Stories from Sunday, February 28, 1993

The Vance-Owen plan, with its patchwork of ethnic enclaves, is to be the basis for peace in Bosnia. Implicit in the plan is the concept of "relocation" of embattled or dispossessed minorities to presumably more secure areas in other part of Bosnia. Mapmakers and relocation experts will endorse the "orderly" transfer of people as superior to the savagery of "ethnic cleansing" and as necessary to prevent the sorts of horrors that have plagued the erstwhile Yugoslavia. ...

When we are dealing with concepts like freedom and equality, it is essential to use words accurately and in good faith. ... Beware of those who seek to win an argument at the expense of the language. For the fact that they do is proof positive that their argument is false, and proof presumptive that they know it is. ...

One of the maddening aspects of the fight against illegal drugs is the rate at which the same people keep committing the same crimes. Legitimate business thrives on repeat customers; the judicial system should not entertain such an arrangement. If drug offenders those who sale and those who use are to take seriously the extent of their crime, the criminal justice system must impart to them a clear signal. Some reform in the way this business is conducted remains in order...

Autistic children and their families in Southeast Missouri will soon have access to medical, educational and support services a little closer to home. The Southeast Missouri Autism Project, in conjunction with the Missouri Department of Mental Health, is moving closer to establishing a center to serve families in the 18-county region of Southeast Missouri...

Record-breaking rains this winter in the nation's salad bowl area of southern California and Arizona will increase retail prices for fresh produce this week in area food stores, produce wholesalers warn. "I expect to see some pretty hefty price increases this week in produce, mainly the leafy items, such as lettuce, cauliflower, broccoli and celery," said Benjy Proffer, owner and operator of Proffer Produce of Flat River...

JACKSON -- A young mother and her 2-year-old son were forced to flee from their burning Jackson apartment at 220 Morgan late Saturday morning. The mother, identified by Jackson Fire Chief Gary Niswonger as Gloria Griffin, received serious burns to her left hand while attempting to put out the fire...

Families, health care providers and even agency officials often fight a paperwork jungle when trying to access health care programs available for needy children. In the past five years, steps have begun to offer more health care services to more children. Gaps still exist, but a panel of local child health experts said Friday bureaucracy associated with state and federal programs can be a significant barrier...

More than 1,000 consumers and providers of mental health services, including 200 from Southeast Missouri, met at Jefferson City Wednesday for the fourth annual Mental Illness Awareness Day. Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan spoke to the advocates during a rally, discussing a concern for mental health issues and how to acquaint the general public with these issues...

A "garden fever" luncheon will be held March 8 by Cape Girardeau Christian Women's Club. The meeting starts at noon at Holiday Inn. Cost for the meal is $6.50. A representative of Sunny Hill will talk about blossoms, buds and bedding plants. Speaker will be Marylin Gosh of St. Louis. Vocalist will be Carolyn Britt...

Graveside service for Nona Mae Stone of Bland will be held at 2 p.m. today at Oak Grove Cemetery there. Bruce Elmore will officiate, with Ford and Sons Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. There is no visitation. Stone, 96, died Thursday, Feb. 25, 1993, at Memorial Hospital in Jefferson City...

SCOTT CITY -- Clyde S. Summers of Fort Worth, Texas, died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, at his home. He was born Nov. 23, 1921, at Fornfelt, son of Otto and Ella Summers. Summers was retired owner of Summers Furniture Store in Fort Worth. Survivors include his wife, Mildred; a son, Dean Summers of Fort Worth; two daughters, Darlene Powell and Patty Summers of Fort Worth; three brothers, Bernard Sanders of Clearwater, Fla., Ray Summers of Fort Worth, Coy Summers of Azel, Texas; five sisters, Llolav Bles, Lois Ruder and Wanda Bles of Scott City, Ladon Karraker of Cape Girardeau, Katherine Santivaci of Fort Worth, and three grandchildren.. ...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Inez Marie McIntosh of Chaffee will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Revs. Watis Harrell and Eldo Eaker will officiate, with burial in Union Park Cemetery. McIntosh, 67, died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, at her home...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Bessie M. Johnson of East Prairie was held Saturday at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Dave Bowden officiated, with burial in Mounds Park Cemetery near New Madrid. Johnson, 91, died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, at East Prairie Nursing Center...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral mass for Rita Rose Hartmann of Cairo was held Saturday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. The Rev. Jerome Fortenberry officiated, with burial in Calvary Cemetery at Villa Ridge. Barkett Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements...

