Stories from Saturday, November 25, 1995

The Cape Girardeau City Council will consider placing a number of charter amendments on the ballot at its next meeting. In all, the committee has recommended eight revisions to the city's governing document. Six of the amendments were unanimously approved by the commission, including creation of an ethics commission...

Southeast Missouri State University's president, Bill Atchley, suggests an examination of the entire governing structure on campus. He says the review should stretch from the Board of Regents to the Faculty Senate. Vice presidents, deans, student government and even the president's office would also be reviewed...

President Clinton said this week that the chance that American troops will be killed in Bosnia is a risk "well worth taking" to achieve peace in the former Yugoslavia. I wonder: How so? Bosnia has been plagued by ethnic conflict for centuries. There is little this nation can do to end it. Even if the recently brokered peace agreement stands and the bloodshed stops momentarily, there is little chance for lasting peace in Bosnia...

Matt Johnson wasn't exactly a starry-eyed kid from Cape Girardeau when he arrived in Los Angeles. By then, he had graduated from Northwestern University in Chicago, lived in Colorado, Arizona, even France, and had written a few short screenplays. But besides his few years of wandering, the small-town-kid-makes-it-big theme fits. ...

No last-minute elves here. That's the consensus of major Cape Girardeau retailers whose doors opened just before dawn Friday to throngs of cash-toting, check-writing and credit card-carrying holiday shoppers. People were waiting for Venture doors to open at 6 a.m. at West Park Mall...

Trans World Express is expected to reduce the number of flights out of Cape Girardeau Regional Airport as of Monday because of federal subsidy cuts. Greg Chenoweth, airport manager, said airport officials haven't received final word on what the revised flight schedule will be, but early discussions with TWE officials indicated one flight would be cut daily Monday through Friday, and all weekend flights would be eliminated because of cuts in the Essential Air Services Program subsidy...

A state law enacted two years ago to discourage habitual drunks from driving contains loopholes, say officials and families who have been victimized by drunk drivers. The 1993 law allows for successive DWI charges to carry more punishment for each conviction and elevates municipal charges to carry the same weight as state charges...

Yes, this is my third column picture in a month. No, I'm not getting vain. The first one didn't look like me -- at least that's what everyone said. I was wearing a striped T-shirt and trying to look seductive, but the expression turned into more of a smirk. As if that weren't enough, a friend of mine asked if the striped shirt was meant to signify I felt trapped, perhaps imprisoned...

Son to Dewey and Stephanie Dixon of Mounds, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:40 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 16, 1995. Name, Christopher Brady. Weight, 7 pounds 8 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Dixon is the former Stephanie Clifford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Williams of Cairo, Ill., and Mr. ...

ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral service for Alma C. Wiley of Anna will be held at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Rev. Richard Sullins will officiate, with burial in Anna City Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. today...

CHARLESTON -- Robert L. Thomason, 94, formerly of Charleston, died Friday, Nov. 24, 1995, at Bertrand Retirement Facility. He was born March 7, 1901, at Bertrand, son of Hinton and Emma Belle Presson Thomason. He and Mary Edith Johnson were married Dec. 22, 1920. She died April 13, 1989...

MARBLE HILL -- Graveside service for Roy Dean Green will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Cape County Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Walter Deck will officiate. Liley Funeral Home in Marble Hill is in charge of arrangements. Green, 69, died Thursday, Nov. 23, 1995, at Parkland Health Center in Farmington...

SCOTT CITY -- Mabel Sanders Kerley, 89, of Rte. 1, Scott City, died Friday, Nov. 24, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 4, 1906, in Commerce, daughter of the late Henry and Martha Clark Loftin. She married Claude F. Sanders on June 17, 1925. He preceded her in death Jan. 22, 1959. She then married Leo Kerley in January 1960 and he preceded her in death in 1962...

PERRYVILLE -- Ella E. Oster, 86, of Perryville died Nov. 24 at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. She was born March 21, 1909, in Millersville, daughter of the late Louis and Ida Bollinger Fellows. She married Francis B. Oster on Sept. 20, 1930. He preceded her in death on May 30, 1971...

ANNA, Ill. -- Roy Boyd Belcher, 75, of Anna, died Friday, Nov. 24, 1995, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz & Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna.

SIKESTON -- Glen Keller, 95, of Sikeston, died Thursday, Nov. 23, 1995, at Hunter Acres Caring Center. He was born July 23, 1900, in Bonneville, Ill., son of Henry C. and Margaret Ann Barrickman Keller. He first married Blanche Swanagon Sept. 20, 1924, at Benton. She died July 6, 1983. He and Dorothy Lewis Guess were married June 22, 1989, in Sikeston...

The Depressive and Manic Depressive Association will hold its monthly educational meeting Monday at 7 p.m. at St. Francis Medical Center education department, Conference Room B. Guest speaker will be Dr. Ken Callis, who will present a program on outpatient psychotherapy...

The Southeastern Missouri Area Health Education Center, the St. Louis University Geriatric Scholars of Southeastern Missouri and the Cape Girardeau County Area Medical Society are sponsoring a daylong program, "The Key to Gerontological Issues in the 90s" on Friday...

Applications are open for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Community Health Promotions Awards Program in Missouri. The program is conducted nationally to recognize significant health promotion efforts and to honor the community groups that have developed and implemented the programs...

Marilyn Welsh is able to walk for fitness through the hallways on the ground floor at St. Francis Medical Center. Healthy workers are happy workers. And healthy, happy workers make for healthy, happy business and industry. That's the reasoning behind corporate wellness programs, and it's sound logic...