Stories from Saturday, October 28, 1995

To the editor: A very basic reality is that each of us has an impact on the environment in which we live and, as a result of the things we do, the resources we consume and the waste/pollution we produce. The impact of any nation on the global environment is a function of population size and the activities of each member of the population. The population of any species is ultimately regulated by the ability of its habitat to provide the resources it needs and manage the waste it produces...

To the editor: It was once said, "The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness cannot overcome it." This truth is being brilliantly displayed every Saturday night at a little haven called The Shed. It's an everything's-absolutely-free recreation center/club that offers teens and young adults a place to go and have fun where they won't get in trouble, have to hide from anyone or regret in the morning...

To the editor: I would like to thank the Southeast Missourian and Mark Bliss for educating readers about our program at Southeast Hospice. After reviewing the article, I felt it necessary to include some additional information and comments about hospice...

Cape Girardeau city officials want more control and increased programming on the cable television access channel. The city's cable TV committee offered to run the channel, but the city attorney suggested a third party be hired instead since the committee is not considered a legal entity. The council plans to seek bids for a producer-programmer to operate the channel at its Nov. 6 meeting...

The city of Cape Girardeau has a problem that many other cities would love to share. In a move to encourage new blood on its advisory boards, the city mailed out forms with utility bills asking citizens if they would be willing to serve in this capacity...

The Republicans' budget, which aims to reduce budget deficits over the next seven years and balance the budget in 2002, shows the perfidy that permeates Washington, D.C. Congressional leaders pared the House's earlier budget version to muster enough votes to pass the budget this week. By clinching deals with lawmakers, GOP leaders got their budget, but at the expense of the kind of far-reaching reforms that are the key to this nation's economic health...

Sometime this evening, Charles L. Hutson, president of Hutson Furniture Co. in downtown Cape Girardeau, will reset the downtown clock at the intersection of Themis and Main. Daylight-saving time is nearing an end for 1995, and most Americans will set their clocks back this weekend to gain back the hour they lost last spring...

The Board of Regents Friday named a 24-member search committee to help select a new president for Southeast Missouri State University. The committee will be chaired by two regents, Donald Harrison of Cape Girardeau and Lynn Dempster of Sikeston. Harrison is president of the Board of Regents and Dempster is vice president...

Women are usually honest about the men they're dating. They tell their friends details about dates -- whether or not he paid for the movie, whether or not he cried when E.T. "kicked the asteroid," whether or not he slobbered during the goodnight kiss...

SCOTT CITY -- The basics of computing weren't skills that Carolyn Keller remembered learning while she was in school. So Keller decided to enroll in an evening computing and keyboarding class taught at Scott City High School. "I wanted to go back to learn and not just peck on the keyboard," Keller said...

SCOTT CITY --A member of the Scott City Board of Education unexpectedly resigned from his position last month. The school board accepted the resignation at last week's meeting. "I decided there weren't enough hours in the day," Tom Anderson said, adding that he wanted to devote more time to his work and family...

A train engineer was slightly injured and a load of soybeans destroyed Friday after a B&J Trucking truck was hit by a Burlington-Northern train. The train was traveling north about 9:15 a.m. just past the Lonestar plant when the tractor-trailer ran a stop sign at the intersection of the tracks and La Cruz Street, said the Burlington-Northern engineer involved in the accident...

ULLIN, Ill. -- State troopers in District 22 will be conducting roadside safety checks this weekend. Lt. Philip Sylvester, commander of Illinois State Police District 22, headquartered at Ullin, said the safety checks started Friday and would continue through Sunday...

JACKSON -- Henry August Sachse, 90, of Jackson died Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1995, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. He was born Oct. 2, 1905 in Oak Ridge, son of August Robert and Dora Bedwell Sachse. He farmed in Oak Ridge and worked at International Shoe Factory in Jackson. He was a member of Emmanuel United Church of Christ in Jackson, a member of the Food and Fun group of the church, the Jackson Senior Citizens and the West Side Senior Citizens...

CHARLESTON -- Effie Lucile Lovett, 81, Charleston Route 2, died Thursday, Oct. 26, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Oct. 31, 1913, in the Lusk Chapel community, daughter of Lawrence and Effie Knight Pobst. She and Roy James Lovett were married Nov. 4, 1934. He died April 12, 1983...

Funeral service for Evelyn L. "Dolly" Jenkins, 831 S. Ranney, will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Johnnie Thomas will officiate, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. Monday...

CHARLESTON -- Martha Bowers, 83, of Park Hills, died Wednesday, Oct. 25, 1995, at her home. She was born Oct. 28, 1911, in Wickliffe, Ky., daughter of William L. and Nellie Lee Forgey Goodin. She and Leslie Lowell Bowers Sr. were married Aug. 29, 1937. He died Aug. 23, 1990...

Charles E. Pickett Jr., 68, of Jefferson City, died Friday, Oct. 27, 1995, at Capital Region Medical Center-Memorial Campus. He was born Jan. 18, 1927, in Flat River, son of Dr. Charles E. and Ina Evans Pickett Sr. He and Doris Slagle were married Feb. 1, 1953, in Cape Girardeau...

DEXTER -- Lester E. Underhile, 85, of Dexter, died Friday, Oct. 27, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 21, 1910 at Vienna, Ill., son of Eugene and Zora Leona Mahan Underhile. He lived in Aurora, Ill., 40 years before moving to Dexter in 1973. He was a retired welder and a member of the Word of Faith Church in Bernie...