BENTON -- Funeral service for James Everett "Jimmy" Sanford of Houston, Texas, was held recently in Houston. Sanford, 34, died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1993, in Houston, following an extended illness. He was born Aug. 25, 1958, in Kankakee, Ill., son of Rufus Roy and Shirley Sanford...

Delmar J. Barnes, 68, of Route 1 Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

FROHNA -- Mildred D. Ladreiter of Route 1 Frohna died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 14, 1915, near New Bethel, the daughter of August and Myra Penrod Hessie. On Nov. 22, 1931, she married Eldor Ruehling, who preceded her in death Aug. 17, 1957. She then married Harold Ladreiter Oct. 28, 1961, and he preceded her in death Sept. 21, 1987...

Charles E. Dowdy, 65, of Bell City died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.

Eva May Friese, 81, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, at 81, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She had been a resident of the Country Gardens Home in Cape Girardeau for the past 15 years. She was born May 22, 1912 and is survived by a daughter, Willie Kay Friese of Cape Girardeau...

Clyde N. Anglin, 58, of 1705 Bloomfield, died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993 at his home. He was born Sept. 18, 1934 in McClure, Ill., son of the late Chance Anglin and Dixie Hill McCord, who survives of McClure. He worked as a truck driver for Southeast Stone Quarry in Cape Girardeau and was a member of VFW Post 3838 and the American Legion post. He had served in U.S. Air Force...

ADVANCE -- Clara C. Jones, 94, of Advance died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993 at the Advance Nursing Care Center. She was born Dec. 4, 1898 near Advance, the daughter of the late Sylvester and Sarah Sanders Tanner. She was a homemaker early in her married life and later worked in a nursing home as a cook and housekeeper...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Arthur J. Kayser, 75, of Mounds, Ill. died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993 at his home. He was self-employed and a veteran of World War II. Kayser is survived by two sons, Arthur J. Kayser Jr., Genoa, Ill., William J. Kayser, Green Bay, Wis.; three daughters, Gloria Hindenburg, Sycamore, Ill., Christine Kelly, Oliver Springs, Tenn., Martha Greenlee, Wheeling, Ill.; three sisters, one brother, and several grandchildren...

JACKSON -- Adolf Wille, 81, of 124 N. Bast in Jackson died at St. Francis Medical Center Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993. He was born March 24, 1911, the son of William and Annie Roloff Wille. On Aug. 29, 1947 in St. Charles, he married the former Evelyn Green. She survives...

OAK RIDGE -- Oscar H. Mangels, 78, of Oak Ridge died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993 at his home. He was born May 6, 1914 at Frohna, the son of Henry and Alma Koenig Mangels. He married the former Dellia Ruesler on Jan. 27, 1935 at Jackson. She survives. He is also survived by one son, Charles Mangels, Oak Ridge; three sisters Leona Ponder, Mabel Aufdenburg, and Ruby Abbott, all of Jackson; three grandchildren and three great grandchildren...

CHARLESTON -- Tishe Elizabeth Edwards, 87, of Charleston died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993 at her home. She was born June 7, 1905 in Waverly, Tenn., daughter of John Robert and Lola Martha White Marable. She had lived in Mississippi County since 1918. She attended First Christian Church of Charleston, a member of the Order of Eastern Star and was employed at Buckner-Ragsdale as a seamstress for a number of years...

PERRYVILLE -- Edna B. Conrad, 91, formerly of Perryville died Friday, Feb. 26, 1993, at the Fountainbleu Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 14, 1901, in Bollinger County, the daughter of L.B. and Mary C. Wills Shrum. On Sept. 15, 1921, she married Herbert Conrad, who preceded her in death Feb. 22, 1968...

Funeral services for Michael Glen Shuffler of Harvester will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Shuffler, 9, died Thursday, Feb. 25, 1993, at Barnes Hospital in St. Peters as a result of a weather related accident near his home, located south of St. Charles, in St. Charles County...

SIKESTON -- Graveside service for Lena Cloin of Little Rock, Ark., formerly of Sikeston, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Garden of Memories Cemetery. The Rev. Norman Elledge will officiate. Nunnelee Funeral Home is in charge of local arrangements. Funeral service was held Saturday at Roller-Drummond Funeral Chapel in Little Rock...

