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Stories from Thursday, October 21, 2004

Jackson readies for next sewer projects (10/21/04)
The recently completed East Main Street and Goose Creek interceptor sewer projects were no easy task for Jackson. The city lost a court battle and ended up paying more than $100,000 for one particular easement and legal fees. The contractor hit more rock than expected, needing more time to finish. ...

Former governor to give keynote speech at fall festival (10/21/04)
Roger Wilson, who previously served as governor and lieutenant governor of Missouri, will deliver the keynote speech Saturday at the Cape Girardeau County Democratic Central Committee's fall festival. The event will be held at the University Center, beginning at 6 p.m. Dinner is scheduled for 6:30 p.m., followed by the speech at 7 p.m. and then a fund-raising auction. Wilson, executive director of the Missouri Democratic Party, will discuss the upcoming state and presidential elections...

University to dedicate greenhouse to memory of Cape businessman (10/21/04)
Southeast Missouri State University will name its new greenhouse after the late Cape Girardeau businessman Charles Hutson. Friends and relatives of Hutson contributed some of the private money that helped fund construction of the new 11,660-square-foot greenhouse on a six-acre site near Bertling and Old Sprigg Street Road, west of the university's softball fields...

Six to receive Distinguished Service award (10/21/04)
The Alumni Association of Southeast Missouri State University will honor six individuals with Distinguished Service awards during homecoming festivities Oct. 30, including state Sen. Peter Kinder of Cape Girardeau. Other recipients will be Marvin Strunk of Glencoe, Ill.; Jane McNeely Bruns of Rockville, Md.; Tony Barringer of Cape Coral, Fla.; Hee-chiat Chew of Hong Kong; and Mariko Yoshiya of Japan...

The maddening crowd at Jackson High School (10/21/04)
If asked, teachers and administrators at Jackson High School could likely name a facility problem to match every letter of the alphabet. From A Building -- a 1920s-era relic -- to B Building -- built in 1950 for a student body of 424 -- to C Building -- a former elementary school built in 1938 -- officials say the campus is fast failing the test of time...

Community Q&A (10/21/04)
n Name: Madeline Gieselman n Lives in: Millersville n Family: Husband, John; four adult children and five-and-a-half grandchildren. n Job: Billing coordinator at Perry County Women's Care. n What do you like most about the area? I would have to say I like the people the most. We moved to Millersville from St. Louis 17 years ago and the people in this area are more friendly and more casual than in the large city. The traffic is also not as hurried...

Community briefs 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
NFL, Weather Channel want clicks to contribute The NFL and the Weather Channel have teamed up to donate up to $100,000 to the United Way Hurricane Response Fund to help people in areas devastated by fall hurricanes. Each time visitors log on to www.nfl.com/relief through Nov. 18, the NFL and the Weather Channel will make a contribution to the fund. There is also a place to e-mail friends from the Web site to encourage them to visit the site and increase the gifts to the fund...

Community cuisine 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Kettle beef, chicken and dumplings on Cape menu A buffet-style kettle beef and chicken and dumpling dinner will be served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Masonic Temple, 2307 Broadway, Cape Girardeau. Children 3 and under can eat free. Meal will be served by Cape Rock Chapter 60 OES...

Steamboat model tribute to Cape resident (10/21/04)
Jack Beahan III, a resident of Bonne Terre, recently honored an old friend, Richard Loomis of Cape Girardeau, with the dedication of a model steamboat paddle wheeler named after him. The craft was unveiled Saturday at the Cape River Heritage Museum...

Military digest 10/18/04 (10/21/04)
Airman finishes course on computer systems Airman Dustin M. Klipfel, son of T.M. and Michael A. Klipfel of Cape Girardeau, graduated from the communications-computer systems operations apprentice course at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss. He is a graduate of Notre Dame Regional High School. ...

The girls choir in the boys bathroom (10/21/04)
When 17-year-old Tyler Tankersley thinks back on the past three years at Jackson High School, what pops into his head first is the line of students eating lunch in the hall outside the cafeteria because there's no room left inside. After that, there's the image of tripping over music stands in the crowded band room and attending journalism class in a former closet...

