Stories from Monday, January 9, 1995

January signals a time for taking stock, taking inventory of the past and starting anew. That practice has literal meaning for many store managers and employees because the first weeks of the new year typically mean inventory time. Inventory is necessary for a variety of reasons, but primarily to compare book figures with floor and stock dollars...

"It may seem incongruous to mention a $7 Missouri Seyval and a $47 Meursault in the same column, but good wines know no geographic boundaries." This is the lead paragraph of an article which appeared recently in "Bon Appetit," a magazine. A St. James Winery Seyval Blanc wine has been selected as one of the best 50 wines for 1994,...

Even in the dead of winter, the Kelso Arboreta grabs the attention of passing motorists. There is still something majestic about the brick and stone terraced, sunken garden and its gazebo on the west side of Old Sprigg Road. The garden was once part of the sprawling estate of Judge I.R. Kelso. His grandson, Richard Renfrow, still lives there, in a house perched just up a steep driveway from the garden...

The stone and brick terraces of the Kelso Arboreta stand as a timeless reminder of what once was the Kelso estate, an 800-acre farm that stretched across the rolling hills from Old Sprigg Road to the Mississippi River. Stone pillars on either side of Old Sprigg Road, a sidewalk and a low wall still mark what was once the south entrance to the Kelso property...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think about the Rush Limbaugh Tour next week?" Josh Barsch, Cape Girardeau "He's not worth all the media hype everyone's giving him. It won't affect me in the least." Donna Gertis, Cape Girardeau...

Agenda Monday, Jan. 9 5 p.m. Board of Education Conference Room, 61 N. Clark I. Call to order II. Reading and approval of minutes III. Monthly report of the superintendent A. Student recognition B. NEA/CTA C. Other IV. Report of finance committee V. Report of building and grounds committee...

CHAFFEE -- John Eric Nordin, 35, of Chaffee died Sunday, Jan. 8, 1995, at his home. He was born Dec. 9, 1959, in Dexter, the son of Charlie and Ruth Ellen Skaggs Nordin, who preceded him in death. On Dec. 3, 1976, he married Jean Evelyn Edmonds, who preceded him in death. On March 23, 1977, he married Patricia Ann Jones, who survives...

CHARLESTON -- Harold Allen "Hal" Cox, 36, of Charleston died Saturday, Jan. 7, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 17, 1958, the son of Richard and Sally Thurman Cox. They survive. Other survivors include a son, Daniel Eugene Hal Cox of Sikeston; two daughters, Jennifer Rose Cox and Kristene Stephanie Cox of Sikeston and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Jessie Cox of Charleston...

When Missourians get the bill for additional prisons that must be built in the next few years, there's bound to be a hue and cry for more "economical" solutions. Some will argue that Missouri can do the same job through other means, such as work camps, expanded parole operations and even monitored home confinement. The same scenario will play in virtually every other state in the country as taxpayers begin to realize the high cost of crime and the oftentimes even higher cost of containing crime...

There may be some method in the madness postal patrons have experienced in recent days. Long lines, long waits and shortages of the new 32-cent, first-class stamps or the 3-cent stamps to go with the old 29-cent stamps may not have been deliberate, but they certainly accomplished one thing in the Postal Service's favor: People have spent so much time griping about how hard it is to get the stamps that they have generally forgotten about the price increase itself...

If there were a scoreboard keeping track of competition between teachers in Cairo and the school board, it would read something like this: Teachers 1, Students 0. The teachers have ended their strike by accepting salary increased substantially higher than those the school board thought taxpayers could afford. ...

To the editor: I am writing on behalf of the Cape Jaycees and the Toybox program. Toybox was a great success this year due to the help and generosity of the people in the Cape Girardeau area. I would like to thank all those who donated toys and money, the Blattners for the use of the building, Toys R Us, K-Mart, Super D and anyone and everyone who helped in any way...

"Making Tourism Count" will be the overall theme for the Missouri Conference on Tourism, to be held at Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City, Jan. 24-26. State and national issues will be discussed during the three-day meeting. Each day of the conference will have a different objective, said Marjorie Beenders, director of the Division of Tourism...

John V. Johnston, owner of H.R.H. Dumplin's in Cape Girardeau, has been named president of the Southeast Missouri Chapter of the Missouri Restaurant Association. Johnston, who has worked in the food industry a number of years, and his wife, Lisa, a nurse at St. Francis Medical Center, acquired an H.R.H. Dumplin's franchise in November 1993 and opened a restaurant at 274 Mount Auburn Road...