Stories from Tuesday, November 12, 1996

Detailed explanations of the full range of benefits available to disabled veterans their families will be presented at an upcoming Disabled American Veterans information seminar Nov. 19 at the Chapter Home, 123B W. Main, Fredericktown. It will be hosted by 4 Winds & 7 Seas Chapter 69...

The Community Caring Council formed a task force to look more closely at the impact welfare reform will have on the community. The council thinks that many changes are in the future and that this will have a tremendous impact, not only on the way that services are provided to families, but how it will affect all of us including the business community. The council felt that it was important to take the lead in learning more about these changes and informing the community on these issues...

The University Band Extravaganza will be held Sunday at 8 p.m. in Academic Hall Auditorium on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The Golden Eagles Marching Band and the Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform. The Golden Eagles will perform selections from this year's halftime show, including Sundancers, Golden Eagles Colorguard and Drum Line. The wind ensemble will perform English folk songs, a Mexican "fiesta" and several marches...

Christina Crowell, a 1996 graduate of Cobden, Ill., High School, received the Masonic educational assistance offered in Alexander, Pulaski, and Union counties. In October, she was presented with an additional $500 in matching funds from the Illinois Masonic Grand Lodge "Pennies for Children" program...

The All-District Orchestra, including high school musicians from Cape Girardeau and Sikeston, will perform Saturday. Students will work with clinician Bob Boedges, former orchestra and band director at Parkway High School, during the day. A concert will be held at 4:30 p.m. at the Central High School gymnasium. The performance is free and open to the public...

Dillon Stahlheber, a junior at Oak Ridge High School, helped set up the school's Web Page on the Internet in the Industrial Technology classroom. A Kodak DC40 digital camera that doesn't use film was one of the items purchased with the grant. The camera takes photos that can be scanned directly into a computer for use on the school's Wed Page...

BENTON -- Linda Shaffar is no stranger to working with young children. After all, she has been working in the education field for more than 20 years, and she is the mother of two children. Shaffar is in her second year as a teacher at St. Denis School in Benton, where she teaches third- and fourth-graders. There are some unique problems that arise in a double classroom, she said, but there are also some special rewards, and there is never a dull moment...

Father Marquette Council #11205 of the Knights of Columbus in Cape Girardeau has earned the distinction of Star Council, the international organization's top award, for the 1995-96 fraternal year. The announcement was made by the organization's headquarters in New Haven, Conn...

JACKSON -- Students at the North Elementary School in Fruitland soon will be well versed in Construction 101. The teachers and Principal David Gross know that construction of a nearly $1 million addition to the elementary school in the Jackson School District will be a major distraction...

Biking enthusiasts from all over the world may be pedaling through Cape Girardeau soon, depending on completion of a new seven-state link. Called the Mississippi River Trail, it is a north-south route from Ste. Genevieve to New Orleans -- about 1,000 miles over country roads near the nation's mightiest river...

For many veterans, Veterans Day is no holiday. These days, few people stop to reflect on their bravery and sacrifice in defending America. But for the Cape Central High School Renaissance Club, the holiday was an opportunity to honor veterans for distinguished service to their country. The students sponsored a "Tribute to Veterans" assembly Monday morning in Cape Central's auditorium...

As the huge, metal doors closed and locked tightly behind me, I felt a faint hint of anxiety sit distantly yet clearly in my chest. The Aquinas Drug Treatment Center of Southeast Missouri seemed to have just a bit too much in common with a mental hospital, with its sterile white rooms, security check-in booth and aimlessly wandering, glassy-eyed inhabitants...

To the editor: Do you think people should be jailed for heckling those in political or authoritative positions when they disagree with them? Do you believe people should all think the same way and have the same opinion about political or religious matters or be jailed if they don't?...

IF PROPOSITION A would have passed there would have been 30-40 percent less people on welfare because $7 an hour with two parties working in a family would have them above poverty level. So Missouri lost a lot of money by turning it down. IF YOU are interested in the history of Commerce, Mo., Edison Shrum of Scott City has just had a book published about Commerce. If interested, call him about it. It's a great book...

JO ANN EMERSON sent a strong message to possible future opponents when she won 65 percent of the vote in the special election (when she was the Republican candidate) and a combined 62 percent of the votes in the five-person general election, when the 11 percent Republican and 51 percent independent vote were added together. Because of her success in the special election, she will have seniority ahead of 70 other incoming freshmen legislators...

After a campaign notable for its failure even to reach serious issues of foreign policy, reality intrudes on us once again. A re-elected President Bill Clinton faces the tough question of what to do with American troops in Bosnia. The president had frequently promised that he would have American troops out of Bosnia by Dec. 20, just one year after their mission began...

To the editor: A very special thank you for your generous donation to the 1996 Eighth Annual Home & School Auction. Your contribution will make it possible to keep our school operating efficiently and also keep the high quality of education we now enjoy. Our children are our future, and you can be proud that you helped contribute to their success...

To the editor: As a rule, we can take our hats off to the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service. We can be grateful that through rain, wind or snow the mail is delivered. And through our freedom to communicate, even junk mail has this privilege. From those early days of the Pony Express, great strides of improvement have been made. Now we have the many advantages of first and other classes of mail service: special delivery as well as priority mail...

To the editor: Many quotes can be applied to families as well as individuals. "Never blow your own horn" is certainly one the Russell Dearmont and late Oliver family lived by. Both were prominent, very modest and showed extreme dignity. My mother and father were among guests at Russell Dearmont and Marguerite Oliver's wedding held at the Oliver home on North Ellis Street. ...

ALTENBURG -- Funeral service for Waldemar R. "Wally" Koeberl of Altenburg will be held at 10 a.m. today at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. Willard Kassulke will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons East Perry Chapel in Altenburg from 6:30-8:30 a.m. today...