Documentary on Kerry's anti-war stance draws threats of boycott (10/21/04)
From staff and wire reports Threatened with a shareholder revolt, Baltimore-based Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc. says it will not broadcast in its entirety a documentary critical of Sen. John Kerry's anti-war activities. The company said it will include parts of the 42-minute film in a news special that will air Friday on most of its stations, including KBSI Channel 23 in Cape Girardeau...

School answers questions on bond (10/21/04)
It's not voter apathy or the economy that has Jackson school officials most concerned about their upcoming bond issue vote -- it's student achievement. Administrators and teachers alike fear Jackson High School students have performed so well on annual state tests and have so many extracurricular accomplishments that voters won't understand the impact the aging facility has on learning...

Standing out - Musician goes beyond stereotypes (10/21/04)
Although he has been likened to musicians such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, toured with Tori Amos and Pearl Jam, and is currently working on a symphonic piece and a blues album, Bill Miller inevitably gets tagged with the title "Native American" musician...

Commuter flight crash kills 13 near Kirksville (10/21/04)
~ From staff and wire reports A search for five missing passengers near Kirksville, Mo., ended Wednesday after officials recovered their bodies in the wreckage of a commuter plane that crashed and burned as it carried doctors and other medical professionals to a conference. While 13 people died, two others escaped with little more than broken bones...

Arch to go pink in recognition of breast cancer (10/21/04)
ST. LOUIS -- For one night next week, the 630-foot-tall Gateway Arch will be illuminated pink in recognition of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, thanks to a push by a senator whose mother died of the disease. But while calling the effort noble and worthy, not everyone on Wednesday believed artificially coloring a national monument for what could be the first time -- and the precedence of it being ordered legislatively -- is a bright idea...

First organ transplant brokered via Internet underway (10/21/04)
DENVER -- A Colorado man underwent surgery for a new kidney Wednesday in what was believed to be the first transplant brokered through a commercial Web site -- a transaction that has raised a host of ethical and legal questions. Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center spokeswoman Stephanie Lewis said the operation on both the donor and recipient was going well...

Voting suits increase as Election Day nears (10/21/04)
A new political strategy has emerged in this photo-finish presidential race: File a flurry of lawsuits before the first votes are even tallied. From Oregon to Florida, Democrats and Republicans are firing away at such issues as touch-screen voting machines and provisional ballots. The lawsuits represent a hard-learned lesson from 2000 -- Do not wait until all the votes are counted to go to court...

Bush, Kerry trade jabs on Iraq in fight for votes (10/21/04)
WATERLOO, Iowa -- President Bush and challenger John Kerry accused each other of misjudging the stakes and lacking the leadership to deal with Iraq and terrorism as they campaigned 60 miles apart Wednesday in Iowa, a state Bush narrowly lost four years ago...

U.S. - Taliban torn over failure to disrupt Afghan election (10/21/04)
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar has fallen out with some of his lieutenants, who blame him for the rebels' failure to disrupt the landmark Afghan presidential election, the U.S. military said Wednesday. Election officials, meanwhile, said U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai could all but seal a victory Thursday as vote counting proceeds from an Oct. 9 ballot that came off largely peacefully...

Iraq - Too little U.N. help with election (10/21/04)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraq's interim government complained Wednesday that the United Nations isn't doing enough to help prepare for January elections, saying the organization has sent fewer electoral workers than it did when tiny East Timor voted to secede from Indonesia...

World/nation briefs 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Study: Traffic boosts risk of heart attack BOSTON -- Does heavy traffic make you feel all sweaty and tight in the chest? It could be more than road rage: It could be a heart attack. People prone to a heart attack face triple their usual risk as a result of traffic, whether they are in cars, on bicycles or on mass transit, according to a German study. ...

World briefs 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
U.N.: Domestic robots to surge to 4.1 million by 2007 GENEVA -- The use of robots around the home to mow lawns, vacuum floors, pull guard duty and perform other chores is set to surge sevenfold by 2007, says a new U.N. survey, which credits dropping prices for the robot boom. ...

