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Page edited by Laura Williams; call 836-1199 after 5 p.m.. 2B News-Leader Monday, September 4, 1995 ACnOSS T.IE OZWKS BIRTHS 'Commitment to the best': Missouri parks show 'em Haire, Dana (Karns) and Billy Haire, 914 W. Downing, a boy. 1 23 a Sept. 1.

St John's. Hughs, Amy (Conn) and Charles Hughs, Nixa. a girl, 641 am. Sept 2, Cox South. Jeffries, Jamie (Byrd) and Steve Jeffries; Springfield, a girl, 1 .30 p.m.

Sept 2. Cox South. Mcintosh, Jennifer (Noran) and Michael Mcintosh, Battlefield, a girl. 5.23 p.m. Sept.

Cox South Morrow, Dana (Peak) and Michael Morrow, 3222 Howard, a girl, 4.43 p.m. Aug. 31, St. John's. Swearengin, Melody (Marks) and Rick Swearengm, Thornfield, a boy 802 a.m Aug 29.

St. John's. Taylor, Tiffany (Wright) and James Taylor Cabool, a girl, 10:04 Sept 1 Cox South Arnold, Naomi (Whorton) and Jesse Arnold, 1338 N. Nixon, a girl, 8:50 a.m. Sept 2.

St. John's. Avery, Lisa (Adter) and Robert Avery, Nixa, a girl, 8.24 a.m. Sept. 1, St.

John's. Berg, Tracy and Nathaniel Berg, Billings, a g-rl, 1Q-Q4 am Sept 2, St. John's. Denny, Daha (Gathngh!) and John Denny, Holiister. a girl, 933 am Aug 31, St John's Dill, Stacy (Sees) and Daniel Dill, Marshfield, a boy, 1106 pm.

Sept. 1, Cox South Dudenhoeffer, Tract (Holcomb) and Graig Dudenhoeffer, Mountain Grove, a 708 a Cox South. Gaede, Candace (Schmidt) and David Gaede, Springfield, a boy, 933 pm Sept 1. Cox South Public Access Today's schedule for local public access programs on TCI: Channel 23 6 p.m. Greene County Commission meeting 7 p.m.

Springfield City Council meetingLrVE Channel 24 Noon SMS programming Channel 25 Springfield Public Schools programming Channel 26 10:30 a.m. New Life Christian CenterLarry and Kathy Kern 11 a.m. This Is TruthCorner- "a roller coaster ride of funding for the parks depending on the economy and politics and a lot of different variables." With that over, he said, state parks achieved new national acclaim. In 1985, the parks budget included $50 million for construction and renovation projects. Sixteen new visitor centers went up.

New attractions opened. One such draw, the unique Katy Trail, a 240-mile-long abandoned rail line undergoing conversion to a hiking-biking trail, brings visitors from throughout the United States and abroad. Also inaugurated then was Weston Bend State Park in Platte County. "I think they offer something for everyone," said St. Louis County hiking enthusiast Paul Stupper-ich, who leads hikes into Goggins Mountain for the Sierra Club.

"They do an excellent job, considering all that they have to do." Missouri now controls more park acreage than Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa combined. In addition to state parks, the department maintains more than 30 historic sites. An unusual coalition of environmental, park, conservation and farm organizations groups often at odds with each other backed the parks tax in 1984. Now, the same coalition is working to get a renewal of the tax on the ballot in November 1996. park employees are too bureaucratic and care too little for the public.

And voters must reapprove a special sales tax earmarked for parks and conservation efforts, or it will die. But with its diversity of land and activities including two isolated sites set aside for motorcycles and all terrain vehicles the system has come back strongly from 20 years ago, when it was sliding toward ruin. "We had to cut back on mowing," recalled Ann Sligar, the Department of Natural Resources ad-ministratorofWatkins Mill, a park and historic site in Clay County. "We didn't have enough money for gas." Recession racked the state budget, and once-lucrative federal grants dried up. The budget for parks plunged In one year to $10.6 million from $15.2 million.

Things began to change in 1982, when Missouri voters approved a $600 million bond issue, with $55 million destined for park improvements. In 1984, voters approved a special sales tax of one-tenth of 1 cent, with half the proceeds allotted to parks. Such a foundation of money brought stability and the opportunity to plan, said John Karel, the state parks director from 1979 to 1985. "There had been this feast and famine" before that, he said. It was The Associated Press Missouri's state parks system doesn't often make the news, but its quiet successes are well known in the national community of park officials.

