Stories from Monday, October 11, 1999

Pocahontas Lumber & Hardware Inc. of Jackson has been honored by Ace Hardware Corp., for sales and service. Pocahontas Lumber, 410 W. Independence in Jackson, received an engraved plaque from Ace Hardware. The store is a major supplier of home building and home improvement products, and celebrated its 50th year in business earlier this year...

Signs of yesteryear can pass to another generation at an auction. Cows, pigs, farm machinery, household goods, collectibles, photos, recipes and maybe even a jar of grandma's homemade preserves; where do you find all this? Why, at an auction, of course!...

Tuesday Jackson Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours 5 p.m., at Ford Groves Motor Co. in Jackson. Thursday Regional Commerce & Growth Association annual banquet, Drury Lodge, 6 p.m. Friday Jackson Chamber of Commerce Business Breakfast, 7:30 a.m., Enchanted Gardens...

The Internal Revenue Service and the Missouri Department of Revenue will host a "Problem Solving Day" in Cape Girardeau Oct. 20. The special problem solving day will be held from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m at the IRS office at 137 S. Broadview. Appointments are available by calling the IRS at (800) 401-3073...

Sandy Quigley has been promoted to manager of Gulliver's Travel Agency, 111 N. Missouri St., Jackson. Quigley has more than five years experience with travel agency corporate and leisure sales, including three years of agency accounting experience. She has traveled extensive the past two years, visiting more than 20 destinations and six countries. She recently returned from a six-day adventure tour of Costa Rica that included hiking the Arenal Volcano and whitewater rafting...

Stress management, communications, the Fair Labor Standard Act, and other topics will be discussed at the annual Human Resources Conference and Exhibit, to be held at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau Nov. 18. The conference, sponsored by Cape Area Personnel Association, will get under way with registration at 8:30 a.m...

Hefner's Furniture and Appliance, headquartered at Poplar Bluff, will open a warehouse outlet store in Farmington this month. Joe Joiner, who has been with Hefner's four years, will be general manager. The new store will be located at 4850 Highway 67 N. in Farmington...

Spartech Corp., headquartered in St. Louis, has purchased the net assets of Accura Molding Company, Ltd., a manufacturer of water purification systems and custom injection molded products. Accura, headquartered in Brampton, Ontario, had annual sales of $11.1 million during is most recent fiscal year...

Thorngate Ltd. is looking for a few good people. That should come as some good news to employees at Columbia Sportswear and, or Florsheim Shoes. Both operations announced plant closings in recent weeks. Thorngate plant manager Ron Dirnberger said 50 new employees are needed...

Christi Leigh Dockins Guilliams, of McCombs Funeral Homes, has completed requirements to become a licensed funeral director in Missouri. Guilliams is the first licensed female funeral director in Jackson, and will direct funerals at McCombs Funeral Homes in Jackson and Cape Girardeau. Her husband, Rick, is also a licensed funeral director with McCombs, which was established in 1906...

Clint E. Karnes has been named vice president in the Small Business Banking Division of Bank of America. He will serve small business customers in the area. Karnes has more than 14 years experience in the financial services industry, and has been with Bank of America's mortgage company since 1995. He served as banking center manager at the West Frankfort Bank of America before being named banking center manager in Cape Girardeau...

The new Drury Inns & Suites opened recently at 201 N. St. Mary's St., on the famous Paseo Del Rio (Riverwalk) in San Antonio, Texas. The project preserved many of the architectural highlights of the original facility, constructed in 1920. From a rundown, deteriorating, windowless structure, the historic Atlee B. Ayres City Public Service Building, on the famed San Antonio Riverwalk has been transformed into a 150-room Drury Inn and Suites hotel...

This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. If you've read much about financial planning, you've probably come across the idea that you will need anywhere from 60 percent to 80 percent of your annual pre-retirement income for each and every year of your retirement. ...

Shawn Christian Seabaugh has been named worksite specialist by the Missouri Mentoring Partnership (MMP) for Cape Girardeau and Scott counties. Marge Sullivan, MMP coordinator, announced the appointment recently. Seabuagh works with youths and employers in the mentoring program, which offers youths opportunity for employment, as well as in corporate recruitment and placement...

Hefner's Furniture and Appliance, headquartered at Poplar Bluff, will open a warehouse outlet store in Farmington this month. Joe Joiner, who has been with Hefner's four years, will be general manager. The new store will be located at 4850 Highway 67 N. in Farmington...

Thomas M. Metzger has been named president of Firstar Corporation's middle market banking division in the St. Louis market. Metzger, a St. Louis native, previously served as executive vice president and chief credit officer for Mercantile Bancorporation. He has 25 years of banking experience, 15 of them with Mercantile...

Irma Lappe of Cape Girardeau is owner of a new 1999 Chevy Tracker. Lappe won the vehicle during the Summer Splash Giveaway at Players Island Casino in Metropolis.

