Stories from Wednesday, October 2, 1991

Cape Girardeau resident Julia A. Kridelbaugh returned Tuesday from St. Louis, where she attended the 20th annual Eagle Forum Leadership Conference. The conference was held Sept. 27-29 at the St. Louis Airport Marriott Hotel. Friday night's speaker was national radio talk show host and Cape Girardeau native Rush Limbaugh...

Union Electric is donating the first in a series of eight videocassettes regarding science, medicine and engineering to eight area schools. Schools receiving the videos are Cape Girardeau Central High School, Notre Dame High School, Chaffee High School, Delta High School, Jackson High School, Oran High School, Scott City High School, and Guardian Angel School...

Despite unseasonably cold weather that produced three record-low temperatures, September became the eighth consecutive month this year with above-normal monthly average temperatures, said Al Robertson, professor of earth science and climatologist at Southeast Missouri State University...

Proposition B won't have a major impact on the pocketbooks of most Missouri taxpayers, say proponents of the tax-and-reform measure for education. If voters approve the proposal Nov. 5, it won't mean a "massive raid on their pocketbooks," said Bruce Parrish, faculty chairman on the university's Proposition B task force...

Former U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese and Village Voice writer Nat Hentoff agree on one thing: they have the right to publicly disagree. In a Tuesday debate at Southeast Missouri State University, the two clashed on numerous issues regarding freedom of speech. One of the most heated issues was the regulation of sexually explicit materials...

Patrons of the Cape Girardeau Public Library can now pick up that book they've been wanting to read on Sunday. The library will start Sunday hours beginning next week. "Limited service will be provided from noon to 4 p.m. Sunday," library Director Terry Risko said. "No telephone or reader advisory service will be offered; we'll operate with just enough staff to check books in and out."...

Doug Kaminskey, Cape Girardeau environmental services coordinator, said Tuesday that the first day of citywide recycling service went "better than expected." Kaminskey said collection and sorting of recyclable materials went particularly well. "The trucks and crews are working good," he said. "The biggest problem we're seeing out there is people are unaware of which day is trash day and which is recycling day."...

Cape Girardeau Airport Manager Mark Seesing said Tuesday the airport's sole commercial airline does not intend to leave despite the company's notification that it would end service here. Trans World Express last month filed a letter of notification with the federal Department of Transportation that it intended to end air service to Cape Girardeau. But Seesing told members of the Airport Advisory Board Tuesday that the company is merely seeking subsidy to operate here...

ELAINE MICHELSON Occupation: Office Manager for SEMO Port Authority. Pet Peeve: "People who hear but don't listen." What do you do in your spare time? "Try to spend time with family and friends." Describe your oddest experience: "My wedding. The preacher got a nosebleed and left us at the altar twice!"...

Clarence Haertling, Mel Vogel, Elsie Farrow and Paul Ebaugh are members of the Cape Girardeau chapter of The Mended Hearts who share a common bond: all have undergone open heart surgery at Southeast Missouri Hospital. They and other open heart surgery patients attended the Cape Girardeau chapter of Mended Hearts' annual reunion Tuesday. Prior to the meeting, each talked about their life-saving experience and changed lifestyle...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- A mother and her two young children from Scott Air Force Base, Ill., were injured Monday night when the car they were in collided with a semi-truck on Illinois Route 3, one mile north of here, near the Union-Alexander County line. Illinois State Police at District 22 Headquarters in Ullin said the driver of the car, Dorothy Driscoll, 24, received major injuries and was transported by helicopter to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. ...

Clara Mabry Hutchison, 79, of The Lutheran Home, died Monday, Sept. 30, 1991, there. She was born March 12, 1912, at Jackson, daughter of Henry and Matilda Borgfield Best. She married Frank Mabry Feb. 25, 1943, who died Sept. 8, 1969. She later married Leslie Rister June 1, 1973, who also preceded her in death. She and George Hutchison were married July 4, 1985. He died Oct. 26, 1988...

