Stories from Tuesday, November 23, 1993

Take a look at the non-fiction best-seller list and you'll find a familiar name. It's not just familiar to Cape Girardeau residents, who recognize it as one of the city's most famous native sons, but to those who follow the media generally. With publication and immediate success of his new book, "See, I Told You So," Rush Limbaugh continues to grow as a phenomenon. Within his success, we also find a few lessons for living...

Ethnic influences in Cape Girardeau history have been tapped for holiday decor at the Glenn House. The historic home at 325 S. Spanish opens for the holiday season Friday. Hours will be 1-4 p.m. on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through Jan. 1...

Officials of Casino Magic likely will decide the first week of December whether to seek a second election in Scott County that could allow it to establish a riverboat gaming development at the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. Doug Whitehead, senior Missouri project coordinator for the company, said Monday that his company is still interested in having another election. But at this point, he said, no final decision has been made...

Amid complaints that the city's leaf collection program was started too soon, Cape Girardeau street crews will return to some neighborhoods where leaves have only recently fallen. Emmett Baker Jr., Cape Girardeau's projects coordinator, said he's uncertain which areas will get a second collection...

The Cape Girardeau Police Department is accepting applications for a one-day mini basketball camp Dec. 30. Patrolman Roger Fields, who's organizing the event, said applications will be accepted from boys, ages 12-16, in the Cape Girardeau School District...

SCOTT CITY -- A 65-year-old Sikeston man sustained serious injuries Monday afternoon when his pickup truck ran off I-55 and struck an embankment about five miles south of Scott City. Bruce Keith was taken to St. Francis Medical Center after the 2:50 p.m. accident. He was listed in satisfactory condition late Monday night...

MCCLURE, Ill. -- Rollie Matlock, 85, of McClure, died Monday, Nov. 22, 1993. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.

W. Dean Vandiver, 85, of Stuart, Fla., died Friday, Nov. 19, 1993, at Martin Memorial Hospital South. He was born in Columbia, and attended the University of Missouri. Vandiver moved to Stuart nine years ago from Long Boat Key, Fla. Prior to retiring, he was co-owner 25 years of Pure Ice Co. here. He was active in Southeast Missouri State University Boosters, was a volunteer with the American Red Cross and United Way in Cape Girardeau, and attended First United Methodist Church in Stuart...

Gertrude Vranesh, 76, 507 Green Acres, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born July 18, 1917, in New York City, daughter of Edward Francis and Leonora DeRevere Farrell. She and Michael T. Vranesh Sr. were married in 1948 in St. Louis...

SIKESTON -- James A. "Jim" Wilson, 60, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Nov. 21, 1993, at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield. He was born June 26, 1933, in Bloomfield, son of Woodrow and Virgie Cates Wilson. He and Dixie Edmondson were married May 27, 1956...

LEOPOLD -- Paul W. Engelen, 75, of Leopold died Sunday, Nov. 21, 1993, at Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. He was born March 9, 1918, at Leopold, the son of Frank and Rosa Arnzen Engelen. He was married to Mary Elizabeth Bueter, who preceded him in death July 5, 1972...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ziegler, 1419 Dunklin, St. Joseph Hospital in Kirkwood, 7:23 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 18, 1993. Name, Stephen Thomas. Weight, 7 pounds 1 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Ziegler is the former Ruth Schwarzer, daughter of Joe and Anna Schwarzer of St. Martins. She is a reference librarian at Kent Library at Southeast Missouri State University. Ziegler is serials librarian at Kent Library, and is the son of Everett and Norma Ziegler of Jefferson City...

Take a look at the non-fiction best-seller list and you'll find a familiar name. It's not just familiar to Cape Girardeau residents, who recognize it as one of the city's most famous native sons, but to those who follow the media generally. With publication and immediate success of his new book, "See, I Told You So," Rush Limbaugh continues to grow as a phenomenon. Within his success, we also find a few lessons for living...

The records of our school district indicate the dialogue on middle school and/or junior high school structure dates back to the mid 1980's and beyond. Over the next few weeks this column will be dedicated to a series on the evolution of middle level education - the what, when and whither of this phenomenon called middle school. ...