Stories from Monday, September 23, 1996

Williford's Buffet has opened at Delta. The restaurant, operated by Winston and Pam Williford, features a variety of entrees, including smoked ribs, catfish, meat loaf and chicken. "Catfish is served on Friday and ribs on Sunday," said Williford, who formerly owned Take-Five Catering at Charleston...

A Cape Girardeau cash-register sales and service center has a new owner and a new name. Digitron, which opened recently at 1420 Kurre Lane, is owned by Chuck Reiminger, who purchased the former H&S Cash Register Systems from Harry Ivester. Reiminger, who has more than 25 years experience in selling and servicing registers and scales, is owner and president of the new company...

MATRIX Managed Care Organization, a state-certified managed-care organization for workers' compensation, and MedAmerica HealthNet Inc., a regional physician-hospital organization, have announced their affiliation to provide managed care in Southeast Missouri...

Industrial Week is coming up in Cape Girardeau. Activities sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Industrial Relations Council start next week with the annual Industrial Appreciation Golf Tournament at Bent Creek in Jackson Sept. 30 at 1 p.m...

Tuesday "How to Start and Manage a Small Business" seminar, University Extension Center, Jackson, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Wednesday "TimeQuest" time management program, 8:30 a.m., Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. Thursday Small-Business Development Center's counseling sessions, Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, 1267 Mount Auburn Road, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m...

What will a giant bank merger mean for Boatmen's Bank shareholders and owners of other area-bank stocks? It will be the topic of a special Edward D. Jones & Co. seminar at Drury Lodge, Interstate 55 and William, Oct. 2. Guest speaker will be Michael Ansell, Edward Jones financial services analyst. He will discuss the NationsBank-Boatmen's Bank merger along with trends in banking...

Ex-employees of the former Superior Electric Co. will hold their annual reunion at Cape County South Park Sept. 28. Participants will meet about 10:30 a.m. at Shelter 20. They should bring a sack lunch. Superior Electric Products Corp., a manufacturer of electrical items from 1938 through 1982, provided employment for as many as 800 employees at peak production. It dwindled to about 100 employees in the early 1980s...

Spartech Corp. has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 4 cents a share, payable Oct. 10, to common shareholders of record Sept. 26. Spartech, a manufacturer of engineered thermoplastic materials and polymeric compounds, recently reported record third-quarter results of $101.2 million in sales, net earnings of $5 million, and full diluted earnings per share of 20 cents...

"How to Start and Manage a Small Business" is the topic of a three-hour workshop to be held at the University Extension Center in Jackson Tuesday. Rick Sparks, business and industry specialist with University of Missouri Extension, and Buz Sutherland of the Small Business Development Center at Southeast Missouri State University will be speakers at the 6:30-to-9:30 p.m. event...

The Kessinger Specific Chiropractic Clinic staff attended the Kale International Conference recently at Ashville, N.C. The conference was in celebration of B.J. Palmer's birthday. Palmer, who wrote 40 volumes of books on the science, art and philosophy of chiropractic, is credited with the development of chiropractic...

Drury Inns Inc. has opened a 131-room Drury Inn at Marion, Ill., at the Interstate 57 and Route 13 intersection. The hotel, a five-story structure, was developed by Druco Inc., and is operated by Drury Inns Inc. Approximately 30 new jobs were created by its opening...

The Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 Spill Line has been changed to (913)-281-0991. The line can be used to report chemical spills, oil spills, air emissions or other types of release that may harm health or the environment. It is answered 24 hours a day and averages 1,000 calls a month...

Security Pacific Financial Services, a nationwide consumer finance company, has opened its seventh branch office in Missouri, at 3441-B William in Cape Girardeau. Judy Brandt is manager of the new office, which is open at 9 a.m. Monday through Friday...

Doctor's ValuVision has opened in Cape Girardeau. The new, retail optical center offers eye examinations, eyeglasses and contact lenses at its 4,500-square-foot store at 3042 William, across from West Park Mall. "We're excited about coming to Cape Girardeau," said Dr. Jerry Bizer, president of Doctor's ValuVision headquartered in Louisville, Ky...

Boatmen's National Bank of Cape Girardeau, 2001 William, has filed application with the comptroller of the currency in Kansas City for permission to establish a customer-bank communication terminal branch at the Amerimart 11 store, Highway 61 North in Jackson...

Debbie Montgomery of Cape Girardeau has been named director of operations for Humana's Southeast Missouri region. She replaces Jeff Anderson, who served as the company's executive director 14 months before accepting a position with the Metropolitan Physicians Alliance of Kansas City...

Wes Kinsey poured batter in pans for wedding cake layers. Kinsey put the personal touch on a party cake with freshly made flowers of icing. Wes Kinsey's cooking career has been icing on the cake. Lots of it. The 39-year-old Cape Girardeau man has been designing and making wedding cakes since graduating from high school two decades ago...

Bishop John J. Leibrecht blessed the ground at the site of the new Notre Dame High School just west of Cape Girardeau Sunday, and asked God for help in the second half of the local effort to raise the $5 million it will take to construct the school...

