgery. Daume, a graduate of University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor's degree in animal science and graduate of UMC School of Veterinarian Medicine, will operate her equine business as a "mobile" veterinarian operation...

Mid-America Distributing is at a new site. The previously all-wholesale operation has also added retail to its business, now at 1009 N. Kingshighway. Jake Urhahn, who has been with Mid-America for more than 22 years, has purchased an interest in the company and is manager of the new operation...

Cabinets Unlimited is under new ownership. The company, which specializes in new kitchen cabinets, also produces a number of other items -- bookcases, entertainment centers, desks and credenzas. Raymond K. Whitehead of Cape Girardeau, who has a number of business interests in Cape Girardeau, is the new owner...

Rhonda Wessel of Gordonville has joined Regional Eyecare Center Inc., 1749 Independence, as an administrative assistance. Dr. Beverly Cleair, optometrist and owner of Regional Eyecare Center, announced Wessel's appointment recently. Wessel, a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University with a degree in business administration, has 14 years experience in sales and marketing...