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ORGAN, TISSUE DONATION PROVIDES LEGACY OF LIFE
(Editorial ~ 04/24/91)
From death can come life. Organ and tissue donation provides a way of extending life. It also gives options and choices about life to families faced with the realization they have no choice about death. As part of National Organ and Tissue Donation Awareness Week, transplant recipients, donor families, and other interested persons will march in Cape Girardeau tonight. They hope to build awareness about the benefits of organ and tissue donations...
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GERIATRIC SITTER COURSE TO START MAY 7
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU - Southeast Missouri Hospital and Southeast Missouri State University will offer a five-session geriatric sitter training course May 7. The course is designed to train individuals who wish to assist elderly adults at home. It is taught by a certified gerontology nurse...
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ADULTS SHOULD REGISTER FOR ACT
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Adult students planning to attend Southeast Missouri State University this fall should register by May 10 to take the ACT Assessment Test. To register, complete the official registration packet and mail it along with $12.50 to the ACT Registration Office in Iowa City, Iowa. The ACT test will be administered on June 8 at Southeast Missouri State...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: CAROL GLUECK IS ALL `BUSINESS'
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Carol Glueck's students at Notre Dame High School know that she means business. That includes her classes in accounting, typewriting and computer applications in business. Glueck decided to become a teacher because of her own school experience...
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SEMINAR TARGETS ADULTS SEEKING SCHOOL RETURN
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The Cape Girardeau Vocational School is offering a free seminar for adults who are interested in returning to school. The program will be held June 4 from 9 a.m. to noon at the vocational school, 301 N. Clark. Topics to be discussed include financial aid, career planning and decision making, non-traditional career choices, GED, and courses...
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LEND ME YOUR EAR: MULTILANGUAGE ENGLISH LEAVES US IN A PICKLE!
(Column ~ 04/24/91)
On an unidentified campus, multicultural extremists are said to have perpetrated a reign of terror against those who refuse to call freshmen "freshpersons." This astonishing nugget of information appeared in the April 8 issue of Time, in an essay titled "Teach Diversity with a Smile." The author, the well-known Barbara Ehrenreich, recognizes the need for diversity (another word for multiculturism), and no one can dispute it. ...
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NEWTON'S LAW: BLACK-AND-WHITE SITUATIONS DON'T EXIST IN THE REAL WORLD
(Column ~ 04/24/91)
Maybe the automatic weapons should have tipped us off. Small-arms fire as it relates to jubilation usually makes for an incongruous exercise. Still fresh in our memories are those scenes of Kuwait's liberation, when allied soldiers went through the front door of the besieged capital while Saddam Hussein's boys were fleeing out the back...
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CONGRESSMAN RETURNS FROM THE PERSIAN GULF; PRAISES EFFORT OF AREA GUARD AND RESERVES
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Rep. Bill Emerson heard a first-hand account of the situation in the Middle East from Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf during a congressional visit to the Persian Gulf region. He returned home Monday. The delegation, led by the chairman of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs, G.V. Montgomery, D-Miss., met with U.S. military leaders in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, including Schwarzkopf. They also toured a refugee camp in Iraq and war-torn Kuwait...
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SOUTHEAST TRADERS TURN PROFIT: STUDENTS DO REAL-LIFE MARKET STUDY
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Student traders at Southeast Missouri State University liquidated most of their investment portfolio in response to a volatile stock market, which hit an all-time high earlier this month. Now the students are watching money markets and stocks closely to decide their next financial move...
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GET AN EYEFUL: SCENIC DRIVE SET THIS WEEKEND
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
JACKSON -- You don't have to wait until May to get an eyeful of flowers. Mettie Penzel has 20 acres of them just waiting to be beheld. "It's as good as you're going to get," she said. "They've been blooming for a week and a half now, and they're still very showy."...
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LEGISLATORS HESITANT ON TAX ISSUE
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
JEFFERSON CITY - Legislators from Southeast Missouri were generally taking a wait-and-see approach Tuesday to a tax increase proposal for education outlined Monday night by House Speaker Bob Griffin. Most legislators were hesitant to comment because they had not seen the bill and had only heard rumors about what was included in the package...
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5-1 VOTE: WELL-TRAVELED ISSUE RATIFIED IN JACKSON
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
JACKSON -- The Jackson R-2 Board of Education voted 5-1 Tuesday night to build its school bus transportation center near the Orchard Drive Elementary School. The lone dissenter was Dr. T. Wayne Lewis, who had earlier made a motion to table the vote. That motion failed on a 5-1 vote...
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BUSINESS CONCERNS EXPRESSED
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Cape Girardeau businessmen Tuesday were urged to aggressively combat legislation that would hurt Missouri's business climate. Harold E. Turner, chairman of the board of the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, and Jo Frappier, the organization's president, addressed more than 80 business leaders at a breakfast meeting at Cape Girardeau's Drury Lodge...
