Stories from Monday, June 7, 1999

A new beauty salon has opened in downtown Cape Girardeau. Total Image Salon, 124 N. Main, owned by Shawn and Stephanie Stockard, offers hair styling, nail care and tanning facilities. Stephanie Stockard, a graduate of Stage One The Beauty School in Cape Girardeau, will manage the salon...

The "Missouri Livestock Directory," is available from the Missouri Department of Agriculture. A free copy of the directory can be obtained by writing the Missouri Department of Agriculture, Market Development Division, Livestock Market Directory, P.O. Box, 630, Jefferson City, Mo., 65102, or by calling (573) 751-7213...

Five Missouri wineries captured 42 medals during the recent International Tasters Guild, held at Grand Rapids (Mich.) Community College The competition featured more than 1,400 wines from 14 countries and 20 states. Stone Hill Winery of Hermann won eight gold medals; St. ...

West Park Mall will hold a three-day antique show June 17 through June 20. The show will feature a number of items -- toys, glass, paper memorabilia and more. Also appearing at the show will be D&G Glass and Art Clinic, a company that provides repair of glass, metal and art...

Dana Corp.'s local Spicer Light Vehicle Axle Division Plant, 2075 Corporate Circle, in Cape Girardeau, has been selected as one of the best 25 plants in the United States by Industry Week magazine. The local plant was named as one of the finalists for the "Best Plants in America" recently, and is eligible for the "Top 10" list, which will be announced in October...

The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) will conduct counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and Perryville this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available June 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...

Melinda McCulley has been welcoming new residents to the area for more than a dozen years. McCulley and her helpers -- Pat Robert and Genie Kremer of Cape Girardeau, and Ginny Jones of Jackson -- call on new families in the Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City areas, to "welcome" them to town...

This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. When Jim Benham established the first money market mutual fund for people in 1972, little did he know his invention would be one of the most potent forces in bringing millions of ordinary Americans into the stock market and helping to fuel the longest bull market ever...

American Consulting Services (ACS), an independent research firm, will present an advertising strategies seminar June 16 at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau. ACS will discuss a recent "Top-of-Mind-Awareness" survey conducted in the Cape Girardeau area...

More than 200 Missouri high school students will attend the annual "Missouri Business Week (MBW), to be held at the University of Missouri-Columbia June 20 through June 24. Sponsored by the Center for Education & Private Enterprise of the Missouri Association of Realtors, the program is a hands-on approach to business education that gives students an opportunity to work with Missouri business leaders, learning about management, marketing and entrepreneurship...

A number of workers recently graduated from a workers training program, conducted by the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School. Included in the list of graduates were, from left, Roger Petzoldt, Patrick Kaelin, and Kenny Jones, shown with M&W Packaging manager Paul Wiedlin...

Craig D. Schnuck, chairman and chief executive officer of Schnuck Markets Inc. of St. Louis, has been elected chairman of Food Marketing Institute's (FMI) industry relations. FMI is a not-for-profit association comprised of 1,500 food retailers, wholesalers and their subsidiaries...

Peggy Gates, Manpower district manager, recently attended a week-long Manpower Management Workshop at the company's international headquarter at Milwaukee, Wis. Managers were updated in the latest development of Manpower's testing and training programs...

Mike Radake, Nikki Wilson, Lonnie Schwent and Cheryl Morris, accountants with Schott & Van de Ven Certified Public Accountants, recently attended the Missouri State Society of CPA's annual school audit seminar in Columbia. The two-day seminar covered auditing efficiency, state compliance and reporting and federal compliance. Each of the accountants received continuing education credits...

Emma Nichols, Cletus Garrett and Helen Farrar were recently honored for 30 years of service at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Nichols, neurology lab; Garrett, environmental services; and Farrar, food and nutrition services, were among 171 employees, totaling more than 1,825 years, honored during the hospital's 29th Employee Awards Banquet last month...

Kenny Buchheit, chairman of the board for Buchheit Enterprises Inc., headquartered at Biehle, has been nominated for the Ernst & Young 1999 "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" for industrial services. Buchheit will be honored during an awards dinner later this month when final selections will be announced...

Thomas M. Meyer of Thomas L. Meyer Realty in Cape Girardeau attended the annual Governor's Economic Development Conference at Tan-Tar-A, Lake of the Ozarks. Meyer, chairman of the Missouri Association of Realtors (MAR) Economic Development Council, met with district and state economic development representatives...

