Stories from Wednesday, February 13, 1991

BENTON -- Funeral service for Kenneth G. Kalb of Benton Route 1 will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Revs. Daniel Hale and Dale Huff will officiate, with burial in Unity Cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

JACKSON -- With an annual budget of $100,000, the Jackson Park Board has only enough money to take care of the operation, maintenance and repair of park equipment, grounds upkeep, restroom maintenance, shelters, ball fields and salaries. That means major capital improvements must be funded from other sources. In the past, Jackson service clubs and churches have pitched in to help build park shelters, a walking trail and the Rotary Lake, along with many other smaller improvements...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The American Cancer Society will provide a touch of spring through its annual Daffodil Days campaign. Orders for daffodils can be made through Friday. A box of 500 is available for $250; a box of 250 costs $125; or two bouquets cost $35...

BENTON -- Grand juries in Scott and Mississippi counties have issued over 60 indictments, most of them involving drug charges, prosecutors said. Thirty indictments were handed down in Mississippi County Feb. 5 and 31 indictments were issued in Scott County on Feb. 7, authorities said...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Evening Optimist Club is sponsoring a hearing screening for preschoolers. A screening was held Monday at the Cape Montessori School, and another screening is planned Feb. 25 at Cinnamon Bear Preschool. The club is also distributing the pamphlet: "How Does Your Child Hear and Talk." For a free copy, call Mary Sisk at 334-4702...

SCOTT CITY -- Amy Beth Bertrand, a senior at Scott City High School, has been named to the centennial class of the University of Missouri System Curators Scholars Program. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Larry Bertrand, and plans to study political science/philosophy at the University of Missouri-Columbia...

JACKSON -- The American Business Women's Association in Jackson is offering college scholarships for the fall 1991 semester. To qualify for the scholarship, applicants must be residents of Cape County, must be businesswomen or women seeking a business or professional career. Applicants must show financial need and maintain C grades or better...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - If you are a resident of Cape Girardeau with the big Mississippi River at your door you learn at an early age to take the appearance of the river as an indication of the weather forecast. One might say the Mississippi is our groundhog. ...

Royalty is a nice career with a rub. Admittedly, the rub is a small one: the only thing standing between you and a lifetime of free lunches is a major foul-up. What's so tough about that? You are born royal, breathe and that's it. The blood does all the work. From then until the day you die, it's a nice house, a nice trust fund and ladies curtsy at your presence...

Former Cape Girardeau mayor Howard C. Tooke was deservedly honored as recipient of the Rush H. Limbaugh Sr. Award last Friday by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce. The three-year-old award recognizes area business people who have gone the extra mile on behalf of the community for an extended period of time...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Simeon E. Adams, 1832 Woodlawn, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Art Basler will officiate, with private entombment in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at the funeralhome from 5-8 p.m. today. An Elks service will be held at 7, and parish prayers at 7:30...

CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for the Rev. Lexie B. Eskew of Charleston will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at McMikle Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Danny Tackett will officiate, with burial in Forest Hills Cemetery at Morley. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4:30 p.m. today...

SIKESTON -- Service for James Harvey ("Bud") Reynolds will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel, with Rev. Don Embry, pastor of fellowship Baptist Church of Sikeston officiating. Burial will be in Matthews Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. today...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Jim McDonough Jr. of Benton Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:57 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 1991. Name, Douglas Rhea. Weight, 7 pounds 9 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. McDonough is the former Trisha Jacox, daughter of T.E. and Georgia Hicks of Bell City and Frank and Sue Jacox of Sycamore, Ill. McDonough is employed at Wetterau, and is the son of Jim and Linda McDonough of Scott City...

JACKSON 20The school bells will ring a little earlier next fall for students in the Jackson R-2 School District. The school board adopted the district's 1991-92 annual school calender Tuesday and heard reports about upcoming meetings. Superintendent Wayne Maupin said the 185-day calender includes 176 days of classroom instruction, three teacher workshop days, one parent-teacher conference day, one end-of-school work day, four holidays and 4 inclement weather days...

