Stories from Monday, September 15, 1997

ULLIN, Ill. -- Dickerson Chevrolet has new owners and a new name. Donny Holley of Cape Girardeau and Jimmy Allen of Paducah, Ky., have purchased the Chevrolet dealership at Ullin, and will operate it as Cache River Chevrolet. Holley, formerly of Metropolis, Ill., has more than 20 years of experience in auto sales, seven of it in the Cape Girardeau area. Allen, who also owns a used car operation in Paducah, has more than 30 years of experience in the automotive field...

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce will join the Harrison College of Business and Small Business Development Center to sponsor the "interactive" satellite workshop Tuesday. Darryl Conner, founder and CEO of ODR Inc., an Atlanta-based research and development firm, internationally recognized in the field of change management, will present the satellite program, from noon to 2...

Caterpillar Inc., headquartered at Peoria, Ill., has concluded a deal to sell $175 million worth of mine equipment to precious metal interests in Indonesia. Caterpillar will sell 120 trucks, tractors and other equipment to Indonesia's P.T. Newmont Nusa Tenaggara, which is jointly owned by Denver-based Newmont Gold, Japan's Sumitomo Corp. of Japan and P.T. Pukuafu Indah of Indonesia...

Jack Ferris, National Federation of Independent Business president will end a weeklong small business celebration tour of Missouri Sept. 26, at Cape Girardeau. Ferris will appear at a barbecue to be sponsored here by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce...

Rose Lee Nussbaum of Whitewater, filled a Mason jar with finished molasses from the cooling tub. Steve Meier of Jackson fed sorghum cane into a press while his 9-year-old Belgian draft horse, Duke, walked in a circle to power the press. Marilyn Neal, left, and Maggie Williams, both of Gordonville, stripped sorghum cane stalks before the stalks were cut on the John and Ellen Lorberg farm near Gordonville...

Westvaco Corp., a major manufacturer of paper, packaging and chemicals, were down for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal 1997, which ended July 31. Westvaco, which includes a paper processing facility at Wickliffe, Ky., reported sales at $738 million the third quarter, down 3 percent from the same period in 1996. Third-quarter earnings were $39 million, or 38 cents per share, down 14 percent from the $44 million or 43 cents a share during the same period a year ago...

Just because it's rusty, dented, dinged or bent doesn't mean it's worthless. No one knows that better than Cleo Edward Johns, who will soon bid goodbye to a lifelong career of nails, bolts, chunks of iron and steel. Johns Metal-Iron and Salvage Co., 1110 S. Kingshighway, is to close its doors within the next few weeks...

The Nash Road extension to the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority could be completed soon. Randy Hitt, area engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation, said last week that the new extension should be in place by the end of September...

The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in four areas this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sept. 24, at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...

Atlas Cold Storage Missouri Limited is the newest business to announce it will locate in the new Sikeston Business and Technology Park. Atlas, which warehouses and distributes ice cream for Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream, will build a 168,500-square-foot facility in the new park...

"Smarketing," the developing of tools to drive your business marketing plans into the year 2000, will be the theme of Business Expo '97, a two-day extravaganza Friday and Saturday at the Show Me Center. The event, designed to allow businesses to showcase products and services, is sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. Corporate sponsors are Craftsman Office Supply and Computers...

Mary Stucker of Cape Girardeau has joined the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce as a part-time employee. Stucker worked at the Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau for seven years but opted for the part-time position to spend more time with her young children...

Plaza Tire Service Inc. of Cape Girardeau has opened a new store in Farmington. Keith Lay will manage the new six-bay store at 747 Weber Road. Plaza Tire has 26 stores in Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas. The Farmington store marks the fifth new store for the company in 1997. Earlier this year, stores were opened in Pocahontas and Searcy in Arkansas, and in Fredericktown and Perryville in Missouri...

The residents of Recardo Drive who have been having to look at the erosion in the Red Oaks subdivision won't get much relief whatever the Cape Girardeau City Council does tonight. City Engineer Mark Lester recommends that the council refuse to accept that subdivision's detention basin from its developer, Larry McCulley...

ULLIN, Ill. -- The old Illinois Central Railroad Depot has been saved from demolition. The almost century-old structure will be moved from its current location alongside Illinois Central Railroad tracks to a city-owned site along the east side of the tracks...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Train whistles, lonesome or otherwise, no longer pierce the air at Tamms. The tracks have long been destroyed, but the railroad has not been forgotten in this small Southern Illinois community. An old railroad depot, previously owned by the Chicago Eastern Illinois Railroad, is a cornerstone of the village and serves as a historical reminder of the heyday railroad days in Southern Illinois...

The Missouri Transportation Department of Transportation plans to take a closer look at the Highway 34 corridor as a possible route for a proposed interstate highway. The state's Highways and Transportation Commission has authorized the agency to do a location and environmental study of Highway 34, between Cape Girardeau and Van Buren...

