Stories from Friday, October 15, 1999

To the editor: Just recently there appeared in TBY quite a lengthy and interesting article about Dr. Robert F. Wichterich, a well-known and popular doctor in early years. The date of his purchasing land for the purpose of building a home was May 11, 1906. That caught my attention immediately, since my twin sister and I were born May 15, 1906...

To the editor: I am a member of the Jackson High School Marching Chiefs and have been for three years. Just recently we held the 55th annual band festival at Jackson, complete with parade and performances. I am happy to say that all band festivals I have participated in have been most enjoyable. It gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling to see 20-plus bands lining up to parade through town and to see the immense crowd six and eight deep lining the streets...

Even a week after the first substantial rainfall in weeks fell on Cape Girardeau, there are lingering signs of moisture: greening grass, reinvigorated late flowers, fuller ponds and streams. And brighter attitudes. For the hundreds of people who came to downtown Cape Girardeau for the City of Roses Festival, it was hard to find anyone grumbling too much about the rain that dampened last Friday's musical performances...

For most of us, it seems as though there has always been a Billy Graham. For those of us who have never attended one of the evangelist's crusades, we have heard him on the radio or watched him on television or read his widely syndicated newspaper column...

Jennings fit Lukens with a mask to ease his breathing while he slept. The the leads connect from the patient to a control box. Asleep at the wheel isn't just an old song. Sometimes it's an old medical condition that needs treatment. Snoring, sleepwalking and 82 other habits make up a clinically defined list of sleep disorders. Sleep disorders are defined as behavioral or physical conditions that prevent a good night's sleep...

Jennings fit Lukens with a mask to ease his breathing while he slept. The the leads connect from the patient to a control box. Asleep at the wheel isn't just an old song. Sometimes it's an old medical condition that needs treatment. Snoring, sleepwalking and 82 other habits make up a clinically defined list of sleep disorders. Sleep disorders are defined as behavioral or physical conditions that prevent a good night's sleep...

The liver has the distinction of being the largest gland in the body weighing in at about three to four pounds. Turgid with nourishment, it is teeming with fiercely efficient enzymes that detoxify our body. The liver is a smooth, maroon organ crouched under the right side of the diaphragm among its more submissive and slippery bellymates. ...

ST. LOUIS -- Racial harmony can be found when people begin to repent their sins, said the Rev. Billy Graham. The problems of the world aren't social or racial or even educational, but sinful, he said. Graham spoke to 40,000 people Thursday night at the Trans World Dome in St. Louis. It was his third crusade in St. Louis and his last for the year. Graham, who began his ministry in 1949 in Los Angeles, held crusades here in 1953 and 1973...

ST. LOUIS -- Gymnast Mary Lou Retton didn't have any problems raising the American flag when she won the gold in the 1984 Olympics. But she had a hard time taking a stand for her faith. "It was tough, and I was very reluctant to raise my flag for Jesus Christ," said Retton, 31, the first American gymnast to win a gold medal...

While nearby Branson was getting all the glory, this Arkansas village-on-a-mountain was just getting better. Thirty-two years ago, my wife and I spent a few days in Eureka Springs, Ark. We went there thinking we might wind up living there. In the end, we chose to move to Dallas instead...

Morgan Dambach is eager to reread "Rimwalkers" now that she knows events from it were based on author Vicki Grove's life. Dambach, a fifth-grader at May Greene School learned this fact Thursday at the Children/Young Adults' Literature Festival where Grove spoke. At the festival, which continues today at Southeast Missouri State University, authors Grove, Gary Bowen and Arielle North Olson talked to area third- through ninth-graders about their books and the art of writing...

METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Parking could be a problem at the annual Fort Massac Encampment, to be held on the bluffs above the Ohio River Saturday and Sunday. The annual encampment festival re-creates the British, French and colonial American military encampments that occupied the historic Fort Massac, between 1757 and 1814...

You don't have to be a jazz aficionado to enjoy next week's concert by the Air Force Band of Mid-America's Shades of Blue Jazz Ensemble, said the band's director. "A lot of these will be tunes audience members will know," said Master Sgt. Rosalind Zopp, the noncommissioned officer in charge of Shades of Blue. "It's all very listenable."...

You can bid on items like Beanie Babies and an autographed St. Louis Blues hockey stick while helping homeless animals at the 19th annual Humane Society of Southeast Missouri Fund-raising Auction. The event at the A.C. Brace Arena Building will begin at 5:30 p.m. with a dinner catered by Mollie's and proceed to an evening of auctioneering and award-giving. Tickets are $15 in advance; call 334-5837...

Athletics, education and motivation will be presented in a highly technical and competitive package next week when the Go For It! road show arrives in Cape Girardeau. "If you could imagine the biggest concert you've ever been to, add a huge laser show, athletics, dancers -- it's an incredible show," said Rachel Keller, director of marketing for Healthsouth in Cape Girardeau. "It is just unbelievable the noise, the screaming kids, the enthusiasm that's in their faces."...

When is a tie really a win? When it secures a No. 1 seed in a district tournament. Though Cape Central's Chris Cole provided a crowd-pleasing, game-tying shot with less than a minute left in the game, Jackson still got what it needed in a 2-2 tie in a rare prime-time, under-the-lights event at Southeast Missouri State's soccer field Thursday night...