Developments in Iraq on Wednesday (10/21/04)
n Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari complained the United Nations has not done enough to help prepare the country's January elections, saying it has not sent enough election workers to help out with the vital balloting. n U.S. aircraft mounted four strikes in Fallujah on what the U.S. ...

France begins expelling students over head scarves (10/21/04)
PARIS -- France has quietly begun expelling Muslim girls for wearing head scarves to public schools in defiance of a new law banning conspicuous religious symbols, treading carefully for fear of endangering two French hostages in Iraq. The expulsions of at least five girls since Tuesday were the first since the law went into effect at the start of the academic year on Sept. 2. They were kept low-key because the French journalists' captors had demanded the measure be abolished...

Scott City volleyball records 24th win (10/21/04)
Scott City's volleyball team posted its 24th victory Wednesday with a 25-17, 25-21 win over Richland. Kacie Cartwright led Scott City (24-9) with 12 kills and five digs. Lindsey Amick had 16 assists, Jenny Glency had four kills and three blocks. Abbie Cook added five digs...

Weekly spotlight - Miranda Schlosser and Kristain Burger (10/21/04)
MIRANDA SCHLOSSER AND KRISTAIN BURGER School: Notre Dame Class: Sophomores Sport: Softball Accomplishment: Burger, a first baseman, had only one hit in the postseason before blasting a go-ahead three-run home run in the fifth inning of a 3-1 win over Lutheran South in the Class 3 state quarterfinal game. Schlosser has pitched all four wins for Notre Dame in the postseason, allowing no earned runs and striking out 33 batters in 26 innings...

Central celebrates senior night with 'W' (10/21/04)
Last week Central and Notre Dame played a one-goal soccer game which could have gone either way. The Tigers made sure the score was not so close the second time around, routing Notre Dame 5-0 on senior night Wednesday at Central. Central (13-9) and clinched the SEMO Conference with a 7-0 league mark with one conference game remaining...

In first trip to state, Bulldogs aiming for title (10/21/04)
Notre Dame will be making its first semifinal appearance in its softball program's history Friday when the Bulldogs play undefeated Webb City at the Rainbow Softball Center in Columbia, Mo. While some might consider the Bulldogs' lack of final four experience a disadvantage, if recent Notre Dame history holds up, the Bulldogs could be headed for a shot at the championship Saturday. ...

Teams on equal footing after seven weeks (10/21/04)
Whether you love it or hate it, Missouri high school football's real season begins Friday with the start of district play. After seven weeks of football, teams with 7-0 records are on the same playing field as teams with winless marks. Central coach Lawrence Brookins said whether a team is hot or not, all teams look at district time like another season...

Kelly coach no stranger to success (10/21/04)
In an area littered with successful high school coaches, few coaches in recent years can match the exploits of Kelly softball coach Rhonda Ratledge. Despite taking two years off after becoming Kelly High School's counselor, Ratledge has led the Hawks to four final four appearances in 10 years as head coach. In her 10 years as coach, Ratledge has accrued a 257-60 record, led the Hawks to 10 district titles and won a state title in 1997...

Three-man title race shaping up as drivers head to Martinsville (10/21/04)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Everything went wrong for Kurt Busch and Jeff Gordon in the fifth round of NASCAR's championship chase. Still, neither lost ground in their pursuit of the Nextel Cup title. Dale Earnhardt Jr. has to be wondering what it will take to reclaim the top position. He did everything right at Lowe's Motor Speedway, finished third in the race, and still trails Busch by 24 points in the standings with Gordon closing in behind him...

Two Illinois players plead guilty (10/21/04)
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Two University of Illinois football players will serve eight-day jail sentences when the season ends after pleading guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor battery charges stemming from a barroom brawl, prosecutors said. Defensive players Matt Sinclair, 22, and Ryan Matha, 21, were accused of tackling and punching Jamaal L. Applewhite of Champaign this summer. The players had been charged with felony aggravated battery but pleaded to lesser charges...

Singh tries to reach 10 wins, $10 million (10/21/04)
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- Ken Griffey Jr. walked down the practice range Wednesday morning and stopped to watch Vijay Singh, two world-class athletes with not much else in common. One guy rarely plays in the fall. The other plays his best golf this time of the year...

