Stories from Monday, December 13, 1993

Until recently, when someone on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University dialed 911 to report an emergency, the call was forwarded to the Cape Girardeau Police Department. But now that Cape Girardeau, Jackson and the county are on line with new or improved 911 systems, the university has followed suit...

As you are shopping for the children on your Christmas list, the Cape Girardeau Area Safe Kids Coalition asks you to keep in mind the age of the child and the potential danger some toys pose. Each year, there are approximately 150,000 toy-related injuries to children in the U.S. Fortunately, most of these injuries are preventable...

JACKSON -- A Cape Girardeau man and his son escaped unharmed Sunday afternoon after making an emergency landing in an alfalfa field near Jackson. The pilot was 38-year-old William T. Drury of 2942 Bloomfield Road. With him was his 13-year-old son Brandon...

Ersie and Howard Knapp aren't returning to the North Main Street house they occupied for 26 years. Neither is North Water Street neighbor Bill "Pop" Bettiegrue, a Pentecostal minister who now shares a mobile home with his dog Curly. The Flood of '93 has forced all three elderly people to abandon their homes and neighborhoods permanently. ...

Paul E. Krigbaum, the co-owner a Cape Girardeau bakery, lost his life July 31, 1993, when a pickup truck driven by a Poplar Bluff man forced Krigbaum's car from the northbound lane of Interstate 55, through the median, into the southbound lanes, where it struck a tractor-trailer truck head-on...

The Southeast Missourian asked people what they thought about NASA's space program. Nora-May Brown of Williamsville: "I think they should keep it going, maybe bring something back from outer space which would benefit society." Michelle Fisher of Jonesboro: "They put some of their money into unnecessary things. But we should invest in technology efficiently. If we had the space station we could learn what it's like to live in space."...

There are a lot of variations to the same reason people turn to Toybox at Christmas -- lack of money for gifts for their children. Many people can make living at or below the poverty level at least bearable through most of the year, but at Christmas it is difficult for parents to come to grips with the fact that they cannot afford a few simple things for the little people they love most...

"History of the Critz, Clippard, Snider and Jenkins Families," a family history and genealogy book, is now available. The book, by Doris Brennecke Davault, a retired Jackson school teacher, "traces my husband's maternal family from North Carolina to Missouri from 1800 to 1993," said Davault, who also authored an earlier history and genealogy book...

Not long after the National Football League announced two weeks ago that it was awarding a team franchise to Jacksonville, talk of the Missouri General Assembly scrapping its financial obligation to the ongoing construction of a domed stadium at St. Louis began circulating. It would be a mistake for the state to do so...

JACKSON -- Only six persons applied for Federal Emergency Management Assistance Sunday at the Jackson National Guard Armory, 224, West Park St. The assistance is for victims of a flash flood that caused severe damage in Southeast Missouri. Officials will be at the Armory Tuesday from 8 a.m.-6 p.m. and Wednesday from 8 a.m.-noon...

JACKSON -- Two Cape Girardeau County men were injured Saturday night when the truck they were in overturned four miles north of Jackson. The Missouri Highway Patrol said John J. Jolly, 39, of Millersville, was driving the pickup eastbound on Route 177, when it left the road, struck an embankment and overturned...

CHARLESTON -- Lindell E. "Jack" Hailey, 70, of Charleston, died Sunday, Dec. 12, 1992, at his residence. He was born Jan. 5, 1923, in the Crosno Community of Mississippi County, son of Fred and Willie M. Butler Hailey. He married Evelyn Cox, July 2, 1943...

BENTON -- Vivian Elizabeth Milligan, 88, of Morley, died Sunday, Dec. 12, 1993, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born March 20, 1905, at Yorkville, Tenn., daughter of Willie Everett and Maude Hill Cope. She married Raymond Buford Milligan, Dec. 19, 1929. He died June 19, 1986...

Something's cooking at the Cape Girardeau Area Vocational-Technical School. A course at the school is turning out not just down-home-style meals for its hungry and appreciative diners, it is also turning out skilled graduates who are putting their culinary talent to work in many areas of the food service industry...

Home building in Cape Girardeau is moving at a near-record pace in 1993. With almost a month left, permits have been issued for 98 new homes in the city, ranging in cost from a low of $45,000 to a high of more than $500,000. "We're only seven permits away from 1988 totals, when 105 home permits were issued," said Rick Murray, who supervises Cape Girardeau's inspection department. "Every month I've been waiting for a letdown in new-home permits. It hasn't come."...

Rust Communications Inc., a new media company, has been founded by Gary Rust of Cape Girardeau. Rust, president of Concord Publishing House Inc., is principal owner and president of the new company, which formalizes a networking arrangement with several Southeast Missouri publications and printing companies...

Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. was guest speaker at the November meeting of the Cape Girardeau County Legal Secretaries Association. The meeting was held at the law offices of Limbaugh, Russell, Payne and Howard in Cape Girardeau. Glendella May was hostess. Limbaugh described law practice and changes that have taken place since he started practicing in 1916...