Stories from Friday, October 4, 1991

ULLIN, Ill. -- Frances Gertrude Brust, 81, of Ullin, died Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991, at Carbondale Memorial Hospital. She was baorn Dec. 27, 1909, at Mt. Carmel, daughter of Leo and Rose Moeller Brust. Brust was a member of Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Ullin...

People say computers are lifeless entities. I'm not so sure. If you work a lot around computers, you will know those times when the machine won't go forward, won't go backward, won't react to any of your commands. It is the closest thing one can find in technology to resemble an anxiety attack. The computer freezes, buffaloed perhaps by its own curious existence, and can only be brought around by turning the power off, then on...

Laughter is in order at Southeast Missouri State University Saturday night as "Comedy Night at the Show Me Center" will be held as part of campus Family Weekend festivities. The evening of entertainment begins at 8 p.m. Joe Marlotti, a University of Missouri graduate now on the midwestern comedy circuit, will be master of ceremonies for the evening. Other stand-up comics on the bill are Buzz Sutherland and Mary Rowles...

SIKESTON -- A Memory Walk to benefit the Alzheimer's Association will be held in Sikeston Saturday under the sponsorship of Delta Gamma chapter of Beta Sgima Phi. The walk will be held rain or shine at the Sikeston Sports Complex from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m...

The Sofia Chamber Orchestra with soloist Leland Chen will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday at Academic Auditorium, sponsored by the Community Concert Association. A Bulgarian ensemble, the orchestra is in the midst of a North American tour, under the direction of conductor Plamen Djurov. Their repertoire of more than 250 works include the Baroque and Romantic, the Vienna classics and the contemporary...

Seven years ago David Steelman was serving his third term in the Missouri House of Representatives and his second term as the top Republican leader in the House. He was regarded as one of the party's rising young stars. But after the end of his term in 1984, Steelman chose to leave public office and return to private law practice. Now, the 38-year-old Rolla attorney says he's ready to come back and hopes to be elected attorney general next year...

A 10-year-old Cape Girardeau girl was injured when a playmate accidentally shot her in the head with a BB gun, police said Thursday. The playmate, an 11-year-old neighbor boy, was referred to juvenile authorities. The shooting occurred Tuesday at 6:45 p.m. in the 200 block of Marlin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - A research grant for the University of Missouri's Delta Center at Portageville won approval here Thursday, Congressman Bill Emerson said. The House-Senate conference on the Agriculture Appropriations Act of 1992 allocated $359,000 for research of a soybean pest, the soybean cyst nematode, at the Portageville laboratory. Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, requested the funding through the House Appropriations Committee earlier this year...

Southeast Missouri State University's football team reaches the halfway point of its inaugural Division I-AA season this weekend. The Indians are winless on the gridiron, a circumstance probably not satisfactory to anyone associated with the team. However, enthusiasts of university athletics have shown few signs of being discouraged by these early setbacks ... ...

SIKESTON -- Suzanne Lyn McCullough, 41, of rural Sikeston died Wednesday, Oct. 2, 1991, at University Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Aug. 16, 1950, in Santa Monica, Calif., the daughter of Jeanne Maxwell Burchfield, who survives of Sikeston, and the late Paul House...

CHARLESTON -- James Ashley, 68, of Charleston died Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 25, 1923, in Obion County, Tenn., the son of the late Elvin Howard and Fannie Ing Ashley. On Oct. 18, 1942, he married Opal R. Williams, who survives of the home...

ORAN -- Catherine Schott, 76, Oran Route 1, died Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991, at her home. She was born Feb. 6, 1915, at Kelso, daughter of Louis and Catherine Heisserer Burger. She married John Schott May 14, 1935. Schott was a member of Guardian Angel Catholic Church and St. Ann's Sodality, Oran Senior Citizens Club, and Oran KCetts Council 4311...

JACKSON -- Lloyd Schoenebeck, 77, of rural Jackson died Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 13, 1913, near Oak Ridge, the son of Joseph and Emma Ludwig Schoenebeck. On May 24, 1942, he married Louise Daume, who preceded him in death Sept. 13, 1984...

Funeral service for Sylvester Presberry, 1023 N. Frederick, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at New Bethel Baptist Church. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate. Burial will be at a later date. Friends may call at the church from 11 a.m. until time of service...

ADVANCE -- Allie Croy, 90, Advance Route 1, died Thursday, Oct. 3, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Dec. 22, 1900, near Advance, daughter of Riley and Mary Dennis McKinney. She married Ross R. Croy Dec. 29, 1919. He died May 23, 1983...

WENATCHEE, Wash. Paul Stroder, 66, formerly of Whitewater, died Tuesday in Wenatchee, Wash. Funeral services and burial will be held today in Wenatchee. He was born Aug. 11, 1925 in Crump to Lee and Effie McElreath Stroder. He had lived in Washington state for 30 years...