HARVESTER, Mo. - A former Cape Girardeau boy died Thursday afternoon when he slipped or fell into a five-foot snow drift outside his front door at the Summergate Parkway condominiums in Harvester, an unincorporated community located south of St. Charles...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Merle Fruhling of Caruthersville, Baptist Memorial Hospital in Blytheville, Ark., 5:35 a.m. Sunday, Feb. 14, 1993. Name, Chelsey Brooke. Weight, 7 pounds 2 ounces. First child. Mrs. Fruhling is the former Dawn Burnett, daughter of Patti Rickard Burnett of Cape Girardeau...

As banks and other institutions must annually publish their assets and liabilities an generally give their reason for being, I, too, sometimes feel compelled to explain my purpose for writing, especially this weekly column. Long years ago I began putting down daily notations of what I was going to do that day or, at the end of the day, what I had done. ...

KELSO -- Fred Bollinger knows more about arrowheads than the average person does because he is both a collector and a "flint knapper." More than 20 years ago, he acquired the nickname "Arrowhead Fred." He does demonstrations of flint knapping the craft of making arrowheads and gives lectures about arrowheads to scout groups and schools around the area...

The Cape Girardeau Area Chapter of the National Association of Retired Federal Employees will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Cape Girardeau Public Library. Earl Musgrave, district representative, will discuss the upcoming state meeting, and problems facing the organization...

Rush Limbaugh Sr. and Millie Limbaugh will be speakers at the Friday meeting of Cape County Republican Women's Club. The luncheon meeting is at noon at Holiday Inn. Members are encouraged to bring paper items and personal care products for the Safe House for Women...

A round-up call will soon go out for area senior citizens to hit the trail this spring for the 1993 Senior Fun Fest. Scheduled to be held May 22, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the Show Me Center, the Senior Fun Fest is expected to draw about 5,000 participants from Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois...

Like many youngsters, Mike Jackson was a super-hero comic-book fan during elementary and high school. But unlike most, he studied the artwork. "The artwork still draws me to a comic," said Jackson, now a sophomore at Southeast Missouri State University. "I especially like the artwork of Jack Kirby and Bart Sears."...

When the M.E. Leming Lumber Co., ceased operations recently, it ended almost a century of a family-owned-and-operated business in Cape Girardeau. "The company was the oldest manufacturing firm in the city until we closed operations about two years ago," said Howard C. Tooke, who was president of the company from 1956 until it closed. "We sold off all the lumber but still have some of the equipment there."...

ST. LOUIS Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages Inc. and the walking-fingers logo are taking separate paths. For three decades the walking fingers has been one of the most recognized advertising symbols in the world, but in recent years other companies have used the logo...

JACKSON -- Nelson L. Stone, doctor of veterinary medicine and mixed animal practitioner at Jackson, has been named to a fifth term as secretary-treasurer of the Missouri Veterinary Medical Association. The appointment was made during the recent 101st annual meeting of the organization at Osage Beach...

The Poplar Bluff Auto Tire & Parts store was winner of the 1993 Ag Display Contests, sponsored by Auto Tire & Parts, headquartered at 212 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. Rounding out the top three displays were Sikeston, in the runner-up position, and Cape Girardeau, in third place...

The downtown Port Cape Girardeau, 19 N. Water, will change its hours of operation in March. Dennis "Doc" Cain, owner of Port Cape and Port Cape West, announced the new hours this week. "The downtown restaurant will open at 5 p.m. each day Tuesday through Sunday," he said. "It will close at 9 p.m. except for Friday and Saturday when it closes at 10 p.m. The restaurant will close each Monday."...

Two major tax and legal publishers Commerce Clearing House (CCH), Inc., headquartered at Riverwoods, Ill., and Matthew Bender Tax Services announced that CCH has agreed to purchase the federal and state tax services published by Bender for an undisclosed price...

JACKSON -- Bent Creek On The Green will showcase its condominium development in March. "We have completed one building and have started construction on a second building," said Mike Litzelfelner of Litz Bros., Inc. "Each building contains four condominium units."...

Paul H. Berens, a partner with the Cape Girardeau law firm of Finch, Bradshaw, Strom and Steele, will be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy, which honors and recognizes bankruptcy professionals who have distinguished themselves both in their practice and in their contribution to the insolvency process...

A new Country Companies office has opened at 1200 N. Kingshighway. Bob Myrick of Cape Girardeau, an agent in the Country Companies Pulaski-Alexander-Massey Agency, opened the new agency here. Joining Myrick in the new office are agents Tim Caldwell and Larry Crosier...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Charles L. and Kimberly R. Crist to Roderic C. and Sue Ellen Crist; Thirman David and Brenda Madge White to the Thirman D. and Brenda M. White Trusts; Glen Allen Sparkman to Harry W. Pry...