Claudia Murphy of Jackson has been named branch manager of the SEMO Banking Center in Cape Girardeau. Murphy's appointment was announced recently by Steve Ketelsen, Wood & Huston Bank Branch president. Murphy has been with Wood & Huston Bank -- formerly SEMO Bank -- since 1981...

A bus station is where a bus stops, a train station where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station. GO FIGURE! For those who use Netscape, you should download the new Communicator 4.6. With enhanced Smart Browsing, and Internet Music with RealPlayer G2, you will get a great product enhancement...

When Dortha Strack first dreamed of a camp for youngsters involved in the Young Americans 4-H Clubs, she probably didn't think about poison ivy. But Tara Kirchdoerfer of Jackson did. During a nature walk Sunday at Clover Kids Camp, Tara took pictures of poison ivy growing at Cape County Park North...

The calendar in the office of STARR teachers Martha Short and Judith Gau shows it has been a busy year. Each has logged some 18,000 miles traveling to schools from Arnold to the Arkansas line. They've conducted hundreds of presentations and talked with thousands of people, most of whom are teachers just like themselves...

ULLIN, Ill. -- The bed of the Cache River is ancient, until about 8050 B.C. It was the path the Ohio River took on its way to the Mississippi River. That is one reason why the Cache River Wetlands is so hospitable to wild things. "Because it has held water all these years it is very good habitat," says Marguerite Hills, manager of the Cypress creek National Wildlife Refuge, which is part of the wetlands...

Cape Girardeau homeowners are making a big splash. Although it's summer and that means time to indulge in the luxury of a swimming pool, some Cape Girardeau residents are wading in line for construction permits. The city's inspection services division has issued eight permits for swimming pools so far this year, including four this past month alone...

A cannon fired live rounds during a cannon competition at the rendezvous at Fort de Chartres. Cans filled with cement were fired from the cannon because of a lack of cannonball. PRAIRIE DU ROCHER, Ill. -- Mornings were unusually quiet among the white tents and teepees pitched around Fort de Chartres this weekend. "Rooster" didn't wake anyone up...

It's not because you watered the lawn more often this summer or used the garden hose to fill up the kiddie pool once too often, or even that you took more trash to the curb for pickup. Your city water and solid waste bills will just be a little higher at the end of the summer...

Agenda Cape Girardeau City Council Monday, June 7 7:30 p.m. at City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings -- Hearing on annual operating budget for fiscal year starting July 1. -- Request of George E. Bockhorst Jr. and Patricia A. Bockhorst for special-use permit for construction of a storage facility complex in the 1600 block of Kingsway Drive in a C-2, general business district...

7:30 p.m. June 7 City Hall Public hearings -- Hearing to consider the rezoning of all the property addressed as 1504 and 1556 Orchard Drive and 522 Broadridge River from R-3 (general residential) to C-1 (local commercial) as submitted by Joan Asher...

The Southeast Missouri Network Against Sexual Violence (SEMO-NASV) celebrated more than two years of hard work by holding an open house at 63 Doctors Park Sunday afternoon to show the public what had been accomplished. When fully operational, the center will offer crisis intervention and counseling for victims of sexual violence...

FREDERICKTOWN -- A 41-year-old Fredericktown man was killed Saturday night when his car left Route K a mile north of here. The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victim as Roy Ackman. Ackman's car was southbound on Route K when he attempted to pass another vehicle, the patrol said. His car left the roadway, and when he overcorrected, the car left the roadway and struck a tree...

Since Cape Girardeau County officials remain intent on enacting some kind of planning and zoning laws to regulate land use in rural areas, they had best continue to take their time before asking voters to approve a plan. Back in January, officials said a vote on planning and zoning might be held as early as August. ...

SWEET SPRINGS, Mo. -- Five years ago folks here decided they needed to replace their 40-year-old, book-jammed library, which -- with just 700 square feet of space -- was smaller than most convenience stores. The cost? Estimates came to $70,000. Over the years the city had squirreled away $40,000 for just such a project. The rest seemed easy -- the federal Library Services Construction Act would pony up the remaining $30,000 in the form of a grant...

I am indebted to Jim Fisher of The Kansas City Star for telling the story of Sweet Springs, a tiny town on I-70 that turned down a bunch of federal money for a new library because residents didn't want all those strings that go with funding from Washington...

