Stories from Tuesday, May 27, 1997

Christy Yount of Cape Girardeau has received the 1997 Dougie Manthey Nurse of the Year Award at St. Francis Medical Center. The recognition is presented annually to a nurse nominated by peers, co-workers and leaders. Yount was selected for excellence in professional nursing practice and exemplifying the "Spirit of St. Francis Nurses."...

Seifert's Plus has been added to the Seifert's store at West Park Mall. The new department carries sizes 14 to 24. Judy Hines has been added to the Seifert's staff to assist in the Seifert's Plus department. Peggy Tinsley is manager of the Seifert's store...

American Express Financial Advisors Inc., a nationwide financial planning and services company, has opened an office at 2849 Independence. Bradley B. Mouser, a certified financial planner and certified public accountant, managed the office. Mouser, who has a master's degree in business administration and finance from Baylor University, has been a financial adviser with American Express for three years in the Dallas area. He previously worked with Texas Instrument in Dallas...

Subway, which opened at 701 Broadway recently, has announced new hours. The new restaurant, which will serve breakfast, will be open from 7:30 a.m. to midnight Monday through Friday; 10 a.m. to midnight Saturday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday.

U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson will unveil a new business and economic development group in the 8th Congressional District this week. Emerson will announce the new 8th Congressional District Business and Economic Development Advisory Team on Wednesday at two sites, from 8 to 10 a.m. ...

Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel, 829 N. West End Blvd., has become an agency for the Modern Woodmen of America Life Inc. Co. that offers life insurance and annuity products. As a fraternal life insurance society, Modern Woodmen is a not-for-profit company. Modern Woodmen, founded in 1883, serves more than 750,000 members nationwide...

The St. Francis Medical Center and WTAO-FM Radio of Carbondale, Ill., have received citations of excellence at the Ninth District American Advertising Federation Awards at St. Louis. St. Francis was recognized for it multi-media ad campaign, "Higher Level," by Deborah Vandeven, Michael Simmons and Red Letter Communications Agency. WTAO-FM was honored for its "Hootie Bumper Sticker" program, by Paxton Guy and Jim Cook...

Turner Dairies Inc. of Sikeston has won two big awards. The dairy is winner of the Quality Chekd Dairies' Harley F. Zimmerman Award for marketing excellence and the Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce's "Employer of the Month" award in April. The "Zimmie Award" recognizes the Turner company for its marketing programs that meet defined sales and profit objectives through well-planned strategies...

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the addition of just 10 new industry jobs can have a dramatic impact on a community. Check the latest statistics: -- Population increase of 36. -- 10 new households. -- 9.1 more schoolchildren. -- $41,000 increase in personal income...

Add another name to the changing banking scene in Cape Girardeau County -- People's Bank. In a recent article on the sudden bank boom in the county, some new names were listed -- Alliance, Capaha, First National Bank & Trust Illinois-Missouri, NationsBank...

Vikings, U.S.A. Restaurant has opened at Scott City. The new restaurant, owned by Roger and Margaret Noel, is at 615 Second St. "We provide a full menu," said Noel. The menu includes breakfast, sandwiches and dinner plates, featuring chicken, steaks and fish...

Missouri's economy is strong. This year it looks even better. Joseph L. Driskill, director of Missouri Department of Economic Development, said the state is emerging as an economic leader in the Midwest and is rolling into its fifth year of an economic boom...

Ujamaa Mini Mall, opening next month in north St. Louis, is a bit different from most malls in the area. The strip mall, to open June 30, is the first in the country to be managed by public housing residents. Ujamaa, which in Swahili means "cooperative economics," is an attempt by Cochran Gardens residents to provide jobs and services that aren't being offered in their neighborhood...

DeCota Electric Supply has been named "Small Business of the Year" at Sikeston. DeCota, founded in 1971, has expanded from the original store with three employees to sites at Sikeston, Poplar Bluff and Cape Girardeau and more than 30 employees.

The Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors has raised more than $1,000 for RPAC this year. RPAC-Missouri is a separate political action committee organized under state law to raise funds and contribute to candidates. Thomas M. Meyer, RPAC chairman, conducted an RPAC auction to raise funds for the group...

About 250 people gathered in the Osage Community Centre on Memorial Day to remember those who gave their lives for their country, but most seemed to miss something. Because of the threat of rain, Monday's Memorial Day service was held indoors. There was no Avenue of Flags -- 400 flags lining a quarter-mile of road in Cape Girardeau County Park. ...

Parents and child-care providers have many good things to say about the Division of Family Services Income Maintenance Program but say there's always room for improvement. Many of the child-care providers in Cape Girardeau accept children enrolled in the program, which pays a portion of the child-care costs for eligible parents. Providers said the program is helpful for everyone involved because providers get children and parents get dependable child care...

Parents receiving government aid and who want to go to work or to school while providing adequate care for their children now have better access to child-care assistance. The Income-Maintenance Program offered by the Division of Family Services pays for a portion of child-care expenses for eligible parents while they are working, at school or pursuing other types of job training. ...

Bill Davis and his daughter, Claire, of Cape Girardeau visited the Reynolds House on Monday during La Fete Francaise. Claire tried her hand at using tools which are about as old as the Reynolds House, built in 1857. Those who waited on the banks of the Mississippi may have felt propelled back 200 years as French fiddlers played and Don Louis Lorimier and his wife Charlotte arrived in a canoe...

Leading economic indicators show that Cape Girardeau County could be in the midst of one of its most sustained periods of economic growth in recent years. The foundations are in place, and now is the time to build on them. Manufacturing continues to grow and prosper, agriculture production continues to provide a cornerstone for many local economies, and the retail sector is growing in the hub city of Cape Girardeau...

