Stories from Monday, August 2, 1999

Lori Bollinger, corporate health resources nurse at St. Francis Medical Center, recently earned certification as an occupational health nurse (COHN). Bollinger, a registered nurse, met all the standards for the certification, including passing a COHN national examination...

Linda Puchbauer, business banker and relationship manager with NationsBank at Jackson, recently received the 1999 Missouri Banker Association Bank Leadership Award. The award recognizes outstanding career and community involvement achievements of Missouri bank officers from the junior or middle levels of bank management...

The Southeast Missouri Radio Group recently held its annual amateur radio field day at Klaus Park in Cape Girardeau. During an exercise, the local radio group contacted more than 375 amateur radio stations, including those in Alaska, Canada and Puerto Rico, in a test to check the readiness of amateur radio emergency communications...

Dean Kleckner, president of the American Farm Bureau, will be in Southeast Missouri Aug. 18 and 19. He will be guest speaker at the Perryville American Legion Building at 6:30 p.m. Aug. 18 and will speak at Knights of Columbus Hall in Jackson Aug. 19, at 6:30 p.m...

Robb McClary, city administrator at Park Hills and a graduate student at University of Missouri-St. Louis, has been selected for membership in Phi Kappa Phi, a national honor society that recognizes students with high scholastic standing. McClary, who is earning a master's degree in public policy administration at UM-St. Louis, will receive his certificate of membership in an initiation ceremony at the school Saturday...

Richard A. Hartmann, a financial adviser with American Express Financial Advisers Inc., a nationwide financial planning services, has been named "Master Adviser." Hartmann, who has offices at 167 Grand Fir Lane in Jackson, and at 9052 Watson Road, Crestwood, works through the St. Louis area office...

The Shelter Insurance Cos. claims office in Cape Girardeau has been honored among the company's top claims branches. Mark Martin is manager of the local office, which received the "Settlement Annuity Award." Other members of the Cape Girardeau Shelter staff include Rick Pitcher, Mark Heisserer, William Lewis, Eric Michelsen, Suzan Moore, Danae Ringwald, Charles Shultz, Lois Smee, Rebecca Speight and Gary Ziegler...

Pharmacists Ben Tally of Cape Girardeau, Dave Charlier of Scott City, Ronnie Hamra of Sikeston and the Teegardens -- Kelly and Kevin -- of Chaffee were honored recently during the national meeting of Medicap Pharmacies Inc. held at West Des Moines. The Southeast Missouri pharmacists, who operate Medicap Pharmacies in their communities, were named to the President's Club, for outstanding sales performances over the past year. ...

Carole Heinbokel has retired from the law firm of Buerkle, Beeson, Ludwig, Jackson & Boner, at 709 E. Main St., in Jackson. Heinbokel worked at the law firm 43 years. She served as personal secretary to Joe Buerkle, the senior member of the firm, at the time of her retirement...

David Hay has retired from the Missouri Department of Economic Development's newly created Division of Workforce Development, formerly Job Service. Hay, an employment service supervisor, transferred to the Cape Girardeau office three years ago. He previously served in the same capacity at Sikeston.,...

Dr. James MacMillan and Piedmont Family Clinic staff recently earned recognition from the Missouri Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for work with influenza illness during the 1998-1999 season. The clinic received a certification of appreciation for participation in the 150-member U.S. Influenza Sentinel Physician Surveillance Network...

Ray Wilkins has been named president and chief executive officer for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. Wilkins, a native of Waco, Texas, will oversee the company's more than 16 million access lines, providing services to more than 14 million customers in Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas...

The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and Perryville this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Aug. 18, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...

Y2K will be the topic of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee, to be held Friday at 7:30 a.m., at the Show Me Center. Mike Buchanan and George Florian will be guest speakers.

School dress codes, violence in movies, video games and other topics will be among the topics of a monthlong survey to be conducted at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau. A voting booth will be established at the mall Wednesday and will remain open throughout the month of August, said Jim Govro, general manger of the mall...

Heritage American Homes of Sikeston, a division of Patriot Homes Inc., recently built its 500th home since opening at Sikeston. The 500th home was sold by Coachman Homes of Eureka, Mo. Heritage Homes started in 1997 as a joint venture between Patriot Homes Inc. and Holigan Homes. Patriot Homes assumed sole ownership in 1998, as Heritage American Homes...

Dr. Trenton C. Jones, has joined Midwest Physicians and Surgeons, 300 S. Mount Auburn Road. Jones, a plastic surgeon, specializes in breast enlargement and reduction, body sculpting, hair transplantation and complete skin care.

Brenda Newbern of Cape Girardeau has joined ERA Cape Realty, 1409-A N. Mount Auburn Road, as a sales associate, one of eight full-time associates with the company. ERA Realty was founded in 1958.

Yes, the dawn of digital audio across the Internet has finally taken on a degree of Wall Street momentum. MP3.Com went public with a starting price of $28 a share. After it shot up to $105 by noon, the market took notice. CNN's Lou Dobbs even had a major segment on it, because 15 million shares were traded on the first day...

The Schaller Hardwood Lumber Co. of Poplar Bluff has been named "Small Business of the Year" by the Greater Poplar Bluff Area Chamber of Commerce. Schaller Hardware was founded in 1960 at St. Louis by Fred L. Schaller near Highway 40 and Grand Boulevard...