It isn't unusual that a proposed flood-control project prompts concerns of environmental interests. The latest rift has developed over a $65 million project in Missouri's Bootheel. In 1989, flooding closed schools and collapsed sewers in East Prairie. To control future flooding, the project would involve construction of an improved levee maintained by the local levee district. The bulk of the project would be paid for with federal funds...

Times have changed. The sandlots may not be filled anymore on summer afternoons with youngsters dreaming of some day playing in the professional ranks. While local ballfields may be empty, the dreams have merely been relocated. This week 122 youngsters from a five-state area will do a little dreaming in a different sport as they test their golf skills at the Heartland Junior Championship at Bent Creek Golf Course in Jackson...

Youngsters still have the opportunity to attend the fifth annual Capaha Field Improvement Committee Baseball Camp that will be held Wednesday and Thursday. The camp, held from 8 a.m.-noon both days, is open to youngsters ages 7-16. The cost is $55. Anyone interested can simply show up at Capaha Field by 8 a.m. Wednesday, or for more information call 334-7327 or 335-6644...

The portion of the Southeast Missouri State University football camp being held in Cape Girardeau will take place Tuesday at Cape Central's Lou Muegge Field. There will be a morning session for grades 4-8 (cost is $20) and an afternoon session for grades 9-12 (cost is $25)...

With its entire roster finally on hand, the Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team put on quite a power display Sunday afternoon. Cape banged out 18 hits -- including three home runs -- during a 20-7 mauling of visiting Perryville at Capaha Field...

ST. LOUIS -- The McDowell Capahas had a busy weekend, winning two out of three games during a trip to St. Louis. Saturday, the Capahas rolled past Rochester, Ill., 13-1 in eight innings but lost to the St. Louis Printers 11-8. McDowell then got some revenge against the Printers Sunday with a 19-1 romp in seven innings...

MARBLE HILL -- William Howell Slinkard, 80, of Marble Hill died Sunday, June 6, 1999, at Bonds Nursing Center. Slinkard was born Sept. 23, 1918, at Chaffee, son of Charles Allen and Maude Howell Slinkard. He and Agnes Marie Seabaugh were married May 25, 1946, at Cape Girardeau...

Roy C. "Scoop" McMullen, 93, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, June 5, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Feb. 26, 1906, at Bell City, son of William and Oma Congleton McMullen. He and Emma Mildred Felty Albright were married Jan. 1, 1938, at Chaffee. She died Nov. 11, 1986...

DEXTER -- Maxine Keating, 74, of Dexter died Saturday, June 5, 1999, at the Dexter Memorial Hospital. Keating was born Dec. 4, 1924, at Aid, daughter of Altie Odus and Esther Anna Parks Miller. She was a member of the Church of Christ in Dexter and had been a professional house cleaner until her retirement...

Helen M. Schnurbusch, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 5, 1999, at her home. Schnurbusch was born April 1, 1922, at Brewer, daughter of James Ralph and Emily Josephine Voelker Morgan. She married Homer F. Schnurbusch Feb. 7, 1942, at Brewer...

RICHMOND, Ky. -- Mary Ethel Chostner Deck, 98, of Richmond and formerly of Glen Allen, Mo., died Thursday, June 3, 1999, at the Patti A. Clay Hospital at Richmond. Deck was born Feb. 3, 1901, at Bessville, Mo., daughter of John H. and Sarilda Adeline Yount Chostner. She married Isaac Jacob Deck, June 18, 1922, at St. Louis. He died July 5, 1969...

BLOOMFIELD -- Doris Edith Roberts, 77, of Bloomfield died Saturday, June 5, 1999, at the St. Louis University hospital. Roberts was born Aug. 29, 1921, at Cowards, S.C., daughter of James Lonzo and Exie Marie Owens Martin. She and Otto Roberts were married Aug. 22, 1938, at New Madrid...

Son to James M. and Karla J. Crowden of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:56 a.m. Sunday, May 30, 1999. Name, Hunter Lee. Weight, 7 pounds 10 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Crowden is the former George and Gladys Heuring of Scott City. She is employed at Thorngate Ltd. in Cape Girardeau. Crowden is the son of Charles and Edna Crowden of Chaffee. He is employed at Missouri Fibre Corp. in Scott City...

Theodore R. Holmes, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, June 5, 1999, at the Lutheran Home. Holmes was born Sept. 22, 1920, at Essex, Iowa, son of Charles and Bessie Johnson Holmes. He and Carol J. Holmes were married July 22, 1951, at Red Oak, Iowa...