Stories from Friday, June 4, 1999

In medieval times, sufferers from this neurological disorder were thought to be possessed by the devil. Dr. Gilles de la Tourette in 1884 first described this syndrome. For centuries it's sufferers were treated as if they were possessed and some were thought to be witches and were tortured...

To the editor: Recently the paper ran a letter from Alan Journet in reference to U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond's petition drive for safe highways in Missouri. I take offense at the blatant attacks and misinformation put forward by Mr. Journet. First, we must ask about Mr. ...

The statistics are grim. An estimated 175,000 new cases of breast cancer are expected to be diagnosed in the United States this year. In Missouri alone, some 900 new cases will be diagnosed. Nationwide, breast cancer is expected to kill about 43,700 women this year...

Southeast Missouri Hospital Foundation will hold its fifth annual auction, "Pennies from Heaven," on June 25 at A.C. Brase Arena Building. Doors open at 5 p.m. Funds from the auction will go to Southeast's Regional Cancer Center program We Can Weekend...

Chronic health problems can leave individuals and their families with feelings of fatigue, frustration and pain. In an effort to help people learn to help themselves with chronic illnesses such as heart disease, stroke, arthritis, diabetes or lung conditions, the Regional Arthritis Center at St. Francis Medical Center is offering a chronic disease self-management course...

Young people between the ages of 14 and 18 are invited to become a part of Southeast Missouri Hospital's Junior Volunteer team. Junior volunteers work after school during the academic year and on weekdays during the summer months. Junior volunteer training sessions are scheduled for 1 p.m. ...

The Cape Girardeau Show-Me Stampede 5K run and kids fun 1K run will be held June 19 at Arena Park. The course will start back by the baseball fields shelter house, next to LaCroix walking trail. The Show-Me 5K run starts at 7:30 a.m. with the kids fun 1K run starting at 8 a.m...

Remember the movie "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!" that hit the big screen back in 1966? There were reminders of this farce recently when camouflaged soldiers were seen in Cape Girardeau in the company of truckloads of what looked an awful lot like missiles...

There were even more echoes of "The sky is falling! The sky is falling!" variety recently when it was widely reported that sun storms next year are likely to cause havoc for cellular phones and satellite navigation systems. Given the level of anxiety that already has been created over the so-called Y2K problem -- real or imagined, the thought of sun-related problems with modern technology could only heighten the tension. ...

To the editor: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838 and its Ladies Auxiliary would like to thank all who participated in our recent Buddy Poppy campaign. We appreciate the publicity your paper gave us and believe it was a contributor to the best campaign we have had. The community recognized this symbolic flower and contributed generously. All proceeds from the Buddy Poppy campaign must be placed in our relief fund to be used only for hospitalized and needy veterans or their families...

He wasn't raising money. He wasn't drawing attention to a cause. He wasn't looking for publicity. Jason Hutson rode his bicycle across the United States for no reason at all. "I just did it because I like to ride," Hutson said. The 24-year-old Cape Girardeau man wanted to make the trip before he turned 25. He traveled 2,678 miles from coast to coast. "I remember a lot of them too," he said...

MARBLE HILL -- Bollinger County Associate Commissioner Rod Jetton may run for state representative of the sprawling 156th District. Poplar Bluff High School history teacher Tim Slayton of Fairdealing has indicated he will run in 2000 for the state representative seat as a Republican. That would set up a primary race if Jetton runs...

Like a child needs instruction to learn, members of Southeast Missouri Weed and Seed Inc. need direction if they are to learn everything they need to know about eliminating drug crimes in the region. The board, which includes all members of local steering committees from Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Poplar Bluff, Charleston and Caruthersville, will meet Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Family Life Center at Centenary United Methodist Church for a training session...

Call this another chapter in the adventures of a man who is set loose in a big store with a small list. Maybe this has happened to you too. You go to a store for a particular item -- three-way light bulbs, for example -- and you walk out with a 10-horsepower chipper-shredder with all-wheel drive and an overhead-cam engine...

The Southeast Missourian newspaper won two awards for reporting of education from the Missouri State Teachers Association's annual contest. The Missourian was honored for its weekly "Learning Page," and for YELL, the newspaper's annual literacy program...

