Stories from Wednesday, January 18, 1995

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mary Frances Prince, 96, of East Prairie will be at the Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie Thursday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Ernest Brown officiating. Burial will be in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call at Shelby Funeral Home today after 5 p.m...

Funeral service for Ethel E. King, 1940 Dunklin, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Donny Ford will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 1 p.m. to service time...

CHARLESTON -- Regina H. "Jean" Halter, 74, of Charleston, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 18, 1920, in Charleston, daughter of Benjamin and Bertha Schutte Chambers Sr. She and Martin Halter were married June 2, 1940...

Daughter to Tom and Linda Schreiner of Oak Ridge, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:13 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9, 1995. Name, Alison LaNaye. Weight, 7 pounds 14 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Schreiner is the former Linda Meyr, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Meyr of New Wells. She is a bookkeeper with Westlegg Corp. Schreiner is a bio-med technician at Southeast Hospital, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Schreiner of Old Appleton...

Southeast Missouri State University officials can feel good about a 23 percent increase in admission applications for the fall. If the majority of these prospects follow through, the fall semester could bring one of the largest freshman classes in the school's history...

Regular Meeting Action Jan. 17, 7:30 p.m. Power and Light Committee Authorized general services contract with SEMO Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission. Approved of the semi-annual financial statement ending Dec. 31, 1994, and publish in the local newspaper...

Cape Girardeau County residents can now vote for members of the University Extension Council during the last part of January 1995. The ballot appears below. Ballots may be returned by mail, on or before Jan. 27 or brought to the Extension Center in Jackson. To complete a ballot vote for 12 of the nominees listed by placing an X in front of the nominee's name...

A kickoff meeting for Riverfest '95 will be held Thursday at 5:30 p.m. at Port Cape Girardeau. There are a number of volunteer positions available. This year's festival theme is "Rockin' Around the Clock," said Riverfest Association President Tom Ross...

JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County's first sales tax check of 1995 showed double-digit growth. During 1994, the county's half-cent sales tax receipts grew at a rate of 10.7 percent over 1993, to a total of $3.82 million. This month's check was for $339,877, an 11.4 percent increase over the $305,097 received last January...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Sen. Peter Kinder thinks his committee assignments for this legislative session will enable him to have a direct impact on important issues for the 27th District. "I was very pleased," the Cape Girardeau Republican said. "I got everything I wanted but labor and industrial relations."...

PERRYVILLE -- Drum D. Friese, 76, of Perryville, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Dec. 6, 1918, in Cape Girardeau, son of Frank and Jettie Drum Friese. Friese was a retired farmer. Survivors include two sisters, Mabel Riehn and Mollie Davis of Perryville...

JACKSON -- David Elmer Eugene Wallace, 57, of Azle, Texas, died Thursday, Jan. 12, 1995, at his home, following a lengthy illness. He was born March 26, 1937, at Eunice, son of James and Alice Wallace. Wallace had lived in Azle 15 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Opal Fay Ballard, 79, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at East Prairie Nursing Center due to an extended illness. She was born July 13, 1915, at Aurora, daughter of Earnest and Bessie Ritter Ballard. She had lived in East Prairie since 1987 and was of the Protestant faith...

Ted Thiele, 89, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at Heartland Care in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete with Ford & Sons Sprigg Street Chapel.

MILLERSVILLE -- Funeral service for I.V.D. Wilferth of Millersville will be held at 10 a.m. today at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel in Jackson. Art Kelley will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Fred Rister. Burial will be in Memorial Park at Cape Girardeau...

DEXTER -- Flossie Darby, 91, of Dexter, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 1995, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 30, 1903, in Dexter, daughter of John and Rena Barnes Williamson. She and Marion F. Darby were married Aug. 18, 1926, at Dexter. He died July 10, 1977...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Birtie Bonds, 101, of Cairo, formerly of Mounds, died Saturday, Jan. 14, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born May 20, 1893, in Jackson, Tenn., daughter of Stephen and Pattie Cole Ingram. She married J.B. Bonds in 1920, who died in July 1970...

Dorothy Lillian Goodwin, 86, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Jan. 17, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Dec. 21, 1908, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Louis J. and Hermine Kempe Pott. She and Van B. Goodwin were married June 30, 1927. He died in 1969...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Claude H. Gibbons of Chaffee will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. William F. Fish will officiate, assisted by the Rev. Watis Harrell. Burial will be in Kenyon Cemetery at Delta...

