Stories from Monday, September 16, 1996

The Weigh Down Workshop, a 12-week program, will get under way Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. at Lynwood Baptist Church at Lynwood & Randol. Sessions will be held each Monday at 7 p.m. Participants receive manual and audiocassettes for home study. Videotapes will be used at group sessions...

SEMO Satellite Systems at Sikeston has received a national sales award from National Rural Telecommunications Cooperative (NRTC). SEMO Satellite, headed by president Tyrone Garrett, led NRTC's membership in the MidSouth/Southeast Region in DIRECTTV sales growth, increasing its subscriber base by 69 percent during the year...

Edward Jones investment representatives in Cape Girardeau and Jackson will host the 1996 National Working Women's Financial Forum, a live, interactive satellite teleconference on Sept. 24. The forum is sponsored by Edward Jones, ITT Hartford Life Insurance Co., The National Association of Female Executives and Putnam Investments, and will feature a keynote address by Betsy Myers, deputy assistant to President Bill Clinton, and director of women's initiatives and outreach. ...

Sprint Corp. will begin selling its products and services at Tandy Corp.'s Radio Shack stores nationwide later this year, the two companies have announced. The agreement calls for creation of a "store within a store" for Sprint-branded products and communications services at the 6,800 Radio Shack stores and participating dealers...

A sod cutter cuts 1-square-yard pieces of grass that run up a conveyer to a pallet. Grass, as many frustrated homeowners know, doesn't grow overnight. But it can! Turfgrass sod can provide an "instant lawn" of healthy-looking, green grass. Turfgrass sod is simply strips of mature grasses, with active growing roots in a thin layer of soil...

Donna Smith of Cape Girardeau has joined Studio Design Beauty Salon at 229 Broadview Plaza. Smith has been a cosmetologist nine years. She is a graduate of Stage One the Beauty School in Cape Girardeau. Studio Design is owned by Judy Watson. Mark Kneer, director of circulation/marketing for the Southeast Missourian, was elected first vice president of the Missouri Circulation Managers Association during its annual meeting at Osage Beach...

The "Commitment to Excellence" award honoring the 1996 "Industry of the Year" will be presented at the Cape Girardeau Industrial Dinner, to be held Oct. 2, at the Show Me Center. Another big event during the chamber's Industrial Appreciation Week, will be the Industrial Appreciation Golf Tournament, scheduled Monday, Sept. 30 at Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson...

After you clean up this year's vegetable garden, plant it with annual ryegrass. "Ryegrass loosens the soil and adds green manure," says Chris Starbuck, University of Missouri extension horticulture specialist. "When you turn under the ryegrass next spring, the soil will be easy to work and nutrients will be slowly released...

"A little different. A lot better." That's how K's Merchandise bills itself, both philosophically and corporately. Area shoppers will soon be able to judge that for themselves when K's opens its largest location yet in the old Central Hardware building on South Broadview...

The Cape Regional Credit Union will conduct an invitation-only open house at its new facility at 2427 Cape Center Drive next month. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 17 and will be followed by the open house from 5 to 9 p.m.

"Dollars and Sense of Getting Your Products Overseas" is the title of a seminar to be held at the Southeast Missouri State University's Small Business Development Center (SBDC) Sept. 26. The three-hour workshop, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m., will provide marketing and finance information on exporting...

Presorting mail to gain additional discounts for mailing can mean a savings for small businesses and organizations which mail at least 200 pieces at a time. "Automating Your Mail," a workshop presented by the Cape Girardeau Post Office, will be held at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, 1267 Mount Auburn Road, Tuesday...

Thomas L. Meyer Realty is marketing Armstrong Worlds properties as part of a nationwide sealed bid event. The property is a 240-acre industrial site in Nash Road Industrial Park, near the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport and is being offered as a part of New America Network's National Sealed Bid Event, a list of 48 properties in 20 states...

Ronnie Wright is more familiar with his house than most homeowners. He and his family helped build it from the ground up. Wright, his wife, Dee, and five children moved into the two-story house at 1515 N. Water in August 1995. "We worked on the house for more than two years," said Wright, owner of Exit 91 Truck Wash south of Cape Girardeau...

Getting a liquor license in Cape Girardeau is never simple, but for Willie Charles Hammonds the process seems never-ending. Hammonds wants to open a bar called Strictly Business at 625 Good Hope. Trouble is, that location is within 200 feet of two churches -- St. Mary's Cathedral and the Salvation Army. In addition, Cape Girardeau public schools has an alternative learning center inside the Salvation Army building...

There is no shortage of nightclubs in Cape Girardeau. The number of locals plus the university population assures there is money to be made selling alcohol. City Clerk Mary Thompson said that about 200 liquor licenses were issued in the last fiscal year. Many were temporary catering licenses, but others were for bars open seven days a week...

Sydney Herbst used to hate handling guns. An inborn fear of weapons kept her from being comfortable with the sight of them, even though her husband carries one to work. On Sunday she borrowed his handgun, holster and belt and headed for a shooting range in rural Cape Girardeau County. It was time to face her fear...

Sunday's Cape Girardeau Historical Society historic-homes tour wasn't attended as well as last year's, but you could blame that on the rain. The tour brought about 225 visitors to 10 area homes, including the Glenn House on Spanish Street and Earl and Ruth Norman's log cabin, which was making its first appearance in the annual event...

Like the song says, time may change me, but I can't change time. There's a theory out there that time isn't just an arbitrary concept established by humans to mark the passage of days and hours, but an actual force, like gravity, that is inseparable from the physical space we inhabit...