Donna Jacobs thought Patra might be bad dog. She couldn't explain why her pet kept biting her wrists and knocking her down. At one point, Jacobs considered having the dog put to sleep. But a veterinary assistant suggested she visit with dog trainer Kathy Cramer first. Cramer and Jacobs soon discovered that Patra wasn't a bad dog. Instead he was trying to help...

Local student teachers recently returned from an eight-week stay in Wales as part of Southeast Missouri State University's award-winning international education program. Lori Mitchell of Oran, Christie Brown of New Madrid, Chastity Stanford of Bernie and Kristen Foster of Dexter were among the 10 elementary education majors chosen to participate as this year's "StepOut" half of the Swansea Teaching Exchange Program...

BLOOMFIELD -- Golden Cat Corp. will be getting some help in financing the training of a half-dozen employees. State Rep. Marilyn Williams, D-Dudley, said the company has been approved for a $7,130 grant from the Misssouri Job Development Fund to help cover the cost of training workers...

It appears to matter little that Cape Girardeau Central High's girls soccer team has only been around for four years. And it doesn't seem to make a difference that the Lady Tigers will be competing in their first-ever state final four. All indications are -- and it's the consensus of both head coaches -- that the Lady Tigers have a legitimate chance of reaching Saturday's Class 4A state championship game...

Playing defense in soccer is a lot like being an offensive lineman in football. It's definitely not a glory position. If you're looking for headlines, soccer defenders, just like offensive linemen, rarely make the grade -- or even get mentioned in the articles at all, for that matter...

COLUMBIA -- Until the fifth inning Thursday, Notre Dame seemed destined to win a state championship. From Wes Steele's bottom-of-the-seventh, game-winning double in the sectionals, to Todd Friend's bizarre catch in the state semifinal, to Adam Seyer's clutch pinch hit in the district title game -- everything seemed to be going Notre Dame's way...

Southeast Missouri State University softball standouts Christine Engelhardt and Jenny Oermann continue to prove their excellence in the classroom as well as on the field. Thursday, the pair earned repeat selections to the GTE Academic All-America team -- with Engelhardt becoming the first Southeast athlete to be named to the squad for three straight years...

Former Sikeston High baseball standout Kevin Vent saw his performance slip a bit during his senior season at the University of Arkansas -- but he apparently did not slip at all in the eyes of professional scouts. Vent, a right-handed pitcher, was taken in the eighth round of this week's major league baseball amateur draft. He was selected by the San Francisco Giants with the 258th overall pick...

COLUMBIA -- On Thursday, the Oran Eagles did everything they couldn't do on Wednesday. They produced two-out hits, ran the bases well and, most importantly, they didn't strike out 13 times. Oran dominated Northwest (Hughesville) 11-1 in five innings, capturing third place in the Class 1A Final Four at Simmons Field...

BOISE, Idaho -- Southeast Missouri State University's Lutricia Purham finished 15th among a field of 21 in the women's shot put Thursday at the NCAA Division I Track & Field Championships. Purham, a junior who is Southeast's first female NCAA Division I national track qualifier, had a distance of 48 feet 3 1/4 inches, well off her school-record qualifying throw of 50-9 3/4...

Chaffee's Jr. Legion squad banged out 27 hits in sweeping a doubleheader at Jackson Wednesday night, winning 16-7 and 11-3 to improve to 3-0. Justin Simpher was the first-game winner, allowing three hits while striking out 10 and walking four in seven innings. Andrew Estes had four hits while Simpher and Rocky Portell added three each...

PERRYVILLE -- -- Clement M. "Clem" King, 75, of Perryville died Wednesday, June 2, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 29, 1923, at Puxico, son of James and Myrtle Moseley King. He and Rowena Yeager were married April 7, 1945...

THEBES, Ill. -- Daniel E. Clubb, 87, of Thebes died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.

MARSTON -- Markale Deshawn Long, 9, of Norfolk, Va., died Sunday, May 30, 1999, at Childrens Hospital of the Kings Daughter in Norfolk, following an asthma attack. He was born Dec. 29, 1989, in Portsmouth, Va., son of Jackie Jones Long and Reginald Long...

Dora D. Moore, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.

JACKSON -- Nellda Evelyn Tuschhoff, 85 of Jackson died Tuesday, June 1, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 3, 1914, at Arnsburg, daughter of Frederick J. and Mary Hilbert Tuschhoff. Tuschhoff was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church at Apple Creek, and former member of Arnsburg Homemakers Club...

