Stories from Thursday, January 24, 1991

Longhorn Rodeo will be at the Show Me Center for the fourth year in a row Feb. 15-17. One of the first events held at the center after it was built, the rodeo continues to draw large crowds. "We always have good crowds for every performance," said Sheila Lehrke a promoter with the rodeo company. "Ticket sales this year are starting out very good."...

MARION, Ill. -- The Marion Wildcats Junior and Senior High School bands will hold their second annual craft fair at Marion High School March 9-10. Spaces are available for rent. Any crafter or exhibitor interested in more information may contact Vicki Hickey at 816 W. Concord, Marion, Ill. 62959, or call 618-993-2394...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cast paper art works by the artist Tom Lang will be featured at a month-long exhibit at the University Museum Gallery. The exhibit begins Monday and runs through Feb. 28. An opening reception will be held Monday beginning at 3 p.m. at the museum, where visitors will have the opportunity to meet the artist...

ST. LOUIS Illusionist David Copperfield will perform four shows at the Fox Theater Feb. 23 and 24. Show times are Feb. 23 at 5:30 and 9 p.m. and Feb. 24 at 4 and 7:30 p.m. "The Magic of David Copperfield" is sponsored by the Boatmen's Super Set Series...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Eyes, a fast-rising post-punk/psychedelic quartet, will perform live at Southeast Missouri State University Friday at 8 p.m. The concert, sponsored by the Student Activities Council, will be held at Parker Gymnasium. Performing with The Eyes will be The Finns and Farm Accident...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Applications are now available for the 21st Annual Spring Arts and Crafts Fair to be held March 16-17 at the A.C. Brase Arena Building. "Our exhibitors come from as far away as Florida and Texas," said Beverly Strohmeyer, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts, the show's sponsor...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- "We Can Make You Laugh," a comedy club at Southeast Missouri State University, will be held tonight at 8 p.m. at the University Center Ballroom. "We Can Make You Laugh" is a two-hour comedy club show which gives people the opportunity to be a contestant and win $25 and a t-shirt if they can keep from laughing...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A flag ceremony will highlight the commissioning and open house Sunday of the city's $550,000, Number 2 Fire Station at 378 South Mount Auburn Road. A color guard from Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838 and Boy Scouts from Troop 5 will participate in the ceremony, said Fire Chief Gene Hindman...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The former commander of the North American Defense Command said the war in the Persian Gulf is an "entirely different" conflict for U.S. forces than any they've previously fought. But the former commander, retired Gen. Seth McKee, formerly of Cape Girardeau, said Wednesday that if comparisons were made, Operation Desert Storm correlates more with U.S. involvement in World War II than in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Poplar Bluffians Virgie Jaco and Eleanor Buchanan have their eyes and ears glued to Cable News Network, watching and listening to each development in the Persian Gulf. Although the women are interested in the war, the foremost issue on their minds is the welfare of their sons. Both are in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, covering the war for CNN...

CHAFFEE -- Fellow city officials Wednesday remembered long-time Chaffee councilman and businessman Virgil Keith Moore as a special person, who worked hard to pay back the city that gave him his livelihood. The 62-year-old Moore and his wife, Wanda, 59, died Tuesday afternoon when a pickup truck collided head-on with Moore's vehicle on Highway 77 at Oran. Both died instantly...

SGT. PATRICK KEVIN YOUNG U.S. ARMY Sgt. Young is the son of Tim and Carolyn Young of Cape Girardeau. He has been stationed in Saudi Arabia since Jan. 1. Young graduated from Cape Central High School in 1983 and Southeast Missouri State University in 1987, with a bachelor's degree in geography/cartography...

It might be argued that Missourians would be ahead if they closed down Jefferson City and divided the state's expected $9 billion for the next fiscal year on a per capita basis. That would mean each man, woman and child would receive a check for $1,772.09 for the fiscal period starting July 1...

The Persian Gulf war has entered its second week and by varying accounts the United States and its allies are: A.) proceeding on course in their expulsion of Iraq from Kuwait, or, B.) confounded by the persistence of Saddam Hussein's forces in defending their commandeered property. ...

To the Editor: In the Sunday, Jan. 20, 1991 comic section, Trudeau's Doonesbury strip had a drawing of Barbara Boopstein posing as a pin-up girl for Operation Desert Shield. It appears she was supposed to topless, and dressed in a marine uniform. No doubt the boys would like it!...

