Stories from Friday, October 25, 1996

To the editor: Most politicians today are only too willing to leave aside their religious convictions when they take part in public life. Take, for example, the approval of the presidential decision (in contradiction to the position of Congress) of the shameful veto of the partial-birth abortion plan (a plan for half-born babies to have their brains sucked out). ...

A Neighborhood Festival will be held Saturday from 8 to 11 a.m. for neighbors of Washington Elementary School. The festival will be held in the school parking lot. In case of rain, it will be held at the shelter in Washington Park. The event is presented by Caring Communities and Washington Elementary School. Games, display booths, music, snacks and a mini garage sale will be held. The Chuck E. Cheese and Buckle Bear characters will also attend...

The Cape Girardeau recreational hiking and biking trail should be finished by this time next year, city officials say. "We hope to have most of it, hopefully all of it, done in a year," said Dan Muser, director of the Parks and Recreation Department...

A student group at Southeast Missouri State University hopes to make a difference Saturday with blood and food drives. The student chapter of the Association for Work Site Health Promotion is coordinating a blood drive for the American Red Cross and a food drive to benefit FISH, a local food pantry...

Greyhound is offering an additional service to include customer pickup at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. Service will be for the 10:30 a.m. northbound trip, which goes through St. Louis, Mo. and the 11:15 a.m. southbound trip through Memphis, Tenn...

The lines between church and state are crystal clear for some and fuzzy for others, but most Americans agree there is a separation intended by our Constitution. Unfortunately, this division has been carried to extremes, resulting in what amounts to government-sanctioned efforts to make society devoid of religion. ...

The career of Bill Needle in the world of art has spanned half a century. Throughout that career he has sought to spread art knowledge through education, speaking engagements and workshops for every age level. Needle's accomplishments have been recognized by the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, which honored Needles with its Otto Dingeldein Award for his "impact ont he cultural development of the community...

To the editor: The Visiting Nurse Association Hospice is making plans to observe National Hospice Month in November. Along with other hospices in the nation, we hope to assist the public in gaining a better understanding of what hospice is: a caregiving team of professionals and volunteers dedicated to providing peace, comfort and caring to terminally ill patients and their families, most often in the home...

More than 100 workers are enrolled in various classes with the Southeast Missouri Regional Industrial Training Group. The training group, comprised of 11 manufacturing and industrial employers who work together with Southeast Missouri State University, Mineral Area Community College of Park Hills and the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School, displayed new training equipment during a special luncheon meeting Thursday...

Bill Beydler cleared up a myth about Proposition A Thursday. "This proposition will apply to every business," said Beydler, territory manager of the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB). "Not just those grossing $500,000 a year." Proposition A is more popularly known as the Missouri Minimum Wage Bill, which would raise the state's minimum wage to $6.25 an hour Jan. 1., the highest minimum wage in the nation...

Local physicians are working with medical students in an effort to cultivate the next generation of Missouri doctors and surgeons. Approximately 100 doctors from Sikeston and Cape Girardeau allow junior and senior students from the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine to observe them as they work with patients. The students work closely with the doctors, who evaluate their performance and send their results to school representatives...

They had charts. They had leaflets. They had diagrams. And only one person showed up to see them. City officials expected a crowd for Thursday's informational open house on Cape Girardeau's water system. The mayor and several department heads waited in the City Council chambers to answer questions about two related issues on the Nov. 5 ballot...

Where can you go for a good gut-wrenching scream this Halloween weekend? In Cape Girardeau and Jackson, it would have to be the haunted attractions at Black Forest, Ristig Manor, Rocky Holler and the Arena Park building. Each of these houses does its best, in its own special way, to scare you silly...

ADVANCE -- Wanda Hoggard, 47, of Advance died Thursday, Oct. 24, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 21, 1949, in Canalou, daughter of Lois and Opal Ling Newman. She and Michel Hoggard were married May 31, 1984, at Marble Hill...

ESSEX -- Funeral service for Hildegard "Helen" Gottliebe Barber of Essex will be held at 11 a.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. Pastor Ken Krippner and the Rev. Doyle Corlew will officiate, with burial in Essex Cemetery. Barber, 61, died Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1996, at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff...

SIKESTON -- Norma I. "Jean" Cox, 60, of Sikeston died Wednesday, Oct. 23, 1996, at her home. She was born Nov. 4, 1935, at Essex, daughter of Thelmer and Thelma Creed Lindsay. She and Travis E. Cox Sr. were married June 28, 1954, in Angola, Ind. Cox was a bookkeeper 20 years with Beck and McCord Auction Co., and the past four years was secretary at Farm Bureau Insurance. She was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church, where she served as church clerk and head of the nursery department...

Adopted daughter to Dale Robert and Judy Phillips Snyder of Jackson, Tuesday, April 2, 1996. She was born in Fuzhou, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China. Name, Clara Grace. First child. Mrs. Snyder is the former Judy Phillips, daughter of Calvin C. and Dorothy F. Phillips of Jackson. She is employed at Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. Snyder is the son of Robert H. and Lore S. Snyder of Pittsburgh, Pa. He is employed at TG(USA) in Perryville...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Betty Ann Price, 41, of Clarksville, Ark., died Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1996, at her home. She was born Nov. 1, 1954, at Charleston, daughter of Ford and Betty Price. Formerly of East Prairie, Price was retired from the U.S. Air Force. Survivors include her mother, Betty Sterling, and a brother, Larry Price, both of Morehouse...

THEBES, Ill. -- Funeral service for James Robert Snell, Thebes Route 1, will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel in Cape Girardeau, Mo. The Revs. Donnie Ford and Bill Whitener will officiate. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery...

ORAN -- Ellen Jewell Thomas, 71, of Oran died Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1996, at her home. She was born Jan. 22, 1925, in Howell, Ark., daughter of Warren and Hillard Morris Carroll. She married Albert Thomas. Thomas was a member of Bell City Church of God in Christ...

MARSTON -- Arbie M.C. Long, 74, of Marston died Monday, Oct. 21, 1996, at his home. He was born June 4, 1922, at Wolf Island, son of Artie and Ollie Cassel Long. He married Dorothy Howard, who preceded him in death. Survivors include three sons, Manuel Long of Marston, Alfred Long of Benton Harbor, Mich., Arbie Long Jr. ...

SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Ernest Carl Ingemanson of Scott City was held Thursday at Eisleben Lutheran Church. The Rev. Joel Sarrault officiated, with burial in Lightner Memorial Cemetery. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City was in charge of arrangements...