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Q&A WITH JOAN JETT
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
The New York Dolls, a 1970s glitter band, provided Joan Jett's introduction to rock 'n' roll at age 12. A year later she was learning to play the guitar and listening to Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. At 15, she helped form the first all-girl rock band, the Runaways, beginning a career that has thrived by breaking barriers...
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DEF LEPPARD: BOMBAST FOR MASSES
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
When the history of rock 'n' roll music is written, Def Leppard will be known as "a band that survived the '80s and came out stronger," says guitarist Viv Campbell. Def Leppard sometimes is lumped with hair spray metal bands like Poison and Cinderella that made '80s music and bad music synonymous. Campbell insists that not all music made in the 1980s was bad...
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HOMEMADE PIPE BOMB FOUND NEAR NEW RIVER BRIDGE
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
A pipe bomb found earlier in the day on the west bank of the Mississippi River near the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge construction site was intentionally detonated by specially trained law enforcement officers Wednesday night. Two officers from the Missouri Highway Patrol explosives detonation unit and three agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms used a device called a "disrupter" to send a charge into the homemade bomb, blowing it apart. ...
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HEARING DATE SET IN DECEIT CASE
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
JACKSON -- Bradley W. McIntyre, accused of stealing more than $500,000 from a Cape Girardeau philanthropist by deceit, made his first appearance in court on Wednesday. For a year and a half, ending last November, McIntyre, 40, received money from B.W. ...
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RIVER CAMPUS WOULD GET $11.95 MILLION
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
JEFFERSON CITY -- In a boost for Southeast Missouri State University's planned River Campus, an additional $11.95 million in state money for the project has made it into the governor's proposed 2001 Missouri budget. The university plans to spend about $36 million to turn the former St. Vincent's Seminary in Cape Girardeau into a center for visual and performing arts...
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VO-TECH SCHOOL FUNDS OMITTED FROM BUDGET
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
JEFFERSON CITY -- A $1.8 million request for Cape Girardeau's new vocational-technical school was left out of Gov. Mel Carnahan's proposed state budget for the upcoming fiscal year. However, an official with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education said the absence of the funding in the department's budget request was an oversight and the project's funding likely will be added...
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SEMO SPRING ENROLLMENT DOWN
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
Southeast Missouri State University has 79 fewer students enrolled in spring semester classes this year than it did on the first day of classes a year ago. Total headcount at Southeast stood at 7,526 on Tuesday, the first day of classes for the spring semester...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: GOLF CAN BE TOUGH IN THE KINGDOM OF JANUARY ON GOOSE CREEK
(Column ~ 01/20/00)
Jan. 20, 2000 Dear Ken, Mild weather has made golf in January a reality. We played on New Year's Eve and a few days since then. Reality is better some days than others. John and I played Monday because the forecast was for temperatures 55 to 60 with the possibility of rain. ...
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JUMP START PROGRAM GIVES UNEMPLOYED PUSH INTO WORK FORCE
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
Annie Bell thinks she is more successful in her job and a better role model for her two children since graduating from the Jump Start for Jobs program. Bell said the employment program taught her many things that have helped in the three months she's been a certified nurse's assistant at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services...
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PROFESSIONAL ANGLER TO LEAD CLINIC IN CAPE
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
For more than 240 days a year, Mike Auten has some cramped office quarters. And, it's a bit crowded, with the tools of his trade. Auten's office is a Skeeter ZX202c bass boat, equipped whit a Yamaha, 200-HP motor. Also included on the list of equipment are a trolling motor, rods and reels, some electronic devices, and other items necessary in the quest of bass...
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GROUP OFFERS THOUGHTS ON EXPEDITION'S BICENTENNIAL
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
Cape Girardeau is in the perfect position to kick off celebrations for the bicentennial anniversary of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, area historians say. An informal three-person committee formed to mark the 200th anniversary of Lewis and Clark's expedition asked the city's Historic Preservation Commission for its support Wednesday...
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SCHOOL BOARD RACES ON TAP
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
A flurry of late candidate filings resulted in a full slate of candidates for most Board of Education races in the region. Candidates were required to file before 5 p.m. Tuesday for April 4 school board elections. Most school districts have two, three-year terms available, but Nell Holcomb and Perryville school districts also will fill special one-year terms...
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CITY MEETING ON SEWER BOND ELECTION TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
Is a discussion on proposed sewer projects enough to draw a crowd? Probably not, but city officials are still hopeful. They have planned an informational meeting tonight at 6:30 at the Osage Community Centre about an $8.5 million sewer bond election. The meeting conflicts with a public meeting at Barbara Blanchard Elementary School designed to answer questions about a new public high school...
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JACKSON BOARD OF ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
Agenda, Tuesday, Jan. 18, City HallPublic Hearings Action Items Power and Light Committee Street Committee Executive Session...
