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LEARNING: FALL ART CLASSES
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
The fall session of the Southeast Missouri Art Academy will begin Oct 20 with four classes for youth and adults. The classes are pottery, drawing faces and figures, cartoon basics and experimental drawing. All classes are non-credit courses. Art materials for all courses will be provided by the instructor. The fee for each course is $45, except the pottery class, which costs $80 plus another $20 for additional materials...
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LEARNING: FALL MEETING SET
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Food service workers in Cape Girardeau, Bollinger, Scott and Perry counties will have their annual fall meeting Monday at Cape Girardeau Central High School. Registration begins at 5:30 p.m., followed at 6 p.m. by dinner provided by Hardin's Sysco. A meeting led by Larry Carter of Hardin's Sysco will begin at 7 p.m...
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CLICK & DOUBLE CLICK: DID ANYONE SAY 'FREE'? INTERNET OFFERS VARIETY OF FREE STUFF
(Column ~ 10/13/98)
Do you clip coupons? We do sometimes, especially on things you know you're going to need like diapers and breakfast cereal. Joni: I like looking at the advertising inserts in our Sunday newspaper. Sometimes you can find really good deals. But I confess, I probably don't clip as many coupons as I should...
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LEARNING: APPLICATIONS ACCEPTED
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
The Duke University Talent Identification Program (TIP) is accepting applications for its 19th annual summer program. TIP is a nonprofit educational organization designed to identify and develop the academic talent of bright students. To apply, students must be in the seventh grade, attend school in the region and have scored in the upper 3 percent on sections of a national achievement test. Applications are due by Nov. 2...
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LEARNING: OUTSTANDING TEACHER
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Gloria Jones, a Southeast Missouri State University graduate and native of Cape Girardeau, has been selected as the 1998 Outstanding Elementary Social Studies Teacher of the Year by the National Council for Social Studies. Jones, who lives in Springfield, Mo., will be honored at the 78th National Council for the Social Studies annual conference Nov. 21 in Anaheim, Calif...
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LEARNING: FUNDING AVAILABLE
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Mercantile Bank and FutureBuilders, a Missouri School Boards Association foundation, have teamed up to sponsor "Community Counts," a program designed to challenge sixth through 12th grade students to improve their communities. The program awards funds to students who design community improvement projects. It is and attempt to get more young people involved in their communities...
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LEARNING: KELLY FFA ACTIVE
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
The Kelly High School chapter of Future Farmers of America recently elected new officers for the year. The 1998-99 officers are: Daniel Mothershead, president; Doug Felter and Matt Richbourg, vice-presidents; Beth Glueck, secretary; Russ Mothershead, treasurer; Justin Johnson, reporter; Jim Hulshof, sentinel; Amber Scherer, historian; Chris Weber, parliamentarian; and Daniel Mothershead, chaplain...
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LEARNING: THREE NOMINATED FOR KING
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Several area students competed for the title of 1998 Homecoming King at the University of Missouri at Rolla Oct. 3-4. The winner was chosen after interviews and a campus-wide election held the week prior to Homecoming. Nathan Fraser, a senior, was the third-runner up for the title. He was nominated by Chi Omega fraternity and is the son of John and Patty Fraser of Scott City...
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SOUTHEAST P.M.: THE BENEFITS OF NIGHT SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Southeast P.M. provides working adults with an opportunity to pursue an undergraduate degree at night. Brett Yount heads the keyboard department at Shivelbine's Music Store. Nineteen eighty-nine was a year of decision for Brett Yount of Cape Girardeau. He got married, decided to devote more time to his music career and dropped out of college...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: EXPERIENCES IMPORTANT FOR LEARNING LANGUAGES
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
SCOTT CITY -- Spanish teacher Gloria Arnold believes that by forming classroom lessons based on her life's experiences, she can teach her students practical information they can apply to real-life situations. Arnold has 11 years of teaching experience and is in her first year as a teacher at Scott City High School. Although she took a 12-year hiatus from teaching to work in another field, those experiences serve her well when working with her students...
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LEARNING: STUDENTS HONORED
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Two Notre Dame High School students were honored recently as the Elks Students of the Month. Nathan Essner, 17, son of Robert and Karla Essner of Kelso, is the September student of the month. He has been active in National Honor Society, Boys State, Student Council, school musicals and varsity baseball and soccer. ...
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LEARNING: GRADUATION PLANNED
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
A commencement program for students who have received their GED or who have completed vocational training at Mingo Job Corps will be held at 3 p.m. Friday at Mingo Job Corps Center in Puxico. The ceremony is open to the public. A reception for graduates and their guests will be provided by the culinary arts department...
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AFRICAN UNREST: CAPE PAIR'S MEDICAL WORK IS CUT SHORT
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Dr. C. John Ritter and his wife, Marcia Southard-Ritter, arrived in Liberia in July with plans to work as volunteers-in-mission at a rural hospital until the end of December. But a flare-up of the west African nation's continuing political unrest forced the Ritters to flee before the end of September...