Red Sox reverse curse (10/21/04)
NEW YORK -- Boston blew away decades of defeat with four sweet swings. Believe it, New England, the Red Sox are in the World Series. And they got there with the most unbelievable comeback of all, shaming the New York Yankees. David Ortiz, Johnny Damon and starting pitcher Derek Lowe made sure of that...

Womack injured, may be out tonight (10/21/04)
ST. LOUIS -- St. Louis Cardinals second baseman Tony Womack was removed with lower back spasms after three innings of Game 6 of the NL Championship Series on Wednesday. St. Louis' leadoff hitter singled in his first two at-bats, and scored on Albert Pujols' two-run home run in the first. He entered the game 6-for-40 in the postseason and 3-for-23 in the NLCS...

St. Louis victimizes reliever once more (10/21/04)
ST. LOUIS -- Dan Miceli hardly had to turn around to watch the flight of the ball. The sound coming off Jim Edmonds' bat was all too familiar. The bullpen blew it again. The Houston Astros' frustrating wait for their first World Series berth will have to wait at least another game -- if it comes at all...

Edmonds' homer caps 15-hit attack (10/21/04)
ST. LOUIS -- Albert Pujols is the star and Scott Rolen the favorite son for the St. Louis Cardinals. For one game at least, Jim Edmonds is the hero. Edmonds' two-run, 12th-inning home run beat the Houston Astros 6-4 Wednesday to even the National League Championship Series at three games apiece...

Edmonds lifts Cards to Game 7 (10/21/04)
ST. LOUIS -- Jim Edmonds skipped around the bases, jumping into a cluster of St. Louis Cardinals waiting for him at home plate. Now, waiting for all of them is Roger Clemens in an all-or-nothing Game 7. Edmonds blasted a two-run homer in the 12th inning, and the rejuvenated Cardinals turned Busch Stadium into a red frenzy by beating the Houston Astros 6-4 Wednesday to even the NL Championship Series at 3-3...

Area sports calendar10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Baseball Registration begins: Southern Premiere Sports has begun registration for indoor baseball leagues at the complex, located 1 1/2 miles west of Interstate 55 at exit 93. Registration session scheduled for 2-4 p.m. Saturday. Info: Jim Barton, (800) 593-5454...

The forgotten crisis (10/21/04)
WASHINGTON -- The flu-shot shortage makes it more imperative for elderly Americans to get a second, often overlooked vaccine that protects against a type of pneumonia germ that's a common complication of influenza. Called pneumococcal vaccine, it's a one-time shot for anyone 65 or older. Younger people with heart and lung diseases, diabetes or weak immune systems need it, too...

Shades within shades of gray (10/21/04)
Oct. 21, 2004 Dear Ken, If you're a political candidate, you can lie, you can pander to special interests, you can be clueless. But there's one thing you can't do. You can't have it both ways. Whatever "it" is, supposedly, having it both ways is against the rules. It's inconsistent. It's downright immoral...

Losing your mind; finding your mind (10/21/04)
We live in a world of distractions. Cell phones growing out of our ears. Overstuffed e-mail boxes. The glub-glub of rap music scoring our lives whether we want it to or not. And what about Byzantine voicemail mazes, terrorist threats ... and those teenagers?...

ABC-TV breaks up with Miss America (10/21/04)
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- ABC has dropped Miss America, leaving the famous beauty pageant without a network TV outlet for the first time in 50 years. The network, which had carried the annual telecast since 1997 with a series of one-year contracts, notified Miss America Organization officials that they will not pick up the option this year, acting pageant president and CEO Arthur McMaster said Wednesday...

NBC plots most elaborate election night coverage among networks (10/21/04)
NEW YORK -- NBC is turning Rockefeller Center into a giant television studio on election night, covering the landmark skating rink with a jigsaw puzzle map of the United States and turning the side of the General Electric building into an electronic bar graph...

James D. Chenoweth (10/21/04)
James D. "J.D." Chenoweth, 79, died Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2004, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Friends may visit from 4 to 8 p.m. Friday at the McCombs Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral time will be announced later.

