Stories from Friday, February 19, 1993

ADVANCE -- The Rev. Jack Brown, 82, of Advance died at St. Francis Medical Center Feb. 18, 1993. He was a retired Baptist minister. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.

Dr. Kathy A. McCuan is a chiropractic physician in Cape Girardeau. I am a chiropractic physician in practice at 115 South Broadview here in Cape Girardeau. I use important scientifically supported health care methods as treatment for ailments such as backaches, muscle pains, headaches and stress. ...

JEFFERSON CITY - The chairman of the Missouri House Commerce Committee says he is pleased with the diversity and experience of a group appointed by Gov. Mel Carnahan to draft a comprehensive plan for economic development. "We really have a good bunch of business, labor and academic people serving on the Missouri Business Council," said the chairman, state Rep. ...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will hold a senior citizen dance Feb. 25, at the A.C. Brase Arena building from 7-10 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m., and concessions will be available throughout the evening. This month's featured band is the Heartland Combo...

Sometimes, the name says it all. Such is the case with the Community Caring Council. Care about families and children, and frustration with the system spurred creation of the group more than four years ago. The council is the brainchild of Rep. Mary Kasten of Cape Girardeau. ...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Seyer, Oran Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:57 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 11, 1993. Name, Shelbie DeAn. Weight, 6 pounds 12 ounces. Third daughter. Mrs. Seyer is the former Audrey Kraus, daughter of Dwayne and Sue Kraus of Oran. Seyer is a farmer, and is the son of Elmer and Susie Seyer of Oran...

MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Funeral service for Codie Gage Morris will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Barkett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Robert Goins will officiate, with burial in Green Lawn Memmorial Gardens at Villa Ridge. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Saturday...

ZALMA -- Katherine Margaret Leslie, 87, of Zalma died Feb. 18, 1993, at her home. She was born Oct. 23, 1905, in East St. Louis. She was a seamstress, and was a member of the Zalma Order of Eastern Star. She was married to Russell Leslie, who preceded her in death on Sept. 15, 1978...

NEW MADRID -- William T. Tollison, 72, of Jackson, died Thursday, Feb. 18, 1993, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 18, 1920, in Plumerville, Ark., son of J.F. and Jame Tomilson Tollison. He married Helen Rhodes on Dec. 24, 1939 in LaForge, Mo...

Funeral service for Gracia M. Mackey of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Centenary United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Neil Stein officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Grove Cemetery at Salem. Friends may call from 4-7 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel...

Memorial service for Ruby M. Damon of Lady Lake, Fla., formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Chapel of All Faiths, the Villages of Lady Lake. The Rev. Arthur I. Harris will officiate, with burial in Page-Theus-Blanchard Funeral Home in Leesburg, Fla...

JACKSON - Sales tax collections distributed in Cape Girardeau County this month where a little behind those of February 1992, but overall receipts are running on a pace well above last year. The February check received from the Department of Revenue on the county's half-cent sales tax was for $123,351, down from $134,299 that was collected last year...

After digging out from the heaviest snowfall in 14 years, area residents shivered in record-breaking cold Thursday as the temperature dipped below zero for the first time since 1989. A record low of minus 2 degrees occurred between 6 a.m. and 7 a.m., said a spokesman for Missouri Weather Cooperative at Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport. That broke the previous Feb. 18 record low of 4 degrees that was set 35 years ago, in 1958, and tied in 1967...

A state grant program has enabled the city since 1982 to make almost $3 million in improvements in blighted sections of Cape Girardeau, including housing renovation and street and sewer repairs. About 130 homes have been rehabilitated and two miles of streets and alleys have been paved through the state's Community Development Block Grant Program...

When 83-year-old Elner Miller was a young woman, she and her friends often went out to a Water Street restaurant they called Mary Ben, which also had dancing upstairs, or to George Bollinger's restaurant on Good Hope Street, which specialized in fish...

When it comes to legislative talk of increased funding for schools in Missouri, higher education isn't even on the agenda. The state's commissioner of higher education, Charles McClain, says now is not the time to push for major funding hikes for Missouri's public colleges and universities...

The Salvation Army will be serving Meals with Friends next Monday through Friday between 4:30 and 6 p.m. Everyone is invited to come and enjoy a free meal in a nice, warm friendly environment. The following menu will be served: MondayHam & beans, coleslaw, corn beard & butter and jello...

Coalminers may spend most of their lives walking on their knees as they wrest a living from the bowels of the earth, but they walk with heads held high as they spend lives of loyalty and devotion to their families and each other. And those involved in University Theatre's current production, "Walking on our Knees," which opens tonight at the Forrest H. Rose Theatre at Southeast Missouri State University, may certainly walk with head held proudly high for this superb piece of theatre...

"Sex, Lies and ... The Truth," a video that purports safe sex to be a myth and potentially deadly, will be shown Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Harrison Room of Southeast Missouri Hospital, announced the Cape Girardeau County American Family Association. The video features Kirk Cameron and Chelsea Noble of television's "Growing Pains." It heralds abstinence and self-control as strengths...

A coping skills clinic, a series of programs for people who are separated, divorced or widowed, will begin Tuesday and continue for six weeks. On Tuesday, the topic is dealing with being alone, loneliness and stress. The March 2 topic is adjusting to being alone again...

Children from Angel Care in Scott City will conduct a hop-a-thon Monday to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Children from Kids Korner DCC in Cape Girardeau will conduct a Hop-a-thon March 3. Children will collect donations based on the number of time they hop in two minutes...

FRUITLAND -- The Fruitland Area Fire Department has purchased a fire engine to replace one demolished in an accident last November at New Wells. John Palisch, chairman of the Fruitland Area Fire Department Board of Directors, said the pumper fire truck will be delivered in early March after additional modifications are made to the storage compartments...

St. Mary Home and School is sponsoring its third annual dinner and auction Saturday in the school auditorium. Proceeds will be used to support the school's athletic and educational programs, student field trips, field day and parties. A Treasure Island theme is planned. Mike Simmons is emcee and Jim Untereiner of Perryville will be the auctioneer...

Following the monthly meeting of Cape Girardeau Association of Life Underwriters, Gwen Ellis of KFVS-TV and Jay Eastlick of the Southeast Missourian will talk about Zero Tolerance. Zero Tolerance is the recent series on drugs covered jointly by the television station and the newspaper...