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LUCILLE M. MURPHY
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Service will be held Saturday for Lucille M. Murphy, 83, of Cape Girardeau. She died Thursday, March 7, 1991, at the home of her cousin in Kelso. She was born Aug. 15, 1907, to George and Edith Witt LeGrand. In 1960, she married Harold C. Murphy in St. Louis. He proceeded her in death on March 24, 1980...
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FRANK ROBERTSON JR.
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Funeral service for Frank Robertson Jr., 608 S. Henderson, will be held at noon Saturday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Johnny Thomas will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6-8 p.m. today...
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BRADLEY J. RESSEL
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Bradley James Ressel, one-day-old son of David and Kim Ressel of Cleveland, Ohio, died Thursday, March 7, 1991. He was born Wednesday, March 6, 1991, at Metro Health Medical Center in Cleveland. Survivors include his parents; paternal grandmother, Mrs. Dorothy Ressel of Cape Girardeau; maternal grandparents, Sterling and Jeanne Bradley of Cleveland, and paternal great-grandmother, Mrs. Arnold Ressel of Kelso...
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OPERA HOUSE IS AGAIN GRACING DOWNTOWN AREA
(Editorial ~ 03/08/91)
A number of items in the news recently are deserving of brief comment. We offer a thumbs up sign to items deserving of praise, thumbs down to those we would have preferred not to learn about. It is both institution and artifact ... and it's good to see the resurrection of the Old Opera House. ...
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NEW MCKENDREE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN JACKSON: ARE YOU ADRIFT? GOD CAN HELP
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
The Rev. O. Otto Steinhaus Jr., senior pastor at New McKendree United Methodist Church in Jackson, is a native of Bolivar. He graduated from Southwest Baptist Junior College in 1949, Central Methodist College in 1951 with a B.A. degree, Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary in 1954 with an M.Div., and Northwestern University in 1960 with an M.A. in Christian education. The Rev. Steinhaus has served churches in Missouri and Illinois, coming to New McKendree June 1, 1989...
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION WORKSHOP SCHEDULED
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- A free workshop on conflict resolution will be held March 14 from 6:30-8 p.m. at the Community Counseling Center. Skills for conflict resolution, whether negotiating for a salary raise or setting a teenager's curfew, can be learned...
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PWP WILL HOST DANCE SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Parents Without Partners, Cape SEMO Chapter, will host a St. Patrick's Day dance Saturday from 8:30 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. The dance is open to the public and will be held at the VFW Hall. Music will be provided by the Memory Lane Band. Admission is $5 and dress is casual...
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BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION TO BE NAMED
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The city is seeking residents to appoint to a Cape Girardeau Bicentennial Commission. The commission will begin the research and planning for the celebration of the 200-year anniversary of the city's founding, believed to be in 1793...
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CHAFFEE BRIDGE TO BE FINISHED SOON
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CHAFFEE - Motorists could begin using a new concrete bridge at Nunn Road and Ponderosa by the end of this month. It is a replacement for a wooden bridge that was condemned six months ago. The bridge is being built just inside the Chaffee city limits, said Reece Brown, Chaffee city administrator. The cost of the new bridge is being split in half by the city and Scott County, and both city and county crews are constructing it...
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NEWTON'S LAW: CONGRESS GROWS ANTSY AS THE SPOTLIGHT IS POINTED ELSEWHERE
(Column ~ 03/08/91)
If you were in high school and took a summer job as a laborer, this bit will not be foreign to you. The seasonal workers could never perform their tasks to the satisfaction of the year-round guys. From this tension came a steady stream of insults aimed at the teens, who, let's face it, cared mostly about a paycheck and a shirts-off tan anyway...
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BE OUR GUEST
(Column ~ 03/08/91)
Dr. Peter Hilty is a resident of Cape Girardeau and professor of English at Southeast Missouri State University. He is a past contributor to this column. If there is truth in the Bumper Sticker Wisdom which notes that God does not count against us the hours we spend fishing, I have collected no free time in the last ten years. But it has not always been that way. Our Morgan County farm was high prairie, very dry in the summer, and there were few farm ponds, although now there are many...
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LYMAN R. DAVENPORT
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lyman Ralph Davenport of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Calvary Temple Assembly of God Church. The Rev. A.G. Hampton will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park at Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at Nunnelee Funeral Home after 5 p.m. Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday...
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JANIE EDWARDS
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Janie Edwards of East Prairie died Thursday, March 7, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, following an extended illness. She was 79 years old. Shelby Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.
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RALPH EDWARD HAMAN
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Ralph Edward Haman, 74, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, March 7, 1991 at his home. He was born Jan. 28, 1917, to John M. Haman and Adella Koehrer Haman. On Aug. 5, 1945, he married Dorothy V. Dambach in Cape Girardeau. She proceeded him in death on July 17, 1982...
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CORA M. HARGROVE
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
MARBLE HILL -- Cora M. Hargrove, 78 years old, of Ferguson, formerly of Bollinger County, died Wednesday, March 6, 1991, at Christian Hospital Northeast in St. Louis County. She was born April 13, 1912 in Bollinger County, daughter of Bill and Nancy Null...
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MABLE ROGERS ADAMS
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Mable Rogers Adams, 87, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, March 7, 1991 at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born April 12, 1903 to Walter Rogers and Ella Woods Rogers. On Dec. 29, 1927, she married George W. Adams in Jacksonville, Ill. He proceeded her in death on Nov. 5, 1980...
