Stories from Wednesday, December 12, 1990

PERRYVILLE -- Service for Anna Natalie May will be held at St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church at 10:30, with Rev. Henry Grodecki, C.M., officiating. Burial will be in Mt. Hope Cemetery at Perryville. A Parish wake service will be held at Young & Sons Funeral home at 7 p.m. tonight, and a Legion Auxiliary wake service will be held at 7:15 p.m...

Dear Editor: On behalf of the Southeast Missouri Council, Boy Scouts of America, we would like to express our sincere appreciation for the worthwhile effort the Southeast Missourian made in our Council Scouting for Food Good Turn this year. After all the food cans were collected throughout the 14 count area we served on Nov. 17, the total amount of food cans collected by scouts exceeded 76,580!...

Dear Editor: In a Nov. 29 article regarding some of the many activities of The Missouri Bar, I was quoted as follows regarding the use of still and video cameras by the news media in Missouri courtrooms: "The bar has discussed it and we didn't think it was a question of whether we're going to do it, it was a question of when and putting the procedures together."...

Dear Editor: On December 6th, we attended the Media Workshop for Nonprofit Organizations. The topic was "how to work with the media." This workshop was provided in cooperation with the Area Wide United Way, Sponsored by Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Guest Seminar Leader was Mr. Tripp Frohlichstein of MediaMasters. Mr. Frohlichstein's program was excellent. THANK YOU United Way and Southwestern Bell for bringing this educational program to our area...

To the Editor: It is very encouraging to hear creditable voices increasingly calling for restraint in the headlong rush toward military confrontation in the Middle East. Under present circumstances, it would seem much more productive for the Administration to replace its "bellicose and belligerent" rhetoric with encouragement for the troops about the wisdom and courage required for strategically "out waiting" and un-nerving the adversary...

Dear Editor: As we all know, Dr. Iben Browning recently made a projection of a 50-50 chance of an earthquake to occur during the first part of December. He did not make a prediction that one would occur, but a projection that one might occur. We must all take responsibility for how it snowballed out of proportion. ...

At times, the Persian Gulf seems a world away. Days like Tuesday bring it home. Yesterday, Randal Warren of Diehlstadt stepped off a plane at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport to the open arms of his family. Warren had been trapped in Kuwait since Aug. 2, when Iraq took the country by force...

In college, I wrote a friend and informed him I had "General Semantics" on my schedule. He mistakenly assumed I had joined the ROTC. ("Who is this General Semantics?" he asked.) In fact, the course served me well, given my eventual occupation. Semantics is the branch of linguistics dealing with words' meanings and changes in meanings and the work here is often tied up in these idiomatic disputes...

Dear Editor: My spirit soars to read the semantics spat in progress in your Public Mind section between the Honorable Judge Hopkins and former Editor, Mr. Blue. Finally, something worthwhile to read in the Missouria~n! At long last some relief from the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothing your tabloid causes me! Hallelujah!...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Florine Gillean, formerly of Cairo, Ill., and East Prairie, will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Revs. Robert Burke and David Bowden will officiate, with burial in IOOF Cemetery...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Dr. Walter W. Davidson, 1706 Fremont, professor of education at Southeast Missouri State University since 1968, died Monday, Dec. 10, 1990, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was 61 years old. Funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Grace United Methodist Church. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery...

SCOTT CITY -- Mrs. Anna Augusta Roth of Scott City died Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1990, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was 94 years old. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.

JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Helen W. Sander of Jackson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Robert Henrichs will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for James Vernon Morris of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Larry Emerson will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...

CAPE GIRARDEAU -- William E. Whittaker Sr., 45 years old, of Creve Coeur, Ill. died Tuesday, Dec. 11, 1990 at the Methodist Medical Center in Peoria, Ill. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Ford & Sons Funeral.

In a country as large as the United States all business does not stop because of a holiday, even if it is Christmas. Stores close and banks, schools, government offices, but essential services, hospitals, and the like, important and necessary to keep the country functioning, continue operating 24 hours a day...

First, let me congratulate Robert Novak on reminding President Bush, albeit indirectly, that the young men and women serving our country in the Middle East are young adults, not kids. Many are married and have children. "Self-respect precludes `kids' as young adults," the well-known commentator finished. Amen to that!...