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COMMISSION STILL WAITING FOR DATA ON I-55
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County Commission won't decide interchange priorities until the Missouri Highways and Transportation Department produces some hard facts. The highway department has asked commissioners to rank two potential Interstate 55 interchanges -- one that would lead into Jackson and another on Highway E near Oak Ridge...
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STROUP UNDECIDED ABOUT COMMISSIONER'S JOB
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
Southeast Missouri State University President Kala Stroup doesn't know if she wants to be Missouri's higher education commissioner. Donald Harrison, president of the school's Board of Regents, talked Thursday with Stroup. Harrison said Stroup indicated she was still undecided about the job, but would go through the interview process and listen to any offer...
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COUNTY RAKES IN SALES TAX REVENUE
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County received its biggest sales tax check ever this month, County Auditor H. Weldon Macke told the county commission Thursday. The amount was $533,087.28, 8 percent more than last June. In addition, county sales tax figures for the year are running 8.5 percent more than last year, which was the county's biggest ever...
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FREE RIVERFEST ATTRACTION TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
As city officials, exhibiters and others eyed the downtown area Thursday in advance of the weekend Riverfest festivities, a promotional exhibit sponsored by 1-800-COLLECT and Fox captured their attention. A tractor-trailer housing a three-dimensional theater, nine pay phones and two virtual-reality simulators was parked and set up on the Boatmen's Bank downtown parking lot. The promotional rig's stop in Cape Girardeau is one of 34 stops it will make this year...
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CITY GEARS UP FOR RIVERFEST
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
Riverfest Association President Tom Ross took a break Thursday evening under the awning of Jayson's Jewelers to survey the preliminary work being done for Riverfest 1995. By 3 p.m. today, Cape Girardeau's downtown business area will be transformed into an open-air festival with booths, arts and crafts, live entertainment and carnival rides...
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WINDS, RAIN THRASH AREA
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
Streets in downtown Cape Girardeau looked like fast-flowing rivers about 6:30 p.m. Thursday as a severe thunderstorm thrashed the area. Water was more than waste deep on Water Street and inundated many downtown businesses. In addition to water damage, high winds shattered windows and damaged roofs around the city. Also, a Union Electric official said power outages affected 8,500 customers in the area...
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CAPE STILL IN RUNNING FOR AIRCRAFT BUILDER
(Local News ~ 06/09/95)
VisionAire Corp. has narrowed its search for a site for its proposed new VisionAire Vantage single-engine business jet manufacturing facility to two. Cape Girardeau and Ames, Iowa. "We've reviewed 30 locations," said Gary Pluth, chief financial officer of VisionAire, headquartered at the Spirit of St. ...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: `PLACE TO GROW POTATOES' IS ALL BALONEY
(Column ~ 06/09/95)
A new book that attempts to explain how the capital of Kansas got its name is a mile off the facts. Here is the real story, which is probably only a quarter-mile or so off. Sometimes history goes wacko. That certainly seems to be the case with a new book entitled "Why Do They Call It Topeka?" which is receiving some notice from reviewers around the nation. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which chooses its stories carefully, devoted the front of an Everyday section to the book this week...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/09/95)
I HAVE made a lot of bad choices in my lifetime. I was abused severely in my family and by a friend of my family. I have had very lengthy counseling. I just want to be left alone. I would like it if certain people in this town would not call me such foul words. ...
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OWEN W. GREEN
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
SIKESTON -- Owen W. Green, 75, of Sikeston, died Thursday, June 8, 1995, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. He was born Jan. 5, 1920, in Savannah, Tenn., son of Richard and Mary Hulen Green. He and Frances House were married Nov. 23, 1946, in Miner. Green was a retired farmer, and had been custodian at First Assembly of God Church 18 years. He was a member of the church. Green served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...
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BENNIE L. JONES
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
CHAFFEE -- Bennie L. Jones, 57, of Chaffee, died Thursday, June 8, 1995, at his home. He was born April 11, 1938, in Mississippi County, son of Felbert and Katie Busby Jones. He and Helen Christine Horman were married Nov. 27, 1993. Jones had been a mechanic. He was a member of Country CB Club of Chaffee...
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RALPH A. FITCH
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
CHARLESTON -- Ralph A. "Bud" Fitch, 87, Charleston Route 1, died Thursday, June 8, 1995, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Crystal City. He was born March 16, 1908, in Mississippi County, son of James Clyde and Ada Barnhill Fitch. Fitch retired from farming in 1971. He was a member of Gravel Ridge Baptist Church. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...
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W. HIRSCHEL EICHHORN AND BERNICE EICHHORN
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Memorial services for W. Hirschel and Bernice Eichhorn, both of Cairo, will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds, Ill. Both died in early April in Florida. He was 98, she was 87. Survivors include two daughters, Janice Eichhorn of Washington and Diane Espinola of East Hartford, Conn.; Hirschel Eichhorn's sister, Sophie Leow of Boston; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild...