DEXTER -- Noah "Mac" Pyle, 66, of Dexter died Thursday, Oct. 26, 1995, at his home. He was born March 4, 1929, to Charley and Millie Mae Banks Pyle at Malden. He married Bonnie Ellis on Aug. 4, 1950, at Piggott, Ark. She survives. Pyle was a retired mechanic from Worley Implement and a veteran of the Korean War. He was a member of the Dexter Evangelical Free Church and Dexter Masonic Lodge 532...

Dorothy Frances Mills, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Oct. 27, 1995, at her daughter's home in Perryville. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau.

MURRAY, Ky. -- Ruby Ellen Hesselrode, 75, formerly of Mississippi County and Cairo, Ill., died Friday, Oct. 27, 1995, at her home in Murray. She was born Dec. 30, 1919, in Arkansas to Charles and Flora Belle Parlimon Perry. Hesselrode was a secretary and treasurer with the Public Ice Service in Cairo until her retirement in 1982...

BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Odes "Square" Morse of Bell City will be held at 3 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Gene West will officiate, with burial in Pleasant Grove Cemetery near Bell City. Morse, 83, died Thursday, Oct. 26, 1995, at his home...

The air in Martin, Tenn., figures to be filled with footballs today when Southeast Missouri State University's Indians tangle with the University of Tennessee-Martin Skyhawks in a 2 p.m. kickoff. UTM (4-3 overall, 3-2 Ohio Valley Conference) has adopted a new `West Coast Offense' that emphasizes a passing attack. The results have been staggering as the Skyhawks rank first in the OVC and fifth nationally in passing offense with 295.6 yards per game...

It was the game Cape Girardeau Central had been looking for all week. Trouble is, the TIgers didn't find it until Week 8 of the season. Central closed its home schedule Friday night with its biggest offensive show of the season, beating Oakville 35-16 at Houck Stadium...

FARMINGTON -- The Jackson Indians found the best path to the Class 4A, District 1 football championship was a direct one Friday night at Farmington High School. Using the bruising running of tailback Glen Brunke and fullback Nathan Norman, the Indians returned to the state playoffs with a 28-14 victory over the Farmington Knights...

PERRYVILLE -- In the battle for the Class 1A, District 1 football title between host St. Vincent High and Valle, the Warriors proved too much. They topped the Indians 26-8 Friday night to claim the district championship. But the victory did not come easily...

CHAFFEE -- It was more than just a late-season game between two high school football teams with a combined total of three wins entering the contest. For Chaffee and Thayer, Friday night's game at Chaffee was an opportunity for the two Class 1A schools to add a positive note to a season of tough losses to bigger schools...

The high school soccer teams at Cape Girardeau Central and Notre Dame are both seeded first in their district tournaments. Central's Tigers are the top seeds for the Class 4A, District 1 Tournament that begins today in Cape Girardeau. Notre Dame's Bulldogs are seeded first for the Class 1A-3A, District 1 Tournament that begins Monday and is hosted by St. Pius of Festus...

League champion Meadow Heights and Leopold dominated the all-Mississippi Valley Conference volleyball team that was recently selected as both squads placed four players on the team. Michell Cook, April Miinch, Amy Rangel and Brook Seabaugh were selected from Meadow Heights while Alicia Halter, Jennie Nenninger, Emma Seiler and Heather Seiler were picked from Leopold...

Powerful Eastern Kentucky was expected to win both the men's and women's divisions in Friday's Ohio Valley Conference Cross Country Championships hosted by Southeast Missouri State University. The Lady Colonels held up their end of the bargain as they rolled to their 14th straight OVC title...

Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball team failed in its bid to set a new Ohio Valley Conference attendance record Friday night, but the Otahkians were still able to come away with a huge victory. A `Pack the House Night' promotion at Houck Field House was designed for the Otahkians to try and break the OVC attendance mark of 1,261, set last season by Tennessee Tech...

"Ask Your Doctor" will focus on "Diabetes and the Kidney" Thursday, Nov. 2. The speaker will be Frank W. Braxton, M.D. The one-on-one show features local doctors answering call-in questions from viewers. It airs every Thursday night at 8 on Cable Channel 5...

St. Francis Medical Center will host a free program on the status of multiple sclerosis research at 7 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 1, in the Health and Education Center. Michelle Keating, R.N., of St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, will present the program. Keating was diagnosed with MS 15 years ago...

POPLAR BLUFF -- The Southeast Missouri Area Health Education Center (SEMO-AHEC) is seeking health care professionals to assist with pre-professional development in 25 Southeast Missouri counties. Many of the counties have been designated by the state as either Health Professional Shortage Areas or Medically Underserved Areas or both. ...

The St. Louis Alzheimer's Association and the Southeast Missouri Area Health Education Center are co-sponsoring a three-track program for family caregivers, potential support group leaders and health care providers on Tuesday, Nov. 14. "Alzheimer's Disease -- A Partners in Care Workshop" starts at 8:45 a.m. at the First Church of God, Highway 67 South, in Poplar Bluff...

Home infusion is a rapidly-growing segment of the health care industry in Cape Girardeau. For patients, it means less time and less money spent in the hospital for intravenous (IV) therapy procedures that can now be done in their own homes. Two companies in Cape Girardeau now offer a wide variety of home infusion services to clients throughout Southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. ...