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EDUCATION AT ODDS WITH ITSELF
(Editorial ~ 04/23/93)
An institution of higher education is meant to be a place where ideas all varieties of ideas are welcome. When a state-supported institution is involved in this free exchange of beliefs, taxpayers sometimes must grit their teeth in relation to an educational experience often at odds with itself. Southeast Missouri State University bears witness...
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AMERICAN RED CROSS PROVIDES RELIEF TO FLOOD VICTIMS IN AREA
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Through a disaster relief program, the Cape Girardeau County American Red Cross Association is able to provide assistance to victims of the flooding in the area. Mary Burton, executive director of the Cape Girardeau County American Red Cross, said the agency already has helped eight families through the program, which provides food, clothing and the first month's rent at new living quarters...
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GAMMA SIGMA SIGMA TO HOLD BENEFIT SALE
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Gamma Sigma Sigma service sorority at Southeast Missouri State University will be sponsoring its second annual hot-dog sale and carwash this weekend to benefit the March of Dimes. The event will be held on Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Shop-n-Save. Hot dogs will be sold for 50 cents, sodas for 25 cents, and the carwash will be by donation...
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VFW POST, AUXILIARY TO HOLD POPPY SALE
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838 and its Ladies Auxiliary will have their annual Buddy Poppy Sale on May 7-8. Proceeds will be used for rehabilitation of disabled veterans, support of the VFW National Home for Children of deceased veterans, and a local relief fund to assist needy veterans and their families...
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CHURCHILL IS TOPIC OF HAROLD DUGGER LECTURE
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
"Churchill: The End of Glory" will be the topic when John Charmley, a visiting professor at Westminster College, speaks tonight at the Harold Dugger Lecture at Southeast Missouri State University. The event is set for 7:15 p.m. in the Missouriana-Indian Room of the University Center...
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PSYCHOLOGY TOPIC OF UPCOMING MEETING
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
"Dynamic Psychiatry for Children and Family" will be the topic of the Depressive and Manic-Depressive Association of Southeast Missouri's monthly meeting. The program will be presented by Dr. Ted Glenn of Cape Girardeau. The meeting will be held Monday at 7 p.m. in Room B of the St. Francis Education Department. It is open to everyone...
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EMERSON CALLS FOR RELEASE OF $10 BILLION IN HIGHWAY FUNDS
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
WASHINGTON, D.C. - In comments before the House Surface Transportation Subcommittee Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson called for the release of $10 billion in federal highway funds so that states like Missouri can begin taking full advantage of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991...
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BUSY WEEKEND OFFERS ACTIVITIES FOR ALL TASTES
(Editorial ~ 04/23/93)
Cape Girardeau will be a busy place this weekend. And for those with time on their hands, local organizers have plenty of activities to fill the hours. The Missouri National Guard Association will host its annual conference at Holiday Inn this weekend - with Gov. Mel Carnahan presenting the keynote address. More than 1,000 attendees are expected, including guests. That represents a real boon to the local economy...
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READER OFFERS ANOTHER VIEW ON GAY PRIDE
(Editorial ~ 04/23/93)
To the Editor: Since this is Gay Pride Week, and there are all kinds of activities promoting homosexuality, including the speaker appearing at our local university, I think it should be balanced by another view. Therefore, I would strongly recommend that people tune in to "The Coral Ridge Hour" this Sunday morning at 6 a.m. on the Family Channel, channel 26, on cable. The title of the show is "Gay Rites: Private Lives and Public Policy."...
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`PARENTS' WORST NIGHTMARE' PREYED ON KIDS
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
"My name is John. I'm a parent's worst nightmare." With those words, a 37-year-old former scoutmaster, physical education teacher and football coach from Southeast Missouri introduced himself Thursday to a roomful of people gathered to discuss the effects and treatment of sexual abuse...
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DONATION FILLS VOID WHEN SON DIES AT 3
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
A year ago Paul and Kathy Breitenstein watched and read reports on the annual Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Week Walk in Cape Girardeau. On Thursday, the Breitenstein family marched in the 1993 walk, this time as a donor family. "After seeing last year's news accounts of the march, we discussed how vital it must be to give life to another," said Paul Breitenstein, an emergency medical technician with the Cape Girardeau Fire Department...
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HEALTH BILL PROPONENTS PUSH FOR IMPROVED ACCESS
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
A major health-care legislative package supported by top leaders of the House and Senate and Gov. Mel Carnahan would improve access to health care for 600,000 Missourians with inadequate care, members of the Health Policy Institute said Thursday. "This is not a reform bill; it is an access bill," said Judith Widdicombe, president of the institute...
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STATE SENATE: SCHOOL FORMULA WINS FIRST ROUND APPROVAL
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
JEFFERSON CITY - The Missouri Senate gave first round approval to a new school foundation formula early Thursday morning. The formula increases the minimum tax levy for local school districts but does not address the issue of raising taxes to fund increased costs of the new formula...