Anyone wanting to comb their hair in Capaha Park Sunday afternoon didn't need a mirror. More than 150 highly polished cars sat in the park reflecting images as well as any looking glasses. Hoods, trunk lids, fenders and chrome gleamed in the sunlight as hundreds of people admired not just the polish but the craftsmanship and the love that those who entered the annual River City Rodders Car Show put into their vehicles...

I was very surprised to get a call from an old boyfriend the other day. Scott, who now lives in Kentucky, called, seeking forgiveness. I hadn't thought about Scott in a long time, so I'd managed to sort of block out the fact he'd done anything for which he needed to be forgiven...

I'M ALWAYS shocked and amazed at the Scott City residents who criticize and at their ignorance of what really happens in Scott City. You never see them volunteering, sitting in a council meeting or chamber of commerce meetings or other town meetings. ...

I believe it was that wise native Missouri philosopher, Yogi Berra, who once said, "The only time we really need prosperity is in tough times." Well, as revenue reports indicate, state government in Missouri is currently enjoying an abundance of prosperity, with tax collections at new records almost every month, and nary a word of bad times crossing the lips of elected officials in the City of Jefferson...

Cape Girardeau countians can look forward to December and findings of a study to determine the county's public transportation needs. It will be interesting to see what the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission, which has been conducting the study for some time, comes up with. Perhaps it will lead to a more coordinated approach to transportation needs than is being done now with every agency and organization that provides public transportation going its own way...

Researchers in Illinois are trying to find a solution to an age-old problem: the stench that comes from hog-raising operations. Researchers all over Illinois are pursuing a means to reduce the odor: At Illinois State University, scientists are combining manure with yard waste to create a high-quality compost. ...

It doesn't look like a school yet -- it could pass for a warehouse under construction -- but it's certainly bigger than the building the Eagle Ridge Christian School occupies today. Janice Margrabe, the Eagle Ridge school principal and third- and fourth-grade teacher, hopes to move children into the building by the beginning of the next semester. The school's current rented quarters are awfully crowded...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "How do you feel about Missouri sheriffs departments releasing the names of convicted sex offenders?" Sam McVay, Jackson "One side of me wants to know and the other side is wondering how those people will ever be able to get a job or anything with that released. I just have very mixed emotions about it. I think it's the right thing to do to release the names."...

The Cape Jaycees held their annual Punt, Pass and Kick Competition last weekend for area youths. The following local winners advance to sectional competition: Taylor Herbst (Boys, 8-9), Jacob Welch (Boys, 10-11), Brittni Welch (Girls, 10-11), Eric Grabel (Boys, 12-13), Jessica Estes (Girls, 12-13) and John Snider (Boys, 14-15)...

Violet B. Price, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 16, 1920, in Jackson, the daughter of Wiley Thomas "Tom" and Rada M. Niswonger Seabaugh. She married Richard S. Price. He survives...

SCOTT CITY -- Ralph F. Hayes, 73, of Scott City died Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Jan. 26, 1924, in Wayne County, the son of Leonard and Clara Elder Hayes. On Sept. 8, 1950, he married Lucille Rich. He served as police chief of Scott City and Senath...

ADVANCE -- Funeral services for Myrl Dean Harris, 59, of Advance are today at 2 p.m. at Hutchings Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill, with the Rev. George Hutchings presiding. Burial will follow in Baker Cemetery. Harris died Friday, Sept. 12, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...

ADVANCE -- Luther Harmon Winkler, 79, of Advance died Sunday, Sept. 14, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Jan. 1, 1918, in Marble Hill, the son of Henry Allen and Lucille Turner Winkler. On July 18, 1990, he married Mary Boyer. He fixed sewing machines at a dress factory...

CAIRO, Ill.-- Edna M. Dover, 63, of Cairo died Saturday, Sept. 13, 1997, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo.

Monday, Sept. 15, 1997, 7:30 p.m. Public Hearings -- On constructing sanitary sewers for Lateral Sewer District No. 14-1-C-2, Cape Commercial Park Subdivision. -- On constructing a water main to serve the Twin Lakes Subdivision. Consent ordinances, second and third readings.:...

City Hall Monday, Sept. 15, 7:30 p.m. Public hearings -- Hearing on special-use permit for to operate family home day care at 820 Amanda St. as submitted by Tammy Vomund. Action items -- Consider authorizing lease on property at 198 Oak Hill Road. -- Consider authorizing an agreement relative to power sale and purchase agreement among Marceline, Mo., Jackson and the Missouri Joint Municipal Electric Utility Commission...

Kenneth H. Morris, 83, of St. Charles, Ill., and formerly of Anna, Ill., died Sunday, Sept. 14, 1997, at Community Hospital in Geneva, Ill. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and until the time of service on Wednesday at the Crain Funeral Home in Anna...