Births 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Martin Son to Todd David and Rachale LeeAnn Martin of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:11 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 14, 2004. Name, Grayson David. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Martin is the former Rachale Kingree, daughter of Deanna Kingree and Stephen Kingree of Jackson. She is collector assistant with city of Jackson. Martin is the son of Jim Martin and Babs Martin of Jackson. He is an electrical lineman with city of Jackson...

Cape fire report 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following items on Wednesday: At 11:55 a.m., citizen assist at 417 Marrose Ann Drive. At 5:04 p.m., mutual aid to Scott City.

Cape/Jackson police reports 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Cape Girardeau The following items were released Wednesday by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. Arrests Ricky Cornell Mosley, 48, 137 S. Spanish St., Apt. 6, was arrested on a Cape Girardeau County warrant for failure to appear for nonsupport...

Out of the past 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
25 years ago: Oct. 21, 1979 Keynote speaker for the Lutheran Hour Rally this afternoon at the Central High School gymnasium is Dr. Oswald C.J. Hoffman, speaker of "The Lutheran Hour" since 1955; Hoffman's messages are broadcast weekly over more than 1,100 radio stations in the United States and Canada and in more than 30 other English-speaking countries...

A low-profile office (10/21/04)
The Washington Missourian There's not much interest in the race for lieutenant governor in Missouri. ... Missouri's lieutenant governor doesn't have that much to do. His main job is to preside over the Senate. He also governs the state in the absence of the governor, but that rarely happens. ...

An event not to miss (10/21/04)
David Ross, Show Me Center director, has walked into the newspaper office only once in his more than 10 years in Cape Girardeau, saying, "This is one of the best performances you will ever see. Trust me." It is a message that he has begun taking to area civic groups and other organizations: the Trans-Siberian Orchestra "rock opera" at the Show Me Center on Nov. 17 is a must-see event...

WMDs will be found (10/21/04)
To the editor: How can any thinking person say there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? There were none found, but wait 10 to 50 years and see if any are dug from the sand. From news accounts, the weapons inspectors were often prevented from going into certain sites and were finally made to leave Iraq. If Saddam would hide in a hole, why would anyone think he wouldn't hide weapons in one?...

Bush views debunked (10/21/04)
To the editor: The central element in the Bush worldview is hallucination. He still seems not yet to have realized that all the justifications he presented for invading Iraq have been systematically debunked. He seems unable to see that Iraq is descending into total and bloody chaos or that he has actually promoted rather than reduced terrorism. ...

Info about JHS issue (10/21/04)
To the editor: As election time draws near, generalities lose their glitter. Folks want specific reasons to vote for certain people or issues. I'd like to provide some specific answers to questions people might have about the Jackson High School bond issue...

Bush lies, distorts (10/21/04)
To the editor: President Bush quotes statistics in the debates. It's a shame that his facts are either distortions or outright lies. In the first debate alone Bush made various false claims: That there are 100,000 trained Iraqis maintaining the peace. The Defense Department recognizes only 8,169 trained Iraqis, and these lack equipment to do the job...

Not pro-life administration (10/21/04)
To the editor: I'm a Catholic mother of two and adamantly pro-life. I'm disappointed by our Republican-majority Congress, our president and our Supreme Court. I believed the 2000 election was the opportunity to obtain a constitutional amendment guaranteeing life to unborn babies. I was shocked to read in the April 20, 2001, USA Today that the pro-life issue was "not a policy priority" for the Bush administration...

GOP environmental issues (10/21/04)
To the editor: Republican president Theodore Roosevelt stated, "Conservation is a great moral issue. It involves the patriotic duty of ensuring the safety and continuance of the nation," and "I do not intend that our national resources shall be exploited by the few against the interest of the many."...

Speak Out 10/21/04 (10/21/04)
Need textbooks YOU REPORTED there was only a handful of people at the Cape Girardeau School Board meeting for suggestions about a new superintendent. Our school board is scared of the public, if you'd ask me. All I'd like is a textbook in each student's hands...

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