Stories from Wednesday, January 9, 1991

'Tis a New Year with many uncertainties. The only certainty is that "in the long run we are all dead" ... and that man has some, but little control over his future. "Yet this corporate being, though so insubstantial to our senses, binds, in (Edmund) Burke's words, a man to his country with "ties which though light as air, are as strong as links of iron." That is why young men die in battle for freedom's sake, and why old men plant trees they will never sit under...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Parenting the manipulative child will be the topic for the next Parents Supporting Parents meeting Tuesday. Dr. David Taylor, medical director of Community Counseling Center, is the presenter. Parents Supporting Parents meets at St. Andrew Lutheran Church on the third Tuesday of each month. Parents of children with emotional problems or school problems may attend. There is no fee...

ORAN - Tom Hulshof believes that teaching will affect the future like no other profession. Hulshof, who teaches agriculture at Oran High School, is doing his part to shape the future of America. "As I was deciding on a career," he said, "I thought that helping young people learn about agriculture would be a challenging, but rewarding profession...

POPLAR BLUFF - Republican Bill Heaton was elected Tuesday to serve a two-year unexpired term as sheriff of Butler County. Heaton defeated acting Sheriff Fred Armes, a Democrat, and Harold Braden, an independent, to earn the position. Heaton got 3,517 votes, while Armes polled 2,842 and Braden received 433...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. Mark Hosler will discuss pap smears on this week's "Ask Your Doctor" program. The television show will be aired Thursday at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13. "Ask Your Doctor" is a weekly medical show featuring local doctors answering questions from viewers. Hosts are Martha Muench and Dr. Jean A. Chapman...

For about 15 years, a new west-end fire station topped the list of priorities for the Cape Girardeau Fire Department. This week, the wish became a reality as firefighters moved into the new Mount Auburn facility, across from Doctor's Park. The move is significant, especially for those living and working in the city's west side...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - The unusual occurrence that transpired Christmas Eve at Drury Lodge could have taken place only once in a blue moon! That's how Mark Twain would have described it, and he was versed in scientific phenomenon. He was born Nov. 30, 1885, when Halley's comet streaked across the sky after an absence of 75 years, and he died April 10, 1910, when Halley's comet was leaving following a return visit 75 years later...

Every cloud has a silver lining? Baloney. Who would come up with such a concept? Quit giving so much credit to clouds. What clouds do are block the sun, rain and, if it's cold enough but not too cold, dump freezing precipitation on your life. Here's a forecast that's come up several times in the last few weeks: freezing drizzle...

CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Congressman Glenn Poshard wants some more answers on the Persian Gulf situation. "I want it understood that I support our forces in Saudi Arabia," said Poshard from his district congressional office here Tuesday. "I supported the president's original actions, but I am not going to commit myself before I hear a full debate on the crisis."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Critics claim the city's merchant license tax on businesses has become a burden. Formulated in 1936, some say the tax is outmoded, that the license tax schedules on blacksmiths, corn doctors, feather renovators, hucksters and tinners, as itemized in the municipal regulations, are out of touch with the times...

JACKSON -- There will be three vacancies to be filled in the April Jackson R-2 school board election. The third vacancy occurred Tuesday, when board member Nancy Shafer resigned, effective today. Schafer, who was elected to the board in April 1988, is moving this month to pastor a church in St. Louis. She has been pastor of Zion United Methodist Church in Gordonville...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Saddam Hussein does not understand Western culture, and if his country goes to war with the United States, Iraq will lose. That's the message veteran news reporter and foreign correspondent John Morley told about 200 members of the Cape Girardeau Executives Club Tuesday night in an address he called "Eyewitness: What's Ahead in the Headlines."...

JACKSON -- Jackson Mayor Carlton Meyer will seek his tenth consecutive term as the city's chief executive officer. Meyer was first elected mayor in 1973. Meanwhile, incumbent Ward 1 alderman, Paul Sander, will face a reelection challenge from a political newcomer, Mike Baker of 977 Donna Drive...

VIRGINIA DOLLE Occupation: Secretary at Louis J. Schultz Middle School for the past 24 years. Best part of my job is: "Working with young people. 7th graders are a very surprising age. There is never a dull moment in our office." I've always looked up to: "I always respected my parents."...

