Stories from Monday, August 9, 1999

Crossfire Enterprises Inc., a family-owned Cape Girardeau business, features "Jeanne's Country Herb Product." For years, Jeanne Heise delighted friends with gifts of home herb vinegar from her kitchen. Now, hundreds of gallons of gift vinegar and experiments later, Heise's product has gone public, as Jeanne's Country Herb Products...

Mike Potillo, Mel Potillo and Joyce Potillo attended a New Image International Inc. conference at Lexington, Ky. Jayne Ervin and daughter, Kendra Kelley, attended an RJO jewelry-buying show. SARAH VANHORN, LONNIE LUSK, BECKY TALLENT, STACY TAYLOR, KATHLEEN BERTRAND, JANET VARNON, DANNY ESSNER, ANN BROOKMAN, DR. JOHN HOLCOMB, DR. JERRY P. KASSEL, DR. KYLE BROST...

Top shelf, bottom shelf, middle shelf...What's the "Magic Shelf" to consumers? It lies in "space management" or "category management." Both terms, which refer to the retail industry's efforts to increase store efficiency in delivering products shoppers want, are hot topics in the supermarket industry...

Tuesday Jackson Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours, 5 p.m., Commerce Bank at Jackson. Aug. 17 Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours, 5 p.m., Show Me Center. Aug. 18 Perry County meeting, American Legion, 6:30 p.m., Dean Kleckner, president of American Farm Bureau, to speak...

PERRYVILLE -- Things can change in 99 years. When Beretta Lankford first started working in the kitchen preparing the mounds of food for the annual Seminary Picnic, nobody dreamed of using plastic. "When I started everything was glass," she said, "and we had to wash it all."...

GUNS USED IN CRIMES Number of guns used in criminal activities that were traced back to the state or commonwealth in which they were sold: Paul Page will get gun buyers any kind of weapon they want, as long as it's legal. "I had a man from Illinois come in once asking to buy a grenade," said Page, owner of Big Foots, a firearms store in Fruitland. "He looked pretty disappointed when I offered to sell him paint ball grenades."...

The Southeast Missourian ublished a four-page extra on Aug. 9, 1974, after President Nixon announced he would resign. Graphic: In 1974, the year President Nixon resigned: Inflation was 12.3 percent. Unemployment was 5.6 percent to song was "Killing Me Softly," sung by Roberta Flack...

GORDONVILLE -- Watch the lights. Keep your truck tuned. Put it on the floor from start to finish. And stay out of other people's ruts. That was Gordonville Town Marshal Jim Swift's philosophy just seconds before he plunged his truck into a 200-foot-long mudbath in Gordonville Park Saturday afternoon...

The YELL Foundation is encouraging area residents to include a piece of their own personal history in the upcoming Millennium time capsule project. Individuals, families or businesses are encouraged to submit photographs to the Southeast Missourian that will be included in a special Millennium section. There is no charge to participate...

Do not open until 8113. That is the year The Crypt of Civilization, a time capsule sealed at Atlanta's Oglethorpe University in 1940, is due to be opened. Though time capsules of a kind have been buried since the ancient Babylonian and Egyptian civilizations, those often contained objects believed to be charmed and were more like cornerstones. ...

-- Don't mess with unfamiliar dogs. Dogs are very territorial and may react aggressively when someone invades their territory. -- Don't make eye contact with dogs because they perceive eye contact as a challenge. -- Don't approach a dog, even a familiar one, quickly and stick out your hand. Always talk gently to the dog first and let it see and sniff you...

If Lady Luck Gaming Corp.'s proposal to put a gambling casino on the Diversion Channel some two miles from the Mississippi River doesn't comply with Missouri's Constitution, the Missouri Gaming Commission should say so and put an end to Scott City's hopes of getting a riverboat close to I-55...

