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LEND ME YOUR EAR: BETTER `HICKELIZED' THAN `MENTALLY MASSIFIED'
(Column ~ 06/05/91)
Sometimes an unfamiliar word strikes me as laughable, other times I want to cry. Especially if I discover the word that seems so unlikely actually exists. "Transhumance", used in connection with moving livestock from one location to another as seasons change, filled me with mixed emotions. ...
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CRADER FAMILY WILL GATHER ON SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
JACKSON -- The annual Crader family reunion will be Sunday at Jackson City Park Pavilion 4. The event will begin at 10 a.m., with a basket lunch at 1 p.m. Those attending should bring food to share, table service and beverage. An auction of craft and/or homemade items will be held to benefit the Crader Cemetery Fund...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: JEAN WHITAKER TEACHES FIRST GRADE IN CHAFFEE DISTRICT
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
As a first grade teacher, Jean Whitaker says she loves to watch her students learn to read independently. "I know we have had success when I see them sitting and reading and smiling, or laughing to themselves about the story," she said. "That makes my day."...
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BRIDGE: PROJECT MOVES ALONG AS RESIDENTS AWAIT BUYOUT
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
Elsie Riehn and her neighbors in the 400 block of College stand to lose their homes to the Mississippi River bridge and highway project. But they're resigned to it. "No one likes to move, but if we have to move we have to move," said Riehn, a longtime resident of the neighborhood...
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STORMS END LONG HOT SPELL; HEAVY RAINS FALL IN PARTS OF REGION
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
A monotonous, 25-day heat wave that began in early May ended Monday when thunderstorms dumped heavy rains on parts of the Cape Girardeau area. A total of 1.3 inches of rain fell from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Jackson. The Cape Girardeau airport received only .27 an inch...
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AGENT HONORED: DRUG INVESTIGATION EARNS NATIONAL AWARD
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
A Cape Girardeau law enforcement agent earned a national award for his two-year investigation that netted nine motorcycle gang members involved in a three-state drug trafficking ring. Roger Moen, special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), is one of two ATF agents in the nation to be recognized for successfully investigating drug trafficking...
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WALL: PAINTERS WRAP UP MURAL JOB
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
When Richard Stout and Gary West looked at the section of the Mississippi River floodwall between Themis and Broadway more than a month ago, it looked very big. When they put the first dab of paint on the wall to start a project that would end in a 320-foot-long, 14-foot-high, four-color mural, the wall loomed even larger...
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BOND ISSUE WINS BIG AT KELSO
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
KELSO -- Voters in Kelso Tuesday overwhelmingly approved a $1.7 million bond issue that will fund construction of a citywide sewer system. Ninety-two percent of those who went to the polls gave approval to the measure. Only 18 people voted against it...
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SCHULTZ PAPER COLLECTS NUMEROUS HONORS; QUILL AND SCROLL, STATE AWARDS ARE EARNED BY STAFF OF THE PAW
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
The staff of the L.J. Schultz Middle School newspaper, The Paw, won a record number of awards in competition this year. The paper earned honors from the National Beta Club, and won nine national Quill and Scroll awards and 14 state awards, including the prestigious All-Missouri Award...
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PEOPLE PROFILE
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
RICK FEHR Occupation: Director of security and communications, St. Francis Medical Center. What do you do in your spare time? "Play softball for St. Francis, fish and serve as a reserve law enforcement officer (after my wife releases me from laundry and vacuuming duties)."...
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CHARLESTON FIRE RULED AN ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
CHARLESTON -- A fire that destroyed the Charleston Junior High School has been ruled accidental. An investigator with the state Fire Marshall's Office said Tuesday that while no exact cause for the May 25 fire has been determined, the fire was not set purposely...
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WALTER WOODS
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
MOUND CITY - Walter Woods of Coffeen, Ill., formerly of Mound City, died Tuesday, June 4, 1991, in Hillsboro Hospital. He was 78. Funeral arrangements, being made by Crane Funeral Home of Mound City, are incomplete.
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CLAUDE F. RILEY
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
WYATT -- Claude F. Riley, 82, of Wyatt died Tuesday, June 4, 1991, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 15, 1908, in Arlington, Ken., the son of Franklin and Margaret O'Conner Riley. On July 29, 1927, he married Mary Dathel Williams, who survives of the home...