MALDEN -- Funeral service for Evelyn Louise Jackson of Malden was held Tuesday at Bradshaw Funeral Chapel in Malden. The Rev. Gene Lancaster officiated. Jackson, 66, died Monday, Jan. 16, 1995, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. She was born Aug. 23, 1928, at Marston, daughter of Henry and Eva Ayres Harp. She first married James C. Valentine, who preceded her in death. She later married Bill Sargent Jackson, who also preceded her in death...

SIKESTON -- The Rev. Donald Lee Fulton Sr., 59, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Jan. 15, 1995, at DePaul Health Center in St. Louis. He was a longtime educator here, and former mayor and city councilman. Fulton was born April 23, 1935, in St. Louis, son of Lawrence and Carrie Madison Fulton. He and Ida Mae Harris were married Jan. 7, 1962...

SCOTT CITY -- Mayor Larry Forhan doesn't want nude dancing in Scott City even if the business doesn't serve liquor. Forhan said city ordinances relating to liquor licenses already prohibit nude dancing or stripping in bars. To stop that type of dancing in any kind of establishment, Forhan directed the city attorney this week to draft a new ordinance applying to all public places...

Thorngate Ltd., one of the top-five manufacturing employers in Southeast Missouri, needs more workers. Thorngate representatives will be in Puxico Thursday to discuss employment opportunities with former employees of Akbani Industries Inc., a division of American Athletic Apparel, an apparel-manufacturing company that closed last week...

The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night granted a liquor license for a strip-tease bar despite the fact that more than 1,900 people signed a petition opposing it. The vote was 6-1, with Councilman Melvin Gateley casting the lone dissenting vote...

Whether it was chance or fate, I'm not sure. But after visiting the First Baptist Church last Friday and meeting Charlotte Wade on Monday, I am sure Martin Luther King Jr. Day will never seem the same. The fifth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Celebration was aptly named. As soon as I entered the church, I realized this was much more than a chance to pay lip service to a famous religious and civil rights leader...

City Hall, 401 Independence Appearances Presentation by Airport Advisory Board chairman on purpose and duties of board. Consent ordinances Established a handicapped parking space on South Middle Street. Second and third readings. Accepted a general warranty deed, quit claim deeds and temporary construction easements for the Lexington Avenue extension project. Second and third readings...

The Cape Girardeau Regional Airport will have two fixed-base aviation firms. The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday night approved a 15-year lease agreement with MDI Inc., doing business as Prestige Air Services. The agreement allows for an automatic, five-year extension...

SCOTT CITY -- Approval of riverboat gambling, hiring of a city administrator and financial reserves highlight Scott City government, Mayor Larry Forhan told Chamber of Commerce members Tuesday night. The gambling boat, approved by voters in April, will have positive effects on the region, Forhan said...

The American Red Cross has issued an emergency appeal for blood donors. Less than one day's supply of blood is available for Missouri and Illinois. The nationwide code red alert was issued last week due to an insufficient supply of blood for hospitals...

Biokyowa President Satoru Akiyama and TG USA Executive Vice President Ishi Bashi received good news from Japan Tuesday morning following one of the country's most devastating earthquakes. Akiyma was elated to hear by telephone that members of his family and two employees working in Japan escaped injury from a quake of 7.2 magnitude...

Kitchen gadgets are gaining popularity among America's cooks. You can buy everything from egg separators to tea bag squeezers. Of course, that doesn't include food dehydrators, bread machines and other appliances designed to reduce cooking time. Pat Parsons, a Tupperware distributor in Cape Girardeau, says gadgets have always been a favorite at parties. Tupperware doesn't sell any of its gadgets but they can always be found at parties or demonstrations...

Southeast Missouri State University will offer a review course this month for area high school juniors and seniors preparing to take the American College Testing (ACT) exam. Review sessions will be conducted by Southeast faculty and area high school teachers...

How can anyone speak of amaryllis without using a superlative? Gorgeous, spectacular, magnificent, are all used to describe this large plant. Its stem is the tallest, its blooms are the largest of any flowering house plant, and it is one of the easiest to grow. These flowers can be grown at any time of the year, yet they are as much of the holiday season as Christmas trees and mistletoe...