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UNIVERSITY PLANS
(Editorial ~ 02/10/96)
Southeast Missouri State University has fashioned a plan to take the campus into the 21st century. The university has developed measurable standards and a strategy to achieve these goals. The university should be better, more efficiently run institution for this effort...
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LEAD MINE PAYS RECORD PENALTY; ASARCO ALSO MUST BUILD A WATER TREATMENT PLANT
(Local News ~ 02/10/96)
FARMINGTON -- Officials in Poplar Bluff, Piedmont and other cities and towns down river from a polluting lead mine say they expect to hear from the state if excess lead discharged into the Black River poses any danger to their supplies of drinking water...
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GOVERNOR: STANDARDS ARE TOUGHER
(Local News ~ 02/10/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Students in Missouri will get a better education when local districts and legislators work together to improve the system, said Gov. Mel Carnahan Friday during a visit to Scott City Schools. Lawmakers can talk about bills and budgets, but seeing students at work is what education is all about, he said. "Everything about school reform is not money."...
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CARNAHAN VISITS SCOTT CITY SCHOOLS
(Local News ~ 02/10/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Second-grader Haley Davis knew exactly what Gov. Mel Carnahan would be doing when he visited her school Friday morning because it's what she would do if she were governor for a day. He shook hands with visitors and talked to reporters. But the highlight of Haley's activities as governor would be to watch herself on the evening news after talking to reporters...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: LOVELORN SINGLES UNITE TO SHOOT CUPID
(Column ~ 02/10/96)
I found the best Valentine's Day card in the universe for my best buddy, Lynn. It has an old lady on the front giving a hand signal you wouldn't expect from a grandma. Inside, it says, "It's Valentine's Day! Time to give Cupid a little something for all the guys he fixed us up with."...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 02/10/96)
WHY HASN'T the Missourian published anything about that earthquake fault that was discovered south of Cape and which the Post-Dispatch published on its front page? I saw it in another paper as well. Are you guys trying to hide something from the public?...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 02/10/96)
Daughter to Eric Leo Humphrey and Amy Michelle Manker of Charleston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:20 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 18, 1996. Name, Alyssa Brooke. Weight, 7 pounds 6 ounces. Miss Manker is the daughter of David and Alpha Manker of Charleston. She is a checker at Kmart. Humphrey is the son of Terry and Judy Humphrey of Charleston and Connie Wright of East Prairie. He is a stockman at Kmart...
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QUENTIN LAMBERT
(Obituary ~ 02/10/96)
BERTRAND -- Quentin Lambert, 77, of Bertrand, died Friday, Feb. 9, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Dec. 15, 1918, near Winfield, Ala., son of Mack and Cora Pendley Lambert. He and Colleen McMullin were married June 19, 1938, in Essex...
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EARL D. LOWES
(Obituary ~ 02/10/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Earl D. Lowes, 64, of Perryville died Friday, Feb. 9, 1996, at Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Festus. He was born July 12, 1931, to Charles and Stella Wilson Lowes in Oak Ridge. Lowes married Viola M. Baer On Jan. 10, 1953. She survives...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 02/10/96)
Scott County Benjamin Leon Wheeler and Roberta Mae Wheeler to Frey Farm; Dora E. Mantel to Emery Max and Linda Gale Moore; Phillip B. Greene to Jerry W. and Kimberly S. Petitt Jr.; William M. Vanover and Iritta G. Vanover to David D. and Brenda L. Limbaugh; Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority to West Lake Quarry and Material Company...
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LENA V. WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 02/10/96)
Lena V. Williams, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Feb. 9, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Aug. 7, 1916, to Charles and Blanche Alls Seagraves in Linn, Ark. She married Clarence Williams in 1937. He died in March 1975. Survivors include a daughter, Jennie Neely of Cape Girardeau; a brother, Harry Glenn of Aliceville, Ala.; a sister, Eunice Rouse of Hornersville; two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren...
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A HEART FOR TRENTIS; BOY WITH NEW HEART VALVE HOPES TO PLAY SPORTS
(Local News ~ 02/10/96)
Trentis Miller was 6 weeks old when doctors told his parents he would need to have a valve in his heart replaced. "Right after he was born, they knew he had some kind of a heart problem," said Marsha Miller, Trentis's mother. Now 14 and an eighth-grader at Jackson Junior High School, Trentis had the surgery in August at St. Louis Children's Hospital. This year he hopes to try out for several sports...
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