Stories from Sunday, August 7, 1994

ANNA, Ill. -- Mrs. Violet Williams, 92, of Anna, died Friday, Aug. 5, 1994, at the Hillside Terrace Nursing Facility at Cobden. She was born July 16, 1902, in Granite City, Ill., daughter of Lewis Alvin and Sara Verble Carlock. She married Claude R. Williams on Nov. 27, 1926. He preceded her in death Sept. 8, 1966...

The health care system is inherently uncompetitive. If you want a new car or refrigerator you shop for the best bargain. Patients dont shop price-wise for health care. When the health care debate got under way months ago, the Clintons and other supporters advanced two co-equal arguments for a new approach...

The stories in the Southeast Missourian last week about Sunset, the area of Sikeston where hoodlums seem to have the upper hand over police, were chilling. Those stories also served as a wake-up call for Cape Girardeau and other communities in Southeast Missouri and nearby states...

A goal of the Missouri 50th Anniversary of World War II Commemorative Community Committee is to inform those without first-hand knowledge of the war what the United States and other free nations fought for during the war that involved three-quarters of all nations and spanned four years...

To the editor. It costs an enormous amount of money for environmental radicals to stop mining, shut down logging, run farmers off their land and do all the rest of the goofy, destructive projects on their agenda. There are lawyers and lobbyists to pay, donations to politicians, printing costs and much, much more, costing tens of millions of dollars yearly...

Daughter to J.J. Coad and Jason Miller of Jonesboro, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 1, 1994. Name, Abigail Lauren. Weight, 6 pounds 12 ounces. First child. Miss Coad is the daughter of Michael and Cathy Coad of Jonesboro, and is employed at Coad Chevrolet in Anna, Ill. Miller is a construction worker in Cordova, Tenn. He is the son of Duffy and Sue Smith of Anna, and Max and Dee Miller of Cordova...

Wesley B. Kinder Sr., 70, of Randles, died at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau Saturday, Aug. 6, 1994. He was born Dec. 10, 1923, at Whitewater, son of George Burrette Kinder and Annie Margaret McCormick Kinder. He married Cloia Menz on April 21, 1951. She survives...

At the flood's crest, Water Street was aptly named, as this street sign at the intersection of Water and Second illustrated. Woody and Vergie Sadler glanced at the calendar on their kitchen wall Friday, Aug. 5, and felt thankful to be in a position to celebrate an important anniversary...

ST. LOUIS -- School Superintendent Neyland Clark should expect more specific directives from the Cape Girardeau Board of Education in the future. The board conducted its annual evaluation of the superintendent Saturday during a planning session in St. Louis and found that Clark has been following the board's directions...

Last summer's flooding re-established Mother Nature's domain over man. Rains fell, seemingly ceaselessly from March through July, pushing the Mississippi River to new heights and forcing area residents from their homes. The river, forced from the confines of its banks by the sheer volume of water draining from rain-soaked land along its route, invaded the homes of residents in the Red Star district, along lower parts of Highway 177 and in South Cape Girardeau...

Ann Swanson of Gulliver's Travel Agency in Cape Girardeau and Carolyn Rannells of Harper's Travel Service in Dexter drew the winning tickets for Cape Municipal Airport's Balloon Fest 1994 contest. Travel agents in Cape Girardeau, Dexter, Kennett, Perryville, Poplar Bluff, Ste. Genevieve and Sikeston who were interested in taking a hot air balloon ride during Balloon Fest was encouraged to submit their name for the drawing...

In rearranging my upstairs book shelves, I pulled out a book that looked as new as if it had come directly from a bookstore. Two inches thick it was, with midnight black cover and gold lettering that said, "Aieksandr I Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Harper & Row."...

EUREKA -- Children have called him stupid, but Chris Hayes doesn't mind. Dealing with the youngsters in the audience is just part of the acting job in Miss Kitty's Saloon at Six Flags Over Mid-America. Hayes, 21, of Festus is one of three music majors at Southeast Missouri State University who are singing away their summer in the 200-acre amusement park...