Stories from Sunday, September 22, 1991

JACKSON -- Walter W. Blumenberg, 96, of Jackson, died Thursday, Sept. 19, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 1, 1894, at Allenville, son of Louis and Mary Herzog Blumenberg. He and Alta Kinder were married Oct. 18, 1922, at Jackson...

The Cape County Swingers of Jackson are offering square dancing lessons on Sunday evenings, beginning tonight. The lessons will be held in the basement of St. Paul Lutheran School from 7-9:30 p.m. Parking is in the rear. Organizers say square dancing is an aerobic activity that is also enjoyable. Square dancing offers participants a chance to walk three to five miles in an evening of dancing...

JEFFERSON CITY - State Rep. Gene Copeland, D-New Madrid, has been named chairman of House members on a joint legislative committee that will study credit life insurance. The panel will decide whether legislation is necessary to regulate credit life insurance policies in Missouri. In 1989, $52.4 million in credit life premiums were underwritten in Missouri...

The laboratory at Southeast Missouri Hospital has been awarded a two-year accreditation by the Commission on Laboratory Accreditation of the College of American Pathologists, based on results of a recent on-site inspection. Southeast's lab is one of more than 4,000 CAP-accredited laboratories nationwide. The accreditation program began in the 1960s and is recognized by the federal government as being equal or more stringent than the government's own inspection program...

Two Southeast Missouri State University students will challenge two British scholars Monday in a debate about censorship. "There is No Sense in Censorship" is the topic of the debate, scheduled to start at 7 p.m. in the Kent Little Theatre on campus...

Professor Frank Nickell, director of the Center for Regional History at Southeast Missouri State University, offered us some interesting information in a news release this week. These folks have secured a $1550 grant from the Missouri Humanities Council to study the "Great Books that Made a Difference"...

SOME PEOPLE NEED to get a dictionary and look up the definitions of the words "idea" and "ideal". These words are not interchangeable. You don't say, "I don't have any ideal." I don't understand how people that use the word "ideal" for "idea" can keep on doing it when they hear other people saying it right. I guess they think we're the stupid ones...

BELL CITY -- Eura Jewell Breedlove, 56, of Bell City, died Friday, Sept. 20, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 24, 1934, in Morrilton, Ark., daughter of Major Jordan and Ella Clowers. She married Charlie Andrew Breedlove July 21, 1952. He survives...

The furor over a local group's request that a channel devoted to rock music videos, MTV, be removed from cable service has subsided, at least for a while. Though the matter may not be settled in some minds, the controversy has given rise to a wide range of opinions on lofty subjects such as the enforcement of community standards and the abrogation of free expression. ...

PERRYVILLE -- Lela M. Diefenbach, 87, of Perryville died Saturday, Sept 21, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 10, 1904, at Red Bud, Ill., the daugher of Henry and Caroline Henschen Rabe. On Oct. 16, 1926, she married John H. Diefenbach, who preceded her in death Oct. 14, 1970...

JACKSON -- Phyllis Rae White, 60, of Route 4 Jackson died Friday, Sept. 20, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 23, 1930, at Jackson, the daughter of August and Opal Seabaugh Friedrich. She attended Jackson schools, before moving to Atlanta, Ga., where she owned and operated a bridal shop for many years. She returned to Jackson in 1975...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral services for Carl E. W. Mantel, 74, of Chaffee, were held Saturday at the Calvary Baptist Church in Chaffee. The Rev. B. G. Corn and Rev. Lynn Corn officiated. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Mantel died Thursday, Sept. 19 at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

MARBLE HILL -- Arl (Dose) Kinder, 82, of Marble Hill, died Friday, Sept. 20, 1991, at Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. He was born Sept. 15, 1909, at Gordonville, son of George Kinder and Cora Filty Kinder. He married Beulah Irene Gibins in Allenville...

SCOTT CITY -- Herman Asbury Jacobs of Scott City died at Southeast Missouri Hospital Saturday, Sept. 21, 1991. He was born Aug. 31, 1932 at Commerce, Mo., son of Leslie Herman Jacobs and Emma Irene Osborn Jacobs. He was married Jan. 31, 1959 at Kelso. His wife, Lavana Faye Jacobs, preceded him in death...

SIKESTON -- Mary Frances Middleton, 74, of Washington, D.C., formerly of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Sept. 18, 1991, at the Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C. She was born June 26, 1917 at Caruthersville, daughter of George Thomas and Nina Catherine Byrne Middleton...

Mary Ellen Miesner died Friday, Sept. 20, 1991, at her home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 13, 1923 at Charleston, daughter of Murray and Mary Baker Grace. She married Cletus H. (Heinie) Miesner on July 30, 1949 at Jackson. He preceded her in death on July 21, 1982...

PERRYVILLE -- Melvin T. Schuessler, 73, of Perryville died Friday, Sept. 20, 1991, at the Chester Memorial Hospital in Chester, Ill. He was born July 25, 1918, at Farrar, the son of the late Martin H. and Hedwig M. Mangles Schuessler. On Nov. 17, 1956, he married Evelyn V. Kaiser, who survives...