I'M CALLING in regard to the Red Cross. They need to get their act together. I'm willing to donate blood. I called the Red Cross office and was transferred to five people before I became frustrated and hung up. So come on, Red Cross, get your act together...

Indian veterans will report back to camp today. By Marty Mishow About 30 newcomers got a head start over the weekend on becoming acclimated to the Southeast Missouri State University football program. Today, those rookies -- who include freshmen, junior-college transfers and transfers from four-year programs -- will have to start taking something a back seat to the Indians' more experienced players...

JACKSON -- Mr. Gilbert D. Green, age 64, passed away Saturday, Aug. 7, 1999, at the Southeast Hospital from an apparent heart attack. He was born Aug. 20, 1934, at Whitewater, Mo., the son of Herbert and Alta Chapman Green. He married Nelda Wiseman Dec. 7, 1957, and she survives of their home west of Jackson...

Henry Dillow ANNA, Ill. -- Henry Don Dillow, 76, of Anna died Saturday, Aug. 7, 1999, at Union County Hospital at Anna. He was born June 18, 1923, at Dongola, son of William Noel and Pearl Etta Davault Dillow. He married Martha R. Hileman March 20, 1954, at Anna...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Pheaby Z. Robison, 89, of East Prairie died Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999, at the Bertrand Nursing Facility. She was born April 1, 1910, at Lilbourn, daughter of David and Lilly Shaw Butler. She and Edgar Robison were married Jan. 9, 1928. He died Dec. 22, 1984...

Raymond Goodman PERRYVILLE -- Raymond H. Goodman, 58, of Perryville died Saturday, Aug. 7, 1999, at his home. He was born June 13, 1941, at Pocahontas, Ark., son of Herman and Eathel Hawkins Goodman. He and Judith Woodard were married Dec. 30, 1986...

John Colyer Jr. TACOMA, Wash. -- John Lee Colyer Jr., 49, of Puyallup died Friday, Aug. 6, 1999 at Tacoma. He was born Aug. 15, 1949, at Cape Girardeau, son of Elsa and John Lee Coyer Sr. He and his wife, Sandra, had been married for 30 years. He was employed by Northland Communications at Seattle...

Van Marshall JACKSON -- Van J. Marshall, 78, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 8, 1999, at the St. Francis Medical Center. He was born May 26, 1921, at Kennett, son of Robert E. and Bessie Chailland Marshall. He and Mae Boyd were married March 24, 1973, at Charleston...

Kiah Smith Jr. CHARLESTON -- Kiah Smith Jr., 84, of Charleston died Sunday, Aug. 8, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 8, 1915, at Charleston, son of Kiah and Ella N. Foust Smith Sr. He and Loretta Bevil were married May 23, 1953...

Mable Johnson NEWTON, Iowa -- Mable Johnson, 75, of Newton and formerly of Charleston, died Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1999, at the Boone Hospital Center at Columbia, Mo. She was born Dec. 15, 1923, at Marianna, Ark., daughter of Will and Susie English Smith. She was a member of the Christ Apostolic Temple at Columbia...

JACKSON -- Kenneth Ray Parsons, 57, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 8, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 29, 1942, at Perryville, son of William and Letta Gutherie Parsons. He and Pat Walker were married Sept. 23, 1961 at Cape Girardeau...

LEOPOLD -- Geraldine Marie Huffman, 72, of Leopold died Tuesday, July 6, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Oct. 16, 1926, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of August Hugo and Emma Louise Griffin Boos. She married Leonard Huffman in August of 1946 in Cape Girardeau. He died Jan. 19, 1972...

Dorothy Barrett CHARLESTON -- Dorothy Dilworth Barrett, 86, of Charleston died Wednesday, Aug. 4, 1999, at the Miner Nursing Home. She was born March 10, 1913, at Cahoma, Miss., daughter of Bennie and Minnie Humpheries Dilworth. She and Edward W. Barrett were married Dec. 13, 1941. He died May 9, 1997...