Tot M. "Jack" Pender, 89, of Lakeland, Fla., died Monday, Sept. 30, 1991, at Froedtert Memorial Lutheran Hospital in Milwaukee, Wis. He was born in Illinois, son of Richard and Alice Pender. He married the former Myrle G. Grayum of Bernie. Pender worked at International Shoe Co. here, moving away in 1939. He then worked at Marion Shoe Co., and the City of Marion, Ind. During World War II he was an inspector for the U.S. Government in Charlestown, Ind...

Organizers of the Friends of Old Lorimier Cemetery fund-raising campaign are hoping to have enough money by the end of the month to erect a security fence around the vandalism-plagued site. The city's Historic Preservation Commission and Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, in cooperation with the city's historical association, next week will begin to solicit donations for the fence...

Susan Harrison had trouble collecting child support from her ex-husbands and she got mad. Harrison has two sons, ages 5 and 12. Each boy has a different father, and Harrison has had trouble collecting court-ordered child support from both men. Harrison is helping form a local chapter of an advocacy group called ACES, Association for Children for Enforcement of Support...

Deadbeat dads who shirk child support payments beware Rebecca Ward is watching. Ward, supervisor of the Child Support Enforcement Unit in Southeast Missouri, and her 44 investigators are handling 55,000 cases in the 16 counties from Franklin County to the Arkansas border...

Citing the need for educational reform, the board of directors of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Proposition B. Missouri voters will decide the fate of the tax-and-reform measure for education in a Nov. 5 election. Robert Hendrix, president of the chamber of commerce, said Thursday that the 18-member board voiced unanimous support for the measure at its August meeting. But the board's endorsement was not publicly disclosed at that time...

Recognition of existing business is the most important thing a community can do to create and maintain growth, Missouri's top economic development official said Thursday. "Growth throughout the state is due to existing businesses," said Carl M. Koupal Jr., director of the Department of Economic Development...

If you've had children for any length of time, this is what you know about parenting: you might do it well at times, but you can never do it right. The distinction there is fine but quite tangible. Parenting and perfection are not congruent states, yet the children caught in this exercise of inadequacy most often abide and endure this condition. ...

The Cape Girardeau County Historical Society will meet Oct. 12 at 3 p.m. at the Bollinger Mill at Burfordville, announced Sam Beggs of the society. Society members will tour the mill at about 3 p.m., he said. After the tour, they will be treated to barbecue sandwiches, chips and apple cider, said Beggs...

MARBLE HILL -- VIP Industries has opened a new semi-independent apartment complex here as part of a move to provide housing for the handicapped. The facility, called Regency House of Marble Hill, is a 15-unit complex for the mentally retarded, developmentally disabled and physically handicapped...

The empty food shelves at Bethesda Fellowship, 14 N. Sprigg, are being replenished. The fellowship, which has given away food and clothing to the needy for five years, has received enough donations to stay open and will not be forced to close as was reported on Sept. 19...

WAPPAPELLO -- Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) biologists area concerned about the future of largemouth bass in Wappapello Lake. A meeting will be held at the Wappapello Civic Center here at 7 p.m. Oct. 10 to discuss the bass fishery at the lake...

PUXICO -- Self-guided auto tours will be available at Mingo National Wildlife Refuge each Sunday during October and November, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.. The tour route starts at the Mingo Visitor Center, a mile and a half north of Puxico, on Highway 51, and end at the Redmill Drive exit to Highway 51. The 25-mile route is mostly gravel and usually takes about two hours to drive...

WICKLIFFE, Ky. Westvaco Corporation, a major manufacturer of paper, packaging and chemical products, recently held a joint meeting with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to announce and kick off the establishment of the Westvaco Wildlife Management Area...

ROLLA -- The Missouri Conservation Commission has added more than 1,200 acres to its property list. The commission approved purchases of: Three acres on Roubidoux Creek in Pulaski County, for a public fishing access. 347 acres in Ste. Genevieve County as addition to Magnolia Hollow State Forest...

FAIRFAX -- Clarence Kerr recently reeled in a fish that broke a 30-year state record. Kerr caught a 103-pound blue catfish from the Missouri River in Atchison County. His catch broke the old state record of 71 pounds, 7 ounces set by Howard Keppel, Kansas City, on Oct. 8, 1960. This is the first record fish for Kerr, who caught the 55 3/4-inch catfish on 25-pound-test line, with a frog for bait...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar has signed into law a bill which will allow the Department of Conservation to extend goose hunting hours during special seasons, or special periods during the regular hunting season in the four county Alexander, Union, Jackson and Williamson Quota Zone of Southern Illinois...