1ST LT. BRAD S. JOHNSON U.S. AIR FORCE 1st Lt. Johnson is the son of Kenneth and Beverly Johnson of Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Cape Central High School in 1982, and Southeast Missouri State University in 1987. He went on to graduate from the U.S. Air Force Flight School in Del Rio, Texas in 1988...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A federal law, which has been on the books for years, offers some financial relief for military reservists called to active duty and their families. But few people know about it, said Ken McManaman, a Cape Girardeau attorney and Naval Reserve officer...

JEFFERSON CITY - Members of the 86th Missouri General Assembly will convene at noon today for a session that is expected to be dominated by concerns over limited state funds and emotional issues like abortion and the right to die. But the primary focus of this week are ceremonial and housekeeping functions. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The owner of Cape Central Airways said Tuesday night the charter airline service has not suffered seriously despite a "heavy handed" penalty last year for violating federal air-safety requirements. Reggie Hopwood said the Federal Aviation Administration revoked Cape Central's air carrier certificate in August following four flights in an aircraft that had inoperative equipment...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Rozen H. Franklin of Cairo will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Barkett Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Robert D. McCoy will officiate, with burial in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery at Wetaug. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today...

ADVANCE - Scott Wright of Advance died Monday Jan. 7, 1991 at St. Francis Medical Center. He was 83. Born Jan. 14, 1907 near Advance, Wright was the son of the late Fred and Mary Taylor Wright. He retired in 1971 as a section foreman for the Frisco Railroad and was a charter member and a deacon of the First Assembly of God Church of Advance...

BENTON -- Memorial service for Mrs. Marion Nell Wallace of Benton will be held at 8 p.m. today at Hunter Memorial First Presbyterian Church in Sikeston. The Rev. W. Ralph Kier will officiate. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Sikeston is in charge of arrangements. There is no visitation...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Flossie Marie Waddill, 93, died Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born March 18, 1897 near Greentop, the daughter of Charles F. and Emily Clearwater Boon. On April 27, 1918, she married Travis Waddill at Greentop. He preceded her in death in 1966...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Dr. G. Eugene Bahn of Cape Girardeau will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Charles Grant will officiate and burial will be in Fairmont Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Dr. Bahn died Tuesday at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was 84...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Irene Lewis of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Daniel Kellum will officiate, with burial in Taylor Cemetery at Essex. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Thelma Mae Morgan of East Prairie will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Shelby Funeral Chapel here. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today. Mrs. Morgan, 76 years old, died Sunday, Jan. 6, 1991, at East Prairie Nursing Center...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Earl R. Blessing of Anna will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Crain Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Al Slayter will officiate, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery at Makanda. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today...

PERRYVILLE -- Marie Ann Brunke, 92, of Perryville, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, 1991, at the American Care Nursing Home in Perryville. She was born June 7, 1898, in Cape Girardeau to the late John and Matilda Barenkamp Unnerstall. She was a member of St. Vincent's Church of Perryville and the Ladies of Charity...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Wanda Lee Moreland, 63, of Bertrand Retirement Home, formerly of East Prairie, died Monday, Jan. 8 at 9 p.m. in the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born May 6, 1927 in Blytheville, Ark., daughter of the late John and Martha Meens Shaffer. She lived in Mississippi County most of her life and was of the Baptist faith...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Scott Blankenship, 1432 Themis, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:22 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1991. Name, Jessica Stroud. Weight, 8 pounds 6 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Blankenship is the former Jana Larson, daughter of Phil and Dixie Larson of Little York, Ill. Blankenship is an electric metering apprentice at Union Electric Co., and is the son of Robert and Mary Blankenship of Dexter...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Officials here are keeping watch on the rising waters of the Ohio river, and hope that a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crest prediction comes true this week. Monday river reports show the Ohio at 51.7 feet here, but with forecasts of receding waters today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Missouri Department of Conservation and Cape Girardeau VFW Post will sponsor a Hunter Education course here Saturday. The day-long class, which will be held at the VFW Post on North Kingshighway, will start at 8 a.m. and end at 6 p.m., with a lunch break from noon to 1 p.m...

One of my most devoted fans was baffled by my spelling of the pronunciation of the word "plagiarism" as presented in a recent column. This leads me to believe a key to the method used is in order. Although I spelled the word correctly in the column, the pronunciation came out PLAY-jer-ism. ...

