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CITY COUNCIL RATIFIES $1.64 TRASH FEE HIKE
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
It was a case of deja vu Monday as a split Cape Girardeau City Council gave final approval to a $1.64 per month trash-fee hike. Council members David Limbaugh, Al Spradling III, Mary Wulfers and Melvin Kasten voted for the increase. But Mayor Gene Rhodes and Councilmen Doug Richards and Melvin Gateley asked that the fee be delayed until after a citizens task force could further study solid waste and recycling issues...
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GOING BACK: ADULTS FIND IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO LEARN
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
When faced with limited career opportunities due to a lack of education or training, many people simply plod along in the drudgery of "just getting by." But more and more people now are deciding regardless of circumstances or their age to broaden their employment prospects and return to school...
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STUDENTS HIT JOB MARKET IN HOPES OF EMPLOYMENT; AREA WORK FORCE EXPERIENCES ANNUAL SUMMER INCREASE
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
The Cape Girardeau County work force increased this month. For a period of about 2 to three months each year, hundreds of names are added to the list of available workers seeking full and/or part-time work. "With the closing of area high schools for the summer months, our 16-to-21 worker brackets increase about 10 percent," said Jackie Cecil, local office manager at the Missouri Division of Employment Security office in Cape Girardeau...
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COUNTY ZONING IS DELAYED; VOTERS TO DECIDE ISSUE IN NOVEMBER
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
JACKSON - The Cape Girardeau County Commission will delay action on a proposed zoning ordinance until after the November general election, Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep said Monday. The commission had hoped to have the ordinance approved and in effect by this time. But earlier this year, a group of citizens waged a petition drive because they did not like certain provisions of the ordinance...
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WEDEKIND PARK A VICTIM OF PROGRESS
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
A historic, wooded park between Cape Girardeau and Jackson seems destined to become another stretch of highway median. The trees at the Wedekind Roadside Park on Highway 61 North near Interstate 55 have been taken down in order to provide a new entrance for the Missouri Veterans Home and for future developments at the location...
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JACKSON MOBILE HOME REQUEST IS TABLED
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
JACKSON -- A request for a special use permit to locate two mobile homes on a tract of land near Old Cape Road and East Jackson Boulevard was tabled for additional study Monday by the Jackson Board of Aldermen. The action followed a public hearing on the matter...
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FORECASTERS SEE GOOD CHANCE OF RAIN BY MIDWEEK
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
The National Weather Service says a kink developing in the jet stream may bring a good chance of thunderstorms on Wednesday and Thursday in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. Some of the storms may become severe, forecasters said. "The upper air dynamics of the atmosphere will be pretty good for the development of thunderstorms, and some of them may get up to the severe level," said Guy Tucker, forecaster with the weather service office at St. ...
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ADULT RE-ENTRY CONFERENCE SET AT VOCATIONAL-TECHNICAL SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
The Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School Wednesday will host an "Adult Re-Entry Conference" for persons considering additional education or training. The conference will be held from 9 a.m. until noon in Room 214 of the Vo-Tech school. Dorothy Hardy, director of the single parent program at the school, said the conference is intended to inform and motivate adults who want to garner additional education or training...
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QUAYLE HAS OPENED A NEW & CRUCIAL FRONT IN KULTURKAMPF
(Column ~ 06/16/92)
What did you think of Vice President Dan Quayle's speech criticizing the Murphy Brown episode on single motherhood? Is Quayle the nincompoop that Jay Leno and so many other media elites would have you believe? Or is he saying something important about what's gone wrong in modern American society?...
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IT'S TIME FOR CONGRESS TO WAKE UP ABOUT DEFICIT
(Editorial ~ 06/16/92)
Once again, the liberal leadership of the House of Representatives has thumbed its collective nose at the American people and fiscal integrity in defeating the balanced-budget amendment. The vote last Thursday was 280-153, a solid majority in support of the measure, but one that fell nine votes short of the two-thirds needed to send the measure to the Senate...
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DELLA HAYNES
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
ULLIN, Ill. -- Della Haynes, 88, of Ullin died Monday, June 15, 1992, at the Lifecare Nursing Center in Jonesboro, Ill. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Jones Funeral Home in Tamms, Ill.
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ALBERT N. GERLER
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
Albert N. Gerler of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Altenburg, died Monday, June 15, 1992, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau at the age of 77. He was born Nov. 30, 1914 in Perry County, son of Martin and Emma Mueller Gerler. He married Zadie Gamble on July 27, 1946. She survives...
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RANDLES ALUMNI SET BANQUET FOR JUNE 27
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
The Randles Alumni Association will hold its annual school banquet June 27 at Drury Lodge. The social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m., and the meal will be at 7. Graduates and anyone who attended the school is urged to attend and bring their spouses. The class of 1942 will be honored...
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SCOTT CITY TO EMBARK UPON CITYWIDE DRAINAGE STUDY
(Local News ~ 06/16/92)
SCOTT CITY -- Members of a committee will conduct a citywide drainage study in Scott City to help solve flooding problems. At Monday's meeting of the City Council, what started as a suggestion to study poor drainage in the Country Club Estates subdivision turned into a motion to survey flooding problems in the entire town...
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WILLIAM HAWKINS
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
COMMERCE -- A private graveside service for William "Buddy" Hawkins of Park Forest, Ill., will beheld Wednesday at Oakdale Cemetery here. Hawkins, 65, died Saturday, March 21,1992, at his home. He was born Aug. 19, 1926, at Commerce, son of Will and Alta Smith Hawkins...
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HELEN W. SEAVY
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
Helen W. Seavy, 87, of Raytown, died Monday, June 15, 1992, at Research Medical Center in Kansas City. She was born Feb. 13, 1905, in Jonesboro, Ill., daughter of George W. and Effie M. Fulenwider Walker, who formerly lived in Cape Girardeau. She married Paul H. Seavy, who preceded her in death...
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JAMES R. WILLIAMSON
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
EAST PRAIRIE -- James R. Williamson, 61, of Dyersburg, Tenn., died Sunday, June 14, 1992, at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Shelby Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.
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LEE S. STUBBLEFIELD
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
CHARLESTON -- Lee S. Stubblefield, 78, of Cahokia, Ill., died Sunday, June 14, 1992, at Memorial Hospital in Belleville, Ill. He was born Dec. 30, 1913, at Charleston, son of Will and Mary Virginia Humphries Stubblefield. He married Mary Marie Tatumn...
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WAYNE H. MCDOWELL
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
Wayne Harvey McDowell, 69, of Lathrop, died Sunday, June 14, 1992, at Lathrop Health Facility. He was born Oct. 17, 1922, in Romance, Ark., son of H.J. and Eula Barnett McDowell. He and Lillian Steinhoff were married May 5, 1946. While in Cape Girardeau he was a member of First Baptist Church, and was a reserve officer with Cape Girardeau Police Department...
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ROBERT M. MARLOWE
(Obituary ~ 06/16/92)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Robert Milton "Bob" Marlowe of Madison will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Jones Funeral Chapel in Tamms. The Rev. William McGhee will officiate, with burial in Provo Cemetery near here. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. until service time...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 06/16/92)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Schrock, Cape Girardeau Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:44 a.m. Wednesday, June 3, 1992. Name, Andrea Lauren. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. Third child, first daughter. Mrs. Schrock is the former Debbie King, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Tinsley and Mr. and Mrs. Leo King, all of Cape Girardeau. She is employed at St. Francis Medical Center. Schrock is employed by Strack Construction, and is the son of Dora Schrock of Cape Girardeau...
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