Stories from Saturday, January 22, 1994

CHAFFEE -- Opal Virginia Tuttleton, 84, of Chaffee, died Friday, Jan. 21, 1994 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 4, 1909 in Arkansas, daughter of Edmund and Cora Ramsey Richardson. She married Edward Bloomer in October 1923 and he preceded her in death...

The Mid-Western River Cities Chapter of American Association for Medical Transcription will hold its first meeting of the year Jan. 27 at Southeast Missouri Hospital in the Harrison Room. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Speakers include Steven Bailey, M.D., and Abdul B. Chaudhari, M.D. Bailey will speak on bypass patient qualifications and Chaudhari will lecture on cerebrovascular accidents...

The Lyme Disease Self-Help Support Group will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Harrison Room at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Guest speaker will be Dr. Khondra Andrews of Andrews Chiropractic. Her topic is "acupuncture therapy." Support group coordinator Linda Wessel, RN, said the meeting is open to Lyme disease patients and their families. Sponsors for the group are Southeast Missouri Hospital and Option Care...

At the beginning of every year, millions of people across the nation resolve to quit smoking. An upcoming Freedom From Smoking course can help smokers stop smoking. The seven-session course begins at 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Medical Center. Subsequent sessions will be on Wednesday nights with the exception of a Friday night session Feb. 11. Classes will be held in the St. Francis Health and Education Centre...

CHADD (Children with Attention Deficit Disorders) of Southeast Missouri has rescheduled its monthly meeting because of inclement weather. The group will meet Monday from 7-9 p.m. in the Harrison Room of Southeast Missouri Hospital. Speakers will be certified occupation therapists Mary Morse and Jan Freed, both of Southeast Missouri Hospital's pediatric rehabilitation facility, The Pediatric Spot. Topic will be "Sensory Integration and Attention Deficit Disorder."...

When Art Siemers had bypass surgery nine years ago, he made a few changes in his lifestyle. But not too many. Siemers, who will be 74 next month, and his wife Neta, 62, still milk more than 100 cows each day on their dairy farm west of Cape Girardeau...

Mother Nature is strong-willed and must believe the folks in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois are the same way. Otherwise, the past week's weather conditions, which we think are better suited to North Dakota, might not have drifted into our region and lingered as if a welcomed guest. Still, throughout the cold snap, people of this area have done all right for themselves...

Sooner or later Missourians will have to confront a problem long ignored throughout much of the state: the economic erosion in the vast majority of our small towns and communities that still serve a sizable portion of our population. I will concede that rural development, or the glaring absence of it, is not at this point a front-burner item in Jefferson City, or much of anywhere else in Missouri for that matter...

Dear Editor: The Endangered Species Act, which is now up for reauthorization, should be repealed. It is bad law. In fact, Wetlands laws, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, the entire Environmental Protection Agency and all other environmental laws and agencies ought to be candidates for termination...

JACKSON -- St. Francis Medical Center's Information Center will host a free seminar Feb. 3 on children's health issues. This seminar, part of the St. Francis Information Center's Children's Health Series, will be held from 7-9 p.m. The seminar's title is "Everything You Have Ever Wanted to Ask Your Health Care Provider."...

To the Editor: Congratulations to Norval Randol Jr. on his Distinguished Service Award Presented by the Local Junior Chamber of Commerce. There surely was never a more deserving person. However, the accolades did not mention the many years Randol performed in the Cape Girardeau Municipal Band as an excellent musician and is at present, President of the Cape Municipal Band and has been for the past six years...

Inez L. Gilliland, 87, 721 Morgan Oak, died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born May 18, 1906, in Lipscomb County, Texas, daughter of Cam C. and Julia E. Brown. She and Emmett Gilliland were married Dec. 25, 1921, in Gray, Okla. He died Aug. 31, 1976...

GLEN ALLEN -- Jovida Alberta Vigil, 69, of Denver, Colo., died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at her home. She was born Feb. 13, 1924, at Glen Allen, daughter of Tony and Dora Lee Myers Greer. Vigil was a retired assembler with an automotive manufacturing company...

MOREHOUSE -- Hazel L. Saulter, 77, of Morehouse, died Friday, Jan. 21, 1994, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born Aug. 12, 1916, in Ft. Riley, Kan., daughter of Fred and Belle Cornell Brink. She and R.L. "Sonny" Saulter were married Feb. 25, 1939, at Charleston...

BLOOMFIELD -- Harold M. Merick Sr., 78, Bloomfield Route 3, died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at his home. He was born April 24, 1915, in Allenville, son of Andrew J. and Effie Mae Brown Merick. He and Edith Mae Bond were married June 15, 1936, at Bloomfield. She died Dec. 20, 1993...

SCOTT CITY -- Ethelyn Catherine Estes, 84, Scott City Route 1, died Friday, Jan. 21, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 5, 1909, in St. Louis, daughter of William and Victoria Kern Corvick. She and James Fred Estes were married June 27, 1930. He died Oct. 2, 1985...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Carl T. Vaughn of Midwest City, Okla., formerly of Scott City, was held Jan. 15 at Tinker Air Force Base Chapel. Burial was in Resthaven Memorial Gardens in Oklahoma City, Okla. Vaughn, 65, died Thursday, Jan. 13, 1994, at the Veterans Hospitalin Midwest City...

Bertha C. Scharenberg, 80, Cape Girardeau Route 1, died Friday, Jan. 21, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born April 12, 1913 in Glennon, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Schulte Spooler. She and Herman Frank Scharenberg were married May 24, 1944. He died June 19, 1974...

CHARLESTON -- Vernon E. Nolen, 83, Charleston Route 3, died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, at East Prairie Nursing Center. He was born Oct. 10, 1910, at Crosno, son of William and Dury Duty Nolen. He and Georgia Louise Parr were married Oct. 22, 1943. She died May 12, 1953...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. James Meystedt of Nashville, Tenn., Vanderbilt University Hospital there, 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 14, 1994. Name, Nathan James. Third child, first son. Mrs. Meystedt is the former Diane Stroder, daughter of Bob and Helen Stroder of Cape Girardeau. Meystedt is general manager of Edgcomb Metals, and is the son of Fred and Joanne Meystedt of Cape Girardeau...

Southeast Missouri State University is studying the possibility of generating more of its own electricity to meet its power needs. A consulting firm is currently looking at that issue and what improvements would have to be made to the school's aging power plant...

STE. GENEVIEVE - Although he calls his service in the Missouri House of Representatives "a wonderful experience and pleasure," State Rep. Herb Fallert announced Friday he has decided not to seek re-election this year. "There is no one thing that brought this on -- just a lot of little things," said Fallert, a Democrat from Ste. Genevieve. He admitted the long drives to Jefferson City were getting tiring and that he has an urge to spend more time with his family and do other things...

The Southeast Missourian incorrectly identified a photograph in Friday's edition. John M. Bartlett, vice president and senior portfolio manager of the Investment Management Group of Commerce Bank of St. Louis, was key speaker at a special economics seminar held at Drury Lodge and was the subject of the photograph...

Country singing star Doug Stone will appear at the Cape Girardeau Central High School Tiger Field House Feb. 26, a fund-raiser for the school's Booster Club. Tickets go on sale this morning at 8 a.m. at six outlets. Jeff Daniel, chairman of the event, said 4,700 seats are available in the gymnasium, including 1,200 on the floor...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Michael W. and Marilyn S. Probst to William and M. Ruth Joyce; Earl D. Saupe et al. to Edgar N. and Martha Fiehler; Richard R. Beard Jr. and Kathy Beard to Bradley D. and Renae L. Runge...