Stories from Monday, September 12, 1994

Leslie Deal has joined the rehabilitation department of St. Francis Medical Center as supervisor of speech pathology-audiology. Deal received her master's degree in speech pathology from the University of the Pacific and her master's in business administration from Drake University. She was most recently affiliated with the Rusk Rehabilitation Center at the University of Missouri-Columbia...

Dates have been established for the 1995 Southeast Missouri Home Building Association's Home and Garden Show. The show will be held at the Show Me Center March 31, and April 1 and 2. More than 11,000 people attended the 1994 show, and more are expected next year...

When TG (U.S.A.) Corp. opened for business in Perryville Industrial Park more than seven years ago, it produced plastic transmission gears for Ford Motor Co. and steering wheels for Chrysler Corp. The company and its small group of 27 workers operated out of a 48,000-square-foot building...

A lot of businesses open and lot close. The upside of this statement is the fact that the region usually posts net gains of businesses, industries and employment. Each year hundreds of new businesses open in Southeast Missouri. They range from retail and wholesale operations to manufacturing and industrial plants...

Horse lovers of all ages enjoyed their day in the sun Saturday at the the 139th SEMO District Fair. About 330 entrants participated in 19 different categories at the 6th-annual SEMO Fair Horse Show Sunday afternoon. Classes during the 6-hour event ranged from leadline to English pleasure to western pleasure for men, ladies and youths...

Opportunity wasn't knocking at the door Sunday afternoon, it was docking at Riverfront Park in Cape Girardeau. City officials welcomed the motor vessel Mississippi Sunday at 5 p.m. with its 55 members of the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association and the Upper Mississippi Environmental Management Program aboard...

What do you like best about the football season? Benji Jackson, Cape Girardeau "I like the action of the games. I enjoy watching. It's a good excuse to get together with my friends, and it gives you something to talk about for 16 weeks." Byron Buck, Cape Girardeau...

It was the other day that I let my chickens out of their yard and what a ball they had following my tiller and snatching up the earthworms. But tilling, as everybody knows, is no kid's stuff, and so I took a break to catch my breath. No sooner had I stopped the machine than they surrounded me -- all six of them -- as if they wanted to say, what's the matter, Master? Loafing, huh! Don't you know earthworms are angel's food for us? Observing them, I wondered what little heads they had (as if I had not seen chicken heads before) and how many brain cells they might contain. ...

This handout was distributed to employees of St. Francis Hospital in Cape Girardeau and to other members of the community. It suggests, according to its heading, that information contained in the flier wouldn't have been published if it had been made available to the Southeast Missourian...

Cape Girardeau County Edward Louis Leoni, 42, and Abbie Sue Crites, 23; Michael Patrick Manthey, 34, and Sheryl Ann DeBrock, 31; William Durand Lee, 35, and Connie Lorraine Brown, 40. Paul Christian Caveness, 21, and Kristi Lynn Edwards, 20; Raymond Bryan Harris, 23, and Melissa Faye Saupe, 22; Matthew John Beussink, 25, and Jama Nichole Fulkerson, 26...

Cape Girardeau County George E. Bockhorst Jr. and Patricia A. Bockhorst to Acetylene Gas Company; Johnny R. and Linda K. Gast to Johnny R. and Linda K. Gast; Larry and Breck Yvonne Luster to Martha Dumars. Geska G. Richter by attorney et al. to the Seabaugh Trust; Sheila and Larry B. Gray to Vicki S. Moldenhauer; Maggie M. Crites to Todd A. Ward and Andrew Nick Huber...

SIKESTON -- The Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission has awarded a contract for the first phase of work on the extension of Nash Road eastward into the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. This phase includes the grading of embankments from Ramsey Creek east to the port authority's railroad. Three other phases will be bid as part of the project...

An accident at the intersection of Kingshighway and William Sunday afternoon hindered traffic for about 30 minutes. Cape Girardeau Police said a vehicle driven south on Kingshighway by Sally Palmer, 36, of New Madrid struck the vehicle being driven by Melinda Kelpe, 20, of Cape Girardeau. Kelpe was eastbound on William attempting a left turn onto Kingshighway when the accident occurred at about 4:30 p.m...

SCHOOL BOARD AGENDA Cape Girardeau School District Monday, Sept. 12, 5:00 p.m. Board of Education Conference Room - 61 North Clark Reading and Approval of Minutes of Lat Meeting Special Report or Requests Monthly Report of the Superintendent - CHS Student Council Report...

PERRYVILLE -- Pirl C. Barks, 86, of Perryville died Sunday, Sept. 11, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Barks was born Sept. 9, 1908, in Bollinger County to Joseph and Alice Myers Barks. On Nov. 21, 1931, she married Opal Fadler. He died on July 8, 1986...

Marnyce McKell would like nothing better than to come to Cape Girardeau Sept. 22 and have future minority entrepreneurs and contractors exhaust her resources. "I've had enough work so far that it's wearing me out," said McKell. "But if I can recruit just one future minority business person or contractor in each city I visit, it will have been worth it."...