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PEOPLE PROFILE
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
BETTYE BLACK Occupation: Assistant Library Director, Cape Girardeau The best part of my job is: "Dealing with enlightened people." Pet Peeve: "Illiteracy." What do you do in your spare time? "With two small children and a college professor for a husband, I don't have much spare time."...
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AREA BUSINESSES STRUT STUFF AT TRADE SHOW
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Flat River Glass Co. produces a million and a half bottles every day. Gates Tire Co. is now Gates Rubber Co., and no longer produces tires. Sabreliner Corp., headquartered in St. Louis, employs more than half of its work force at the Perryville facility...
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STUDENTS ADVANCE IN ORATORICAL CONTEST
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Two seventh-grade students from L.J. Schultz Middle School will advance to the final round of competition in the Optimist annual Oratorical Contest. Todd Matzat and Laura Sheets will compete at the district level in Columbia on May 3-4. Two winners at the district level, a boy and a girl, will each win a $1,500 scholarship...
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RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVE WILL BE TODAY
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- The American Red Cross will hold its monthly blood drive at the Holiday Inn Convention Center Wednesday from 2-7 p.m. The drive is sponsored by the Telephone Pioneers. Red Cross officials said even though the Persian Gulf war has ended, blood donations are still needed. ...
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CARDIAC CARE CONFERENCE TOPIC
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU - Cardiac care will be the focus of the fourth annual air medical emergency conference sponsored by Southeast Missouri Hospital and its LifeBeat Air Medical Service. Cardiac care covers the first crucial hour following a heart attack to subsequent emergency and interventional treatment...
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HISTORY TO BE REVISITED IN CAPE AREA THIS WEEK
(Column ~ 04/24/91)
An inpour of strangers darkened the Cape Girardeau countryside 128 years ago this weekend. The sound of firearms and cannon could be heard in the western fringe of the river city from early morning until late in the afternoon as soldiers in the Northern and Southern armies pitted their marksmanship in the Battle of Cape Girardeau on April 26, 1963...
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THEODORE MCGOWAN
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
JACKSON - Former Jackson resident Theodore McGowan died Tuesday, April 23, 1991 at Ozark Lake Hospital at Osage Beach. McGowan spent the last 12 years at Richland. He was born July 24, 1907 in Pulaski County, the son of Ulysess S. and Elsie V. Tanner...
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RICHARD R. BAKER
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Graveside service for Richard Ronald Baker of St. Louis will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Dogwood Cemetery near here. Larry Smith will officiate. Shelby Funeral Home of East Prairie is in charge of arrangements. Baker, 50 years old, died Saturday, April 20, 1991, in St. Louis...
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MILDRED WHEATLEY
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Mildred Kirby Wheatley of East Prairie will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Thomas Griffin will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Wheatley, 74 years old, died Monday, April 22, 1991, at East Prairie Nursing Center...
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DELLA M. PEETZ
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
GORDONVILLE -- Funeral service for Mrs. Della Mae Peetz of Gordonville Route 3 will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at McCombs Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Sam Roethemeyer will officiate, with burial in St. James Cemetery at Tilsit. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4-8 p.m. today...
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CHARLES E. VANPOOL
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Charles E. Vanpool of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. A.G. Hampton will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5:30 p.m. Thursday...
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BERNARD J. RENAUD
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
PERRYVILLE -- Funeral mass for Bernard J. Renaud of Perryville will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Vincent's Church. Burial will be in St. Boniface Cemetery. Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home after 3 p.m. today, and until 10:15 a.m. Thursday. A parish wake will be at 7 tonight, followed by a VFW wake at 7:15, and American Legion wake at 7:30...
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BENJAMIN I. KASSEL
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
ADVANCE - Benjamin I. Kassel of Clayton, La., died Monday, April 22, 1991, at Jefferson Davis Memorial Hospital in Natchez, Miss. He was born Feb. 19, 1906, at Uniontown, son of Christian and Sulamith Hopfer Kassel. Survivors include two brothers, Oscar Kassel of Perryville, Edwin Kassel of Clayton, La.; a sister, Mrs. Truman Niswonger of Advance...
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AREA SKATERS PLACE SECOND IN NATIONAL COMPETITION
(Local News ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Local skaters Matt Buttrey and Sarah Booth place second in the United States Figure Skating Association National Intermediate Championships held Saturday in Monsey, N. Y. It's the highest honor ever achieved by the pair. "At first I think they were stunned," said Betty Buttrey, Matt's mother. "They were competing against kids who train several hours every day, but they skated strong and in unison."...
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AUGUST NEWBURN
(Obituary ~ 04/24/91)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- August Newburn, 91, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, April 23, 1991, at the Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. He was born March 6, 1900 at Blomeyer to the late Frank and Mary Tunze Newburn. On June 18, 1927, he married Alma Bock. She preceded him in death on April 10, 1977...
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