Stories from Saturday, October 9, 1993

To the Editor: I noted with interest your quotation of Mr. Jeff Krantz, director of planning for Southeast Missouri Hospital and co-chairman of the chamber's health and human services committee (in the Saturday, Oct. 2 paper) to the effect that your two hospitals spend $200,000 each annually in an attempt to attract primary care physicians to Cape Girardeau...

The SEMO Foxtrotting Club is sponsoring an Open Fun Horse Show today at 2 p.m. at the Patton Saddle Club grounds, located a mile north of Junction 51-72. Open lead line, open foal halter, open model halter and various walking horse, Arabian, and quarter horse classes are included. The last seven classes are fun events...

Women who want to learn to sing four-part harmony are invited by the Girardot Rose Chapter of Sweet Adelines, International, to take part in this area's first Mini-Chorus Class. Six free vocal lessons will be offered to participants. These sessions will begin Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, located at Cape Rock Drive and Perryville Road. The weekly lessons will conclude Nov. 23...

A seminar on attracting wildlife to your backyard will be featured Oct. 27 by the Four Seasons Audubon Society. The meeting time is 7:30 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Public Library. Emphasis will be on attracting birds and selecting the appropriate feed...

Teresa Paikeday of Cape Girardeau has received a scholarship from the National Academy of Science, Space and Technology for the current school year. One scholarship is awarded per congressional district. Paikeday is a graduate of Cape Girardeau Central High School and now a freshman at the University of North Carolina...

"Speaking of Sex," a workshop on sexuality and developmental disabilities, will be held Oct. 18 from 7-9 p.m. at Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau. The workshop is open to people with developmental disabilities and parents of people with disabilities. There is no charge for the workshop...

FLAT RIVER -- U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond will speak at Mineral Area Community College Monday as part of the recently formed Zelda Martin Cozean Lecture Series. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. and the public is invited to attend. The Zelda Martin Cozean Lecture Series is a memorial tribute to a long-time resident of the Mineral Area. Cozean strongly advocated education and community service...

While the floodwaters have receded along much of the mighty Mississippi, the debate over rebuilding the levees has just begun. This summer's record breaking flood topped or damaged more than two-thirds of the 1,576 levees along the Missouri and upper Mississippi River basins, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage. The vast majority of those failures were private levees. But the question on everyone's mind is how many of the levees will be rebuilt, and who will pay for it?...

To the Editor: What kind of total economic impact would the Boyd Group's riverboat casino and dockside development have on the Cape area? Pauline Fox, professor of economics at SEMO, using a very conservative multiplier of two, has done a study that indicates the 1994 capital expenditure phase would produce a total economic impact of $31.2 million...

To the Editor: The user fee policy for the Cape Girardeau Public Library, which went into effect on Oct. 1, has upset a number of city residents, and the Southeast Missourian has spoken to the issue in an editorial printed on Wednesday, Sept. 28. The decision by the board of trustees to implement this fee is based on the fact that the municipal library district no longer can afford to offer library services to areas where tax revenues support another library district. ...

Gamma Sigma Sigma, the national service sorority at Southeast Missouri State University, is sponsoring a "Kiss The Pig" contest today as part of the school's Family Weekend. All money raised will be donated to the Red Cross Relief Fund. Candidates will run for Pig Queen and King. The candidate receiving the most positive points will kiss a pot belly pig during the halftime show at today's Indian football game...

CHESTER, Ill. - It was a case at good news, bad news for residents in the Perryville-Chester, Ill. area Friday. The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department said the McBride-to-Chester ferry shuttle was halted Friday because the water level over Highway 51 dropped too low to continue to safely operate the service...

JEFFERSON CITY - A state administrative hearing commissioner released a report Friday for the Missouri Board of Registration for the Healing Arts, concluding that it should consider disciplinary action against Dr. Bolivar M. Escobedo. The conclusion was formed by Commissioner Edward F. Downey, more than three years after a complaint charged Escobedo was guilty of misconduct and neglect with regard to abortion clinics he operated in Cape Girardeau and Manchester...

BLOOMFIELD -- Third grade students at Bloomfield elementary school will be watching the lift off of the Space Shuttle Columbia Thursday with great anticipation. Barring any technical difficulties the space shuttle may experience, 76 third graders will be able to speak to the astronauts aboard the shuttle exactly three days, four hours and 52 minutes after liftoff. If the shuttle takes off exactly as scheduled, it will be in contact with Bloomfield at 2:44 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 17...