Daniel L. and Doris E. Moore to Reuben L. and Sharon E. Davidson; Boatmens National Bank to Carl and LaDonna J. Murray; Leonard Dunning Jr. and Betty Jo Dunning to Cynthia Jo Williams; Clara C. and Harold L. Hoffmeister to the Harold L. Hoffmeister Trust; Frank and Olga Sheely to the Frank and Olga Sheeley Trusts; Celia May Hartley to Clinton Dale and Laverne E. Hartley; C.F. and Florence Goettelmann to A. Robert and Deborah L. Morris; Wood and Huston Bankcorporation to Southeast Missouri Bank...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - St. Francis Medical Center will present a free public seminar on living wills Jan. 17. The seminar will be given in the St. Francis Health & Education Centre on the hospital's west side. It begins at 7 p.m. The recent "right-to-die" case of Nancy Cruzan, the 33-year-old Missouri woman who died recently following an eight-year coma, has sparked a good deal of interest in living wills, according to St. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The spring semester at Southeast Missouri State University will begin Jan. 14 at 8 a.m. Registered students may pick up rental textbooks at the Textbook Services office in Kent Library beginning today. Prospective new students, who have not been admitted to the university, must apply at the admissions office, located in Room 259 in Academic Hall, before they can enroll in any classes, said Dr. Fred Snider, dean of admissions and records...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - "An Update on Property Issues for Women" is the topic of the January Woman to Woman luncheon. The luncheon will be held Jan. 17 at St. Francis Medical Center in Conference Rooms A and B of the Health and Education Centre. Cape Girardeau attorney Diane Howard will be the featured speaker. Howard will present an update on issues relating to women and their property rights. Included in the program will be information on pre-marital planning, marital issues, and estate planning...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball coach Ed Arnzen isn't knocking his Otahkians when he says he didn't know if they could win any game without their three missing starters. Arnzen is just being realistic. After all, you expect things to be pretty tough when your leading scorer and rebounder, your second-leading scorer and your point guard are taken away from you for a four-game stretch against some of the best the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association has to offer.. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Missouri-St. Louis coach Rich Meckfessel likes his backcourt tandem of Chris Pilz and Leon Kynard against any combination Southeast Missouri State will put on the floor. But when Meckfessel looks at the inside matchups for tonight's MIAA opener against Southeast, he sees some mismatches that could sink his Rivermen...

BENTON -- Favorites Scott City and Kelly posted victories Tuesday night as the Scott-Mississippi Conference girls basketball tournament got under way here. Tuesday's action was played at Kelly High School, but the remainder of the tournament will be held at Oran...

PERRYVILLE -- The Perryville High boys basketball tournament finally got under way Tuesday night. Action featured one blowout and one down-to-the-wire thriller. Second-seeded and undefeated Festus opened play by pounding Meadow Heights 81-47. Then fourth-seeded Jackson slipped past host Perryville 52-50...

MURPHYSBORO (Ill.) - Mindful of the upcoming Parkway South dual, Jackson High wrestling coach Bruce Thomas was looking for an impressive outing Tuesday night. He wasn't disappointed. Eight Indian wrestlers registered pins as the Jackson wrestling team rolled over Murphysboro, Ill., 58-18, on the road here Tuesday night...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Six National FFA officers will present programs during a Future Farmers of America (FFA) Greenhand session here today. The conference will be held at the University Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus, starting at 3 p.m., and will include FFA chapters from throughout Southeast Missouri...

(The following "Year in Review" articles were compiled by Sharon Sanders, Southeast Missourian librarian. The remainder of the months will be published in the coming days.) SEPTEMBER 2. Alaska man, claiming police and George Bush were out to kill him, led law enforcement officers on three-county high speed chase Friday that started in Cape Girardeau and ended at Fredericktown Wal-Mart store...

(The following "Year in Review" articles were compiled by Sharon Sanders, Southeast Missourian librarian. The remainder of the months will be published in the coming days.) OCTOBER 1. Despite declining markets for recyclable materials, Southeast Missouri State University continues to move ahead with its recycling program; university has recycling contract with VIP Industries until end of year; VIP, primary processor of recyclable materials in Cape, has announced it will cut back operations because of poor market conditions.. ...