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PERRYVILLE'S SABRELINER IS FLYING HIGH
(Editorial ~ 06/04/97)
Perryville is flying high with the most recent announcement from Sabreliner Corp. A new contract with the Navy will help ensure maintenance work at its plant in Perryville. Sabreliner Corp. has facilities in eight states and employs more than 2,000. That includes just over 213 workers in Perryville...
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DEVELOPERS PROTEST CITY'S WATER HOOKUP FEE
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
SCOTT CITY -- An agreement that would have saved a developer $35,500 as he eventually placed as many as 80 homes on the city's water system was scrapped Monday night by the city council. Councilman Rodney Holloway introduced an agreement that would have allowed Orley and Betty Jackson to install one master water meter, at a cost of $500, for their subdivision instead of a $500 meter for each of the 80 homes they plan on building...
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EAST PRAIRIE VOTERS OK 10-CENT SCHOOL TAX HIKE
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
EAST PRAIRIE -- A school improvement bond proposed in East Prairie passed Tuesday night with a 78 percent majority despite a number of factors that could have defeated it. Not only is this an off-year election, it was also held outside the traditional April and November election months. Despite that, 958 voters went to the polls, with 749 voting in favor of the $1.7 million bond...
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SCOTT CITY COUPLE QUESTION HANDLING OF DOG THAT WAS LOOSE
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
SCOTT CITY -- The owners say it was a prize golden retriever puppy, 9 months old, and already trained to retrieve. The Humane Society of Southeast Missouri said the animal was sick and had to be destroyed. Now the owners, Orley and Betty Jackson of Scott City, have contacted their lawyer. "They picked up that dog and they killed it," Orley Jackson said...
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GIFT SHOP'S AIM TO KEEP MAIL COSTS DOWN
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
There is a new gift shop in Cape Girardeau -- the U.S. Post Office. Americans have long relied on the U.S. Postal Service to deliver greeting cards and gifts for Father's Day, Mother's Day, weddings, graduations and other celebrations. Now the Postal Service is offering its customers a convenience of purchasing a number of items for those and other occasions...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/04/97)
THIS IS to the people at Southeast Missouri State University who want to change the mascot from an Indian to something else. If this committee would take a look around, they would find the Indian is very much honored in this community. Several parks are named in honor of the Indians: Capaha Park, Cherokee Park, Delaware Park and the Trail of Tears Park, and I probably missed some. ...
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RUST COMMENTARY: AS PAUL HARVEY SAYS, NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY
(Column ~ 06/04/97)
Broadcaster Paul Harvey told a version of the following story on the radio many years ago. There was an old man who was a great admirer of democracy and public education. So close to his heart did he hold both institutions that he tried to bring them together into one grand experiment, a public college where students would practice self-governance. ...
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FOSTER PARENTS CAN PROVIDE INVALUABLE SERVICE
(Editorial ~ 06/04/97)
Parenting is a tough job. While it is one of the most important tasks a man or woman will undertake, it is a job that doesn't come with handbooks or step-by-step instructions. Often, people parent as their parents did. Unfortunately, that includes families rife with abuse...
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CAPE SEES DROP IN SALES TAX REVENUE; BUDGET BASED ON 2 PERCENT INCREASE
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
Sales tax revenues are down in Cape Girardeau, but the city's operating budget for next year projects a 2 percent increase in sales tax revenue. "If you have 2 percent inflation, your sales tax should grow by at least that much," said John Richbourg, Cape Girardeau's finance director. Inflation has averaged nearly 3 percent for the last few years...
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FAULKNER: SEMO TO CELEBRATE NOVELIST'S CENTENNIAL
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
Southeast Missouri State University will celebrate the centennial of American novelist William Faulkner's birth in September. The month-long celebration will include a keynote lecture by prominent Southern author Willie Morris on Sept. 10 in Dempster Hall's Glenn Auditorium...
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FED ISSUES DISMAL SOCIAL SECURITY REPORT
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
ST. LOUIS -- Federal reserve Bank economists predict that in 15 years contributions from U.S. workers will fail to cover payments to Social Security recipients. In another 15 years, reserves in the retirement fund will be exhausted, they say. Patricia s. ...
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: SOMETIMES DEJA VU JUST DOESN'T NEED TO BE REPEATED
(Column ~ 06/04/97)
"Vu" is a part of the word "to see" in French. I think "deja" is "already" or something like that. So deja vu is something that has already been seen. I have a lot of deja vu. It usually happens through my dreams -- which can be quite detailed and unusual. In fact, one of my dreams became a reality Saturday night...
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NATURE TRAIL FOR HANDICAPPED SHOULD BE FINISHED BY THE FALL
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
By fall's first colors, county officials promise that a paved trail designed especially for those with disabilities will wind through a quarter mile of pure, unfiltered nature. The trail being constructed at Cape Girardeau County Park South is nearly half complete, said County Commissioner Max Stovall, who is in charge of parks development...
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ASK JACKSON
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
The Southeast Missourian asked people what they thought about the new U.S. postage stamp that honors Bugs Bunny. Gladys Bollinger: "I think we need a little more humor. People getting a letter with Bugs Bunny on it would probably smile. I bought the stamps with birds and flowers, so I'll probably use Bugs Bunny too."...
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P&G GIVES $500,000 TO CAPE, JACKSON SCHOOLS
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
Prospects for improved technology and computer centers for the Jackson and Cape Girardeau school districts got better Tuesday. The two school districts received a total of $500,000 from Procter & Gamble Co. Tuesday. Funds are to be devoted to technology training...
