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DOROTHY F. CARROLL
(Obituary ~ 05/21/95)
MARBLE HILL -- Dorothy F. Carroll, 65, of Marble Hill, formerly of Zalma, died May 19, 1995, at Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. She was born Sept. 1, 1929, the daughter of John E. Pulley and Cordelia Gregory Pulley. She married Floyd Carroll in 1979...
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CAPE SCHOOL BOARD TO MEET
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
The Cape Girardeau School District Board of Education will hold a special meeting at noon Monday in the board office at 61 N. Clark. The meeting will include board consideration of several personnel items, including new employees, resignations, retirements and a leave of absence...
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ACE AVIATOR REMEMBERED
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Ray Littge poses in his P-51 Mustang fighter at the American airbase in Bodney, England at the close of the World War II. The swastikas on the cockpit hatch represent aerial victories scored against German pilots. Among the names of those who have distinguished themselves in air warfare, those known as "aces," are the well-known names of Baron Manfred von Richtofen (the famed "Red Baron"), Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, America's top World War I pilot; Major Richard I. ...
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CHURCH TO MAR 150 YEARS
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
A plaque outside Trinity Lutheran Church of Albenburg's first church building lists some of the structure's history. It now houses a church museum. The congregation of Trinity Lutheran Church of Altenburg will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its first church on June 4...
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JACKSON LIBRARY SPONSORS SUMMER READING PROGRAM
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Rock your way into the Jackson Public Library this summer and right into the Missouri Summer Reading Program, sponsored by libraries all across the state in cooperation with the Missouri State library. The Jackson Public Library's "Rock Your World -- Read!" begins on June 1 and ends Aug. ...
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HOT ON THE TRAIL OF BEAGLING
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Tom Schulte poses his award-winning field trial beagle, Carbon Hill Penny. Tom Schulte is one of a number of Jackson men who have gone to the dogs. That's not a negative statement. It just means the Jackson native enjoys breeding, raising, and hunting that uniquely American strain of dog, the beagle. ...
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MISSOURI COMMENTARY: BUDGET SHIFTS TO MICRO FROM MACRO
(Column ~ 05/21/95)
The 1994 election has been declared to be something akin to 1932 -- a "defining" or a "realigning" election that causes a seismic and permanent change int he political landscape from something tried but tired to something new. Time will tell. If, indeed, there is a decisive shift in public attitudes, it will find itself reflected more in budget priorities than in any other facet of Speaker Newt Gingrich's platform...
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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR: MISSOURIAN JOINS INFORMATION HIGHWAY
(Column ~ 05/21/95)
By subscribing to a couple of on-line computer services, the Southeast Missourian has joined a growing number of computer users on the information superhighway. So far, the Missourian's journey is just building up speed on the on-ramp. Getting into the thick of traffic whizzing around in ether at the speed of light is a mite dizzying, so we are going cautiously. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: THE SESSION THAT LOST ITS WAY
(Column ~ 05/21/95)
It has become increasingly more difficult to characterize the Missouri General Assembly as a representative body of some 5.1 million men, women and children. Surveying the remains of the just-adjourned First Session of the 88th Missouri General Assembly, one overriding them seems to prevail as the list of legislative accomplishments and failures is read by ordinary citizens...
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CENTRAL TO HOLD BACCALAUREATE TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
When the Rev. Cecil Barham searched for the right message to deliver to Cape Central High School seniors at tonight's baccalaureate ceremony, he asked, on his knees, for spiritual guidance. "I was praying to find what I should speak about and it came to me," Barham said. "I decided I should speak about the pursuit of happiness. For today's youth, it's not something so easily attained. For some, it's not usually recognized until it has passed them by."...
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PHONE AREA CODES: THE CUSTOMER IS ALWAYS RIGHT. RIGHT?
(Editorial ~ 05/21/95)
With the rapid spread of cellular telephones, pagers and fax machines has come an explosion of phone numbers dedicated to those purposes. In addition to the changes these technologies have worked on all our lives, demand for all the gadgetry is overwhelming the capacity of the telephone companies to handle all the traffic within existing area codes. ...
