Stories from Saturday, January 8, 1994

As 1993 wound down, Missourians began adding up the awful toll of substance abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction and crime. Once again each of these categories reached new highs in the year just ended, with no expectation that the records would be scaled down by the end of this year. Missourians pay an inordinately high price in all of these categories, and perhaps in the single category of alcohol abuse we pay the highest price of all...

To the editor and Ms. Hogan: I only want to make three points regarding Ms. Hogan's letter which was read on Rush Limbaugh's Wednesday radio show. 1) What you refer to as an "inaccurate metaphor" can be more specifically described as a "motivational technique." A coach, who I'm sure understands the way his players think far better than you do, chose to get his team's attention by saying they were playing like a bunch of girls. His "ploy," if you will, worked...

It was a day of basketball and new impressions. Kids were cheering on police officers, and vise versa. Nearly 50 youngsters between the ages of 12 and 16 learned that police officers aren't such bad fellows. The officers reached out to these teenagers without the tarnish of trouble. The occasion was the first "Hoopin' With 5-0 at SEMO '93" mini-basketball camp. With the help of Southeast Missouri State University Coach Ron Shumate, the camp was a great success...

"You've worked hard for your home; now let your home work for you." This is the pitch of the reverse-mortgage industry, which is stepping up efforts to inform home-owning senior citizens of a new, innovative lending program that can provide supplementary income during the golden years...

It's not a topic often discussed at the coffee shop or around the evening dinner table. But for the next three months, city officials hope to make sewers the talk of town. On April 5, Cape Girardeau voters will decide whether to extend the city's quarter-cent capital improvements tax and issue revenue bonds to separate combined storm and sanitary sewers in older sections of town and make other sewer improvements...

SCOTT CITY -- Ryan Miller quietly answers his fathers questions: Where are we going? Canada. Why? To help me walk. For Ryan, 4, and his parents, a new treatment called therapeutic electrical stimulation offers a chance for Ryan to walk independently. The child has cerebral palsy...

Area economic development officials are wrapping up plans to send a Cape Girardeau delegation to Shaoxing, China, in May to establish cultural and economic trade with the Asian city. Last April Cape Girardeau businessman Peter Choi, a native of Shaoxing, asked the city council to establish a "sister city" business program with the Chinese city...

Steve Naeter said a family tradition of service to Cape Girardeau prompted him to file for a seat on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. He joins incumbent Pat Ruopp in seeking a three-year term on the board. Candidates have until Feb. 1 to file for two seats...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- A coroner's inquest will be conducted into the death of Olive L. Ferrill of Mounds, who died Tuesday from smoke inhalation during a house fire. "We have the autopsy report back now, and the inquest should be held in a couple of weeks," said Pulaski County Coroner Bill Atherton...

Cape Girardeau cardiologist Dr. James B. Chapman became president of the medical staff at St. Francis Medical Center on Jan. 1. He succeeds oncologist Dr. Stanley D. Sides, whose two-year term expired at the end of 1993. Chapman, one of five cardiologists associated with Cardiovascular Associates of Cape Girardeau, has been a member of the St. Francis Medical staff since 1985...

Dr. Abdul Chaudhari, a Cape Girardeau physician has received the Physician's Recognition Award for November presented by the Missouri State Medical Association and the American Medical Association. The award is earned by physicians who voluntarily complete 150 credit hours of continuing medical education courses in a three-year period...

The Elks Mobile Dental Unit is located at VIP Industries through March 3. The unit has been operated by the Dental Department of Truman Medical Center-East of Kansas City since 1962, in partnership with the state of Missouri and the Missouri Elks Benevolent Association...

St. Francis Medical Center's clinical resources nurse-surgery Sue Cole has been elected to the Board of Directors of the Missouri Head Injury Association. The association assists survivors of brain injury and their families through information, resources, advocacy and support and promotes public awareness about traumatic brain injury and its prevention. For information, call Cole at 339-6858...

