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TEACHER'S CORNER: TIME SPENT GROWING TOGETHER IS THE MOST VALUABLE PART OF LEARNING
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
JACKSON -- Becky Bockelman believes working cooperatively helps students grow educationally and spiritually. Bockelman, a teacher at St. Paul Lutheran School, said working together allows students to ask questions, weigh differing opinions and learn from each other...
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CLICK AND DOUBLE CLICK: INTERNET HAS PHOTOGRAPHY MUSEUMS AS WELL AS TIPS FOR SHUTTERBUGS
(Column ~ 12/07/99)
It's the holiday season and you know what that means. It's time to dig out the camera and take photographs of all those family gatherings. My husband is a good photographer. For me, the camera holds a bit of mystery, especially when I develop the film. How did that happen?...
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NATURE CENTER TALKS ON TAP
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
Missouri Conservation Department officials and representatives of three companies involved in designing a Conservation Campus for Cape Girardeau will meet with local officials and civic leaders today and Wednesday at the department's regional offices in Cape Girardeau County North Park...
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STOP SIGNS WILL STAY AT LEXINGTON, OLD SPRIGG
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
Safety and speeding were the main reasons the Cape Girardeau City Council rejected a proposal to remove stop signs at the intersection of Lexington Avenue and Old Sprigg Street Road. The council Monday night rejected the proposal by a 6-1 vote. Councilman Frank Stoffregen cast the only vote in favor of removing the signs...
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SEARCH FOR STRAY KITTEN ENDS IN DROWNED CAR
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
SCOTT CITY -- It started as a small-scale effort by two Delta men to rescue two cats but ended with a diving team and a tow truck. Michael Sweet and Kevin Coomer wanted only to rescue a pair of stray kittens but ended up needing a team of helpers when their vehicle rolled into the Diversion Channel about 8 p.m. Sunday...
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FRONT-YARD CAR SALES AT ISSUE IN JACKSON
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen will decide at its next meeting whether to allow vehicles for sale to be parked in front yards. The city ordinance does not allow residents to park cars, trucks, boats or motorcycles on the front yard of their residences, and a vehicle for sale is restricted to a paved surface...
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CITY OKs NEW YEAR'S FIREWORKS
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
Want to start the new millennium with a bang? The Cape Girardeau City Council passed a resolution Monday night making it a little easier to celebrate the new year with an explosion of fireworks. The council unanimously approved a resolution that allows fireworks to be discharged for one hour on New Year's Eve. Fireworks can be discharged from 11:30 p.m. Dec. 31 to 12:30 a.m. Jan. 1...
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REGENTS TO DECIDE ON HOUCK TURF
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Regents will vote Friday on a plan to tear out the natural grass field at Houck Stadium and replace it with synthetic turf. The university administration will recommend the regents hire Vibra-Whirl of Panhandle, Texas, to install FieldTurf brand synthetic grass at a cost of $744,021...
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WISCONSIN MAN CHARGED IN WEEKEND ALDI'S THEFT
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
JACKSON -- A Wisconsin man was arrested a few hours after money was taken from a Cape Girardeau grocery store, Jackson police said. Michael L. Carter, 20, of Milwaukee was arrested after police spotted his car on Jackson Boulevard with license plates suspected of being stolen, patrolman Scott Eakers said...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 12/07/99)
CONCERNING THE recent suggestion of having toll roads: I can't say I necessarily favor it, but I am certain of one thing. Don't let MoDOT manage it or we'll have all tolls and no roads. WOULD THE people who disagree with what I said about the American medical industry get their facts straight? What I have been advocating is an American system patterned after the Canadian system where all the taxpayers pay for the medical system. ...
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CLEANING OUT FIELDS OF FUTURE COLUMN IDEAS
(Column ~ 12/07/99)
People who pretend to have solutions to insoluble problems -- in other words, those of us who make a living by organizing words into readable forms -- sometimes enter subjects of possible columns for future use in their computers or dog-eared notebooks. We do this for a very good reason. There is no more pervasive feeling of panic than to wake up one morning and realize. Good Lord! I have to write a column today, and I don't have a subject...
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IT'S TIME TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF WACO MESS
(Editorial ~ 12/07/99)
As special counsel Jack Danforth's inquiry into the Waco mess proceeds, ominous reports are emanating from certain Texas precincts. If it weren't clear before, it is now: The former Missouri senator will have to confront a "pattern of non-accountability" surrounding the 1993 Waco siege existing at the Justice Department of Bill Clinton and Janet Reno. This phrase "pattern of non-accountability" comes from no less a source than the federal prosecutor who handled the case from the beginning...
