Stories from Monday, November 4, 1996

Bob's Fish House will open soon at 1015 N. Kingshighway Cape Girardeau. The new business will be in the building that housed Captain D's Seafood Restaurant, which closed last weekend. "We'll be remodeling the building and working on a menu over the next month," said Dennis Stockard, owner of the restaurant...

These steel ring and pinion gear sets, made at the Dana Corp., were ready for shipment. The Cape Girardeau Chamber started recognizing existing industries eight years ago with its Industry of the Year award. Industries honored over the past nine years are General Sign, Lone Star Industries, Procter & Gamble, Biokyowa, Concord Publishing Co., Dana Corp., Florsheim Shoe Co., Spartech Corp. ...

Orscheln Farm & Home Supply Inc., 238 N. Christine, hopes to be in new quarters by the end of the first quarter in 1997. Orscheln has entered into a purchase agreement with Wolohan Lumber to purchase the Wolohan Lumber & Home Improvement Center building at 120 N. Kingshighway...

Jane Slaten has joined Home Advantage Home Health Care Services, 2525 Boutin Drive, as provider relations specialist. Slaten of Kelso is a graduate of Notre Dame High School and Southeast Missouri State University. She has more than 14 years of experience in the health care field. Slaten will be working in Cape Girardeau, Scott and Bollinger counties...

El Coyote Sports has opened in Cape Girardeau. The new business at 907 Broadway features a variety of NCAA, NFL and NBA apparel. The store, owned by Curtis and Elva Session, also has Tommy Hilfiger, Polo and Nike clothing. The new store is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday...

Professional Car Cleaning Services opened recently at 1 S. Main in downtown Cape Girardeau. Patrick Buck and Roscoe Newbern are owners of the car detailing business.

Lee DeKriek, owner of the Antique Merchants at Sikeston, has received accreditation as an appraiser from the International Society of Appraisers. DeKreik received his certifications recently at San Antonio, following the completion of study provided by the University of Maryland...

The Southeast Missourian/Concord Printing will be the host for the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours, Nov. 19 at the Holiday Inn Holidome. The monthly meeting, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., is designed to unite chamber members in a relaxed atmosphere and encourage members to meet, mingle and make new business contacts. The chamber's membership committee sponsors the event...

New Madrid and Thomas Hill power plants, operated by Associated Electric Cooperative Inc., were ranked among the 25 lowest-cost U.S. steam-powered electric plants for 1995. The Thomas Hill facility, ranked 11th nationally with average expenses of $11.27 per net megawatt-hour generated. The New Madrid plant was 22nd, with average expenses of $12.50 net MWH...

Bangert Ford Tractor of Jackson is a local sponsor for a special two-hour telecast of the National Finals Rodeo from Las Vegas. The coverage will be broadcast on ESPN in December. The broadcast will feature top Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association athletes competing in bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, calf roping the bull riding...

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Apple Computer Inc., eyeing a future in which people get and share information in many different ways, is introducing two new computers based on its once-scorned Newton MessagePad. The company has launched a high-powered, top-of-the-line Newton designed for people traveling on business and a rugged, notebook-style device intended for schools...

ST. LOUIS -- The director of McDonnell Douglas Corp.'s military business was fired after eight months on the job in a clash with the chief executive. Chief executive Harry Stonecipher said Friday he could not reconcile his differences with Herbert Lanese, who was president of McDonnell Douglas' aerospace business...

The unemployment rate in Perry County is 2.9 percent. An impressive 93.1 percent of the county's 9,793 work force has jobs. That translates into 9,505 jobs, with less than 300 (288) workers without jobs, and there are still some jobs available in the area...

SALT LAKE CITY -- Huntsman Corp. plans to acquire Amoco Chemical Corp.'s polystyrene business, a move that Huntsman says will make it the largest polystyrene manufacturer in North America. Huntsman spokesman Don H. Olsen said the deal is expected to close by the end of November. Terms were not disclosed...

John Hancock, Republican candidate for secretary of state, made an 11th-hour stop in Cape Girardeau Sunday at the end of a long tour through the state. Hancock was on his way back home to St. Louis after a campaign sweep from Kansas City to Jefferson City to Rolla. He stopped for a news conference at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport where he took the time to criticize incumbent Secretary of State Bekki Cook...

A Tennessee Walking Horse is a companion, says Rebecca R. Huck of the Tennessee Walking Horse Breeders and Exhibitors Association. To show everyone how fine a companion these animals can be, the association will host its first futurity beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Flickerwood Arena in Fruitland...

Local physicians say it's difficult to recruit new doctors to Southeast Missouri, but they had good luck doing so this year. Thirteen doctors representing almost as many specialties attended a welcoming reception Sunday night at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau, where their peers gathered to meet them...

Brucher Street residents will receive tax bills for special assessments soon -- the first issued under the city's Transportation Trust Fund program. As promised when the voters approved the fund in August 1995, property owners on Brucher will pay $10 per frontage foot for paving. In a letter to the City Council, City Engineer Mark Lester said the residents jointly will pay $29,138 for pavements, curbs and drainage...

Most people feel it's their patriotic duty to stand for the flag at a parade or to stand up for the national anthem at a baseball game, but then won't bother to vote. It's an interesting irony, says Jim Grebing, communications director for Secretary of State Rebecca Cook...

It's almost over! It's almost over! It's almost over! Well, the end is in sight. Tomorrow's the big day. After all the hoopla and hollering and nasty campaign commercials, the polls will open, the polls will close and democracy (read: PACs, special-interest groups and the guy with the biggest advertising budget) will have had its way with us once again...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think about the law that was just passed that allows store clerks 18-20 years old to sell liquor?" Ginger Daffron, Cape Girardeau "I don't think they should be allowed to because 21 is the drinking age. They are going to think it's OK if they drink before they are 21 too."...

The Republican defeated in the 8th congressional primary announced he will support Democrat Emily Firebaugh for the post. Earl Durnell, who lost to Republican Party candidate Richard Kline, said in a statement he endorses Firebaugh. "Emily is a conservative Democrat with conservative values, strong moral character and Missouri priorities," he said. "She's a good commonsense businesswoman with the experience necessary to represent the area with distinction."...

U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft's concerns about the possibility of fraud resulting from the new motor-voter law in Missouri warrants investigation. Under the law, people can register to vote at various state agencies such as welfare offices, in addition to the traditional practice of registering at county clerks' offices...

The Pemiscot County town of Caruthersville, situated on the east side of Missouri's Bootheel in a region that suffers from excessively high unemployment, has suddenly found itself in a happy dilemma. The city of only 7,200 people is beginning to see the financial benefits of a gambling boat, and the city is scrambling to find ways to spend the money...

Political observers, pundits and prognosticators in Missouri have completely overlooked the party that promises us not only lower taxes, more responsive leadership and better schools but a totally different concept on how to deal with these problems. I'm speaking, of course, of one of the new political parties on this year's ballot, the Natural Law Party...

It's too bad Halloween and Election Day couldn't have been held on the same day this year, giving us twice as many spooks as usual. One thing you can say about campaign telephone solicitors: They're no worse than long-distance phone salesmen. Clinton assures voters the economy is great, and Dole says it's terrible. Which is about the usual score for politicians: Both are wrong...

I WOULD just like to thank Officer Spencer for sharing his raincoat at the parade. He was very nice to myself and my family for us standing out in the rain. I just wanted to take this opportunity to publicly say thank you very much for the great job that the police officers in Cape are doing...

According to All-4-One's Blitzz Records manager Chris O'Brien, the singing group likes to reach out to their audiences and make them a part of the show. But when All-4-One's singer Tony Borowiak ventured down off the stage at the Show Me Center Saturday night for a person-to-person solo during the California quartet's concert, he seemed a little surprised by how involved much of the audience became...

SIKESTON -- Laura M. McCampbell, 90, died Sunday, Nov. 3, 1996, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.

Cape Girardeau City Council Monday, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m. Public Hearings -- A public hearing regarding the request of Cape Girardeau Public School District No. 63 for a special use permit to install a 60-foot communication antenna at 2880 Hopper Road in an R-1 district...

PULASKI, Ill. -- John W. Crain, 73, of Pulaski died Saturday, Nov. 2, 1996, at Massac Memorial Hospital in Metropolis. He was born Jan. 22, 1923, in Mounds, the son of John L. and Bertha Jackson Crain. He was a retired farmer. Survivors include his mother of Mounds; two daughters, Becky Jo Kleckner and Pietie McClellan, both of Grand Chain; one son, Warren Crain of Villa Ridge; one sister, Judy Campbell of Metropolis; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Helen B. Duncan, 95, of Mounds, formerly of Mound City, died Sunday, Nov. 3, 1996, at Meridian Manor Nursing Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Barkett Funeral Home.

ANNA, Ill. -- Ray Kaineg, 77, of Anna died Saturday, Nov. 2, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 7, 1919, in Bradley, the son of John and Victoria Sherman Kaineg. He was married to Anne Burns on Oct. 31, 1940, in Kankakee...

CHARLESTON -- Annie Robinson, 77, of Charleston died Friday, Nov. 1, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born April 21, 1919, in Joiner, Ark., the daughter of James and Erma Doward Clark. On June 7, 1953, she married Joe Robinson, and he preceded her in death on Aug. 6, 1972...

OAK RIDGE -- J.R. Evans, 85, of Oak Ridge died at the Jackson Manor Nursing home Sunday, Nov. 3, 1996. He was born Oct. 22, 1911, at Morley, the son of Cleve and Dora Mae Mull Evans. He first married Isabel Slinkard. She died Feb. 17, 1972. He then married Cretia Doughty. She died May 15, 1979...

Ashland Land Development Corp. to Herbert L. Annis; Ashland Land Development Corp. to Gary J. Helwege; Carolyn J. and Douglas D. Hale to Carolyn Jane Hale Trust; Addie A. Markert to Addie A. Markert Trust; Joanna M. Tygett to Joanna M. Tygett Trust; Carlston A. ...