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NOVAK PLANS CAMPUS TALK ON MONDAY
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Journalist and conservative commentator Robert Novak will speak in Cape Girardeau Monday. He will attend a dinner at 5 p.m. at Drury Lodge prior to speaking at 7:30 p.m. in the Show Me Center conference room. "We are greatly excited to have a person of the caliber of Robert Novak on campus here," said Nathan Cooper, president of the College Republicans at Southeast Missouri State University, which is helping to sponsor the event...
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ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY ENCHANTS CROWD OF 1,500, EARNING STANDING OVATION
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Wednesday evening's President's Concert IV marked the second appearance of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra as part of this benefit series supporting KRCU-FM. After opening remarks by President Kala M. Stroup, conductor David Loebel opened the program with Johannes Brahms' "Academic Festival Overture," op. ...
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JACKSON STUDENT CHARGED WITH FLOURISHING WEAPON
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
JACKSON - The sixth-grade student at West Lane Elementary School who was suspended for the rest of the school year for bringing a gun to school earlier this week has been charged with flourishing a weapon, authorities said Thursday. A spokesman for the Jackson Police Department said Thursday the charge against the 11-year-old girl, who lives outside Jackson, was filed after investigators obtained statements from witnesses...
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SPEAKER: HOMOPHOBIA HURTS EVERYONE; ACTIVIST SAYS HOMOPHOBIA FORM OF OPPRESSION, NOT SIMPLY FEAR
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Between the ages of 5 and 12, Warren Blumenfeld saw a psychiatrist regularly. The problem: His parents had decided he was effeminate. The shrink told his parents not to let their son wash dishes. "Which was great," says the man who grew up to found the Gay Student Center in Washington, D.C...
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TICKETS FREE FOR TAPING OF HUMOR SHOW
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Tickets for Saturday night's filming of the TV show "The Search for Humor in America's Heartland" are available free by calling 334-4585. The show, which is to be shown next month on KBSI-TV and WSIL-TV and may be syndicated, will be filmed at Vision One Studios, 200 S. Spanish St...
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AUSTIN H. PARRET
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Austin H. Parret of Sikeston will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Carl Addison will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery. Parret, 84, died Wednesday, April 21, 1993, in the emergency room at Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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JESSIE L. STONE
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
BERTRAND -- Jessie L. Stone, 89, of Bertrand, died Thursday, April 22, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born July 10, 1903, in Kentucky, daughter of James and Ida Mae Massey Houston. She and Arthur Ervin Stone were married Feb. 13, 1921. He died Sept. 2, 1969...
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AUDREY LANGSTON
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
MILLERSVILLE - Audrey Langston, 56, of Millersville, died Thursday, April 22, 1993 at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born May 29, 1936 at Sedgewickville to John Bill Roe and Nellie Brotherton Roe. She married Leonard Langston on Dec. 23, 1952. He survives...
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NICHOLAS GEORGE DORDONI
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
Nicholas George Dordoni, the infant son of George and Iris Keller Dordoni of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, April 22, 1993, at Children's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 3, 1992, at St. Louis. Survivors include his parents of Cape Girardeau and grandparents, William and Irma Keller of Gordonville...
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DOROTHY MAE TUCKER
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
BENTON -- Dorothy Mae Tucker, 55, of Vacaville, Calif. and formerly of Benton died Tuesday, April 20, 1993, at Vacaville. She was born Nov. 6, 1937, at Benton, the daughter of the late Lawrence and Clara Klipfel. She was married to George R. Tucker, who survives of Vacaville...
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ERVIE L. BROWN
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
Ervie L. Brown, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, April 21, 1993, at Doctors Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born June 5, 1918, at Cape Girardeau, the son of Bennett and Clara Harding Brown. He was a veteran of World War II, where he served in the U.S. Army. He worked for many years as a railroad engineer for the Missouri Pacific Railroad out of Dupo, Ill...
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CONGRESSMAN TOUTS HEALTH CARE EFFORT
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Congressman Bill Emerson Thursday praised the Rural Health Care Coalition (RHCC) reform priorities as "a solid outline of objectives." Emerson is a member of the coalition's steering committee, and chairman of its task force on grants. "Rural areas have been, quite frankly, on the short end of the stick when it comes to the federal government recognizing our health care concerns," he said...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 04/23/93)
Daughter to Barbara White of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:59 a.m. Friday, April 16, 1993. Name, Christy Layfaye. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Second daughter. Miss White is the daughter of Lovenia White and Robert White of Cape Girardeau...
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CLETUS F. KIST
(Obituary ~ 04/23/93)
STE. GENEVIEVE Cletus F. Kist, 57, of Benton, formerly of Ste. Genevieve, died Thursday, April 22, 1993. He was born May 10, 1935 at River Aux Vases, Mo., son of Ben and Anna Schweiss Kist. He was a welder and was employed at the Noranda Alumnium Corp. plant near Marston...
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FINS, FURS, FEATHERS
(Local News ~ 04/23/93)
Coming up: April 24 Annual Missouri Beautification Association Spring Roadside Cleanup, Lake Wappapello. April 24 Women's Trout Tournament, Montauk State Park, additional information, 548-3301. April 25 Velo Girardeau Bicycle Ride, Scott County Pancake ride, 40 miles, meet at Scott City High School, 1:30 p.m...
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