Stories from Sunday, March 7, 1993

BENTON -- August Joseph Klueppel Jr., 89, of Benton died Saturday, March 6, 1993, at his home on Route 1 Benton. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Benton.

Beuford D. Crawford, 90, of Cape Girardeau, died at Southeast Missouri Hospital Saturday, March 6, 1993. He was born Jan. 26, 1903, at Bloomfield, son of Francis Crawford and Elizabeth Crawford. He worked at International Shoe Factory, retiring in 1964...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Ryan Rhodes of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:34 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1993. Name, Meagan Elizabeth. Weight, 8 pounds 13 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Rhodes is the former Pam Litzler, daughter of Rick and Brenda Irwin of Dexter, and Gary and Gina Litzler of Maineville, Ohio. ...

To the Editor: It has been recently reported in the media that John Lichtenegger (president of the UM Board of Curators) was provided with office space, furniture, and staff in St. Louis. Some people called these "perks" but the media failed to report that Mr. ...

A program for active senior adults will debut Wednesday at West Park Mall. "SeniorWise Programs," sponsored by Southeast Missouri Hospital, St. Francis Medical Center and Schnucks, is an outgrowth of the Senior Citizen's Activity Days formerly held at the mall...

Within the last four years, three financial institutions have closed in Cape Girardeau. These closings have taken a toll on the economy and people of our community - but none was so great as the demise of the First Exchange Banks. Even after the issuance of bank fraud indictments, many questions remain about the closing of the Exchange banks...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Illinois' traffic fatality rate last year dropped to its lowest level since the 1940s. It also marked the four consecutive year that the state's traffic death toll decline, according to statistics released by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT)...

To dream is to believe that high altitude airdrops of food and medicine will make a significant difference in the lives of the tormented and tortured Bosnian Muslims who have suffered as no other Europeans in half a century. Reality is something else...

A large crowd of around 400 turned out on a beautiful day for the first annual Parenting Conference held Saturday in the University Center. By all accounts, the speakers were truly excellent and highly informative. This was a cooperative effort between the Jackson and Cape Girardeau school districts. Hungry attendees ate a lunch provided them free, courtesy of the good citizens at Schnucks...

To the Editor: I'm writing this letter to tell everyone that John Lichtenegger was not only unfairly treated in an audit released by Margaret Kelly this week, but was outright defamed and slandered. John Lichtenegger, four other lawyers, and two para-legals were asked to go to St. ...

JACKSON - Cape Girardeau Assistant Attorney John Treu has been hired by Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon to work in the Jackson satellite office. Nixon announced Treu's appointment Friday. He said the Jefferson City native will handle state cases including consumer affairs and criminal prosecutions...

Mid-America Teen Challenge will provide the program for Regional Commerce and Growth Association (RCGA) general membership meeting, to be held at the Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau on March 18. Jack Smart, Teen Challenge executive director, and one the students at the center will discuss the work being conducted at Teen Challenge...

SCOTT CITY -- Residents of Scott City are less than happy with their cable service, and the city council is trying to do something about it. A 15-year-contract between the city and Falcon Cable Television expired in December. Falcon pressed the city to sign another longterm contract; Scott City has other ideas...

Economist James B. Bullard and Dennis W. Blase will discuss the Cape Girardeau economy and local banking conditions during a Regional Economic Forum, to be held at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau Wednesday, beginning at 5 p.m. Regional economic forums are hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis to provide national and regional economic information to 8th District bankers, businesses and community leaders...

CHARLESTON -- Mrs. Mosie Lee Chalmers, 81, of Charleston, formerly of Memphis, died Thursday, March 4, 1993, at the Charleston Manor Nursing Center. She was born March 1, 1912, in Brownsville, Tenn., and had lived in Charleston since 1982. She was a member of the Mercy Seat Baptist Church...

Ray V. Allen, 76, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, March 5, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Dec. 24, 1916 in Cape Girardeau County, son of Wesley and Eva Caraker Allen. On Oct. 12, 1935, he married the former Mabel Teaford at Benton. She survives...

PERRYVILLE -- Gladys F. Unterreiner, 84, of Perryville died Saturday, March 6, 1993, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 1, 1908 in Perry County daughter of Emmett and Rose Huber Prost. She married Carl J. Unterreiner on Dec. 28, 1941. He preceded her in death on Oct. 9, 1990...

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. Delia F. Proffer, 90, of the Bloomfield area, died Saturday, March 6, 1993. She was born Dec. 22, 1902 at Cape Girardeau, daughter of William and Katie Foeste. She married Eldon Proffer on Dec. 9, 1922. He survives. Other survivors include a daughter, Vanita Hendley of Bloomfield; a half-sister, Emma Combs of Cape Girardeau; a step-sister, Freida Jones of Cape Girardeau; and two grandchildren; and five great grandchildren...

