Stories from Wednesday, September 29, 1993

To the Editor: After reading The Yes Group Responds" in Sunday's editorial letters, since they seem so concerned about economics, I have three questions for them: 1. How much did the Friday (9/24/93) promotion soiree cost? 2. How much of the promotion's cost was paid by the Boyd Group?...

To the Editor: Yes, here we go again - The Yes Group will continue to promote the business of riverboat gaming! And yes it will obiviously bring many jobs and much revenue to the city of Cape Girardeau. These facts, (not claims made by the Yes Group), should not be confused with the so called "facts" in the Letter to the Editor on Sunday by Jana Jateff. ...

To the Editor: Today's (Sunday's Southeast Missourian contains a letter from the YES GROUP in reply to Dr. Michael Wulfers' letter that calls into question the amounts of profits to be realized as a result of riverboat gambling. Dr. Wulfers' letter had asked the same questions about accounting for that profit that had also occurred to me...

On Friday, the Cape Girardeau Public Library will begin charging residents who live inside the city limits of Cape Girardeau, but outside the municipal library district. We feel the library board should close the book on this change. It's a bad idea...

PERRYVILLE -- In the early morning hours of July 25, a breach of the Bois Brule levee turned murky Mississippi River backwater into a 10-20 foot lake that covered about 28,000 acres of farmland and the homes of 90 families and businesses. The Perry County village of McBride was inundated, along with the Perryville Municipal Airport...

Jeff Krantz, director of planning at Southeast Missouri Hospital, will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee Friday. The event will be held at the Drury Lodge Friday at 7:30 a.m. Krantz, a co-chairman of the Chamber's Health and Human Services Committee, will discuss that committee's activities...

A new state law allows nurse practitioners to write prescriptions, but many Missouri pharmacists are reluctant to fill them. Pharmacists say they are concerned about incurring greater liability and waiting on the State Board of Pharmacy to spell out what they should or shouldn't do...

For some Cape Girardeau residents whose property was damaged by this summer's floods, another rise in the Mississippi this week has thwarted any attempt to return to water-logged homes. The National Weather Service in St. Louis Tuesday revised its river forecast upward, projecting a 42-foot crest in Cape Girardeau on Thursday. The river stage was at 41.2 feet Tuesday and expected to rise to 41.8 feet today...

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- For motorists weary of sitting in long lines awaiting passage on Illinois Route 146, the Illinois Department of Transportation has good news. The department's elevation of Route 146 by dumping more than 19,000 tons of rock on the road surface will be completed by Thursday morning, when both lanes of traffic will reopen, according to Ron Eastwood, a spokesman for the department...

JACKSON - The Cape Girardeau County Commission has hired M. Scott Bechtold as county highway superintendent-engineer. Bechtold, who lives in Cape Girardeau and has been employed by Potashnick Construction Co. since 1975, will assume his duties Oct. 18...

State Rep. Gene Copeland has won House approval of a resolution recommending that the Department of Conservation exempt certain people from its required hunter-safety courses. The New Madrid Democrat said there is no reason to force law enforcement personnel, active military personnel, and retired military personnel to take the safety courses that are basically designed for seventh-graders...

Rebecca Cook of Cape Girardeau is serving on the newly formed Commission on Performance, which will assist with implementation of the Outstanding Schools Act approved by the legislature earlier this year. Cook was named as one of the commission's permanent members in her role as a member of the State Board of Education...

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Vernon "Doc" Prosser, 85, of Olive Branch died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1993, at his home. He was born Dec. 29, 1907, at Sailor Springs, the son of Stephen and Sarah Nottingham Prosser. On Nov. 15, 1930, he married Ida Porter, who survives of the home...

ANNA, Ill. -- Eleven Southern Illinois communities, including the Southern Illinois Prison Committee (SIPC) that includes five counties, will deliver sales pitches to Illinois Department of Corrections officials for a new $60 million state prison Thursday...

