Stories from Saturday, September 24, 1994

The Medicine Shoppe pharmacies will offer free fitness profiles next week. An ElectroLipoGraph instrument generates the profile, determining the amount of fat, water and muscle in the body. Those participating will take home a computer printout with nutrition and diet tips designed to help maintain current weight or lose excess pounds. The procedure requires participants to bare one foot...

The Depressive and Manic Depressive Association will meet Monday at 7 p.m. at St. Francis Medical Center's education department. The guest speaker is Jack Stokes, assistant professor at Southeast Missouri State University, who will speak about assertiveness...

Nominations are being accepted for the first Barrier Freedom Award sponsored by the SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence and the local chapter of the Governor's Council on People with Disabilities. The award will be given to a business, industry, service organizzation, government entity, or individual who has made inroads for people with disabilities...

St. Francis Medical Center's seventh annual Fall Fitness Fest will be held Sunday outside the St. Francis Rehabilitation Center. The fest includes 10K and 5K runs, a 3.1-mile walk and a 1-mile fun run. Registration is at 11:30 a.m. and events begin at 1 p.m...

Through a partnership of Southeast Missouri Missouri Hospital and West Park Mall, youngsters have an opportunity to channel energy into exercise. Kids Bee Fit is a program for children, ages 2-12. The class schedule includes KidSteop every Tuesday and Thursday at 5:15 p.m. The Romp 'N Stomp class will meet every Friday at 10:30 a.m., for ages 2-5. The fee for both clases if $1 per hour session...

Julie Metzger of the Visiting Nurs Association of Southeast Missouri will be the speaker at the Parkinson's Disease Regional Support Group meeting Monday at St. Francis Medical Center's educational department. The meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. Metzger will give an update on the disease, current treatment and research...

There used to be an old saying in the health-care field that "a shot of penicillin is good for what ails you." But that kind of philosophy is quickly going by the wayside, because some organisms are becoming immune from certain antibiotics, causing physicians to use them more sparingly...

Some high school students in the area can win a car for three months, a ride in a limousine, stereo equipment, pizzas or a chance to opt out of final exams. All they have to do is attend class. The prizes are ways in which some schools are encouraging perfect attendance among their students...

Southeast Missouri State University officials expect to do a lot of listening over the next two weeks. University President Kala Stroup, her top administrators and members of the Board of Regents will hold a series of nine strategic planning forums over the next two weeks...

Political signs fill yards during election years, covering some lawns as effectively as autumn leaves. Landowners make their choices clear, and candidates hope their names are seen by constituents. Area printers benefit from the proliferation of signs. Glenn Reeves, owner of Horizon Screen Printing Inc., rapidly rattled off names of 10 candidates who patronized his business in the August primary...

So this is Cape Girardeau. Howdy. Last week, I said goodbye to my native Sikeston and its newspaper, the Standard Democrat. I said hello to the Southeast Missourian, a new Cape Girardeau apartment and a community I don't know much about. I'm lost, folks...

In light of the recent Kenny G concert cancellation and sluggish ticket sales for the Pointer Sisters' concert, the Show Me Center has cut ticket prices to $10.50 for the Pointer Sisters' concert. The new price is available at all ticket outlets. The Pointer Sisters will perform Oct. 4 at 7:30 p.m...

JEFFERSON CITY -- Rep. Mark Richardson was feeling better Friday because the impeachment process of Secretary of State Judith Moriarty had been slowed. Richardson, R-Poplar Bluff, had said Thursday the process was moving too fast. The process was be done in a more deliberate fashion, he said...

SCOTT CITY -- Herman P. Hitt, 62, of Scott City Route 1, died Friday, Sept. 23, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.

Daughter to Jim and Jan Hawn of Chesterfield, St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis, 8:37 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 22, 1994. Name, Julia Christine. Weight, 7 pounds 10 ounces. First child. Mrs. Hawn is the daughter of Mary Kluba of St. Louis. Hawn is the son of Elmer Hawn of Cape Girardeau and Clairlee Hirsch of Houston, Texas...

DELTA -- Glenda A. Givens, 70, of Delta, died Friday, Sept. 23, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements were incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.

CHAFFEE -- John William Schott, 95, of Chaffee died Friday, Sept. 23, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 19, 1899 in Oran, son of Louis and Rosa Lee Schott. He was a retired carman for the Frisco Railway Company in Chaffee...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- James C. Broadway, 63, Jonesboro Route 1, died Friday, Sept. 23, 1994, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. He was born Dec. 18, 1930, in Temple Hill, son of William and Bertha Cox Broadway. He was a truck driver. On May 7, 1949, he married Hilda M. Werner in Morrison...

ALTENBURG -- Oscar J. Schlimpert, 91, of Altenburg, died Thursday, Sept. 22, 1994, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 19, 1903, at Altenburg, son of Jacob and Caroline Boeger Schlimpert. He and Lorna Schmidt were married April 30, 1933. She died Sept. 18, 1970...

JACKSON -- Memorial service for Patrick Edgar Conner of Jackson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Monday at First Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Grant F.C. Gillard will officiate, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery at Chester, Ill. There is no visitation. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...

MOUNDS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Allie Caywood Rogers of Mounds, formerly of Olmsted, will be held at 11 a.m. today at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds. The Rev. James Calvin Jr. and Darin Wadley will officiate, with burial in Oscar Cemetery at Oscar, Ky...

VANDUSER -- James Kenneth Bramlett, 65, of Vanduser, died Friday, Sept. 23, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Dec. 11, 1928, in Clarksville, Ark., son of Charles A. and Rena E. Hunt Bramlett. He married the former Ruth Johnson...

BRAGGADOCIO -- Esther Clayton, 84, of Malden, died Thursday, Sept. 22, 1994, at Doctors' Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born July 19, 1910, at Braggadocio, daughter of S.A. and Vina Frances Biggs Tucker. She and Luther Clayton were married Nov. 28, 1939, at Braggadocio. He died Sept. 2, 1967...

CHARLESTON -- Julius Ted Williams, 68, of Paducah, Ky., formerly of Charleston, died Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1994, at Western Baptist Hospital. He was born May 28, 1926, in Steele. He married Bertha Mae Clark, who died Sept. 11, 1993. Williams was a retired truck driver...

MARBLE HILL -- Albert J. Gromer, 78, of Marble Hill, died Friday, Sept. 23, 1994, at Bond Nursing Care Center. He was born March 8, 1916, at Marquand, son of Arnold and Eva Jordan Gromer. Survivors include a brother, Charles Gromer of Marble Hill; five sisters, Stella Frymire, Lola Buckingham, Doris Harris, all of Glen Allen, Lillian Spenner of Marble Hill, and Bea Williams of Garland, Texas...

DEXTER -- Keith Alan Jackson, 36, Dexter Route 2, died Thursday, Sept. 22, 1994, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 26, 1957, in Poplar Bluff, son of Farrell A. and Doris Jean Cryts Jackson. He and Melanie Hanna were married Aug. 14, 1977, at Bloomfield...

Strategic planning is commonplace in government. Bureaucrats love to analyze, forecast and crunch the numbers. But Southeast Missouri State University is taking a different approach to its strategic planning. It is inviting your input. The university will sponsor a series of forums, beginning Monday. It is believed to be the first time Southeast has actively sought public comment on the university's future. Here are some of the topics the university wants to hear about:...

The American Association of Retired Persons rarely apologizes or explains. Confident that it has tens of millions of members, the AARP behaves like an emperor, handing down its verdicts on public issues as though it were Joseph Stalin or some similar dictator. Fortunately every now and then reality intrudes and makes plain to all that the AARP does not speak for senior citizens, but rather for an extreme liberal ruling clique that won power in a coup d'etat a few years ago...

To the editor: I am really mad. We, the taxpayers of Missouri, are being told by our elected officials and our educators that we are not smart enough to know how our money should be spent. Recently, the Southeast Missourian has published numerous articles projecting doom and gloom if the voters pass the Hancock II amendment. ...

To the editor: I read with pride the various awards given to the Southeast Missourian for its excellence in choosing and printing the material that has proven to be of most appeal and interest to the general media. I want to congratulate all of you on your superb and effortless job. The Southeast Missourian has always been a favorite of mine over all other publications...