WHITEWATER -- What is described as one of the largest and most expensive rural bridges ever built in Cape Girardeau County is now open. The 200-foot-long, concrete deck and steel pier bridge over the Diversion Channel is located on County Road 253, about three miles west of Whitewater. The bridge opened late last month...

The Cape SEMO Chapter 519 of Parents Without Partners has scheduled an orientation for perspective members on Friday, Oct. 22. It will begin at 7 p.m. in the Harris Room of the Community Counseling Center at the corner of Silver Springs and Bloomfield...

More than a half-dozen Cape Girardeau Girl Scouts tossed old telephone directories into a recycling bin to kick off "Project ReDirectory" Friday afternoon. The program, sponsored by Southwestern Bell and Yellow Pages, is in its second year and is designed to encourage people to recycle outdated telephone books...

JACKSON -- Square dance lessons for beginners, offered by the Cape County Swingers Square Dance Club of Jackson, will begin Sunday. Classes will be held in the cafeteria of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson on Sundays at 6 p.m. Persons with questions about square dancing or the club can call Chuck, Gerry or Janet Guenther at 243-8038...

MARBLE HILL -- Lendwood Garland, 68, of Marble Hill, died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born March 8, 1925, at Hurricane, son of James and Myrtle Cook Garland. He and Lucille James were married Aug. 11, 1943...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Karlin of Topeka, Kan., St. Francis Hospital, 9 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 18, 1993. Name, Nicole Briann. Weight, 6 pounds 7 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Karlin is the former Victoria Wickham, daughter of Herb and Nancy Wickham of Jackson. Karlin is self-employed, and is the son of Ron and Roberta Karlin of Topeka...

Bloomfield -- Jewell M. Capps, 64, of Florissant, formerly of Bloomfield, died at her home Thursday, Oct. 7, 1993. She was born at Bloomfield on May 14, 1929, the daughter of James Ralph and Madge Mae Lincoln McFerron. She was married to Oscar Eldon Capps. he preceded her in death Oct. 5, 1978. She was a retired bookkeeper...

PERRYVILLE -- Russell C. Pfeiffer, 53, of Perryville, died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 15, 1940, in Cape Girardeau, son of Alfred and Floy Breckridge Pfeiffer. He and Arleen Ehlers were married Sept. 24, 1960...

Joseph M. Laxton, infant son of George Thomas and Rebekah J. Heflin Laxton Jr. of Jackson, died Friday, Oct. 8, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Oct. 7, 1993, at the hospital. Survivors include his parents; a brother, Andrew Laxton of the home; maternal grandparents, Joe and Carol Heflin of Cape Girardeau; paternal grandparents, George Laxton Sr. ...

JACKSON -- Mavis Ruth Logan, 74, of Jackson, formerly of Royalton, Ill., died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1993, at her home. She was born May 2, 1919, in Bessemer, Ala., daughter of Berney and Maude Nelson Hagler. She and Clarence I. Logan were married in October 1939, in Cape Girardeau. He died in 1987...

Fox 23 KBSI has received permission from ABC to begin airing the controversial series "N.Y.P.D. Blue," beginning Saturday, Oct. 16, at 10 p.m. KBSI secured the right to air the series after the local ABC affiliate WSIL-TV refused to broadcast it last month...

Twenty-two years ago Jody Kiehne discovered a lump in her breast on a Sunday. On Monday she saw her doctor. On Tuesday she was in the hospital having a radical mastectomy. Fourteen years later her daughter, Patti Talley, discovered a lump in her breast. It too was cancer...

October 19 is National Mammography Day, a good time to review when you should have a mammogram. A mammogram is an X-ray of the breast used by doctors to detect breast cancer early, before it has spread. Mammography can reveal the presence of small cancers up to two years before they can be felt by you or your physician. ...

Women who may be at risk for developing breast cancer are needed to participate in a study to determine if a drug is able to prevent breast cancer. Researchers at the St. Louis-Cape Girardeau Community Oncology Program have enrolled about 9,000 women, just over half the number needed to complete the study...

Southeast Missouri Hospital's School of Nursing has received approval to change to an associate degree of nursing program. Under the new program, nurses not only earn their registered nurse degree, they also earn the academic associate degree. Approval for the proposal, which will offer a new educational option for practical nurses wishing to advance their careers, was given by the State Board of Nursing in Jefferson City...