Stories from Friday, October 8, 1993

EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Opal Bisher, East Prairie Route 2, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. Ernest Brown and David Dowdy will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Bisher, 81, died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1993, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau...

Cape Girardeau is a regional medical hub - teeming with doctors and medical facilities. The region has been fortunate in attracting substantial numbers of physicians and services, but we haven't escaped a national shortage of primary care physicians. The majority of physicians pursue speciality degrees -- where the financial returns are greater and the practices often include more backup...

In a time of corporate cutbacks and an uncertain economy, a man quitting a good-paying job is news. Maybe that's why networks interrupted their normal programming Wednesday to watch one man give notice to the Chicago Bulls. OK, it was probably a bit more than that. ...

FRIDAY, OCT. 8 At 10:48 p.m. Wednesday, firefighters responded to 1903 Bellridge for medical assistance. At 12:30 a.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to 1500 Price Drive to flush out a sewer. At 7:44 a.m. Thursday, firefighters responded to 1701 Lacey for a report of a fire alarm sounding...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- The 51st Illinois State Championship Duck and Goose Calling Contest and National Coon Squalling Contest will be held in the Trail of Tears State Forest northwest of Jonesboro off Illinois 127 this weekend. The contest is conducted by the Union County Waterfowl Association in cooperation with the Anna-Jonesboro Area Chamber of Commerce...

To the Editor: I would first like to take the opportunity to thank you for the coverage of my report to the Chamber membership. Your article discussed SOME of the key issues which are "fueling the fires" for health care reform. While those issues are all national in scope, the reality of health care reform is going to affect each of us in a very personal and very real way. ...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Bryant of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:27 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, 1993. Name, Brandon Micheal. Weight, 8 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Bryant is the former Shannon Sterlin, daughter of James and Josephine Sterlin of St. Louis. She is employed at Sears. Bryant is assistant manager at Pizza Hut, and is the son of Paul and Glenda Bryant of Scott City...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Gwendolyn McClure, 83, of Mounds, died Thursday, Oct. 7, 1993, at Cape LaCroix Manor in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Aug. 26, 1910, at Mounds, daughter of John and Gertrude Williams Prim. McClure was a retired psychiatric aide at Elgin State Hospital. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Mounds...

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for James "Hot Dog" Brown of Chaffee will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Harvey Puckett will officiate, with burial in Union Park Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m...

Flossie T. Andrews, 87, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 11, 1906, in Danville, Ill., daughter of John William and Anna Dodson Marshall. She and Charles Andrews were married June 15, 1940, in Tarrytown, N.Y. He died May 8, 1988...

SIKESTON -- George Clinton "Tootie" Baugher, 50, of Stuart, Fla., died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1993, at St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach, Fla. He was born Feb. 16, 1943, at Sikeston, son of Earl Clinton and Ella Lyle Baugher. After retiring from the personnel department with the U.S. Army, he was a car salesman...

SIKESTON -- Flossie Clark, 100, of Vancouver, Wash., died Wednesday, Oct. 6, 1993, at her home. She was formerly of Sikeston. She was born March 28, 1893, in Dawson Springs, Ky., daughter of Jim and Susan Victoria Clayton Beard. She and William Claude Clark were married Feb. 17, 1912. He died June 10, 1971...

A relative newcomer to the Cape Girardeau manufacturing scene has been accorded the Chamber of Commerce's highest honor for industry. Dana Corporation, which opened the doors to a $23 million facility on Southern Expressway early in 1990, was recognized as the 1993 "Industry of the Year," at the annual Chamber of Commerce's Industrial Appreciation Dinner Thursday night...

Cape Girardeau kicked off its drug-free, gun-free school zone program Thursday at Franklin Elementary School before about 60 third- and fourth-graders. City officials, public and private school officials, and federal law enforcement personnel participated in the kickoff, along with leaders of Cape Girardeau's four Optimist clubs and Optimist International President Charles Wiles...

VAN BUREN -- Five hundred to 800 horses and riders are expected to converge upon the National Park Service office at Van Buren today to lobby to keep a herd of wild horses roaming free. The wild-horse rally is slated for 2 p.m., said Douglas Kennedy, a Poplar Bluff attorney who represents the Missouri Wild Horse League...

Leaders of a group hoping to keep riverboat gambling out of Cape Girardeau warned against complacency Thursday in kicking off their second election campaign drive of the year. "It seems to be a different feeling out there than it was in June," City Councilman Melvin Gateley told an assemblage of about 45 people at the First Presbyterian Church...

The Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau will hold an open house at its new quarters Sunday. CVB officials and advisory board members will be on hand throughout the open house, from noon to 3 p.m., at 1707 Mount Auburn Road. "We'll have coffee, punch and cookies, and entertainment," said Mary Miller, director...

The villages of Arnsburg and New Hanover, nestled in the rolling hills of the Black Forest in Cape Girardeau County, will come alive with the sights and sounds of Oktoberfest Saturday and Sunday. The third annual event celebrates the region's German heritage...