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ADA G. CRAWFORD
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Ada Gay Crawford of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home, with the Rev. Cline Ables officiating. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Crawford, 90, died Tuesday, June 6, 1995, at Miner Nursing Center...
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R. LEE POLLEY
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for R. Lee Polley of Sikeston will be held at 4 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home, with the Rev. Ronnie Ledbetter officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Polley, 76, died Wednesday, June 7, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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TOM MERIDETH
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
BLOOMFIELD -- Walter "Tom" Merideth, 65, of Bloomfield, died Wednesday, June 7, 1995, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. He was born Feb. 16, 1930, in Hurricane Mills, Tenn., son of John R. and Ethel Baker Merideth. He and Vivian Choat were married Oct. 23, 1948, in Poplar Bluff...
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ESTEL L. BRYANT
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
Estel L. Bryant, 72, 137 County Road 206, died Thursday, June 8, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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KENNETH R. RHODES
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Kenneth R. Rhodes, 57, of Cobden, died Wednesday, June 7, 1995, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. He was born May 30, 1938, at Holcomb, Mo., son of Robert H. and Lessie White Rhodes. He and Martha E. Crowell were married Sept. 1, 1960, at Cobden...
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PATRICIA "PAT" FRIEDRICH
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
JACKSON -- Patricia "Pat" Friedrich, 59, of Jackson, died Wednesday, June 7, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 21, 1936, at Dutchtown, daughter of John Henry and Alma C. Job Schulte. She and Robert "Bob" Friedrich Jr. were married July 2, 1959...
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LOUISE WINSTEAD
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Louise Winstead, 93, of New Orleans, La., died Thursday, June 8, 1995, at St. Ann's Nursing Home in New Orleans. She was born Jan. 14, 1902, in Hopkinsville, Ky., daughter of Cave and Nellie Ford Johnson. She married John Winstead, who died in 1967...
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DAPHNE STAHL
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
PARMA -- Daphne Stahl, 96, of Parma, died Wednesday, June 7, 1995, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. She was born Nov. 10, 1898, in Sheridan, Ind., daughter of Frank and Janie Dragau Haughey. She and Chauncy Stahl were married July 6, 1915, in Sheridan. He died Aug. 28, 1973...
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GLENN WOODFIN
(Obituary ~ 06/09/95)
MARBLE HILL - Glen Woodfin, 63, of Marble Hill died Thursday, June 8, 1995, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Baker Funeral Home in Marble Hill.
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PUBLIC BROADCASTING TRUST WOULD REDUCE FEDERAL SUPPORT TO 0
(Editorial ~ 06/09/95)
Whenever the topic of government funding for public broadcasting is discussed, the issue too often is framed in an all-or-nothing context. Supporters of public broadcasting who want Congress to continue its multimillion-dollar pledge forever contend that any reduction or outright elimination of those federal dollars is tantamount to being opposed to public broadcasting in general and Big Bird, Mr. Rogers and Garrison Keillor in particular...
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RIVERFEST IS HERE
(Editorial ~ 06/09/95)
The good times and general fun of Riverfest are about to descend again on downtown Cape Girardeau. Weather permitting -- even though the Mississippi River remains above flood stage -- thousands of festival-minded fun-seekers will fill the historic downtown for a day-and-a-half salute to the mighty river...
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RIVER BENDS RACE COURSE
(College Sports ~ 06/09/95)
A fitting title for tonight's 13th Annual Kohlfeld Riverfest Run could be "A River Runs through It." Because of the Flood of '95, the annual Riverfest Run will take a slight detour to prevent the event from taking on the look of a triathlon. The 5.2-mile course will tag a jog off its traditional straight shot from Main to Cape Rock Road to Cape Rock Park. ...
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ACCLAIMED WRITER RETURNS TO CAPE
(College Sports ~ 06/09/95)
As far as the sports world is concerned, Tom Cushman has travelled to distant lands and walked with kings. He watched a 19-year-old Jack Nicklaus roll in an 8-foot putt to win the U.S. Amateur Championship, watched "The Greatest," Muhammad Ali in his crowning moment of glory in the Thrilla in Manila, and felt the ground move beneath his feet at Candlestick Park in the 1989 World Series...
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POWER PLAY: KICK THE BASEBALL HABIT WITH FORGOTTEN SPORT
(High School Sports ~ 06/09/95)
One reason why Americans like the sport of baseball so much is that virtually everybody starts playing the game at a very young age. Our feelings about the sport are heightened by nostalgic longing for the days of our youth. Over the years the greed which has become ubiquitous in the sport at the professional level has tainted much of the innocence and purity that has long been associated with the game...
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FORMER SE INDIANS THRIVING IN USBL
(College Sports ~ 06/09/95)
The Jackson (Tenn.) Jackals are struggling along in last place in the United States Basketball League, but that is apparently no fault of former Southeast Missouri State University standouts Devon Lake and Jermall Morgan. Lake and Morgan are two of the top three scorers for the Jackals, who were 2-8 and in last place in the eight-team USBL prior to Thursday night's road game against the Florida Sharks...
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