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LETTERS: FUN FEST'S OTHER SPONSORS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/15/97)
To the editor: We appreciate the Missourian's Sunday coverage of Senior Fun Fest, but we do need to clarify that Southeast Missouri Hospital is not the sole event sponsor. We are one of four corporate sponsors, the others being Mercantile Bank of Cape Girardeau, Schnucks and the Area Agency on Aging. ...
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BENDER'S ANGELS: VOLUNTEERS AID FAMILIES AROUND THE AREA
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Tim Bender was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 1990. The Cape Girardeau man was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., when his doctor said additional tests were needed. But Bender said no. "I told him, `I can have the rest of this checked out at home. We have good doctors there. It's time for me to get on with my life.' At the time, I didn't know how it was going to affect me. I just made up my mind that I was going to whatever I could."...
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FAMILY FINDS JOY IN VOLUNTEERING
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
If you want to talk to anyone in the Reinagel family you may want to just leave them a message on their answering machine. They are rarely home. You won't find them sitting idle at home said family friend Virgina Scott. Scott said she is honored to be the friend of Tom and Susan Reinagel and their children Kristen, 19 and Scott, 15. She said volunteering is a way of life for the Reinagels, who live in Cape Girardeau...
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COUNTY GUN CLUB TO SPONSOR OPEN HOUSE ON SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County Gun Club will hold an open house from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Gun club members will be demonstrating skeet and trap shooting. Visitors will be given a chance to try their hand at those activities for free. The club will also have refreshments...
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SCOUT INITIATIVE FOCUSES ON URBAN, RURAL YOUTHS
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Boy Scout administrators hope to continue goals of their founders with a new initiative targeting under-served urban and rural youth in Southeast Missouri. Administrators in the Greater St. Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, are visiting area towns to build scouting programs in the communities of socially-, culturally- and economically-deprived children. They are emphasizing strong leadership and safe meeting places in the campaign, called Urban/Rural Chartered Partnership...
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GRANT HELPS CENTRAL STUDENTS DISCOVER DNA, PERFORM TESTS
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
In the name of DNA collection, Akelia Duncan swished saline solution around in her mouth, made a face, and then spit it back in the cup marked with a special number. "It tastes disgusting," said Duncan, a Cape Girardeau Central High School junior. It is all just part of the process that about 40 students went through Wednesday to collect strands of their own DNA...
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CENTRAL STUDENTS, OTHERS WILL RALLY TODAY AGAINST UNDERAGE DRINKING
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Students at Cape Girardeau Central High School will join the fight against underage drinking when they host a Missouri Youth Rally today. Nearly 1,000 Central students will meet on the school's front lawn at 8:30 a.m. They will be joined by local and state dignitaries for the hourlong rally, which begins with the arrival of a National Guard UH-1 "Huey" helicopter...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 05/15/97)
I WOULD like to express appreciation to Union Electric for landscaping in front of its fence in the 1600 block of Independence. And I would like to express my delight that Union Electric preserved the two rows of beautiful trees in the 1700 block. THANK YOU for allowing me this opportunity. ...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 05/15/97)
Missouri legislators have spent so much of this session discussing a $40 increase in daily expense allowances that they missed the deadline for approving a nearly $15 billion state budget. Some Missourians express concern over the number of legislators who have been arrested for driving while drinking. It's the No. 1 topic in neighborhood bars...
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LETTERS: STORY FULFILLED A PURPOSE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/15/97)
To the editor: Peggy Scott's account of the death of Clayton Huey was one of the best stories I've ever seen. In a time when only "info-tainment" qualifies for media play, her story deftly brought in so much meaningful information. She truly educated in that account of his death and fulfilled a purpose of the journalist and the newspaper...
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KINDNESS HOTLINE CALLS
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Thanks to social worker Siemers also reports that Carla Dolan, a social worker at The Lutheran Home, deserves a thank you for the extra help and attention she gives. Dolan coordinates schedules for appointments and also accompanies Siemers in case she needs any help. "She's a very personable lady," Siemers said. "My life would be rather complicated without her."...
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LETTERS: BIG SUPPORT FOR RALLY EVENTS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/15/97)
To the editor: Central High School is pleased to host a rally today, one of seven sites selected statewide. The state sponsors are the Missouri Youth/Adult Alliance Against Underage Drinking, the Missouri National Guard and the Missouri Association of Community Task Forces. They will bring a team of dignitaries to conduct the hour-long rally, which begins at 8:30 a.m...
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BAIT AND SWITCH: MORE PRISONS `FIGHT CRIME' AS STATISTICS DROP
(Editorial ~ 05/15/97)
Mike Lybyer, chairman of the Missouri Senate's Appropriations for Education and Public Safety Committee, recently asked how the state could "keep from building more prisons." Finding a solution, the chairman emphasized, "could be one of the best things you could do for higher education."...