Not a lot has been said or written, for example, about Goggins Mountain 4,794 acres of pristine southeast Missouri woodlands valued at $1 million and donated to the state by the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburgh in 1993. Goggins Mountain, part of Johnson's Shut-Ins State Park on the Reynolds-Iron county line, expanded the Missouri system'stotal acreage to 133,373. Now the 13th largest in the nation, the system drew 16 million visitors last year. "It's always been one of the models," said Paul Pritchard, president of the Washington-based National Parks and Conservation Association, told The Kansas City Star. "Missouri has a commitment to doing the best by its state parks." Not that troubles don't exist.

One study has identified 1,152 threats to individual parks, everything from noise pollution to wetlands damaged by silting, and concluded that rectifying the threats would cost $100 million if it could even be done. A 300-unit condominium project is threatening to invade the Lake of the Ozarks State Park. Crowding afflicts some parks. Some politicians grumble that MISSOURI Warm weather predicted for rest of weed Continued warm conditions were predicted for Missouri through the week, the National Weather Service said. The forecast for today was for mostly sunny skies north, partly cloudy south with a chance of thunderstorms and highs in the mid-80s to lower 90s.

Tonight and Tuesday should be clear to partly cloudy with the low 65 to 70 and Tuesday's high from 85 to 90. The forecast for Wednesday called for partly cloudy skies with lows in the 60s to lower 70s and highs in the mid-80s to mid-90s. ST. CLAIR COUNTY One-car wreck hurts all five passengers A one-car accident about 12:55 p.m. Sunday left five people injured in St.

Clair County, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Vicki Rolufso, 34, of Rolla was driving west on St. Clair County BB when her GMC Jimmy swerved right and hit a ditch. Rolufso overcompensated, authorities said, and stuck a tree. Rolufso and passengers Douglas Woody of Rolla, 34, Kalinda Daughtrey of Rolla, 30, and James Daughtrey of Rolla, 35, all received serious injuries.

Kalinda Daughtrey was airlifted to the University Missouri Medical Center, Co-tambia. Others were treated at the phelps County Regional Health enter, authorities said. All are listed in serious conditon. Another passenger, Shelly Van-dergriff of Newburg, 25, received only minor injuries. No one in the vehicle was wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident, the patrol said.

COLUMBIA Ex-Stephens College president dies of stroke Seymour Smith, former president of Stephens College, has died of the complications from a stroke. Smith, 79, who was president of the women's college from 1958 to 1974, died Friday. He graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville, then went on to Yale University, where he earned a doctorate and launched a teaching career. He taught at Yale until 1958, when he came to Stephens. At Stephens, Smith led what was a two-year junior college to become a four-year institution.

Survivors include his wife, Helen, and son Stephen. Labor Day's parade, picnic likely to draw crowd to center city School program makes Homebound Instruction brings lessons to 6,000 kids who can't come to get them. stonethe Rev. Jess Gibson 4:30 p.m. Keeping In Touch Marie Day 5 p.m.

Education Showcase Cable Industry 5:30 p.m. Victory Outreach Centerthe Rev. Frank Blacketter 6:30 p.m. Conservation SpotlightNational Hunting and Fishing Day 8 p.m. Faith Tabernacle 9 p.m.

Second Baptist Church 10 p.m. Attorney General ReportContinental Cablevision 11 p.m. Excellence Church Revival Life Ministries Road Watch Kansas City price is $1.06, down 9 cents from last year. The auto club doesn't survey stations in Springfield, but prices as low as 94.9 cents are common here. Street closings change For the week after Labor Day, street repairs at two locations on Commercial Street may require one or more lanes to be closed.

New to the list supplied by traffic technician Patrick Scott are the 1000 block of East Commercial and the 600 block of West Commercial Also new to the list is the 1400 block of St Louis Street. Continuing on the weekly list of closings: Ingram Mill Road, from Berkeley Street to Sunset Street Fremont Avenue, between Montclair Street and Rockwood Street, and Erie Street, between Fremont and Delaware avenues. Detours will follow Battlefield Road, Republic Road and National Avenue. Golden Avenue, closed between Edgewood and Glenwood streets, with a detour following Battlefield Road, Scenic Avenue and Seminole Street. Oak Grove Avenue, closed between Cherry and Monroe streets, with a detour via Grand Street, Monroe Street, Barnes Avenue and Peach Tree Avenue.