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ILLA DUDLEY JONES
(Obituary ~ 05/21/95)
Illa Dudley Jones, 83, died at her home in Longview, Texas, Friday, May 19, 1995. She was born Nov. 11, 1911, at Jackson, to Bernie and Bertha Moore Seabaugh. She was a homemaker, a millwright and drill press operator for an electrical manufacturing company. She was a former resident of St. Louis and lived in Longview for 22 years...
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JOSEPH C. STREET
(Obituary ~ 05/21/95)
Joseph C. Street, 77, of Cape Girardeau died May 20, 1995, at his home. He was born July 19, 1917, in Bay Springs, Miss., the son of Joseph and Kate Land Street. He attended public schools in Hattiesburg, Miss., and Mississippi Southern University and William Carey College in Hattiesburg...
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HOWARD ANTON KIRN
(Obituary ~ 05/21/95)
PERRYVILLE -- Howard Anton Kirn, 66, of Perryville died May 20, 1995, at his home. He was born Jan. 2, 1929, in Biehle. He was a wood cutter and the son of Henry Benjamin and Henrietta Berkbigler Kirn. He married Phyllis Ann Manche April 24, 1971, who survives in Perryville...
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CAROLINE'S CORNER: WERE WE TWINS SEPARATED AT BIRTH?
(Column ~ 05/21/95)
My friend in Scott City is convinced that she and I were switched at birth. She bases this assumption on the fact that she is short and had a tall mama and I am tall and had a short mama. Since my friend was supposedly born in Missouri and I was supposedly born in Mississippi, I consider her idea a little far fetched...
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VIRGINIA CAIN COFFMAN
(Obituary ~ 05/21/95)
Virginia Cain Coffman, 79, of Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif., formerly of Anna, Ill., died Thursday, May 18, 1995, in San Pedro, Calif. She was born March 11, 1916, at Raleigh, Ill., the daughter of Walter and Estella Gram Cain. She was married to James E. Coffman on Jan. 2, 1937, at Cobden, Ill. Her husband preceded her in death March 13, 1975...
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IRENE I. CROOK
(Obituary ~ 05/21/95)
Irene I. Crook, 78, died Friday, May 19, 1995, at St. Louis University Hospital. She was a resident of St. Louis and a former resident of East Prairie. She was born Nov. 14, 1916, at Success, Ark., and was the daughter of the late Andrew Jackson and Cora Ann Hagerman Jacobs. Irene Cook moved from East Prairie to St. Louis in 1962...
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CRIME BILL AFFECTS JUVENILES
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
An LSD drug-deal at Cape Central Junior High School in early April and a marijuana transaction Friday morning could easily have gone unnoticed by the public because existing laws cloak records of juvenile crime. If the same crimes were committed by someone 17 or older, it would be a matter of public record...
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OFFICIALS LAUD NEW JUVENILE CRIME MEASURE
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Attorney General Jay Nixon said the juvenile crime bill before Gov. Mel Carnahan would give law enforcement and school officials ammunition to curb a disturbing trend. "We haven't had a major rewrite in juvenile crime legislation in 30 years," Nixon said during a recent telephone interview from his office in Jefferson City. "This has been long overdue."...
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SOUTHERN ILLINOIS HIT HARD BY RIVER'S RAPID RISE
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
THEBES, Ill. -- Kim McCormick was helping friends try to save their house Saturday afternoon in Thebes, with little help from the Alexander County Highway Department. "We need some sandbags," she yelled at a helicopter circling the area. "I don't know who that is, but I hope it's the governor."...
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CASINOS PUT FLOOD PLANS IN EFFECT
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Casino Aztar of Caruthersville and Players International Casino at Metropolis, Ill., have put their "flood plans" into effect. "We're up and running despite the rise in the Mississippi River," Casino Aztar marketing manager Michael J. Facenda said Friday. "We went to our internal flood plan earlier this week to remain open."...
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TCI LOOKS TO FUTURE WITH FIBER OPTICS
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
TCI Cablevision's move to a fiber optic system is expected to give consumers more program choices at a consumer cost regulated by the city and Federal Communication Commission. With fiber optics, TCI could offer more than 80 channels but thinks the system wouldn't be economically feasible...
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WEST END MERCHANTS TO ORGANIZE
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Merchants west of Kingshighway will discuss crating a West End Merchants Association at a special meeting Tuesday at the Holiday Inn at 6 p.m. Executive Director of the I-66 Project Walt Wildman is serving as a consultant a group of businessmen looking at forming the merchants' group...
