Stories from Monday, October 27, 1997

Special Effects Styling Salon stylists, from left, Kelley Callow, Tammi Douglas, Tracy Bost, Danetta Held and Kim Talley take a break during a salon symposium in New York City. The Regional Cosmetology Association 23 of Cape Girardeau has installed new officers: From right, Carolyn Rouviere, ex-officio; Jean Kitchen, president; Alice Benton, vice president/secretary; Emily Tuschhoff, treasurer/historian; Heidi Hume and Sheri Varney, directors. ...

Hillary Schmittzehe, executive director of VIP Industries, receives both e-mail and fax messages on his computer. Margie Huber routes incoming e-mail and faxes at VIP Industries. Remember memos? Those paper things that used to show up mysteriously on your desk with comments, criticisms or instructions to do get something done ASAP or risk another, nastier memo?...

ORAN -- Venture Products, a manufacturer of baseball caps, tennis visors and other headgear, is expanding. The company has signed contracts to expand and consolidate its operations into the second half of the old International Hat Factory building, which has been vacated by Carr Textile Corp...

Heartland Telephone Services Inc. is observing its 10th anniversary this year. Heartland was established in 1987 by Nancy Wardron. She was joined by Bob Tucker as a partner. Tucker purchased the entire company in 1990. The company at 255 S. Plaza Way in Cape Girardeau provides sales and service of business telephone systems...

The Jackson Chamber of Commerce will hold its general membership meeting today at 5:30 p.m., at Delmonicos Restaurant. Gerald Lintner will be guest speaker and will discuss the new "Alternative School Program" offered by the Jackson R-2 School District. Also appearing at the meeting will be a representative of Jackson High School's Future Business Leaders of America chapter to discuss its new program...

"Marketing on the Internet: Changing the Way Companies Do Business" is the topic of workshops, to be held at Robert A. Dempster Hall Computer Lab Room 103 on Southeast Missouri State University campus Nov. 8 and 15. Participants will receive hands-on experience of doing business on the Internet at the two three-hour sessions, 9 to noon...

Edward Jones, a financial-services company, has been named No. 1 in a 12-month performance in the Wall Street Journal's quarterly stock. In addition, the 32.4 percent turnover rate in Jones' recommended portfolio was the lowest among 16 major broker firms over the past 4 1/2 years...

Citizens Electric Corp. has held 50th anniversary open house ceremonies at its three district service departments and offices -- at Perryville, Altenburg and Ste. Genevieve. Citizens Electric was founded Nov. 4, 1947, an outgrowth of Genevieve Electric Cooperative. Genevieve Electric had served the area since late 1945. Citizens Electric serves Perry and Ste. Genevieve counties and parts of Cape Girardeau and St. Francois counties as a not-for-profit group...

Famous-Barr of Cape Girardeau will help raise funds for the Ronald McDonald House in the Trim-A-Tree department, Nov. 2-Nov. 9. A silent auction will be held for a limited edition of the lighted "The House That Love Built," representing Ronald McDonald Houses across the nation...

Aluma-Kraft Sales & Manufacturing has moved to its new facility at 2043 Rust Ave., in Cape Girardeau. The company, which manufactures and sells exterior building products, such as vinyl sidings, has moved into its new, 14,000-square-foot building. Aluma-Kraft, headquartered at Paducah, Ky., held a grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony last week...

Schools for farm income tax preparers will be held through the University of Missouri Farm Business Centers at six sites next month. Registration for the courses may be made by contacting the extension office center in the various counties. The one-day session for Cape Girardeau is scheduled Nov. 3, with extension specialist Joe Horner of Perryville conducting the session...

They called him the "crazy inventor" in the Cape Girardeau area during his college days at Southeast Missouri State University. Now, Gary Kellmann is called the "successful inventor." Kellmann's latest, and hottest, invention emerged from a homemade birthday present for a girlfriend...

Toddler Tech Nursery School has opened at Scott City. The school, licensed for 40 students, ages 2 to 12, is at 904 W. Second St., in a new 2,000-square-foot building, specifically designed for the new concept in day care centers. "There are no individual classrooms," said Myra Eichhorn, "Children have their own designated centers, but the entire building is open."...

Window Covering Specialists opened recently in Cape Girardeau. The company, which provides a mobile home-shopping service, provides sales and services of window blinds and coverings, said Gary Siebert. Siebert and his wife, Nicole Siebert of Jackson, are owners of the business, which is operated out their home...

Witches, pumpkins, straw people and grinning ghosts are everywhere. Halloween, with all of its colorful decorations, has become a much celebrated holiday. The October holiday decorating season is second to Christmas, especially during the past decade as Americans have adopted the practice of decorating yards and the outside of their homes with colored leaves, cornstalks, chrysanthemums and jack-o-lanterns -- both real and ceramic -- and other pottery...

Southeast Missouri State University has a way to go to meet enrollment goals, a progress report shows. The report, delivered to the Board of Regents last Friday, details the university's efforts to implement the goals of the strategic plan. Those goals include boosting enrollment to 10,300 by the year 2000, a goal that university officials acknowledge is ambitious...

Lutheran Family and Children Services will educate local couples on an alternative to domestic adoptions when it hosts an International Adoption Workshop Tuesday at 7 p.m. at St. Francis Medical Center. Executive Director Tammy Gwaltney said the workshop will answer questions about the process involved in adopting children from another country. Linda Brownlee of the Adoption Center of Washington D.C. will be the guest speaker during the free event...

Lynn P. Hutson leaned back Sunday and remembered the day his father was shot and killed. "It was a beautiful, sunny day," Hutson said of the October morning 75 years ago, "it was about 9:30 or 10 a.m." The 11-year old was across the street from his house, scrubbing the mayor's porch for a fee of 75 cents, just as he had every Saturday before, when he heard his mother "screaming and crying."...

During most of the year, Nancy Quigley owns a perfectly normal Tudor home at 3726 Hopper Road. But around Halloween things begin to look a little different. "We have Count Dracula in a coffin, an 8 foot Frankenstein, and a mummy, with glowing green eyes, that is at least 7 feet tall," said Quigley...

It's time to start thinking about winter. I realized this the other morning when I got out of bed shivering, checked the thermostat and decided it was time to start thinking about turning on the furnace. Shiver...cold...furnace...WINTER! It's a logical progression, really...

I DON'T understand why the rest area on Interstate 55 is 10 miles away from Cape. What about the people who have to go to the bathroom more often than that? I think there should be a rest area every five miles along the interstate. REPLY: In general, rest areas along interstate highways throughout the United States have been designed with rest areas about an hour's drive apart...

Prisons by their very nature are hotbeds of discontent in which trouble breeds rapidly. This malaise often spreads beyond the walls to the families and friends of inmates and to civil-rights and other advocacy groups that purport to serve as watchdogs over the system...

Some good news came out of a recent Southeast Missouri Crime Stoppers board meeting: No rewards for crime tips were being paid. It wasn't that no crime is taking place in the county. There just wasn't enough of the right kind of crime to pay people for information. That means police were successfully pursuing leads or had solved the most serious crimes...

This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "When do you think merchants should begin displaying Christmas items?" Brent Karpeck, Cape Girardeau "I'd say sometime after Halloween. Let Halloween pass and let everyone get used to the fact that colder weather is on the way."...

Students and parents wishing to obtain information about educational or military options after high school should plan to attend the Regional College/Vocational School Fair today at the Show Me Center. The fair is organized annually by high school counselors from throughout the region. Approximately 65 colleges, vocational schools and military services are expected to participate in the day-long event...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball team moved into a tie for first place in the Ohio Valley Conference by routing host Middle Tennessee State Sunday afternoon. The Otahkians prevailed 15-4, 15-6, 15-4 as they improved to 10-2 in OVC play, the same record as Murray State. Southeast, now 20-7 overall, has recorded at least 20 victories for five straight seasons...

Bell City was the area's lone state high school volleyball champion last year. This season the Lady Cubs probably have the best chance of any team to keep southeast Missouri on the state volleyball map. The road to the state tournament begins this week for Missouri volleyball teams. Four district tournaments will be played this week in the area...

Cape Central's freshmen football team defeated Jackson 15-13 Saturday, foiling an Indian two-point conversion in the closing minutes. Jackson won the eighth-grade game 35-14. In the freshmen game, Jackson jumped out to a 7-0 lead before Central's Dusty Barrows found receiver Matt Brandt on a 52-yard halfback pass to cut the deficit to 7-6 at halftime...

Billy Lee Graviett, 68, of rural Oran, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born July, 25, 1929, in Oran, the son of Clarence Lee and Mary Lou Evans Graviett. He married Marietta Pobst on May 11, 1948, in Oran. Graviett was a farmer and a member of Guardian Angel Catholic Church in Oran...

Mary Lou Gillum, 40, of rural Sikeston, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 1997, in a vehicle accident near Puxico. She was born July 15, 1957, in Sikeston, daughter of J.B. and Helen Louise Lumbert Lomax. She was married to Elvin W. Gillum on Aug. 3, 1991 in Avert...

Mary L. Carver, 77, of rural Oran, formerly of Zalma, died Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at her home. She was born Aug. 17, 1920, in Kennett, daughter of Henry William and Levadie Mae Hoxworth Abernathy. She married Julius C. Carver on Aug. 31, 1946, in Piggott, Ark. He died Aug. 2, 1994...

JACKSON -- Opal A. Seabaugh, 83, of Jackson died Saturday, Oct. 25, 1997, at the Heritage Garden Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Jan. 13, 1914, in Burfordville, daughter of Harrison "Harry" and Elizabeth Allen Reynolds. On Dec. 1, 1932, she was married to Elmer H. Seabaugh. He died Nov. 8, 1973...

OLMSTED, Ill. -- Dorothy Sauerbrunn, 83, of Olmsted died Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. Arrangements are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds.

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Yvonne Williams, 59, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna.

Ernest George Mutschler, 64, of LaJolla, Calif., died Friday, Oct. 24, 1997, at his home. He was born May 18, 1933, at St. Paul, Minn., son of George and Hedy Mutschler. He married Martha Kelly on March 23, 1985, in LaJolla. He is survived by his wife, his father of St. Paul and a sister, Luise M. Brook of Evergreen, Colo...

Armin A.W. Mahnken, 76, of Farrar died Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at Perry County Memorial Hospital, Perryville. He was born Jan. 27, 1921, the son of Gottlieb and Marie Eggers Mahnken. He and Mildred B. Koenig were married Sept. 30, 1950. Mahnken was a retired carpenter from Bock Construction in Altenburg. He was a member of Salem Lutheran Church at Farrar and the Salem Men's Club...