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REMIND CENSUS OFFICIALS OF COMPELLING EVIDENCE
(Editorial ~ 12/28/90)
Now we wish we had paid more attention in mathematics class. On the other hand, maybe it would make little difference. In considering U.S. Census Bureau calculations as they relate to the city of Cape Girardeau, the numbers just don't add up; the precision that mathematics requires isn't apparent in the figures. Officials in Cape Girardeau spent the 1980s contending that the city's population had been undercounted; it appears possible that the 1990s will be spent the same way. The cause is just...
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NEWTON'S LAW: READY OR NOT, 1991 ARRIVES: WE ONLY WISH OURSELVES WELL
(Column ~ 12/28/90)
Nineteen-ninety is within hours of completing its calculated run, 365 days long, just as planned. As the last seconds tick away, they'll sing "Auld Aung Syne." They should change it to that song with the words "another year older and deeper in debt." More people would identify with it...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 12/28/90)
Son to Mr. and Mrs. David VanGennip of Chaffee, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:14 p.m., Friday, Dec. 21, 1990. Name, David James II. Weight, 9 pounds, 4 ounces. First child. Mrs. VanGennip is the former Darlene Burger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Burger of Kelso. She is an order filler at HWI. VanGennip is also an order filler at HWI and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Norman VanGennip of Lutesville...
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JAMES LUCAS JR.
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for James Lucas Jr. will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel with the Rev. Johnny Thomas officiating. Burial will be in Fairmont Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. Saturday...
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ELLA E. SEABAUGH
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Funeral service for Ella E. Seabaugh will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson. The Rev. Howard Miller of the Sedgewickville United Methodist Church will officiate. Seabaugh died Dec. 26, 1990. She was born June 21, 1906 to William and Ellen Seabaugh at Daisy. She married Ray E. Seabaugh on April 18, 1924. He preceded her in death on May 15, 1969...
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TIFFANY BROOKE TAYLOR
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
ORAN -- Tiffany Brooke Taylor, infant daughter of Colie D. and Cynthia Eye Taylor, III of Oran, was born and died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1990, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Survivors include her parents, paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. ...
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HENRY BLAYLOCK
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
CHARLESTON - Funeral services for Henry Blaylock, 50, of Charleston, will be held Saturday, at 11 a.m., at the First Baptist Church in Charleston. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate. Burial will be in the Oddfellows Cemetery north of Charleston...
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IDA ALVEY
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
CHARLESTON - Ida Alvey, 99, of St. Louis, formerly of Mississippi County, died Thursday, Dec. 27, 1990, in St. Louis. The body is being returned to the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. Arrangements are pending.
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LESTER L. SKELTON
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
ADVANCE -- Lester L. Skelton, 75, of Advance died Dec. 27, 1990, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 29, 1915, to the late Percy H. and Cora Belle Cox Skelton in Arsenal Island-Rock Island, Ill. Skelton was a welder with the John Deere Corp. for many years and was also a general laborer...
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TYLER CARL WYATT
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
GORDONVILLE -- Graveside service for Tyler Carl Wyatt, the infant son of Jeff and Linda Wulfer Wyatt of Gordonville, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Cemetery in Cape Girardeau. Msr. Rolwing will officiate. The child died Wednesday at St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis. He was two days old...
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CORA TUCKER
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
CHAFFEE -- Cora Tucker, 71 years old, of Chaffee, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1990, at her home. The body is at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee where arrangements were incomplete.
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NORMAN L. GARDINER
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Norman L. Gardiner, 60 years old, of Charlotte, N.C., and a native of Advance, Mo. died Thursday, Dec. 27, 1990 in Charlotte. He was born in Advance Mar. 31, 1930, son of Guy and Grace Pixley Gardiner. He worked as a division controller for the Rexham Corp. at Charlotte...
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FRANK DAVID LAIR III
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
CHARLESTON -- Frank David Lair III, a resident of the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau, formerly of Charleston and Sikeston, died at the Veterans Home Thursday, Dec. 27, 1990. He was born Aug. 27, 1923, in Charleston, son of Frank David Lair Jr., and Gladys Velvick Lair...
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GREEN WALDROP
(Obituary ~ 12/28/90)
TOPEKA, Kan. Green Waldrop, 84 years old, of Topeka, a native of Southeast Missouri, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, 1990, at a Topeka hospital. He was born Sept. 14, 1906 at Braggadocio, Mo., son of Sidney Mansfield Waldrop and Martha Adams Waldrop. He was raised in the Bootheel area, then moved to Cape Girardeau, where he lived 25 years before moving to Independence, Mo. in 1961. He moved to Topeka in 1989...
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