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HOMECOMERS CELEBRATION SET TO BEGIN
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
JACKSON -- Final preparations have been made for the 86th annual Jackson Homecomers celebration that will be held Tuesday through Saturday. Homecomers Co-chairmen Bill Poe and Tom Sperling said there are events and activities for the entire family on each of the event's five nights, including carnival rides, games, concessions, live entertainment, talent shows and the Homecomers Queen Pageant...
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COUNCIL CONSIDERS RECREATION PROJECT'S DIRT WORK CONTRACT
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will consider a contract that will initiate construction of a $4 million parks and recreation project approved last year. On Aug. 5, seven bids were opened for the excavation of the two sites for the recreation project Shawnee and Osage Parks. Dumey Excavation submitted the low bid of $622,961, which was below the engineer's estimate of $879,585 for the work...
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RIVER DROPS, FAMILIES RELAX...FOR NOW
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
A week ago, Virgie and Woody Sadler were fighting the Mississippi River with eight pumps that ran 24 hours a day. For 10 days, two teams working 12-hour shifts kept the pumps in motion and the water out of the house they have lived in the past 44 years...
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TREES ALSO FIND GOING ROUGH IN THE FLOOD
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
When we look at pictures of the flooding, most of us see submerged homes and businesses, telltale street signs poking out of the water, or even roads ending abruptly in rippling water stretching to the horizon. But Sharon Houar, a resource forester with the Missouri Department of Conservation, has given a lot of thought to the trees since the floodwaters came to stay in mid-June...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
The Southeast Missourian asked people how they felt about President Clinton's push for a new crime bill that would include harsher gun-control laws, more police on the streets and a ban on foreign hand-guns. Peggy Proffer of St. Louis: "I live in St. Louis where in the last week there have been drive-by shootings and people shot who were caught in the crossfire. There should be restrictions and waiting periods for purchasing guns. Do some research on who is buying guns."...
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SCOTT CITY SCHOOLS ADOPT A `NO-PASS, NO-PLAY' ACTIVITIES POLICY
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
SCOTT CITY -- Students at Scott City schools must earn at least a C-minus grade average to participate in school sports and other activities. The new "no pass, no play" policy takes affect this school year. Douglas Berry, new superintendent at the district, said the policy was one school board members expressed an interest in during the hiring process...
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GRASSY BLUEGRASS EVENT SLATED
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
GRASSY -- Pickin' by the River '93, featuring eight bluegrass bands and camping by the Castor River, will be held Thursday through Sunday. The sponsors emphasize that no alcohol will be allowed on the grounds. They are aiming at a family atmosphere...
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SCOTT COUNTY ACCIDENT RESULTS IN MINOR INJURIES
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
BENTON -- A Benton woman was injured Sunday afternoon in a two-car accident, one mile east of Benton in Highway 77. Cheryl G. Montgomery, 26, was transported to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau where she was treated for minor injuries and released. She was wearing a seat belt, police said...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 08/16/93)
Let's not be too hard on those Missouri congressmen who hesitated to vote flood emergency funds until budget cuts could be made to offset them. After all, a flood isn't really a hazard to someone who can walk on water. --- During the weeks-long flooding in the state, we never heard anyone mention the phrase, "The least government is the best government."...
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WHEN WILL WE SEE A BALANCED BUDGET
(Column ~ 08/16/93)
It was in the early morning hours after the Senate had voted 51-50 to support the Clinton budget. The staff members of the Senate Budget Committee remained in the Capitol to clean up the details of the bill and to edit their bosses' floor speeches. As they sat around awaiting the transcript, they mused about the budgets of the future. When would Congress get around to dealing with the entitlements the mandatory, automatic spending programs that account for more than half of the budget?...
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FLOOD VICTIMS SHOULD WATCH OUT FOR SCAMS
(Editorial ~ 08/16/93)
Just as relief agencies have provided comfort to area residents during the recent flooding, law enforcement authorities are determined to do the same in its aftermath. Regrettably, natural disaster is often accompanied by con artists who prey on victims and compound their misery. ...
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HOWARD KING
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
JACKSON -- Howard King, 80, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 15, 1993, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 30, 1912, at Neely's Landing, the son of Alfred and Ira Bethany McCain King. On Dec. 6, 1941, he married Catherine Headrick, who survives of the home...
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VERNON L. PRUITT
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
Vernon L. Pruitt, 45, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Aug. 14, 1993, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 31, 1948, at Sikeston, son of Charles and Grace Williams Pruett. He married Sharon Hodgkiss, Nov. 22, 1969, at Sikeston...
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GUY T. CRADER
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
MARBLE HILL -- Guy T. Crader, 75, of Imperial, Mo., died Saturday, Aug. 14, 1993, at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born June 15, 1918, at St. Louis, son of Ray and Amy Leadbetter Crader. He married Pauline West, in September 1948...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/16/93)
Son to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Schlegel of Satanta, Kan., St. Catherine Hospital in Garden City, Kan., 7:40 p.m. Tuesday, July 20, 1993. Name, Seth Michael. Weight, 6 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Schlegel is the former Kristen Foltz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nick Foltz of Jackson. She is an extension agent with Kansas State University and Haskell County Kansas. Schlegel is a herbicide/pesticide applicator with Lynn Air of Satanta. He is the son of Jerry and Pat Schlegel of Cape Girardeau...
