Stories from Friday, April 28, 2000

Nearly a year after the melee on Good Hope Street, many Cape Girardeau residents are still looking for some official announcement of the FBI's investigation. Eight persons were injured that June night, and there are still wounds throughout the community that have yet to heal...

In 1974 Dr. Henry Heimlich developed an emergency life-saving technique for treating choking victims and restoring their airway. Although choking is the seventh-leading cause of accidental death, this technique known as the "Heimlich maneuver" has been credited with saving many thousands of lives in the past 26 years...

Everyone loses hair daily as part of the hair growth cycle. Most do not even notice except for the stray hairs in the brush. For others hair loss can be more dramatic and that full head of hair becomes a memory. Hair loss can be triggered by medical conditions such as stress or thyroid problems, diseases like alopecia areata and lupus, traumatic situations where an injury occurs to the scalp and scarring prevents hair re-growth, chemotherapy treatments and heredity...

Census workers will start knocking on doors Saturday in an effort to contact the approximately 66,000 households in Southeast Missouri that didn't fill out and mail back census forms. Nationwide, about 78 million of the 120 million mailed census forms have been filled out and returned, a 65 percent response rate. That leaves 42 million households to contact...

Being overweight is more than not looking good in a swimsuit; it can be a matter of life and death. "Being obese can put you at a higher risk for many health problems, including hypertension, diabetes, cancer, heart disease and cardiovascular problems like heart attack and stroke," said Sandy Braswell, assistant manager of the fitness and wellness department at St. Francis Medical Center...

SCOTT CITY -- Mayor Tim Porch is trying to get officials of the Missouri Department of Transportation to understand traffic needs in Scott City. Residents are continually complaining and upset about delays and back-ups at the Interstate 55- U.S. 61 exchange. MoDOT is aware of the problem, but no one has yet to offer a solution...

SIKESTON -- Residents in the Sikeston area want the state's highways and bridges fixed and would like to see money spent on expanding airports and providing public transportation in the region. About 25 people gathered Thursday evening at the Missouri Department of Transportation office in Sikeston for a consensus-building session designed to address long-range transportation needs. Forty-five people had said they would attend...

Today's cooks want recipes that taste good and are simple to prepare, and don't require an abundance of ingredients and steps. So Southern Living magazine offered tips for the novice and near-professional cook Thursday during its two cooking schools...

This is what I heard after I did my patriotic duty last week and warned Cape Girardeau about the invasion of the TIime Warner Empire: Gee, Joe, you weren't very nice to our visitors. Don't you like Time magazine? As it turns out, I'm a longtime subscriber to Time. ...

Two pieces of advice may enrich the experience of audiences attending "Play Dead," the River City Players production opening tonight. Pay attention to everything and ask lots of questions. This lively production deserves a lively audience. "Play Dead" is a whodunit inside a whodunit in which the audience is no passive participant. Everything anyone might have seen and heard could help solve the murder...

If you visited a city park lately you might have used the playground equipment, eaten lunch at a picnic table or just admired the trees and flowers. And if you visited the parks and consider yourself a friend of the parks, you are invited to an annual cleanup day for the Cape Girardeau Parks Department on Saturday...

The concert by the rock band Live scheduled for May 7 at the Show Me Center has been postponed indefinitely. Also scheduled to perform were Local H and Tracy Bonham. Poor ticket sales was the primary reason for postponing the show, said David Ross, director of the Show Me Center...

When it come to e-commerce and connecting in cyberspace, technology is running faster than education, rules and regulations. "Technology is moving beyond," said Gordon Fee, keynote speaker of the Professional Challenges Seminar, held Thursday at Glenn Auditorium in Robert A. Dempster Hall...

EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article concerning Time magazine's community forum at the Show Me center Wednesday night was posted to the magazine's Web site. The forum was held as part of the magazine's two-week riverboat tour "Down the Mississippi: The Pulse of America."...

Four days of classes and hands-on training to put child safety seats in cars might not be enough. "In this amount of time, we're doing good to get it all in," said Sharee Galnore, who helped coordinate the state's first child-passenger-safety technician training for this year...

