Stories from Monday, August 7, 1995

To the editor: I saw the Enola Gay drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 50 years ago. I am a former prisoner of war of the Japanese for three and a half years. I spent the first two and a half years in the Philippine Islands and the last year in Japan...

Agenda Monday, Aug. 7, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings Request for special-use permit for a sign/craft business at 2031 Brink. Request of Boyd Missouri Inc. to extend special-use permit for riverboat gambling development. Request to amend historic preservation ordinance...

The Cape Girardeau City Council expects to keep property tax rates at their current levels. The council will give first reading Monday to an ordinance setting the tax rates, including one for the downtown business district. The combined city and library tax would remain at 63 cents per $100 assessed valuation. The tax rate includes 32 cents for the general fund, 5 cents for the health fund, 10 cents for the debt service and 16 cents for the library fund...

Jackson R-II Schoolo District Tuesday, Aug. 8 7:30 p.m. Action Items Adopt board of education goals for 1995-96 school year. Consider policy for free and reduced student lunch prices for 1995-96. Consider recommended school cafeteria lunch prices for 1995-96...

Monday, Aug. 7 7:30 p.m. Power and Light Committee Authorize partial payment of $44,100 to Caldwell Tanks Inc. as per 300,000-gallon elevated tank contract. Authorize purchase of three new 500/560 KVA single-phase voltage regulators from Fletcher-Reinhardt Co. of Maryland Heights in the amount of $32,496...

The Small Business Development Center at Southeast Missouri State University will conduct counseling sessions for area small business people and individuals planning business ventures. Gil Degenhardt will conduct sessions in Sikeston on Aug. 22, in Cape Girardeau on Aug. 23 and in Perryville on Aug. 24. All counseling sessions are about one hour in length and are free of charge...

SOMEWHERE IN CALIFORNIA -- Is it possible to see Missouri's future by visiting another state? Let's hope not, if only because the nation's largest dominion, the Golden State of California, seems to have more problems than anyone or any political party can solve. If our state's future is now in plain view in this huge expanse of both beautiful and very ugly landscape, then our children's children are in for a great shock. And so are we if we hang around Mother Earth too long...

Jerry Davis has run out of room to display his McDonald's Happy Meal toys. Five-year-old Zackary DeBoe of Cape Girardeau thinks Burger King's "Pocahontas" figures are cool. At fast-food restaurants across America, it is often the toys that get customers in the door...

TOTAL CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY IN MISSOURI UP 4 PERCENT Total construction activity in Missouri was up 4 percent in May, and up 2 percent for the year. The F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill, an authority on the construction market, reported total construction for June at $589,127,000, up from the $568,722,000 totals for June 1994...

Del Vecchio elected vice president of Missouri CPA Society Stephen C. DelVecchio is the new vice president of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants. He will serve a one-year term of the 7,500-member professional organization. DelVecchio recently assumed new duties as business manager of the Cape Girardeau public schools. He served five years with Hillin and Clark, as audit manager. He also taught at Southeast Missouri State University for 10 years...

New outpatient clinic opens in Jackson JACKSON -- A new outpatient physical therapy clinic opens today in Jackson. The clinic is owned by three physical therapists who each have at least 15 years of experience. A ribbon-cutting for Jackson Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, 310 E. Main St., will be held today at 9 a.m...

Neither will have an easy task in trying to unseat Gov. Carnahan. The tax-paid advantages enjoyed by any incumbent governor are formidable. They include control of the levers of power within state government, including coveted appointments to boards and commissions, a major say in appropriations backed up by the line-item veto, a statewide publicity machine and the state airplane, to name just a few...

Many churches in Cape Girardeau are experiencing growing pains. Several congregations have moved into new buildings, while others are building, particularly in the northwest part of Cape Girardeau. But construction isn't only prompted by church growth, said Roy Jones, president of the Cape Girardeau ministerial alliance president and director of missions for the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association...

Starting a church is never an easy job, but members of La Croix United Methodist Church really had a difficult task -- they tried to do it over the phone. The telemarketers made 26,000 calls when they began the church almost seven years ago. "If it was a local exchange, we called," said Pastor Ron Watts...

As orange, green, yellow and pink lanterns floated across the lake at Cape County Park North, area citizens reflected on world peace. While war raged in Bosnia and other parts of the world, about 50 people gathered at the park Sunday night to observe World Peace Day...

JACKSON -- News accounts differ on when the Jackson Junior Band formed. Some say it was 1920, others 1921. Director Nick Leist says 1920, so the 50-member group will perform its 75th anniversary concert beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse gazebo...

The Southeast Missourian asked people about renewed interest by citizens of Bollinger County to place the Bollinger County/Cape Girardeau County Lake Project on the ballot. Betty Campbell, Cape Girardeau: "It would be a real good idea. I've always been interested in fishing. It might give our young people something to do besides drive up and down the streets."...

I JUST want the cable company to know that we appreciate the sense of humor. At 10 p.m. on Wednesday the temperature in Cape Girardeau, according to the Weather Channel, was 172 degrees. I READ in the Missourian that the city manager's salary might have to be increased, and I've been reading what a good job Mr. ...

WAPPAPELLO -- One person was killed and two injured early Sunday morning in a one-car accident in Wayne County. Gary Barham, 22, of Excelsior Springs, the driver of the car, was pronounced dead at the scene on Route D, two-and-a-half miles north of Wappapello...

Patricia Ann Talley, 44, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Aug. 5, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Dec. 10, 1950, at Cape Girardeau, the daughter of William A. and Marilyn Jo Rains Kiehne. She and Bill Talley were married Oct. 24, 1970...

BENTON -- Anna M. Ressel, 90, of Benton died Sunday, Aug. 6, 1995, at Charleston Manor in Charleston. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton.