Stories from Monday, August 21, 1995

Mall space leasing and tourism in Cape Girardeau are topics for the West End Merchants Association meeting at 5 p.m. Tuesday at H.R. Dumplins in Lorimont Place. Barry Petrowsky, vice president of leasing for Westfield Corp. Inc., will tell the group how he sells Cape Girardeau nationally. He is responsible for leasing West Park Mall here and Mid Rivers Mall in St. Louis. During the past three years he has been responsible for bringing 15 new tenants to West Park Mall...

A food served at the nation's first Thanksgiving feast in New England more than 300 years ago is more popular than ever. Popcorn, native to North America, was raised and introduced by Indians, who used the grain for food and decorations, Americans today consume buckets of popcorn annually...

Cathy Blattel of Crowe and Rediger Orthodontics has been promoted to senior orthodontic assistant. Blattel, who recently completed requirements to receive designation as a certified orthodontic assistant from the Dental Assisting National Board, is only one of 44 certified orthodontic assistants in Missouri...

MAIN STREET FITNESS PLANS OPEN HOUSE ON SUNDAY An open house will be held at Main Street Fitness, 410 W. Main in Jackson Sunday. Tours of the fitness center will be conducted. The event will also include demonstrations, screening, educational materials, refreshments and door-prize drawings, including a $500 savings bond from Boatmen's Bank and a one-year Main Street Fitness membership...

We were introduced to "Agriculture -- Bootheel Style" at a Delta Center Field Day, held on a New Madrid County farm near Portageville in the mid-1970s. Participants for that field day program rode "covered" wagons pulled by tractors to a number of sites along endless fields of research crops. At each stop along the way, agronomists, scientists and university extension specialists explained the research involved in crops and various farming methods...

Fleece Inc. has new owners and a new name. Todd and Melody Anderson recently purchased Fleece Inc., 616 Broadway, in Cape Girardeau, and renamed the business Fleece Shoppe. Melody Anderson has been manager of the store about a year. Fleece Inc. was opened in 1989 by Kyle Dean at 621 Broadway. It later moved across the street to its present site, 616 Broadway...

You can't beat the cost. That is the main reason why students like Shirleen Sexton enroll in community college classes. Sexton is one of an increasing number of Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri residents who attend Shawnee Community College in Ullin, Ill...

Cape Girardeau doesn't have a junior college, but this fall it will have two community colleges classes. Shawnee Community College at Ullin, Ill., will offer two freshman-level courses in Cape Girardeau: English composition and intermediate algebra...

Monitoring the behavior and progress of offenders is the primary mission of the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole. But the department's business isn't as simple as most people think. Probation officers don't only hang around the office meeting with clients...

The Cape Girardeau City Council is expected to name Michael G. Miller as the new city manager today. Miller, 58, is a management consultant from Ferguson who previously directed city governments in Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. Mayor Al Spradling III is scheduled to announce the hiring decision at a press conference at 4 p.m. today at City Hall...

The Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think about Shannon Faulkner's quitting the Citadel after only a week?" Amy Huskey Red Bud, Ill. By the way she looked, I don't think she could have been in that great of shape to start. While she was in court for two years she should have worked out and gotten physically fit...

LILBOURN -- Lucy Glover, 101, of Lilbourn died Saturday, Aug. 19, 1995, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born July 22, 1894, in Winona, Miss., the daughter of Jean and Sarah Ann Johnson Vance. On March 4, 1916, she married Reed Glover in Sunflower, Miss., and the couple had 13 children. Mr. Glover died Feb. 11, 1970. Seven of their children also preceded her in death...

ST. LOUIS -- Mary L. Murphy, 62, of St. Louis and formerly of Morley, died Saturday, Aug. 19, 1995, at DePaul Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Jan. 15, 1933, at Morley, daughter of Doyle and Mildred Lackey. She married Donald J. Murphy. He preceded her in death...

Alecia Ann (Totton) Mryyan, 35, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Aug. 18, 1995 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau after an extended illness. She was born July 27, 1960, at Parma, the daughter of Ollie Totton and Gladys Robinson. She attended elementary school in Sikeston and graduated from Cape Girardeau Central High School in 1979. She also attended Southeast Missouri State University...

ULLIN, Ill. -- Marguerite Wilson, 72, of Cahokia and formerly of Ullin died Sunday, Aug. 20, 1995, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral home in Ullin.

JACKSON -- Norman E. Maevers, 68, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug.20, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 27, 1927, the son of August and Amanda Nagel Maevers. On Dec. 21, 1973, he married Lou Seabaugh, who survives...

PERRYVILLE -- Ruth M. Schremp, 65, of Perryville died Aug. 19, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 13, 1930, at Perryville, the daughter of Wallace and Esther Sutterer Streller. On June 17, 1950, she married Elvis Schremp, who survives...

JACKSON -- William T. Lile, 57, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 20, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

The gambling lobby in Missouri is gearing up for a big push in the coming legislative session to change a few things. They don't like the requirement that riverboat casinos must actually be able to float and get from point A to point B on a river. And they don't like the $500 daily loss limit that protects gamblers from losing all of their savings at one time...

Newspapers around Missouri recently reported the findings of a statewide survey. The poll results were fairly direct: Students in the state's public schools need to learn basic academic skills that have some meaning in the real world. Who did this poll? The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. ...

I suppose it was bound to happen sooner or later, but the reality of it was nevertheless startling. The offer arrived the other day in an envelope bearing the logo of a credit card company. I erroneously assumed that it was another chance to buy a 999-piece set of dinnerware or sign-up for a lifetime of how-to-repair-it books from Time-Warner, all for the low, low price of $2,989.76, spread out over 84 months, but, no, this mailing was touting a credit card bearing the legend: "Legal Services Membership Card.". ...

To the editor: The Aug. 13 editorial on the loss of VisionAire to Ames, Iowa, was titled "Industrial growth works best through partnership." However, the editorial's approach to partnership was that if it involved local investors, it was unfair to the city. Ames definitely felt that partnership had a different meaning and got local investors for a small percentage of the company's startup costs ($2.7 million)...

Agenda Monday, Aug. 21, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Consent ordinances Grant a special use permit for a sign/craft business at 2031 Brink. Second and third readings. Extend a special use permit to Boyd Missouri Inc. for a riverboat gambling development. Second and third readings...

The Cape BBQ Fest is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Agribusiness Committee, but includes a number of individual sponsors, including two "Gold" sponsors, Southeast Missourian newspaper and KZIM-AM 960. "Silver" sponsors are BioKyowa Inc., Bluff City Beer, Capital Bank, Cape County Pork Producers Association, Coca Cola Bottling Co., Midwest Agri-Chemico Inc., Pepsi Cola Bottling, River Eagle Distributing and SEMO Cattlemen's Association...

When Charlie Knote starts talking about outdoor cookery, he has his "cooking bag" with him. As he discuses meats, marinades and grilling, he displays a "Phillips" screwdriver, a deep-fat cooking temperature gauge, a spoon, fork, knife, and a 10-x-14 aluminum pan...

Monday, Aug. 21 7:30 p.m. Power and Light Committee Consider ordinance calling for special election for city of Jackson on Nov. 7 for library merger and levy issue. Accept low bid of $39,984 from Landgraf Construction Co. for the Brookside Park restroom facility...