Stories from Tuesday, July 16, 1991

A high-ranking U.S. Agriculture Department official and an environmental manager for a major American corporation will be keynote speakers at a large farm industry show here Wednesday and Thursday. Bruce Gardner, assistant U.S. Secretary of Agriculture for Economics, and Thomas J. ...

The Cape Girardeau City Council Monday endorsed a plan to place a county-wide emergency telephone system on the November ballot. The council approved a resolution in support of a new "Enhanced 911" system that allows emergency agency dispatchers to instantly trace the origin of incoming calls...

With results of a straw poll showing overwhelming opposition to holding an election, it appears efforts to build a 7,700 acre recreational lake in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties are at an end. A poll that gave registered voters in Bollinger County the right to say whether they wanted to vote on the lake issue in November was tallied Monday morning and showed 553 opposed to a lake election and 193 in favor...

CHAFFEE - The Chaffee Fire Department may soon have to take care of the city's emergency preparedness too. Committee Director Steve Graham asked the Chaffee City Council Monday to consider letting the department take on the city's emergency preparedness duties. Following Graham's request, Moyers sent the matter to the city's Fire Committee...

JACKSON -- Residents who have a swimming pool may want to check to make sure the fence or barrier that restricts entry to it conforms with the Building Officials and Code Administration (BOCA) code. The Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday authorized the city building inspector and his staff to survey the city later this year to determine if swimming pools in Jackson conform to the BOCA code's security fencing and barrier requirements...

Diving for pennies at the public pool or climbing oak trees with a friend are favorite summertime activities for children. But a hospital stay from an illness or injury can put a child's summer activities on hold. Although most pediatric patients are admitted for only a few days, those children may still feel a barrage of emotions. ...

Tomorrow and Thursday the Show Me Center will host the highly touted "New Trends in Agriculture" conference. This event offers us all, whether within or without the agri-business community, to learn more about our state's largest industry and surely among our most productive. ...

These days, public attention seems focused on the problems facing higher education. In sharp contrast to that, the success of the Bootheel Education Center at Malden is a shining example of what's right with higher education. The center, housed in a former Pepsi-Cola bottling plant, is operated by a consortium consisting of Southeast Missouri State University, Three Rivers Community College at Poplar Bluff and the University of Missouri Extension division...

Son to Dr. and Mrs. Dean Edwards of Nashville, Tenn., Vanderbilt Hospital there, 8:09 p.m. Thursday, July 4, 1991. Name, Timothy James. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. First child. Mrs. Edwards is the former Lorrie Suggs, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. George Suggs of Cape Girardeau, and is a stockbroker. Edwards is an internal medicine resident at Vanderbilt, and is the son of Dr. and Mrs. Don Edwards of Cape Girardeau...

MARBLE HILL -- Ethyl F. Hill, 87, of Marble Hill, died Sunday, July 14, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 29, 1904, at Hiram, daughter of Ezekiel and Sarah Lane Taylor. She married Henry Abernathy Oct. 1, 1934, who died June 26, 1950. She later married Artis G. Hill Oct. 31, 1951...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Susie O'Daniel, 93, of Mounds, died Sunday, July 14, 1991, at the home of a daughter in Memphis, Tenn. She was a member of the United Methodist Church here. Survivors include a son, Bob O'Daniel of Wickliffe, Ky.; two daughters, Geraldine Jones of Memphis, Rachel McCabe of Denver, Colo.; a brother, Earl Taylor of Mounds; five grandchildren, and four great-grandchildren...

ANNA, Ill. -- Fred Goetz, 91, of Anna, died Monday, July 15, 1991, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born March 31, 1900, in Waukesha, Wis., son of Arthur Henry and Caroline Moran Goetz. Survivors include his wife, Moneada; a son, Frederick Goetz of Martinsville, Ind.; a daughter, Susan Mullins of Deerfield; two stepsons, Larry and Wesley Karraker of Anna; a stepdaughter, Sandra Cassity of Clearwater, Fla.; two brothers, John Goetz of Ponte Verda Beach, Fla., Charles Goetz of Segregarset, Mass.; a sister, Josephine Brahm of Washington, D.C.; five grandchildren, and eight stepgrandchildren.. ...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Billy Gene Love, 51, of East Prairie died Sunday, July 14, 1991, at the SEMO Care Facility in Sikeston. He was born April 30, 1940 in Sunflower County, Miss., the son of Jessie Allbritton Elkins, who survives of East Prairie, and the late Robert Howard Love...

BERTRAND -- Hazel Hunter, 87, of Bertrand died Sunday, July 14, 1991, at her home. She was born Nov. 17, 1903 in Portland, Tenn., the daughter of Andy E. and Millie Blackburn Hunter. She lived in Bertrand for the past 42 years. She was a member of the Tanner Street Church of God in Sikeston and was and employed with Missouri Delta Medical Center until her retirement in 1981...

SCOTT CITY -- Mary Alice Cowell, 54, of Scott City, died Monday, July 15, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Sept. 26, 1936, at Morehouse, daughter of Clarence and Gladys Mae Reynolds Elders. She married Charles Luther Cowell May 10, 1957, in Holly Springs, Miss. He died Feb. 7, 1968...

SCOTT CITY -- Members of the Scott City Council plan to urge voters in their respective wards to vote in favor of a half-cent sales tax to fund street repairs. A vote on the proposed tax is set for Aug. 6. At Monday's council meeting, Mayor Shirley Young asked council members to push for passage of the tax. She said it's vital that voters approve the tax in next month's election. The tax failed in April by 33 votes...

Officers from the Cape Girardeau Sheriff's Department used tear gas to flush a man from his family's home Monday afternoon when the man refused to surrender to a commitment order. Sheriff Norman Copeland said the man will not face criminal charges from the incident, even though the man had a rifle...

A film on Crohn's disease will be shown tonight at the Ileitis-Colitis Support Group meeting at St. Francis Medical Center. The meeting will be in the Friend's Lounge of the Health and Education Centre beginning at 7 p.m. Crohn's disease affects various parts of the digestive tract and may include the lower part of the small intestine and the large intestine. There may be as many as 2 million Americans with inflammatory bowel disease, according to the National Foundation for Ileitis and Colitis...

(Editor's note: Because of the large number of calls Speak Out has received and published concerning last week's issue before the Cape Girardeau City Council, discussion on the matter in this column will end with today's edition. The Southeast Missourian normally receives 25-30 minutes of taped calls daily. On weekends, the volume is normally a little higher. This Monday, the Missourian had 80 minutes of tape, primarily concerning the council action...