Stories from Sunday, November 29, 1992

Somalia is there being no other word for it a mess. The African nation is a model of chaotic government, its sovereignty embodied not by elected leaders but feuding warlords. Famine plagues Somalia and starvation infests its people. The question for America, a land dedicated to justice and reaching out to those less fortunate, is this: What can be done to ease the suffering? The answer: Something must be...

President-elect Clinton took Washington, D.C. by storm last week, visiting not only the White House, and tony Georgetown dinner parties, but walking a working-class black neighborhood of small businesses and single-family homes. "Along the way," reported The New York Times, "he also reiterated his support for granting statehood to the District of Columbia. `I was for it early and I'm still for it,'" he said...

In 1950, Harvard Law School admitted women for the first time. A paltry admittance it was at that: six women joining over 500 men. Many other graduate schools made gradual and modest openings to women in the years after World War II. It was the beginning of equal opportunity for women and the recognition of women as full participants in all facets of human endeavor in America...

CHAFFEE -- Parents As Teachers, serving Chaffee, Scott City, Kelly, Kelso and Delta school districts, will have a parent meeting Thursday. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at the Chaffee High School Arts Building, 109 N. Fifth St. Barbara Crowell of St. Francis Medical Center Womencare will speak on "Stress in Parenting." The program will offer time management tips and other techniques to lessen family stress...

JACKSON -- Workshop on Wheels will be present a workshop entitled "Coping With Stress" Thursday. The presentation will begin at 7 p.m. at Tender Care, 1202 Greenway, in Jackson. James Kennedy will focus on dealing with stress. Workshop on Wheels is sponsored by the Human Environmental Studies Department at Southeast Missouri State University and the Area Licensed Providers Association...

A Cape Girardeau Central High School senior will be spending Christmas in New York City this year, playing the violin at Carnegie Hall and the Lincoln Center. Tarina Kang, 18, will be playing in the New York String Orchestra Seminar, sponsored by the New School Concert. She will be seated among 70 of the finest musicians in the country...

SCOTT CITY - The figure skating pair of Sarah Ashley Booth and Matt Buttrey will skate their way into the Upper Great Lakes Sectional Competition on Monday. The duo won first place at the United States Figure Skating Association Upper Great Lakes Regionals in Madison, Wis., to move on to the sectionals in Rockford, Ill...

City officials have set mid-December as the date they will market bonds to finance a $4 million project to expand the city's parks and recreation facilities. Assistant Manager Al Stoverink said last week the city hopes to close on the sale of the bonds in early January, which would put the city on track to actually start work on the project late in the construction season next year...

More than 1,000 needy children in Cape Girardeau will have a happier Christmas this year thanks to contributions to Toybox and the volunteer efforts of the Cape Girardeau Jaycees. Toybox, a project of the Jaycees and the Southeast Missourian, begins its 18th annual campaign to provide toys and warm clothing to children...

JACKSON -- The Jackson School District's Parents As Teachers program is doing very well and has had no reduction in services or funding, says Carolyn Beasley, the program's director and teacher. She said some concerns were apparently voiced recently that the Jackson School District PAT program had been cut back. She speculated this may have been prompted by cuts made earlier this year in the Cape Girardeau School District Parents As Teachers program because of budget concerns...

Gifts donated by individuals in the community mean a happy Christmas for needy elderly people who otherwise face a lonely holiday. Christmas for the Elderly, a project of the Cape Girardeau Health Department and the Southeast Missourian newspaper, kicks off today...

Most people who take a week off head for an exotic island or a comfortable chair. Kevin Groves just spent his vacation decorating his house for Christmas. These aren't any old decorations at 1852 Rampart St. Groves has concocted a holiday world of child-size dolls inner-tubing down a lawn of cascading white lights, wooden Rudolphs with blinking red noses, Mickey and Minnie Mouse wishing onlookers "Merry Christmas," a Christmas tree made entirely of lights, an electrical Nativity scene, a squadron of elves, a small forest of candy canes and more than 4,000 lights.. ...

Have you ever had the desire to plunge head first toward the pavement off a 125-foot platform with nothing but a series of giant rubber bands between you and Splat City? Then the St. Louis Bungy Jump company has just the thing for the thrill-seeker in you...

JACKSON - All Cape Girardeau County tax bills - over 53,000 of them - are now in the mail. Anyone not receiving a bill who believes they should have, needs to contact the collector's office in Jackson beginning Monday, said Collector Harold Kuehle. "All the bills are out and by Monday everyone should have gotten theirs," said Kuehle...

From a "first aid" birthday to a "sock hop," Vicki Overstreet and two of her friends have hosted countless parties for their kids. From cakes to cookies, scavenger hunts to birthday tea parties, the former Cape Girardeau resident and her two friends have done it all...

SIKESTON - After considering a bid to become chairman of the House Accounts Committee, state Rep. Dennis Ziegenhorn said last week he will likely serve a second term as chairman of the committee on insurance. The accounts committee post, which oversees approximately 200 employees of the Missouri House and is responsible for the purchase of office supplies and equipment for the 163-member chamber, is open this year. ...

Bill H. Givens, 70, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Nov. 27, 1992 at DePaul Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Dec. 7, 1921 in Cape, the son of Allie and Marzella Kinder Givens. He married Virginia Zimmerman on Dec. 18, 1940 in Cape, and she survives. ...

ANNA, Ill. -- Milus D. Kerby, 83, of Anna died Saturday afternoon at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Anna.

