Stories from Sunday, October 31, 1999

Historic postcards from the first decade of the century will be on display at the Oliver House Nov. 6. The postcards, part of the Friends-Bollinger, Heise-Helderman Collection on loan from Southeast Missouri State University Archives/Regional History Collection, will be featured. Postmarked between 1900 and 1910, the penny postcards provide a colorful glimpse into the life, romance, humor and holiday spirits of the early 1900s...

Two one-act plays dealing with young love and romance will hit the Jackson High School stage Nov. 9-10. The student-directed plays, "Why I am a Bachelor," and "Punch and Duty," will be performed at the revamped JHS auditorium at 7:30 p.m., Nov. 9 and 4 p.m., Nov. ...

On Thursday, the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission will meet in Cape Girardeau. We welcome members of this vital state body to our community and wish them well in their deliberations. That evening, the Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce will have a dinner for the commission at Drury Lodge. We hope there will be a strong turnout notwithstanding the same night's Jackson-Cape Central football game, always a well-attended affair...

Week before last, the U.S. Senate took another vote on another bill banning partial-birth abortion. It passed with a hefty 63-34 majority, but it was still four votes short of the two-thirds necessary to override the inevitable veto from President Clinton. Two Republican "yes" votes were absent...

There's good money to be made at Southeast Missouri State University where nearly 22 percent of the employees receive salaries of over $50,000.Southeast has 983 full-time employees; 214 make over $50,000. Southeast has 42 more full-time employees this year than a year ago and 13 more employees making $50,000 or more, university salary records show.The overall average salary for all Southeast employees is $37,342, an increase of nearly $700 over last year's figure.But women still lag behind men in average salaries in many job classifications. ...

The Jerry Ford Orchestra was playing "In the Mood" Saturday night, and everybody at the new Rec Center Dance Studio was. Among those crowding onto the dance floor at the Halloween costume party and swing dance were tie-dye-shirted, Afro-haired hippies, a couple in orange Cape Girardeau County Jail jumpsuits and Zoot-suited gangsters with their molls. University students and townspeople alike attended the party hosted by Dr. Marc Strauss, assistant professor of dance at Southeast...

There's quite a controversy brewing over chili. How you like your chili probably depends on longtime family recipes and what part of the country you're from. No doubt the different types of chili will be well represented in the Chili Cookoff under way, co-sponsored by the Southeast Missourian, Schaper's IGA and Sav-A-Lot grocers in Cape Girardeau and Jackson...

One of the major rules of parenting is that it's OK to let them visit, but it's best if they don't take up residence. They say a man's home is his castle. But clearly they're not talking about our house or those of other parents we know. Our homes and yards are more like recreation centers than fortresses. There is no right to privacy. That only comes after your kids are grown...

The Rev. Vyron Yount, 74, has retired from working more times than he can count, but there's always something that draws him back to the pulpit. Yount will start a new job Nov. 1 as interim pastor of First General Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau. He had been pastor at Arbor General Baptist Church...

Red Cross is one of 25 agencies in the area that receives funding from the Area Wide United Way, which is now in the midst of its annual fund-raising campaign. As of Thursday, the campaign had raised about $330,000 or 45 percent of its goal of $750,000...

Jodie Jones vividly recalls the fire that destroyed her home and all her family's possessions last fall and just as vividly recalls how the local chapter of the American Red Cross arrived on the scene to help."Red Cross was on the scene within 10 or 15 minutes," said Jones of Cape Girardeau. ...

Former students and staff will bid Washington Elementary School a fond farewell during a closing ceremony Nov. 27. Building tours and a fellowship meal are only a few of the activities planned for the closing ceremony, which begins at 12 p.m. A special flag ceremony will begin at 3 p.m., followed by a fellowship meal. ...

There's a lot of nuts out there:Walnuts.* Hickory nuts.* Pecans.* Beechnuts.* Chestnuts.* Butternuts.* Pistachios. The nut business is a billion-dollar industry in the United States, and chunk of that change goes to Missouri, and the Southeast Missouri area in particular...

SIKESTON -- The Sikeston Area Chamber of Commerce gave its unanimous support to the renewal of Sikeston's one-quarter cent sales tax which goes before voters Tuesday. The support, which came at Thursday's general membership meeting, followed Sikeston Mayor Bill Mitchell's presentation about the benefits the city has received from the tax during the past five years...

SCOTT CITY -- When members of Father's Arms Fellowship church talk about keeping youth off the streets and away from trouble, they don't have to look far to find teen-agers. Teens in Scott City like to congregate in a parking lot across the street from the church. The youth aren't really making trouble, but the church wants them to know that other alternatives exist...

MARTIN, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University's football team had virtually no problems Saturday in putting together a two-game winning streak. The Indians took advantage of a downtrodden Tennessee-Martin squad and pasted the Skyhawks 36-7 for their first Ohio Valley Conference victory of the season...