Steven Hoffman, a forestry journeyman lineman for Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative at Dongola, Ill, attended an electrical lineman climbing school recently at Lincoln Land Community College in Springfield. The training course, hosted by the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives (AIEC) in Springfield, was a two-week program, which demonstrated electric pole climbing, electrical theory and safety techniques...

Connie Hess, certified tumor registrar at Southeast Missouri Hospital, has been elected vice president of the Missouri State Tumor Registrars Association (MoSTRA). MoSTRA includes about 100 members, representing 150 Missouri hospitals. Hess, an employee at Southeast Hospital since 1988, attained her registrar designation in 1992. She is member of the National Cancer Registrars Association and the Bootheel Cancer Registrars Association...

Whether it comes from stories passed around or portrayals of scenes in movies and on television, Catholic schools often get a bad rap, with depictions of nuns in habits reining strict control over unruly children. But a variety of factors have changed the face of the Catholic school...

Firefighters don't die as often anymore, which made the death of a Howell County firefighter last week near West Plains significant. From Lee's Summit to St. Louis to Springfield and Cape Girardeau, firefighters gathered in West Plains on Friday for the funeral of 20-year-old Jeff Thompson. He was electrocuted while crossing a metal fence to fight a grass fire last Monday...

Third-quarter construction contracts, fueled by single-family housing in July and September and by a giant school construction contract in August, have surpassed last year's first nine months. More than $3.5 million for 26 single-family homes and a $9.8 million building permit for the Cape Girardeau Area Career Center sent third-quarter totals to more than $16.9 million and to 324 permits and $34,532,000 for the year...

Fifteen years ago this month Cathy Haven became the first person to have open-heart surgery performed in Southeast Missouri. Haven, who lives in Portageville, is still going strong as is Southeast Missouri Hospital's Regional Heart Center, where she was the first patient to have open-heart surgery. The date was Oct. 1, 1984...

After a brief interruption of funding, federal Weed and Seed grant money again is flowing to the Southeast Missouri Weed and Seed program. But it comes only after the regional board scrambled to correct some matters the federal government didn't like, which is why the money was withheld...

The Missouri Conservation Department will spend $75,000 for improvements to Lake Girardeau largely because of complaints raised by local fishermen. The Conservation Commission recently approved the expenditure to install two new handicapped-accessible, precast concrete privies; construct a pavilion and a new trail; renovate the existing fishing dock and build another fishing dock; and install new barbecue grills...

To the editor: I read your Oct. 6 article regarding the Jackson Band Festival and have taken some time to cool off before corresponding with you. I would like to ask you and the Missourian staff one very simple question: Are you, for any reason, hesitant to write the complimentary articles that are so clearly appropriate in supporting the Cape Girardeau School District for a job well done?...

Tennessee Tech scored in the closing seconds of the first half and that goal held up as the Eaglettes knocked off host Southeast Missouri State University 1-0 Sunday afternoon in a women's college soccer game at Sprigg Street Field. The Eaglettes improved to 4-11 overall and 2-2 in Ohio Valley Conference play. The Otahkians fell to 1-6-1 overall, 1-1-1 in the OVC...

The Perryville and Kelly high school softball teams will play their state quarterfinal games today at the Kirkwood City Park in St. Louis after Saturday's action was rained out. Perryville (15-14) faces Lutheran South (24-4) in a Class 3A game while Kelly (22-3) takes on Linn (20-6) in Class 2A. Start time is 6 p.m. for both games...

Bonnie Dodd died at her home Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Funeral Chapel.

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Harold L. Roach, 69, of Jonesboro died Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center at Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Hileman and Parr Funeral Services at Jonesboro.

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Allie J. Aubuchon, 96, of Sedgewickville died Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, at Perry Oaks Healthcare at Perryville. She was born Aug. 26, 1903, at Bollinger County, daughter of Thomas Jefferson and Amanda Alice Statler Garland. She and Oscar Joseph Aubuchon were married Sept. 1, 1928. He died May 21, 1999...

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Stan Aldridge, 51, of Wolf Lake died Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at Union County Hospital at Anna. He was born April 20, 1948, at Cape Girardeau, son of Charles and Edith Walker Aldridge. He was a graduate of Belleville West High School and attended Southern Illinois University and Elmhurst College. ...

MARBLE HILL -- Bollinger County Commissioner Jerry E. Woodfin, 67, of Marble Hill died Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, at his home. He had served on the commission for the past 20 years. Woodfin was born May 22, 1932, near Lutesville, the son of Robert L. and Opal E. Francis Woodfin. He and Dorothy M. Null were married July 8, 1950...

POCAHONTAS -- Dallas F. Bruhl, 77, of Pocahontas died Saturday, Oct. 9, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born April 5, 1922, at Pocahontas, son of Rudolf and Edna Adams Bruhl. He and Gleeda Ruehling were married Aug. 21, 1948. He was a farmer in the Pocahontas community since 1948. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and served on various church committees. He was a former Farm Bureau board member and had been a Safe-Mark Tire Dealer for the Farm Bureau...