Stories from Wednesday, March 23, 1994

The first recipient of the Margaret Woods Allen Endowed Chair in Nursing at Southeast Missouri State University will speak at 3:30 p.m. April 6 on the university campus. LaVerne Gallman, professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, will speak on "Healthy Aging: It's Not An Impossible Dream" in Dempster Auditorium of the Crisp Hall of Nursing...

JACKSON -- The Missouri Highway Patrol will host a town hall meeting at the American Legion Hall in Jackson Monday at 7 p.m., and in other area cities over the next two months. The meeting, which is open to everyone, will provide an opportunity for people of the area to meet with Troop E Capt. Morris E. Patrick and troopers assigned to the Cape Girardeau County zone...

Hands covered with shaving cream, students called out that they had found something interesting -- the tombstone of an infant who died more than a century ago. A group of seventh-graders from L.J. Schultz Middle School visited Old Lorimier Cemetery Tuesday and another group is scheduled to visit the cemetery today as part of their lessons on genealogy...

A year after opening the Cape Girardeau Senior Center on North Clark Street, the non-profit agency is struggling to make its monthly payments. Senior Center leaders held a press conference Tuesday announcing that it will kick off a campaign aimed at raising a half-million dollars. The three-month campaign begins in April...

Southeast Missouri State University's administrators have scrapped plans to raise room charges for most campus residence halls in the face of opposition from student leaders. "I feel like for once somebody listened," said Jeff Davis, Student Government president. "I think it shows that if enough students stand up and act then obviously things can be accomplished."...

Solid waste became an issue not easily discarded by the Cape Girardeau City Council. The council agreed in January to seek bids on the city's residential trash service from private haulers. Now city staff members are voicing concern over aspects of a potential contract with a private trash hauler...

JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Education Tuesday adopted an end-of-school calendar that will add extra days to the school year to compensate for weather days taken this winter. Under the revised calender, the last day of school will be Wednesday, June 1...

Funeral service for Marlon E. Bartlett of Huntington, W.Va., was held March 8 at Ferrell Mortuary Chapel there. The Rev. Andrew Magnusson officiated, with burial in White Chapel Memorial Gardens in Barboursville, W.Va. Bartlett, 74, died Friday, March 4, 1994, at Pleasant Valley Nursing Center in Point Pleasant, W.Va...

PERRYVILLE -- Roy G. White, 83, of Perryville, died Tuesday, March 22, 1994, at his home. He was born March 24, 1910, at Mullville, Kan., son of William Henry and Laura Roe White. He and Myrtle E. Roe were married in 1940 at Farmington. She died in 1977. He later married Alvina M. "Snoody" Heuer...

Dr. William A. Thomson, 78, 300 N. Sunset, died Tuesday, March 22, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born May 6, 1915, at Chaffee, son of William B. and Ara Finley Thomson. He and Thelma M. LaBrot were married April 17, 1937, in St. Louis...

MARBLE HILL -- Marion L. Myers, 88, of Marble Hill, died Monday, March 21, 1994, in a hospital at Mexico, Mo. Baker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

BERTRAND -- Ruth B. Adams, 82, Bertrand Route 1, died Tuesday, March 22, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Nov. 24, 1911, in Marion, Ill., daughter of John and Bertha Bisson Palmer. She and Donald Harry Adams were married June 6, 1941. He died Dec. 21, 1991...

MOREHOUSE -- Marveline "Mandy" Reynolds, 76, of Morehouse, died Tuesday, March 22, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 3, 1917, in Avert, daughter of Frank and Rose Robey Patrick. She married Willard H. Reynolds Aug. 29, 1936, at Morehouse. He died Jan. 11, 1989...

Missouri Secretary of State Judith K. Moriarty praised the efforts of area citizens Tuesday that led to the opening of a new Independent Living Center by the SEMO Alliance for Disability, Inc. "This new Independent Living Center will assure that Southeast Missouri citizens with special needs will learn the necessary skills to compete not only in satisfying life styles but in the world of work," said Moriarty...

When the federal government takes a rare break from raising taxes, no one in America should breathe easy and let down the guard on their pocketbook. Congress and regulatory agencies can affect your personal bottom line without demanding more money into the federal treasury. The name for this fiscal trick is "unfunded federal mandates," and local governments and taxpayers are properly becoming fed up with this maneuver...

Even before the riverboats begin their excursions and the slot machines are frantically rolling, it should be recognized that Missouri's biggest compulsive gambler is the State of Missouri itself. Written into Gov. Mel Carnahan's FY 1995 budget, which begins in a little more than three months, the state plans to collect seven times more revenue than it receives from taxes on liquor and beer. ...

To the Editor: This is so embarrassing. How could I have been so wrong? "Gambling can and will solve all of the countries problems"! I see it now. Cape will be rich, because it will receive a share of the "take". New roads, new jobs, and new money. The Boyds, Lady Luck, and all the folks around our area can't wait to donate their money to us. ...

Dear Editor: I am watching C-Span, and the feeling I get is that the media are backing off Whitewater. Could it be that they are afraid this is destroying the Clinton Presidency? Or the stock market? So what? Have you noticed that the Clinton administration is about control? The handgun ban, cigarette ban (as a drug), the national education board, the national health board? And I am a longtime Democrat...

To the Editor: America was founded by evangelical Christians who held strong convictions that the principles of Christianity were essential to effective government. These principles were also the basis on which the educational system in America was established. ...

Spring is a season of contrasts, sometimes shy and elusive, often bold and shining, forever timeless in its appeal. Thoughts turn to strolls in the country, baskets of fresh flowers and children gathering brightly colored eggs. Parents shop for bow ties and Easter bonnets...

March has long been know as the "fickle" month. The word itself means changeable or unstable, and that is a perfect description of the month of March. Temperatures can be that of spring one day and winter the next, just like our 12 inches of snow following a beautiful spring-like weekend with temperatures in the 60's...