Stories from Sunday, October 27, 1991

NEW WELLS - Eldor Haertling, 87, died at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau Friday, Oct. 25, 1991. He was born May 8, 1904 in New Wells to William and Agnes Jahn Haertling. On Nov. 20, 1927, he married Alma Meyr. She preceded him in death on Nov. 15, 1957...

BERTRAND -- Patricia Jean (Patty) Cummins, 55, of Bertrand, died Friday, Oct. 25, 1991, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Aug. 24, 1936, in Charleston, daughter of George Haws and Armintha Tyler Haws. She had lived in Bertrand since 1971. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Charleston...

Proposition B is an imperfect plan that builds toward a perfect goal: the betterment of education in Missouri. The Nov. 5 ballot issue promises reform in schools and provides money to support the promise. We endorse Proposition B's passage. As the election has grown near and Missourians have focused more intensely on this issue, some confusion has arisen about the numerous facets of the measure. ...

Rita Kuntz is a resident of Cape Girardeau. She is a wife, mother and board member of the American Family Association. There is currently more talk on sexual harassment than there has ever been. More and more women are saying they have been sexually harassed. I'd like to raise an issue that perhaps many people have not connected with sexual harassment. That is the issue of pornography...

Now that the Russians have ended the one-party system in their country, maybe there's even hope for the Democrats over here. --- A St. Louis police official said the crime wave there has turned the corner and just when he did, somebody mugged him. ---...

I'M CALLING IN regard to the World Series. When it first started, it did not matter to me which team won. But, after watching the first two games, the Minnesota Twins are so dirty; they have done several dirty tricks. One was when one ran into home base, jumped and spiked the catcher in his chest. ...

To the Editor: I understand that Union Electric has decided to sell the water system on the open market if the citizens of Cape Girardeau fail to take ownership themselves. If this occurs, decisions concerning the proper maintenance and improvement of our water system will be made by people from a distant location who may have no knowledge of Cape Girardeau and no personal stake in what happens here...

MILLERSVILLE -- There will be an informational meeting on the county's proposed 911 emergency system at the Millersville Fire Station Monday at 7 p.m. The 911 system will be voted on in the Nov. 5 election. Representatives of the county-wide 911 committee will be on hand to present the program, discuss costs and answer questions. The public is urged to attend...

The Cape Girardeau Public Works Department reported this week that the city's new curbside recycling collection already has reduced significantly the amount of waste going to the city landfill. After the program's first three weeks of operation, residents have separated more than 62 tons of recyclable materials, which represents about 20 percent of all residential solid waste...

Marion Bumgardaner of Perkins died Thursday, Oct. 24, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 2, 1922 near Painton, son of Thomas Henry Bumgardaner and Mable Annie Creed Bumgardaner. He worked at Cooney Equipment Co. in Sikeston until his retirement in June of 1990...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Mrs. Lorene (Doad) Hunter of Dongola, Ill. died Friday, Oct. 25, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Hunter, 71, was born July 15, 1921, at Ullin, Ill., daughter of Turner and Lucy George Kesler. She married Jesse Hunter on Feb. 17, 1940. He survives...

SIKESTON -- George DeRoush, 83, of LaCrescenta, Calif., died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1991, at 8 a.m. at the Verdugo Hills Hospital in California. He was born Jan. 23, 1908 in Point Pleasant, Mo. son of George DeRoush Sr. and Addie Bell Slayton DeRoush. He had been a self-employed gardener. He was member of the Elks Lodge in Tujunga, Calif...

SCOTT CITY -- Elmer Leon Puchbauer, 74, of Scott City died Thursday, Oct. 24, 1991 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 11, 1917 in Cape Girardeau to Albert and Elizabeth Eifert Puchbauer. On May 27, 1944, he married Georgia Ruth Kjer in Denton, Texas. She survives. Also surviving is one son, Steven Puchbauer of Hot Springs, S.D...

PERRYVILLE -- Frieda Gruenwald, of Palm Coast, Fla., formerly of Perryville, died Oct. 26, 1991, in Palm Coast. She was 78. She was born July 22, 1913, daughter of Hugo and Bertha Hein Finger. She married William Gruenwald on May 15, 1933. He died May 14, 1985...

BERTRAND -- Ulus Harper, 78, Route 1 Bertrand, died Saturday, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 20, 1913 in Bertrand, Mo. to Johnson and Cora Rudd Harper. He was a retired farmer. He was a charter member of Bement Baptist Church at Bertrand, where he taught Sunday school and had served as a church deacon since 1947...

