Stories from Monday, June 23, 1997

David Schabbing prepared one of his 100 cows for milking. The cows are milked three times a day. After their milking, the cows walked down steps and out to the barn in single file. The Schabbings have about 100 Holstein milk cows that are fed a mixture of hay, corn silage, alfalfa, a grain ration and a commodity mixture...

Hart, Schaffner and Marx has been selected as a recipient of the Nordstrom Partners in Excellence Award for outstanding vendor performance. The award is bestowed upon the companies whose products and business practices best exemplify Nordstrom's commitment to quality and value, service and integrity...

Needs and concerns of home-based business owners will be discussed during a series of Home-Based Business focus group meetings to be held throughout Missouri. Two sessions are scheduled in Southeast Missouri -- Thursday at the University Extension Center at Jackson and July 10 at Bootheel Education Center, Malden. Both meetings start at 7 p.m...

Dr. David S. Johnson, a Cape Girardeau pediatric dentist, has been named "Missouri Dentist of the Year" by the Missouri Dental Association. Johnson received his award during the MDA's annual meeting, held at Tan-Tar-A at Lake of the Ozarks, in recognition for his outstanding service and civic and community involvements. He was also elected MDA trustee, representing the Southeast District...

A ranch-style home featured at Dmart. Dmart Homes has added Building Officials code Administration code modular homes to its inventory. BOCA code modulars are the fastest-growing segment of the manufactured-housing industry. In 1996, 13,559 units were sold, with sales revenues of $650.9 million...

Albert Schabbing, a retired dairyman, remembers milking by hand, placing milk in 10-gallon cans in a refrigerated area and waiting for dairy trucks to pick them up. "I started milking when I was seven years old," said Schabbing, who retired after 46 years in the business...

Curt Brown came to the celebration held by the Northern Cherokee Nation at Trail of Tears State Park Sunday looking for more than just diversion. Brown came from his home in Marquand looking for a connection to his past. Like many of the dozens of people who came to the amphitheater behind the park's visitors center and watched a half-dozen people perform traditional Cherokee dances, he thought he might be Cherokee himself...

The Fourth of July fireworks season brings with it the happiness of children who enjoy setting off bottle rockets and Roman candles. But the season also brings concern on the part of parents and public officials who must be alert to possible injuries caused by improper use of fireworks...

Southeast Missouri State University and the state paid at least $160,000 in the past two years to settle five federal lawsuits brought by Southeast employees or former employees. Terms of the settlements have been a closely guarded secret. The university has refused to disclose settlement terms, and the settlement agreements routinely prohibit the parties involved from talking about them...

For 911 operator Janice Ham, the worst emergency call she ever received had her daughter on the other line. "I had to take the call when they found my mother," Ham said. Ham said that her daughter had gone to visit her grandmother and found her dead. Her daughter called 911 and Ham answered...

When Mike and Michelle Weber moved to the area from Kansas City last fall, their son Dylan was too young for kindergarten. They paid only cursory attention to the schools in Cape Girardeau County as they went about the business of settling into life in Southeast Missouri. They rented a former dairy farm and made plans to start construction on a house in Jackson...

I JUST wonder if it's this area, but I hear people say "I have saw that" instead of "I saw that." And they say "I seen that" instead of "I have seen that." They say "I have went there" instead of "I have gone there." They also say "I have did that" instead of "I have done that" and "I done that" instead of "I did that." Surely they didn't learn this in school...

The Cape Civic Center appears to be moving in the right direction to ward off any threat of an interruption in the valuable services it offers underprivileged youths. The Areawide United Way has put the center back on its list of agencies that get United Way funding...

Unless a thorough inspection turns up major problems, a city purchase of the former Boatmen's Bank building at Broadway and North Main would be a sensible decision. The building, now owned by NationsBank as a result of a recent merger with Boatmen's, is on prime downtown property. Built in 1956, it appears structurally sound. It has served the banking needs of downtown since it opened and through this month when NationsBank closed it...

