Stories from Saturday, August 13, 1994

To the editor: I surely don't understand all the issues or ramifications of the impending strike of major league baseball. However, I believe the issue of salary caps can be addressed in a more logical way. For example, there could be a wage scale structure with minimum and maximum salary defined for each position. It would be necessary that this scale include seniority in baseball and with their present team...

Luann Pfau of Cape Girardeau, a registered nurse in the Gene E. Huckstep Emergency Center at St. Francis Medical Center, has been named Missouri's Nurse of the Year by the Missouri Emergency Nurse Association. Pfau was recognized Aug. 4 during the association's annual meeting at Lake of the Ozarks. She is the first nurse to receive the honor...

Theresa Hall, nurse manager of Southeast Missouri Hospital's psychiatric unit, has passed the American Nurses Credentialing Center examination for nursing administration. She also holds certification as a psychiatric and mental-health nurse. She has served as nurse manager of the psychiatric unit at Southeast since it opened in November 1992. Prior to that, she was nurse manager of the hospital's stress unit...

The Southeast Missouri Hospital Foundation is planning a Western Weekend fund-raising event Sept. 30-Oct. 2. The three-day event includes a dinner and auction, a horse show, a craft show and western brunch and trail ride. Proceeds from the weekend will be used to support Southeast's Regional Cancer Center...

A year ago Barbara couldn't concentrate. She was crying all the time. A single parent, she had moved into a new position at her company. She was working 15 hours a day and was planning a big wedding for her daughter. Her son was in the Marines. "All of sudden I couldn't concentrate, and it scared me. I didn't want to be around anybody," said Barbara...

Southeast Missouri State University's summer commencement slipped from an annual exercise to a walk through nostalgia last week. The change makes sense in terms of finance and numbers of undergraduates. But its passing deserves some notice. The university will retain a scaled-down ceremony for graduate students only, since many of them complete their degrees in the summer...

The growth of outpatient surgery centers in Cape Girardeau has helped to hold surgery costs down in the region for all surgery patients. Cape Girardeau has three outpatient surgery centers, including two that opened in the last nine months. A growing number of outpatient surgeries are performed as well at both St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital. About 65 percent of all hospital surgery locally is done on an outpatient basis...

Here is a bit of Missouri trivia to file away for an appropriate occasion: What anniversary did Missourians celebrate this week? The exact date was Aug. 10. It was the 173rd anniversary of statehood. Aug. 10, 1821, was when President James Monroe signed the proclamation admitting Missouri as a state...

To the editor: In your Aug. 8 editorial concerning Southeast Missouri State University's application to participate in the National Community Service Act (Americorps) you made some incorrect assumptions. First, you assumed that anything other than the cost directly associated with participants living expense and education allowance goes to the university as exorbitant salaries to be divided up between the project director and other staff. ...

To the Editor: I applaud Cal Thomas on his Aug. 11 commentary on socialized medicine. Well put. I would hope everybody read it, but I know they didn't. How sad it is people won't read or listen to the news to learn what's being done to their future...

To the editor: It would appear that we are about to take another giant step toward socialized government. What has happened to good old Yankee ingenuity and the individualism that made this nation what it is? When we are told that we will have national health care whether we want it or not, it sends cold shivers up my spine...

A summer blood drive is scheduled Monday from 1:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Jackson. A blood drive also will be held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Advance Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Red Cross officials hope to see increased participation in the blood drives to help bolster a low blood supply during the summer months. All types of blood are needed but especially type O...

Americans have lost their senses of gratitude and ingenuity, the Rev. Benjamin Hooks, a longtime civil rights leader, said Friday. Hooks, who served as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1977 to 1993, spoke to a crowd of about 200 people at a prayer breakfast at the A.C. Brase Arena Building...

The Rev. William Bird remembers vividly the day discrimination first affected his life. He was a child living near Gideon, Mo., the son of sharecroppers. He planned a special trip to the movie theater to see Hopalong Cassidy on the big screen. Bird's father had filled his head with stories about Hopalong. The excited youngster stood in line with money in hand to see the cowboy hero. Bird was turned away from the theater because he is black...

Last week in this space, while conceding the need for health-care reform in this country, I discussed some of the reasons I'm opposed to the federal government taking over health care, which represents one-seventh of the economy. Of course, it always is easier to criticize government initiatives than to furnish alternatives. In this column, I'd like to discuss two alternatives to comprehensive, national health care...

Joe Hatchett wants to establish a radio station in Cape Girardeau that would provide musical and cultural programing for blacks. Hatchett's company, Masters Communications Network Inc., hopes to establish Cape's first black-owned and operated radio station...

A domestic Peace Corps of sorts is on its way to eight counties in Southeast Missouri following an announcement that a $390,000 AmeriCorps grant has been awarded to the Southeast Missouri Partners for Community Service. "We hope to be ready to roll by the end of September," said Johnny McGaha, professor of criminal justice at Southeast Missouri State University and AmeriCorps project director for the region...

Funeral service for Effie Frances Foust of Fountainbleau Lodge will be held at 11 a.m. today at Jimmy Osburn Funeral Home in Hayti. The Rev. Jack Mann will officiate, with burial in Dry Bayou Baptist Church Cemetery in Hayti. Foust, 91, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...

CAIRO, Ill. -- William G. Myers, 69, of Cairo, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 1994, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. He was born Oct. 13, 1924, in Clinton, Ky., son of Archie and Lesby McAllister Myers. He married the former Martha Marie Dillard...

PERRYVILLE -- Harry A. Cattoor, 75, of Perryville, died Thursday, Aug. 11, 1994, at his home. He was born April 27, 1919, at Belgique, son of Ausiel and Agnes Steyns Cattoor. He and Eileen Hoffman were married Oct. 5, 1940. Cattoor was retired from McDonnell Douglas in St. Louis. He was a member of St. Vincent's Church, 3rd Degree with Knights of Columbus Council 1263, member of VFW Post 4282, and American Legion Post 133. He was a veteran of World War II...

BERTRAND -- Walter C. Bertrand, 82, of Bertrand, died Friday, Aug. 12, 1994, at Miner Nursing Center. He was born Jan. 23, 1912, in Tennessee, son of Homer Lee and Daisy Jerrett McKinley. He and Sarah Christine Collier were married Feb. 27, 1932. She died March 1, 1984...

Bernadean Campbell, 77, 1100 N. Henderson, died Friday, Aug. 12, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 17, 1916, in West Frankfort, Ill., daughter of Edmond J. and Grace Simmons Avis. She and Dr. Edward D. Campbell Sr. were married March 17, 1937, in St. Charles...

Lucille M. Sides, 80, 118 S. West End Boulevard, died Friday, Aug. 12, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.

Daughter to Dan Manchette and Nancy Davis of Aurora, Colo., Aurora Presbyterian Hospital, 1:52 a.m. Friday, Aug. 5, 1994. Name, Kali KoAnn. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. First child. Miss Davis is the daughter of Gladys Davis of Jackson, and the late Virgil Davis. She is a dispatcher with Monaco Parking. Manchette is a hostler with Frito Lay, and is the son of Arlene Manchette of Aurora and Harold Manchette of Conifer, Colo...

PORTAGEVILLE -- Funeral service for James Willie Logan of Portageville will be held at 2 p.m. today at DeLisle Funeral Chapel here. Burial will be in Portageville Cemetery. Logan, 82, died Wednesday, Aug. 10, 1994, at Portageville Nursing Home. He was born May 6, 1912, in Waterford Marshall, Miss., son of Notharley and Mary Olivia Smith Logan. He and Excie Goodlow were married Nov. 5, 1953, in New Madrid...