SPEAKOUT

Right wing nuts

IT LOOKS like the conservative, right-wing gun nuts have spoken in Oklahoma City. What great Americans they are.

Airports and farms

IN REGARDS to the airport in Perryville, I am in full agreement with the caller who said let the farms and the wildlife area and the woods alone. Take these shopping centers that have gone to pot, the eyesores, or the houses, the cracker boxes piled up one to another, these subdivided houses, tear those up for the airport. I say let the farms alone. We can't eat that nice airport pavement. Go over to St. Louis County around the southwest area where it used to be farms, orchards, beautiful land, and now less than one percent of it is agriculture.

Weirdoes in Waco

IT'S APPARENT from Jay Eastlick's Saturday column that his sympathies lie with the weirdoes in Waco and not with the children slaughtered in Oklahoma City. His little right of center thing is pretty accurate. I'd say it's so right of center he has fallen right off the scale. I'm not going to even bother reading his articles. I don't read propaganda from radicals.

Avoiding Advance

IN REPLY to the person who is going to avoid Advance. I want you to know you are not alone. I live here and will avoid spending any money in this town. I also understand at least one company has decided to relocate while another one is considering doing so. When this happens, Advance looses. People deserve the type of government they elect.

Davidian sympathy

THE ARTICLE in Saturday's paper by Jay Eastlick is part true. After Waco is anyone really safe? We find now that one of the men who blew up the building and killed 68 people in Oklahoma was in sympathy with the Davidians in Waco. Koresh was wrong in building up a large arsenal and keeping people against their wills. Anyone in sympathy with them should be closely monitored.

Wait for gamblers

WHY ASK for a large or long transportation tax? We should wait for the gambling boat to help the city of Cape to help the city needs.

Limbaugh on board?

IF JIM Limbaugh wants to be on the Cape Girardeau School Board, he should allow his name to be published just like the other 27 candidates for appointment. Jim Limbaugh has asked that his name be withheld from the public in order to discourage public comment on his candidacy. I think that's unfair, because he can select the comments that are submitted to the board. He is a highly controversial figure, and the public should have a right to comment on the wisdom of his appointment to the board.

Holocaust legacy

I WOULD like to respond to that sick individual that said the Holocaust was a lie and didn't happen. I suppose all those dead bodies of women, men and children all piled up like a mess of rats was all a lie. I suppose people coming back with the tattoo was all a lie. I just wonder about this individual.I suppose he or she might think the blowup in Oklahoma City or the New York World Trade Center were lies. I think we are becoming a hate generation. Just tell those Jewish survivors that it really didn't happen.

Gun in school

I AM a Scott City parent, and I would like to let all of the Scott City parents know that there was a gun brought to our school by an eighth grade student the week before Easter and that it has been kept hushed up to the families of children that attend this school. I think every parent should be alerted of these things, because I too have children out there and I want to be aware of these things.

The Waco column

I AM very surprised and disappointed in Saturday's column by Jay Eastlick. I can only wonder if this was something written prior to the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City. If not, he should apologize to the people of Oklahoma and to the rest of the country on the one-sided cult interpretation of the Waco disaster. Many things were done wrong in Waco, but the end result does not justify the bombing in Oklahoma City.

REPLY: Some readers have made a connection between Jay Eastlick's column and the Oklahoma City bombing that simply doesn't exist. The column was written the day after the bombing but before any connection was made in the federal investigation. Nowhere in his column does Eastlick try to establish such a link. The bombing, coincidentally, occurred on the second anniversary of the Waco raid, which was the reason for the timing of the column.

Postal community service

I JUST wanted to say what a wonderful thing that the postal authorities and the letter carriers are doing in collecting on May 5 for FISH and the Salvation Army. I think this is a wonderful community service, and I appreciate it very much. The only thing is I think they will need a little advertising a day or two before hand, because they put this notice out in the paper a couple of weeks ago at least. I think if the Missourian would put a little article in there about it and also if KFVS would possibly give them a little boost I think it would help a lot.

Remember the victim

MY HEART goes out to the person beaten and hospitalized in October by the teen-age robber who had been given probation by Judge Syler in September for a previous robbery. Now the judge says he might let this twice-convicted robber out again within four months. Which one of us alive and healthy now will be hospitalized after the judge makes this second mistake?

News of record

THANK YOU for allowing us to have Speak Out in the Southeast Missourian. I also appreciate the birth announcements and marriage licenses and the police report. I really enjoy having them in there because it kind of keeps you up with what's going on. One of the things that I thought was interesting that you had years ago was an accident report or an accident count where each day you had in there how many motor vehicle accidents were reported to the police the day before or whenever the count was done, and I greatly appreciated that too. Might be something you want to look into again, because it would be nice to know the count, if it has gone up much.

Bombing connection

THEY warned it was obvious that the bombing was a retaliation to the Waco incident. There are so many similarities: It was the anniversary day, there were children that would be killed, ATF personnel would be victims, it was against the federal government because attorney general Janet Reno ordered to raid the compound of Waco where the deaths occurred. It doesn't take a genius to understand this.

Kelly info wrong

AS A parent of the Kelly girls, I was upset with the paper. You do not put enough facts in there. Saturday morning's paper we beat Chaffee 8-1. Down at the records you said both teams recording stands at 8-1. That's wrong. Kelly girls have not lost a game. We are 8-0. We have won all of our games. Please start putting more information on the Kelly girls because we are proud of them.

Newspaper's attacks

IT SEEMS to me that the Southeast Missourian and the editorial writers continue to attack our government, President Clinton and many of our government leaders. And then your news editor, Jay Eastlick, attacks everybody from the FBI to our courts in his column. Your continued attacks will encourage many more attacks on our government officials and American citizens like the ones in Oklahoma City.

Mourning in Waco

BILL CLINTON and the liberal media are talking about remembering the children who died at Oklahoma City, but they don't say anything about the children that died at Waco two years ago. Who mourns for them? They were killed by the government.

IT'S VERY unfortunate what happened out in Oklahoma City. This should be a wake-up call to the whole nation as far as crime is concerned. This would be a good time for police all over the country to rally the communities to fight against crime, to fight against gangs, to get people out into the streets to scare the gangs half to death and to paint over their gang signs. This is the time when the American people have to take a stand and say no to gangs and to violence.

BBB and small claims

I WOULD like to know if any readers out there could tell me how to get hold of the Better Business Bureau and how to file a claim in small claims court.

REPLY: The Better Business Bureau is in the telephone book (531-3300). Contact the Cape Girardeau County circuit clerk Division 5 (335-8253) about small claims.

A classic column

A RECENT column by Jay Eastlick covering the Waco situation was really a classic in writing. He expressed the feelings of probably million people in this country, and I haven't found one single person who was critical of the facts he brought forth into this article. It was really a classic.