Stories from Monday, March 20, 2000

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. If you own mutual funds, you may be paying close attention to which way the share price moves. And you're probably inclined to cheer when the price goes up. Actually, although it may be somewhat counterintuitive, you should hope the share price goes down sometimes that is, if you plan on buying more shares...

Coming up Tuesday Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's "Business After Hours," Holiday Inn Sierra Room, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday Small Business Development Center counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office, 10 a.m. through 3 p.m...

A Workers' Compensation Discussion Group, sponsored by Associated Industries of Missouri, will be held at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau April 5. Judge Jack Knowlan, chief administrative law judge in the Cape Girardeau office of the Division of Workers' Compensation, will be guest speaker at the noon meeting, which will feature the program at 12:30 p.m...

The Army Reserve will be the topic for the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee, to be held April 7 at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center.

The Missouri Department of Economic Development has approved an industrial infrastructure grant of $88,080, for the city of Malden in Southeast Missouri. The fund will be used for street improvements necessary for the expansion of Falcon Door and Window Inc., the second largest employer at Malden...

Miller Time is coming your way in a plastic bottle. Miller Brewing Co. is going to sell three of its best-selling beers -- Miller Lite, Miller Genuine Draft and Icehouse -- nationally in 16-ounce and 20-ounce plastic bottles as well as in the traditional glass bottles and aluminum cans...

Rural Missouri Inc. and the Small Business Development Center will cosponsor a series of seminars in Missouri concerning technical assistance and financing programs for small businesses. One of the free seminars will be held at Dempster Hall on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University Tuesday...

Plans are under way for the annual Paducah Quilt Show, will be held at Paducah, Ky., April 12 through 16. The quilt show attracts thousands more than 30,000 last year to Paducah. Some visitors to the show stay in hotels at Cape Girardeau and Carbondale, Ill...

An equine education series seminar will be held at the VFW Hall in Scott City, March 30. The seminar, sponsored by the Kelso Feed Co. and Purina Mills, is designed for horse owners and horse lovers. Among topics will be equine care, nutrition and management...

Detroit's automakers sell vehicles that create more pollution than most other major auto manufacturers, according to a study by an environmental group. The reason: Pickups and sport utility vehicles, dear to American automakers' profits, that burn more gas and emit more pollution than passenger cars, the Union of Concerned Scientists said Wednesday...

Editor's Note: From time to time, this column will take a look at some industry and what it means economically to the area, state and nation. Today, the restaurant business. More than 100 restaurants are listed in Cape Girardeau County. Counting a few eating places that may not be listed by the Missouri Restaurant Association or telephone Yellow Pages, and the actual count is 112...

ULLIN, Ill. -- After a little more than a year in business, the Tri-County Detention Center has yet to show a profit, but Michael Kleinik is trying. Kleinik operates the only private, for-profit jail in Illinois. If his prisoner population wasn't so low for the first five months of 1999, the facility might have made money...

The soda wars have come to breakfast. PepsiCo Inc. and the Coca-Cola Co. are using their marketing muscle to revolutionize what used to be a basic beverage -- orange juice. Cans of frozen orange juice are out. They've been replaced by an expanding array of refrigerated varieties: With or without pulp. With or without calcium. With or without extra vitamin C. And now, variations like "Orange Passion," "Orange Banana" and "Orange Ruby Red with calcium."...

Doris Jean Arnold and Pamela Arnold of RE/MAX Realty One, 107 S. Broadview in Cape Girardeau, recently received awards at the St. Louis Regional RE/MAX awards banquet. Doris Jean Arnold received a Platinum Award, for gross sales production in excess of $8 million in 1999, and Pamela Arnold received the Executive Award for gross commissions of more than $60,000...

Donna Denson has been promoted at the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. In her new position as Targeted publications/classified sales and promotions manager, she will be in charge of the receptionist and classified advertising departments and remain as Targeted publications manager...

Geoffrey M. Parker has joined Union Planters Bank as vice president of commercial lending. Parker of Jackson was previously employed with First Security State Bank and was a lender with Farm Credit of Southeast Missouri for six years. He is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University and is active with the university's Greek Alumni Council...

The Rev. Raymond McAfee has been appointed funeral home chaplain at McCombs Funeral Home of Cape Girardeau to provide needs and aftercare for those in grief. McCombs Funeral Home is the oldest funeral provider in Cape Girardeau County, with full-service facilities in Cape Girardeau and Jackson...