SCOPUS - Three-year-old Travis Lane Proffer, of Scopus, died in a fire at his home Monday, Sept. 30, 1991. He was born Dec. 23, 1987 at Advance, the son of Randy Gene and Melinda Ann Shanks Proffer. His parents survive. Also surviving are two brothers, Randy Earl Proffer and Michael Wayne Proffer; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Shanks of Route 1, Marble Hill; and the maternal great-grandmother, Ruby Shanks, also of Route 1, Marble Hill...

CANALOU -- Grace Elnora Naney, 83, of Canalou died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1991, at 3 p.m. at her daughter's home in Malden. The body is at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston where arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later.

CHAFFEE -- Oscar McAlister, 85, of Chaffee died Monday, Sept. 30, 1991, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. He was born Jan. 6, 1906 in New Madrid County, the son of James and Pearl Newhouse McAlister. He retired in 1970 as a self-employed farmer. He was also a member of First Baptist Church in Chaffee...

SIKESTON -- Pearl Carter, 95, of Sikeston died Monday, Sept. 30, 1991 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Nov. 16, 1895 in Vanduser, the daughter of William A. Hamilton and Eugenia Grojean Hamilton. On Dec. 24, 1915, she married James T. Carter, who preceded her in death Oct. 6, 1982...

SIKESTON -- LaVerne "Kate" Woods, 57, of South Holland, Ill. and formerly of Sikeston died Monday, Sept. 30, 1991, at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Ill. She was born Oct. 24, 1933, in Bell City, the daughter of the late Gilbert A. and Odena Paul Brewer Clary. On Dec. 30, 1950, she married Oscar M. "Bud" Woods, who survives of the home...

Graveside funeral service for Lloyd D. McNeely will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Pleasant Hill Cemetery in Fruitland with Darris McNeely officiating. A military graveside service will be conducted by VFW Post 3838 of Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at the Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel Wednesday from 4-8 p.m...

SIKESTON -- Kalib Gene King Cook, 7 months old, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Sept. 30, 1991 at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Feb. 26, 1991 in Poplar Bluff, the son of to Danny King of Poplar Bluff and Tina Cook of Sikeston...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Ruth Ann Aden, 50, of Dongola died Tuesday, Oct. 1, 1991, at her home. She was born Aug. 20, 1941, at Dongola, the daughter of Warren and Carmen Manning Henderson, who survive of Dongola. On Nov. 22, 1969, she married Dare Aden, who also survives of the home...

A worker at VIP Industries' sheltered workshop here was identified Tuesday as the fatal victim of a hit-and-run accident early Saturday on Interstate 55 at Arnold. John W. Schlechter, 40, of the Sunshine Villa boarding home in Scott City, was hit by the vehicle as he walked on the shoulder of I-55 just north of Highway 141. The man, who was mentally retarded, was reported missing Friday at about 5 p.m. by VIP Industries' executive director, Hilary Schmittzehe, Cape Girardeau police said...

Area members of the Missouri Petroleum Marketers Association were urged Tuesday to be politically active in order to protect themselves from increasing state and federal regulations. Neal Gibbons of Hayti, a member of the association's board of directors and past president of the group, said that he prefers life as a businessman, not as a lobbyist...

We trust the irony of the goals of the newly-created Missourians For Limited Terms has not been lost on thoughtful citizens. M.F.L.T. has been formed to end forever elitist rule in the chambers of our state legislature and by the 11 men and women who, in varying degrees, represent the citizens of Missouri in the halls of Congress. ...

This Sunday will mark a first for the Cape Girardeau Public Library: the library will open its doors for business. Public requests prompted the library board and its new director, Terry Risko, to initiate Sunday hours. We applaud them for being receptive enough to give Sunday hours a try...