PERRYVILLE - Emmett Dunker, 89, of Perryville, died Friday, Nov. 27, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 26, 1903 to John and Louise Hunt Dunker. On June 18, 1948, he married Marie Dees at St. Louis. She preceded him in death on May 29, 1988...

TAMMS, Ill - Herman Eugene Caine, 57, of Tamms, Ill., Rt. 1, died Saturday, Nov. 28, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born in Tamms, on June 25, 1935, to Herman Otto and Grace May Holshouser Caine. He was married in Tamms to Mary May Pasdertz. She survives, along with one son, Randy Caine of Tamms, two daughters, Karen Schultz of Olive Branch and Sharon Caine of Tamms;...

MARBLE HILL - Justten Lee Stratton, infant son of James and Debra Workman Stratton, died Saturday, Nov. 28, 1992 at the family home in Marble Hill. He was born Oct. 10, 1992. Besides his parents, survivors include: maternal grandparents, Robert and Wilma Workman of Glen Allen; his paternal grandfather, James Stratton of Marble Hill; and a brother, James Stratton of the home...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Job, Gordonville Route 3, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:20 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, 1992. Name, Erica Renee. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Job is the former Theresa Copeland, daughter of Albert and Edna Job of Cape Girardeau. She is owner of the Gold Connection. Job is employed at Drury Industries, and is the son of Robert and Francis Copeland of Wright City...

WARE, Ill. -- The Route 3 entrance road to Union County Wildlife Refuge in Southern Illinois won't be opening this year. "We talked with railroad officials recently, and it appears that it will be March before signals and gates can be ready for the railroad crossing," said Bob Zieba of the Illinois Department of Transportation office at Carbondale last week...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Geese in Alexander and Union counties have taken wing or so it seems. Two weeks into the 1992 goose season, hunting club operators agree that the wily Canada geese are few and far between. "They tell us we have about 14,000 geese in the Horseshoe Lake area," says Marvin Dowdy, who operates Horseshoe Lake Motel. "I don't know where they are."...

Marjorie Thompson's house resembles a museum as much as a residence. But historic Longview has always been home. Antiques, some dating back at least five generations, surround her daily. Her family memories echo the history of Cape Girardeau. Thompson is the great-granddaughter of Col. George C. Thilenius, a leading Cape Girardeau businessman in the later part of the 19th century...

With all the Christmas decorations out, you know, I get like in the mood to pick up a few presents. I went like to the mall, you know, and had to walk like a quarter of a mile from my car. You know what I'm saying? Aware, you know, of some meanness that goes on at this season of good will, I like waited until I saw some innocent-looking people getting out of a car ahead of me, and I thought like, you know, I'd follow them. You know what I'm saying?...

Low mortgage rates spurred growth in housing markets throughout the U.S., including Cape Girardeau, in 1992. The result was some healthy gains in homes and prices, according to the National Association of Realtors. "Steady increases have been noted in the Midwest and South," said a spokesman for the organization...

Evelyn Boardman is starting a new Christmas tradition in downtown Cape Girardeau a downtown Christmas Walk. "We have received good response to the idea," said Boardman, who has long been a booster of the downtown area. "We can make the area brim with holiday cheer."...

A new Christmas shop has opened in West Park Mall. Victorian Holiday, which features candles, Victorian art, housewarmers and other holiday items, recently opened near the Pasta House entrance near Venture Court. "One of our primary lines is the Yankee brand candles," said Cecelia Gerecke, owner of the business. "We have various sizes of candles ranging from small to large."...

United Electric Supply Co.-Cape will hold its grand opening Tuesday at 470 S. Kingshighway. "We have a management team here that provides more than 28 years combined experience in the electrical supply business," said Michael Hanschen. Hanschen, formerly of Gordonville, has more than 20 years of experience in the field, and has returned to the area from Champaign, Ill., where he served as branch manager of Crescent Supply Co...

Southeast Missouri Hospital Administrator James W. Wente has been elected president of District VII of the Missouri Hospital Association. He will formally assume office in early 1993. District VII includes 19 hospitals in the southeastern portion of the state...

Crystal Davidson has joined Commercial Real Estate Specialists Inc. of Cape Girardeau. Davidson, formerly of West Plains, recently acquired her real estate license for Missouri. Davidson's family owns and operates the newly-opened Sonic Drive-In at Jackson...

"Shades 'n More," a new lighting fixtures store, opened last week. Charles and Sally Layton are owners of the store at 213 S. Plaza Way. "I'm really looking forward to serving the lighting needs of my former customers and new ones," said Sally Layton, who has 16 years of experience in retail lighting sales and services...

Altenthal Sporting Goods recently opened at 1901 Independence. "We're in the same building with Home Run Hitter," said Brad Altenthal. "We will be a baseball, softball and soccer specialty store, offering all the name brands in these three sports, including Rawlings, Louisville Slugger and Addidas...

Kiefner Brothers Inc., a Cape Girardeau construction company, has received a major award from the Capital Development Board (CDB) of Illinois. The Kiefner firm, 1459 N. Kingshighway, received a Thomas H. Madigan Award for its work on renovating Pulliam Hall at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Hans G. and Jeannette K. Saueressig Rath to Karl W. Saueressig; H. Wayne McCulley et al. to H. Wayne and Betty L. McCulley; James B. and LaWanna S. Henderson to Thomas Leonard and Michele S. Beussink...