PERRYVILLE - As a librarian, Sister Bertha O'Neill enjoys helping students to utilize the resources available to them at St. Vincent High School in Perryville. "I believe that their knowledge of how to use the library will be useful to them throughout their lives," she said...

Dear Editor: IBM There's a story somewhere, I don't recall the exact origin, that a fellow by the name of, say, Thomas Watson, or something like that, once worked for NCR Corporation (back when it was still "The National Cash Register Co."). Legend has it that he went to the president of the company, a Mr. Patterson, and told him he wanted to do some research on a thing called a "computer." Mr. Patterson said something to the effect that, "We build Cash Registers here, Mr. Watson!"...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- When Melanie Isley was a girl, her parents took her to the Longhorn Rodeo every year. And every year, she couldn't wait to see her favorite rodeo clown. "For weeks after the rodeo, he's all I would talk about," she said. But back then, Melanie never dreamed she'd grow up and marry a rodeo clown...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A proposal by Cape Girardeau Board of Education member Johnny James to rotate elementary principals among the school district's six elementary buildings met with some support and calls for more discussion The proposal was at Tuesday's Board of Education meeting. The board also discussed its visit to a St. Louis-area middle school...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- When historians look back on the Persian Gulf War, they will see three nearly unique aspects, says Dr. George Ketcham, a professor emeritus of history at Southeast Missouri State University. Those aspects deal with the multi-nation coalition against Iraq, the rapid deployment of troops and military equipment, and the pitting of Arab against Arab, Ketcham said Tuesday night at a public forum on "Perspectives About the Middle East."...

PFC SELISTA BLISSETT DOCKERY U.S. ARMY PFC Dockery is the daughter of Frances Blissett and the late Elder E. L. Blissett of Oran. She graduated from Scott County Central High School in 1980. A strength maintence clerk, she was deployed to Saudi Arabia in mid-October...

JEFF MCCULLOUGH Occupation: Manager, Pagliai's Pizza and Pasta, Cape Girardeau Birthplace: Cape Girardeau Current home: Jackson The best part of my job is: "Talking to the customers." Pet Peeve: "Rude people." What do you do in your spare time? "Spend time with my wife and attend auto racing events."...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Persian Gulf war has sparked sales of military toys, particularly models of combat aircraft, several local retailers said Tuesday. Toy military aircraft, both model kits and pre-assembled ones, have sold so well that retailers are having trouble keeping their shelves stocked with the toys...

LAKE FOREST, Ill. -- High school students who are interested in applying for $1,000 college scholarships should request applications by March 15 from the Educational Communications Scholarship Foundation. To receive an application, students should send a note with their name, address, city, state, zip code, approximate grade point average and year of graduation. Requests for applications will be filled on April 15...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Staci Huey, a student at Central High School, was among outstanding area high school students participating in the Pillars of Excellence Scholarship competition Jan. 26 at Culver-Stockton College in Canton. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huey of Cape Girardeau, she is a member of NHS, student council treasurer, and Who's Who. She plans to major in public relations/journalism...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Kristie Bles and Steve Fox have been named Students of the Month for January by the Cape Girardeau Elk's Lodge. Bles, 18, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bles of Scott City Route 1. She is a senior at Notre Dame high School...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Jane Thorpe of Cape Girardeau has been selected to attend the 1991 National Young Leaders Conference Feb. 19-24 in Washington, D.C. She will be among 350 high school students from across the nation at the conference for outstanding young leaders sponsored by the Congressional Youth Leadership Council...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - "What Every Woman Should Know About Investing" is the topic of the February Woman to Woman luncheon. The meeting will be held at noon Thursday, Feb. 21, in Conference Rooms A and B of the St. Francis Health and Education Centre. Donna Domian, investment representative with Edward D. Jones & Company of Cape Girardeau, will be the featured speaker. At the program, Domian will show how investments work and how women can make them work to their advantage...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Free testing for sickle cell trait and other unusual hemoglobin types will be offered today in the University Center lobby on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The testing is sponsored by Southeast's Center for Health and Counseling, and Minority Student Services, and the Missouri Department of Health...

LEOPOLD -- A blood drive will be held Saturday at Leopold Elementary School. The drive is sponsored by the American Red Cross, the Leopold high school and the Leopold Ladies' Sodality. All donors will receive a T-shirt. To be eligible to five blood, a donor must be at least 17 years old and weigh at least 110 pounds. The actual blood donation takes about 10 minutes and the entire process lasts less than an hour...

CAPE GIRARDEAU - A program consisting of two short films titled "Great Comebacks" and "New Therapy for Crohns Disease" will be featured at the next Ileitis-Colitis Support Group meeting at St. Francis Medical Center. The meeting will be held Tuesday in the Friend's Lounge of the St. Francis Health and Education Centre...

BENTON -- Thomas James Arteme, of Benton, has recently competed requirements for the rank of Eagle Scout. For his Eagle Scout Service Project, Arteme along with co-workers spent more than 60 hours planning and constructing a bench for the St. Denis School yard and landscaping the from of the St. Denis Parish Center in Benton...

KELSO -- James M. Smith of Kelso has received his Eagle Scout award. Smith has been a member of Troop 29 of Scott City since 1987. He now serves as senior patrol leader of Troop 29 under scoutmaster Danny Smith. He has earned 26 merit badges and is a member of the Order of the Arrow. He has also receive the Ad Altari Dei religious medal...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. David J. Westrich will discuss retinal eye disease on Thursday's Ask Your Doctor program. The television show airs Thursday nights at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13. The program features local doctors answering questions from viewers who call in...

MARBLE HILL -- Janelle Leigh Johns, a graduating senior at Woodland High School, has been named one of approximately 1,500 semifinalists in the 1991 Presidential Scholars Program. From the semifinalists, 141 will be selected as 1991 Presidential Scholars. The White House will announce their selection in early May...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Two staff members of the Speech and Hearing Department at St. Francis Medical Center have recently qualified for clinical competence certification by the American Speech-Language Hearing Association. The employees, Martha Cook and Jo Ellen Wolterman, have earned certifications in their individual disciplines...

JACKSON -- "No-Till Farming" is one of several topics which will be discussed during SEMO No-Till Day, to be held Feb. 21 at the Knights of Columbus Hall near here. Other topics to be discussed during the day-long event are No-Till Weed Control, Fertilizer Considerations for No-Till, and Ridge-Till for Conservation and Production...

SIKESTON -- Nine farmers in three counties have been selected to participate in a national farm financial survey, according to the Missouri Agricultural Statistics Service in Columbia. Glenn W. Barks of Sikeston will be calling on the farmers in Stoddard, Bollinger and Cape Girardeau counties this month and next, asking for their cooperation in the seventh annual Farm Costs and Returns Survey...

BENTON -- The 1991 Farm Program provisions, soil and water programs and issues and economics for farm and market outlooks are among topics to be discussed during the 6th annual Farmers Information Meeting is schedule Feb. 22 at Robert's Banquet Hall here...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Charles Kruse, director of the Missouri Department of Agriculture will be guest speaker at the 7th annual meeting of Missouri Rice Council, to be held here Feb. 21. The 6:30 p.m. meeting will be held at the Holiday Inn, and is open to anyone interested in rice...

BENTON -- The "Outstanding Conservation Farmer" will be announced during the annual meeting of the Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District, to be held here Feb. 21. The annual meeting will be held at Robert's Banquet Hall, starting with a seafood smorgasbord at 6:15 p.m...

JACKSON -- Informational meetings on the 1991 Acreage Reduction Program (ARP) will be held at Jackson, Delta and Oak Ridge this month. Sessions are scheduled at 7 p.m. Feb. 26 at the University EXtension Center, Jackson; 7 p.m. Feb. 27 at the Vo-Ag Building in Delta, and at 7 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Oak Ridge School cafeteria...