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TODAY MARKS 58TH ANNIVERSARY OF DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY: PEARL HARBOR BOMBING
(Editorial ~ 12/07/99)
Today is the 58th anniversary of "the date which will live in infamy," as President Franklin D. Roosevelt aptly phrased it: The date of the Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor that compelled America's entry into World War II. America paid a dear price for a woeful lack of military preparedness, and for ignoring the many intelligence signs that pointed to a likely Japanese attack on that very installation...
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CHAMBER SETS THEME FOR ANNUAL DINNER
(Local News ~ 12/07/99)
There'll be something new at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's annual dinner next year: Shuffleboard, karaoke and gambling for prizes. "This year's annual dinner will kick things off and set the tone for change," said Linda Minner, chamber special projects director. "We decided to go with a theme for the year and that will start with our annual dinner."...
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OTAHKS HOPE TO END 6-GAME SKID AGAINST OAKLAND CITY
(College Sports ~ 12/07/99)
Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball coach Ed Arnzen hopes a Division II team will be just what the doctor ordered for the Otahkians. The Otahkians, who have lost six straight games after winning their season opener, take on Oakland City (Ind.) in a 7 o'clock tipoff tonight at the Show Me Center...
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NOTRE DAME TURNS SIKESTON TOURNEY UPSIDE DOWN
(High School Sports ~ 12/07/99)
SIKESTON -- Last Friday, Sikeston High's boys basketball team came to Notre Dame's gymnasium and knocked off the Cape Girardeau squad by two points. Monday night, Notre Dame got some payback with a thrilling 54-52 win in a battle of Bulldogs during the opening round of the 28th annual Sikeston Tournament...
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MARK PATE
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
FREDERICKTOWN -- Mark R. Pate of Fredericktown, 39, died Monday, Dec. 6, 1999, at his home. He was born on Aug. 24, 1960, at Hayti, son of Kenneth Lee and Shirley June Hinze Pate. He was a graduate of Fredericktown High School and the Kentucky School of Mortuary Science. He was an embalmer and funeral director employed by Wilson Funeral Home in Fredericktown. Earlier he had worked for many years at Cozean Funeral Home in Farmington...
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THELMA ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
PARMA -- Thelma McKenzie Allen, 80, of Parma died Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born Oct. 18, 1919, daughter of George and Lottie Sumpter McKenzie. She married James Luther "Shorty" Allen on May 31, 1946. He died Dec. 23, 1993...
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LOVA TREECE
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
ANNA, Ill. -- Lova Treece, 84, of Anna died Monday, Dec. 6, 1999, at City Care Center in Cobden. She was born Jan. 21, 1915, in Union County, daughter of Jess and Nellie Speck Vaughn. She and Jerome T. Treece were married Aug. 3, 1934, in Vienna. He died May 13, 1995...
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OPAL RAY
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Opal Jewell Ray, 86, of East Prairie died Monday, Dec. 6, 1999, at Putnam County Care Center in Unionville. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.
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HAZEL PIPPIN
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
Graveside service for Hazel L. Pippin of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1 p.m. today at Lorimier Cemetery. The Rev. Donald Stephens will officiate. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Pippin, 76, died Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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FRED HILEMAN
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
ANNA, Ill. -- Fred J. Hileman, 93, of Anna died Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999, at his home. He was born Feb. 6, 1906, in Anna, son of Walter C. and Emma Bartruff Hileman. He and Nellie Eddleman were married March 16, 1930, in Union County. Hileman farmed in Union County. He was a member of First Baptist Church...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 12/07/99)
Daughter to Kevin Owens and Christy Carroll of Jackson, Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, 8:02 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999. Name, Sierra Dawn. Weight, 3 pounds 6 ounces. Second daughter. Ms. Carroll is the former Christy Brown, daughter of Patty and Steve McCormick and Arlen Brown of Jackson. She is employed at Nearly Perfect Shoes in Jackson. Owens is the son of Eva Owens and Morris Owens of Jackson. He is employed at Drury Co...
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CATHERINE TUBBS
(Obituary ~ 12/07/99)
SIKESTON -- Catherine Alice Tubbs, 80, of Sikeston died Sunday, Dec. 5, 1999, at Clearview Nursing Center. She was born Feb. 14, 1919, at Sikeston, daughter of John and Hattie Foley Sneed. She and Carl E. "Dick" Tubbs were married Jan. 6, 1940. He died Oct. 25, 1984...
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