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SCOTT ELECTIONS DEVELOP
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
BENTON -- Election races are heating up in Scott County communities, where voters will choose new board of aldermen and council members as well as mayors this spring. Tuesday was the final day of filing for the April 4 election. Three men filed for mayor of Scott City. Mayor Jerry Cummins didn't file for re-election...
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MAN GETS WEEKENDS IN JAIL FOR JUNE MELEE
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
JACKSON -- Tracy "Big Silly" Selvy will spend weekends in jail starting Friday as punishment for his role in a confrontation with police last June, said Cape Girardeau County Prosecutor Morley Swingle. Selvy will spend 15 consecutive weekends in jail, from 5 p.m. Friday to 5 p.m. Sunday, after he pled guilty to interfering with an arrest, a class B misdemeanor...
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UNDERCOUNT COULD COST STATE $275 MILLION
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
PERRYVILLE -- Missouri stands to lose an estimated $275 million in federal funding over the next decade if the state's population is undercounted as much as it was in the 1990 census, state demographer Ryan Burson said Wednesday. Burson said the 1990 census missed an estimated 33,000 Missourians...
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STATE HEARS RESORT LICENSE DISPUTE
(Local News ~ 01/20/00)
JEFFERSON CITY -- A ruling on whether the state Division of Liquor Control must issue a liquor license to the owner of a Cape Girardeau nightclub is expected within four months. In an ongoing battle with city and state officials, Doug Armour, owner of Chances Sports Bar, seeks to regain his state resort license, which expired July 1. Chances has been out of business since then...
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LETTERS: BENETTON'S ADS ARE HIGHLY OFFENSIVE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/20/00)
To the editor: The following letter was written to Benetton Corp. in response to its worldwide campaign against the death penalty. Dear Sirs, I happened to be a very good friend and fellow officer of Missouri Highway Patrol Trooper James Froemsdorf, who lost his life in the line of duty on March 2, 1985. I cannot believe you people go around interviewing death-row inmates and give them the opportunity to come out in a book and your magazine...
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BARBARA BLANCHARD: DREAMS DON'T JUST HAPPEN TO COME TRUE
(Editorial ~ 01/20/00)
At Tuesday's opening of Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, the school's namesake, Barbara Blanchard, made the following remarks. Blanchard is a former student, teacher and principal at Washington Elementary School, which is one of two schools that were closed with the opening of the new school...
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CHARTER SCHOOLS DESERVE BETTER THAN THIS
(Editorial ~ 01/20/00)
You would think colleges and universities, of all places, would want to be on the cutting edge of innovation, particularly the paradigm shifts that quite possibly could contribute to a revolution in American education. So why are colleges and universities in the eastern half of Missouri dragging their heels on charter schools in St. Louis?...
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LETTERS: MORE AGREEMENT THAN DIVISION
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/20/00)
To the editor: I am writing in response to the two recent letters to the editor concerning the issue of salvation through faith alone. In the last couple of weeks, two of your readers have sought to clarify the teachings of the Catholic church on this issue. I would like to add my comments to the discussion...
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SE FOOTBALL TEAM TO TAKE ON MARSHALL NEXT YEAR
(College Sports ~ 01/20/00)
When Southeast Missouri State University's football team kicks off the 2000 season, new head coach Tim Billings will be competing against his old school. The Indians' 2000 schedule was released Wednesday and the opener will be Sept. 2 at Marshall, which was the nation's winningest college football program in the 1990s...
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COURT SESSION: DEFENSE IS THE KEY FOR SE's SUCCESS SO FAR
(College Sports ~ 01/20/00)
We had a classic confrontation on Tuesday night at the Show Me Center with the OVC's top offense going against the league's top defense and our defense clearly won the battle. Tennessee Tech came in averaging over 87 points per game and we held it to just 50 points. The Golden Eagles led the nation in 3-pointers made per game with over 10, but our defense allowed Tech to shoot just three of 19 (.158) from there...
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BRIEFLY: CENTRAL 8TH-GRADE TEAM WINS TOURNAMENT GAME
(High School Sports ~ 01/20/00)
Cape Central got 24 points from Mitch Craft and 14 from Mike Brown as the Tigers' eighth-grade team defeated Poplar Bluff 56-31 in the opening round of the Cape Central Junior High Tournament Wednesday night. In the other first-round game, Sikeston defeated Jackson 51-41...
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BRIEFLY: SOUTHEAST TO HOLD INDOOR TRACK MEET
(College Sports ~ 01/20/00)
Southeast Missouri State University's indoor track team will play host to the University of Tennessee-Martin and Murray State University Friday at the Recreation Center adjacent to the Show Me Center. The field events begin at 6 p.m. and the running events will start at 7...
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MARY VANDEVEN
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
Mary Loretta Vandeven, 94, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, at Ratliff Care Center. She was born Jan. 26, 1905, in Oran, daughter of Henry and Anna Jelen Burger. She married William H. Vandeven June 5, 1928. Vandeven was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral and its Daughters of Isabella and Council of Catholic Women...