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SCHOOL SUITS DISCUSSED ON INTERNET
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Legal issues involving two Bollinger County school districts are being discussed on the World Wide Web. Internet Web sites that cater to parental or student discussion groups contain discussions on litigation in Meadow Heights and Woodland school districts. The issues could have national ramifications...
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ORAN GETS SAFER RAIL CROSSING; SIX KILLED AT SHELBY STREET IN 40 YEARS
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
ORAN -- After two years of persistence by Sylvia McGranahan's family, Oran has a safer railroad crossing. A dedication ceremony was held Monday to officially open the crossing gate and signals on Shelby Street where McGranahan and a friend, Wanda Johns, were killed March 8, 1996...
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BETWEEN THE LINES: HAVE WE BECOME SO HARDENED THAT EMOTION ESCAPES US?
(Column ~ 10/13/98)
We see so many awful things around us that we quit paying attention when they happen. I became a journalist for many reasons, but one of the most important was that I wanted to tell people stories -- stories about real people and real life. In this job I get to tell lots of stories -- everything from deacon elections and pastoral changes in area churches to fire, death and other tragedies...
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DEXTER'S HOSPITAL SEEKS SURVIVAL TACTIC
(Editorial ~ 10/13/98)
Trustees of Dexter Memorial Hospital announced recently that they are seeking to affiliate with a larger institution outside their immediate service area. This comes after years of financial decline and is another piece of evidence of the trend toward mergers and affiliations that is sweeping through the health-care industry...
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STUDY SHOWS EXPENSE OF BUREAUCRATIC PROCEDURES
(Editorial ~ 10/13/98)
Southern Illinois University could save at least $10 million a year if it followed a consultant's advice to combine purchasing operations and eliminate redundant bureaucracies at the school's three campuses, school officials recently said. "It's probably going to be a lot more than that," said SIU spokesman Jack Dyer...
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MEDICAL SOCIETY PRESIDENT REVIEWS CONCERNS ABOUT HOSPITAL MERGER
(Editorial ~ 10/13/98)
(The information below was first published as the President's Message in the Cape County Medical Journal.) The method of medical care for Southeast Missouri may be at a critical crossroad. The hospitals have been working hard toward a merger, and as president of your society, I have been asked by the hospitals to submit a letter of support toward these efforts. ...
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LETTERS: DECISION CREATES CONFLICT OF FAITH
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/13/98)
To the editor: I read your article on how the First Baptist Church of Cape Girardeau had been dropped from the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association. While I was reading it, I simply was disgusted that the association had virtually kicked out a church simply because it ordained women as deacons...
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JACKSON BOARD OF ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Tuesday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m. Board of Education office Action Items: -- Consider board policy EEAB: Bus scheduling and routing. -- Consider bus routes for 1998-99. -- Consider administrative guidelines for transportation. -- Consider proposal from Health South to furnish score table...
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COMMITTEE SEEKING INPUT ON NAME FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
An ad hoc committee to the Cape Girardeau Board of Education is seeking public input on a name for the school district's newest elementary school. Board members said they wanted the committee to be representative of the community and to includes representatives from Washington and May Greene schools, which are scheduled to close at the end of the 1998-99 school year. The new elementary school is on schedule to open next fall...
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MARCHING TIGERS WIN BAND AWARDS
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
The Cape Girardeau Central High School Marching Tigers performed in two band competitions Saturday. Bandsmen attended the Francis Howell Marching invitational in the morning and received the third-place trophy in the silver division. In the afternoon, they competed in the 13th annual Rebel Invitational at Park Hills. ...
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8TH DISTRICT CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATES WILL HOLD FORUM
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
Candidates for the 8th District congressional seat will discuss issues at a voters forum at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The forum will be held at Dempster Auditorium on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. It is sponsored by The League Of Women Voters of Southeast Missouri, the university's departments of political science and mass communication...
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POLITICS, ETHICS TOPIC OF MESSER LECTURES
(Local News ~ 10/13/98)
For eight years, minister and religion professor Dr. Robison B. James was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, one of the world's oldest legislative bodies. At a moment in time when politics and the people involved are being mocked, James' experience leads him to deliver a message of reassurance and hope about both...
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INDIANS BEGIN TURNING THEIR ATTENTION TO TSU (SEMO NOTES)
(College Sports ~ 10/13/98)
Southeast Missouri State University's football Indians are understandably still excited about Saturday's big 29-24 win at Tennessee Tech -- but head coach John Mumford realizes they have to calm down in a hurry. Up next for the Indians is a home game against Tennessee State -- which is coming off a mighty big win of its own. The Tigers stunned heavy Ohio Valley Conference favorite Eastern Kentucky 31-21 on the road Saturday...
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WEBBER LEFT QUITE A LEGACY AS JACKSON FOOTBALL COACH
(College Sports ~ 10/13/98)
Paul Webber was an extremely large man with an equally big heart say two of the Jackson High School football coaches who worked with Webber for much of the 1970s and 1980s. Webber, Jackson's head football coach from 1969 through 1988, died Sunday in St. Louis of a heart attack at age 53. He had been an assistant principal at Hazelwood East High School in St. Louis County for the past four years...