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SUPERINTENDENT AMONG HONORED EDUCATORS
(Editorial ~ 05/15/97)
When the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce gave its Educators of the Year Awards recently, it recognized three outstanding teachers and an administrator who has excelled in her field. But there also was a surprise honor: Dr. Dan Tallent, superintendent of the Cape Girardeau School District, was honored with a resolution citing his efforts in getting the $14 million school bond issue passed this year...
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AFFORDABLE-HOUSING EFFORTS LOOK TO CREATIVE PLANS
(Editorial ~ 05/15/97)
Efforts to find ways to make more affordable housing available in the Cape Girardeau area are continuing, but officials of government agencies say the demand for lower-income rentals and mortgages far exceeds the available supply. Government programs that assist with rent payments have long been the major force in providing subsidies and other assistance to low-income renters. But with reforms in federal and state welfare programs, this is expected to change drastically...
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EPA INTERVIEWS GIRARDEANS
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
The Environmental Protection Agency is conducting interviews with people in Cape Girardeau concerning the handling of the Missouri Electric Works Superfund site and other EPA concerns. "We want to know what people are thinking," said Hattie Thomas, a spokesperson for the EPA office at Kansas City, Kan., which keeps tabs on happenings in the four states of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa and Nebraska...
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SEMO PANEL SUGGESTS SUN-FIGURE MASCOT
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
A Southeast Missouri State University committee has recommended the school adopt a sun figure as its mascot and scrap its war-beat-sounding pep song. The mascot would be called Bernie or Burnie. The suggested mascot also fits in with the school's Sundancers group that performs at Southeast's athletic events...
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TODAY'S RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS: STATION HONORS YEAR OF KIND PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Shoppers in Lois McFadden's checkout lane at Schnucks are likely to get a little something extra for their grocery dollar. If a customer has purchased just one of a buy-one-get-one-free item, McFadden points that out. She also helps shoppers get the best deal on sale items and treats every customer as if they were the only one in the store...
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CAPE AIRPORT COULD GET SIX MORE FLIGHTS
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Cape Girardeau Regional Airport could get subsidies for six more scheduled airline flights each week, the airport manager told a special joint meeting of the Cape Girardeau City Council and Airport Board in the unused airport restaurant Wednesday. Airport manager Bruce Loy told the council that Congress has passed a bill to increase the funding for the Essential Airline Service program. ...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: JANE BARNETT; A WOMAN WHO WALKED IN BEAUTY
(Column ~ 05/15/97)
May 15, 1997 Dear Julie, Jane Barnett was a singular Cape Girardeau personage for almost 60 years, a colorful woman who did not live life in the browns and grays of conformity. At her memorial service last weekend, a friend broke down trying to read the poem "When I Am an Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple." Miss Jane, as she was known to some, wore purple and whatever other colors pleased her all her life...
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INDIAN AUTHOR RELATES `BALANCE' IN SOCIETY
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Donning a traditional Cherokee shawl, Marilou Awiakta, Cherokee-Appalachian writer and storyteller, said the imbalance in society today is from an imbalance among genders. Awiakta addressed over 200 people Wednesday at Southeast Missouri State University's Common Hour program...
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SCOTT FIREFIGHTERS FOCUS ON SPILLS
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Fire personnel in Scott County have been working to implement a command structure for handling hazardous material spills and large fires. They have had ample opportunity this week to practice that command system with an anhydrous ammonia spill in Delta Monday night and a fire at Sikeston Creosoting near Vanduser Tuesday...
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SOIL BEING REMOVED IN CLEANUP OF RAILROAD-TIE FIRE
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
VANDUSER -- The cleanup continues at Sikeston Creosoting, the site of a fire that burned for five hours Tuesday. The fire destroyed the building where workers soaked railroad ties with creosote but spared the company's offices and stacks of untreated railroad ties in a five-acre field...
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CENTRAL HIGH GRADUATE SEVERELY BURNED
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
A graduate of Central High School remains in critical condition following an accident that left him severely burned. Doug Benton of Breckenridge, Colo., received third degree burns on 32 percent of his upper body when a painting job turned into an inferno...
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INDIANS SET FOR OVC TOURNAMENT; SEMO BASEBALL TEAM FACES EASTERN ILLINOIS TODAY
(College Sports ~ 05/15/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team barely slipped into the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament. Now coach Mark Hogan is hoping the Indians can slip out with the championship. The Indians and five other teams will begin the OVC tourney today at Reese Smith Field in Murfreesboro, Tenn. The squad that emerges Saturday with the title earns a berth in the NCAA Tournament...
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UNLIKELY LONG BALL PROPELS BULLDOGS
(High School Sports ~ 05/15/97)
Entering Wednesday's baseball showdown for first place in the SEMO Conference at Cape Girardeau Central's Tiger Field, Notre Dame senior shortstop Dan Wittenborn had never hit a home run out of the park. Sure, with his speed, he'd hit a few inside-the-park homers in all his days of summer league baseball growing up. But at 5-foot-10, 165-pounds, Wittenborn was hardly looked to as a power hitter ... until now...
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SCOTT CITY ROMPS PAST JACKSON 9-3
(High School Sports ~ 05/15/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Scott City High's baseball team knew that it could handle its more populous neighbors to the north -- the Rams beat Cape Central in the Big 8 Tournament last weekend. And Scott City had an extra incentive to beat visiting Jackson Wednesday -- revenge. In the third-place game of the Big 8, the Indians humiliated the Rams 11-0 in five innings...
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BRIEFLY: SEMO TRACK ATHLETES SET TO COMPETE AT INDIANA
(College Sports ~ 05/15/97)
Several Southeast Missouri State University track athletes will compete in Saturday's Billy Hayes Invitational at Indiana University in an attempt to qualify for the NCAA Championships. The Southeast women's team will have entries in the 400-meter and 1,600-meter relays, featuring Shannon O'Dell, Yvonne Hente, Shauna Birge and Kim Stewart in the 400, and O'Dell, Hente, Stewart and Tammy Wenkel in the 1,600...
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BRIEFLY: CENTRAL NETTERS BOW OUT OF DISTRICT TOURNAMENT
(High School Sports ~ 05/15/97)
ST. LOUIS -- Cape Girardeau Central High's boys tennis team found the going rough here Wednesday during the Class 4A, District 1 Tournament. The Tigers scored only four points to finish toward the bottom of the nine-team meet as they ended their season...
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ALEINE M. FADLER
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Aleine M. Fadler, 79, of St. Charles died Tuesday, May 13, 1997, at her home. She was born Oct. 1, 1917, in Yount, daughter of Frank and Sarah Harper Crites. She married Harry C. Fadler on March 26, 1937, and he preceded her in death on April 2, 1992...
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ALMA KINDER
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
JACKSON -- Funeral Mass for Alma Mary Kinder of Jackson will be held at 10 a.m. today at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Msgr. Edward Eftink will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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DOYLE HENDRIX
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
JACKSON -- Funeral service for Doyle "Whitey" Hendrix of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Robert Dudley will officiate, with burial in Morgan Memorial Park at Advance. Hendrix, 52, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997, at his home...
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LARRY BUTLER
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
OLD APPLETON -- Graveside service for Larry E. Butler of Manchester will be held at 10 a.m. today at Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery in Old Appleton. The Rev. Janet Hopkins will officiate. Young and Sons Funeral Home at Perryville is in charge of arrangements...
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LETTY TAYLOR
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
GRAND CHAIN, Ill. -- Letty Mae Taylor, 75, of Grand Chain died Wednesday, May 14, 1997, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. She was born Feb. 2, 1922, in Karnak, daughter of Albert and Mary Lee Goins Eastwood. She and James H. Taylor were married Feb. 22, 1947, in Mayfield, Ky...
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VERA EDWARDS
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
DEXTER -- Vera Louise Edwards, 74, of Dexter died Wednesday, May 14, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 13, 1923, at Pyle Town, daughter of Benjamin Franklin and Anna May Middleton Waggoner. She and Mitchel Edwards were married Nov. 19, 1941, at Dexter...
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MABEL MOORE
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Mabel Moore, 85, of Perryville died Wednesday, May 14, 1997, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Jan. 19, 1912, in Perry County, daughter of Dennis and Louise Kiefer Feltz. She and Thomas J. Moore were married April 20, 1932, in St. Louis. He died March 11, 1977...
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HAROLD GARDNER
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Harold Eugene Gardner, 65, of Salem died Wednesday, May 14, 1997, at St. Mary's Hospital in Centralia. He was born Aug. 6, 1931, in Jonesboro, son of Wendell and Wanda Sauerbrunn Gardner. Gardner served in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War. He was a member of Salem Lutheran Church...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/15/97)
Son to Danny and Sabrina Harris of Charleston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:52 p.m. Tuesday, April 29, 1997. Name, Hunter Page. Weight, 9 pounds 7 ounces. First child. Mrs. Harris is the former Sabrina Cates, daughter of Larry J. Cates of Batavia, Ohio, and Brenda Sander of Jackson. She is employed at Enterprise-Courier in Charleston. Harris is the son of Junior and Ann Harris of Charleston. He is a deputy with Mississippi County Sheriff's Department...
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EVA L. FOSTER
(Obituary ~ 05/15/97)
Eva L. Foster, 98, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 14, 1997, at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.
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BACK IN THE SADDLE WITH RIDERS IN THE SKY
(Local News ~ 05/15/97)
Ranger Doug heard his first cowboy music the way most people of his generation did -- on television. Sheriff John was his favorite singing TV cowboy, and he loved the Wagonmasters, a group that sang around a campfire at the Southern California theme park Knott's Berry Farm. But Ranger Doug didn't play western music when he grew up, putting his guitar to use instead "in the big folk scare of the '60s."...
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