Stories from Tuesday, November 26, 1991

SCOTT CITY -- Workers on Monday sealed a leak in a Scott City water line that left many residents without water over the weekend. Public Works Director Harold Uelsmann said the leak was in a newly-constructed 10-inch water line leading to the Nash Road industrial park on the north end of the city...

Cape Chemical Co. has paid $470,000 in settlements for pollution of the Kem-Pest Superfund site. The office of Missouri Attorney General William L. Webster announced Monday that the company's owners paid $30,000 under court order for pollution cleanup and environmental damage. In response, an attorney for the company issued a statement late Monday afternoon saying the company also has paid $440,000 to the Environmental Protection Agency to settle the company's federal legal liabilities...

POPLAR BLUFF -- The flu virus is creeping closer to Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri. The Missouri Department of Health said Monday the latest confirmed cases of flu virus were reported in St. Louis County and in Texas County, 115 miles west of Poplar Bluff...

WASHINGTON -- President Bush has threatened to veto anti-crime legislation, contending that a compromise reached by House-Senate negotiators late Sunday "gutted meaningful provisions" from the measure. As of late Monday, two members of Missouri's congressional delegation U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond and U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson, both Republicans were still unsure whether they would support the compromise...

Hundreds of Cape Girardeau residents have asked for help this Christmas holiday through Toybox and the Salvation Army. Applications for both programs opened Monday at the Salvation Army headquarters, 701 Good Hope. "I really don't have a number yet, but we've been busy, busy, busy all day," Capt. Elmer Trapp with the army said Monday. "We've had a steady stream of people here all day long. In fact, we've had lines all day long."...

PERRYVILLE -- The mammography facility at Perry County Memorial Hospital has been accredited by the American College of Radiology. The facility has met the necessary requirements, which include a peer review evaluation of the facility's staff qualifications, equipment, quality control and quality assurance programs, image quality and breast dose...

Cape Girardeau physician Charles L. Crist, family practice, will be speaker when the Lyme Disease Self-Help Support Group holds its monthly meeting tonight. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. in the Harrison Room at Southeast Missouri Hospital. The Lyme Disease Self-Help Support Group meets the last Tuesday of each month. For more information, call Wessel at 651-5547...

SCOTT CITY -- City Councilman Jim Cauble intends to resign his seat on the Scott City Council effective Saturday. In a letter to Mayor Shirley Young, Cauble said a job relocation has kept him from attending council meetings and has forced him to resign his position...

The Area Wide United Way has been awarded more than $30,000 in federal funds for emergency food and shelter program. Local agencies may apply for funds by contacting the United Way office before Dec. 5. A local board including United Way, county and agency representatives will determine how the funds will be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service organizations...

Though Virginia Willer retired from teaching 30 years ago, many Cape Girardeau residents will remember the longtime first-grade teacher at Franklin Elementary School, who celebrates her 100th birthday today. A resident at Chateau Health Center, Willer began teaching at Franklin Elementary school in 1927. She stayed at that school until her retirement in 1961...

Cape Girardeau businessman David Kent McKinney died at St. Francis Medical Center at about 11 p.m. Sunday after being found unconscious at his home. McKinney, 33, owner of Jeremiah's Restaurant and Lounge in downtown Cape Girardeau and at Sikeston, was a native of Cape Girardeau. He graduated from Central High School in 1976, and from Southeast Missouri State University in 1980 with a degree in business...

SIKESTON - State Rep. Dennis Ziegenhorn, D-Sikeston, co-chairman of a joint interim legislative committee studying problems with workers' compensation insurance, said Monday he believes some significant legislation will be proposed by the committee...

I WOULD LIKE to thank the First Baptist Church on Broadway for their Thanksgiving dinner Sunday, Nov. 24, and each one for their support in preparing the dinner. A big thank you to all of you. I WOULD LIKE to express my thanks to a true friend that helped me when I was down and out. My dear friend, this world will be much better with people like you in it. Thank you so much for your kindness, your love and support...

The problem with Missouri having such small bank balances in Treasurer Wendell Bailey can't claim he was carrying a loaded pistol in his luggage to guard state money. --- A University of Missouri vice chancellor admits he sexually harassed women and is placed on probation while retaining his $84,000 salary. Now that's a case of harassing taxpayers...

The State Board of Education, up to its eyeballs in school funding difficulties, spoke to the problems last week through an unusual action: throwing in the towel. The seven-member board indicated it would no longer attempt to write a formula for the distribution of money to Missouri school districts, opting instead to leave the task to the Missouri General Assembly. We disagree with the board's conclusion...

Bertha Marie Welter, 88, 615 S. Sprigg, died Sunday, Nov. 24, 1991, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Dec. 5, 1902, at Gordonville, daughter of Kasmir and Mary Fredrick Schwach. She married Adolph D. Welter in 1922 in Cape Girardeau. He died Sept. 25, 1971...

Helen Audrey Law, 70, of West Roxbury, Mass., died Sunday, Nov. 24, 1991, at St. Elizabeth's Hospital in Brighton, Mass., following a lengthy illness. She is the mother of Bernard Cardinal Law, archbishop of Boston. He was bishop of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau from 1973-84...

Memorial service for Edith Lightfoot of Farmington will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Presbyterian Church in Jefferson City. Lightfoot, 97, died Saturday, Sept. 19, 1991, at Presbyterian Manor in Farmington. She was born Oct. 19, 1893, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Emil and Amelia Sebastian. She married Edward Lee Lightfoot in March 1918. He died Dec. 26, 1932...

SIKESTON -- Orval Robert Shamblin, 78, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Nov. 24, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Oct. 31, 1913, in Murphysboro, Ill., son of Robert Edward and Mamie Belle Ward Shamblin. He and Dorothy Eaton were married Sept. 6, 1942, in Cape Girardeau...

ORAN -- Noel "Duke" Robinson, 76, of Oran, died Monday, Nov. 25, 1991, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 31, 1915, in Anna, Ill., son of Albert Jackson and Anna Elizabeth Smith Robinson. He and Mary Joanna Soehlig were married June 18, 1939. She died June 11, 1989...

WHITEWATER -- Esther "Ruth" Blanchard, 64, of Momence, Ill., died Monday, Nov. 18, 1991, at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Ill. Survivors include her husband, Norvell; two daughters, Terry Bowyer and Teena Finton of Cedar Lake, Ill.; a son, Tony Blanchard of Wheatfield, Ind.; her mother, Carrie Brown of Whitewater; four sisters, Geneva Nance of Whitewater, Joann Wooldridge and Shirley Nothdurft of Florissant, Della Huffman of Dyer; three brothers, Roby and Harold Brown of Jackson, Nelson Brown of St. ...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Gary Hall of Caruthersville, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:28 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, 1991. Name, Landon Garrison. Weight, 9 pounds 4 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Hall is the former Rhonda Johnson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Johnson of Dexter. She is an accounting clerk at Noranda Aluminum. Hall is manager at Hardee's in Caruthersville, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hall of Bloomfield...

SCOTT CITY -- Ollie Hensley, 85, of Scott City died Monday, Nov. 25, 1991, at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. The body is at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City, where arrangements are incomplete.

Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Stuart G. and Marguerite Hill to the City of Cape Girardeau; Ralph Edwards Sportswear to the City of Cape Girardeau. The City of Cape Girardeau to Ralph Edwards Sportswear; Joseph D. and Sharon K. Warren to Craig A. and Kimberlie M. Wilson...