Stories from Saturday, November 5, 1994

MYERS LETTER: To the editor: Following the Jackson-Farmington football game, my son and group of his friends attended the Jackson Jaycees Haunted House. As they were preparing to enter the house, one of my son's friends was admonished, by the person taking the tickets, not to blow a whistle that he had because "the guys inside may have had a few more beers that he had and might not be as nice." My son and his friends also noticed the smell of alcohol in the presence of the person taking the tickets. ...

The Better Breathers Club will meet Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Public Library for a program on "Breathing Exercises" presented by Lois Schade of Homedco. The meeting begins at 2 p.m. in the Hirsch Community Room. For more information call Chris Berge Pekios in Southeast's respiratory services department at (314) 651-5538...

Team approach to diabetes care will be the topic of a free diabetes education program Thursday at St. Francis Medical Center's Health and Education Center. The program, sponsored by Southeast Missouri Hospital and St. Francis medical Center, will begin at 7 p.m. It is the eighth in a continuing series of diabetes education programs sponsored by the Cape Girardeau hospitals...

Dr. Jean A. Chapman of Cape Girardeau was awarded the Laureate Award of the American College of Physicians at a recent meeting of the Missouri Society of Internal Medicine regional meeting at Lake Oazark. The award honors fellows and masters of the American College of Physicians who have demonstrated by their example and conduct an abiding commitment to excellence in medical care, education, research, and service to their community, their chapter, and the American College of Physicians...

A new support group for women approaching or experiencing menopause has been formed at Southeast Missouri Hospital. The first meeting of the Menopause Support Group will be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in Classroom A on the first floor of the hospital's Regional Cancer Center...

Going to the hospital can be frightening to people of all ages, but for children it can be particularly upsetting. And, when children face hospitalization, it can be a trying time for parents and other children in the family. To help ease the uncertainty, both Cape Girardeau hospitals have programs designed to let children and their families know what to expect. They have specific suggestions on ways to make sure the experience is as pleasant as possible...

CARUTHERSVILLE -- Clyde Orton, who served a total of 23 years as Pemiscot County sheriff from 1957 to 1988, died late Thursday of an apparent heart attack following an auto accident earlier in the day. Orton, 72, was driving west on Route J near Braggadocio about 4 p.m. ...

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, which has been located at 601 N. Kingshighway the past 20 years, is looking for a new home. "The chamber building has been sold," said Ollie Miller, chairman of the chamber's board. "We received an unsolicited offer for the building, and, following some long discussions, the board decided to accept the offer."...

Successful economic development takes the cooperation of most everyone in a community, says the executive director of the Cape Girardeau Industrial Recruitment Association. D. Mitch Robinson was the speaker Friday at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday coffee. He said he has had that kind of cooperation during the past 16 months...

Last year's passage of Senate Bill 380, the school finance reform legislation, was the proudest boast of Gov. Mel Carnahan and legislative leaders. As these leaders spent much of the rest of 1993 congratulating themselves for their courageous action, Missourians were told a story that, to many ears, must have sounded pretty good: SB 380's $315 million in higher taxes, added to another $50 million in state-mandated local property tax increases, had averted a claimed judicial takeover of public schools and solved, at least for the near term, Missouri's school funding crisis. ...

The United Ostomy Association will meet Wednesday in the first- floor classroom of the Regional Cancer Center at Southeast Missouri Hospital. The program will be a video about "Managing Your Urostomy." For more information contact Linda Wessel, patient educator with Southeast's Educational Services, at (314) 651-5833...

The idea of a natural area in Cape Girardeau is backed by many residents, including the city's planner, Kent Bratton. The Missouri Department of Conservation recently got 37.38 acres and named it Cape Woods. It is being placed in its Urban Wild Acres program...

In an election where riverboat gambling and Hancock II amendments are discussed in every coffee shop, a home-rule amendment doesn't mean much. But Constitutional Amendment 1 is on Tuesday's ballot with the others. If the home-rule measure passes, first-class counties could adopt their own form of government and make their own laws, although they would follow state laws on taxation...

Once you graduate high school, being sick is no fun at all. If you're in school but not writhing-in-pain sick, you get to spend the day drinking Sprite in front of the TV, watching Whitney tell Stuart about the illegitimate twins she bore five years ago following their sordid love affair during the sale of his multinational conglomerate to Bradley Buffington, who is actually a transvestite...

Memorial service for John E. Wilson of New York City, formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Red Star Baptist Church. The Rev. Alan Berry will officiate. Wilson, 43, died Friday, Oct. 21, 1994, at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital in New York...

PARMA -- Funeral service for Ruth Cole of Parma will be held at 11 a.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Parma. The Rev. Loren Belt will officiate, with burial in Parma Cemetery. Cole, 56, died Tuesday, Nov. 1, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

EAST PRAIRIE -- Arthur O. Bramlett, 77, of East Prairie, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 1994, at his home. He was born July 9, 1917, at Point Pleasant, son of James Arthur and Ida Marshall Bramlett. He and Pauline Pinnon were married Oct. 10, 1936. She died March 10, 1989...

MOREHOUSE -- Graveside service for Colten Orr Guzman will be held at 10 a.m. today at New Morley Cemetery in Morley, with the Rev. J.D. McClard Jr. officiating. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Morehouse is in charge of arrangements. The infant was stillborn Wednesday, Nov. 2, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...

TAMMS, Ill. -- Audrey McDaniel Mewborn, 64, of Dover, Ark., formerly of Tamms, died Friday, Nov. 4, 1994, at her home. She was born Sept. 27, 1930, in Olive Branch, daughter of Guy and Goldie Hurley Parks. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Tamms...

GORDONVILLE -- Charley Henry Meyer, 85, of Gordonville, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 1994, at Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. He was born Aug. 25, 1909, in Litchfield, Ill., son of August F. and Minnie Neumeyer Meyer. He and Hazel McKnight were married Nov. 13, 1948, in Piggott, Ark...

SCOTT CITY -- Anna Jean Brawley, 61, of Scott City, died Thursday, Nov. 3, 1994, at her home. She was born Aug. 16, 1933, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Roy H. and Eula Kesterson Niswonger. She and Charles E. Brawley were married Sept. 22, 1951, in Piggott, Ark. He died July 21, 1991...

DONGOLA, Ill. -- Paul Hunter, 77, of Dongola, died Friday, Nov. 4, 1994, at his home. He was born Oct. 25, 1917, at Cypress, son of Olin and Linnie Peeler Hunter. He and Margaree Bishop were married May 22, 1938. She died June 7, 1984. Hunter formerly owned and operated Hunter's Dry Cleaning in Dongola. He was a member of Anna Moose Lodge, Anna Elks, Anna VFW, and the Masonic Lodge...

JACKSON -- Ida Thoma Neumeyer, 93, of Jackson, died Friday, Nov. 4, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. McCombs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Why are you running for U.S. Senate this year? I am running because decisions are being made on a daily basis that will have a profound effect on the ability of this nation to succeed and survive and have the same standing in the future as it has had in the past. Those decisions are made every day in Washington. We need to make sure the people of Missouri are represented and the philosophy and values of this state are represented in those decisions...