Stories from Thursday, September 7, 2000

Three years ago I edited "Mosby's Medical Surfari," a guide to exploring Internet and discovering top health care resources, and since that time the health information resources on the Internet have burgeoned. The public has become hungry for information and the various medias have responded. Along the same lines, pharmaceutical industries have responded to people's growing interest in health, especially as it relates to self-treatment...

JACKSON, Mo. -- The Cape Girardeau County Commission won't convince Doug Flannery that county planning and zoning is a good idea. The Whitewater, Mo., area resident and Democratic candidate for 1st District commissioner was one of nearly 100 people who turned out for a meeting at the American Legion Hall in Jackson Wednesday night to voice opposition to the county planning issue on the Nov. 7 ballot...

Cape Girardeau should implement a severe-weather-warning system to alert residents of tornadoes and severe storms, according to a new hazard mitigation plan accepted by the City Council Tuesday. What sort of system the city should operate would be left up to the council. Suggestions include an outdoor siren system, weather radios, automatic telephone dialing service, cable television emergency access and expanding the local licensed amateur radio network...

Beginning today the Southeast Missourian will inform readers of daily road closings and delays caused by construction. Included are closings and delays anticipated in the days ahead. The list appears under the heading "Road construction" on Page 2A...

Today's road closings: Anticipated closings next week: Ongoing projects: Source: Engineering and Public Works departments, City of Cape Girardeau...

Sept. 7, 2000 Dear Pat, Our California niece Monica and her fianc Kevin joined us at the cabin on the Castor Labor Day weekend. He lives in San Diego, she is in Chicago getting a graduate degree in broadcast journalism. They are young and beautiful and shine with hope and promise. They can't know what is to come but are making plans to encounter it together...

A 23-year-old Cape Girardeau man was charged with two felonies in connection with a stabbing Sunday at the Taste Lounge, police said. Aaron Eugene Wade, of 612 Koch St., was charged with a class A felonies of assault and armed criminal action in the stabbing of Marvin Dwayne Nunley, Cpl. Kevin Orr said...

COBDEN, Ill. -- Everything is on GO for the new Cobden High School. Illinois Gov. George H. Ryan, who was in Southern Illinois last weekend, awarded the Cobden School Unit District 17 a $4.8 million "Illinois FIRST" school construction grant for the construction of a new high school...

The Southern Illinois folk duo Carter & Connelley will perform tonight at Southeast Missouri State University in a benefit for KRCU FM. The KRCU Coffee House will begin at 7 p.m. on the fourth floor of the University Center. The $10 tickets include coffee and cookies. Children under 12 will be admitted free with a paid adult...

Cape Girardeau school administrators will hear what several Central High School graduates have to say about their experiences in the district during a panel discussion later this month. About six graduates are scheduled to appear in a panel discussion before the district's building and central office administrators Sept. 19. The panel of minority students will detail their positive and negative experiences as students...

A federal judge has ruled in favor of Southeast Missouri State University in a lawsuit brought by former Southeast Missouri State University assistant basketball coach Randy Curl. U.S. District Judge Charles Shaw issued the ruling on Aug. 31, two days after a state court judge issued a ruling in favor of the university in a civil suit brought by Curl's former boss, Ron Shumate...

Cape Girardeau area school buses appear to be in the clear after a major school bus builder last week warned of possible brake system defects. Thomas Built Buses of High Point, N.C., warned school districts throughout the country that brake systems on about 6,000 buses might by faulty...

The Cape Girardeau County Republican Central Committee has elected new officers for two-year terms, ending in 2002. The officers are Chairman Tom Cox of Jackson, Vice Chairman Diana Lawson of Whitewater, Secretary Atalie Ebersole of Cape Girardeau and Treasurer Dean Sawyer of Whitewater...

Southeast Missouri State University's Alumni Association will honor 10 alumni and a faculty member with its annual Merit Awards This year's recipients are Lewis Edgar Bock of The Woodlands, Texas; Ray F. Cliff of Glen Ellyn, Ill.; Dr. Charles Dart of Ventura, Calif., Dr. ...

What has always been by far the area's biggest regular-season high school volleyball tournament has gotten even bigger. The 13th annual SEMO Specialties & Sports High School Volleyball Classic, to be played Friday and Saturday at three venues on the Southeast Missouri State University campus, has added five teams, bringing the field to a whopping 35 squads...

A former player for one of Southeast Missouri State's regional rivalries has joined forces with the Indians' basketball team. Chris Lowery, a former Southern Illinois University standout basketball player who helped coach Missouri Southern State College to the NCAA Division II national semifinals last year, has been named an assistant basketball coach at Southeast to replace Anthony Beane, who took an assistant job at Illinois State University earlier this summer...

