Stories from Thursday, October 27, 1994

BLOOMFIELD -- Jimmy Gilles, 41, of Whitewater was killed in a two-car accident near here Wednesday morning. The accident occurred in Stoddard County on Highway 25 about seven miles north of Bloomfield at 7:45 a.m. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Gilles was driving southbound when he crossed the center line and struck a northbound vehicle head-on. It was driven by Michael Waller, 23 of Gideon...

A recent Southern Illinois University report found Southern Illinois suffers from a doctor shortage. The finding certainly isn't startling. That message has been echoed in town after town in rural America, especially in the field of family practice. Frankly, it is hard for smaller communities to compete in terms of pay and benefits for doctor recruits, especially in areas that are economically depressed...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Memorial VFW 10495 Post and its auxiliary will conduct a dedication ceremony for the POW and MIA panel at the Veterans of All Wars Memorial in the Brookside Park in Jackson. The event will follow the Veterans Day Parade on Nov. 11...

Changes in tax legislation, with special emphasis on farm and retirement income, will be the theme of a daylong farm income tax school, Monday at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Cost of the school, sponsored by University Extension Service, is $70...

Kim Hagler was glad it was her day to cook for the children of A Step at a Time Preschool, 1003 Perry. Had she not been cooking, she would have been in her office doing paperwork at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. That's when Hubert Whitworth, 63, of Cape Girardeau crashed through the wall in his pickup truck...

An employee of TCI Cablevision was killed Wednesday in an accident near the junction of Highway 61 and Interstate 55 in Cape Girardeau. Cape Girardeau police Sgt. Carl Kinnison said the victim, James Hampson III, 27, of 55 N. Pindwood was headed north on Highway 61 when the TCI truck he was driving was struck in the side by a vehicle. The truck rolled several times, ejecting him from the vehicle...

On Jan. 28, 1894, the Clio Literary Society adopted a constitution that called for the promotion of literature, virtue and friendship. On that date Ruth Ella Browning and 14 other young women attending the Third District Normal School in Cape Girardeau pledged to uphold such noble causes...

The Friction-Camp band and Randy Liner will provide entertainment for Port Cape Girardeau's Halloween Masquerade party Friday night. Bob Camp, Freddie Friction and Kelly Keene comprise the Friction-Camp band, which is also working on an album in Memphis...

The name of Richard G. Wilson will become more familiar to Fort Leonard Wood soldiers next year. A new, consolidated, troop medical clinic will be named in honor of the late Army medic from Cape Girardeau, who was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously in 1951...

Country singer Mike Reid is on the radio singing, "A man with a hammer...is a mighty fine thing to be." Inside the barn at Black Forest Villages, voluble 45-year-old Richard Henson is telling six people gathered round how he was this close to getting a Ph.D when he decided to devote himself instead to the very act he is performing: making brooms...

Gary Miller, music professor at Southeast Missouri State University, will present a pipe organ recital Nov. 10 at 8 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church. Miller will perform works by the French organist-composer Louis Vierne (1870-1937). Vierne, blind from birth, became organist at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, where he remained for 37 years...

The sights and sounds of Rue Bourbon, one of the most famous streets in the world, will be re-created Nov. 10 when the Southeast Missouri Hospital Foundation hosts its annual Southeast Showcase at the Show Me Center. The musical heritage of New Orleans-style blues and the color and gaiety of Mardi Gras promise to make the event a festive salute to the Crescent City...

JACKSON -- Career and volunteer firefighters can pick up lifesaving tips at the 17th annual Southeast Missouri Regional Fire School Saturday and Sunday at Jackson High School. The school, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau County Firefighters Association, is the largest outside of the University of Missouri. It is conducted by the Fire and Rescue Training Institute and the Missouri Division of Fire Safety...

STE. GENEVIEVE -- Ste. Genevieve's tourist events, including its recent Fall Harvest Fest, are designed to make visitors imagine they traveled backward in time. Sure, cars line some side streets and teen-agers sport jeans three times too big, but everything else is much as it was in the French colonial days when the town was founded...

On Jan. 30, Kazuya Nakagawa was arrested in the death of a Cape Girardeau man. He was a bouncer working at the Hush Puppy Too nightclub in northern Alexander County, Ill., not too far from the Mississippi River bridge. The dead man, Stephen W. Reynolds, was a customer that night...

CARBONDALE -- Nine Inch Nails will play the SIU Arena Nov. 5. Accompanying the Nails, whose "Downward Spiral" album debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard album charts, will be the Jim Rose Circus and Marilyn Manson. The Nails' 1989 debut album, "Pretty Hate Machine," has been called the "Appetite for destruction of industrial disco."...

ANNA, Ill. -- Angella Ruth Rendleman, 59, of Anna, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1994, at Union County Hospital. She was born Sept. 15, 1935, in St. Louis, daughter of Russell D. and Mildred Parks Rendleman. Survivors include a sister, Jane Whiting of Rochester, N.Y...

Funeral mass for Ellen Montgomery of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Vincent's Catholic Church, with the Rev. Arthur Trapp officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 5-7 p.m. Friday...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Sharon Marlene Jackson, 49, of Arnold, Mo., died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1994, at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis, Mo. She was born April 29, 1945, in Peoria, daughter of John and Etta Strickland Asbell. She married Floyd D. Jackson Sr...