Two street projects have been removed from the weekly closings census: Norton Road has been reopened between Grant and National avenues, following completion of a $324,500 widening project. South Fremont Avenue has reopened between Independence and Primrose streets after completion of a $398,000 widening and improvement project Readers with questions or com-, ments about area transportation topics may write Road Watch, 651 Boonville Springfield, Mo. 65806. were sad to see the department close. "It's bittersweet to see this happen," said Sharon Salomon, who gave birth to her third baby there this week.

"But ultimately it's the nurses and doctors not the building that make your birthing experience good." Dr. James Schreiber, head of obstetrics and gynecology at Barnes and Jewish Hospitals, believes that while the closing may be painful, it is necessary. Less money is flowing into hospitals, he said, and some departments have to be consolidated. The empty space at Jewish Hospital will temporarily be turned into low-cost hotel-like rooms for hospital patients' families, and patients who wish to remain in the hospital even after they have been discharged. Springfield motorists who didn't travel out of the city for the Labor Day weekend should be reminded of today's Labor Day parade and picnic in center city.

The 200-plus-unit parade begins at 10 a.m. today at Central Street and Boonville Avenue. The parade moves north on Boonville and east on Division Street to Smith Park, at Division and Fremont Avenue, site of the picnic. Orcranirprs hope for a turnout of 8,000, compared with an estimated 5,000 in 1994, the first time a Labor Day parade has been held in Springfield since the 1950s. The Hank Billings city's first La- bor Day parade was held in 1890 and by 1915, a parade and picnic in Doling Park attracted 6,000 people.

Fuel cost down, traffic up If you're driving this Labor Day weekend, you're competing with 30 million motorists nationally. The American Automobile Association estimates that number of drivers will take highway trips of more than 100 miles this weekend. The good news is that an additional 4.1 million will not be on the road. The AAA believes that many folks will travel by train, bus or airplane. Mike Right of the Missouri Auto Club says there's also good news for motorists at the gas pumps this Labor Day weekend.

The average price of self-service regular unleaded gasoline in Missouri this year is $1.05, down from $1.13, based on a survey of about 200 stations. Nationally, the average price for self-service regular unleaded based on a check of about 5,000 stations, down 2 cents from last year. Right said St. Louis prices average 98 cents, down a gratifying 15 cents from 1994's Labor Day. The average 4 house calls who studies with Passwater in the living room.

She said the computer should help her focus better on her -favorite subject: math. Children who receive Homebound Instruction thrive from the individual attention, Passwater said. "They won't fall behind, and they know they can be caught up or even ahead," she said. Passwater said that without Homebound Instruction, many students would eventually drop out. "Kids who are so sick don't need to worry about falling behind and flunking another year," she said.

"They need to concentrate every second on getting well." The program also benefits the parents, Passwater said. "Sometimes, it's the only relief or break Mom gets. She can go to the bathroom or go cry in the hall." Passwater said only two of her homebound students have died, both from cancer. More commonly, she sees medical success. "You get to be in on a lot of miracles," she said.

dates available for individuals or organizations. Mid-America Cancer Center, 2055 S. Fremont Ave. Breastfeeding Follow-Up Clinic, noon-2 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, by appointment West Pavilion.

For mothers who are having difficulty breast-feeding. Free to Teddy Bear Club members. Call 885-2614. Cancer Information Center offers free information and services to help ease the impact of cancer on patients and their families. Mid-America Cancer Center, 2055 S.

Fremont Ave. Call 885-2573 or 736-3478. Fibromyalgia Self-Help Course, seven week course Thursdays beginning Sept. 28. Mid-America Cancer Center, 2055 S.

Fremont Ave. An overview of fibromyalgia issues, sponsored by St. John's Regional Arthritis Center. Fee and registration required. Call 888-8888 or 1-800-909-TEAM.

Hatha Yoga Classes, 7-9 m. Tuesdays and Thursdays, St. John's School of Nursing, 4431 S. Fremont Ave. Beginners classes taught by Glenda Payne.