A 19-year-old woman reported being raped overnight on Wednesday, Cape Girardeau police said. The woman told police she had been picked up by a person with whom she was well acquainted at a residence on the west side of the city before 11 p.m. After riding around in the car, the driver parked it at an apartment complex in the same general area, she said...

Scott City fans have been treated to some outstanding basketball teams over the past several years. But it's doubtful that this much talent has ever been assembled on Scott City's floor. Scott City will hold the second annual "Area's Best" All-Star game tonight, which pits the best senior prep hoop stars from the north part of Southeast Missouri against those from south of Highway 60...

Of the eight teams to be playing this weekend in the Big 8 Tournament hosted by Cape Central, two are from Illinois and three are either from or near St. Louis. But the top two teams, going by their records going in, are from Cape Girardeau. In terms of winning percentage, Cape Central (12-5) and Notre Dame (11-4) will be the teams to beat when the tournament gets under way today...

Southeast Missouri State's men's basketball team made its first roster addition since the close of a highly successful season that included its NCAA Tournament debut, signing 6-foot-5 forward Monte Gordon of Kankakee (Ill.) Community College to a letter of intent...

Big-time college baseball has been quite an adjustment for Ross Bennett -- although his statistics say he's adjusted quite well. A starter for one of the nation's top teams, the former Cape Girardeau Central High School star has been a fixture in the Baylor University lineup as a redshirt freshman...

Southeast Missouri State University softball coach Lana Richmond has announced that outfielder Shelley Conroy of Vernon Regional Junior College in Vernon, Texas, has signed a national letter of intent to attend Southeast in the fall of 2000. This season, Conroy, who is originally from Houston, is hitting .326 and has stolen 39 bases in 40 attempts...

Josh Eftink School: Notre Dame Sport: Baseball Coach: Jeff Graviett Week Report: Eftink hit two home runs and had six runs batted in during a game where Notre Dame hit five home runs and defeated Fredericktown 18-7. Eftink also scored two runs in a 12-1 win over Scott City earlier last week. But what Eftink accomplished off the field last week was more impressive than what he did on it. The 5-foot-9 slugger signed a letter of intent to play baseball for Southeast Missouri State University...

KARNAK, Ill. -- Funeral for Florence Slagle of Karnak will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Wilson Funeral Home in Karnak. The Rev. Kenneth Sharp will officiate. Burial will be in Anderson Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-9 p.m. today...

CHARLESTON -- James Marshall Reeves, 82, formerly of Charleston, died Wednesday, April 26, 2000, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 5, 1917, in Charleston, son of Oda A. and Ora Mae Scott Reeves. Reeves was a graduate of the University of Missouri and a member of its track team...

JACKSON -- Ruby E. Calhoun Boyle, 85, of Jackson died Wednesday, April 26, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 13, 1914, in Fort Madison, Iowa, daughter of Walter and Ludie Heath Drollinger. She married Donald L. Calhoun, who died in 1967...

Robert C. Kiehne, 81, of St. Charles died Thursday, April 27, 2000, at St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. Saturday. Funeral will be at 1 p.m. Sunday at the chapel.

SIKESTON -- Georgia Houchens, 95, of Sikeston died Tuesday, April 25, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 12, 1904, in Stuttgart, Ark., daughter of R.M. and Stella Kincheloe Houchens. Houchens received a bachelor of science degree in education from Southeast Missouri State University in 1931...

The 10th annual Mississippi River Valley Scenic Drive will be held Saturday and Sunday. Rural communities of Southeast Missouri participate in the drive by holding fairs, festivals, living history events, music and more during this weekend. In addition, the drive itself is along a scenic route filled with dogwood and azaleas...

ALLENVILLE -- Funeral for Eugene W. Noble of Allenville will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. C.B. Stidham will officiate. Burial will be in Union Park Cemetery at Chaffee. Friends may call at the chapel after 11:30 a.m. Saturday...