Blood drives are planned Monday and Tuesday to help build the supply needed following the holiday season. On Monday a drive will be held at the American Legion Hall in Jackson from 1:30-6:30 p.m. On Tuesday a drive will be held at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m...

When it comes to New Year's resolutions, Americans put one goal ahead of all others: losing weight. Year after year, Jan. 1 is the day diets start for the sake of better health and a smaller waistline. Typically, by mid-January or early February, it's back to old habits...

SCOTT CITY - When the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority convenes its first board meeting of 1994 Monday afternoon, it will have two new members. The Cape Girardeau County Commission voted Thursday to appoint Joe Gambill of Cape Girardeau, who recently retired as plant manager at Biokyowa, to replace Jim Limbaugh as a port commissioner...

CHARLESTON -- Ruth Christine Burdeen, 79, of Chicago, died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1994, at the University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago. She was born Dec. 4, 1914, in the Deventer community of Mississippi County, daughter of Clement and Theresa Rommel Furlong...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Howard "Booter" Nimmo of Anna will be held at 1 p.m. today at Norris and Son Funeral Chapel in Jonesboro. The Rev. Clifton Lingle will officiate, with burial in Dongola American Legion Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. to service time...

MATTHEWS -- Funeral service for Kenneth Ray "Cat" Trail of Matthews will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Steven Trail will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston. Trail, 62, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 1994, at Matthews Manor...

SIKESTON -- Paul "Little Son" Yarber, 65, of Sikeston, died Wednesday, Jan. 5, 1994, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was born July 23, 1928, in Sikeston, son of Robert and Lydia Green Yarber. He and Dora Williams were married April 14, 1957...

SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Funeral service for Leslie H. Isreal of Sedgewickville will be held at 2 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel in Perryville. The Rev. Kelly Francis will officiate, with burial in Lixville Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6:30 a.m. to service time...

Twin daughters to Mr. and Mrs. Mike E. Weaver of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 1993. Taylor Diane December was born at 6:36 a.m. and weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces. Jordan Diane Wednesday was born at 6:36 a.m. and weighed 4 pounds 14 ounces. The couple has another daughter. Mrs. Weaver is the former Mary Parkhill, daughter of Bob and Mary Boitnott of Cape Girardeau. Weaver is a laminator at M&W Packaging, and is the son of Al and Terrie Weaver of Jackson...

BENTON -- A Friday afternoon fire at the Brown Shoe Co. plant east of Benton on Highway 77 was quickly extinguished by a sprinkler system and firefighters. "The fire was contained to a chemical room where a batch of glue caught fire," said firefighter Michael Westrich...

MARBLE HILL -- Patricia R. Angel, 64, of Marble Hill died Thursday, Jan. 6, 1994 at Cape Girardeau. She was born near Marble Hill on Aug. 7, 1929, the daughter of Linus and Ruby Crader Welker. She had worked as a nurse's aid for many years at the Englehart Clinic in Marble Hill...

ANNA, Ill. -- Rosalee Partridge, 78, of Anna, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 1994, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Aug. 9, 1915, in Goreville, daughter of Abb and Estella Cherry Foster. She and Harry Partridge were married Oct. 12, 1935. He died Sept. 26, 1974...

BURFORDVILLE -- Michael Mims, 37, of Burfordville, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 1994, in a hospital in Farmington. He was born Aug. 15, 1956, in Cape Girardeau, son of Mr. and Mrs. Garland Mims. Mims had formerly worked on pipelines. Survivors include his father, and a brother, Kelly Mims, both of Mims, Texas...

Freda H. Vredenburgh, 78, of Imperial, formerly of McClure, Ill., died Friday, Jan. 7, 1994, at St. Anthony Medical Center in St. Louis. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Clemmie Carter Jr., 62, 445 N. Middle, died Friday, Jan. 7, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born May 27, 1931. at Morley, son of Clemmie and Robelian Peterson Carter Sr. Survivors include a son, Darryl Cartee, address unknown; a brother, Henry Carter of Kansas City, and a sister, Robelian Carter of Cape Girardeau...