Stories from Wednesday, September 22, 1993

To the Editor: On behalf of our Depressive and Manic/Depressive Executive Board of Directors, I wish to express our appreciation for the viable, accurate informative article concerning clinical depression printed in the Tuesday, Sept. 14 edition. I would like to share with you and the public two events our association and the Community Counseling Center are sponsoring for the public, one Sept. ...

To the Editor: Imagine the federal government permanently evacuating both coasts of Florida and the center of California. In some cases the government pays people what their property is worth; for many families they do not. Instead, they use the government power of eminent domain to clear families from their homes and land. The government's reason for the mass evacuations is that Florida and California have been hit by natural disasters...

To the Editor: I read with interest the "facts" about the economics of riverboat gambling as presented by The Yes Group in the Sept. 20 Letters to the Editor section. A close scrutiny of that letter must lead one to conclude that either the Boyd Group has very poor businessmen or that The Yes Group didn't make it past first-grade arithmetic...

It's been 10 years since the Broadway experiment ended. For seven years, Broadway was transformed into one-way traffic. Those seven years were also fraught with controversy. The last 10 have seen this important street with its proper traffic flow. It was a split city council that voted to revert Broadway to two-way traffic. But even though a decade has passed, strong feelings about the future fate of Broadway remain...

Students at Trinity Lutheran School recognized the names - Leonardo, Raphael, Michael Angelo and Donatello - the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But art educator Rhea Sprecher explained that the quartet of cartoon crimefighters is named for an equally famous group of Italian artists...

City water department revenue and expenditure figures from its first fiscal year of operation show an efficient and profitable utility. A report compiled by Mid-Missouri Engineers Inc., the company hired by the city of Cape Girardeau to run its water utility, show the operation is safely in the black...

JACKSON - For the 12th consecutive year the Cape Girardeau County Commission has set the general revenue property tax levy at zero. In 1981, a half-cent sales tax for general revenue was enacted after voters approved the measure. According to state law, half of the income from the sales tax is to be used for rolling back the property tax levy...

Education will zoom into the spotlight during a two-day, Missouri Chamber of Commerce Leadership Missouri program to be conducted at the Drury Lodge today and Thursday. The 1993 Leadership Missouri class includes 36 leaders from across the state who is meeting two days a month for seven months in various communities, covering a wide range of issues, governmental functions and economic philosophies...

The Cape Girardeau Central Municipal Swimming Pool, its bubble in place, will re-open to the public this morning. On weekdays, there will be an early-bird swim period from 5:30-7:30 a.m. A noon swim will be held from 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. An evening swim period is scheduled for 5-8 p.m...

The signs are unmistakable. The sun rises a little later each morning and sets earlier each evening. Increasing numbers of wooly bears are seen wiggling their way across the roadways and ground. Withered and dry cornstalks in the fields are ready for the harvest...

Evelyn Sparks, 49, 1117 Ranney, died Sunday, Sept. 20, 1992, at her home. Her daughter, Bridgette Harris, 22, 220 S. Lorimier, and grandson, Dontay Harris, 11 months, also died Sunday at the Sparks home. Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel is in charge of arrangements...

ORAN -- Funeral service for Bernard John Eftink, Oran Route 1, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Guardian Angel Catholic Church. The Rev. Normand Varone will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Oran after 5 p.m. today. The rosary will be at 7...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Earl Thomas Clayton of Scott City will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph Catholic Church. The Rev. Pat Wissman will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Scott City after 3 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7, and Knights of Columbus service at 7:30...

MARBLE HILL -- John E. Davis, 85, of Marble Hill, died Monday, Sept. 20, 1993, at his home. He was born Sept. 19, 1908, at Alton, son of Henry and Nancy Powell Davis. He and Alma Gosnell were married March 3, 1928. Davis was a retired mechanic with Swift and Co. in East St. Louis, Ill. He moved to this area in 1972 from Madison, Ill. He was a member of Point Pleasant General Baptist Church near Marble Hill, and Madison IOOF Lodge...

ANNA, Ill. -- The Anna-Jonesboro Water System is one of 92 Illinois water systems that have been recognized for maintaining required levels of fluoride during the past year in drinking water. "When the fluoride levels in public water supplies meet state standards, the citizens of these communities benefit through improved oral health," said Dr. John R. Lumpkin, state health director...

Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Robinson, 1956 Dunklin, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:02 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15, 1993. Name, Amanda Page. Weight, 7 pounds 7 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Robinson is the former Melissa Taylor, daughter of Lorene Mack of Florence, Miss. She is a surgical technician at St. Francis Medical Center. Robinson is with the U.S. Air Force ROTC personnel at Southeast Missouri State University, and is the son of Cornelia Gordon of Columbus, Miss...

PERRYVILLE -- Joseph H. "Joe" Buchheit, 75, of Perryville, died Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1993, at Perry County Nursing Home here. He was born March 19, 1918, in Cape Girardeau County, son of Edward C. and Mary C. Schabbing Buchheit. He and Rosemary Endres were married Nov. 16, 1946, at Perryville...

John D. Bowen, 57, of 332 N. Louisiana, died Tuesday, Sept. 21, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home of Cape Girardeau is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.

BURFORDVILLE -- A reunion of Council Ridge School District 68 will be held Oct. 2 at the covered bridge and park in Burfordville. All teachers, students and friends are invited to attend. A basket dinner will start at noon. Those attending are asked to bring food, lawn chairs, pictures and other memorabilia...

A harvest dinner featuring kettle beef and chicken and dumplings will be held Sunday at the Masonic Temple, 2307 Broadway. The family-style meal will be served from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. by Past Matrons and Past Patrons Club of Cape Rock Chapter 60. Cost is $5 for adults, and $2.50 for children under 12 years...

The Haarig Area Development Association has scheduled a "walk through" Thursday of the Haarig neighborhood. Cape Girardeau citizens and officials are invited to attend the event, where organizers hope to point out concerns in the old Haarig district...

The Alpha Omega Chapter of Psi Psi Psi will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the home of Della Heise, 719 Terrace, for a pot-luck dinner and meeting. Special guests will include prospective members and the president, rush chair, scholarship chair and adviser of the Phi Me Chapter of Delta Delta Delta from Southeast Missouri State University...

First there was the career-minded woman of the 1970s, anxious to waive motherhood and emancipate herself in a male-dominated work place. The movement gave way during the 1980s to the "supermom" syndrome, where still at work women tried to balance their careers with the rigors of motherhood and maintaining a household...

JACKSON -- The Jackson chapter of the American Business Women's Association (ABWA) will hold its annual business associate event Thursday at the Jackson Knights of Columbus Hall. The event honors the business associates and employers of ABWA members and will recognize one individual as Business Associate of the Year. The social will begin at 6 p.m., dinner at 7, and the program at 7:30...

St. Francis Medical Center's 6th annual Fall Fitness Fest will be held Saturday on the hospital's grounds. Events will include 5- and 10-kilometer runs, a 3.1-mile walk and a one-mile fun run/walk. The events will begin at about 8:30 a.m. outside the St. Francis Rehabilitation Center on the north end of the hospital. The one-mile fun run will start at 9:45 a.m...

Gardeners are known for their experimenting nature. When they hear, read or learn from other sources about introductions of flowers, vegetables, plants, trees or other growing things, they immediately want to try this new specie in their own garden...