Stories from Sunday, August 29, 1993

CAIRO, Ill. -- Ida L. Roth, 76, of Cairo, died Saturday, Aug. 28, 1993, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 12, 1917, at Cairo, Ill., daughter of Emile and Fannie Schlamer Axelson. She married George D. Roth. He died in 1966...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Cecil Tramel of Chaffee will be held at 1 p.m. today at Cornwell Funeral Home in Danville, Ark. Burial will be in Upper Spring Creek Cemetery near Belleville, Ark. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Chaffee was in charge of local arrangements...

Not soon to be forgotten, the great flood of 1993 will be remembered as the most devastating and costly catastrophe the Midwest had ever endured. For most, interest in the flood was generated by curiosity; others were not so fortunate. However, even the least benevolent must agree: the outpouring of human altruism during this event was impressive -- from volunteer sandbaggers to relief organizers...

The Area Wide United Way will kick off its annual fund-raising drive Wednesday with a luncheon. Featured speaker will be John Mehner, vice president of Advanced Business Systems. He recently was named president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...

Five Cape Girardeau women have been listed in "Show Me Missouri Women," a publication of the American Association of University Women. The organization has just published volume II of the series, featuring nearly 200 Missouri women. Local women listed are Aileen Lorberg and Jean Bell Mosley, writers; Janet Chamberlain, visual arts; Frances Crowley and Kala Stroup, education...

The Cape SEMO Chapter of Parents Without Partners will hold an orientation for prospective new members at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Harris Room of the Community Counseling Center. Parents who are divorced, widowed, legally separated or never married may attend...

Businesses, especially small businesses that fuel America's great engine of job growth, are planning to retrench in the face of President Clinton's tax hikes. In other words, working Americans will have to suffer so that Washington, D.C. doesn't have to. Not only will Washington not share in the suffering; they are actually going on a new spending binge with the money they have just extorted out of productive Americans...

There are some sick industries in the United States, but few sicker than the airlines. The deregulation of air travel during the Carter presidency was supposed to generate a cascade of profitable competition between carriers, with lots of new companies entering the newly deregulated market. It didn't work out that way...

The governments of Cape Girardeau and Scott counties have painstakingly gone about developing the jointly sponsored Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. From rustic beginnings, the port stands now on the threshold of grand things. Does riverboat gambling figure in the vision? We believe the port's board of commissioners misstepped in promoting such a plan. We also believe the Scott County Commission betrayed the spirit of the port partnership by putting this matter on the November ballot...

LONGTOWN -- Funeral service for Ludwig C. "Lutz" Bohnert of Longtown will be held at 2 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel in Perryville. The Rev. Paul Winningham will officiate, with burial in Zion Lutheran Cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6:30 a.m. until service time...

MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Bufford Bennett of Marble Hill was held Saturday at Liley Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Gene Robbins officiated, with burial in McGee Chapel Cemetery at Glen Allen. Bennett, 81, died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON - Kermit R. Ludwig, 82, of rural Jackson, died Friday, Aug. 27, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born in Jackson on Sept. 16, 1910, to Charles F. and Josephine Dambach Ludwig. On Dec. 25, 1935, Ludwig married Elsie Voges. She survives, along with two brothers, Elmer Ludwig of Risco and Willis Ludwig of Jackson; five sisters, Norma Huhn, Alta Proffer, and Alphia Hoeh, all of Cape Girardeau; Nelta Petzoldt of Oak Ridge, and Cleta Janowski of Daytona Beach, Fla...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Leola Graziani, 71, of Dongola died Friday, Aug. 27, at her home. She was born Sept. 6, 1921 in Middleburg, Va., the daughter of John and Novilla Downs Allison. She was married May 24, 1947 to Ernest Graziani. Graziani was a member of the First Lutheran Church in Dongola and was a Navy veteran of World War II...

JACKSON -- Joseph Omer James, 77, of Florissant, formerly of Jackson, died Saturday, Aug. 28, 1993 at the Americana Health Care Center in Florissant. He was born March 10, 1916 in Jackson, the son of Jesse O. James and Abbie Koenen James. He worked as a police officer with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, retiring after 37 years at the rank of sergeant...

SIKESTON -- Howard F. Woodall, 70, of Mendenhall, Miss., formerly of Sikeston, died Saturday, Aug. 28, 1993 at the Magee Hospital in Magee, Miss. He was born Feb. 10, 1923 in Holcomb, Mo, son of Lemuel and Nellie Moyer Woodall. He attended school in Holcomb and graduated from the University of Missouri-Columbia College of Agriculture. He worked from 1967 until his retirement in 1987 as the assistant director for the Farmers Home Administration with the United States Department of Agriculture...

The Rev. John W. Beaudean, 51, died Friday, Aug. 27, 1993 at Danbury Hospital in Danbury, Conn., after an extended illness with ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease. He was born March 13, 1942 in Cape Girardeau, the son of Elsie Beaudean and the late John W. Beaudean...

Dorothy Mae Mirgeaux, 73, 711 Normal Ave., died Thursday, Aug. 26, 1993 at Oak Hills Hospital in Joplin. She was born Sept. 24, 1919 in California, the daughter of Bill and Ann Dirickson. She and Joseph L. Mirgeaux were married in St. Louis on March 1, 1937. He survives...