The fifth annual reunion of employees of the former Jackson Hosiery Mill was held Sept. 14 at Cape Girardeau County Park, with a basket dinner served at noon. Those attending from out of state travelled from Athens, Tenn., Paducah, Ky., Tyler, Texas, and Nashville, Ill...

On certain days each year at the Evangelical United Church of Christ, they come and cook apple butter. They cut up raw apples (55 bushels of them), build fires in small pits in the ground and use home-made paddles to stir the bubbling fruit to prevent scorching in the huge copper kettles...

WASHINGTON -- A year-long struggle in the U.S. Senate to save from elimination the 1140th Combat Engineer Battalion at Cape Girardeau and other Missouri Army National Guard units ended in success on Friday. The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a measure that maintains the nationwide structure and level of the Guard forces in the 1992 defense budget...

JACKSON -- Private and parochial school officials should think twice before asking the federal government for financial assistance, says U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson. Emerson discussed the proposal of tuition tax credits for parents sending children to private schools during a visit to Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Jackson Friday ...

Input into the future of Missouri transportation is the focus of a public meeting that will be held in Cape Girardeau Oct. 8. The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. at Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau. The meeting had been scheduled, then postponed, on a previous date...

The Midwestern River Cities Chapter of the American Association for Medical Transcription will meet Thursday in the Harrison Room at Southeast Missouri Hospital. The meeting is at 6 p.m. Pharmacist James Hendrickson will speak on "Generic Versus Name Brand Drugs and Overview of Over the Counter Drugs...

COLUMBIA -- The Southeast Missourian won first place in the General Excellence category for medium-sized daily newspapers in the 1991 Missouri Press Foundation Better Newspaper Contest. The Missourian also won third place in the general category of "Best News Content," behind the Kansas City Star and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and third place in the "Special Section" category, behind the Post-Dispatch and the Springfield News-Leader...

Autumn makes its debut here Monday morning, but the chances of a colorful fall in the woods and forests of Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois are not promising at this time, according to a horticulturist at Southeast Missouri State University...

The United States Post Office wants everyone, especially children, to write more letters. To promote this, National Card and Letter-Writing Week is Sept. 22-28. "It is a nationwide program to promote letter writing," said Larry Shafer, marketing account representative of the Cape Girardeau Post Office...

When something good happens that we can see and hear and feel emotionally its effect goes on and on like the waves in a boundless pool of water when a rock is dropped in. Such was the effect of the TV mini-series, Civil War. If anything good came out of that war besides the end of slavery, it has been the review of this dismal affair on this series which has reinforced our national, although unofficial, vow to "never again."...

For 75 years, Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. has practiced law in Cape Girardeau. At 99 years of age, he is reported to be the oldest practicing attorney in Missouri. On Friday, he will celebrate his 100th birthday. Fittingly, that will occur during the annual Missouri Bar Association meeting in Kansas City, where he will be honored by the profession he so dearly loves...

Cooler weather is turning gardeners thoughts to moving their houseplants that have been on vacation outside, back into the house for the coming winter. It seems moving time rolls around so much sooner than it used to. It was only a short time ago that we took all those potted plants from the garden room to spend their vacation time in the shade of the trees in the yard...

The CyberTel Cellular Telephone Co. of Southeast Missouri has moved into its new facility at the intersection of Kingshighway and Broadway. CyberTel, headquartered in St. Louis, had been operating out of temporary quarters in two locations, 106 Farrar and 2410 William, since It opened operations in Cape Girardeau in May of this year...

Christmas-season activity including wholesale/retail construction, manufacturing and services are expected to keep employment in three Southeast Missouri counties at near current levels throughout the fourth quarter of 1991. This is the projection of a fourth quarter employment outlook survey, conducted by Manpower, Inc., a temporary help firm...

PADUCAH, Ky. The new Paducah Information Age Park has its first tenant CSI, a computer firm from Paducah. Executives and officials from South Central Bell, the Commonwealth of Kentucky, University of Kentucky and the Tennessee Valley Authority, met with representatives from CSI, and other representatives from Paducah and McCracken County here Wednesday to announce the launching of a high-tech communications park at Paducah...

M.J.'s on Main, a jewelry and accessories store, opened recently at 108 N. Main. "We're wholesalers," said Mary Jo Richmond, president of M.J.'s Fashion Accessories Inc., headquartered in Dexter. "We call on retailers throughout the United States. We have an outlet store in Dexter, and decided to put one in Cape Girardeau, where the public may buy jewelry wholesale."...

SIKESTON -- The new Wal-Mart store at 1303 S. Main is now open in Sikeston, and plans are under way for "grand opening" of the firm's 120,162 square foot faciltiy. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. executives will be on hand to participate in a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 9 a.m. Oct. 1...

Elsie's Crafts and Gifts Shop is now open at 250 West Park Mall. "This is the first time I've had a store in the mall," said Elsie Eggimann, owner of the business which offers hand crafted items and custom floral arrangements. Eggimann points out, however, that she is no stranger to the mall...

Larry Miller, president of First National Bank in Cape Girardeau, has announced the appointments of three persons Richard Allgood, Betty Lou Vogel, and Janet Esicar to positions of customer service officers. Allgood has more than 21 years' experience in the banking industry, including trust operation, investments, commercial and consumer lending development...

Homedco has moved into its new facilities, in a new building, located just south of its old quarters at 1749 Independence Street. "The new building gives us three times our previous warehouse space," said Jim Dillon, manager of the Cape Girardeau branch of Homedco, formerly National Medical Homecare...

Attorney Dale E. Gerecke attended the Annual Family Law Institute at Clayton recently, sponsored by the Missouri Bar Association. A significant part of the program was devoted to a discussion of "domestic torts," or cause of action that can or must be joined by a spouse in a dissolution of marriage proceeding. The seminar provided a close look at recent court decisions and statutory revisions in the constantly changing field of divorce and family law...

Paul L. Berens, a partner in the Cape Girardeau law firm of Finch, Bradshaw, Strom & Steel, will participate in a panel discussion during the Missouri Bar Association's annual meeting, to be held Sept. 26-28 at Kansas City. Berens, and Judge Karen M. ...

Mark Owens of Sikeston has joined Square One Electronics as a bench technician. Gary Slaubaugh, owner of Square One, 1749 N. Kingshighway, announced Owens' appointment this week. Owens has three years' experience in the electronics repair industry, including repair of printed circuit boards and trouble shooting on the component level...

Thomas M. Meyer has been elected state treasurer of the Missouri Association of Realtors. Meyer, of Thomas L. Meyer Realty & Insurance, 230 N. Sprigg, and his wife, Mary E. Meyer, attended the annual MAR Convention, held at Lake of the Ozarks recently...

Leni Fluegge of Jackson was winner of a smile contest sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Dental Society during the SEMO District Fair. More than 30 participants, ranging in age from 4 to 12, entered the competition. Second prize went to Lauren Froemsdorf of Jackson; Valerie Petzoldt was third and Tiffany Wills of Perryville, fourth...

Counseling Resources is now open at 2008 William St. The new counseling service will be a limited private practice. "I have been involved in counseling a number of years," said Ann Puryear-Johnson, a licensed professional counselor. "I am licensed by the state of Missouri, and have been certified by the National Board of Certified Counselors, a private certifying agency."...

Any business that receives more than $10,000 in cash in a single transaction or in at least two related transactions must promptly report these payments to the Internal Revenue Service. People in the real estate business, coin dealers, attorneys, and retailers of such big-ticket items as cars, trucks, boats, jewelry, and furs are often affected by this reporting requirement. ...

The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, 301 N. Clark, will offer `Situational Management Styles,' starting Sept. 24. The course is designed to increase communication skills and develop effective management styles regardless of situations...

PADUCAH, Ky. The Bluegrass Downs track here has shown an increase in attendance and handle for the recently completed Ellis Park thoroughbred meet. General Manager Harold Weaver said that this is the fourth meet this year that has registered an increase over the same meet in 1990. The attendance figures showed an increase of 25 percent over 1990 and the handle was up 28 percent over the 1990 Ellis Park meet...

ST. LOUIS - Boatmen's Bancshares, Inc., one of the nation's 40 biggest bank holding companies, announced plans Thursday to buy a small Oklahoma City-based bank for $32 million. The deal for Founder's Bancorporation, Inc., which has assets of about $330 million, is the second foray into Oklahoma in the past two years for the St. Louis-based bank...

During a one-week survey in July of this year, there were 3.68 million people working on the nation's farms and ranches. Self-employed farm operators accounted for 1.58 million of the total workers. Farm operators paid their hired workers an average wage of $5.57 per hour, up 27 cents from a year ago. Benefits such as housing and meals were provided to 38 percent of the hired workers...

"How to Comply with Hazardous Wastes Laws" will be the theme of a hazardous waste law seminar to be conducted at the Victorian Inn at Cape Girardeau Sept. 26, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The course, sponsored by Safety-Kleen Corp., is designed as a practical guide for understanding the intent and specifications of environmental law, and the penalties that may be incurred for non-compliance...

Coins, stamps, baseball cards, currency, and jewelry collectibles will be on display during the Quality Collectors Show, to be held at the Holiday Inn, I-55 and Route K, Sept. 27-29. Admission is free. Hours for the show will be noon to 6 p.m. Sept. 27; 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sept. 28, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 29...

The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School, 301 N. Clark, will offer `Professional Speaking," starting Sept. 24. The course is designed to teach the speaker how to organize, develop and deliver a speech with impact. The class will meet for 10 weeks each Tuesday, 6 to 8 p.m...