OAK RIDGE -- L. Marvin Proffer, 77, of Rt. 1, Oak Ridge, died at his home Friday, Oct. 25, 1991. He was born near Burfordville on Feb. 24, 1914, the son of Luther M. and Belvy Niblack Proffer. He married Clodean Suhr on March 31, 1950. She survives...

William deLeon McLaughlin, 80, of 2825 Bloomfield, died Friday, Oct. 25, 1991, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born March 18, 1911 in Scott County, son of John and Ida Noland McLaughlin. On Oct. 6, 1934, he married the former Eva Hansel. She died Aug. 19, 1951...

WHITEWATER -- Lowell "Toby" Reynolds, 70, of Whitewater Route 1, died Saturday, Oct. 26, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 26, 1921 at Marble Hill, son of Harry and Betty Allen Reynolds. He married the former Violet Schreiner on Sept. 1, 1940. She survives of the home...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Mary Amanda Lutz, 87, of Mounds, Ill., formerly of Mound City, Ill., died Saturday, Oct. 26, 1991 at the Union County Nursing Home in Anna, Ill. She was born Aug. 12, 1904 at Slater in Ballard County, Ky. to Langer H. and Eliza Bell Duncan Ewers...

ST. LOUIS Sister Catherine Nenninger, a former teacher in St. Louis, died Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1991, following a long illness, at the Villa Gesu Convent in North St. Louis County. Nenninger, 55, joined the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1953 and took her vows in 1955. She taught in a rural and two urban schools in Missouri from 1955 to 1971, when she retired for health reasons...

(First in a series) Cape Girardeau voters will consider three separate but related issues when they go to the polls Nov. 5, and their decision could have an immediate affect on their pocketbooks. Most special ballot items at local elections involve property or sales tax hikes, and a "yes" vote often means sacrificing income for some project or public interest...

With his canine companion, Yoda, by his side, Roger Resinger described Saturday how it makes his "blood boil" when he sees someone who is without a disability using a parking space reserved for the handicapped. But in the same breath, he admitted he used to do the same, before a gunshot wound sustained in a military accident nine years ago while he was in the Air Force left him partially disabled and confined to a wheelchair...

Cape Girardeau voters in favor of the city's purchase of the water system and new utility franchises for Union Electric far outnumber those against the measures, a Southeast Missourian survey shows. But a majority of voters still are undecided on the issues...

DEXTER -- Scientists with the United States Geological Survey (USGA) hope a major seismic study of the New Madrid fault zone will help determine earthquake hazards in the fault region, and what safety measures need to be taken. The study, scheduled to begin at 1 a.m. today, was discussed at a press conference Saturday at the study's central site near Dexter. In all, the study involves 45 scientists, 15 trucks and 500 seismic recorders...

EAST PRAIRIE -- The re-enactment of the Battle of Belmont Saturday probably couldn't have come closer to the original battle right down to the water, mud and neophyte general Ulysses S. Grant. Undaunted onlookers turned jacket and plastic trash bags used as raincoats to wind and rain to see the battle at the original site, a swamp at the time of the Civil War...

JACKSON - Chris Johnson, a Jackson High School junior, is hospitalized in St. Louis after suffering a broken neck in an automobile accident Oct. 1 in Newport, Ark. The accident left Johnson paralyzed from the waist down. He is the son of Richard and Judy Johnson, both of Jackson...

Spurred on by Proposition B, 1,925 students, faculty and staff at Southeast Missouri State University registered to vote in an on-campus registration drive that ended earlier this month. Most of them, 1,806, are students. The remaining 119 are university employees, including faculty. The registration figures include those who transferred their registration, as well as those who registered for the first time...

DEXTER -- U.S. Congressman Bill Emerson, R-Cape Girardeau, announced legislation Saturday that would potentially increase the availability of earthquake insurance in quake-prone areas such as the New Madrid fault zone. Emerson, co-sponsor of the bill, was in Dexter Saturday, along with members of a U.S. Geological Survey team, which is conducting a major seismic study of the nearby fault zone...

The New Beginnings Support Group will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at Birthrights meeting room, 134 S. Park Ave. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. Topic for discussion will "The Men and Women that Society Passes By." The New Beginnings is a support group for the divorced, widowed or separated and the public is invited to attend. For more information, call 243-0130...

An open house will be held this afternoon on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. Sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's University Relations Committee, the open house is designed to acquaint area residents with the university's facilities and programs...

SIKESTON -- A two-car accident Saturday near Sikeston resulted in injuries to two people. The Missouri Highway Patrol said William Rowe, 16, of Sikeston, was traveling west on Highway 16 when he failed to yield and struck a car traveling north, driven by James Schaffer, 53, of Sikeston...

