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LEO AUGUST HEUER
(Obituary ~ 11/07/94)
Leo August Heuer, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, November 5, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 19, 1913, in Cape Girardeau, the son of August A. and Lena Meyer Heuer. On June 15, 1935, he married Bebe Schrock, who survives...
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WASHINGTON WATCH: WHEN A LIE IS AS GOOD AS THE TRUTH
(Column ~ 11/07/94)
Please explain. In Oklahoma, David Perryman, the Democratic candidate for an open House seat, resorts to racist tactics to try to defeat his Republican opponent. In an inflammatory television commercial Perryman features a 20-year-old photograph of J.C. ...
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FIRE CHIEF WANTS TO REVISE PROPERTY CODE
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
Cape Girardeau's minimum property maintenance code could hamper public safety officers from doing their jobs, the city's fire chief says. Chief Robert Ridgeway wants the city council to revise the code before giving final approval to the measure. The code is scheduled for final readings at Monday night's council meeting...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
Monday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public hearings Petition for annexation of a 20-acre tract of land owned by the Southeast Missouri University Foundation. The land is immediately north of the Northfield Subdivision. Request by St. Francis Medical Center for a special use permit to construct a five-story medical office building...
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MARRIAGES
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
Cape Girardeau David Wayne Doyal, 28, and Kerri Susanne Monteith, 20; Robert Alan Walz, 30, and Laura Danette Plumb, 27; Matthew Jason Abel Wilson, 17, and Ellen Christine Newberry, 19. Leland Lyle Gattis, 36, and Debra Lynne Poole, 36; David Lynn Roth, 27, and Karen Sue Meyr, 22; Charles Michael Welsh, 38, and Kathleen Anne Jarvis, 40...
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PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 11/07/94)
Dr. S. Edwin Noffel, a Cape Girardeau orthodontist, has received the Tweed Foundation's highest award, the "Distinguished Service Award." Noffel was president and host for the biennial meeting of the Charles H. Tweed International Foundation for Orthodontic Education and Research, held at St. Louis...
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BUSINESS MEMO
(Business ~ 11/07/94)
Total construction activity in Missouri was down in September but continues to be ahead of 1993 levels. The F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill, an authority on the construction market, reported total construction for the first nine months of 1994 at $4.3 billion, up 13 percent from the $3.8 billion during the same period in 1993...
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CLEAN AIR AND BOATS
(Editorial ~ 11/07/94)
The quest for clean air continues, thanks to the Environmental Protections Agency. After mandating strict standards for motor vehicles and lawn mowers, the EPA has targeted outboard motors used on fishing and ski boats by millions of Americans seeking recreation...
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MISSOURI WATCH: LIMITS OF GOVERNMENT AND CYNICISM
(Column ~ 11/07/94)
Throughout the more than 200-year history of the United States, and in civilizations preceding our federalism, governments have generally proved to be better protectors than providers. In the main, the U.S. has done a better job of meeting its constitutional duty of protecting both the shores and the integrity of America than in meeting the provisional needs of its citizens...
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LETTERS: FORMER STUDENT PRAISES INFLUENCE OF JACKSON'S COACH THOMAS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/07/94)
To the editor: Concerning the discharge of Bruce Thomas as head wrestling coach at Jackson High School: I am one of Coach Thomas's former wrestlers and close friend of the Thomas family. I wrestled for Coach Thomas from 1988-1991 during which time, despite a serious arm injury requiring three surgeries, I persevered, endured, and matured under the watchful eye of Coach Thomas. ...
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LETTERS: CLINTON, CARTER MAKE GOOD DEALS FOR FORMERLY MURDEROUS THUGS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/07/94)
To the Editor: I am just sick. The Clinton-Carter dynamic duo, those gold-dust twins, negotiated an agreement with the formerly murderous thugs of Haiti that allows the two top thugs to live in Panama. There they will live in all the luxury that their millions of dollars in U.S. banks can provide. Our wonderfully brilliant presiden6t freed up all those millions so they'll have something to live on...
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BEGGS: REPORT FILED ON TIME WITH STATE
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
JACKSON -- Laura Beggs, a Republican candidate for Cape Girardeau County Clerk, said Sunday she does not know why her seven-day campaign finance disclosure report isn't on file with the clerk's office. The report was due last Tuesday. Late Friday afternoon a deputy county clerk said reports for Beggs and another candidate hadn't been filed. That information was reported in Sunday's Southeast Missourian...
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FIREFIGHTERS WILL SPONSOR BREAKFAST FOR HUNTERS
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
SCOPUS -- The Scopus Volunteer Fire Department will sponsor a deer hunters breakfast on Saturday. It will be held at the firehouse on Highway M, west of Scopus. The breakfast will begin at 4:30 a.m. and end at 10 a.m. The menu will be pancakes, bacon, sausage, eggs, biscuits and gravy...
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ZELMA E. FOWLER
(Obituary ~ 11/07/94)
Zelma E. Fowler, 86, of 230 N. Ellis died Nov. 4, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Fowler was born Sept. 7, 1908, in Portland, Kansas, to Harry W. and Flora C. Dunkel. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m today at Ford & Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Dr. Neil Stein will officiate, and burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park...
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MARY JORDAN LINGLE
(Obituary ~ 11/07/94)
ANNA, Ill. -- Mary Jordan Lingle, 82, of Las Vegas, Nev., and formerly of Union County, Ill., died Friday, Nov. 4, 1994, at Sunrise Humana Hospital in Las Vegas. She was born Oct. 11, 1912, in Alexander County, Ill., the daughter of the late John and Clara Parish Jordan...
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`MEMORIAL TREE' SEEDLINGS AVAILABLE THROUGH LORBERG
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
"Memory Tree" seedlings are available at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel at 433 S. Sprigg in Cape Girardeau. The Memory Tree is a blue spruce evergreen that can be planted inside or outdoors, said Betty Kuss, an owner and funeral director at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel...
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SCOTT, NEW MADRID COUNTIES TO DECIDE ENHANCED-911
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
BENTON -- Scott County voters will decide Tuesday whether to pay 15 percent of their basic phone bills to have an Enhanced-911 emergency telephone system at their fingertips. The monthly cost will be $1.13 per residence in this area while it will be $1.37 in Sikeston. Telephone customers with business phones will pay more since their basic phone bills are higher...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
Cape Girardeau Liberty Baptist Church to Real Estate Exchange; Real Estate Exchange to the Larry L. Haertling Trust et al.; Capital Bank of Cape county to Douglas F. Lipps. Kuss Land Development Co. to Cape Family Entertainment Inc.; Ashland Land Development Corp. to Gary M. Arnold Inc.; Ashland Land Development Corp. to Gary M. and Doris Jean Arnold...
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CLERK PREDICTS LARGE TURNOUT FOR LOCAL RACES
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
With contested races for nine offices and two statewide ballot issues creating interest, Cape Girardeau County voters Tuesday might go to polls in record numbers for a non-presidential election year. Races at the top of the ticket for U.S. Senate, state auditor, and 8th District Congress have taken a backseat in the county this year...
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CAUTION: ANIMAL CROSSING PLENTIFUL
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
You don't have to look far to find deer in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. That might be good news for deer hunters, but it can be bad news for motorists. November typically has more automobile accidents involving deer than any other month...
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FORMER CAPE RESIDENT WRITES OF CHIEFTAINESS
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
When Charlotte (Blattner) Ellington was a Girl Scout growing up in Cape Girardeau, she learned about the tragedy that begat Trail of Tears State Park. Back then, Otahki, the Cherokee woman who died along the trail and was believed buried where the state park is now, was immortalized as a princess -- a legend that turned out to be mistaken...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
The Southeast Missourian asked, "Are you going to vote next Tuesday and why?" Nadine Renfrow, Fredericktown "I'm voting because I'm a responsible citizen, and it's my responsibility and duty, and I have opinions that I want to express in the voting booth."...
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LOCAL WOMAN RECEIVES STATE CANCER AWARD
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
Nancy Mattingly, Southeast Missouri Hospital Cancer program coordinator, has received the American Cancer Society's Distinguished Service Award for Missouri, the highest award presented to an individual by the Missouri Division. Mattingly received her award at the Cancer Society's 48th Missouri Division annual meeting, held recently in Jefferson City...
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LOCAL MUSICIAN WILL PERFORM WITH CHAPMAN
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
CARBONDALE -- Mark Hill, a former resident of Olive Branch, Ill., will be stage when contemporary Christian music star Steven Curtis Chapman performs Tuesday at the SIU Arena. Hill, who now lives in Nashville, plays bass in Chapman's band. A 1984 graduate of Egyptian High School, Hill played in a family gospel group called the Galatians beginning at age 11, and later with the Gary Jones Band and Terry Mike Jeffries locally...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: SPENDING IN CATALOGS INCREASES BY DOUBLE-DIGITS
(Business ~ 11/07/94)
Consumer catalog revenues are expected to rise 12 to 14 percent, to an estimated $76 billion in 1994, and Sears Roebuck & Co. wants to be back in on the action. Sears has re-entered the catalog market with four new speciality books -- Workwear, a men's catalog; Big & Tall, large-size men's clothing; My Team, offering athletic apparel; and Leather Connection, selling leather garments and accessories...
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YOUNGHOUSE DISTRIBUTING CO. INC.: LOCAL DISTRIBUTING COMPANY PROVIDES CUSTOMERS WITH THOUSANDS OF ITEMS
(Local News ~ 11/07/94)
Candy gave E.C. Younghouse a sweet start, but it was novelty items like the hula hoop in the late 1950s and the Rubik's Cube in the mid-1970s, that gave his company the even sweeter smell of success. Younghouse, president of the Younghouse Distributing Co. Inc., in Cape Girardeau is an expert on fads to fireworks, party goods to school supplies and toys to fishing tackle...
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