Stories from Thursday, September 30, 1993

Dorothy Maye Lovett Smith, 74, of Oakland, Calif., died Monday, Sept. 27, 1993, at her home. She was formerly of Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 14, 1928, in Winn, Ark., daughter of Albertha Maxley. Survivors include her husband, Sales Smith; four nephews; three nieces, including Phyllis Williams of Salt Lake City, Utah, whom she reared; 21 great-nieces and-nephews, and a godchild...

Boy Scouts in the Shawnee District will begin their annual sale of popcorn Friday. The sale of Trail's End Gourmet Popcorn runs through Oct. 17. The sale helps provide supplemental income to finance Scouting activities in the district as well as in the individual units...

SCOTT CITY -- Residents of Scott City are welcoming the fall season with their second annual Octoberfest on Saturday The day's events kick off at 9 a.m. with a parade down Main Street ending in the community park. Immediately following the parade, the festival will begin with dedication of the Lt. Gov. Wilson Brown historical marker in the city park. It is hosted by the Scott City Historical Preservation Society...

THURSDAY, SEPT. 30 At 5:38 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to Route K and Interstate 55 for medical assistance. At 6:59 p.m. Tuesday, firefighters responded to 182 West Park Mall for a report of an alarm sounding. At 7:41 a.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to Route FF for an extrication...

Somebody needed to say it, and we applaud Freeman Bosley Jr., the new mayor of St. Louis, for his political courage. In published reports this week, Mayor Bosley took a bold stand in calling for an end to the public school desegregation plan in St. Louis. He did so, we believe, in recognition that the plan hasn't worked, that it is harmful to his city and its citizens, and that it has not produced better educational opportunities for the school children of St. Louis...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- The Len Small Drainage and Levee District in Alexander County will receive federal help in repairing the breached Fayville levee, which flooded thousands of acres of farmland in July. Greg Patton, vice president of the levee district, said this week that the Soil Conservation Services has agreed to provide 100 percent of the financing for repairs to the levee near Miller City. Agency representatives will visit the area next week to start planning...

Samuel Bell, 70, of 705 N. Spanish in Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 11, 1922, at Sudan, Ark., the son of Knox and Mattie Lucky Bell. On April 2, 1957, he married Annie Townsend in Greenwood Miss. She survives of the home...

SIKESTON -- Lura Blanche King, 86, of Pine Grove, W.Va., died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Nov. 21, 1906, in Piney, W.Va., daughter of Clayburn and Molly Cunningham Muzzy. She and Charles L. King were married Jan. 14, 1928. He died March 31, 1992...

PERRYVILLE -- Erca D. Berkbigler, 86, of Perryville, died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1993, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 4, 1907, in Perry County, daughter of Bernard and Martha Unterreiner Berkbigler. Berkbigler was a retired housekeeper, and member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church...

JACKSON -- William E. Kassel, 57, of Clayton, La., died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1993, at Natchez Community Hospital in Natchez, Miss. He was born Jan. 7, 1936, at McClure, Ill., son of Edwin John and Hazel Corean Warnaka Kassel. Kassel had farmed at Advance until 1965, and since then had farmed in Catahoula Parish, La...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Virgil Bell, 80, of Jonesboro, died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1993, at his home. He was born March 1, 1913, in Carterville, son of Hosea and Lula Oller Bell. Bell was a member of New Hope Baptist Church, and a veteran of World War II. Survivors include two sisters, Virginia Smoot of Sterling, and Ruth McCulley of Joliet...

BELL CITY -- Ethel Friedrich, 77, of Bell City, died Wednesday, Sept. 29, 1993, at Dexter. Morgan Funeral Home in Advance is in charge of arrangements.

As he prepares for his first day at a new job Friday, Assistant City Manager Al Stoverink has fond memories of his tenure in city government. Since 1988, Stoverink has served as the right-hand man to City Manager J. Ronald Fischer. But on Friday he becomes the physical plant manager at Southeast Missouri State University...

PERRYVILLE - A free, passenger-ferry-boat shuttle will begin operation on Friday between Perryville and the Mississippi River bridge at Chester, Ill., the Missouri Highway and Transportation Service said Wednesday. The shuttle will operate over the flooded portion of Highway 51 between McBride and the Chester bridge in Perry County. The highway has between 8 and 9 feet of water over it...

Congress remains divided over the controversial North American Free Trade Agreement being pushed by President Clinton. "I'd say the majority of Republicans are disposed favorably toward NAFTA," U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson said Wednesday. Emerson said he remains undecided. Philosophically, he said that he likes the idea of reducing trade barriers between the United States, Mexico and Canada...