The Mighty Mississippi River has been looking a little less mighty lately as the river's depth has dropped to one of its lowest levels in the past five years. The river's decline of recent weeks may hit bottom Saturday at 11.8 feet. Sunday's stage reflected an increase of six inches to 12.4 feet...

Those in the neighborhood around Lorimier Cemetery know the recipe for a nice park: Take one big lot being used to hold torn-up asphalt and concrete. Add a City Council candidate who knows that lot was dedicated as a park years ago. Stir in some concerned citizens willing to donate money and generous helpings of elbow grease...

Cape Girardeau has grown, St. Francis Medical Center has moved and St. Vincent's Seminary and College have closed down. Much has changed since Bishop Marion Forst was pastor of St. Mary's Cathedral in the late 1940s and early 1950s. But one thing has not changed, Forst said Sunday at a celebration by the cathedral for the 40th anniversary of the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese...

A Norwegian study says depressed workers are better at their jobs than happy people. All over the world, personnel directors who have been foisting perky, chirpy, cheerful co-workers on the rest of us are banging their heads into walls in dismay. Studies like this are what make the work place so interesting. The little guy in the next cubicle who never smiles or talks to anyone may not be plotting how to bring a submachine gun into the office. He's just figuring out a better coffee program...

Excuse me for interrupting this moment, when you're probably discussing the serious issues of Campaign '96 with your neighborhood focus group. I promise what I have to say won't take long. Cutting to the chase, I want to save a building. Now before you indignantly demand to know what is so important about saving a measly building when Clinton and Dole are taking such great pains to save America (from each other), let me explain this all has to do with more than saving a building...

Habitat for Humanity, a project begun two decades ago to provide homes for families that can't afford them through conventional means, is an exemplary grassroots approach to helping people acquire a piece of the American dream: home ownership. Since the project began in Southwest Georgia in 1976, Habitat for Humanity has been responsible for placing more than 50,000 families in new or renovated houses across the United States and in some foreign countries. ...

Statistics show that a lot of Southeast Missourian readers have joined the newspaper, the city of Cape Girardeau and the nation in committing to recycling newspapers. Newspapers are the easiest among recyclable items to turn in for recycling: Cape Girardeau residents simply place them in a bag to be picked up at curbside. ...

THIS IS about the geography lesson about Heidi Nieland's column Sept. 11. The person called talked about the Dukes of Hazzard set in Hazzard County, Ga. Well, that is correct, there is no Hazzard County, Ga. It's made up. But there is a Sparta, Ga. but it is not in Hazzard County, Ken. They've made this up, Hazzard County, Ga. That's where the show was based out of, Hazzard County, Ga. So the other caller is wrong for condemning her for what she said...

Dear Editor: I have been following with great enthusiasm the stories about the old St. Vincent's Seminary and potential ground use. I am delighted to finally see the community coming together to say what they would like there. Of particular interest of late is the number of callers to the "Speakout" columns about a botanical garden. ...

Cape Girardeau attorney Kenneth C. McManaman recently received the city police department's 1996 Outstanding Service Award. The recipient is a partner at the O'Loughlin, O'Loughlin and McManaman law firm. He also serves as municipal judge in Jackson and is a captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Naval Reserve...

PUXICO -- Virgie Allen, 89, died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at the Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born April 21, 1907, in Puxico, daughter of the late George L. and Elizabeth Mullens Tucker. She was a lifelong resident of Puxico and member of the Brown General Baptist Church. She married Ellsworth Allen on Oct. 3, 1924. He died Oct. 17, 1966...

SIKESTON -- Judy Hornback Wagner, 56, of Sikeston died Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born July 5, 1940, in Charleston to the Rev. William F. and Beulah Martin Hornback. She had been a licensed practical nurse at the Missouri Delta Medical Center for a number of years...

SCOTT CITY -- Henry Martin "Bud" Bader Jr., 75, of Scott City died Sunday, Sept. 22, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Aug. 20, 1921, in Illmo, son of Henry Martin and Maggie Lee O'Guin Bader. He was an electrician for RCA of Indianapolis and an Army veteran of World War II. He was a member of VFW Post 6407 in Scott City, the Kiwanis and was a former city councilman...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "The City Council is considering either amending the days fireworks can be shot, banning fireworks from being shot or leaving the ordinance intact, which states fireworks may be shot from June 20 to July 4. What do you think the City Council should do?...

Open Class Beef cattle Grand champion heifer: Birk Cattle Co., Jackson; reserve champion heifer: Meier Angus Farm, Jackson; grand champion bull: Meier Angus Farm, Jackson; reserve champion bull: Meier Angus Farm, Jackson. Polled Hereford Grand champion heifer: Aufdenberg Polled Hereford, Jackson; reserve champion heifer: Burns Polled Herefords, Coulterville, Ill.; grand champion bull: Birk Cattle Co., Gordonville; reserve champion bull: Brad Mueller, Perryville...