Stories from Wednesday, August 28, 1991

Dr. Bridget F. Ostrow will discuss cartoid artery disease on this week's Ask Your Doctor program. Ask Your Doctor airs weekly on Thursday night at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13. The program features local doctors answering questions from viewers who call in...

Fall semester undergraduate enrollment is up slightly at Southeast Missouri State University, but total enrollment decreased, university officials said Tuesday. Headcount enrollment declined by 95, but undergraduate enrollment increased by 71 and total full-time equivalent enrollment (FTE) was up by 44 over last fall's first-day enrollment, university officials said...

A new state law allowing 15-year-olds to get a driving permit should relieve parents who might otherwise illegally let their children grab some experience behind the wheel, a Cape Central High School drivers education instructor says. "I know that many parents illegally let their sons or daughters drive on parking lots or county roads and there's a tremendous fear of them getting caught or an accident happening," said the instructor, Dick Wadlington...

MURPHYSBORO, Ill. - A smaller and better-behaved crowd gathered inside the Shawnee National Forest Tuesday to protest logging there, far different from a day before when 17 people were arrested and one person was injured. The objectors are opposed to East Perry Lumber Co.'s cut of 141 acres of the forest at a spot seven miles south of Murphysboro, near the Fairview Church...

Bar codes, scanners and automatic sorters are the wave of the future for the Postal Service, and the future is almost here for mail operations in Southeast Missouri. "We expect to be in our new, central processing center at Cape Girardeau by Nov. 2," said Larry Shafer, account representative for the Postal Service. "New equipment is arriving every day for the operation."...

CHARLESTON -- A group of about 30 government and economic development officials met here Tuesday to discuss how best to help ease the blow of Brown Shoe Co.'s planned closure of four Southeast Missouri facilities. As many as 1,400 employees will be out of work within the next three months. Brown Shoe plans to close factories in Charleston, Bernie and Fredericktown and a warehouse in Caruthersville...

Southeast Missouri State University's Faculty Senate will be pushing for passage of Proposition B, the tax-hike and education-reform package that will be submitted to Missouri voters in November. "Obviously, we're going to be real concerned with passage of Proposition B," said Allen Gathman, the new chairman of Faculty Senate...

JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County's assessed valuation will top $450 million this year, and, if maintained for five years, would raise the county to first-class status. Assessor Jerry Reynolds on Thursday will bring the Board of Equalization to a close, which is the last step in the process of finalizing real estate property values for this year. ...

BRENDA SCHLOSS Occupation: Administrative secretary, city of Cape Girardeau. Pet Peeves: "People who litter, someone calling me `honey' or `hon,' rude, pushy people and slow drivers." What do you do in your spare time: "Exercise! It's my favorite thing to do in the owrld (other than hang out with my three daughters and husband)."...

A faulty steam turbine at Southeast Missouri State University's power plant forced power to be shut off to the Greek Housing complex for more than eight hours Monday, university officials said. Kenneth Dobbins, vice president for finance and administration, said Union Electric Co., apparently had a problem at one of its generating plants...

Funeral service for Mary Frissell Evans of Eldon will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the family home of Elmwood in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Harvel R. Sanders will officiate, with interment in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at Elmwood after 5 p.m. today...

BENTON -- United States Secretary of Agriculture Ed Madigan will be feature speaker during the Farm Bureau appreciation dinner to be held at Benton Sept. 5. Other speakers during the dinner, to be held at Robert's Restaurant, include U.S. Congressman Bill Emerson (R-Cape Girardeau), who will be conducting his annual Agricultural Tour next week, and Roger Wilson (D-Columbia), representing the 19th state senatorial district...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Darren McCallister of Whitewater Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, 1991. Name, Jessica Sue. Weight, 6 pounds 1 ounce. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. McCallister is the former Patricia Chapman, daughter of Alfred and Juanita Chapman of Jackson Route 2. She is a dental assistant for Dr. William B. King. McCallister is a counterman at B&B Auto, and is the son of John and Pat McCallister of Gordonville Route 3...

Alberta Furry, 76, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Aug. 26, 1991, at her home. She was born Oct. 2, 1914, at Flat River, daughter of Willis and Effie Whitehead. She married Amel E. Furry on Jan. 18, 1934 in St. Charles. He died July 27, 1979. Among the survivors are one daughter, Joan Mackey, Boone, N.C.; one brother, James Whitehead, Gainesville, Fla; and two granddaughters, Karissa Teague and Alisha Mackey, both of Boone...

Dammie Graves, 78, Fountainbleau Lodge, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

ANNA, Ill. -- Carl R. Wright, 63, Anna Route 1, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1991, at his home. He was born Sept. 29, 1927, in Jonesboro, son of Fred and Lillie Shepard Wright. He and Betty Jane Henderson were married in 1949 in Osceola, Ark. Wright was a carpenter, and veteran of World War II...

SIKESTON -- Aimee E. Miller, 45, of Sikeston, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1991, at the home of her parents in Morehouse. She was born March 29, 1946, in Sikeston, daughter of Donald E. and Winifred E. Turner Hammock. She married Ron Miller July 11, 1975, in Sikeston...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Frances McKinney, 79, of Cairo, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1991, at Cape LaCroix in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born May 31, 1912, in Miller City, daughter of Henry and Minnie Foster Mulcahy. She married William H. McKinney, who died in 1987...

BELL CITY -- Dareyl D. Henry, 24, of Bell City, was dead on arrival Saturday, Aug. 25, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He had been stabbed. He was born Oct. 4, 1966, in Advance, son of George Howard Henry Jr. and Fannie May Cook...

The Cape Civic Center, 232 Broadway, and the Futrell-Sterling 4-H Club will sponsor a "Back to School Day" Saturday at the civic center. The event will be held from 1-4:30 p.m. and all students are invited to attend. Refreshments and "School Start Packs," with paper, pencils and pens, will be furnished...

JACKSON - The Jackson R-2 Board of Education expressed concern and frustration Tuesday over a rising student-teacher ratio in elementary classrooms for the new school year. The board also heard more information on the Proposition B Economic Survival Act (for schools) of 1991 that could help reduce class sizes. The proposal will go to voters in November...

Economic theory has always been elusive to me. It was never my strong suit in high school and college classes. I recall something about a guy named Adam Smith. Some worshipped him as a god; others found him full of beans. ~I remained indifferent. Anything more complex than the little ledger in front of the checkbook baffles me. Money goes in, money goes out. At times, simple...

Among the more than 8,300 students at Southeast Missouri State University this fall are 350 international students. About 50 of those are new to the campus this fall. We welcome these foreign students to the city, and hope they will enjoy Cape Girardeau hospitality...

KENNETT -- Missouri's cotton crop has been described as "The good, the bad and the ugly.' "The good is represented by most of the irrigated acreage and some non-irrigated cotton that had sufficient natural rainfall," said Michael R. Milarn, agronomy specialists at the Dunklin County University Extension Center in Kennett. "I have seen several field that have excellent yield potential, and may yield over two bales an acre."...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Three new varieties of soybeans have been introduced by the Missouri Agriculture Experiment Stations and all three offer promise of better yields to growers. Sam Anand, soybean breeder at the University of Missouri Delta Center, developed and released the new varieties and will introduce them to grower Sept. 5, at the Delta Center Field Day...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. More than 34,000 Future Farmers of America (FFA) members, supporters, advisers and guests are expected to attend the 64th National FFA Convention to be held Nov. 13-16 in Kansas City. A variety of topics will be discussed during the four-day session...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Sen. Christopher S. Bond, Rep. Bill Emerson, Missouri Director of Agriculture Tim Kelley and University of Missouri curators will be special guests during the 30th annual Delta Center Field Day, to be held here Sept. 5. `Research and Extension for the 21st Century' will be the theme of the day-long event. Cotton production, corn and grain sorghum development, rice and soybean production are among topics to be discussed during the event...

SIKESTON -- The nation's surge of patriotism following the Persian Gulf War, organizers say, promises a good crowd for the "Moving Wall" Vietnam Veterans memorial, which will be on display in Sikeston Sept. 18-23. The wall is being brought to town by the Sikeston Jaycees and an organization called Firebase Sikeston, established specifically to bring the wall to Sikeston...

Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Betty A. and Robert R. Herzog to Brian K. and Sharon D. Pickens; Ruth Anne LeGrand to Jean E. Benton. Dennis J. and Sharon E. Scherer to Tom and Karen Mogelnicki; Greedwood Land Company to James J. and Esther B. Ressel; Judith K. and Phillip E. Rose to Milford P. and Mary E. Kirn...

On a hot summer day a cold sweet Missouri watermelon, recently picked, shipped, and properly chilled is so delicious the pleasure it gives to the person eating it is difficult to explain. Although Missouri grows a large crop of watermelons annually, the state as a national supplier ranks about 10th. But that isn't the ranking in taste tests...there Missouri is right at the top...