Southeast Weekly Bulletin from Cape Girardeau, Missouri • 1

VOLUME NUMBER 19 richest bequest a man can leave behind him Samuel Smiles CAPE GIRARDEAU MO THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22 I960 (16 PAGES) SIN COPY 5c BULLETIN Miuouri's Home Newspaper9 Area ootball Well Underway With the football season well underway in our area several of the area high school teams took to the field riday for another round of play Tigers Over Cairo Here in Cape Girardeau the Cen tral Tigers defeated the Cairo Pilots 20 to seven The host team scored in the first three minutes of the game as they took the opening kickoff and marched straight to the end zone In the second quarter of the same neither team was able to score which left the score seven to nothing at the half The third period proved to be a defensive battle as neither team could get its offensive unit moving Action got underway again the last period as Central scored 13 points and the Pilots scored their seven Portageville Downs Malden The Portageville Pirates downed the Malden Greenwaves 69 to 0 at Portageville in a Little Six Con ference game George Hobbs Gary Bethune and Gary Scherer each scored three touchdowns and Jerry Warren two with Warren accounting for two extra points and Scherer one The Pirates scored 25 points in the first quarter 18 in the second 12 in the third and 14 in the final period Sikeston Game The Sikeston Bulldogs and the Caruthersville game which was scheduled for rrtuay was post poned and will be played in Sikes ton Nov 18 Perryville The Perryville Pirates defeated the Poplar Bluff Mules 18 to 13 on the field riday night in a non conference game Perryville scored after the third play of the opening kickoff when Harold Detjen ran 57 yards The extra point try failed The Pirates scored again in the first of the second quarter to make their total 12 The Mules scored as the half ended and the half time score was 12 to 6 No scoring came in the third quarter In the final period the Mules fumbled and Perryville recovered on the 18 and five plays later Don Rader scored from the one The extra point failed The Mules took the kickoff 64 yards with Jim Stovall going over from the Three He added the ex tra point Kennett Over Charleston The Kennett Indians scored a touchdown in the first and second quarters and two in the third to defeat the host team the Charles ton Bluejays 27 to 7 This was a Big Eight Conference game Charleston scored in the final quarter with Lawrence Galemore going over from the six and Irvin Whitehead adding the extra point Indians Defeat Dexter The Jackson Indians defeated the Dexter Bearcats 25 13 at Dexter Penney Employees 100 for United und The employees of Penney company were the third reported 100 per cent contributors to United und it was reported today by chairman Vernon Landgraf Utilizing the payroll deduction plan employee giving substantially increased over 1959 figures it was stated Employees of over 484 businesses in the city of Cape Girardeau are now in the process of being soli cited and over 1500 individual pledge cards distributed United und officials were pleas ed to note that some individuals and firms ordinarily solicited in the advanced gifts group had al ready forwarded 1960 pledges and that in at least one instance em ployees of a concern telephoned that their concern had not yet re ceived pledge cards Plaits were being readied for a report meeting on emlpoyee solici tation at an early date Indians Down Hilltoppers In Opening Game The Cape State Indians got the 1960 61 football season off in great manners as they took the opener 28 19 from the Western Ky Hill toppers riday night The Braves traveled to Bowlin' Green and made many great plays during the four quarters of the game They started their stuff with taking the opening kick off andgoing 67 yards on a sustained drive which required 16 plays to score the first touchdown of the game Terry Dill came in to kick the first of his four fpr four per fect conversions of the game Western State came right back to score on a 45 yard drive with Bronson going two yards around left end for the touchdown The try for the extra point failed and Cape led seven to six at half time The third period Gene McClan ahan took the kick off on 10 yard line and returned to the 34 Gary Lane then bulldozed his way over from one yard out Dill then came through with his second conversion ollowing a Western punt to the Cape 12 yard line and a fumble by Capfe on their nine Western recovered and advanced the nan to the five as the third period ended our plays later fullback Booker scored for the Hilltoppers from the one yard line but the conversion attempt failed The Indians blocked a Hilltopper punt at the goal line midway of the final period with Dave Stein becker recovering for the touch down Dill then made his third conversion The final touchdown for the Indians was set up by a recovered fumble by Bob Rodgers on West ire Destroys Rainbow Room ire caused an estimated dam age of $100000 to the Rainbow Room Cocktail Lounge the Blue Rose and Green Rooms in the Idan Ha hotel Monday night ire doors and a concrete floor on the second floor of the Idan Ha west wing prevented the fire which started in the Rain bow Room from spreading to the 112 room hotel and causing a ma jor fire disaster The cocktail lounge was almost completely de stroyed John Kimbel night porter ac tually discovered the fire shortly before 2:20 am Tuesday morning The switchboard operator in the hotel lobby noticed the cocktail lounge telephone connection buz zing on the switchboard as it does when someone raises the receiver to place a call Knowing no one was in the lounge the operator asked Kimbel to check the room As he opened the door Kimbel was blanketed with a surge of smoke Under Control The blaze was under control within an hour according to ire Chief Carl Lewis but the firemen remained until 6:30 Cause of the fire is unknown but it is believed it started in one of the booths on the southwest side The fire chief said if it been for the fire doors located at the front and two entrances on the 'de tle blaze un doubtedly spread to the rest of the hotel and maybe even to adjoining