Jeffery A. Smith, 33, of 902 E. Rodney, died Saturday, Aug. 28, 1993, at St. Marys Medical Center in St. Louis. Ford and Sons Funeral Homes are in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

Lena A. Froemsdorf, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Aug. 27, 1993 at the Lutheran Home. She was born Nov. 13, 1898 in Scott City, daughter of Martin and Anna Rahmoeller Froemsdorf. She is survived by a brother, Alvin Froemsdorf, McClure; a sister, Meta Huter, Payette, Idaho; and a granddaughter...

In the past 30 years, the focus of the civil rights movement has shifted from access and public accommodations to economic issues of parity and development, says Michael Sterling, president of the Cape Girardeau branch of the NAACP. He was one of three local NAACP officers attending Saturday's civil rights march in Washington, D.C...

A regional landfill for Southeast Missouri would cost $4 million to $6 million to develop and up to $2 million annually to operate, according to a recent study. Tom Tucker, executive director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission, developed the study for the Region 8 Solid Waste Management District...

The Southeast Missourian will publish a special section commemorating the Flood of 1993 and insert it in Friday's edition. Featuring a number of pages of full-color photographs, the commemorative section will provide a summary of this historical event...

Faced with new federal solid waste regulations that could take effect Oct. 1, landfills throughout the nation likely will close regardless if they have more space for trash. The Cape Girardeau landfill already is being closed and three others in the area situated in Jackson and Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties likely will close when the new "Subtitle D" regulations take effect...

The National Weather Service says unless significant precipitation occurs to the north of Cape Girardeau after today, the Mississippi River here is expected to fall below flood stage for the first time since early June. The river at Cape Girardeau continues to fall slowly after its record crest of 47.9 feet on Aug. 7. On Saturday the river was at 37.6 feet, a fall of four-tenths of a foot. It's expected to drop to 37.2 feet today, 36.8 on Monday, and 36.4 on Tuesday...

BENTON -- Over nearly two decades, Gerald Inman has worn the title of Scott County assessor like a good pair of jeans. From all appearances, it's been a good fit. But after 16 years and eight months as assessor, Inman's career is coming to an end. His last day in office is Tuesday, just over a year after he lost his re-election bid in the August Democratic primary...

Sitting on a little round perch in the center of a square piece of orange carpet at the Show Me Center Saturday was a Peregrine falcon a bird that until 1991 had not been hatched outside captivity in Missouri for more than 100 years. The falcon and three other birds of prey were brought to Buck McNeely's Outdoorsman International Expo and Sporting Clays Tourney by the World Bird Sanctuary headquartered in St. Louis...

A Cape Girardeau family escaped serious injury early Thursday when the two-story wood-frame duplex they were renting at 2767 Hawthorne Drive caught fire. Authorities said Lindsey Sample, 39, Tina Sample, 33, and their 16-year-old son, Mike Sample, were forced to jump 12 feet from their second-floor bedroom windows to a concrete surface below to escape the toxic smoke...

The Phoenix physical agility test is without a doubt the longest, hardest, most demanding seven minutes you'll ever experience in your life. On the video tape applicants for the fire department are shown it looks like a piece of cake perhaps has break-a-sweat potential. But in reality, it's an entirely different story...

Pianist George Winston will perform his Winter Show Nov. 7 at Southeast Missouri State University. The pianist, known for his original, impressionistic style and seasonally-themed recordings, will be on an eight-city Missouri tour. Winston also plays stride and rhythm and blues piano styles, and on stage performs a few solo guitar pieces...

Sarah River King was born Monday, the day after Mississippi River floodwaters receded enough to allow her parents to drive to their home. For more than a month, Kim and Bruce King lived on an island created by flooding in rural Cape Girardeau County, boating in and out up until the last days of Kim's pregnancy...

While a view of the queen and an audience with the pope may be memorable experiences for students who attended a European study tour this summer, conversations with key business leaders was the focus of the trip. For three weeks, 37 college students 23 from Southeast Missouri State University and 14 from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale toured Europe...

Dedication of the new Cape Senior Center building, followed by an open house, will be held Sept. 11 from 1-5 p.m. Festivities begin at 1 p.m. with a flag ceremony conducted by the Joint Veterans Council. A ribbon-cutting will follow at the east door of the building...

Freshmen at Notre Dame High School were locked in Friday during the school's annual get-acquainted event. Members of the school's Substance Abuse Prevention Team along with senior students coordinated the event. Guest speakers for the evening were Betty Statler, an emergency room nurse; Kevin Greaser, Notre Dame alumni; and Kevin Orr, a patrolman with the Cape Girardeau Police Department...

A one-hour "We Love Cape Rally" will be held Wednesday on the terraces of Southeast Missouri State University. The event, sponsored by Students Against Riverboat Gambling, Citizens Against Riverboat Gambling and several campus organizations, will begin at 11:30 a.m...

JACKSON - Each fall, Jane Oehl and Butch Schneider look forward to greeting their 60-plus children. They're not absentee parents with large families; they're school bus drivers for the Jackson School District, and their "children" are students who ride their buses...

The last thing we hear from the young man who is standing at a pay telephone booth with a long line of disgusted folks behind him, waiting to use the phone while he's having an inconsequential chat with his mother is, "Why do they call it duck tape anyway?"...

Dried flowers may seem dull compared to the brilliant colors that flowers develop outdoors during cooler weather. However, this summer many flowers have dried that were not intended to be for preserving. During the snowy days of winter, it is hoped that winter bouquets will not be a reminder of this gruesome summer, but of more pleasant times from nature...