A colleague was scanning the day's headlines earlier this week and shook his head sadly. "I guess they're never going to come out with a report that says American education is great," he said. It was meant, I suppose, as a wry observation, but it sounded almost wistful. His point came through: once a bad rap begins, it's hard to stop it...

Motorists who refuse to wear seat belts cost us all. This fact was confirmed by figures released recently by St. Francis Medical Center. Hospital officials have kept track of uncompensated trauma care from motorists without seat belts or health insurance. These patients amassed unpaid bills of more than $320,000 from July 1, 1990, to June 30, 1991. In comparison, motorists without health care insurance who did wear seat belts accounted for more than $60,000 in uncompensated health care...

Avi is familiar with books and literature; he has served as a college librarian and he is a teacher of children's literature. Avi is also an author who has written several books, including "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle," last year's Newbery Honor Book...

The Heart Institute at St. Francis and Acuson will present a program on "Non-Invasive Vascular Testing: Expand Your Horizons" Thursday. The program will be held in the Department of Education's Conference Room A beginning with registration from 5:30-6 p.m. The program begins at 7 p.m...

A reunion of the H. Christian and Mary Haman Buelteman family will be held Saturday and Sunday at Holiday Inn. Relatives are expected from California, Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Illinois and Arkansas. They plan to visit Grace United Methodist Church, Fairmount Cementer, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau Public Library, older homes and other points of interest...

The Cape County Chapter 16 of Disabled American Veterans will hold their annual For-Get-Me-Not drive Friday and Saturday. Co-chairmen are Norman Wenskay and Edward Segraves. All proceeds will be used for area veterans in need. The little blue flower is to remind the public of injured veterans, a spokesman said...

Beginning in January 1992, Cape Girardeau will start a yearlong celebration to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the establishment of the city, whose uncontested founder was Don Louis Lorimier. He was the first and only commandant appointed by the Spanish regime to govern the District of Cape Girardeau, one of the five original districts of Missouri, founded 1792-93...

Making up words to suit our purpose is one thing, coining them only to be trendy is another. But the habit is infectious, and occasionally we resort to prefixes and suffixes instead of searching for the precise word we want. Just add a ship or a hood, a dom or an ize, a mini or a mega, and presto, we've produced the word we need with a minimum of effort...

A 1990 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University's master's degree program in English was presented the Graduate Council's Excellence in Research Award at a ceremony Friday. Catherine Otto of Cape Girardeau received the award for her thesis titled "Sleepless Nights and Human Endurance: Hemingway's Vision of Despair in Selected Short Stories."...

BELL CITY -- The American Red Cross and Bell City Community Apartments are sponsoring a blood drive Oct. 8 from 2-6 p.m. at Bell City High School. Lorette Stone, blood drive chairman, said, "Many people know someone who has received blood or blood products. They are fortunate that friends, known and unknown, cared enough to give blood."...

Stephanie Leigh McHaney of Cape Girardeau, and Jennifer Lee Priggle of Oran, spent their summer vacations working as interns for U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson in Washington D.C. McHaney is a senior at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., majoring in business administration and Soviet studies...

WAPPAPELLO -- A fall festival will be held Saturday at SEMO Camp Wappapello. There will be a noon meal with barbecue and a fish fry. Beginning at 4 p.m. will be fellowship, games, music and a vesper service. The women are asked to bring their favorite cakes...

OAK RIDGE -- The American Red Cross and Oak Ridge Community High School Student Council will sponsor a blood drive Oct. 10 from 2-7 p.m. at Oak Ridge High School. "People feel a real sense of community at this time of year," said Debbie Rushin, blood drive chairman. "Being there for your friends and neighbors in need is a big part of giving blood. It's nice to see everyone band together."...

CHAFFEE -- A workshop entitled "Helping Children Become Readers and Writers at Home and School" will be held Tuesday at Chaffee Elementary School at 7 p.m. Parents and teachers at Chaffee Elementary School may participate. An afternoon program will also be presented for children on that date. Children's writings from across the United States will be shared...