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LETTERS: EMERSON COVERAGE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/24/96)
To the editor: On the evening of Aug. 17 more than 700 people came to the Arena Building to support Jo Ann Emerson for Congress. It was an extraordinary show of support for a unique Independent candidacy. The crowd covered the floor and spilled over the bleachers. Jo Ann outlined her positions on the key issues in the race. The Republican candidates for governor and attorney general gave previews of their races...
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SEVERAL BLOOD DRIVES SCHEDULED
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
The American Red Cross's mobile unit will visit the area for two upcoming blood drives. The unit will be in Scott City on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at SuperValu. The unit will be in use again Thursday at a blood drive sponsored by the Southeast Missourian and the Downtown Merchants Association at the bottom of the Common Pleas Courthouse steps on Spanish Street. The blood drive will be held from noon to 6 p.m...
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CAPE CHILD AMBASSADORE FOR MDA TELETHON
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Philip Ressel, 10, of Cape Girardeau knows his job won't be easy but he is up to the challenge. Ressel will be the area's Muscular Dystrophy Goodwill Ambassador during the 1996 Jerry Lewis MDA Labor Day Telethon. The 16th annual telethon airs from 9 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 2 on KFVS TV...
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DOCTORS IN LOVE
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Drs. Bill and Marybeth Kapp with their daughters, Kelly and Reagan. Benjamin Yuen and Celia L. Chan are doctors who married. They specialize in hematology and oncology and work at Cape Girardeau Physicians Associates in Doctors Park. Cape Girardeau is home to at least five pairs of married physicians, maybe more. Some are in the same profession and even work in the same practice. Others specialize in different fields...
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WATER ISSUES
(Editorial ~ 08/24/96)
The easy part is done. The Cape Girardeau City Council has placed a bond issue and sales tax proposal on the Nov. 5 ballot. Now for the real work: The city must educate the public as to why it needs $26.5 million in water system improvement bonds, and why a 20-year, quarter-cent sales tax is needed to finance the package...
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BUSINESS BUILDING OPENS
(Editorial ~ 08/24/96)
Southeast Missouri State University business students will return Monday to a model of architectural achievement. The $15.8 million Robert A. Dempster Hall on the north end of campus is a wonderful addition. Business classes scattered in three other campus buildings have been relocated to the new structure. It is home to 65 faculty and staff, including the entire Donald L. Harrison College of Business and the computer sciences department...
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LETTERS: PROUD OF HIS RECORD
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/24/96)
To the editor: These last few weeks have afforded me the opportunity to reflect upon the events that have led to my resignation as head athletic trainer at Southeast Missouri State University. I came to Southeast with high hopes, dreams and a vision of instituting a sports medicine program that would be the envy of other universities, regardless of politics and social differences. Unfortunately, those hopes, dreams and visions will remain just that...
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THEY'RE BACK: SEMO BOOSTS LOCAL ECONOMY
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Jason Copeland sold a lot of pizzas Friday to hungry college students. For Copeland and his Domino's Pizza business in Cape Girardeau, the influx of Southeast Missouri State University students for the start of fall classes Monday is a big boost to sales...
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REAL TEST TODAY AT ANNUAL BBQ FEST
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
This is it! Barbecue teams in the Cape Girardeau BBQ Fest will be cooking for real today. Chefs warmed up by cooking hamburgers, pork steaks, beef kababs and fish at Arena Park Friday night, but it was only practice. The real competition gets under way this morning...
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COUNTY SEEKS EPA DETAILS ON KEM-PEST SITE
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Cape Girardeau County Commissioners are asking the EPA for clarification on cleanup of the Kem-Pest Superfund site. Elizabeth Knote, whose family owns the six-acre site, met with commissioners this week to discuss her concerns that the EPA isn't leaving a clean site...
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DEMOCRATS WILL GATHER AT CAPAHA
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Capaha Park will be the site of Friday's visit to Cape Girardeau by President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore. The event will be open to the public, but tickets will be required for admittance, said Rachel Fayman, press secretary for the Democratic presidential campaign in Missouri. The free tickets will be distributed throughout the area by campaign workers next week...