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LILLIE DUFFIE
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
CHARLESTON -- Lillie B. Duffie, 85, of Charleston died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2000, at Christian Hospital Northwest in St. Louis. She was born July 10, 1914, in Tibbs, Miss., daughter of Richard and Lurah McEluaine Gaines. She married Willie Duffie, who preceded her in death...
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DAPHNA KELLEY
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
SIKESTON -- Funeral for Daphna A. Kelley of Sikeston will be at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Greg Kelley will officiate. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from noon until service time...
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JOHN FETTERHOFF
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
JACKSON -- Private service for John Wesley Fetterhoff was held Wednesday. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson was in charge of arrangements. Fetterhoff, 81, died Sunday, Jan. 16, 2000, at Ratliff Care Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 29, 1918, at College Mound, son of Jay Glen and Ruth Westlake Fetterhoff...
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ROBERT SMITH
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
SCOTT CITY -- Funeral for Robert N. Smith of Scott City will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. John Rice will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...
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PAUL HALTER JR.
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
ORAN -- Paul P. Halter Jr., 78, of Oran died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000, of an apparent heart attack while driving a tractor. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements.
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JOHN DUNLAP JR.
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
CAIRO, Ill. -- John Earl Dunlap Jr., 69, of Oklahoma City, Okla., died Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, in Fountain Hills, Ariz. He was born Oct. 2, 1930, in Cairo, son of John Earl and Helen Laverne Flippen Dunlap Sr. Dunlap was a 1948 graduate of Cairo High School. He played in area bands and won numerous first-place medals in Illinois State Drum competitions. He also coached and managed area baseball teams and played third base...
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KATHRYN STUBBS
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
Kathryn F. Stubbs, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2000, at the Lutheran Home. She was born July 14, 1916, in Oak Ridge, daughter of Amon Burette and Blanche L., Behymer Miller. She first married Kermit Tinsley in 1925, who died in 1979. She then married Porter Stubbs in 1979, who died in 1984...
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ORVILLE ABERNATHY
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
PERRYVILLE -- Orville F. Abernathy, 79, died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000, at Perry Oaks Nursing Home. He was born June 10, 1920, at Menfro, son of John and Julie Clifton Abernathy. He and Maxine Colin were married July 27, 1946. Abernathy had been a glass cutter. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville and its Bereans Bible Class, and member of VFW Post 4282...
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THELMA HARPER
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
BLOOMFIELD -- Thelma Alberta Harper, 96, of Bloomfield died Monday, Jan. 17, 2000, at Beverly Health Care Center. She was born July 31, 1903, at Gray Ridge, daughter of Joseph and Lida Clark Alsup. She and Reuben Harper were married in 1921. He died in 1961...
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VIOLET FRICKE
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
PERRYVILLE -- Graveside service for Violet L. Fricke of Perryville will be held at 2 p.m. today at Mueller Hill Cemetery in Pinckneyville, Ill. The Rev. Robert Henrichs will officiate. Pyatt-Harrawood Funeral Home in Pinckneyville is in charge of arrangements...
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CAROLYN WATHEN
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
URBANDALE, Ill. -- Funeral for Carolyn Wathen of Urbandale will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The Rev. Robert Burchyett will officiate. Burial will be in National Cemetery at Mound City. Friends may call at the funeral home after 8 a.m. Friday...
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JERRELL VANN II
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral for Jerrell Mitchell Vann II of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Dean Wallace will officiate. Vann, 38, died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2000, in an automobile accident near Miner. He was born Oct. 20, 1961, in Sikeston, son of Jerrell Mitchell and Wanda Walls Vann. He and Donna Redfering were married March 28, 1987...
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ERNESTINE EGGIMANN
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
JACKSON -- Funeral for Ernestine Emma Eggimann of Jackson will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. David Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-7 p.m. today...
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CATHERINE BUERCK
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
PERRYVILLE -- Catherine B. Buerck, 71, of Perryville died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 17, 1928, in Belgique, daughter of Louis W. and Louisa Ernst Schloss. Buerck had worked at Prince Gardner Factory and was a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, the Ladies Sodality and VFW Auxiliary...
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FRANK VANDEVEN
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
He was born Jan. 30, 1921, at Leopold, son of Gerhard and Anna Thele Vandeven. He and Florence Hass were married May 11, 1946. Vandeven retired as a machinist at McDonnell Aircraft. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Survivors include his wife; three sons, Francis Vandeven of St. ...
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CHARLES SEYER
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
Charles Seyer, 64, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2000, at his home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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URBAN HANN
(Obituary ~ 01/20/00)
MATTHEWS -- Urban O. Hann, 77, of Matthews died Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Feb. 9, 1922, in Ste. Marie, Ill., son of Anthony and Mary Rennier Hann. Hann farmed more than 35 years. He was a member of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Sikeston, founding member and 3rd Degree member of Knights of Columbus Council 3151 in Sikeston...
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