Remember two weeks ago when Jackson totally dominated Beaumont 49-6 in a game that could've easily been 70-something to six had Jackson coach Carl Gross not started pulling his starters before halftime? This week's game could be much, much worse. Soldan -- Jackson's opponent tonight at 7:30 -- lost to Beaumont 67-0...

On paper, Cape Central and St. Charles West look flat even. Or evenly flat, depending on how one looks at it. Both teams, which square off tonight at 7:30 in St. Charles, give up a little more than 32 points per game. The Warriors average seven points per game, while Central's offense averages nine...

How successful was Cape Central at the SEMO Conference Cross Country Meet Thursday at Cape County Park? The school recorded a clean sweep within its sweep of four races. Cape Central recorded decisive victories in each race, including a perfect 15 score in the girls' JV race...

Cape Girardeau Central High's girls tennis squad begins what figures to be a tough road to the state team tournament when sectional play begins today. In years past, the four sectional participants gathered at one site for one-day competition to determine the sectional champion and the state berth...

If you're a high school football fan and you don't follow one particular team, the Sikeston-New Madrid game at Sikeston tonight would likely be your game of choice. Without question, Sikeston's Justin Robinson and New Madrid's Ricky Smith are the top two running backs in the region this year and the two will go head-to-head tonight...

Tom Moore recently carded his second career hole-in-one at Cape Girardeau Country Club. Moore Moore aced the 135-yard No. 6 hole with an 8-iron. Witnesses were Frank Glueck, Dan Riley and Bill Bouley.

The Kohlfeld Scorpions Rugby Club will host its annual Bootheel Tournament Saturday at Arena Park. Joining the Scorpions win the tourney will be teams from Little Rock, Ark.; the University of Illinois; Southern Illinois University; Ft. Campbell, Ky.; and Paducah, Ky...

Kent Phillips recorded a hole-in-one at Bent Creek Golf Course Monday participating in the Woody Rushing Memorial Golf Tournament. Phillips used a 7-iron to ace No. 13, a 182-yard par 3. The shot was witnessed by Danny Groesbeck, Andy McIntosh and Rob Parrent...

SCOTT CITY -- Graveside service for Dylan Michael Don Little was held Thursday at Lightner Cemetery. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City was in charge of arrangements. The infant was stillborn Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

MATTHEWS -- Funeral for Margaret Ann Ross will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Revs. Carl Odell and Dean Phillips will officiate. Burial will be in Matthews Cemetery. Ross, 88, died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999, at Gideon Care Center...

MATTHEWS -- Glenda Conrad, 88, died Sunday, Oct. 10, 1999, at Latah Health Services in Moscow, Idaho. She was born Feb. 5, 1911, at Matthews, daughter of Leroy David and Effie Mainord Waters. She and Benton Bollinger "Deac" Conrad were married May 29, 1938, in Sikeston. He died Sept. 3, 1983...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral for Jerry L. Morton of Charleston will be held at 2 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Gerald Penn will officiate. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9:30 a.m. until service time...

SIKESTON -- Billy Eugene Childers, 66, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999, at Missouri Delta MedicalCenter. He was born March 9, 1933, in East Prairie, son of Ed and Joy V. Collins Childers. He and Betty L. Ingram were married in 1954. Childers was a retired truck driver, and member of the Eagles Aerie and American Legion Post. He served in the U.S. Air Force...

MILLERSVILLE -- Funeral for Dorothy E. Marks of Memphis, Tenn., was held Oct. 6. The Revs. Brooks Ramsey and Patricia Snyder officiated. Burial was in Memorial Park in Memphis. Announcement courtesy of Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson. Marks, 83, died Monday, Oct. 4, 1999, at Baptist Memorial Hospital East in Memphis...

PERRYVILLE -- Lester J. Brown, 69, of Perryville died Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Oct. 11, 1930, at Perryville, son of Moritz J. and Ellen Doll Brown. He and Juanita Jones were married May 11, 1954. Brown was a heavy equipment operator at Tower Rock and had farmed. He was a member of AmVets Post 94 and American Legion Post 133. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War...

MOREHOUSE -- Funeral for Ruth Stroud of Morehouse will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Morehouse. The Rev. Tim Russell will officiate. Burial will be in Triplett Cemetery near Dexter. Stroud, 85, died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999, at Clearview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sikeston...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral for Charles R. Rubel of Bay View Gardens, Ill., was held Wednesday at Mason Funeral Home in Metamora, Ill. The Rev. Mark Boster officiated. Burial was in Spring Bay Cemetery. Announcement courtesy of Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City...

JACKSON -- Owen W. Crites, 85, of Jackson died Thursday, Oct. 14, 1999, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. Saturday. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Roy E. Hileman, 92, of Dongola died Wednesday, Oct. 13, 1999, at Union County Hospital. Hileman and Parr Funeral Home in Jonesboro is in charge of arrangements.

Son to Richard R. and Laura E. Phillips of Perryville, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:25 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1999. Name, Austin Ray. Weight, 9 pounds 6 ounces. Fourth child, third son. Mrs. Phillips is the daughter of Janet Matty of Kelso. She is a building maintenance worker at M&W Packaging. Phillips is the son of Ray and Donna Phillips of Perryville. He is a mechanic at Missouri Industrial Equipment...

Funeral for Edna Ruth Miller of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel. Dr. Clayton L. Smith will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery near Charleston. Friends may call at the chapel from 5:30-8 p.m. today...