Call 888-8881 or 732-7393. Infant CPR Class, call for dates and location. A class teaching infant and child CPR. Fee. Call 885-BEAR for information.

Juvenile Arthritic Aquatic Exercise class, 4 pm. Tuesdays and Thursdays, Hammons Heart Institute. Fee. To enroll, call 885-3103. PACE (People with Arthritis Can Exercise), fall classes begin Sept.

14 through Dec. 14, St. John's Fitness Center, 202 E. Walnut Lawn St. Fee and registration required.

Call 888-8888 or 1-S00-909-TEAM. Pre-op Party, 630-8 p.m. Thursdays, Pediatrics, 5 South, West Pavilion. Introduction to the surgical area, leam about hospital equipment and what children can expect during their stay. Free.

Call 885-2554. Taking Shape: pre- and postnatal exercise class, 4-5 p.m. floor exercise and m. pool exercise, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Hammons Heart Institute. An 8-week fitness program.

Baby-sitting available for ages 10 and under. For fee and information, call 8354103. Steuber Chiropractic Clinic, 1433 E. Sunshine 882-4476. Free blood-pressure checks and free scoliosis screening, 10:30 a -1230 p.m.

Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and 3 p.m. weekdays. BRANSON: National Depression Screening Day, 1-7 m. Thursday, Oct. 5, Skaggs Community Health Center, Bus Hwy.

65, Conference Room 2. Registration is required by calling 335-7140. she said. "You never know when you get a new student or the teacher says the class assignment today is the Missouri Constitution." One of Passwater's stops Tuesday will be a familiar ranch house surrounded by a white fence in Grover, a community in western St. Louis County.

Since March, Passwater has come there often to teach Danielle Pennington, an 11-year-old who underwent surgery for bone cancer and now gets chemotherapy treatment at Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital From her hospital bed there last week, Danielle looked forward to go-i ng home and then to "school" where she and Passwater will test a new computer outfitted with an encyclopedia, typing games and puzzles. "It's really neat," said Danielle, 700 West. Free tour and information to help children prepare for hospitalization. Call 885-6784 to register. Prenatal Classes, 7:30 p.m.

Thursdays, Foster Auditorium. No registration required. Diabetes Center, 3101 E. Sunshine 886- 8876. Free blood pressure and Wood-sugar screenings, 10 a.m.

to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays. Diabetes Shoppe, 1307 E.

Montclair St, 887- 3772. Free blood-sugar and blood-pressure screenings, 9 a -5 30 p.m. weekdays. Doctors Hospital, 2828 N. National 869-5571.

Epilepsy Foundation of America: 1-800-EFA-1000, responds to questions concerning education, employment, legal, income support, counseling and medical questions ranging from referrals to surgery and medications. Espree Health and Fitness Center, 1271 E. Montclair, 883-0300. Free fitness evaluation, body fat analysis and blood pressure check. FACT.

Clinic, Instant Health Screen, 3648 S. Campbell 882-4607. Hours: 8:30 a p.m. weekdays and 8 30 a.m.-l m. most Saturdays.

All areas of health screening Call for appointment Insight Meditation sitting group meeting to organize, 6 30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 6, Celestial Horizons. 5337 S. Campbell Ave.

Call 865-C524 for more information. National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Czark Branch, Mid-America Chapter, 1675 Seminole, Suite I 882-8128, 1-800-745-4148. Call for information on and to register for the following MS Wellness Programs: Aquatics Class (advanced level), 8 30 a.m. Monday and Thursday. Acquatics Class (basic level), 8 30 a m.

Tuesdays and Fridays; 5:45 m. Tuesdays and Thursdays. People with MS Self-Help Group, 10 a m. Fridays, Springfield Community Hospital, 3535 National Ave Women Only MS Self-Help Group, 7 pm. Wednesday.

Springfield Family Ward 417 S. Jefferson Ave 862-7456 and Jones 1901 Republic Road, 881-1599. Swimming, lifeguard training, aerobics, gymnastics, yoga, martial arts and dance classes. St John's Regional Health Center, 1235 E. Cherokee 835-2000: Asthma Program.

5-6 30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday Patients can be evaluated and leam ways to assess and control their d'ssise. Foe ard registration required. Breast seli-eiaminatfon class. Ongoing The Associated Press ST.