ANNA, Ill. -- Southern Illinois voters will go to the polls Nov. 5 to elect new school board members in school districts throughout the area. In addition, voters at Dongola are being asked to approve a property tax referendum that would provide the Dongola district $50,000 in additional annual revenue for operating funds, without raising local taxes...

The Southeast Eldercare Center has received a face lift thanks to new furnishings donated by Hutson Furniture Co. as part of a $25,000 contribution to Southeast Missouri State University's $25 million capital campaign. The store has donated more than $15,000 in sofas, chairs, lamps, tables and pictures to the center at 805 N. ...

A Cherokee language instructor will present a program Monday on the Cherokee Indian alphabet at the Trail of Tears State Park Visitor Center. The center is located near the park's south gate, on Highway 177. Prentice Robinson of Tahlequah teaches the alphabet to students at the tribal headquarters in Tahlequah. He will speak here at 7 p.m. There is no admission charge...

Eva Vagvolgyine is an optimist in more ways than one. A Hungarian university professor, Vagvolgyine is optimistic about the future of her nation's developing democracy. She also is president of the Optimist Club of Szeged, a city of 200,000 people near the border with Yugoslavia...

Ron and Charlotte Herr plan their lives around the schedule of events at Southeast Missouri State University. The Herrs are among top fans of the university's sports teams and academic programs. "We're a part of the fanatic group, a real strong group who supports the university," said Ron Herr...

Other than commemorating events and important birthdays, I don't know how special weeks, days and months get on the calendar, in headlines, on agendas or whatever. We have National Pickle Week, Dairy Month, Oxtail Soup Day, etc. Does it take an act of Congress?...

Since many have inquired about forcing bulbs, here goes another column on my favorite topic spring flowering bulbs. About the easiest of all plants to force are the Dutch flowering bulbs hyacinths, tulips, narcissus and crocus. In these the bulbs contain the flower bud, fixed inside the bulb the spring before, ready to bloom when given the proper conditions...

Capital Bancorporation's net income for the three months and nine months ending Sept. 30 were $1,333,000 and $3,707,000, respectively. Earnings per share for the three months ending Sept. 30 were 59 cents, representing a 23 percent third-quarter increase over the same quarter a year ago. Earnings for the first nine months were $1.82 per share, a 36 percent increase over 1990 figures...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- A Canada goose weighs about 12 to 14 pounds, feathers and all. To four downstate counties in Southern Illinois, the big honkers are worth their weight in gold. "Every goose you see flying in the four-county (Alexander, Union, Jackson and Williamson) `quota zone' area is worth $10 to the economy," said Larry Bowman, director of the Williamson County Tourism Bureau...

"Wooden Dreams/Oval Boxes" of Marquand has been selected for the juried exhibition of the Shaker Heritage Society's "Inspired Handcrafted Reproductions." The Marquand business, owned by Bill and Marilyn Keel, is one of only 28 selected from a nine-state area to exhibit its wares...

AVA, Ill. Southern Illinois Radio Station WXAN, 103.9 FM, has been named the number one Southern Gospel station in the U.S. by the Southern Gospel Music Guild. "This award is a credit to the entire WXAN staff," said Doug Apple, general manager of the station...

Scott Richards has joined Southern Engineering Corp., 615 N. Broadview, as a surveyor. Richards, of Scott City, is a registered land surveyor. "We recently expanded our office here," said Jim Johnson, manager of the office, which employs three to five full- and part-time people. "We more than doubled our space," said Johnson...

The Fireplace Center is observing its 15th anniversary this month. The business, which specializes in fireplace accessories, opened in fall 1976. "I was in the masonry business," said David Blattner. "Besides building commercial and residential buildings, I constructed several fireplaces...

JCPenney and Revlon will launch new retail operations The Beauty Stop in 420 JCPenney stores, including the store at West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau, in November. "Working with our experienced partner at Revlon, we developed a new idea for a new area for the sale of prestige products," said James L. Hailey, president of the woman's division at JCPenney Co. Inc...

Three instructors with Southeast Missouri Hospital's Fitness and Wellness Center have received aerobic certification through the American Council on Exercise. Marta Retherford, Marsha Holloway and Cindy Patrick successfully completed the test for ACE aerobic certification, the recognized standard in the fitness industry...

Gibson Recovery Center recently received a Program Achievement Award from the Missouri Division of Drug and Alcohol. The award, presented during the annual director's conference at Kansas City, is in recognition of the center's board and staff's commitment to excellence in the provision of drug and alcohol treatment services...

CAIRO, Ill. -- David W. Barkett, owner of Barkett Funeral Home Ltd., of Cairo, has been inducted into the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice. Barkett, who has completed 180 hours of continuing education in four designated areas academic, professional, civic and career review also has been accredited as a certified funeral service practitioner...