Stories from Wednesday, September 14, 1994

COBDEN -- Bobby G. Roberts, 68, of Cobden died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1994, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Marion. Arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.

Unfortunately, my definition of "homophone" in a recent column -- "the phone you leave home without" -- triggered requests for a more satisfactory definition. Fancy that! The Devil didn't make me do it. It was American Express, with that persistent "Don't leave home without it" commercial for their credit card. I was just playing a game with my perpetrators...

The recent articles concerning the pros and cons of merging the two Cape Girardeau hospitals should be of interest to all citizens in the surrounding area. I know and respect the heads of both hospitals and their boards of directors. I have no reason to doubt the sincerity or integrity of any of the spokesmen for the hospitals...

CHESTER, Ill. -- Popeye is heading south. Executives from King Features Syndicate, Universal Studios Florida and MCA Inc. were in the comics character's hometown last weekend to announce that Popeye, Wimpy, Olive Oyl and others from the cartoon cast will be key players in an Orlando, Fla., theme park...

JACKSON -- Board members here had kind words for two retiring administrators at Tuesday's school board meeting. Jackson School Superintendent Wayne Maupin and Business Manager Howard Alexander both announced their retirement June 30. The retirements were accepted by reluctant board members...

As most members of the Missouri House of Representatives were either en route or preparing to go to what promises to be a boring veto session, Gov. Mel Carnahan was raising the intensity level. On Tuesday, Carnahan told embattled Secretary of State Judi Moriarty if she didn't resign by noon today, he would call a special session of the House to impeach her...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Members of the Missouri General Assembly will gather in the Capitol today for the constitutionally-required annual veto session. But if any news is made it won't likely come from the floors of the House or Senate. Gov. Mel Carnahan vetoed six of the 177 bills passed by lawmakers earlier this year and there seems to be little interest on the part of bill sponsors to muster the two-thirds vote in each house needed for an override...

When it comes to car seats, Lisa Campbell doesn't leave home without them. The Cape Girardeau mother makes sure her son, Jacob, 18 months, and her daughter, Jenna, 3, are firmly in their car seats before she hauls them anywhere. "I can't drive if they are not in their car seats," said Campbell, who applauds Missouri's new child-safety-seat law...

NEW MADRID -- Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. has received its first rail shipment of low-sulfur coal at its plant here, culminating in four years of planning and construction to meet Clean Air Act requirements. Alliance spent about $100 million completing the fuel switch that will reduce sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions as mandated by the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Like many people here this week, Emily Firebaugh is interested in the future of the secretary of state's office. But unlike many others, Firebaugh isn't calling for Judi Moriarty's to resignation. But, if Moriarty quits, Firebaugh wants Gov. Mel Carnahan to name her the replacement...

The Missouri secretary of state's duties, according to the "Official Manual," are pretty straightforward: The secretary of state is the chief elections official in Missouri. The office also is responsible for collecting, compiling, storing and publishing a variety of state documents. ...

Daughter to Patricia Miget of Scott City and the late Larry Miget, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:22 a.m. Monday, Sept. 5, 1994. Name, Bethany Susan. Weight, 7 pounds 3 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Miget is the former Patricia Hollingshead, daughter of Zeana Hollingshead of Santa Cruz, Calif., and the late Thomas Hollingshead. She is employed by Dr. Michael Bennett. Miget is the son of Dora Miget of Fort Collins, Colo., and the late V.J. Miget...

CHARLESTON -- Grace Louise Duson, 76, of Charleston, died Sunday, Sept. 11, 1994, at her home. She was born April 28, 1918, in Charleston, daughter of Anderson and Littie Miller Fulks. She and Benjamin Duson were married Jan. 18, 1949. Duson had been a musician for several area churches, and was a member of Seventh Day Adventist Church...

ALTENBURG -- Melvin B. Hecht, 67, of Altenburg, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 22, 1927, at New Wells, son of Rudolph and Alieda Wachter Hecht. He and Rose Roth were married May 8, 1954, at Shawneetown...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Vida Ruth Bishop of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Harold Norton will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Bishop, 83, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1994, at East Prairie Nursing Center...

DEXTER -- Wynona Estell Nunn, 69, of St. Louis, died Monday, Sept. 12, 1994, at the home of a son in Imperial. She was born Feb. 14, 1925, in Peach Orchard, Ark., daughter of William and Nellie Wiseman Brown. She and Charles Junior Nunn were married Oct. 24, 1953. He died Nov. 3, 1988...