Hobby Lobby Creative Center has opened its 200th store. The new, 60,000-square-foot retail center in Rapid City, S.D., will hold its grand opening next week. Hobby Lobby, headquartered in Oklahoma City, has 200 stores in 20 states, including Cape Girardeau...

Marilyn Kneir of Cape Girardeau has joined Horizon Screen Printing & Promotional Products, 430 Broadway in Cape Girardeau. Knier, a Delta native, has more than eight years experience in the business world. She was employed six years in banking and two years in hotel management. She most recently worked with Credit Bureau Services in Cape Girardeau...

Debbie Street scanned a customer's purchases at ShopKo in Cape Girardeau. Mad Magazine turned an entire cover into a bar code. You might remember the cover. Alfred E. Newman ("What, Me Worry?") a favorite of the Mad Magazine gang, was featured on the cover of the October 1979 issue, mowing down the bar code, which stretched across the bottom of the cover...

This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Interest rates can be more mysterious than a Stephen King thriller. If the prime rate is 5 percent, why does it cost 10 percent to borrow money?...

The Missouri work force increased in June, but so did the number of jobs. Even so, the state posted its lowest June unemployment rate in two decades. With students and seasonal employees in search of summer work, both employment and unemployment numbers edged upwards in June. The number of employed Missourians increased by more than 28,000, reaching 2,840,200. With an estimated 113,800 unemployed, that translates into 3.9 percent...

JACKSON -- Allyne Bodenstein of Jackson hasn't been able to make all the municipal band concerts this year. "I've been coming to every municipal band concert for many years," she said, but this year she's missed some concerts because of the heat. She braved the warm weather Sunday to enjoy the Zuid Nederlands Jeugd Fanfare Orkest (ZNJFO) or Southern Netherlands Young People's Brass Orchestra...

Ice was nice. So were fans. Both handheld and electric fans were crowd pleasers in the blast furnace of Southeast Missouri summers before the invention of air conditioning. In decades past, porches doubled as summer bedrooms, and people retreated to the ice-cooled movie house to beat the heat...

City officials will decide tonight just how much Cape Girardeau residents will have to shell out when they pay their property tax bill. Residents may voice their opinions on the proposed city tax rate at the Cape Girardeau City Council's 7:30 meeting at City Hall...

Two homes in Cape Girardeau were recently added to the National Register of Historic Places, bringing the city's number of recognized listings to 11. The homes are the Pott house, a late Victorian and Italianate design at Themis and Pacific streets, that is owned by Steven and Emily Mellies and the Shivelbine house, a Industrial Revolution and Victorian-style dwelling, owned by Charles and Adele Kupchella...

Monday, Aug. 2 at 7:30 p.m. Council chambers, 401 Independence Study session, 5 p.m. Public Hearings -- A public hearing to consider the request for transfer of the cable communications system and franchise in Cape Girardeau from Falcon Communications, L.P., to Charter Communications, Inc., and Charter Communications Holding Company, L.L.C...

Two accidents along the Diversion Channel bridge slowed traffic along Interstate 55 North to a near crawl shortly before noon Sunday. No serious injuries were reported in either accident. Kenneth Holder of Scott City was driving north on I-55 when his vehicle was hit from behind by a vehicel driven by Timothy Moor of Newburgh, Ind...

7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 2 City Hall Public hearings -- Hearing to receive comments concerning proposed potable water distribution system improvements for Jackson. -- Hearing to consider the rezoning of a portion of the property addressed as 2854 East Main St. from R-3 (general residential) to C-2 (general commercial) as submitted by John Lichtenegger of Appleton Valley Farm Inc...

With contractors having plenty of work in the heart of this construction season, the Missouri Department of Transportation is finding it difficult to spark interest in repaving the Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau. Twice the department has sought bids, and at each of those bid openings only one contractor, Occi Inc. of Fulton, submitted a bid...

For 40 years the Cape Civic Center has provided educational and recreational activities for youths of the community, particularly disadvantaged youngsters. It has been survived some lean years financially, but with a new director on board and new things happening at the center, its future looks brighter than ever...

To the editor: I would like to make two points regarding the Southeast Missourian editorial of July 29 against the EPA and for PCBs. First, your stating that the evidence regarding PCBs and human cancer is fuzzy does not make it so. Time and again we hear right-wing advocates argue that human and environmental health decisions should be based on sound science. ...

CHANUTE, Kan. -- The Chaffee Junior American Legion baseball team suffered its first loss in the Mid-States Regional Tournament, falling to Louisiana state champion Shreveport 6-1 Sunday night in the winner's bracket final. Chaffee, the Missouri state champion which had won its first two tourney games, now falls into the loser's bracket. Chaffee will play at 10 a.m. today and, if it wins, again at 1:30 p.m. Another win there would force a final game against Louisiana Tuesday for the title...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Cape Girardeau Central High School graduate Frank McGinty played a big role in helping lead the East to a 17-7 win over the West in Saturday night's 23rd Missouri Lions high school all-star football game. McGinty, a quarterback, tossed a 92-yard touchdown pass to Derrick Minter of Monroe City with 7:13 left in the second quarter, giving the East a 10-7 lead...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Hazel G. Jordan Tanner, 90, of Mounds died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at the Western Baptist Hospital at Paducah, Ky. She was born June 15, 1909, at Mill Creek. She was a retired Bell telephone operator and was a school bus driver for Meridian School District of Mounds for several years...

Lewis Nelson of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 1, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are pending at Ford and Sons Funeral Chapel.