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LABOR DAY: JOB PICTURE WILL IMPROVE FOR NATION
(Editorial ~ 09/06/92)
America pauses Monday to honor its workers. Who deserves this recognition more? Despite a tough economy and undeserved criticism from some quarters, working men and women of the United States remain productive and capable, an essential part of what has made this nation a superpower and a shining symbol for the American spirit. Whether at this newspaper or a northeastern factory or a California technology park, the workers of America are deserving of our admiration on this Labor Day...
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BALANCE BUDGET THE ROSS PEROT WAY: YOU WON'T BE HONKING YOUR HORN
(Column ~ 09/06/92)
Ross Perot is long gone from the front pages, but he is not long gone from the presidential campaign. He still files petitions to be an official candidate in various states. He's already on 40 or so ballots and will be on most of the others by November. On a reduced basis, he keeps his headquarters and state field offices open. Chances are Perot is going to do something or say something between now and the election, but no one knows what...
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FAIR WORK TAKES SHAPE; WORKERS ARE CONVERTING PARK TO FAIRGROUND
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
About 40 volunteers began the work of transforming Cape Girardeau's Arena Park to the SEMO District Fair grounds this weekend. On Saturday, volunteers put up a fence around the fair grounds and emptied buildings at the park where supplies are stored during the winter...
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RECOUNT: THOMPSON FILES FOR NEW TALLY
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
James L. "Jay" Thompson, who lost the Aug. 4 Democratic primary for 8th District U.S. representative by just over 200 votes, has filed a formal request for a recount in Phelps County Circuit Court at Rolla. Jon Kiser, a Piedmont attorney who finished fourth in the six-candidate race, filed the petition on behalf of Thompson...
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DOCK DEAL: BOAT CLUB HOPES TO IMPROVE RAMP FACILITY ALONG THE RIVER
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Operators of the only Mississippi River boat ramp in Cape Girardeau say they can't make major improvements to their facility because they can't get a long-term lease on the property. The boat ramp and dock, operated by Honker's Boat Club, are located in the 1000 block of Water Street, north of Sloan's Creek...
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VICTIMS: WOMAN TURNS TRAGEDY INTO CRUSADE
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Sarah Froems~dorf couldn't shed a tear during the murder trial of her husband's killer. She sat silently as the prosecution described the way her husband a state trooper on a routine traffic stop was shot four times using his own service revolver, the second slug severing his spinal cord and killing him instantly...
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HOT SHOTS: HEIGHTENED AWARENESS ADVANCES IMMUNIZATION
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
The number of childhood immunizations is on the rise in Cape Girardeau County and is predicted to continue on the upswing because of new federal dollars. Charlotte Craig, director of the Cape Girardeau Health Department, said, "We are seeing a rise in our activities. Our vaccine usage from last year is up at least 39 percent...
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CHURCH STARTS HURRICANE RELIEF COLLECTION
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
The First Pentecostal Church, 1202 S. Sprigg in Cape Girardeau, is initiating a drive to provide relief for Florida hurricane victims. Cash donations or personal items will be accepted for distribution to people in Florida affected by last month's devastating storm...
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KINDER OFFERS PROGRAM FOR JOB CREATION
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Republican state senatorial candidate Peter Kinder unveiled a program for jobs Friday which he said will use tax incentives and cooperative programs to increase employment opportunities in rural areas. "This is an exciting program we want to advance to bring jobs to rural areas," said Kinder...
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IMMUNIZATIONS ARE REQUIRED FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL ATTENDANCE
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Keeping track of what immunizations are required is no easy task, as school nurses will attest. Below is a summary of requirements for students to attend public schools in Missouri. Measles, two doses on or after the first birthday, separated by at least 30 days for students in kindergarten and first-grade. One dose on or after the first birthday for students in grades 2-12...
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AREA RESIDENTS SET TO OBSERVE FINAL HOLIDAY OF SUMMER
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Cape Girardeau area residents, along with millions of other Americans, will flock to parks, hold backyard barbecues or participate in other end-of-summer activities on this final holiday weekend of the summer. The three-day Labor Day weekend started at 6 p.m. Friday and ends at midnight Monday...
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THREE ARE INJURED WHEN UTILITY POLE FALLS ON VEHICLE
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Three people were injured Friday when a utility pole fell on the car they were riding in, the Illinois State Police reports. The accident occurred at 1:45 p.m. at Cedar and Cross streets in Cairo. The driver of a boom truck was cited in the accident after the boom of his truck caught a utility line and pulled the pole down onto a vehicle. Tracy Wilkerson, 33, of Mounds was cited for unsafe equipment...
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VETERANS: CONSTRUCTION OF FACILITY IS ON SCHEDULE IN ANNA
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
ANNA, Ill. -- Construction on the $3.9 million Anna Veterans Center is on schedule, and state officials look to a June 1993 opening of the 60-bed facility. Tom Kiefner of Kiefner Construction Co., Cape Girardeau, said Friday that site work is complete and the earth work is done...
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SOLID WASTE DISTRICT GETS GRANT
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has awarded a $45,000 grant to the Region R Solid Waste Management District in Southeast Missouri for organizational planning. This is the second grant received by the district, for a total of $90,000...
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DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S CLUB WILL MEET
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County Democratic Women's Club will hold its monthly meeting Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the county administration building, lower level. Emily Firebaugh, delegate to the Democratic National Convention in New York, will present the program...
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GIRL SCOUT REGISTRATION SET
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
It's Girl School registration time and troops are being organized throughout the 11-counties of the Otahki Council. In Cape Girardeau, each school has a volunteer organizer directing the process of recruitment and organization of troops. Girls in grades kindergarten through 12 may be a Girl Scout. Any interested adult may join to lead the girls...
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JAMES HUNTLEY MCDONALD
(Obituary ~ 09/06/92)
JACKSON -- James Huntley McDonald, 81, of Jackson, died at his home on Thursday, Sept. 3, 1992. He was born Sept. 29, 1910 in Cape Girardeau County, the son of James T. and Elizabeth Huntley McDonald. He was married in Chicago on Dec. 12, 1942 to Lucille Brue. She survives of Jackson...
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OLIVER WRIGHT SWANN
(Obituary ~ 09/06/92)
Oliver Wright Swann, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 4, 1992 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born March 29, 1918 in Seventy Six, Mo., the son of Albert and Mary Elizabeth Farrar Swann. He married Josephine Nelson Feb. 22, 1946 in Portland, Maine...
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ESTHER MAY BROOKS
(Obituary ~ 09/06/92)
Esther May Brooks, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Sept. 3, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Dec. 4, 1908, at Marysville, Ohio, the daughter of John Franklin and Mollie Maddox VanWagner. In 1937, she married Sidney Phillip Brooks, who preceded her in death...
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MARCELLA J. LIMBAUGH
(Obituary ~ 09/06/92)
JACKSON -- A memorial service for Marcella Jean Limbaugh, 53, of Tullahoma, Tenn., was held Tuesday at First Christian Church in Tullahoma. Limbaugh died Sunday, Aug. 30, 1992, following a lengthy illness. She was born June 20, 1939, in St. Louis, daughter of Alva and Norma Sheets. She and Charles Cameron "Chad" Limbaugh, a native of Jackson, were married Dec. 14, 1963...
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DEMOCRATIC GROUP REORGANIZES
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
JACKSON - The once-prominent Byrd Township Democratic Club is getting reorganized and will have its first activity in many years Saturday. Cape County Circuit Clerk Charles Hutson, one of the people involved in reorganizing the group, said the Byrd club has not been active since around the mid-1970s...
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HUCKSTEP MAKES PTICH FOR ZONING PLAN; COMMISSIONER SAYS COUNTY GOVERNMENT IN SOLID CONDITION
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep said he hopes voters will approve a zoning plan for the county in the November general election because it is essential for orderly growth. "If this county is going to progress, if this county is going to grow, then we must have planning and zoning," said Huckstep at the Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee...
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TROLLS: CRITTERS WITH CRAZY HAIR LAUNCH INVASION
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Trolls seem to be everywhere; it's an invasion of critters with crazy hair and mass appeal. Trolls have come out from under their bridges and their other underground homes to take a place among the people. They are so ugly they are cute, at least that's what fans say...
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APPLES, APPLES EVERYWHERE, EVERY ONE TO EAT
(Column ~ 09/06/92)
The kitchen is smelling strongly of cinnamon these days. Nutmeg too. I like to try out all the varieties of apples, much to the dismay, I imagine, of the store clerks. Since the apples are priced differently, here one Jonathan in a bag, one Granny Smith in another, one Gala in another and so on. Such a variety looks good in the shallow basket centering the kitchen table...
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SOLAR PRESS; PERRYVILLE OPERATION TO EXPAND FACILITIES
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Solar Press Inc., has expanded facilities and services at its Perryville operation, located at 1205 Corporation Lane in the city's industrial park. "A warehouse addition has almost doubled our existing space," said Mary Peters from the firm's headquarters at Naperville, Ill. "We now have a total of 160,000 square feet."...
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NEW BUSINESSES OFFER OPTIMISM FOR JOB FORECAST
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Santa Claus is coming to town. Although Christmas is still nearly four months away, the holiday season and the prospects of several new business openings spell good news for the area's retail economy, says the Missouri Division of Employment Security...
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FORD AND SONS FUNERAL HOME IS HONORED BY NATIONAL AGENCY
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Ford & Sons Funeral Home has been honored by National Selected Morticians (NSM). The NSM, observing its 75th anniversary, recognizes members for strict adherence to the organization's Code of Good Funeral Practice. "The Code includes 11 standards that ensure every family complete information, attentive response to their needs and comfortable facilities," said NSM executive director Fred Bates. "Membership in National Selected Morticians is by invitation only."...
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`FROM PARTIES TO BUX LUNCHES': CATERING BUSINESS LAUNCHED
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Russ Reed is familiar with the catering business. "I have a family background in catering," says Reed, who has opened Reed Catering Service. "I worked in that business as a very young man in Illinois. "I had an opportunity recently to get back into the business," said Reed. "We've had good response during the first two months."...
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TRANSCRIPTION BUSINESS OPENS
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
MORLEY -- Transcribing, a new business which will take notes by telephone or tapes, opened here recently. Evelyn Lambert has more than five years in the transcribing business. "I have state-of-the-art computer and printing equipment," she said. "I operated this type of business in California before moving to Missouri."...
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WENDY'S OBSERVES ITS 15TH ANNIVERSARY
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers, 35 S. Kingshighway, will be giving away some free meals this week in observance of its 15th anniversary. The restaurant opened in Sept. 12, 1977. "We'll give away 50 free meals in a special promotion between Monday and Saturday," said a spokesman of the business...
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CULLIGAN PROVIDES BOTTLED WATER FOR HURRICANE AREAS
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Culligan Distribution Services is helping provide water to Hurricane Andrew victims. "Our relief efforts have been geared toward providing one-gallon bottles of water to locations in Ft. Meyers, Ocala and Miami, Fla. for distribution to victims," said a spokesman from Culligan, headquartered at Northbrook, Ill...
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PROMOTIONS
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Karen Miesner has been pro~moted to customer service manager at Kwik Kopy Printing, 354 S. Silver Springs Rd., in Cape Girardeau. Miesner's responsibilities include coordinating and scheduling jobs among the customer service, art, printing and bindery departments to assure that customer commitments are met...
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OVERHEAD DOOR BUSINESS OPENS
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Perryville Overhead Door opened at 7 N. Oak St. here recently. "We provide doors for residential and commercial buildings," said Doug Schreiner, owner of the new business. "I have been involved in building construction 14 years." Schreiner said he saw a need for the overhead door business...
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NEW EMPLOYEES
(Local News ~ 09/06/92)
Jeff Breer has joined the Southeast Missourian sports staff. Breer, a native of the St. Louis area, is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia and comes to the Cape Girardeau from St. Joseph, where he was a sports writer for the St. Joseph News-Press...
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LADYBUG SAYS... NOW IS A TIME TO PROPAGATE NEW HOUSE PLANTS, REPLACE OLD ONES
(Column ~ 09/06/92)
Now is a good time to propagate new house plants to replace those tired, overgrown, non-productive plants you have had all spring and summer. There are many ways to propagate house plants and some of them are quite simple and easy. These include stem cuttings, divisions, leaf cutting, runners and offsets...
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