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JACKSON VOLLEYBALL TEAM WINS AGAIN
(High School Sports ~ 10/13/98)
FREDERICKTOWN -- Jackson High's volleyball team continued its sensational season Monday night as the Lady Indians knocked off host Fredericktown 15-12, 15-11. Heather Brown had 19 assists, two service aces and four blocks as the Lady Indians improved their record to 23-2-2...
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BRIEFLY: OTAHKS ON ROAD TONIGHT
(College Sports ~ 10/13/98)
Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball team will go up against somebody that is probably extremely familiar with its program tonight. The Otahkians will hit the road to face Murray State in a 7 p.m. Ohio Valley Conference match. Murray State is coached by Dave Schwepker, a 1987 Southeast graduate who was an assistant coach at Southeast under Cindy Gannon from 1992 through 1995...
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JOHN DILLOW
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- John O. Dillow, 85, of rural Jonesboro died Monday, Oct. 12, 1998, at his home. He was born July 22, 1913, at Illmo, Mo., son of John and Addie McLane Dillow. He and Trecca Lucille Sharp were married Sept. 17, 1972, in Ware, Ill. She died July 18, 1993...
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LEON GEILE
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Leon V. Geile, 77, of Perryville died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, at Perry County Nursing Home. He was born Jan. 16, 1921, at Leadwood, son of Theodore and Alice French Geile. He and Marian E. Steffen were married June 4, 1949. Geile was a retired tuck-point contractor. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church, VFW Post 4282, Amvets Post 94, American Legion Post 133, and Optimist Club...
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MILDRED HILL
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
BLOOMFIELD -- Mildred Kathryn Hill, 85, of Bloomfield died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at her home. She was born Feb. 7, 1913, in Cincinnati, Ohio, daughter of John and Kathryn Lyons Dickinson. She and William Blaine Hill were married Sept. 4, 1937. He died Feb. 21, 1973...
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ELIZABETH FELKINS
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
BLOOMFIELD -- Elizabeth May Felkins, 91, of Bloomfield died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at Crowley Ridge Care Center in Dexter. She was born Jan. 24, 1907, at Clines Island, daughter of Andrew and Ellen Link Kelley. She and Charles Felkins were married Aug. 2, 1936. He died March 5, 1990...
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CHARLES RENDLEMAN
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Funeral for Charles A. Rendleman of Kimberling City, Mo., will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden. The Rev. Clifford Heil will officiate, with burial in Alto Pass Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday, and Thursday until service time...
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LORENE DEWITT
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Lorene DeWitt, 85, died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born April 8, 1913, in Alexander County, daughter of William Richard and Mary Elizabeth Harvell. She and John A. DeWitt were married Nov. 24, 1933, in Jonesboro. He died Dec. 7, 1987...
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RUBY PEREZ
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
Ruby Mae Perez, 86, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, in Fredericktown. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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JESSIE REED
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
DEXTER -- Jessie A. Reed, 91, died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 8, 1907, in Pemiscot County, daughter of Ashley and Elizabeth Gible Abshire. She and Guy E. Reed were married Jan. 29, 1928, at Benton. He died Feb. 2, 1974...
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SUSIE MYERS
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
THEBES, Ill. -- Susie Myers, 88, of Thebes died Monday, Oct. 12, 1998, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Crain Funeral Home in Tamms is in charge of arrangements.
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LONGTIME JACKSON FOOTBALL COACH PAUL WEBBER JR. DIES
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
JACKSON -- Funeral for Paul Webber Jr. of St. Louis, former teacher and coach at Jackson High School, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Church of Christ in Jackson. Brian Magnuson will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today, and after 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at the church...
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JANICE FOWLER
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
DEXTER -- Janice Lou Reynolds Fowler, 52, formerly of Essex and Dexter, died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, at St. Joseph Health Center in St. Charles. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Dexter is in charge of arrangements.
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PEARL SCULLY
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
Pearl Golden Scully, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Oct. 12, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center. Her husband, Dr. Mark Scully, was president of Southeast Missouri State University many years. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 10/13/98)
Son to David K. and Margaret M. Yates of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:04 a.m. Monday, Oct. 5, 1998. Name, Hunter Collin. Weight, 7 pounds 11 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Yates is the former Margaret Thompson, daughter of Ralph and Lorene Thompson of Perryville. She is manager of marketing at Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. Yates is the son of LaVerne Yates of Sikeston, and the late Hulett Yates. He is a regional sales manager...
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BERNICE FRICKE
(Obituary ~ 10/13/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Bernice M. Fricke, 90, formerly of Perryville, died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at Manor Care Camino Vista Nursing Center in Albuquerque, N.M. She was born Nov. 11, 1907, in Perry County, daughter of Ben and Frances Buchheit Leible. She and Theodore F. Fricke were married Jan. 10, 1939, at Perryville. He died in December 1987...
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