Stories from Saturday, May 7, 1994

Dear Editor, This is in response to the article, "Hypochondria: Imaginary or not, it still costs" that appeared in your esteemed daily April 30. As a practicing psychiatrist who deals with thousands of people who have physical symptoms but no identifiable cause, I would like to draw the readers' attention to some inaccuracies that have crept in the article...

The 1994 version of the Cape Girardeau Riverfest T-shirt is now on sale through the Riverfest Association. The white shirts feature a full-color print caricature of a spirited river pirate dancing a jig around downtown Cape Girardeau's clock. The theme for this year's Riverfest, set for June 10-11, is Jammin' on the River. Corporate sponsors are Capital Bank, KBSI Fox 23, St. Francis Medical Center and Southwestern Bell Telephone...

Students pursuing careers in various medical fields are eligible to apply for one of 10 health care scholarships to be awarded this summer by St. Francis Medical Center Auxiliary. The scholarships, which have been endowed by a number of individuals and the St. ...

A new Parkinson's disease regional support group will meet May 23 at 6:30 p.m. at the St. Francis Medical Center cafeteria. The new group is co-sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center and the Visiting Nurse Association of Southeast Missouri. People with Parkinson's disease, their family, friends and health care professionals may attend...

The American Red Cross has teamed up with two area schools to host blood drives this week. A blood drive is scheduled Thursday from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at Cape Girardeau Central High School in the new gymnasium. A drive is planned Friday at Zalma High School in the school cafeteria from 2-6 p.m...

To the naked eye, Allyson Herbst is a typical, bouncy 6-year-old child who loves to paint, draw and do other arts and crafts. But Allyson suffers from juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, which at times, her parents say, can make her -- and them -- pretty cranky...

With legalized gambling coming to Missouri, state Attorney General Jay Nixon is on the right track in his plan to get laws passed that would provide safeguards against conflicts of interests and undesirable investments and involvement in gambling companies by people in law-enforcement, governmental and regulatory positions...

The craving for money -- and lots of it -- often leads people astray, and that was the case with the unscrupulous Aldrich Ames. Ames was the highest-paid and highest-ranking Russian spy ever caught inside the CIA. He admitted that since April 1985 he had been paid $2.5 million by the Soviet Union and later Russia for U.S. ...

The city and local veterinarians again today are offering rabies vaccinations for $6 per pet, and we urge pet owners to take advantage of the offer. Once the symptoms appear in an animal it is too late to do anything; the animal must be destroyed. For humans, the incubation period for those exposed to rabies ranges from 10 days to more than a year. Once the symptoms appear in humans, it's too late for the series of anti-rabies vaccine shots to be given, and it usually results in death...

Previously in this space we sent our congratulations to the five Cape Girardeau teachers who were honored as the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's first Educators of the Year. The chamber plans to bestow the honors to other educators annually. The recognition program was engineered within the chamber's education committee and was adopted with the chamber board of directors' blessings, a process that took about two years. ...

Things were falling apart on Tuesday nights for the past few months. Wife Nancy and Neighbor Linda stopped playing rummy and hurried away to some assignation; When they returned, I noticed they were often humming or singing snatches of music. All of this became clear this Tuesday night when Nancy and Linda joined a chorus of about 120 with an orchestra of 40 for a production of portions of Handel's Messiah. ...

To the Southeast Missourian, In answer to Dr. Martin in today's paper (May 4), and the hoard of cigarette-bangers, I'd like to point out same of his inaccuracies in smoking research. First, in the 50's he said few women smoked -- but my mother and most of her friends smoked, often quite heavily. ...

Though dropping out of high school, Sherry Bollinger kept a dream: to earn a college degree. Today, Bollinger realizes her dream. She will graduate from Southeast Missouri State University with a teaching degree. Commencement will be begin at 2 p.m. today at the Show Me Center. Jackson attorney John Lichtenegger will be the commencement speaker...

There's a brand new way of doing business in the state of Missouri -- Limited Liability Companies (LLC). "LLC offers the best of other business forms," says Michael Ponder, who has already helped establish a number of the new plans in the Cape Girardeau area. "The plan offers the liability benefits of a corporation and the tax benefits of a partnership."...