Josephine L. Weber, 80, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, Sept. 12, 1994, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born July 20, 1914, in Chester, Ill., daughter of Joseph and Clara Schindler Kiefer. She and Lester A. Weber were married May 28, 1940, in Chester. He died Oct. 17, 1975...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Jennie C. "MaMaw" Nimmo of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church. The Rev. Jerry Adams will officiate, with burial in Matthews Cemetery at Matthews. Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel from 9 a.m.-noon...

The Rev. Herold Gustav Lohrmann, 75, of Elmore, Ala., died Sunday, Aug. 21, 1994, in a hospital in Montgomery, Ala. He was a former pastor of Concordia Lutheran Church in Sikeston. Survivors include his wife, Lois; two sons, Richard Lohrmann of Elmore, Eric Lohrmann of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Bruno and Edwin Lohrmann of North Carolina; three sisters, Pat Lohrmann, Louise Dierking and Cora Shrum of St. Louis, and five grandchildren...

BLOOMFIELD -- Golie E. Vines, 89, of Bloomfield, died Monday, Sept. 12, 1994, at Miner Nursing Center in Miner. She was born Oct. 10, 1904, in Canalou, daughter of Hansel and Lou Emma Evans Beardsley. She married Guy Vines July 3, 1920, at Benton. He died Aug. 10, 1974...

SCOTT CITY -- Clyde P. Frey, 88, of Scott City, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1994, at the home of a son in Secor, Ill. He was born Oct. 1, 1905, in Bonne Terre, son of George and Frances Bouchard Frey. He first married Georgie L. Montgomery Nov. 17, 1938, at Charleston. She died Nov. 17, 1976. He later married Bertha Wheeler...

MILLERSVILLE -- Hattie M. Riehn, 84, of Millersville, died Tuesday, Sept. 13, 1994, at her home. She was born Oct. 17, 1909, in Millersville, daughter of Frederick and Mary Hahs Schuette. She married Hubert Riehn Dec. 24, 1924. Riehn was a lifelong member of Old Salem United Methodist Church and a member of WSCS...

SCOTT CITY -- Graveside service for Basil F. Watkins of Scott City will be held at 11 a.m. today at Mounds National Cemetery in Mounds, Ill. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City is in charge of arrangements. Watkins, 68, died Sunday, Sept. 11, 1994, at his home...

Target Stores is coming to Cape Girardeau. Ground work is underway in Cape West Business Park for a new 97,000-square-foot Target store. The business park, west of Interstate 55, already is home to two large retail centers -- Lowe's Home Center and Wal-Mart. Recent additions to the business park near the I-55 and Route K intersections are a Shell service station and convenience store and a Drury Suites Hotel...

Within five hours Tuesday morning, volunteers raised $17,700 hawking newspapers on streets in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City. The volunteers were selling special editions of the Southeast Missourian during the annual YELL for Newspapers campaign. The money raised will fund literacy programs in the three communities...

If Lendell Thompson were a betting man, he would likely put everything he owned on his prize-winning Charolais named L.T. Caprice. After all, as an 8-month-old calf it was named Reserve Grand Champion in last year's SEMO District Fair livestock competition. But Thompson is setting his sights on another calf for this year's competition. This year, he says L.T. Caprice's younger half-sister, L.T. Caprice 2020, is the one to watch...

A real-life picture that frames itself into the stuff that made Norman Rockwell famous might appear before me once or twice a year. But when it happens, I know it immediately. It happened on Monday. The landscape consisted of people gathered along Broadway and Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau patiently awaiting the parade that officially kicks off the SEMO District Fair...

A cross section of about 100 students from 10 area high schools are expected to take part in a new drug and alcohol program called Team Spirit. It is the first such program in Missouri. Sharee Galnore, who works with the Cape Girardeau Police Department's traffic safety division, and Donna Boardman, an independent consultant, have been named leaders of the program...

JACKSON -- Elected officials and employees in 55 Missouri counties now have a retirement plan. For those in the other counties, they have two plans. Legislation passed earlier this year provided a retirement plan for county officials and employees. Many counties in the state, including Cape Girardeau and Scott counties, have been covered for several years under the Local Government Employees Retirement System called LAGERS...

Mad about plaid? How about fashions with an equestrian flair or tailored suits in crepe? Fall fashions will be modeled at the 16th annual fashion show, which will be held Sept. 19 at the Show Me Center. The event features local models wearing fashions from Hecht's, Hartford's, The Body Shoppe, Sandy's, Warehouse of Leather, Children's Bazaar and Ali Miles...

It is drying time again. While there are still flowers in the garden, this is the time to think of when there will be none, so collect blooms now to preserve for use in winter arrangements, pressed flowers, pictures, on wreaths, shadow boxes or potpourri...