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ERMA ELLEN MILAM
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
BENTON -- Erma Ellen Milam, 74, of Benton, died Sunday, Aug. 15, 1993, at the Miner Nursing Center in Miner, Mo. She was born Oct. 8, 1918, at Mayfield, Mo., daughter of Coy Noole and Carrie Ellen Greene Mayfield. She married Leo Milam, July 12, 1938, at Maynard, Ark...
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PAT EFTINK
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
ORAN -- Pat Eftink, 49, died Sunday, Aug. 15, 1993, at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. The Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran is in charge of funeral arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.
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MARIE DAVIS
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Marie Davis, 96, of Mound City, Ill., died Saturday, Aug. 14, 1993, in Mound City, Ill. She was born March 5, 1897, at Cairo, Ill., daughter of Zachariah and Charlotte Walker Watts. She married William F. Davis; he preceded her in death...
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HAROLD L. WOODS
(Obituary ~ 08/16/93)
Harold L. Woods, 75, a resident of the Missouri Veterans Home, died there Aug. 15, 1993. A Cape Girardeau resident of 2005 Perryville Road, he was a retired teacher and school administrator. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel...
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SEMO ACADEMY TO OFFER MUSIC LESSONS; INSTRUCTION IN STRING, VOICE, BAND INSTRUMENTS; PIANO FOR BOTH CHILDREN AND ADULTS
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Instruction in violin, viola, cello and string bass for youths ages four and up will be offered on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University this fall as part of a new string program sponsored through the Southeast Missouri Music Academy. The program will provide fifteen 30-minute private lessons and fifteen 60-minute group performance classes during the fall session scheduled for Aug. 30 to Dec. 17. Registration deadline for the fall session has been extended to Aug. 25...
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CHOIR IS OPEN TO THE COMMUNITY
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
The Southeast Missouri State University Choral Union will begin its fall rehearsal schedule Aug. 24 for a late November performance of Handel's "Messiah." Rehearsals will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday evenings in Room 205 of Brandt Music Hall. Participation is free, and music will be provided...
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BUSINESS MEMO
(Business ~ 08/16/93)
Samples Floor Covering Center soon will open at 407 N. Clark. Situated on North Main for the past five years, it was known as Sample Carpet and Decorating Center. "We will have the same type of business," said owner Doyle Sample. "It will be business as usual once we're relocated," he said...
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WINNERS
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hyden of Cape Girardeau were the grand-prize winners of 100 free lottery tickets recently given away by Uncle Ralph's Furniture, 1739 N. Kingshighway. --- Thomas Horn of Whitewater was the winner of a new 1993 40th Anniversary Corvette, the grand prize in Sonic Drive-In's "Match Two To Win" game...
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ILLINOIS ELECTRIC COOP FINISHES SUCCESSFUL YEAR DESPITE FLOODS
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Despite equipment damage from Mississippi River floodwaters, Southern Illinois Electric Cooperative has had a successful year, its manager, Larry Lovell, told a recent annual meeting. No rate increases are planned for at least through early 1994, he said...
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TRAINING/AWARDS
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Dr. Ed Masters of Cape Girardeau Family Physicians Group had an article entitled "Erythema Migrans Rash as a Key to Early Diagnosis of Lyme Disease" published in the July 1993 issue of Postgraduate Medicine, a national peer-reviewed medical journal with circulation of 160,000...
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NEW EMPLOYEES
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Heather Markle is Riverside Gymnastics Academy's new manager. Markle assumed the manager's position Aug. 1, and manages all aspects of Riverside Gymnastics Academy in Cape Girardeau and Riverside's branch program at the Main Street Fitness Center in Jackson...
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BOATMEN'S BUYS BANKS IN KNASAS, TEXAS
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Boatmen's Bancshares Inc. has completed acquisition of First Amarillo Bancoporation of Amarillo, Texas, and First Continental Bank and Trust of Overland Park, Kan. Boatmen's Bancshares has reached an agreement to acquire First Amarillo Bancorporation, a bank holding company with approximately $800 million in assets...
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FARMERS IN STATE FIND GROWING INDUSTRIAL MARKET FOR SOYBEANS
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
Area farmers now have an industrial market for their soybeans. "There are a number of industrial uses for soybeans, including SoyDiesel," said Dale Ludwig, executive director of the Missouri Soybean Association and the Missouri Soybean Merchandising Council...
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CAPE BLOOD DRIVE ON TAP WEDNESDAY
(Local News ~ 08/16/93)
The American Red Cross and St. Andrew Lutheran Church are sponsoring a blood drive Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. at the church, 804 N. Cape Rock Drive in Cape Girardeau. Blood shortages have been experienced this summer because of hot weather and flooding. Many community blood drives have been canceled because of flooded roads and the need to focus on disaster relief efforts...
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