No, there wasn't a draft in Notre Dame's gymnasium. That was just Woodland blowing away two opponents and breezing into the state final four. The Lady Cardinals made easy work of Caruthersville and Belle in sectional and quarterfinal games Saturday, advancing to the Class 2A final four in four easy sets...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. -- Kelly High School graduate Amy Arteme won the OVC cross country meet as an Otahkian Saturday. But her team couldn't follow suit. Arteme won the race convincingly in 18:36, but Eastern Kentucky won its 18th consecutive OVC title."It was an outstanding effort by Amy Arteme to become the OVC champion as a sophomore," Southeast coach Joey Haines said. ...

The Mossback Bassmasters have been pulling in Missouri BASS Federation state titles like, well... fish. The 10-man team recently landed the club's fourth consecutive Missouri State Final Championship at Truman Lake. The western Missouri lake has proven to be a favorite fishing hole for the Cape Girardeau club as titles were also won in the same waters in 1989, 1992 and 1995. ...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Find good habitat, and you are likely to find good bird hunting. That's the best advice the Missouri Department of Conservation can give quail and pheasant hunters this year. Despite declines in the statewide populations of both species, there are areas where bobwhite and ringneck numbers have remained fairly stable for the past decade...

Waterfowl hunters in Missouri should find the 1999-2000 season filled with excellent hunting opportunities. Duck populations are at record levels, snow geese remain at very high levels, and the Canada goose population is increasing. If the low water conditions in Southeast Missouri continue during the season, these large numbers of birds should be concentrated in the areas containing water. ...

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will be sponsoring their 12th annual Basketball Hotshot Contest on Saturday, Nov. 13, at the Osage Community Centre. Registration will be from 9-9:30 a.m. and the free event begins at 10. The event, open to boys and girls ages 9-18, consists of three one-minute time trials of shooting at designated spots on the court. ...

The Heartland Golf Academy will hold an open house at the Arena Golf in Cape Girardeau on Saturday, Nov. 6, between 15 p.m.Individual or group instruction and personalized video analysis will be offered. For more information contact school director Mike Uhls at 573-332-0862...

The Jackson Parks and Recreation Department will hold a Points for Pizza basketball shoot off at 10 a.m., November 20, at the First General Baptist Church in Jackson. Registration for boys and girls ages 9-17 is at 9:30 a.m. Entry fee is $1. Participants will be divided into three age brackets: 9-11, 12-14 and 15-17. Domino's Pizzas and Super Video movies will be awarded to the top three placers.For more information, call 243-3568...

The 30th running of the Cairo Levee Footrace will be held Saturday, Nov. 13, at 11 a.m.The event is comprised of two races: a 5,000-meter run and a 10,000-meter run.Entry fee is $14 ($6 for students in Grade 12 or below and senior citizens). A long-sleeved T-shirt will be given to all entrants.Race day registration begins at 10 a.m. at St. Mary's park in Cairo.To register, contact John Boget at (618) 734-4400...

CHARLESTON -- Leo Doyle Tinker, 69, of Charleston died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born June 25, 1930, in St. Louis, son of Walter and Stella D. Bouse Tinker. He married Jo Ann Laster on June 6, 1986. She survives...

COTTAGE HILLS, Ill. -- Thurman "Whitey" Wilfong, a native of Puxico, Mo., and most recently a resident of Cottage Hills, died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Mo. He was 76. He was born Dec. 19, 1922, son of Martin and Ester Harrington Wilfong. He married Mildred I. Wright in Puxico on Nov. 8, 1942. She died March 19, 1999...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Jimmie Lee Poole, 62, of Tamms died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Aug. 12, 1937, at Mill Creek, son of Manford and Effie Lorene Sims Poole. He was a former employee of Illinois Mineral and Georgia Kalin at Elco...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Cecil U. Keith Sr., 79, of Cairo died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at his home. He was born Dec. 3, 1919, in Cairo, the son of Stephen and Florence Minter Keith. He was a retired captain for the Cairo Fire Department, the retired building and grounds superintendent for the Cairo Public Schools, a retired employee of Barkett Funeral Homes and was a deputy coroner of Alexander County...

MOREHOUSE -- Joseph Miller "Jim" Vaughn, 74, of Morehouse died Friday, Oct. 29, 1999, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Oct. 10, 1925, in Tanner, son of Henry and Maggie English Vaughn. He married Dorothy Mae Wyatt June 7, 1952, in Clay County, Ark. She died Feb. 17, 1986. He was a retired farmer. He was a member of the Assembly of God Church in Morehouse...

Virginia B. Howard, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 30, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.

Down the lane by the wild plum thicket, across the wide meadow, the river, the railroad tracks and another field, was the foot of Simms Mountain. Somewhere up on that mountain was a place called Gold Mine Hollow. Lots of folks seemed to know, vaguely, where the hollow was but I could never find anyone to take me there. ...

JACKSON -- Kimberley Ann Adcock and Mark Joseph Andracsek were united in marriage May 1, 1999, at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau. The double ring ceremony was performed by Msgr. Richard Rolwing. Organist was Leann Hendrix and soloist was Kathy Welker, both of Cape Girardeau...