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THE PUBLIC MIND: MAY IS A CRITICAL MONTH IN HISTORY OF INDEPENDENCE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/24/91)
To the Editor: Most Americans think of July as the "patriotic month" of our country. But the month of May should be remembered for some very significant patriotic events which were extremely important to America's independence and freedom. In May 1765 Patrick Henry introduced resolutions on the floor of the Virginia House of Burgesses that condemned the British Parliament and the Crown for "taxation without representation." It was startling and dangerous. ...
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THE PUBLIC MIND: PRIDE EXPRESSED IN A COACHING JOB THAT WAS WELL DONE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/24/91)
To the Editor: What makes a coach? When I first married my husband, who is a coach, he told me that if coaching ever got to be too much for me to handle, to tell him. I wasn't quite sure what he meant at the time, but I know all too well now. Coaching a sport is more than a nine-to-five job. And it is certainly more than just winning. My husband sometimes leaves at seven in the morning and doesn't return until late that night during basketball season...
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`HOMEMADE' EDUCATION SPAWNS SCHOOL SUCCESS
(Editorial ~ 05/24/91)
With legislative initiatives on this subject being debated, ~education has been very much on the minds of Missourians in recent weeks. It should remain so in the coming weeks. For young people, learning should not stop just because a school bell has recessed them for the summer. Parents who should be year-round partners in the educational process have a role to play in ensuring their children remain academically stimulated during the vacation months...
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NEWTON'S LAW: SPLITTING HAIRS ON DIFFERENCE BETWEEN FUN AND A GOOD TIME
(Column ~ 05/24/91)
Today we examine the difference of three decades, specifically those between the year of my birth, 1956, and that of my daughter's birth, 1986. If you recognize that immediately as a generation gap, you're technically right, but let's concentrate on what we understand and not what we don't...
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BRYAN BURGER ATTENDS INTERNATIONAL FAIR
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
SCOTT CITY -- Bryan Burger, an eighth-grader at St. Joseph School, attended the International Science and Engineering Fair in Orlando, Fla. Burger was the first eighth-grade student selected at the Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair to attend...
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OLIVER THIRD GENERATION OF SILVER BEAVER
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
NEW MADRID -- A third-generation Silver Beaver award was bestowed on Cape Girardeau attorney John L. Oliver Jr. at the Southeast Missouri Boy Scout Council annual awards dinner Thursday night. The Silver Beaver is the highest honor that a Boy Scout council can award an adult volunteer...
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SERVICES EULOGIZE SOLDIERS; MANY OFFICES WILL CLOSE FOR HOLIDAY
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
The weather for the first major holiday weekend of the summer will be more typical of July 4th than a Memorial Day weekend. The National Weather Service says it will be warm and humid, with a 30 percent chance of spotty showers and an occasional thunderstorm during the period, Friday through Monday. Highs will be in the upper 80s to low 90s...
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BAILEY PROMOTES MO BUCKS, MO GROW AID
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
JACKSON - State Treasurer Wendell Bailey paid a visit Thursday to a Jackson day-care center that has been a beneficiary of his MO BUCKS program for small businesses. Bailey held a news conference at the Ms. Dale's Home Sweet Home Child Care Center to discuss the success of the low-interest loan program for small businesses and agriculture...
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VETERANS SHIFT TRIBUTE TO BIG FLAGS
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
The Cape Girardeau County Joint Veterans Council will no longer place small American flags on the graves of veterans buried in city cemeteries. Chairman Larry McLaird said the council purchased sets of flags of the five branches of the military service and the American flag...
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CITY PAVES THE WAY TO BETTER STREETS; FIVE MILES RESUFACED DURING YEAR
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
In its third year, Cape Girardeau's 3-inch asphalt street overlay program already has paved three miles of gravel city streets, with two more miles of streets slated for work this year. City Engineer J. Kensey Russell said the program is a cost-effective way to pave high-maintenance gravel streets, which benefits not only residents along the streets, but the entire city...
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COMMISSION NAMES GARMS TO THE PORT AUTHORITY BOARD
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
JACKSON - Irvin H. Garms, a retired Cape Girardeau contractor, has been appointed to the board of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. He was appointed by the Cape Girardeau County Commission to replace Charles Blattner, who resigned recently. Blattner was on the board for 10 years, including three years as chairman. His four year term expires Dec. 31, 1993...
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SCOTT CITY HOPES TO PUT 911 BEFORE VOTERS IN THE FALL
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
SCOTT CITY -- When Randy Everett talks to school children about what do to in an emergency, he often first asks them, ~"What number do you call when you have an emergency?" In Scott County, if they answer "911" and most of them do they're wrong. It's something Everett, who talks to school children often about safety issues, said happens all the time...
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NELL HOLCOMB SETTLES ON ONE-TIME PAYMENT FOR TEACHERS, BUT NO LASTING RAISE
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
Like their counterparts in other school districts, tight state finances will keep teachers at the Nell Holcomb R-4 School District from getting a permanent salary increase in the coming school year. But the district will provide teachers a one-time payment in September that amounts to 2.2 percent of their salary...