PERRYVILLE -- Geneva Mae Robbins, 88, of Perryville died Wednesday, June 2, 1999, at the home of a son in Perryville. She was born Oct. 13, 1910, near Mt. Vernon, Ill., daughter of Iley Asa and Dessie Pearl Harrolle Jenkins. She first married Homer F. Chamness June 13, 1929, in Fairfield, Ill. She later married William Jasper Robbins Dec. 13, 1948, in Pocahontas, Ark. Both preceded her in death...

Cecil J. Wamble, 90, of Detroit, Mich., died Tuesday, June 1, 1999, at his home. He was born April 24, 1909, at Dexter, son of Joseph and Mae Gibson Wamble. He and Gladys Ross were married Dec. 1, 1929, at Dexter. Wamble moved to Detroit in 1937 from Dexter. He was a baker with Taystee Bread Co. from 1937 until retiring in 1971...

McGEE -- Funeral for Lowell E. Berrong of McGee will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance. Larry Underwood and Roy Haynie will officiate. Burial will be in Berrong Cemetery at Gipsy. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4:30-8 p.m. today...

ASHERVILLE -- Eva Richard, 89, of the Asherville area died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at the Puxico Center in Puxico. She was born March 9, 1910, at Rombauer, daughter of Charlie and Annie Kesterson Duren. She and John W. Richard were married Dec. 2, 1933. He died April 10, 1995...

Alta Christina Aldora Streinz, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, June 2, 1999, at Jackson Manor in Jackson. She was born Dec. 7, 1918, in Buckner, Ill., daughter of Louis and Eairy Thomas Young. She and Andrew Balogh were married in 1936. He died March 18, 1949. She and Henry H. Adams were married Aug. 4, 1949. He died Nov. 23, 1974. She and Guenther "Dutch" Streinz were married Dec. 11, 1975. He died March 27, 1986...

NEW HAMBURG -- Kenneth Joseph Heuring, 35, of New Hamburg died Wednesday, June 2, 1999, at Benton. He was born March 5, 1964, in Cape Girardeau, son of Joseph Lawrence and Margaret A. Chapman Heuring. Heuring was a salesman at Cape Girardeau Motors in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton...

BENTON -- Arthur A. Schiwitz, 75, of Benton died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Benton is in charge of arrangements.

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral for Gary W. Barker of Anna will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Revs. Larry Shacklee and Rick Boswell will officiate. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8:30 p.m. today, and Saturday until service time...

JACKSON -- Graveside service for Juel Lee Moneyhun will be held at 10 a.m. today at Russell Heights Cemetery. The Rev. Robert Henrichs will officiate. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements. The infant died Wednesday, June 2, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Geneva Ballard, 88, of Mounds died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. She was born July 6, 1910, at Mounds, daughter of Timothy and Ida Burd Mahoney. She married John Ballard, who preceded her in death. Ballard was a member of First United Methodist Church...

FROHNA -- Flora E. Hecht, 84, of Frohna died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 24, 1915, in Perry County, daughter of Henry and Anna Meyer Lohmann. She and Hilmer Hecht were married Oct. 22, 1939. He died Sept. 14, 1981...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- Clarence Eugene Rogers, 61, of Centralia died Wednesday, June 2, 1999, at St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia. He was born June 7, 1937, in Olmsted, son of Barney W. and Doris Shelton Rogers. He and Karen Pierceall were married July 4, 1957, in Mound City...

David R. Seyer, 52, of Clarmont, Fla., died Tuesday, June 1, 1999 in Chula Vista, Calif. He was born June 9, 1946, in Cape Girardeau, son of August and Minnie Menz Seyer. He and Linda Decker were married Dec. 7, 1968, at New Hamburg, Mo. Seyer was a graduate of Kelly High School at Benton. He resided at Fort Walton Beach, Fla., (coming from Cape Girardeau) for 17 years, and has lived in Clarmont, Fla. for the past year...

Daughter to Barry Allan and Kimberly Jill Shirkey of Morehouse, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:22 a.m. Friday, May 28, 1999. Name, Tiffany Jade. Weight, 7 pounds 7 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Shirkey is the former Kimberly Snell, daughter of John and Jill Snell of Dongola, Ill. Shirkey is the son of Shirley Slayton and Harvey and Shirley Shirkey of Sikeston. He is employed at Sikeston Power Station...