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CANDIDATE NO. 2; BRUCE WEBER: LONGTIME ASSISTANT PLAYS ROLE IN PURDUE'S SUCCESS
(College Sports ~ 06/04/97)
Bruce Weber has been part of one of the nation's winningest college basketball programs the past 17 seasons. The Purdue assistant said Tuesday he would bring many of those same ideas and beliefs that have worked so well with the Boilermakers to Cape Girardeau if he is hired as Southeast Missouri State University's head men's basketball coach...
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KELLY TAKES UNDERDOG ACT INTO STATE SEMIS
(High School Sports ~ 06/04/97)
A couple of first-timers will start off the Class 2A baseball semifinals today at 11 a.m. on Simmons Field in Columbia. Kelly's Hawks and St. Mary's Trojans from Independence will both be making their first ever baseball appearances in the state Final Four. Both have won five in row with Kelly sporting a 15-9 mark. St. Mary's is 19-8...
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CHAFFEE LEGION SQUEEZES PAST BALLARD CO. 5-4
(High School Sports ~ 06/04/97)
CHAFFEE -- Chaffee's American Legion baseball team scored three runs in the bottom of the seventh to force extra innings and pushed across the winning run with a squeeze bunt for a 5-4, 10-inning victory Tuesday night over visiting Ballard County (Ky.)...
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R. RAMSEY RALEIGH
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
R. Ramsay Raleigh, 79, formerly of St. Louis, died Tuesday, June 3, 1997, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel.
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LORAINE JONES
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
BROWNWOOD -- Loraine Jones, 78, of Brownwood died Tuesday, June 3, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 6, 1919 in Brownwood, daughter of Harrison and Arleva Smith Stepp. She married Lynn Robert Jones and he preceded her in death on Feb. 6, 1978. She was a homemaker...
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KEVIN MORGAN
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral Mass for Kevin Patrick Morgan of Dallas, Texas, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church. The Rev. Jerome Fortenberry will officiate, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery in Mounds. Barkett Funeral Home at Cairo is in charge of local arrangements...
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PAULINE CLARK
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Pauline Clark, 91, of Jonesboro died Monday, June 2, 1997, at City Care Center in Anna. She was born May 26, 1906, in Union County, daughter of Thomas F. and Anna Hale Aldridge. She and Ashley Preston Clark were married Jan. 21, 1933, at Jonesboro. He died April 15, 1989...
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JACK HILL
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
CAIRO, Ill. -- John J. "Jack" Hill, 70, of Cairo died Monday, June 2, 1997, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Blytheville, Ark. He was born May 9, 1927, in Cairo, son of James Roy and Elizabeth Thomas Hill. Hill was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church and Cairo Elks Lodge. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...
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WILLIAM HICKS
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
CAIRO, Ill. -- William Silas Hicks, 79, of Cairo died Tuesday, June 3, 1997, at Clermont Mercy Hospital in Batavia, Ohio. He was born Aug. 31, 1917, in Madison, Ala., son of William Archie and Rachel Sammons Hicks. His wife, Willie May, died in 1996...
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FLORA HENRY
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
CHARLESTON -- Flora Lee Mason Henry, 77, of Charleston died Tuesday, June 3, 1997, at her home. She was born June 8, 1919, in Walls, Miss., daughter of Julius and Flora Brown Kent. She married Henry Mason, who preceded her in death. She and Alex Henry were married Nov. 3, 1973...
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CLETUS KOEHLER
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Cletus Koehler, 85, of Scott City died Monday, June 2, 1997, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 11, 1911, at Jackson, son of Fred and Emma Knibert Koehler. He and Berniece Seyer Koehler were married Jan. 24, 1976. She died Feb. 25, 1992...
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IRENE MONTGOMERY
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
Irene Palmer Montgomery, 84, of Chateau Girardeau, died there Saturday, May 31, 1997. She was born Aug. 29, 1912, at Dexter, daughter of Edward Winchester and Vivian Carrico Grojean. She first married Milton E. Palmer and they moved to Michigan. He preceded her in death. She and Raymond Montgomery were married March 25, 1951, at Dexter...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 06/04/97)
Daughter to Jerry David Robison Sr. and Sandra Michelle Whitmore of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:54 a.m. Wednesday, May 28, 1997. Name, Rikki Lanae. Weight, 8 pounds 7 ounces. Fifth child, fourth daughter. Ms. Whitmore is the former Sandra Blankenship, daughter of Richard and Patricia Minner of Scott City. She is a student at Southeast Missouri State University. Robison is the son of James and Vella Robison of Florida. He is employed at Delta Concrete Inc...
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JAMES BRINEY
(Obituary ~ 06/04/97)
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- James Rolf Briney III, 65, of Tuscaloosa and formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, May 31, 1997, at the the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Tuscaloosa. He was born February 17, 1937, in Demopolis, Ala. He earned a bachelor's and a master's degree at Auburn University, and a doctoral degree in education at the University of Alabama...
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BLACK RIVER BAR-B-QUE FEST TO BE IN JULY
(Local News ~ 06/04/97)
Team entries are being accepted for the 1997 Black River Festival Bar-B-Que Contest. The event is planned in conjunction with the 1997 Black River Festival July 4 and 5 at Wiseman Park in downtown Poplar Bluff. There will be three categories for competition: ribs, shoulders-Boston butts, and tenderloins. ...
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TALKING TRASH: THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN YOUR BIN
(Column ~ 06/04/97)
I'm sure that by now you've accepted my challenge of two weeks ago and have completed your assignment - right? You've scanned your kitchen cabinets, pantries, and 'frig and discovered those clear plastic containers for us to reuse and recycle. Let's compare lists:...
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