Funeral service for Lloyd A. Strack of Lodi, Calif., was held Tuesday, with burial in Lodi Cemetery there. Lodi Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Strack, 65, died Thursday, Oct. 20, 1994, in a Lodi hospital. He was born Nov. 26, 1928, in Cape Girardeau, son of Marie K. Strack...

ADVANCE -- Virgil "Shanks" Anthony, 65, died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1994, at his home in Brownwood. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home here.

James "Jay" Hampson III, 27, of Cape Girardeau died following a traffic accident Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 26, 1967, at Jacksonville, Ark., the son of the late James Hampson II and Sylvia Bennett Hampson Edwards of Little Rock, Ark., who survives...

Leonard W. Holman, 64, of Columbia, Ill., formerly of Egypt Mills, died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1994, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 30, 1929, at Hamburg, Iowa, the son of Oscar and Leta Lackenby Holman. He married Patricia Ann Dyke May 17, 1953. She survives...

CHARLESTON -- Mary Frances Stricker, 80, of Charleston, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Jan. 14, 1914, in Charleston, daughter of Ben and Mary Bruenderman Stricker. Stricker retired from the ASCS Office in 1979. She was a member of St. Henry's Catholic Church and Quilting Club...

ALTENBURG -- Oliver Ernest Kuehnert, 71, of Altenburg, died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1994, at his home. He was born June 12, 1923, in Perry County, son of Ernest J. and Concordia Boehme Kuehnert. He and Myrtle V. Schilling were married April 6, 1947. Kuehnert had farmed and was a painter and carpenter. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and Lions Club in Altenburg...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Deborah Kay Penrod of Jackson will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home. The Rev. James W. Brown will officiate, with burial in New Bethel Cemetery near Pocahontas. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Wendy Leigh Collier of Monroe City will be held at 2 p.m. today at Holy Rosary Church, with the Revs. W.A. Knowles and Bill Flanagan officiating. Burial will be in Shelbina Cemetery at Shelbina. Garner Funeral Home in Monroe City is in charge of arrangements...

JACKSON -- Jimmy Dean Gilles, 42, of Whitewater, died Wednesday, Oct. 26, 1994, in a traffic accident on Highway 25 near Bloomfield. Visitation will be from 5-8 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the funeral home with the Rev. Virgil Bunch officiating...

ANNA, Ill. -- Willadean S. Rice, 70, of Paducah, Ky., died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1994, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah. She was born June 11, 1924, in Lake City, Ark., daughter of Charles Aden and Lucy Beatrice Addison Sutfin. She and Don E. Rice were married Oct. 1, 1939. He died June 15, 1991...

Son to Johnny and Regina King of Chaffee, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:43 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, 1994. Name, John Tyler. Weight, 8 pounds 11 ounces. Mrs. King is the former Regina Stidham, daughter of Tom and Paula Stidham of Chaffee. She is employed at Tri-Con Industries. King is the son of Marsha Amos of Chaffee and John King of Fulton, Ky...

CHAFFEE -- Herbert Floyd Meuir, 60, of Millington, Tenn., died Tuesday, Oct. 25, 1994, at Baptist Memorial East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was born Oct. 5, 1934, at McKinney, Texas, the son of David Meuir of Texas and the late Louella Meuir Colletie...

JACKSON -- Advertisements suggesting that County Clerk Rodney Miller tried to brand ballots are misleading, says Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle. In a letter Tuesday to Miller, the Republican prosecutor said: "statements made recently in political advertisements claiming that as county clerk you tried to `brand' a person's ballot, and suggesting that a court order was required to stop you from implementing some plan of yours to make a public record of a voter's party affiliation, are unfair and misleading.". ...

Cape Girardeau County Clerk Rodney Miller is fuming over allegations of "ballot branding" raised by his Republican challenger. Miller, 54, who as county clerk has overseen the voting and registration process in Cape Girardeau County since 1979, said Laura Beggs is raising the issue because she has nothing positive to run on...

Dear Leslie, The Great Old Pickup Search just ended. It's old. It's a pickup. And who knows, with some paint and a few lights here and there it might be great. Truth is, after three weeks of cruising the want ads and used car lots, I just gave up on the dream -- dark green, rust-free short-bed Chevy, runs good, looks good, with air, practically free -- and looked reality in the eye...

Saying they have concerns about Hancock II, Missouri Farm Bureau officials say they will remain neutral on the proposal known as Amendment 7. "There are 36 different ways that the proposed amendment can affect agriculture," said Lowell Mohler, chief administrative officer of the Missouri Farm Bureau in Jefferson City. "After polling our members, we have decided to remain neutral and provide information for our members."...

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alan Wheat, one day after receiving the endorsement of the Missouri Council of Senior Citizens, visited with senior Missourians at the Cape Girardeau Senior Center Wednesday. Wheat, on a two-day swing through the area, said the choice for seniors is clear: His record on the elderly as a member of Congress is superior to that of Republican candidate John Ashcroft's as governor...