LOUIS Poor health forces some children to stay out of classes, but for 6,000 Missouri students, the classroom comes to them. The Homebound Instruction program provides up to five free hours of education a week for students with a wide variety of diagnoses that keep them out of school: bone fractures, eating disorders, contagious diseases, cancer. Some are pregnant; some have gunshot wounds. They could be out of classes for days, weeks, months or the whole school year. Homebound students get tutored by certified teachers like Pam Pass-water, a special education teacher who roams St.

Louis County with a cellular phone stuffed in her purse and a portable classroom packed in her car trunk. "You have a little of everything," CALENDAR HEALTH AIDS Project of the Ozarks, 1901-D E. Bennett 881-1900 Free, confidential HIV testing and counseling. Call for appointment. Alzheimer's Association, Southwestern Missouri Chapter, 3050 National Ave Suite 226.

Call 886-2199 Provides information and education about Alzheimer's. American Heart Association blood-pressure screenings: Doctor's Building, 1531 E. Sunshine lobby, noon-3 m. Thursdays. American Red Cross, 1211 S.

Glenstone 866-7300. Hours: 11 pm. Mondays-Thursdays and 9 a p.m. Fridays Free blood-pressure screening done by professional nursing staff. Weekly community classes are offered in CPR and First Aid.

Closed holidays. Blood-pressure screening. 11 a -6 Mondays-Thursdays and 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Fridays. Free.

Greater Ozark Charter Teen HIVAIDS Speakers Bureau, teen speakers available to speak to youth and adutt groups. Call for information. Carmichael Chiropractic, 31 08 S. Fremont scoliosis screening, 9 a p.m. Mondays-Friday.

Free to schoolchildien. Call 886-4910. Couple to Couple League, Natural Family Planning. Alternatives to artificial birth control. Call 883-1911.

Cox Medical Center North, 1423 Jefferson Ave 836-3900: American Diabetes Assocation Office, 830-5 m. Mondays-Fridays. Call 864-5091. Cancer Information Center, 10 a p.m. Mondays-Fridays.

Designed to enhance cancer education resources available to pa'ients and their families. Diabetes Classes, 9 a m. Vondays-Thursdays, Cox Diabetes Center Individual and group classes Call 636-3900. Diabetes Foot Clinic, 8 a p.m. Tuesdays.

Call 836-36S8 for sn aepc-in'ment. Cox Medical Cemar Soufii. CCI S. National 83W161: Freedom from Smoking, individual classes available 7 am -5 pm. Fee aid registration required Call 638-5506.

Infant CPR Classes, noon weekdays. Postpartum Activity Room, stccrKi fioor. No charge. Pediatric Pre-op Party, 7pm Thursdays, THANK YOU Volunteers helped make camp a success We, the co-directors of Dogwood Trails, Girl Scouts Springfield IV Service Unit Day Camp, held July 25-27, would like to thank all those involved to help make our day camp successful Thanks to the Parks Department for allowing us to use Nathaneal Greene Park. Thank-you Janet Folk for coming to talk about worms, composting and rabbits and for bringing some of your exotic animals to show us.

Thanks to all of the retailers for our supplies. Thanks to our planning committee, Cheryl Bannister and Lisa Bell for their diligent time and service. Their many hours of shopping for supplies, running errands, preparing crafts and other supplies have not gone unrecognized. Many thanks to the volunteers who helped at day camp (and) to the Cadet Girl Scouts who helped with the Unit Leaders. And most of all, thank-you to the girls, for without them we would not be able to have a day camp.

Sandra Dick FeroIynPaden Springfield To say thanks to someone, please write to "Thanks," The News-Leader, 651 Boonville Springfield, Mo. 65806. Letters will appear regularly in this column. 95 years of child birthing ends at Jewish Hospital The Associated Press ST. LOUIS Jewish Hospital ended 95 years of child birthing Saturday with the closing of its obstetrical unit Most of the staffand equipment in the department, which delivered 2,000 babies a year, will be transferred to Missouri Baptist Hospital and Barnes Hospital.

Barnes Hospital and Jewish Hospital merged in 1992; Missouri Baptist joined the group in 1994. The obstetrics department at Jewish Hospital has long been considered more compassionate and patient-friendly than some hospitals. Many people, particularly members of the Jewish community, which built Jewish Hospital in 1900,.