Stories from Saturday, April 16, 1994

Dear Editor, To Mr. Bruce Collier, in reference to your letter and cartoon in Thursday's edition of the Southeast Missourian, the most important thing that people need to realize and accept is that there is, has, and always will be a good and bad. That comes with everything, regardless! And jobs, business, community growth, all involve money -- or haven't you noticed lately?...

A recent incident involving a man armed with a pellet pistol threatening a man near Cape La Croix apartments points to a need for changes in Missouri statutes dealing with felonious flourishing of a deadly weapon. As it turned out, no one was hurt in the March 30 incident, but someone easily could have been. And authorities say similar incidents involving pellet guns are occurring with alarming frequency around the country, some resulting in deaths...

On a sultry summer evening Marie Anderson went about her evening rituals in her Jackson home. She was in for a dark surprise. Anderson fell. She likened the ensuing sensation of helplessness to "being lost in your home." Anderson credits God and a decision she made about 10 years ago with her ability to relate the story nine months later...

The Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Society Alliance and Cape Girardeau's two hospitals will honor physicians with a special forum for women Thursday. The forum, "Breast Cancer and You," will be held at the Centenary United Methodist Church Family Life Center...

A line of severe thunderstorms with powerful winds lashed parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky early Friday, causing extensive property damage. In the east Perry County communities of Frohna and Altenburg, high winds blew off part of the roof of a lumber storage shed. The roof of a computer cable assembling plant was also damaged...

MILLER CITY, Ill. -- There's some bad news and some good news for victims of flooding in the Miller City area. The bad news is that the Len Small levee break has widened, pouring more water into the Miller City and Horseshoe lake area, stranding residents living in some of those area...

The emergence of unknown talent and the promise of musicians from established programs give Cape Jazz Festival organizer Ron Nall reason to be excited about Saturday's event. "With so many different schools coming, you just never know if some great jazz musician will turn up," said Nall, the Cape Girardeau Central High band director who will also oversee the 15th edition of the Cape Jazz Festival. ...

It seems strange that an isolated incident in Singapore has caused such a stir in the United States. But so momentous is the pending punishment of an American youth living in Singapore that American presidents -- past and present -- feel the need to inveigh what would otherwise be none of their business...

The possibility of competing medical office buildings on the grounds of Cape Girardeau's two hospitals worries physicians like Mark Kasten and Kent Griffith. Competing office buildings would result in costly and unnecessary duplication of services and could divide the physician community, with doctors becoming aligned with one hospital or the other, they say...

The Sunday meeting of the Civil War Roundtable of Cape Girardeau has been postponed, due to illness of the speaker. George Reaves, chief historian at Shiloh, Tenn. National Military Park was scheduled to discuss the Civil War Battle of Shiloh during the meeting...

The American Red Cross is holding its 14th annual Swim-A-Cross event today from 8 a.m.-12 p.m. at the Cape Central Pool. Prizes will be awarded to all participants. Prizes will be awarded for first, second and third place money raisers, and to the person who swims longest and the oldest swimmer...

A manufacturer of plastic bottles has announced plans to locate a facility in the Cape Girardeau. Texberry Container Corp., a Houston-based manufacturer and distributor of plastic bottles ranging from two ounces to two-and-a-half gallons, announced this week it would establish a plant in Nash Road Industrial Park...

MALDEN -- Gov. Mel Carnahan was in the Bootheel Friday to laud the efforts of the Bootheel Education Consortium, a cooperative venture of Southeast Missouri State University and Three Rivers Community College. Carnahan attended the BEC's annual fundraising banquet at Malden...

Son to Bonita Jenkins of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:37 p.m. Monday, April 4, 1994. Name, Dionte Shakur. Weight, 8 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Miss Jenkins is the daughter of Connie Jenkins of Cape Girardeau. Daughter to Kelly J. Burns of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:07 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, 1994. Name, Harlee April. Weight, 8 pounds 14 ounces. Second daughter. Ms. Burns is the former Kelly Jennings, daughter of Sharon Butera of Scott City...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Georgia Evelyn Carter, 82, of Cairo, died Friday, April 15, 1994, at her home. She was born March 9, 1912, at Charleston, Mo., daughter of Warford E. and Fannie Lloyd Small. She married John Keaton Carter, who died in 1971. Carter retired from customer service department of Burkart Randal Inc. in 1977, and as bookkeeper at Cairo City Hall in 1986...

Grace Cordelia Owens, 77, 2541 Janet, died Thursday, April 14, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 8, 1916, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Burley and Eunice Ellis Reynolds. She and Raymond Owens were married Dec. 7, 1940, in Cape Girardeau...

JACKSON -- Graveside service for Farrell W. Marler of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. today at Russell Heights Cemetery. The Rev. Otto Steinhaus will officiate. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home from 10 a.m. to service time. Marler, 65, died Thursday, April 14, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

URBANDALE, Ill. -- Funeral service for Eddie Ray Wilson, of Victoria, Texas, formerly of Urbandale, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Barkett Funeral Chapel in Cairo. The Rev. Vester Keesee will officiate, with burial in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds...

JACKSON -- Harlan L. Dow, 67, of Jackson, died Thursday, April 14, 1994, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born Aug. 19, 1926, at Jackson, son of James Lorenzo and Lillie Yates Dow. He was a farmer. Dow was a veteran of World War II, having served in the U.S. Army in Phillipines...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Calvin Earl Ashworth, 63, of Thebes, Ill. died Thursday, April 14, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Marion Ill. Ashworth was born in Mounds City, Ill., Nov. 9, 1930 to Mark Hannah Ashworth and Ruth Ashworth Holder. Survivors include his mother; his wife, Louise Vaughn Ashworth of Thebes, and five sons: Calvin, Cape Girardeau; Alvin, Olive Branch; Mike, Thebes; Donald, East Prairie; and Tony of Springfield, Mo...

Morris Seabaugh, 54, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday April 15, 1994 at his home. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee.