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SCOTT CITY HOSTS HISTORIC HOME TOUR; FIVE HOUSES ARE PART OF SATURDAY AFTERNOON EVENT
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
SCOTT CITY -- A tour of historic homes in the Scott City area will be held Saturday from 1-5 p.m., sponsored by the Scott City Historic Preservation Commission. Tickets for the tour, which includes five houses, cost $5, and are available in advance from commission members. Tickets will be available at any of the houses on the day of the tour also...
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SENIOR CITIZENS ENJOY BIRD WATCHING IN NEW AVIARY AT AREA NURSING HOME
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
A new group of Cape Girardeau residents have joined the hobby of bird watching. "It's fast becoming a popular pastime here," said Jo Hancock, administrator of Cape LaCroix Care Center. "The residents can watch such birds as diamond doves from Australia, green singing finches from Africa and an orange-cheek waxbill from Africa."...
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COSTLY BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTS AT CENTER OF DISPUTE
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
Bone marrow transplants have been at the center of a health care dispute in recent years over whether insurance companies should pay for such expensive and often risky treatments. For persons suffering from life-threatening disease and their families, the health care battleground has been littered with emotional and financial scars...
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TIME'CAN'T ERASE PAIN FOR MCQUAY
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
Time cannot erase the pain for Donald McQuay the agonizing ordeal of watching his wife wage a three-year battle with breast cancer. It was a battle Patty McQuay ultimately lost. She died Dec. 22, 1990 at the age of 44, seven months after undergoing a costly bone marrow transplant...
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SUPPORTERS CONCEDE NO ONE SCORED A `KNOCK-OUT PUNCH'
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
As expected, local partisans believed their respective candidates fared best in Sunday's presidential debate at St. Louis. But whether Democrat, Republican or independent, all agreed that none of the three candidates landed a "knock-out punch." "I didn't think anybody really won or lost the debate," said Ralph Ford, chairman of the Cape Girardeau County Republican Committee...
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DESPITE CONTROVERSY, KIDS LIKE COLUMBUS
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
Five hundred years after Christopher Columbus set out to discover the New World (Europeans actually were quite certain the world consisted only of Europe and Asia) and to prove the Earth was round (historians are sure he already knew that), and then discovered America (Will the Bahamas do?), myths about the man still abound...
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BOARD REVIEWS WASHINGTON PRINCIPAL
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
The Cape Girardeau Board of Education will consider reinstating a full-time principal at Washington Elementary School. The board meets today at 4:30 p.m. at Franklin Elementary School, 215 N. Louisiana. Superintendent Neyland Clark explained that hiring a Washington principal tops the list of budget cuts which might be reinstated...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
With the release of a recent U.S. Agriculture Department study which raises a question about the safety of margarine, the Southeast Missourian asked people for their reaction to the study and what they prefer to spread on their bread. Sue Floyd: "I do use margarine. What I would do is look more closely at the type of oil that is used in the margarine I would buy next time I go to the store. Industry listens to the people, so I think they will change since people are more health conscious now."...
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CROWD OF 3,859 ENCOUNTERS `REAL THING' IN RANDY TRAVIS
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
The appeal of country star Randy Travis stuck out all over the Show Me Center Sunday night. In the older women keeping time in their Randy Travis T-shirts, in the fathers at the front of the stage hoping the children on their shoulders would get to shake his hand. And in songs sung with a conviction that can't be faked...
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PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE BRINGS EYES OF NATION TO ST. LOUIS
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
ST. LOUIS - Speaking to the audience of about 600 people just before the start of the presidential debate Sunday night, Presidential Debate Commission Co-Chairman Paul Kirk set the stage for what was about to happen. "Welcome to the opening night of the rest of the campaign," said Kirk...
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D.J. CECIL
(Obituary ~ 10/12/92)
ADVANCE -- D.J. Cecil, 73, of Advance, a retired farmer, died Oct. 10 at his home. He was born Sept. 6, 1919, in Hayti to Dennis W. and Nora Belle Glasscox Cecil, both of whom preceded him in death. Cecil was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army...
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EULA SCHLAMER VAUGHN
(Obituary ~ 10/12/92)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Eula Schlamer Vaughn, 81, of Miller City and formerly of Olive Branch died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1992, at the home of her daughter in Miller City. She was born Nov. 12, 1910, at Cache, the daughter of Emile and Jennie Hewitt Schlamer. She was a homemaker, and was preceded in death by her husband, William F. Vaughn, on Oct. 26, 1985...
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HELEN EMMA CORA HEISE
(Obituary ~ 10/12/92)
Helen Emma Cora Heise, 86, of 1210 W. Cape Rock Drive died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1992, at her home. She was born July 24, 1906 in Cape Girardeau County, the daughter of Robert C. and Rosina Heuer Heise. She was a retired nurses aid at Southeast Missouri Hospital, where she worked for more than 30 years...
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FARRELL E. FERGUSON
(Obituary ~ 10/12/92)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Farrell E. Ferguson, 66, a member of the Jonesboro School District No. 43 Board of Education, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 14, 1926, the son of Benjamin and Lois Hileman Ferguson. On June 15, 1949, he married Bettie Clardy...
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POWELL TAKES ISSUE WITH PELTS; STATEMENT AGAINST WEBSTER EXAMINED
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
ROLLA -- The former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party on Saturday called Bootheel GOP leader Mark Pelts "a fraud for holding himself out to be a Republican." Pelts, a 37-year-old attorney from Kennett, last week sent out 2,000 letters expressing his concern about William Webster's candidacy for governor. Although the letters did not say so, Pelts supports Webster's opponent, Democratic Lt. Gov. Mel Carnahan...
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LEAGUE HOSTS BALLOT ISSUES MEETING
(Local News ~ 10/12/92)
Constitutional Amendments and Initiatives on the November ballot will be examined at the Thursday meeting of the League of Women Voters of Cape Girardeau County. The meeting is open to the public. Yvonne Ketcham will lead the discussion, which is aimed at clarifying the complicated provisions included in the technical language of the amendments and initiatives...
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TRAIL OF TEARS PARK AN IDEAL EARLY SITE FOR TRAIL
(Editorial ~ 10/12/92)
An advisory group's announcement here last week that efforts have begun to establish a national Trail of Tears historic trail should come as good news to residents of Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois, through which the trail passes. Particularly encouraging was disclosure by members of the group, the National Trail of Tears Historic Trail Advisory Council, that Trail of Tears State Park north of Cape Girardeau stands a good chance for early certification as a site along the trail...
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EVERYTHING CHANGES IN TODAY'S WORLD EXCEPT POLITICAL SYSTEM
(Column ~ 10/12/92)
Sunday was Great Debate Day. America's political eyes focused on St. Louis. From the hustings, the pundits poured into town exchanging impressions, innuendoes, predictions, rumors and occasionally even a fact or two, if time allowed. The commentators are reconciled to the ultimate truth of 1992. ...
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VOTE YES TO RESTORE BASIC VICTIM'S RIGHTS
(Editorial ~ 10/12/92)
On November 3, 1992, citizens of Missouri will be asked to decide whether victims should have equal rights in and out of the courtroom. This is their opportunity to change an unequal judicial system. It will be their chance to stop some of the frustration and bitterness forced on already devastated victims of crime...
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AMENDMENT ESTABLISHES WISE BUDGET DIRECTION
(Editorial ~ 10/12/92)
(In conversation with Jon K. Rust, editor of Perspective) Just as it is wise to save for emergencies in our personal financing, it would be wise for the state to put aside some "rainy day money" for the times it needs more dollars to meet its obligations. ...
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"VICTIM'S RIGHTS BILL" DOES LITTLE GOOD AND MUCH HARM
(Editorial ~ 10/12/92)
Constitutional amendment number four, which Missouri voters will decide Nov. 3, purports to add a section to the state constitution to protect the "rights" of crime victims. Although it is well-intentioned, the proposal would add nothing to those rights that crime victims already have as citizens of this state and nation. In fact, it would threat many of those protections that all of us enjoy today...
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