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TAMMS COUPLE ENJOY VISITS BY HUMMINGBIRDS
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Sitting quietly in the screened porch of their Tamms home, Jim and Lula Pickett offer quite a contrast to the frenetic activity taking place just inches outside the screen. Zooming, twisting, humming, buzzing and chirping, as many as 75 hummingbirds visit the Pickett's country home on a given summer night...
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POWER PLAY: SOME FINAL WORDS BEFORE DEPARTURE
(Column ~ 08/24/96)
Speak Out, a special phone line which readers can call to offer comments, complaints and ideas to a tape recorder, has long been a popular feature for this paper. Callers, whose comments are transcribed and printed daily, are free to anonymously spout out whatever crackpot ideas or gripes they wish. A number of those gripes have at times been directed at a certain smug columnist...
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SEMO ANTICIPATES ENROLLMENT DROP
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Southeast Missouri State University expects to have about 100 to 150 fewer students enrolled this fall than a year ago, school officials said Friday. Nearly 1,200 beginning freshmen are enrolled for classes this fall, said Dr. SueAnn Strom, vice president of student affairs...
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CHARLES EDWARD DURYEA
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Charles Edward Duryea, 75, of Cobden, died Friday, Aug. 23, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by the Lutz & Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.
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JOSEPH HODGES
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
CHARLESTON -- Joseph F. "Joe" Hodges, 73, of St. Louis died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, at his home. He was born April 13, 1923, in Charleston, son of Rube Lee and Edith Lucy Fellows Hodges. Hodges lived in St. Louis a number of years. He retired as a dispatcher with TWA. He was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church in St. Louis, where he was president of the Caravan Sunday School Class and assistant head usher...
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WILMA ADAMS
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Funeral service for Wilma Laverne Adams of Scott City will be held at 1 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. William Dickey will officiate, with burial in Lightner Memorial Cemetery. Adams, 78, died Wednesday, Aug. 21, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau...
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MARTHA KIRMSE
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Martha W. Kirmse, 100, of Perryville died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, at Perry Oaks Health Care Center. She was born May 1, 1896, in Perry County, daughter of Phillip and Clara M. Hopfer Kassel. She and Joseph Kirmse were married May 10, 1921. He died May 21, 1957...
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MINNIE EIDENBACK
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Minnie M. Eidenback of Marble Hill will be held at 11 a.m. today at Liley Funeral Chapel in Marble Hill. The Rev. Fred Ritter will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park Cemetery at Sikeston. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9 a.m...
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ROBERT RINKENBERGER
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
JACKSON -- Robert Edwin "Ed" Rinkenberger, 36, of Bonne Terre, died Friday, Aug. 23, 1996, at Mineral Area Regional Medical Center. He was born Oct. 25, 1959, in Joliet, Ill., son of Robert E. and Betty Sue Rinkenberger. He and Deborah Campfield were married July 2, 1990...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/24/96)
Daughter to Gregory Alan and Lisa Delaine Brown of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:35 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, 1996. Name, Lindsey Nicole. Weight, 9 pounds 7 ounces. Mrs. Brown is the former Lisa Niswonger, daughter of the late LeRoy and Euvela Niswonger of Cape Girardeau. She is a caseworker with Division of Family Services. Brown is the son of Rodger Brown and Deborah Brown of Cape Girardeau. He is chief operating officer at Terra Dynamic...
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ARLIE E. BAKER
(Obituary ~ 08/24/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Arlie E. Baker, 82, formerly of East Prairie, died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, at his home in Alta Loma, Calif. He was born July 17, 1914, in East Prairie, son of Lawrence and Mary Etta Gregory Baker. He lived in California the past 40 years where he was employed as a maintenance supervisor with Ameron Steel before retirement...
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SEMO BAND DIRECTOR TO HEAD UP SHOW
(Local News ~ 08/24/96)
Southeast Missouri State University band director Barry Bernhardt will direct the Kickoff Classic halftime show today. The nationally televised game marks the start of the college football season. The University of Southern California will take on Penn State in the Meadowlands in Newark, N.J. The game will be broadcast at 1 p.m. on ABC...
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