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CHARLES LEROY WALKER
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
SIKESTON -- Charles Leroy Walker, 41, of Sikeston died Tuesday, March 5, 1991 at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Memphis. He was born Jan. 3, 1950 in Detroit, son of the late Gwendolyn Adeline Luken Walker and Charles Leroy Walker of Wayne, Mich...
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BERNICE JANE SANDERS
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
SIKESTON -- Bernice Jane Sanders, 82, of Sikeston died Wednesday, March 6, 1991 at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis. She was born Nov. 30, 1908 in New Bloomfield, Mo., daughter of James William and Elizabeth Hardin Dickson Sanders. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Sikeston and a volunteer Grey Lady at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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PAULINE L. SCHEMEL
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Pauline L. Schemel of Perryville will be held at 3 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Donald Loesch will officiate, with burial in Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a.m. today...
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EDNA BINGENHEIMER
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
JACKSON -- Funeral service for Mrs. Edna Bingenheimer of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Sam Roethemeyer will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-7 p.m. today...
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ALLISON RALLS
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Graveside rites for Allison Ralls will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Cemetery. The Rev. Kenneth E. Grass will officiate, with Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel in charge of arrangements. There is no visitation. The infant was stillborn Monday, March 4, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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NADEAN SCHNEIDER SENTER
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
MARBLE HILL -- Graveside service for Mrs. Nadean Schneider Senter of Hillsboro will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Baker Cemetery. The Rev. Charles Whittom will officiate. Friends may call at Liley Funeral Home here after 3 p.m. today. Mrs. Senter, 63 years old, died Tuesday, March 5, 1991, at Jewish Hospital in St. Louis...
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BERTHA SHUMAKER
(Obituary ~ 03/08/91)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Funeral service for Mrs. Bertha Shumaker of Elgin will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Crain Funeral Chapel in Mounds. The Rev. Jesse Bellamy will officiate, with burial in Green Lawn Memorial Gardens at Villa Ridge. Friends may call at the funeral home after 10 a.m. Saturday...
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THREE TO BE HONORED BY TEACHERS
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Three area educators will be honored during the 115th annual Southeast Missouri District Teachers Association meeting to be held March 15. An estimated 3,000 teachers from 79 school districts in Southeast Missouri will attend the meeting at the Show Me Center. Doris Ford, speech therapist in the Cape Girardeau Public Schools, is the current president of the association...
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BUDGET AX MAY FALL ON GUARD
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU - Twenty-one National Guard units in Missouri, including ones in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, would be eliminated under U.S. Defense Department plans to cut spending. The affected units include the 1140th engineer headquarters company at Cape Girardeau, and the 1140th engineers Company A in Jackson...
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UNIVERSITY UNCERTAIN ABOUT PAY HIKES
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- State budget woes will make it difficult to fund even small salary raises for Southeast Missouri State University employees in the 1991-92 fiscal year, two members of the university's Budget Committee said Thursday. Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president at Southeast, and Shelba Branscum, who chairs the Faculty Senate Compensation Committee, commented on the situation following Thursday's meeting of the Budget Committee...
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AIRPORT: OFFICIALS SAY BOARDINGS OFF TO SLOW START IN '91
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- City officials say it's likely boardings at the Municipal Airport will dip below 10,000 this year, which would result in the loss of $300,000 in Federal Aviation Administration entitlement funds for airport development. Public Works Director Doug Leslie and Airport Manager Mark Seesing said the airport will have difficulty securing the 10,000 boardings required by the FAA to maintain its status as a "primary" airport...
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INJURED MAN TELLS TEEN-AGERS OF DANGERS
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- For three and a half years, Gary Copeland has been reliving the accident that claimed the use of his legs. But he's not sorry; in fact, he says, being in a wheelchair while warning kids of the dangers of spinal-cord and head injuries helps him get his point across...
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GULF MAILBAG
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CORPSMAN SHEILA LEE U.S. NAVAL RESERVES Hospital Corpsman First Class Sheila Lee is the daughter of Leonard and Nina Adams of Bill City and the mother of Chris and Gary Lee of Fredericktown. She enlisted in the Naval Reserve in 1986, and is currently with Fleet Hospital 6-22 working in intensive care...
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TCI SPONSORS CABLE IN THE CLASSROOM FORUM
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- TCI Cablevision will sponsor a teleconference, "Cable in the Classroom '91," Wednesday at the Holiday Inn from 5:30-8 p.m. The national teleconference will be broadcast live to hundreds of communities. It will explore the educational programs and services available to all local schools through the TCI Education Project...
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DU DANCE
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
JACKSON -- The Ducks Unlimited Spring Dance, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Area Chapter of Ducks Unlimited, will be held April 13, at the Lower KC Hall at Jackson. The doors open at 7 p.m., with the dance to start at 8 p.m. Music will be by "Manassa Galaxy."...
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DON'T BE FOOLED, HYPOTHERMIA CAN BE DANGEROUS IN SPRING
(Local News ~ 03/08/91)
PIEDMONT -- Hypothermia can be a danger in spring months, too. "After months of watching the thermometer fall, fishermen and water enthusiasts are often teased in March and April with summer-like rising air temperatures," says Joe A. Corbin. "But, water temperatures are still quite cool in this area."...
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