Stories from Wednesday, December 4, 1996

Dr. Charles Korns knows the importance of proper care for plants and flowers. He dispensed that same kind of commitment and nurturing through Southeast Missouri State University's horticulture program, which has grown steadily under his guidance. Korns will retire at year's end with 26 years of tenure at this university. He was honored with a retirement dinner, both for his years as agriculture professor at Southeast and his active role in the landscaping and beautification of the campus...

"You don't have to pay for what you don't order." "When unsolicited merchandise is delivered, it is deemed to be a gift." These two statements are phrased differently, but they have the same meaning. The first is the remark of a Better Business Bureau representative, the second a portion of Section 407.200 of the Missouri Fair Merchandise Practicing Act...

The Southeast Missourian asked, "What would make a special treat for Santa Claus when he stops at your house?" Alex Schieffer: "Two or three glazed doughnuts and orange juice." Marissa Ludwig: "Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and chocolate milk." Christopher Ludwig: "Cheese pizza and milk."...

Southeast Missouri Regional Planning located in Perryville has been selected from three applicants to assist us in updating our growing city's comprehensive plan. Our present plan is 15 years old and seriously outdated. The new comprehensive plan will take eight to 10 months to complete and will become another excellent planning tool for the continued orderly growth of Jackson...

JACKSON -- A Christmas story time reading will be conducted Dec. 17 at the Riverside Regional Library. Children's Librarian Lynn Farrow will read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," "The Night Before Christmas," "The Polar Express" and "Santa Mouse." The story session will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the library, 204 S. Union...

Monday, Dec. 2 Action Items Approved motion to appoint Steve Wilson to serve as city representative on the Board of Directors of the Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association for a one-year term beginning Jan. 1. Approved motion to set a public hearing for Monday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 p.m. to consider the 1997 Tentative Budget...

Just about the time mothers get the kitchen cleaned up after Thanksgiving, they begin cleaning out the attic to find the decorations they stored after last Christmas. Wouldn't it be wonderful is all the problems of the world could be solved with just a letter to Santa Claus?...

Set your priorities and work toward those goals. That is the mark of a successful plan. The same strategies apply to organizations, and that is exactly the path of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. Members of the chamber's board of directors met recently at a retreat to assess the past year and look ahead at 1997 objectives...

Southeast Missouri State University students and the public are invited to find a little Home for the Holidays at the University Center beginning today. University Center staff are sponsoring an entire week of activities centered around the different cultural and religious holidays occurring in December. Special events have been scheduled to celebrate Hanakkuh, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and New Year's Day...

While Cape Girardeau officials are thankful their search for police and fire chiefs is over, the task is just beginning in two other cities. Police Chief Richard Hetzel of Norcross, Ga., and Fire Chief Daniel White of Springdale, Ark., begin their new jobs in Cape Girardeau in January. Mayors and others in their hometowns say the two will be missed...

JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County collector's office is expected to receive nearly $2.29 million more in real estate and personal property taxes this year than last. However, almost 35 percent of that increase is due to the fact that the county is collecting municipal taxes for some cities for the first time...

Mr. and Mrs. I share their meager housing with their small Pekingnese. They have no children or other relatives, so it is up to them to make sure everyone -- including the dog -- is kept full and fed. That is hard to do when the couple's only income is Mr. I's Social Security check...

She faces the plight of many mothers today: a single-parent household and a father who is only sporadically supportive. She has a full-time job, and she still has to cook, clean, and help one son with his homework while she feeds or changes her younger son when she gets home...

Southeast Missouri State University wants a new mascot to root on its Indian and Otahkian athletic teams. After abandoning its traditional Indian chief and princess mascots 10 years ago, the school experimented with two other mascots. Both proved unpopular and were quickly dropped...

Where was salmonella when our parents were kids? This country has gone germ crazy. First it was antibacterial hand soap, promoted by pictures of kids doing nasty things with their fingers just before eating sandwiches. Wanting to prevent that sort of thing is reasonable, especially if the kid touched YOUR sandwich...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Murray State not only won its second consecutive Ohio Valley Conference football championship this season, the Racers romped through the league undefeated for the second year in a row. And not surprisingly, the Racers had the most players -- seven -- named to the All-OVC first team that was released Tuesday...

The basketball season at Southeast Missouri State got off to a fast start this past weekend with the Union Planters Classic. Hopefully, the fans enjoyed the four highly contested games. Samford was able to leave Cape Girardeau with two wins. Coach John Brady's group played well both nights and was able to pull off a six-point win over us on Saturday night...

It was a big answer for a team with a lot of questions. Notre Dame, hit hard this season by graduation, opened its season with a 58-52 win Tuesday over Cape Central. Not only was it a win, but it was a victory against a city rival -- a Class 4A opponent -- in the Tigers' gym...

Jackson's first season in Missouri's largest division of football did little to affect its postseason honors. The Indians, which finished 8-2 after a Class 5A playoff loss to Mehlville, had 12 players named to the Southeast Missouri all-district 5A team released today. The team was selected by area members of the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters...

Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball's team has already reached a milestone in the program's history. Tonight, the Otahkians will attempt to overcome some steep odds as they shoot for yet another milestone. The Otahkians -- who on Saturday captured the school's first-ever NCAA Division I Tournament berth -- will shoot for the school's first-ever Division I Tournament victory tonight when they take on host Southern Cal in a first-round NCAA tourney match...

Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team will hold a free clinic Saturday morning in conjunction with the Otahkian Shootout sponsored by Boatmen's Bank. The clinic for girls ages 8-12 will be from 8:30-10 a.m. at the Southeast Student Recreation Center. Parents will have to sign a release form before the clinic begins...

Southeast Missouri State University's Calvert White has been named the Ohio Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week for men's basketball. White, a 6-foot-4 junior forward, topped the Indians in scoring during his first two games in a Southeast uniform last weekend...

FARMINGTON -- Jackson's High girls basketball team opened its 1996-97 season Tuesday night as the top ranked team in Missouri Class 4A and did nothing to cause dispute over that lofty positioning. Behind 19 points from Christa Millham, Jackson cruised to a 64-32 victory over fourth-seeded North County in the Farmington Tournament...

Bernard Gavril, 72, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home.

NEW HAMBURG -- Edward "Shorty" Glastetter, 91, of New Hamburg died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at the Heartland Care and Rehabilitation Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Benton.

CHAFFEE -- Raymond Kelly Marshall, 37, of rural Chaffee died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. Arrangements are incomplete at the Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

WAPPAPELLO -- Finis Eugene "Gene" Speight, 72, of Wappapello died Monday, Dec. 2, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born Sept. 2, 1924, in Memphis, Tenn., son of Finis J. and Hazel Reed Speight. He and Ellen Rose Henderson were married Sept. 8, 1942...

Daniel G. Clutts, 84, of Kennett died Monday, Dec. 2, 1996, at Carbondale Health Care in Carbondale, Ill. He was born Dec. 27, 1911, in Thebes, Ill., son of Harry Vernell and Clara Murphy Clutts. He and Virginia Snell were married Jan. 22, 1942, at Caruthersville. She died June 25, 1984. He later married Frances Hopkins in Feb. 9, 1985 at Kennett...

ANNA, Ill. -- Lydia Maud Verble, 88, of Huntsville, Ark., formerly of West Frankfort, died Monday, Dec. 2, 1996, at North West Medical Center in Springdale, Ark. She was born Sept. 9, 1908, in Chicago, daughter of Joseph and Maud Blackburn Higgins. She married Tullie Richard Verble, who died in 1975...

VANDUSER -- Maudie M. Cowell, 86, formerly of Vanduser, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at Sikeston Convalescent Center in Sikeston. She was born March 24, 1910, in Lamar, Ark., daughter of Edward E. and Edith M. Daniels Patterson. She and Troy Cowell were married Nov. 4, 1928, in Lamar. He died March 8, 1985...

BERTRAND -- Don Tesney, 54, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at the home of his mother in Bertrand. He was born May 4, 1942, in Haleyville, Ala., son of William Wes and Ethel Lee Howell Tesney. Tesney was supervisor of equipment maintenance at Spartech Corp. in Cape Girardeau a number of years. He was transferred to the branch facility in Mankato, Minn., where he retired in October. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

BENTON -- Funeral service for Jimmy Joe Fowler of Benton will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. David Pringle will officiate, with burial in Lightner Cemetery at Scott City. Fowler, 36, died Monday, Dec. 2, 1996, at his home...

MILLERSVILLE -- P.C. Wills, 81, of Millersville died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at his home. He was born June 4, 1915, at Daisy, son of Ova and Shaba Walker Wills. He and Wilma Montgomery were married July 4, 1946. She died Jan. 9, 1996. Survivors include three sons, Dean and Billy Wills of Jackson, James Wills of Millersville; a daughter, Phyllis Scott of Fruitland; a brother, Earl Wills of Millersville; a sister, Doris Proctor of Millersville; a stepsister, Viola Drum of Millersville; six grandchildren, and two great-stepgrandchildren.. ...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Gregory Lynn "Greg" Tanner of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Jerry Culbertson will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-9 p.m. today...

Vivian Louise Price, 70, 520 Louis, died Tuesday, Dec. 3, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 19, 1925, at Parma, daughter of Hueit S. and Lela P. Parker Copeland. She and E.A. "Jack" Price were married Dec. 6, 1944, in Eloy, Ariz. He died Dec. 24, 1982...

Graveside service for Nina Peterson of Phoenix, Ariz., will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Memorial Park. The Rev. Neil Stein will officiate. There is no visitation. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Peterson, 53, died Tuesday, Nov. 19, 1996, at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz...

LILBOURN -- Sylvester "Dough Belly" Wilson, 38, of Lilbourn died Friday, Nov. 29, 1996, from injuries received in an automobile accident. He was born Nov. 23, 1958, in Frenchman Bayou, Ark., son of Cecil and Elnora White Wilson. Wilson was a construction worker. He was a member of Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church...

GLEN ALLEN -- Kelly Mims, 42, of Glen Allen died Monday, Dec. 2, 1996, in an automobile accident on Highway ZZ west of Glen Allen. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.

FARRENBURG -- John Wayne Davis, 43, of Farrenburg died Monday, Dec. 2, 1996, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born Jan. 2, 1953, in St. Louis, son of Mary Organ Davis and Jessie Davis who survive him. He was a self-employed truck driver and a U.S. Army veteran...

Smallish bottles of seemingly foreign materials used for goodness knows what may often be relegated to that kitchen fixture known as the spice rack. But cooks in the know realize spices and herbs make flavorful and healthy contributions to the simplest of menus...