To the Editor: This is to the protesters of the Gulf war. I have noted in the TV reports they are mostly too young to have experienced Vietnam for the most part. They have a right to their opinion, but before they go too far I would like to give them the benefits of an eighty-year-old man's experience...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A memorial service for Mary Frances Patricia Daly Beatty, 2106 Sherwood, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Christ Episcopal Church. The Rev. Charles Brumbaugh will officiate. Mrs. Beatty, 76 years old, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 1990, at St. Luke's Emergency Medical Center in Solon, Ohio, from injuries received in an automobile accident in Solon...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Albert Louis Schloss of Jackson will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday at Emanuel United Church of Christ. The Rev. Sam Roethemeyer will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m. today...

JACKSON -- Memorial service for Mrs. Elfrieda Sanders of Columbia, S.C., was held Monday at Dunbar Funeral Chapel in Columbia. Mrs. Sanders, 57 years old, died Saturday, Jan. 19, 1991, in a Columbia hospital. She was born Sept. 5, 1933, in Chicago, daughter of Arthur L. and Frieda Lindner McMillan. She graduated from Jackson High School, and retired from Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau because of ill health...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral mass for Chaffee City Councilman Virgil Keith Moore and his wife, Wanda Lee Moore, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Ambrose Catholic Church. The Rev. Michael McDivitt will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the church after 3 p.m. today. The rosary will be recited at 7...

McCLURE, Ill. Funeral service for John William Rhymer of McClure will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel in Cape Girardeau, Mo. The Revs. Greg Morrison, Terry Burchyett and Art Kelley will officiate. Burial will be in Lindsey Cemetery here...

EAST PRAIRIE -- The Rev. Orby Ray Beard, 79, of Dyersburg, Tenn., formerly of East Prairie, died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1990 at the Methodist Hospital in Dyersburg, following an extended illness. He was born Sept. 29, 1911 in Columbia, Ky., to the late Rudolph and Clemie White Beard. He married Edith Webb on Aug. 26, 1936 in Grange City, Ky. She survives...

ALTENBURG - Edgar A. Haertling of Altenburg died Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1991 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was 89. Haertling was born Dec. 1, 1901 at New Wells, the son of the late Oswald and Augusta Pfeiffer Haertling. He married Hertha Ruehling on Sept. 21, 1924. She survives, along with sons Norman Haertling of Altenburg; Leonard Haertling of Nashville, Ill.; and Edgar Haertling of Steelville, Ill...

EAST PRAIRIE - East Prairie resident Juanita Howard, 77, died Tuesday, Jan. 22, 1991 in Montevallo, Ala. Howard died at the home of her son-in-law and daughter, Allan and Jeanne Webster. She was born Aug. 8, 1913 in Cooter, daughter of the late David and Emma Fowler Cranford. On July 22, 1943, she married Eugene G. Howard. He died Aug. 30, 1977...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Reggie Hopwood, 3102 Dogwood, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:09 a.m. Friday, Jan. 11, 1991. Name, Nicholas Graham. Weight, 7 pounds 4 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Hopwood is the former Kandi Demaree, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Demaree of Malden. Hopwood is owner of Cape Central Airways, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hopwood of Malden...

SCOTT CITY - At least 30 contractors have expressed an interest in bidding on the first phase of a project for the construction of a rail spur into the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. Executive Director Allan Maki said Wednesday that 30 contractors had requested plans and specifications for the work, and he was "encouraged by the large number of inquiries."...

I WOULD LIKE to express thanks to the Cape Police Department and the university's Department of Public Safety for responding so quickly to the call that my son was missing. They found him within minutes. Thanks. SPEAK OUT, I think the people of the United States need to remember what John F. ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A beginning Experience Weekend, designed to help divorced, widowed and separated persons start a new beginning, is scheduled Feb. 22-24 at Perryville. In the program, a trained team leads participants through the simple program of presentations followed by private reflection and dialogue...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A program aimed at reducing heart attack risk from high blood cholesterol is now available at St. Francis Medical Center. The Eater's Choice Cholesterol Treatment Program starts Monday and continues until March 4. Program sessions will be held in the hospital's conference rooms from 7 to 8:30 p.m...