POPLAR BLUFF -- Sarah Miinch, Jessica McDonald and Tricia Klipfel each had two hits, a double and a run batted in and the Lady Tigers played brilliant defense to pick up a 7-0 SEMO Conference victory over Poplar Bluff Wednesday night. Holly Schnurbusch picked up the win. She went all seven innings and allowed seven hits and two walks while striking out three...

ESSEX, Mo. -- A. Scott Parker, 29, of Essex died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, as a result of an automobile accident near Grayridge, Mo. He was born Dec. 28, 1970, in Rockford, Ill., son of Kenneth and Sheila Lankford Parker. Parker had lived in Essex most of his life...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Mary Alice Henry Wheeler, 75, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, in an automobile accident near Springfield, Mo. She was born Jan. 9, 1925, at Creve Coeur, Mo., daughter of Edward L. and Mary Amelia Frances Roller Zanzie. She and Paul B. Henry were married May 13, 1944. He died May 12, 1991. She later married Nathan Wheeler, who also died in the same automobile accident...

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Alice Sue Gilmore, 89, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, at Elder Care in Marble Hill. She was born Oct. 24, 1910, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of Roger Guy and Nellie Ruth Knight Barbee. She and Clifton H. Gilmore were married Jan. 30, 1928. He died May 31, 1993...

JONESBORO, Ill. -- Viola F. Rendleman, 75, of Caseyville, Ill., died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, at Caseyville Nursing and Rehab Center. She was born March 23, 1925, in East St. Louis, Ill., daughter of Thomas Raymond and Mary R. Theiss Lynn. She and Maurice G. Rendleman were married Jan. 14, 1945, in Fort Leavenworth, Kan. He died April 8, 2000...

Opal "Eileen" Gawer Wealand, 75, of Fenton, Mo., died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000. She was a member of Fenton United Methodist Church. She is the beloved wife of Noel R. Wealand of 51 years; most loving mother of John R. Wealand of Fenton, Linda J. Robert of Cape Girardeau, Barry A. ...

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Graveside service for Nelmore Hand of East Prairie will be held at 11 a.m. today at Anniston Cemetery. Martin Lucas will officiate. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements. Hand, 77, died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, at East Prairie Nursing Center...

BREWER, Mo. -- Mamie E. Brewer, 88, of Brewer died Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, in Ste. Genevieve, Mo. She was born Oct. 4, 1911, at Belgique, Mo., daughter of Charles W. and Elizabeth Cissell Franklin. She married Joseph Julian "Dick" Brewer. He died Feb. 25, 1982...

Daughter to Michael and Tammy Windeknecht of Yukon, Okla., Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City, Okla., 4:03 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2000. Name, Valerie Michelle. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Windeknecht is the former Tammy Fornkohl, daughter of Tom and Jane Fornkohl of Cape Girardeau. She is a lab technician. Windeknecht is the son of Gene and Jo Donna Windeknecht of Cape Girardeau. He is branch manager with Xtra Lease...

A Bloomfield, Mo., man was killed, and two men from Scott County were injured in separate accidents in the region Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Anthony Parker, 29, of Bloomfield was killed early Tuesday when the vehicle he was driving ran off the road and struck a bridge near Grayridge, Mo...

To the editor: The open-microphone comment about the New York Times reporter will probably not hurt George W. Bush. Cursing someone in private will not affect the pro-Bush vote. A Bush spin doctor will explain to us with a chuckle that reporters are anti-family and are in cahoots with Democrats anyway...

To the editor: I learned to know Delbert when we were freshmen in college. At that time, he lived with his parents in their farm home near the campus. We were second cousins. Perhaps because I had not known him when we were kids, I could not imagine him young. Serious, dedicated. But as happy as the rest of us...

There are very few cities in America that have managed to keep their retail and commercial centers downtown. Shopping centers and office parks have drawn most businesses to the edges of cities and to areas where new subdivisions are located. One of the few exceptions is Lawrence, Kan., home of the University of Kansas. ...

The wrecking ball has been slamming in to the old brick walls of the former St. Francis Hospital building, a thorn in the side of the community for several years. The building is remembered by many area residents as a place of birth, healing and gentle care for the dying. But after the new medical center was opened, the building, under different owners, fell into disrepair. IN addition, the vacant building attracted undesirable elements and posed something of a hazard to the neighborhood...

I AM a senior citizen, but I am ashamed of all the seniors the Democratic Party drags up on their television commercials wanting more and more. What selfish people. Why should my grandchildren pay for every facet of their life? When will they ever get enough?...

To the editor: I want to congratulate the members of the Southeast Missouri State University football team, the band, the cheerleaders and the fans for their sportsmanship while they were in the Huntington, W.Va., area playing Marshall University. I know it can be difficult to do when your opponent is having a good day against you, but I will have to say SEMO is going to have a fine year. The quarterback is fantastic and virtually impossible to contain...