Southeast Missouri State University President Kala Stroup Friday had words of praise for Gov. Mel Carnahan, area legislators, regents, and many others who she said provided the teamwork needed to move a proposed College of Business building closer to reality...

Anyone who imagines that a ban on 19 types of automatic weapons will in any way deter crime should have his head examined. Plain and simple, Thursday's House vote to ban the weapons is not a sweeping anti-crime measure or a sweeping anything. According to FBI statistics, rifles -- all types, not just the "assault-style" weapons voted on Thursday -- are used in only 3 percent of homicides. ...

CHAFFEE -- Norman Henry Hampton, 70, of Chaffee, died Thursday, May 5, 1994, at his home. He was born April 14, 1924, in Chaffee, son of Jason Clarence and Maggie Powless Hampton. He and Kathleen F. Bolton were married Feb. 25, 1947. Hampton retired Feb. ...

MATTHEWS -- Funeral service for Velma Mae Keller of Matthews will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Parma, with the Rev. Johnie Lemmons officiating. Burial will be in Maple Cemetery at Caruthersville. Keller, 82, died Wednesday, May 4, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...

MOREHOUSE -- Funeral service for Roy Hunt Jr., Doniphan Route 1, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Morehouse, with the Rev. David Garner officiating. Another service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at Bogner-Busch Family Chapel in North Ridgeville, Ohio. Burial will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens Cemetery in Avon, Ohio...

MOREHOUSE -- Funeral service for Mettie Ethel Midgett, formerly of Morehouse, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Roy Ferguson will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston. Midgett, 98, died Thursday, May 5, 1994, at Forest Haven Nursing Home in St. Louis...

BELL CITY -- Amos Hart, 77, of Bell City, died Thursday, May 5, 1994, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. He was born Jan. 27, 1917, in Harold, Ill., son of Martin Allen and Hannah Melton Hart. He and Ora Mae Perrigan were married Dec. 24, 1935, at Dexter...

MARBLE HILL -- Clifton Carl Ham, 77, of Marble Hill, died Thursday, May 6, 1994, at his home. He was born May 5, 1917, in Paducah, Ky., son of Affi Luther and Myrtle Sweat Ham. He and Jeanette Mae Myers Ballard were married Oct. 26, 1974. Ham was a member of AFL-CIO, and veteran of the U.S. Army...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Leslie L. Haynes Sr., 51, of Reidland, Ky., died Thursday, May 5, 1994, while working in Paducah, Ky. He was born April 21, 1943, in Alexander County, son of Cecil and Della Dosha Jones Haynes. Haynes was a construction worker, and formerly of Cairo and Villa Ridge...

Paul William Hinchey, 80, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, May 6, 1994, at the Lutheran Home. He was born March 9, 1914, in St. Louis, son of Stephen and Eugenia Allard Hinchey. Hinchey attended kindergarten in the building where the first kindergarten was started by Susan Blow in St. Louis...

OLD APPLETON -- Helen E. Schnurbusch, 104, formerly of Old Appleton, died Friday, May 6, 1994, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 26, 1889, in Perry County, daughter of William and Theresa Ponder. She and Joseph J. Schnurbusch were married May 4, 1908. He died June 8, 1964...

SCOTT CITY -- Oliver Thomas "O.T." Finley, 83, of Scott City, died Friday, May 6, 1994, at his home. He was born June 24, 1910, at Fornfelt, son of Thomas and Bessie Mullenax Finley. He and Myrtle Fern Stephens were married Nov. 15, 1934, at Benton...

CAIRO, Ill. -- James Ray Cella, 68, of Wickliffe, Ky., died Thursday, May 5, 1994, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. He was born June 30, 1925, in Cairo, son of Ray L. and Lura Barnett Cella. He married the former Laura Rabey. Cella was a retired plumber. He was a member, deacon and Sunday School teacher at First Baptist Church in Wickliffe, and Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 160 in Murphysboro...

Daughter to Vanessa L. Goza of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:35 p.m. Sunday, April 24, 1994. Name, Brianna Nicole. Weight, 5 pounds 13 ounces. First child. Miss Goza is the daughter of Julie Goza of Cape Girardeau. Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. ...