Stories from Saturday, October 25, 1997

To the editor: Thanks to the Southeast Missourian for recently publishing a colorful map outlining the geographical boundaries of the Cape Girardeau zones in which leaves will be picked up by city employees. In addition, thanks for listing the dates when leaves will be collected. ...

Degenerative spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal which may compress the spinal cord or nerves within the canal. This condition may develop at any level of the spine but commonly affects the lumbar spine (low back). If you have this condition you may have dull aching pain in your back, buttocks and legs as you stand or walk. ...

Volunteers in Southeast Missouri will join more than 1 million Americans today to help the less fortunate during Make A Difference Day. Around the country, volunteers will paint, clean up, sew, make lunches, collect food and generally lend a hand for the event, sponsored nationally by USA Weekend and Points of Light Foundation...

Lorene Burger of Jackson used an AeroChamber to dispense medicine that helps her asthma. Burger has had asthma for 40 years. Asthma patients blow into a peak flow meter that measures liters of air per minute to measure a patient's lung capacity. Asthma affects between 10 million and 15 million Americans, and because it can be triggered by allergens such as molds, pollens and dust mites, many people in the Cape Girardeau area suffer from asthmatic episodes...

Monuments and Broadway widening WHY DO the City Council and city officials allow American Legion Post 63 to continue to build those monuments to put the eagles on for our dear servicemen when that's where Broadway is going to be extended. There won't be room for even two people to walk alongside of it. The City Council should look into that...

WEST FRANKFORT, Ill. -- Southern Illinois Healthcare wants to build a new hospital. Plans call for construction of a six-room acute-care hospital that would include an emergency room. It would replace the UMW of A Hospital. Cost of the facility is projected at $7.9 million...

Reading benefits from this same level of adult-child interaction. Despite all the advances made by the United States, our nation's literacy levels need improvement. About 40 percent of American children and one-third of Missouri children can't read or don't read well. These numbers are simply unacceptable...

Parental involvement is an essential ingredients to a child's success at school. Youngsters whose parents take an active interest and a guiding hand in their child's education are more apt to succeed. And this parental involvement can begin at birth with Missouri's successful Parents as Teachers program...

Most of us will be asleep tonight when 2 a.m. magically becomes 1 a.m. and an extra hour of sleep makes everything seem right with the world. But to many who work graveyard shifts, the return to Central Standard Time means extra work. Procter & Gamble operates two shifts of 12 hours each. At the fall time change, the 200 people on the second shift work 13 hours, says Larry Stahlman, P&G's public affairs manager. When the clocks move forward an hour in the spring, the team works 11 hours...

The city of Cape Girardeau will review its tree-removal policy before next year's tree-cutting program begins. City Manager Michael Miller said Friday that this year's program is complete: All 43 trees slated for removal have been cut down. "I called over to find out whether we could stop and relook at things and found out we're all done for the year," Miller said...

Prior to the 1880s, each U.S. city kept the local or sun time of its own meridian. In 1883, the railroads adopted a standard system of time of the United States and Canada. The following year, a worldwide system of standard time was agreed upon, establishing the prime meridian at Greenwich, England...

Chaffee resident Pete Bond was one of many Jackson High School fans filling the north bleachers Friday night nearly an hour before his Indians were to take the Houck Stadium field against the rival Cape Central Tigers. The 78-year-old Bond played football for Chaffee High School but his heart is with Jackson because his grandson, Todd Wessel, plays middle linebacker and running back for the Indians...

Boy Scouts in Southeast Missouri hope to help hungry people, especially children, through their annual Scouting for Food drive which begins today. Also today, Alpha Chi Omega and Lambda Chi Alpha organizations will be collecting items for their annual food drive...

I embarked upon a grand adventure last Sunday when I decided to clean out, under and around my desk. As I bagged up old notebooks, press releases and scraps of paper to take to the Dumpster I made an important discovery: it's my anniversary. I've been working for the Missourian one year this week, and many of my experiences were bound beneath the covers of those old notebooks, lost in the pages of those drab press releases. ...

This might not be a vintage Middle Tennessee State football team, but Southeast Missouri State University coach John Mumford warns that people shouldn't think the Blue Raiders are an easy mark. Far from it. While on paper Southeast figures to have a decent shot at knocking off the Blue Raiders today (2 p.m. kickoff), Mumford said it will still take quite an effort to leave Murfreesboro, Tenn., with an Ohio Valley Conference victory...

Cape Central quarterback Frank McGinty threw while under pressure from Jackson's Travis Wilson during the first half of Friday's game. Just when Jackson halfback Todd Wessel looked like he was going to become more than just "the other back" in the Indians backfield, teammate Devree Flint did it again...

The push toward state for area high school cross country teams and runners begins today when the Class 4A, District 1 Meet is held at the Jackson City Park. Eleven teams will compete in Jackson, with the girls race set to begin at 11 a.m. The boys race will follow at 11:30 a.m...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Cape Girardeau Central High's doubles tennis team of Lisa Ahstrom and Summer Chaudhari won its first-round match on Friday in the Missouri Class 4A state tournament. The team then lost its quarterfinal match in a tie-breaker, but rebounded in its first consolation match. With two wins today, the team would place fifth...

SCOTT CITY -- With the score tied at 14 at halftime, Portageville scored twice in the second half, shut Scott City out during the span and emerged with a 28-14 win Friday. The game was both teams' district opener. Scott City (6-2, 2-1 SEMO South) had its five-game win streak snapped. Portageville is also 6-2 and improved to 3-0 in SEMO South Conference play...

EAST PRAIRIE -- James T. Carter, 75, of East Prairie died Thursday, Oct. 23, 1997, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born June 27, 1922, in Armorel, Ark., son of Huey A. and Tennie H. Adycock Carter. He and Eleta Star Lindsey were married Nov. 23, 1940...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Dessie L. Baker, 83, of Alta Loma, Calif., died Sunday, Oct. 19, 1997, at her home. She was born June 11, 1914, in Kevil, Ky., daughter of Charles Boyd and Lady Belle Elrod Skinner. She and Arlie E. Baker were married May 13, 1933. He died Aug. 22, 1996...

Private service for Thomas W. Hannah, 834 N. Spanish, will be held in Charleston, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Hannah, 62, died Thursday, Oct. 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

SIKESTON -- Larry Wayne Hensley, 56, of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston, died Friday, Oct. 24, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. McMikle Funeral Home at Charleston is in charge of arrangements.

Daughter to Mark Harris and Eleanor Cenabre Hanson, 1812 Hutson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:44 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 12, 1997. Name, Katrina Cassandra. Weight, 6 pounds 9 ounces. Mrs. Hanson is the former Eleanor Togle, daughter of Olegario Cenabre and Teresita Cenabre of Peoria, Ill. She is an administrative partner at St. Francis Medical Center. Hanson is the son of Jo Ann Hanson of Hallock, Minn., and the late Harris Hanson...

PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Helen L. Pierce of Perryville will be held at 2 p.m. today at Miller Family Funeral Home, with the Rev. Tom Bass officiating. Burial will be in Lightner Memorial Cemetery at Scott City. Friends may call at the funeral home from 11 a.m. until service time...