CHAFFEE -- Benjamin Louis Kirn, 87, of Chaffee died Monday, Nov. 11, 1996, at Chaffee Nursing Center. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements.

Gale W. Heise, 88, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Nov. 11, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

ORAN -- Funeral service for Irene M. Miller of Oran will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Guardian Angel Catholic Church. The Rev. Lewis Hejna will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran after 4 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7, and Knights of Columbus rosary at 7:30...

JACKSON -- Edna M. Grossheider, 92, of Jackson died Monday, Nov. 11, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 26, 1904, at Jackson, daughter of Henry M. and Minnie Rust Birk. She and Leonard Grossheider were married Aug. 7, 1926. He died May 14, 1977...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Lee Anderson of Scott City will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Revs. Kenneth Roberts and Gerald Collier will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Otto "Sam" Brandes, 88, of Jackson died Sunday, Nov. 10, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 24, 1908, at Uniontown, son of Ben and Katie Schumacher Brandes. He and Sophia Kurre were married April 28, 1948, in Piggott, Ark...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Dessa Calera Lopp Parks of Sikeston will be held at 11 a.m. today at Tanner Street Church of God. The Rev. Carl Addison will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 10 a.m. to service time...

Graveside service for Jody Dunlap of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. today at Dexter Cemetery in Dexter. The Rev. John Sheeley will officiate. Friends may call at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Dexter from noon to service time. Dunlap, 60, died Sunday, Nov. 10, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

Sharon K. Brown, 55, of Brookeland, Texas, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996, in a Brookeland hospital. She was born Sept. 10, 1941, in Omaha, Neb., daughter of Charles G. and Ethel M. Feuquay Hayes Jr. She and Henry B. Brown were married Aug. 30, 1962. Brown lived in Cape Girardeau and taught sixth grade at Westlane Elementary School in Jackson 16 years. She then taught 10 years in Corpus Christi, Texas, and had recently moved to Brookeland...

SIKESTON -- Graveside service for Marjorie Ann Happe of Chicago will be held at 11 a.m. today at Memorial Park Cemetery in Sikeston. Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Happe, 67, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1996, at her home. She was born Jan. 11, 1929, in Muskegon, Mich., daughter of Joseph and Sigrid Nilsen Filion. She and T.C. Happe were married Sept. 29, 1953. He died Aug. 5, 1982...

Mabel E. Jeffries, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Nov. 11, 1996, at the Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

Marie Davis, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Nov. 11, 1996, at Bond Nursing Home in Marble Hill. She was born July 5, 1910, at Greenbriar, daughter of Scott and Janie Cato Davis. She and Luther Stevenson were married in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death...

WYATT -- Funeral service for Mason Clay Taylor of Wyatt will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Harold Norton will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery. Taylor, 76, died Sunday, Nov. 10, 1996, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- Funeral service for Marcus L. Hughes of Olmsted will be held at 1 p.m. today at Wilson Funeral Home in Karnak. The Revs. Jon Althoff and Joey Dunning will officiate, with burial in Masonic Cemetery at Olmsted. Friends may call at the funeral home from 11 a.m. to service time...

SILVER LAKE -- Virginia Eleanor Head, 62, of Portage Des Sioux died Sunday, Nov. 10, 1996. She was born Feb. 9, 1934, at Silver Lake, daughter of Edgar and Eleanor Proctor Geile. Head retired as a proofreader with Computer Central. She was a member of St. Charles Science Fiction Club...

Cynthia "Susie" Owens, 51, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Nov. 11, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Daughter to Lonnie Mobley and Carolyn Ervin-Mobley of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:43 a.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, 1996. Name, Nichole Lynn. Weight, 6 pounds 6 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Mobley is the former Carolyn Weber, daughter of Evert and Lillian Weber of Jackson. She is an office technician at Procter & Gamble. Mobley is the son of David and Shirley Mobley of Randles. He is self-employed...

CHAFFEE -- Anna Belle Cook, 75, of Chaffee died Sunday, Nov. 10, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 12, 1920, at Pascola, daughter of Manuel and Fannie Kirkland McMullin. Cook was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church, Country CBers, American Legion Auxiliary, and VFW Auxiliary...

In a real test of courage, 2,000 Boy Scouts delivered 25,000 collection bags to Southeastern Missouri doorsteps during a three-hour period Saturday morning. To officially kickoff the 12th annual "Scouting for Food" campaign, the first collection bag was presented to Cape Girardeau Mayor Albert Spradling III...

Mitch Robinson, executive director of the Area Industrial Recruitment Association, will provide an update of 1996 business and industry to Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors members this month. Election of officers, preparations of a new budget and discussions concerning the chamber of commerce's involvement in city, university and other matters will be held during the board's one-day retreat Nov. 22 at Lone Star Industries Natatorium...

ALTENBERG -- A 78-year-old man was killed Sunday when the tractor he was on slid down a hill and overturned on him. Perry County Coroner Herbert Miller said Waldemar Koeberl of Altenberg may have been loading wood into a trailer secured to the back of the tractor just prior to the accident around 1 p.m...

Commonsense decisions about exercise is learned through education, say the workers at the St. Francis Center for Health and Rehabilitation. In an effort to teach this kind of common sense to everyone from competitive athletes and coaches to senior citizens who are trying to maintain their health, the center has been giving free seminars about every six weeks...

COLUMBIA -- Tri-Con Industries Ltd. is shutting down its Columbia facility. The manufacturer of automobile seat covers, which began operations in Columbia more than a dozen years ago, issued the mandatory 60-day notice of closure last weekend. Although the plant can officially cease operations in January, it may be September before the facility completely closes...