Pamela Arnold has joined RE/MAX Realty One, 107 S. Broadview in Cape Girardeau. Arnold is a member of the Cape Girardeau Board of Realtors, National Association of Realtors and the Missouri Association of Realtors. She is experienced in realty sales and is recipient of an award recently for outstanding sales performance in 1999...

Mike Pobst and Ray Halter have received promotions at Dana Corp.'s Spicer Light Vehicle Axle Division, 2075 Corporate Circle in Cape Girardeau. Pobst was promoted to the position of scheduler for the castings division. He joined Dana in January 1992 as a cell technician and has received a number of promotions. He most recently was promoted to shift coordinator in 1995. Pobst has completed the three-year supervisory training course at the Cape Girardeau Career and Technology Center...

Marilyn Duffey of Prudential Bridgeport Inc., Realtors, recently received the Leading Edge Society Award for sales. Duffey, the top producer for 1999 at Prudential Bridgeport, was in the top 6 percent of the Prudential Real Estate Network. She received her award from Prudential chief executive officer Steve Ozonian during the Prudential Real Estate Sales Convention at San Diego, Calif...

BioKyowa Inc. recently announced a number of promotions in connection with the expansion of the L-Lysine production area of the plant in Nash Road Industrial Park. Charlie Goodpasture of Jackson has been promoted to production operations manager for the L-Lysine Division. He has 17 years experience in management of operations and construction projects. John Myers of Cape Girardeau and Mike Kluesner of Oran have assumed process superintendent positions...

Five members representing the Workforce Investment Board (WIB) of Southeast Missouri recently attended the National Association of Workforce Boards "Forum 2000," held in Washington, D.C. WIB executive director Ron Swift and program operations specialist Cleat Stanfill were joined at the forum by board members Ben Bradshaw of Malden, June Long of Fredericktown and Johnny Ray Conklin of Kelso...

Patty Cook of Marquand, Marietta Reams of Bernie and Sandy Valleroy of Perryville, unit directors with Home Interiors & Gifts, recently attended the company's seminar in Dallas, Texas. More than 11,000 accessory specialists attended the workshop. Cook and Reams received top honors for wall decor ideas at the conference. Valleroy was recognized as a member of the Million Dollar Society, for achieving $1 million in net career wholesale sales...

Scott County Sheriff Bill Ferrell is shown here standing in the jail's only storage space, which amounts to nothing more than the space between cell blocks. BENTON -- Six men and two women bumped into each other and a sheriff's deputy as they were locked together by handcuffs to walk across the street to the Scott County Courthouse last Wednesday...

They aren't planning campaign stops and press conferences like the presidential hopefuls, but the five candidates for Cape Girardeau City Council are gearing up for an election all the same. Voters will select three men to serve on the council when they head to the polls April 4. A candidate forum is planned for 7:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Dempster Building on the Southeast State University campus. School board candidates will speak at 7 o'clock...

Support from several different parts of the community has made Cape Girardeau Schools Superintendent Dan Steska optimistic about support for an $18 million bond issue to be considered by voters April 4. The Cape Girardeau City Council and Chamber of Commerce board of directors, Central High School's All-School Booster Club and Athletic Foundation, and the district's five Parent Teacher Associations all have pledged support for the bond issue...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Funding for Southeast Missouri State University would rise 4.8 percent under the state budget approved Thursday by the House of Representatives. Southeast is slated to get $50.38 million for fiscal year 2001, which begins July 1. The university was budgeted $48.09 million for the current fiscal year...

Patients have come to expect doctors and nurses to wear gloves and masks to control the spread of germs, but they may not realize that infection control procedures at local hospitals are in place from the lobby to the surgical unit, from the laundry room to patient rooms, from the kitchen to X-ray...

Twenty years ago, the St. Joseph Catholic Elementary School at Apple Creek burned. Area residents decided a talent show would make a good fund raiser. Ray Sauer decided to provide the audience with a Hee Haw skit. "It kept the crowd laughing the entire time," said Sauer...

Cape Girardeau City Council Monday, March 20 at 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Study session at 5 p.m. Public hearings Consent ordinances (Second and third readings) New ordinances (First reading) Resolutions (Reading and passage) Other...

To the editor: What if prayer hadn't been taken out of school? What if we would have chosen love, righteousness and holy rollin' instead of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll? What if instead of rebellion, we would have chosen nonconformity and had begun living by Godly principles?...