store to the hotel The fire doors heavy steel par titions recessed into the wall are kept open at all times by a fuse like deviso When excess heat melts the fuse the doors close by means of gravity Chief Lewis said The fire may have been caused by a cigarette or match dropped in one of the booths the chief said After the booth became enflamed the fire spread to the insulating ceiling material and quickly en gulfed the whole southern half of the lounge Closed at 1:30 Dick Blackwell operator of the Rainbow Room and the Idan Ha Coffee Shop reported he closed the cocktail lounge at 1:30 am and about 12 or 13 customers were there until closing time including some in the booths where the fire apparently started Hotel rooms immediately above the lounge suffered smoke damage and may have to be remodeled Also suffering smoke damage were the Margraf Jewelry Store and Shop both near the long tunnel like entrance to the cocktail lounge An estimated monetary damage was done to both stores The Rainbow Room will be re modeled and opened as soon as possible Blackwell reported The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts Support YOUR RED CROSS DISASTER SERVICES UNITED COMMUNITY CAMPAIGN through your Walter ord Heads Advanced Gifts Of United und Walter Joe ord operator of ord Sons funeral home and present County Coroner will head one division of the Advanced Gifts solicitation of the 1960 United und campaign it was announced today This phase of the campaign started Sent 16 and will run thriKij Oct 2 Son of Mayor Walter ord ord is a native of Cape Girardeau having attended public schools of the city and later Southeast Mis souri State college A former president of the stu hioh arhftfil ord was in 1955 and 1956 a mem ber of the varsity basketball teams which went in each such year to the state finals He also was a member of the 1955 and 1956 un defeated state champion American Legion baseball teams ollowing his graduation he played professional baseball for four years playing with various teams in the Three I league the Provincial league Pony league Cotton States league and Sooner State league after which he re ceived professional training at the John Gupton school in Memphis Tenn before associating in busi ness in Cape Girardeau Since his return to Cape Girar deau ord has been active in county and community affairs be ing a member and corresponding secretary of the junior chamber of commerce a member of the Cape Girardeau Rotary club and active in boy scout work ord was appointed1 coroner of Cape Girardeau county to fill the vacancy left by Dr A Schrader who moved out of town and is currently running for re election Mr and Mrs ord the former Iris Engram Cape Girardeau are the parents of one child Cliff age three and presently reside at 118 Giboney iXuck Rites Held Monday Lifetime Resident of Girardeau inal rites were conducted Mon day for Giboney Houck at Elm wood the family home located on Bloomfield Road three miles south west of Cape Girardeau The Very Rev Ned Cole dean of Christ Church Cathedral in St Louis was in charge with burial in the fam ily plot in Old Lorimier cemetery An attorney and descendant of one of the pioneer families of Cape Girardeau Mr Houck died riday afternoon at a local hospital He had been in the hospital for some time The lifetime resident of Cape Gi rardeau was 82 years old at the time of his death He was the son of Louis Houck pioneer railroad builder and historian who died in1925 His mother was Mrs Mary Hunter Giboney Houck a descend ant of the Hunter and Giboney fam ilies also pioneer residents She died in 1944 Served In Army Best known as Maj Houck due to his service in the Army in the Spanish American War he was graduated in 1901 from the School of Law of the University of Mis souri While he engaged in some practice of his profession the ma jor part of his time was given over to the supervision of the Houck family holdings He main tained an office through the years on Independence street near Span ish The Girardean was made a senior counselor of the Missouri Bar as sociation an honor reserved for members of long standing Sept 16 1958 The only son in the family he had two sisters Irma who was married to Charles Juden and died in 1911 and Rebecca who married Col Pat rissell and pre ceded him in death in 1954 Surviving are two nephews Charles A Juden and Dr A Juden Cape Girardeau two nieces Mrs Ronald Reed St Joseph and Mrs Robert Evans Eldon ten great nephews four great nieces two great great nephews and a great great niece Burglars Enter IGA Take $700 In Pro Job Thieves took over $700 from the safe at the IGA in Jack son Sunday night In what was termed by police as a the burglars broke into the safe which is lo cated just outside an office area in the front of the store They gained entrance to the safe by cutting the hinges off the door police reported They entered the building by prying open the front door and left through a rear door One of the owners A riday night 32 The Indians scored in the first three quarters and Dexter made their points in the second quarter Attend Activities At University Mr and Mrs Jack Himmelberger and Mr and Mrs Robert Early attended Alumni Day activities at the University of Missouri last weekend They were among more than i 350 alumni leaders who were guests of president Elmer Ellis at a lunch eon and at the football game be tween SMU and Missouri Sixteen county alumni organiza tions received honor club awards for having more than 25 per cent of the potential members in their area on the active list Locke south Sprigg GIVE Schaper discovered the break in Monday morning when he opened the store for business His son Bernard Schaper is the other own er Police also received a report of a break in at the Jackson eed and Produce firm There thieves took 16 cents from a cash register En trance to the firm was gained by tearing out a screen and crawling through a window officers report ed END TRAINING Paul Meystedt son of Mr and 'Mrs red A Meystedt 720 south Pacific and Richard Patterson son of Mrs Margant A Patterson 1 816 jrouth Sprigg all of Cape Gi rardeau graduated from recruit training Sept 3 at the Naval Train ing Center Great Lakes III.