Cape Girardeau Kohlfeld Capahas' manager Jess Bolen had everything set up just the way he wanted for his 1,000th career win in the first game of a doubleheader Sunday at Capaha Field. The Capahas were playing one of their biggest rivals, St. Louis O.B. Clark. The Caps were in front of a hearty gathering of home fans and they battled back from a seven-run deficit for a 14-13 victory to earn Bolen victory No. 1,000...

Southwest Missouri State University came within one victory of reaching the College World Series this year. Brandon West hopes to help the Bears get over the hump next season. West, a former Cape Girardeau Central High baseball standout, recently signed a letter of intent with Southwest Missouri...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Southeast Missouri State University's Tammy Wenkel placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles Sunday during the USA Track & Field Junior National Championships at Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. The top two finishers in the competition, which featured the nation's top high school athletes and college freshmen, qualified for the USA Junior National Team that will compete next month in the Pan American Junior Championships...

Paducah Ky, -- Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball squad won a game and lost a game Sunday to finish third in a five-team round-robin tournament hosted by Paducah, Ky. Ford & Sons, which is now 13-7, had also split its two tourney games on Saturday...

Joseph F. "Joe" Proctor Sr., 72, of St. Charles and formerly of Perryville, died Sunday, June 22, 1997, at his home. He was born May 8, 1925, in Minnith, the son of William Lloyd and Myrtle Ann Brandel Proctor. He married Lucille A. Kreiter on Aug. 24, 1957, in St. Charles...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Henry Everett Palmer, 54, of McClure died Saturday, June 21, 1997, in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 6, 1943, in Anna, son of Sylvester and Velma Johnson Palmer. He married Brenda Prater on Oct. 12, 1962. She survives. He was employed at Raben Tire Co. and a was a member of the First Baptist Church in Thebes...

ANNA, Ill. -- Mary E. Holden, 73, of Anna died Saturday, June 21, 1997, at her son's home east of Anna. She was born Feb. 4, 1924, in Perks, daughter of Waldo and Wilda Langston Herren. She married Melvin Holden on June 21, 1951, in Louisville, Ky. He survives...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Marie Thompson of Sedgewickville, 50, died Friday, June 20, 1997, in an auto accident in Sedgewickville. She was born Oct. 28, 1946, in Memphis, Tenn., daughter of Ernest L. and Minnie Louise Taylor Herriman. She married James D. Thompson on Jan. 28, 1966. He survives...

Jewell I. Ellis, 63, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 21, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born July 19, 1933, in Kurreville, the daughter of William and Josephine Ates Welker. On Oct. 4, 1987, she married Jack F. Ellis in Arkansas...

The family that plays with the animals together stays together -- at least on Sundays. That was Mary Lowry's thinking when she signed up herself and her three daughters to volunteer at the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri. "At home, everyone's doing their own thing like watching TV or playing outside," Lowry said. "This way we get to do things together."...

JACKSON -- Paul Bruening, 88, of Jackson died Sunday, June 22, 1997, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think of the Southern Baptist Conference's decision to boycott anything sponsored by Disney because of Disney's "gay-friendly" policies?" Allen Christen, Cape Girardeau "I think it's great. I agree with them. I have no use for gay people. Morally, I think it's wrong. I guess it's both biblical and personal."...

It's time again for the summer solstice. Saturday was the first day of summer and with it comes summer heat. Summer heat can be dangerous, and in a normal year 175 Americans die from overexposure to heat. People and animals lose water through the skin and glands. When the body heats up, the heart pumps more blood and the blood vessels dilate to accommodate the increased flow, which is circulated closer to the skin's surface...

A Ste. Genevieve man died Sunday in a one-car accident in Ste. Genevieve County. At 2:45 p.m., Joseph Dukeman, 33, was driving his pickup truck south on Highway 61 about 2.5 miles north of Route 32 at a "high rate of speed" when he lost control and hit a bridge abutment, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol...