Stories from Saturday, March 29, 1997

Dr. Greg Shepard was specific in his descriptions of the way exercises are performed. He recommends a series of leg exercises to increase athletic performance. Three spotters are recommended for these exercises, two on either side and one behind the athlete...

Dr. Greg Shepard has published a book about his program. The key to becoming faster, stronger and able to leap higher is all in the legs, hips and mind. Utah Jazz strength and conditioning coach Dr. Greg Shepard gave a seminar last week to a gymnasium full of high school athletes at Cape Central High School. His recommendations on improving performance can apply to weekend warriors...

I JUST just drove home past the graveyard. There's a guy out there practicing his chip shots. I'd like to wrap that five iron around his neck. Do you really think it's OK to turn all of our local cemeteries into golf courses? If you do, then I'll be glad to die on No. 9 green...

When it is all said and done, Missouri taxpayers will have spent nearly $2 billion on school desegregation in Kansas City -- thanks to the rulings over the past 20 years of U.S. District Judge Russell Clark. Now Judge Clark had decided to call it quits, both for court-ordered state spending on the failed effort and for his career on the bench, which will end when he retires later this year...

The decision last week by Liggett Group, the nation's smallest cigarette company, came as quite a bombshell, mostly to other tobacco companies who fear the worst if Liggett follows through on its plans to turn over thousands of confidential industry documents to a judge...

To the editor: I am really getting sick and tired of smokers talking about their rights. I can't understand for the life of me why smokers can't sit and eat at a restaurant for an hour and not smoke a cigarette. Are they that much of an addict? When I go out to eat, I have just taken a bath, and I sure do not appreciate that nasty smoke smell on my body, much less breathing smoke into my lungs...

To the editor: Jackson Project Charlie would like to thank all of its wonderful sponsors and volunteers. Project Charlie is a special drug abuse program that tells each child, "You are someone special." Charlie is an acronym for Chemical Abuse Resolution Lies in Education. ...

To the editor: Many of Missouri's children are victims of child abuse and neglect. Every eight days in our state, a child dies as a result of abuse and neglect. Thousands more are seriously injured each year. The cost in human suffering is incalculable. We as Missourians must work together to stop these tragedies before they occur...

In September 1995, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education asked the community what it wanted of its school system, what programs, what facilities and what voters might be willing to pay. On Tuesday, the school board will learn if their planning paid off. Voters will decide two issues that would fund the first phase of the school district's new master plan...

They are cute and cuddly. But all too often Easter bunnies end up in animal shelters, as unwanted as colored eggs in May. "Months after Easter has come and gone, we will start getting a lot of bunnies in," said Jhan White, administrator of the local animal shelter run by the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri...

U.S. Sen. Christopher S. "Kit" Bond and U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson are urging improvements on Mississippi River levees in Southeast Missouri. Bond (R-Mo.) was in the area Friday for a "fly-around" to tour levees in Scott, Mississippi and New Madrid counties...

Managed health care could cost a little more as a result of legislation that overwhelmingly won first-round approval in the House Thursday. But the legislation was needed to protect consumers, Missouri House Speaker Steve Gaw, D-Moberly, said Friday...

There is no greater feeling than sitting in the shadows and listening to the conversation of "Momma 'N'em." I've always had a healthy respect for my elders. That whole "Honor thy father and mother ..." thing was drummed into my head at an early age, and so was the "Respect thy elders" mantra so popular back in those days...

The Southeast Missourian has learned that Ohio Valley Conference commissioner Dan Beebe has been in Cape Girardeau in recent days aiding with an in-house review of the Southeast Missouri State University men's basketball program. Sources told the Missourian that Beebe has been on the Southeast campus interviewing some players and going over papers and documents...

MILLINGTON, Tenn. -- Cape Central High's baseball team finally broke loose during the rugged USA Classic Tournament. The Tigers, who dropped their first two tourney games, blasted Millington (Tenn.) 18-2 Friday in a contest that was stopped after five innings by the 10-run rule...

East Carter County, Charleston and Jackson own the top spots in the final Southeast Missouri basketball polls of the 1996-97 season. East Carter, which finished second in the Class 2A state tournament, is No. 1 in the small school boys rankings. The Redbirds wound up with a 29-3 record...

RICHMOND, Ky. -- Southeast Missouri State University allowed the opposition to score 24 here Friday. If the sport had been football, the Indians might have still been able to squeeze out a victory. Too bad for the Indians, however, that they were playing baseball. Giving up 24 won't get you very far in that sport...

FRUITLAND -- A 20-year-old Perryville man was injured in a traffic accident at 11:10 a.m. Friday on Highway 61 north of Fruitland. Jason Reisenbichler was injured when the southbound motorcycle he was riding, struck a pickup truck, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said...

SIKESTON -- Opal Marie Robertson, 88, of Sikeston died Friday, March 28, 1997, at Columbia Hospital in North Richland Hills, Texas. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Sikeston is in charge of arrangements.

DEXTER -- Funeral service for Barbara C. Cahow of Dexter will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Chapel in Dexter. Burial will be in Dexter Cemetery. Cahow, 49, died Thursday, March 27, 1997, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born June 4, 1947, in Dexter, daughter of the Rev. John D. and Mildred Robinson Hunsaker. She and Delbert Cahow were married July 28, 1978, at Dexter...

DEXTER -- Nora M. Gibson, 94, of Dexter died Thursday, March 27, 1997, at the home of a daughter near Dexter. She was born April 2, 1902, in Enfield, Ill., daughter of William and Ellen Williams Pullum. She and Richard Gibson were married Sept. 18, 1920, at Poplar Bluff. He died Sept. 8, 1939...

Funeral service for Louis "Lou" Beaudean, 1926 Sherwood, will be held at 10 a.m. today at Hanover Lutheran Church. The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Beaudean, 77, died Thursday, March 27, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, following a lengthy illness...

L. Jack Schlichter, 69, 1826 Niemann, died Thursday, March 27, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born May 13, 1927, in St. Clair County, Ill., son of Leo Joseph and Katherine Vogel Schlichter. He and LeVern Range were married June 13, 1953, in Rolla. She died Sept. 24, 1976...

CAIRO, Ill. -- Eugene R. Spillman, 86, of Cairo died Friday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was a retired carpenter. He was a member of the Cairo Baptist Church, the Carpenters union and Cairo Masonic Lodge No. 237 AF and AM...

DEXTER -- Mirel Bledsoe, 74, of Dexter died Friday, March 28, 1997, at Dexter. He was born Jan. 26, 1923, at Marmaduke, Ark., son of Wesley Hugh and Martha Adeline "Addie" Clayton Bledsoe. He lived in Dexter for many years. He had worked as a painter and plumber...

CHAFFEE -- Luella Kirn, 79, of Chaffee died Friday, March 28, 1997, at the family home. Arrangements will be handled by Amick Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee and are incomplete.

Son to Gregory Richard and Kimberly Sue Temperly of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:13 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 1997. Name, Collin Gregory. Weight, 6 pounds 7 ounces. First child. Mrs. Temperly is the former Kimberly Lohr, daughter of Jeri Lohr and Leon Lohr of Freeport, Ill. She is employed at Target. Temperly is the son of Patricia and Darius Edler of Lena, Ill., and Richard Temperly of Freeport. He is employed at Lee-Rowan...

POPLAR BLUFF -- A 34-year-old Poplar Bluff man died Thursday when the motorcycle he was riding ran off Highway 142 and overturned. Killed was Matthew C. Meyer. The accident occurred five miles south of Poplar Bluff at 7:30 p.m., the Missouri Highway Patrol said. The motorcycle was northbound at the time of the accident...

CHAFFEE -- William "Shorty" Simpson, 73, of Chaffee died Thursday, March 27, 1997, at his home. He was born Sept. 23, 1923, at Brownwood, son of Thomas Lewis and Mary Alvia Cooper Simpson. He and Laverne Glency were married Feb. 5, 1947. Simpson was a retired carpenter, and member of VFW Post 3127. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...