Regular readers of the Southeast Missourian know that the paper is devoting a lot of ink this week to a report released by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce on the city's quality of life. The report evaluates several different areas of life in Cape Girardeau, pointing out strengths and weaknesses in education, public safety, government, the economy, culture, health, and the environment...

Five years after Missourians voted to phase in a 6-cent gas tax increase over five years to carry out a highway improvement program, they find themselves saddled with the added tax and drastically insufficient revenue to fund the program. The state's Total Transportation Commission was told this month that the state is about $14 billion short of being able to carry out all of the work that was promised in exchange for the gas tax increase. ...

The Mississippi County Commission's decision to build a new county courthouse rather than repair the 100-year-old courthouse that was heavily damaged by arson on Feb. 10 makes fiscal sense. The commission was faced with spending $2.5 million to build a courthouse and $3.5 million to repair the fire-damaged courthouse in Charleston. ...

To the editor: As I sat here at the Scopus store, I listened to some of the old-timers talk about how their great-great-granddaddys came here to start a new life. Some had fought for the North and some for the South. Some families were split, with one brother wearing blue and the other one gray. ...

The Shawnee Boy Scouts Council has a new opportunity for boys and girls interested in law enforcement. People ages 14 to 20 that have completed the eighth grade may participate in the new Boy Scouts Law Enforcement Explorer Post. There will be a First Nighter for Exploring event at 7 tonight in the Cape Girardeau Police Department's second-floor training room...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "Do you think Southeast Missouri State University officials acted appropriately in firing head basketball coach Ron Shumate?" Ryan Murphy, St. Charles "I don't think so. I don't think they should have fired him. ...

Sam Unnerstall was 10 years old when his father, Frank, moved the family drugstore into new quarters at 630 Good Hope St. Sam worked in the fountain and was in charge of comic books. When Unnerstall's Drug Store closes Friday after 70 years in business on Good Hope Street, he said, "It's going to be hard to walk off and leave all these people."...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Sally Katherine McMikle, 96, formerly of East Prairie, died Sunday, May 25, 1997, at the Bertrand Retirement Center. She was born Feb. 27, 1901, in New Madrid County to William M. and Mary Patterson Black. She married Joseph Bernie McMikle on Feb. 23, 1919, and he preceded her in death on Feb. 22, 1982...

MILLERSVILLE -- Delta Hunter "Delt" Limbaugh, 88, of Mission, Texas, died Saturday, May 24, 1997, in Mission. He was born July 19, 1908, in Millersville, son of Arthur and Willie Mae Moore Limbaugh. He was a resident of Santa Monica, Calif., from 1959 to 1994 before moving to Mission...

JACKSON -- Robert J. Morton, 63, of Jackson, died Sunday, May 25, 1997, at St. Frances Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

PERRYVILLE -- Harold J. Ellis, 83, of Perryville died Monday, May 26, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 6, 1914, in Perry County to Harry and Lottie Kline Ellis. He married Catherine M. Erlacker on Feb. 7, 1942...

BELL CITY -- Sheila Ann Jennings, 58, of Bell City died Saturday May 24, 1997, at her home. She was born Sept. 18, 1939, in Bell City, the daughter of John and Edith Pyle Jennings. She was a graduate of Bell City High School. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. today at Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Advance with Bro. Louis Gardner officiating...

BLOOMFIELD -- Cleo "Joe" Rhine, 73, of Bloomfield died Saturday, May 24, 1997 at Dexter Memorial Hospital. He was born Feb. 28, 1924, in Bakersfield, Mo., son of Bert and Ann McFarland Rhine. He married Elsie Bolden on Sept. 27, 1941, at Grayridge. He was a retired carpenter. He lived in Michigan for about 14 years and was a former resident of Grayridge and Idalia...

Oscar Burette "Cookie" Cook, 93, of 717 N. Sprigg St. died Monday May 26, 1997, at Ratliff Care Center. He was born Aug. 18, 1903, in Brownwood, the son of Eugene Jefferson and Mary Fife Cook. On Aug. 8, 1923, he married Mamie E. Zimmerman. He worked for Federal Material Co. in Cape Girardeau from 1926 to 1970. He was a member of Teamsters Union Local 513...

Emilie Moeslein, 93, of Altenburg died Saturday, May 24, 1997, at her home. She was born Dec. 25, 1903, in Altenburg to Joseph and Johanna Ahner Hoehn. She married Charles Frederick Moeslein on Sept. 17, 1923, and he preceded her in death Aug. 19, 1988...

PERRYVILLE -- LeRoy August Henry Ochs, 83, of Perryville died Monday, May 26, 1996, at Perry Oaks Healthcare. He was born Sept. 30, 1913, in Longtown, the son of August and Clara Meyer Ochs. He married Emma Weinrich on Sept. 26, 1948. He was retired from International Shoe...

James M. Haynes Sr., 76, of 1637 Oak Hills Drive, died Saturday, May 24, 1997, at his home. He was born Sept. 26, 1920, at Bloomfield, son of Henry Nelson and Stella M. Cartwright Haynes. He married Alma Mae Newell on July 21, 1945. in Cape Girardeau. She preceded him in death Jan. 25, 1988...

Kathryn A. Strain died Monday, May 26, 1997, at her home on Kentucky Lake. Plans are incomplete at Lorberg Funeral Chapel.

SIKESTON -- Joseph E. Schlosser, 45, of Sikeston died Saturday, May 24, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau due to complications following a massive stroke. He was born Aug. 18, 1951, at Sikeston, son of P.J. and Geraldine Marie Brewer Schlosser. He and Sandra Kay Noles were married on Dec. 28, 1972. She survives...