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DIVING FACILITY TO BUILD LARGER BUILDING
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Wayne Hughes went on an unscheduled diving expedition Friday morning. Hughes, a master diver, went underwater to shut off a stuck valve at one of the city's water intake pumps near Cape Rock Park. Going underwater is nothing new for Hughes. He and his wife, Lynn, both master diving instructors with the International Professional Association of Diving Instructors, own and operate the Academy of Scuba Training Inc., 437 Broadway...
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LUNCHEON SET FOR JUNE 6
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Magnolia Manor, a historic mansion in Cairo, will be host to a luncheon June 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Cairo Historical Association is sponsoring the fund-raising event for the mansion at 2700 Washington Ave. Reservations are available by calling (618)-734-0201...
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SUMMER JOBS AWAIT AREA STUDENTS
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
The help-wanted signs are everywhere in Cape Girardeau, some almost begging for applicants to come inside. The employment ads fill newspaper sections, offering promises of above-minimum-wage salaries, bonuses and benefits. It's a worker's market, Job Service people say. In a county where unemployment figures hover around 3 or 4 percent, it seems everyone who wants to work is working...
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SOUTHEAST EYES $35.8 MILLION BUDGET
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Southeast Missouri State University expects to receive $35.8 million in state funding for general operations for fiscal 1996, an increase of $2.2 million from this year's funding. The fiscal year begins July 1. The university also is slated to receive $5 million over the next two fiscal years to improve its power plant and upgrade its electrical system. Power plant improvements include renovating two coal-fired boilers and repairing two steam turbines...
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FUN FEST WINNER FOR SENIORS
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Before Bob Hente could find his way to the bingo tables at Senior Fun Fest Saturday afternoon, he already had won a $25 Sears gift certificate. "It's hard not to win something if you stay long enough," the retired state highway department employee said. "I've been to every one of these and each time it seems to get bigger and better."...
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ENJOYING THE OUTDOORS: SOME FISH SUFFER THROUGH IDENTITY CRISIS
(Column ~ 05/21/95)
Between liberties taken with common names and the often footloose qualities of some fish species, it's sometimes hard for fishermen to know what's showing up on the business end of the line. What do you think when someone says he caught a "perch?" The most commonly caught fish in the region that actually falls into the perch family is the sauger, but more likely someone who mentions perch probably makes reference to a green sunfish, the common small inhabitant of ponds, creeks and lakes. ...
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LAKE LEVELS
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
RIVERS Black (upper): Clear, 4' above normal; all fishing fair. Castor (upper): Muddy, high; all fishing slow. Current: Dingy, 1 1/2' above normal; goggle-eye good on live bait; all other fishing slow. Eleven Point: Dingy, 3' above normal; all fishing slow...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: CONTINUING EDUCATION FRAZZLES A DICTIONARY
(Column ~ 05/21/95)
Although he doesn't know it, columnist George Will is the chief motivator of my continuing education. Reading, for me, is like skipping blithely along mental pathways bordered by fragrant flowers with colorful butterflies fluttering about, birdsong at its best and blue skies above. But, every once in a while there is a "rock" in this happy reading trail, in the form of an unfamiliar word...
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MUSIC MAN: SCOTT CITY MAN HAS OVER 5,000 RECORDS AND THOUSANDS OF COMPACT DISCS
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
Wipfler loes all kinds of music, from country to hard rock, from easy listening to rap. His vast music collection includes a number of sound systems to play his favorite tunes. Jason Kluender and Dana Hoff choose their wedding reception music from Wipler's collection...
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CIRCULATION AT RIVERSIDE RISES
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
JACKSON -- The Riverside Regional Library, with branches in Perry, Scott and Cape Girardeau counties, increased its first-quarter circulation over the first quarter last year. More than 112,000 books, books on tape and videos were checked out at the seven branches during January, February and March. The Scott City branch had a 13 percent circulation increase from last year due to a larger facility in a more visible location, assistant director Martha Mangels said...
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CITY MARKS PUBLIC WORKS WEEK
(Local News ~ 05/21/95)
To celebrate Public Works Week, Cape Girardeau city workers will man an information table at the West Park Mall Wednesday and Thursday. Hours will be from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Severa pieces of public works equipment will be on display at the mall, including a truck with a snow pow and spreader...
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