Two musical legends will perform at the Show Me Center in late October. Reba McEntire, one of the hottest female singers in country music, will appear at the Show Me Center Oct. 30 for one performance at 8 p.m. Accompanying her will be John Michael Montgomery and Brother Phelps (formerly of the Kentucky Headhunters)...

COMMERCE -- The Commerce board of trustees will hold a public meeting Wednesday to discuss the federal flood insurance buyout program. The meeting begins at 7 p.m. at the Commerce City Hall. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and National Flood Association officials will explain how the program works...

A committee has been formed by the Youth Education Literacy and Learning committee and the United Way, to distribute half of the funds raised during the YELL promotion earlier this month. The money is equally divided between the United Way for Literacy grands and the Southeast Missourian Newspapers in Education Program, which delivers about 7,000 newspapers to area schools each week...

JACKSON - Charlie Meyer, also known as "Muleskinner," will be easy to recognize at the Good Old Days celebration in Jackson Saturday. He'll be wearing a 22-pound, hairy buffalo coat that he tanned and stitched himself. Meyer also might be easy to spot because of the oversized knife he tucks in his waist band and the rifle he totes...

Two new exhibitions will be unveiled today at the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. "Art Contained," featuring the work of Don Davis, David Bartley, Jacque Parsley and Curtis Uebelhor, will open with a reception at 4 p.m. today in the museum gallery...

JACKSON -- Jackson School Superintendent Wayne Maupin hopes the weather forecast for above normal temperatures in the area through mid-October is accurate. That's because the high school's new hot-water boiler for heating classrooms won't be operational until mid-October. On Tuesday, the Jackson Board of Education approved a bid by ANW Refrigeration of Cape Girardeau County to install the boiler...

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. Mark Griffith of Clarksville, Tenn., says Civil War general and President Ulysses Simpson Grant was the first military officer to fight a modern war. Griffith said that is because of developments in weapons, science and technology that changed old European battlefield tactics. Because of the advancements, it expanded the size of the battlefield, he said...

Dear Mom and Dad, Never marry a dentist. DC took me to a friend's office in San Francisco to polish my teeth for the wedding pictures, and wound up pressing to do a last-minute cap. I agreed to a thorough examination instead, and discovered that my flossing technique is sub-par on No. 20 and that I am beginning to become the victim of something called "recession." The friend concurred with the diagnosis...

The old "rustic" campus of Shawnee Community College, which opened 25 hears ago near Ullin., Ill. ULLIN, Ill. A milestone in Shawnee Community College passed quietly last week, but will be observed this weekend. "Twenty-five years of fulfilling dreams" is the theme for the 25th Anniversary Celebration planned at the college Saturday and Sunday...

JACKSON -- A "Getting Started" genealogy workshop will be held by the Cape County Genealogical Society Oct. 16 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Riverside Regional Library in Jackson. Each participant will prepare an ancestor chart in advance. The charts will be analyzed so that individual assistance can be given...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Nearly 132 years ago the men of the North and South faced each other in one of the first battles of the Civil War. On Saturday and Sunday almost 2,000 reenactors will recreate that Nov. 7, 1861, battle. The event will be held along the shore of the Mississippi River near the obscure Mississippi County town of Belmont...

Win Bruhl's Mexico can't be found in a travel brochure. Rather it's found in the hard-scrabble life of the campesinos, Mexico's peasant farmers, and in political murals. Bruhl's Mexico comes across in bits and pieces through the images he creates. "Subjective References: Drawings, Prints and Paintings," a 19-piece collection of his artwork stemming from his travels in Mexico will be displayed in the Southeast Missouri State University Museum. ...

If it were up to Virginia Wiedefeld, Cape Girardeau summers would bring nothing but rain, and winters nothing but slush and snow and freezing temperatures. It's not that Wiedefeld dislikes the outdoors; she would just rather see people indoors - watching movies...

An exhibit based on the collection of Harry and Grada Naeter will open Sunday at Gallery 100. An opening reception will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday. The Naeters, former owners of the Southeast Missourian, collected the paintings during the years they sponsored the Missourian Art Shows...

The nomination deadline for the annual Otto M. Dingeldein Award, given by the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts, is Friday. The Dingeldein Award is given each year at the arts council's membership meeting, scheduled for Oct. 29. A committee will review all nominations and select the winner...