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REPORT: SCHOOL DISCIPLINE WAS NOT CHILD ABUSE
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
A Cape Girardeau elementary student who was paddled at school was not abused by the discipline, according to investigations by the school district and the state division of youth services. The Board of Education meet in closed session Thursday at noon to formally receive the reports, as outlined by a new law concerning corporal punishment in schools...
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HIGH SCHOOL CLUB JOINS FORCES WITH OPTIMIST INTERNATIONAL
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
The Patriotic Club at Cape Girardeau Central High School joined the ranks of Optimist International Wednesday. The club was chartered as Patriotic Octagon, a high school chapter of the Noon Optimist Club. The high school club sponsor Jack Grisham and seven student members attended a Noon Optimist meeting Wednesday for the chartering ceremony...
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NATIVE EARNS PERFECT 4.0 AT GRADUATE SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
Lisa C. Logel of Cape Girardeau has been named to the Dean's List in the graduate school of the University of Missouri-Columbia. She earned a perfect 4.0 grade average. Logel is in her second semester of study for a master of business administration in marketing degree...
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JUSTICE BILLINGS DIES; FRIENDS MOURN LOSS TO MISSOURI SUPRME COURT
(Obituary ~ 05/24/91)
JEFFERSON CITY - Cape Girardeau County Circuit Judges Stephen N. Limbaugh Jr. and A.J. Seier said Thursday that the death of Missouri Supreme Court Justice William H. Billings is a great loss to the state's judicial system. A native of Kennett, Billings had been on the Supreme Court since October of 1982 and was scheduled to retire Aug. 21 when he would have reached the mandatory retirement age of 70...
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BUFORD C. CARGLE
(Obituary ~ 05/24/91)
Buford C. Cargle, 91, 1721 Whitener, died Wednesday, May 22, 1991, in Oklahoma City, Okla. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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PAUL C. SUMMERFIELD
(Obituary ~ 05/24/91)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Paul Charles Summerfield, 78, of East Prairie, died Thursday, May 23, 1991, at the VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, following an extended illness. He was born Dec. 28, 1912, at Kennett, son of Clarence Jacob and Mary Reece Summerfield. He and the former Christine Hale were married July 24, 1937...
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PLEAS ISOM
(Obituary ~ 05/24/91)
CHARLESTON -- Pleas Isom, 91, of Charleston, died Wednesday, May 22, 1991, at Charleston Manor. He was born Feb. 15, 1900, in Mississippi. Survivors include two daughters, Senora Banks of Wilson City, Zaddie Hodges of Memphis, Tenn.; seven grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren, and four great-great-grandchildren...
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ETTA M. BIRKMAN
(Obituary ~ 05/24/91)
MARBLE HILL -- Etta Mae Birkman, 82, of Fairfield, Ill., died Tuesday, May 21, 1991, at Wabash General Hospital in Mt. Carmel, Ill. She was born Jan. 2, 1909, near Bessville, daughter of Raleigh and Cora Whitener Sitze. She married Louis Birkman, who died Jan. 31, 1982...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/24/91)
Daughter to Kristi Mooneyhan of Sikeston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:07 p.m. Friday, May 17, 1991. Name, Elizabeth Christine. Weight, 7 pounds 14 ounces. Miss Mooneyhan is the daughter of Dennis and Connie Mooneyhan of Sikeston. Son to Mr. and Mrs. ...
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DEDICATION SET
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
ULLIN, Ill. -- John F. Turner, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was keynote speaker during a dedication of two Cache River Wetland projects at Shawnee Community College near here last weekend. "We're celebrating something unique here," said Turner, in reference to the two projects Cypress Creek National Wildlife Refuges and Cache River State Natural Area. These are areas which will provide future generations."...
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TURKEY HARVEST
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. -- Illinois hunters bagged a total of 3,475 turkeys during the recent spring turkey season, exceeding the 1990 harvest by 595 birds. "The turkey harvest has exceed the previous season every year since the modern season started in 1970," said Illinois Department of Conservation director Brent Manning...
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LAKE GIRARDEAU A HOT SPOT
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
CRUMP -- Lake Girardeau is providing plenty of action for anglers these days. Eric Abernathy, 9, of Advance, son of Mr. and Mrs. Randy Abernathy, hauled in his limit of bluegill recently, Ruth Carter, 4, of Scott City, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Myron Carter, recently had some fishing fun, stringing up a nice bunch of panfish...
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FREE FISHING
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Dates have been established for the annual two-day "Free Fishing Days" in Missouri. Gov. John Ashcroft proclaimed the free fishing days as June 8 and 9. Free fishing days have also been set in Illinois June 7-10. During the free fishing days anglers are not required to have a fishing license...
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SQUIRREL SEASON
(Local News ~ 05/24/91)
PUXICO -- Squirrel season opens on Mingo National Wildlife Refuge Saturday, and will continue through Sept. 30. The hunting area contains 6,500 acres and is located in the northeast portion of the refuge. All hunters using the area must register at the main refuge entrance on Highway 51, McGee Gate, or the Duck Creek Wildlife Management Area, before hunting...
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