More than a decade has passed since an effort was launched to acquire a new College of Business building at Southeast Missouri State University. Today, at 1:30 p.m., those efforts will be rewarded when the new Robert A. Dempster Hall at New Madrid and Henderson streets is dedicated...

When was the last time you went to the polls to vote for a candidate you were convinced was the right choice, whose election would make a difference in government and whose ideals had challenged you to aspire to greater public service? When was the last time it felt good, or even okay, or didn't make your stomach turn, or you didn't have to lie down afterward?...

I WOULD comment on the Susan McDougall case. I want to know when the sore, losing Republicans are ever going to call off their dogs on this case. It reminds one of a Third World country. I'm ashamed when I sit in front of my TV set and see this type of action that is condoned and appreciated in the Third World countries. I would never think it would happen in America, but it has. And I'm sorry to say that I had to be a witness to it...

Drug dealers in Cape Girardeau County had best take notice of what happened in Jackson last week: The state auctioned a car it seized from a woman who used it to transport methamphetamine and marijuana from Scott City to Cape Girardeau for her drug-dealing boyfriend...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think about telephone psychic readings?" Lisa Newman, Cape Girardeau "I think they're phonies. There's a certain way to read into people by giving them your birthday and your month, They'll ask you a question like, Have you been having money problems? It's a common question. They ask basic questions and you get common answers."...

The Four Seasons Audubon Society of Southeast Missouri will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Conservation Building at Cape County Park. Jerry and Joannie Smith of River Ridge Winery will present the program on "Grape Growing and Wine Making." A field trip will be made to the winery Sept. 21. Those participating in the trip should meet at 8:30 a.m. on the swimming pool parking lot in Capaha Park...

Every day, Michelle McMullan talks to mothers about how to make their babies healthy, and every day she sees what happens when those mothers don't heed her advice. McMullan is the nutritionist for the Dunklin County Health Department's WIC (Women, Infants and Children) program, which provides vouchers to buy nutritious food, formula and vitamins for pregnant women and their young children...

MARBLE HILL -- The genealogy committee of the Bollinger County Historical Society will offer a series of classes on genealogy research at the Bollinger County Library in Marble Hill. The classes will be from 7-9 p.m. on six consecutive Tuesdays, with the first on Oct. 1. Ellen J. Godwin will be the instructor...

An estimated 99,412 people enjoyed this year's SEMO District Fair at Arena Park. With 78 fair volunteers pulling up the last stakes and rolling up the last tents Sunday, it was time to think of restoring the park. Dan Muser, director of the Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department, said he is optimistic that this year's Fair did little damage to the grassy areas and ball parks of Arena Park...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Carolyn Kee, 58, of Olive Branch died Sunday, Sept. 15, 1996, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.

Scott County Friday, Sept. 13 Hazel Hargrove to Myra and Richard Lancaster; Joseph V. and Mary L. Hooper to Robert Joseph and Cheryl L. Brown; Sherrie L. Morris to Tara Y. Reynolds; Don C. King to Joan Belins and John B. Edyvean. Gerald H. and Elizabeth A. Roper to Denny L. Hawkins; Douglas L. and Teresa R. Cash to James Norris Birdwell; Gary L. and Carolyn L. Swartos to Lone Star Industries; Viola Lair to David K. and Delores J. Garland; Jerry B. and Amy Greenwood to Mary Ellen Keene...

One man was killed and two others injured Saturday night when a vehicle overturned in a ditch in Butler County. Christopher Bowen, 22, of Poplar Bluff died early Sunday morning at Doctor's Regional Hospital in Poplar Bluff from injuries suffered in the accident. He was a passenger in a car driven by Michael W. Bowen, 25, of Poplar Bluff...

Cape Girardeau residents will express their views on fireworks during a public hearing tonight at City Hall. The hearing will kick off the council's regular 7:30 p.m. meeting. Council members started discussing the city's fireworks ordinance in July after receiving calls from upset citizens. The police department receives a number of calls each year from people upset by or concerned about their neighbors' use of fireworks...

SIKESTON -- Gertie Pauline "Penny" Ross, 66, of Sikeston died Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born on Sept. 7, 1930, in Essex to James E. and Gertie M. Holt Babb. On July 4, 1947, in Osceola, Ark., she married Roy E. Ross. He died Sept. 22, 1977...

Burl E. Stamp Sr., 62, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 15, 1996, at his home. He was born Feb. 10, 1934, in Des Arc, son of the late Howard E. and Iola Howard Stamp. He was active in supporting families who were victims of abuse, drug and alcohol dependency and in 1990 had been recognized for more than 13,000 hours of volunteer service by Hyland Center in St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis...

MOREHOUSE -- Charles O. Rauch, 87, of Morehouse died Saturday, Sept. 14, 1996, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 21, 1908, in Morehouse, to the late Frederick Bachman and Cora Florence Kesling Rauch. He graduated from Morehouse High School in 1926, attended the St. Louis College of Pharmacy from 1926 until 1928 when he became a licensed pharmacist and became owner and operator of the family drugstore until his retirement in 1976...

Cape Girardeau City Council Monday, Sept. 16, 7:30 p.m. Public Hearings 1. A public hearing regarding the city's present ordinance regulating fireworks and whether to ban fireworks, partially ban fireworks or leave the city's ordinance as is. 2. Water bond presentation...

Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday, Sept. 16 7:30 p.m. Public Hearings -- Hearing to consider the proposed voluntary annexation of property owned by Chris Bowen and Charles and Julia Roberts. Action Items Power and Light Committee -- Consider ordinance authorizing contractual agreement reference extension of water main on Ridge Road...