Speakout 7/3

Sunday, July 3, 2005

Parents love their children but they don't love them enough to teach them right from wrong. The child who caught the bird at Penney's then squished it then stomped it is the beginning of a serial killer. Twenty years from now the mother will be crying. She should wake up.

Garden of Memories Cemetery has been running scams for years. They can afford to give away their burial plots by requiring you buy one of their over-

priced $2,000 markers in order to use the burial plot. Now, they are saving money by not even placing the markers or maintaining the cemetery.

I'm really sorry to see that our Commissioner Dennis Ziegenhorn and Priggel and those commissioners up at Benton are against the railroads. I can recall when railroads in Sikeston were very vital to our community. You recall the Cotton Oil Mill, Malone and Hyde, McKnight-Keaton, Enloe Seed, Dan McCoy Seed, Sikeston Compress, Sikeston Cotton Gin, E.P. Coleman Cotton Gin. I can name numerous businesses that used the railroad. What has happen to Sikeston? We are saying we want industry in here. I have traveled communities where railroads were removed from community. Those communities are no longer there. If we are going to grow, we need railroads going east, south and west and north. They are very vital. Look what has happened in Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Proctor and Gamble and a lot of industry. Look to the west of us. I'm sorry Dennis we voted you in. Let's do not harm our community and county. You have more important things to worry about the railroad. What about our meth in our community? How about our roads and bridges? We may need those railroads some day if we can get an industry in here. We need to look at a lot of other avenues for industry in here. Without a railroad a community will die. What if you didn't allow trucks to run through our community any longer, it would be a sad day. I hope you reconsider and get off the railroads back. I wish we had 100 trains a day going through here.

When is the government going to stop this field burning by the farmers? I'm sure it isn't good for atmosphere. You can't see a clear sky. All you see is haze. Plus, it is not good for people with breathing problems. There have been wrecks caused by it, too. These farmers are destroying the nutrients in the earth with burning all the time and in the years to come, they won't be able to grow anything then they will be hollering to the government for help. This was never done by farmers years ago. I don't think it should be allowed now, it is not very healthful.

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I would like to ask the EPA what the difference is between burning trash and burning wheat stubble. Wheat stubble fires are dangerous to traffic and they are depleting the ozone layer.

I'm was traveling on BB road, turning right there at Sikeston Healthcare and I came to the curve on BB and I got behind a large tractor with the discs on the back of it. He let that down in the middle of the road - and this road was just overlaid two weeks ago and it looked brand new, just great - he let his discs down in the middle of the road and was still driving at this time and just literally tore up the road. It is terrible. We just got it done and we are always having trouble with these road. It is getting a little out of hand considering that we are the ones paying the bills to have this stuff paved and these farmers don't need to be tearing our roads up.