ANNA, Ill. -- Mrs. Velma Cruse, 85, of Anna, died Saturday, March 6, 1993, at her home in Anna. She was born January 25, 1908 at Dongola, daughter of Charles and Ida Lyerla Holshouser. She married Rooney O. Cruse on Nov. 19, 1945. He survives. Other survivors include nieces and nephews...

CHAFFEE -- Chloe Adams of Chaffee died Saturday, March 6, 1993, at Chaffee Nursing Home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

SIKESTON -- Philomena Christina "Min" Waltemath, 87, of LaBonne Maison Retirement Home in Sikeston, and formerly of Memphis, died Saturday, March 6, 1993 at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 1, 1905 in Danville, Ill., daughter of Joseph Francis and Anna Marie Wagner Foehrer...

James W. Winder, 47, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, March 5, 1993, at his home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 10, 1945, in Cape Girardeau, son of Robert and Nettie Niswonger Winder. Winder had worked at Good Year Rubber Plant in North Chicago. He was a veteran in the Army during the Viet Nam War. He was a member of the AmVets at Round lake, Ill...

JACKSON -- Paul E. Griffin Sr., 61, of Jackson died at his home Saturday, March 6, 1993. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill.

Funeral service for Bessie Wilson of St. Louis will be held at 2 p.m. today at A.L. Beal Funeral Home in St. Louis. Wilson, 88, died Friday, March 5, 1993, at Barnes Hospital. She was born Jan. 29, 1905, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Harvey and Rosie Ross...

Funeral mass for Joe D. Stokely of St. Louis was held Wednesday at St. Simon Catholic Church there. Burial was in Resurrection Cemetery. Kutis Affton Chapel was in charge of arrangements. Stokely, 61, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, at his home. He was born Nov. 28, 1931, in Cape Girardeau, son of Rosco and Mayme Lathem Stokely...

SCOTT CITY -- Lucille Ernst, 73, of Scott City, died Friday, March 5, 1993, at her home. She was born Oct. 26, 1919, in Jonesboro, Ark., daughter of Henry Frederick and Anna Wall Brown Ernst. Ernst had been an inspector at International Shoe Co., and was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Delores J. Brawley, 62, McClure Route 1, died Thursday, March 4, 1993, at Life Care Center in Jonesboro. She was born Nov. 10, 1930, at Thebes, daughter of Chance and Dixie Hill Anglin. Brawley was a certified nurse assistant at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was a member of VFW Auxiliary 3455 in Anna...

Marie Margaret Hopson, 83, formerly of 1104 Independence, died Thursday, March 4, 1993, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 19, 1909, at Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Theodore and Louise Job Frueh. On April 14, 1960, she married Byrd W. Hopson, who preceded her in death in November 1980...

CHARLESTON -- Lucy Pauline Farmer Whitehead, 81, of Charleston died Friday, March 5, 1993, at Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 25, 1912, at Shelby Grove, the daughter of Jesse Newton and Dora Adeline Baker Farmer. On Feb. 8, 1930, she married William C. Whitehead, who preceded her in death April 24, 1964...

JACKSON - Emergency Preparedness is something most of people never think about until a severe thunderstorm or tornado threatens, or a truckload of hazardous materials overturns on a highway or city street, or a train derailment results in a spill of hazardous and toxic chemicals, or an unexpected snowstorm dumps two feet of snow, or the earth trembles and shakes...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Gov. Jim Edgar and Illinois state legislators may be receiving special gifts from some Southern Illinois municipal officials in the near future. "They are going to receive `keys to the city' from Cairo," said Mayor James Wilson. "And, I'm going to start a campaign next week to promote this campaign in other communities."...

Glenda Hoffmeister, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Area Agency on Aging (AAA), reacted Friday to a New Madrid lawmaker's charges that the agency's operations are inefficient and unfair. Rep. Gene Copeland, D-New Madrid, last week proposed legislation that would give regents at Southeast Missouri State University the authority to named the Southeast Missouri AAA's director...

Two men were injured Saturday afternoon when a north-bound Burlington Northern train jumped the tracks near the Lone Star cement plant at 2524 S. Sprigg. The three engines pulling the about 100-car train derailed along with seven cars, which piled together in a twisted pile of metal, rocks and mud...

Perhaps the best advice that psychologist Linda Sonna would give to parents frustrated with the task of parenting is to "lighten up." Sonna, author of "The Homework Solution: Getting Kids to Do Their Homework" and "The Homework Survival Kit," was one of two keynote speakers at a parenting conference held Saturday on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University...