It looks as though Missouri voters will be asked in November to enact a law that would eliminate highway billboards by prohibiting construction, replacement and relocation of billboards along the state's interstate and primary highways. A group called Save Our Scenery Committee in Columbia has collected more than 130,000 signatures in its initiative effort to get the issue on the November ballot, and only 72,000 valid signatures are necessary to put it to a vote. ...

Cape Girardeau's Planning and Zoning Commission this week is expected to come up with a list of street projects to be carried out with money from the city's Transportation Trust Fund, if voters extend the fund's one-half-cent sales tax past this year...

The weather might not be totally cooperating yet, but that won't stop the spring sports season from getting under way for area high schools. Spring sports in Southeast Missouri officially get going this week. A host of squads will begin their seasons today, with others to follow in the coming days...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Southeast Missouri State University's softball team suffered a 2-1 loss to Utah State here Sunday during consolation play in the Capital Classic Tournament. The Otahkians won two of seven games in the rugged 15-team tourney and are now 7-8 overall...

CHARLESTON, Ill. -- Southeast Missouri State University's scheduled Ohio Valley Conference baseball game with host Eastern Illinois was rained out Sunday. The teams had opened OVC play Saturday by splitting a doubleheader, EIU winning the opener 2-1 and Southeast claiming the nightcap 16-7...

PERRYVILLE -- Vincent H. Schulte, 89, of Perryville died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at Perry Oaks Nursing Center. He was born June 5, 1910, at St. Peters, son of Henry and Theresa Kroll Schulte. He and Pearl M. Taylor were married Aug. 21, 1970, at St. Charles...

COULTERVILLE, Ill. -- Malwa E. Dobbelare, 84, of Coulterville died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at the Coulterville Healthcare Center. She was born July 23, 1915, at Perry County, Mo., daughter of Emil and Emma Moll Klump. She and Lawrence J. Dobbelare were married July 16, 1938, at St. Louis. He died May 13, 1984...

SCOTT CITY -- Isabelle Clara Loida, 88, of Scott City died Saturday, March 18, 2000, at the Lutheran Home. She was born March 2, 1912, at St. Louis, daughter of Henry and Alice Calliotte Loida. She was a machine operator until her retirement in 1974. Loida was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Ruth M. Russell, 75, of Jonesboro died Friday, March 17, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Sept. 15, 1924, in Jackson County, daughter of George and Dora King Forby. She and Walter R. Russell were married July 15, 1947...

MORLEY -- Burnice Mayfield, 85, of Morely, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 11, 1915, at Diehlstadt, daughter of James and Nettie Riley Smith. She and Crulus Mayfield were married May 25, 1935, at Morley...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Rev. Gerald G. Green, 65, of Jonesboro died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at Union County Hospital at Anna. He was born Sept. 13, 1934, in Fulton County, Arkansas, son of Vernon Horace and Lillian Aileen Hubbell Green. He and Carolyn Stewart were married Aug. 6, 1981, at Eureka Springs, Ark. His first wife, Virginia, died Dec. 27, 1976...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Forrest Adkisson, 85, of East Prairie died Saturday, March 18, 2000 at East Prairie Nursing Center. He was born July 8, 1914, at Cooter, son of Samuel and Sarah Hattie Sefries Adkisson. He and Mildred Hanor were married Jan. 31, 1940, at East Prairie...

BLUE SPRINGS -- William F. "Frank" Mollenhour, 75, of Blue Springs died Friday, March 17, 2000, at St. Mary's Hospital at Blue Springs. He was born July 15, 1924, at Cape Girardeau. He had lived most of his life in the Independence area. Mollenhour was auto claims manager with Bert Strubinger Law Firm and was the divisional auto claims superintendent for State Farm Auto Insurance for 37 years, retiring in 1992. ...

JACKSON -- Lyndell Leroy Bradshaw Jr., 36, of Jackson died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at his home. He was born Oct. 6, 1963, at St. Louis, son of Lynn Leroy and LaVerne Walker Bradshaw Sr. Bradshaw was the shop manager of Lynn Flexco Co. at Jackson. Survivors include his parents of Jackson; a brother, Carmen Bradshaw of Jackson; and a sister, Sheryl Martin of Jackson...

THEBES, Ill. -- Herschel Davis, 74, of Thebes died Sunday, March 19, 2000, at St. Francis Medical Center. Arrangements are pending at Crain Funeral Home at Tamms.