Stories from Monday, October 16, 2000

Two join Farmers Insurance Group Brad Womack and Eric Michelsen have joined Farmers Insurance Group, 2137 William in Cape Girardeau, as sales representatives. Womack, of Cape Girardeau, has six years of experience in the insurance industry as a claims representative. He is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia...

That's good news for St. Charles, but bad news for Cape Girardeau. The show, one of the nation's largest showcases of sawmill, logging, pallet and related manufacturing equipment, supplies and services, is a two-day event which has been held in Cape Girardeau over the past decade...

Regional Cosmetology Affiliate #23 of Southeast Missouri will hold its Fall/Winter 2000 Trends Release program, "Radical Simplicity," today at 7:15 p.m. The program will be presented by Carolyn Rouvier, past Missouri State Ladies Styles Director and member of the Missouri Education design Committee...

Elias Ace Hardware opened at 1719 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau last week. The newest Ace Hardware facility is owned by Fred and Tammy Elias. The new business is open from a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Saturday and from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday...

By B. Ray Owen The last place you might expect to find freshwater shrimp is in a pond in Southern Illinois. But some of the largest shrimp received at Freedom Freshwater Shrimp Co., in Byrdston, Tenn., this year were hauled in from the pond of Warren Koch of Metropolis...

Future Facilities Needs Major building needs and capital improvements would be included in a future facilities plan. The following list was compiled during a City Council retreat last year before a consulting firm was hired. No final report has been received from the consultants, Horner and Shifrin Inc. of St. Louis...

By Tony Hall PERRYVILLE, Mo. Handicapped workers at Perry County's Sheltered Workshop have names now. All of the 58 who assemble small pieces of plastic or metal for contractors have a work station with a large placard showing their names. It is one of many changes that workshop manager Bill Tweedy had initiated 100 days ago when VIP Industries of Cape Girardeau turned over management to the Perry County Sheltered Workshop Inc...

By Christopher Howard Players who arrived for the weekly pickup hockey game at The Ice skating rink in the Plaza Galleria on Thursday brought a variety of gear. They brought Franklin-brand chest pads, Heaton and Brians gloves, Heaton, Koho and Sher-wood sticks, Storm, SEMO and St. Louis Blues jerseys, carried in Heaton, Bauer and blue Itech oversized duffel bags...

n It was the second consecutive year the 32nd Judicial Circuit was honored. By Tony Hall Justice comes a bit swifter in the 32nd Judicial Circuit than in other parts of the state, and now the courts have an award to prove it. Everyone who works in the circuit's courts in Bollinger, Perry and Cape Girardeau counties can take credit for the circuit's second award recognizing its quickness, said William Syler, presiding circuit judge...

Peter Kinder Age: 46 Hometown: Cape Girardeau Family: Single Profession: State senator for the 27th District of Southeast Missouri and assistant to the president for Rust Communications in Cape Girardeau. Club affiliations: Cape Girardeau Noon Lions Club, La Croix United Methodist Church, Cape Girardeau and other area chambers of commerce, American Cancer Society volunteer, Southeast Missouri State University Boosters Club, Missouri Bar Association...

By Annabeth Miller Daily Statesman DEXTER, Mo. It sat empty and unused and was eerily quiet all summer. There were no swimming parties, no refreshing dips in the cool water, no swimming laps for exercise. The 30-year-old Dexter Municipal Pool a facility that had seen its fair share of use but was in dire need of essential and expensive repairs was closed last summer...

ST. LOUIS Four people were killed and two others were hospitalized in a seven-vehicle accident on Interstate 70 near Florissant Road. Killed were: Michael D. Thomas, 23, of Moscow Mills; Charles M. Kinzel, 36, and his wife, Leslie A. Kinzel, 35, of O'Fallon; and Jeannie V. Kaufman, 50, of Creve Coeur...

DEXTER, Mo. With just three weeks left in the first election campaign of the new millennium, Stoddard County Republicans received their marching orders at a weekend rally. The Stoddard County Republican Central Committee sponsored a fish fry for party faithful at the Dexter High School cafeteria on Friday for more than 130 people...

On Aug. 4, 1984, in Sikeston, he married Cindy Vowels, who survives of the home. He was a graduate of Sikeston High School and attended the University of Missouri at Columbia and Westminster at Fulton for two years. He had been employed at the Sikeston Power Plant until 1995, when he purchased the Play It Again Sports franchise in Cape Girardeau, which he continued to own and operate...

ANNA, Ill. -- Vera M. Dover, 77, of Anna died Friday, Oct. 13, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 26, 1923, in Alexander County, Ill., daughter of John Frederick and Edna Marie Garner McKee. She and Cleveland R. "Pat" Dover were married Sept. 26, 1940, in Cape Girardeau. He died April 5, 1989...

Mrs. Orneda Metzger, 78, of Cape Girardeau passed away at her home Sunday, Oct. 15, 2000. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today at the McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau, with funeral services at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with the Rev. Philip Curran officiating...

Friends may call today from 4-8 p.m. at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. Parish prayers will be at 7 p.m. Funeral service will be Tuesday, Oct. 17 at 10 a.m. at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Jackson. Interment will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Monsignor Edward Eftink will officiate...

She was born Nov. 4, 1912, at McClure, Ill., daughter of Hosea Augusta and Maude Lemes Hooker. She and Luther Higgs were married Dec. 24, 1929, at Jonesboro, Ill. He died Aug. 3, 1953. She was a Pentecostal minister at Gravel Hill Church in Bell City for 20 years. She was a member of the AC of JC. She attended Dudley Emmanuel Pentecostal Church at Dudley, Mo...

She was born Jan. 14, 1919, at Miller City, Ill., daughter of Calvin Thomas and Alma Dodson Thomas. She and Ralph C. Hughes were married July 27, 1935, at Cairo, Ill. He died July 29, 1989. Survivors include a son, Ralph E. Hughes of Bonnie, Ill.; two daughters, Louise Adams of Bonnie and Jackie Hayes of Naples; four brothers, Orville Thomas, Lloyd Thomas and Bob Thomas, all of Miller City, and Paul Thomas of Marion, Ill.; two sisters, Helen Pearman of Cape Girardeau and Jessie Mauer of New Port Richey, Fla.; eight grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter.. ...

ANNA, Ill. -- Agnes A. Wall, 82, of Anna died Saturday, Oct. 14, 2000, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale, Ill. She was born April, 19, 1918, in Union County, Ill., daughter of Tulla and Ora Reed Williams. She and Ralph Wall were married Oct. 11, 1940, in Cape Girardeau. He died May 31, 1975...

ANNA, Ill. -- Lowanda Fuller, 89, of Greenwood, Ind., and formerly of Anna, died Saturday, Oct. 14, 2000, at Regency Place in Greenwood. She was born Nov. 6, 1910, in Dongola, Ill., daughter of Calvin Archie and Bessie Kathryn Burgern Keller. She and Lloyd M. Fuller were married Oct. 26, 1929, in Dongola, Ill. He died Jan. 16, 1990...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral for Clyde B. Corzine of Homer, Ill., was held Monday, Oct. 9 at Kirby Funeral Home in Homer. Corzine, 86, died Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000, at The Carle Arbours in Savoy, Ill. He was born Nov. 11, 1913, in Balcom, son of Silas W. and Flora Dillow Corzine. He and Selma Hayes were married May 7, 1937, in Bloomington...

YOU RICH-LOVING Republicans don't know the facts about that lady in the Winnebago who collects cans. You just look on the surface because she is driving a Winnebago. You don't know what condition that Winnebago is in. You don't know if people helped her save enough money on cans which she has to do. ...

A week ago the county Archive Center on the north side of the courthouse square was dedicated at an open house. The 7,500-square-foot building should provide not only ample space for storage of the valuable records for many years to come but also offers reading areas where researchers can work. Genealogists should find the new center eases their work by consolidating all county records in one place...

To most people a billion is an incredible number since most of us rarely deal in millions of anything, much less a billion. That's why news that retail sales in Cape Girardeau County topped $1 billion for the 12 months ended June 30 was considered such a milestone. ...

Photographer Stephan Frazier's image which appears on your Oct. 10 front page should be submitted to the Pulitzer Prize organization for consideration as a prize-winning shot which clearly freezes in time the electrifying moment when our governor, Mel Carnahan, promises if he is elected to the U.S. Senate millions more taxpayer dollars will be poured upon Missouri's troubled education system...

I haven't been able to read all of the letters and comments on the Jackson school bond issue, so I may cover some old ground in this letter. My concern: Are we putting the money in the right place at the right time? The current plan is to expand the junior high school, but at the Aug. ...