JACKSON -- Lawmakers from both parties this weekend came to the defense of Jackson attorney John Lichtenegger, who was included last week in a scathing report by Missouri Auditor Margaret Kelly. Rep. David Schwab, R-Jackson, called Kelly's actions "reckless" and called for the auditor to apologize to Lichtenegger and his family...

Children can cut right to the heart of the matter. And, that's exactly what Mindy Hoffman did at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee. The Washington School fifth grader said the city should support the Cape Girardeau Public Schools' $25 million bond issue because "it will give us the things we don't have now...

Surgeons Louis and Bridget Ostrow, seeking a quiet family life, decided to become partners in medicine as well as marriage. Chuck and Laura McGinty learned to respect each other's differences and not worry about who is right in order to make their jewelry and gift business partnership, C.P. McGinty Jewelers, work...

In the small village church I attended in my childhood there was a pipe organ. It was an entity unto itself, a piece of furniture standing alone, not the keyboard here and the pipes elsewhere, concealed by lattice or velvet curtains. When new, it must have been the pride of the church, if pride is allowable in a humble church...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Frances McFall to Dale E. Lesch; David D. and Kathy S. Fadler to James T. Hinkebein and Janette R. Smith; Gary J. and Christine Helwege to Thomas L. and Susan G. Reinagel...

When G.H. Creglow spoke to the Men's Garden Club of Jackson recently, he shared a recipe for successfully foliar feeding of the bountiful vegetable crops which he produces. Mr. Creglow uses: 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon Epsom salts 1 teaspoon saltpeter (Potassium nitrate)...

Rust & Martin Inc., a home furnishings and design center, is observing its 60th anniversary this month. The Cape Girardeau firm, housed in a 26,000-square-foot structure in the Mid City Business Center in Cape Centre, is adjacent to Route K and next to Applebee's Restaurant...

The first Burger King restaurant in Cape Girardeau the one at 2346 Broadway is undergoing its third major remodeling, and this time it includes a major expansion. "We're adding space for 40 more customers; a new, enclosed playground area; parking-lot expansion; and a totally new exterior look," said Ken Augustyn, director of operations for Drury restaurants...

Southwestern Bell has been named corporate sponsor of the annual Business Conference co-sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University College of Business Administration and the University Relations Committee of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...

Mr. Bulky Treats and Gifts is now open in West Park Mall. Bob Basler is owner of the franchise for the candy and gift store, one of more than 90 franchise operations in the Mr. Bulky Treats and Gifts chain. In addition, Mr. Bulky operates another 90 company-owned stores...

Babbage's, a computer software operation, opened recently at West Park Mall. Babbage's, in the Famous Barr concourse, is a Dallas-based chain that includes more than 250 stores nationwide. It boasts an inventory that includes entertainment, educational, and business and personal software applications...

Sanders said equipment was moved into the company's new 12,000-square-foot building Thursday and Friday, and final testing will be completed throughout March, with production to get under way late this month. "We want to be in production by March 31," said Sanders, of the new, plastics-recycling company in the Nash Road Industrial Park...

PERRYVILLE -- Mark D. Grieshaber has been named chairman, president and chief executive officer of Mercantile Bank of Perryville. Grieshaber, who has been with Mercantile Bank of the Mineral Area, Farmington, since 1980, replaces Harry N. Harrison Jr., who has been managing the Perryville bank on an interim basis...

River City Coins has moved to Broadway. "We have purchased the building at 713 Broadway," said Michael Sprouse, numismatist and owner of the business that has been in Cape Girardeau since 1986. "We have more room, and I think our visibility will be good."...

Charlotte Black Sargent, Southeast Missouri Hospital's director of volunteer services, has been appointed hospitality chairman and historian for the Missouri Association of Directors of Volunteer Services. Sargent has been an active member of the organization for several years, and previously served on the executive board as member-at-large. Sargent has served as chairman of its Policies and Procedures Committee and on the Nominating Committee...

JACKSON -- Dr. Charles A. Cox, a Jackson veterinarian, recently attended a seminar on dog and cat skin diseases. Dr. John M. McDonald, a veterinary dermatologist from Auburn University, Alabama College of Veterinary Medicine, discussed diagnosis, treatment and monitoring of skin problems of cats and dogs...

Three Century 21 Ashland Realty Co. sales associates Doris Jean Arnold, Gary Turner and Ron Burger have been named members of the Masters Club for 1992. Sales associates must be among the top 3 percent of agents in the seven-state division of Century 21 South Central States Inc., to qualify for the Masters Club...