JACKSON -- Vanssa Nicole Lorenz, daughter of Curtis and Debby Brotherton Lorenz of Jackson, died Saturday, Sept. 25, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Friday, Sept. 24, 1993, at the hospital. Survivors include her parents; maternal grandparents, Carson and Betty Burns of Jackson; paternal grandparents, Erwin and Leota Lorenz of Shawneetown, and maternal great-grandfather, Arnold Pullium of Jackson...

SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Delphia Elliott of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Alma Reynolds will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. Elliott, 95, died Monday, Sept. 27, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

SCOTT CITY -- Edna R. Younghouse, 91, of Scott City, died Tuesday, Sept. 28, 1993, at Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. She was born Aug. 1, 1902, at Acorn Ridge, daughter of Charles Morton and Elizabeth Buchanan Rough. She and Earl Charley Younghouse were married Dec. 18, 1942. He died July 7, 1972...

JACKSON -- The Jacksonian Charter Chapter of American Business Women's Association will again sponsor the Miss Jackson Scholarship Pageant, Miss Christmas, Miss Junior Christmas, and the Little Miss Snowball and Snowflake Pageants. The pageants will be held Nov. 20 at 2 and 7:30 p.m. in Jackson High School Auditorium...

Son to Mr. and Mrs. Jim Urhahn of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:26 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 9, 1993. Name, Hunter Joseph. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. Mrs. Urhahn is the former Shelly Kindle, daughter of Jim and Janey Taylor and Jim Kindle of Sikeston. Urhahn is employed at First Tire and Wheel, and is the son of Jim and Barbara Urhahn of Benton...

JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Dana M. Grider and John M. Barry to Clyde W. and Mechelle J. Abernathy; William H. and Patricia P. Frye to Patricia Murback Dobson and Katherine L. David; Glenda M. Brink to R. Amon and Julie A. Davenport...

Project Charlie, a drug and alcohol prevention program, is gearing up for the school year with volunteer training Oct. 18-20. Charlie stands for chemical abuse resolution lies in education and is taught in grades 2 and 4. The program was implemented in the Cape Girardeau and Jackson school systems in 1985...

An essay and poster contest for 11th- and 12th-grade students in Southeast Missouri, Southern Illinois and Western Kentucky is being sponsored by West Park Mall in Cape Girardeau and Ford Credit, the automotive financing subsidiary of Ford Motor Company...

Half my writing time seems to be spent consulting dictionaries, whether to verify or deny the existence of words new to me. Some continue to baffle me even after I've located the words and definitions. Take "communitarian." Dictionaries define this term as an individual who believes in Communism. ...

Cheryl Hendricks loves to save money. Thirty cents here, a dollar there add up to big savings in the family budget and a surplus of household necessities. Hendricks, like hundreds of thousands of other people nationwide, is a coupon shopper. "My husband says I'm going to go broke saving money," she said. "But it really does save money if you go about it right."...

Last November, the Circle of Hope at Grace United Methodist Church offered more than 1,000 cookbooks for sale. About a month late, all were sold. Some people who didn't get the book with more than 400 recipes clamored for a reprinting. The circle reprinted about 300, and already 100 have been sold...

JACKSON -- A "Getting Started" genealogy workshop will be hosted by the Cape County Genealogical Society on Oct. 16 at the Riverside Regional Library in Jackson. The session will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The $10 registration fee also includes membership to the local society...

Of all of the many gardening activities, the fall planting of bulbs is possibly the most rewarding. Brilliant crocus and modest snowdrops, cheerful daffodils, fragrant hyacinths, dainty squilla, spectacular tulips, and the lesser bulbs, will do their magic in the spring, if the dry, unimpressive bulbs are put into the ground this fall...

A reunion of the Daniel McLard family will be held Oct. 17 under Shelter 5 at Cape Girardeau County Park North. The event begins at 1 p.m. Those attending are to bring their own food, and are encouraged to bring pictures, letters, documents or other memorabilia...

JACKSON - "The Advantages of Breast Feeding" will be the topic at the October meeting of the La Leche League. The meeting will be held on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 9:30 a.m. at 865 Clark in Jackson. Nursing babies are welcome. This is the first in a series of four discussion meetings, which offer both encouragement and breastfeeding information to interested mothers. For more information, call 334-2705 or 243-5206...