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ANNA M. LUFCY
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
Anna Mae Lufcy, 101, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, June 4, 1991, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born April 14, 1890, in Clinton, Ill., daughter of W.M. and Nancy Bradshaw Kimmel. In 1909, she married Harrison Lufcy, who preceded her in death. She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church and the Langston Circle...
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JEFFREY L. SCHWEER
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
JACKSON -- Jeffrey Lynn Schweer, 32, of San Francisco, Calif., died Monday, June 3, 1991, at his home. He was born Aug. 20, 1958, in Cape Girardeau, son of George and Ruth Noland Schweer. Schweer was a 1976 graduate of Jackson High School, and 1980 graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. He was associate editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and member of Emanuel United Church of Christ in Jackson...
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IRENE C. WELKER
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
PERRYVILLE -- Irene C. Welker, 83, of Arnold, died Monday, June 3, 1991, at St. Anthony Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born Dec. 24, 1907, in Perry County, daughter of Louis and Mary Behrle Weiss. She married Lawrence Welker Nov. 17, 1931. He died June 17, 1990...
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THURMON L. WILLETT
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
PERKINS -- Thurmon Leon Willett, 72, of Linn, died Sunday, June 2, 1991, at Truman VA Hospital in Columbia. He was born May 2, 1919, at Perkins, son of Robert C. and Vespa Reed Willett. He and the former Hazel Tharpe were married July 15, 1955. Willett was a school administrator many years. He was a retired captain with Missouri National Guard, and was a veteran of World War II. He was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church and Linn Masonic Lodge 326...
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ANNA M. LUFCY
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
Anna Mae Lufcy, 101, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, June 4, 1991, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born April 14, 1890, in Clinton, Ill., daughter of W.M. and Nancy Bradshaw Kimmel. In 1909, she married Harrison Lufcy, who preceded her in death. She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church and the Langston Circle...
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GERHARDT W. WERNER
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
Gerhardt W. Werner, 75, 317 Sheridan, died Tuesday, June 4, 1991, at his home. He was born Feb. 1, 1916, at Tilsit, son of William and Elizabeth Werner. He and the former Audrey M. Pence were married Aug. 4, 1950. She died Feb. 9, 1987. Werner worked with his brother at Werner Market and at Thoni's Oil Co. many years, retiring in 1982. He was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church and VFW Post 3838. He served with the U.S. Army during World War II...
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L.O. SANDMEYER
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
ANNA, Ill. -- L.O. "Sandy" Sandmeyer, 75, of Anna, died Tuesday, June 5, 1991, at the VA Medical Center in Marion. He was born Nov. 30, 1915, in McKittrick, Mo., son of Otto D. and Lucille Lemmel Sandmeyer. Sandmeyer was a member of First United Methodist Church, American Legion Post 344, Anna Lodge 520 AF&AM, Scottish Rite of Danville, Ainad Temple of East St. Louis, Oasis Shrine Club of Anna, and Anna Moose Lodge 1346. He was a veteran of World War II...
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VERNA LEA ENGELMANN
(Obituary ~ 06/05/91)
Verna Lea Mills Engelmann, 69, of Route 1, died Tuesday, June 4, 1991, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 3, 1922, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of John Dennis and Annie Pitzer Mills. She married Rudolph M. Engelmann Aug. 3, 1940, in St. Clair. He survives...
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DELTA OFFICIALS HIRE A TOWN MARSHAL
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
DELTA -- City law enforcement has returned to Delta with the hiring of a part-time town marshal. Delta officials decided two weeks ago to hire Charles "Chip" Lawson, a retired St. Louis police officer who now resides on a Marble Hill area farm. The town's Board of Aldermen made it official Monday night...
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NEWTON'S LAW: YOU CAN GET THERE FROM HERE AND LEARN STUFF ALONG THE WAY
(Column ~ 06/05/91)
"You can't get there from here," goes the old expression. It is a fallacy, of course, since most areas of this planet are accessible in some fashion by some mode of transportation. But the routes that must be traversed between this fair city and mid-Missouri resort communities lend a bit of credence to the expression. ...
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CANCER SURVIVORS GIVE RENEWED HOPE FOR US ALL
(Editorial ~ 06/05/91)
For most people, the diagnosis is devastating: "Cancer." Every 62 seconds, an American dies from cancer. That's about 510,000 this year, or 1,397 people per day. But the numbers should not overshadow the advancements made in cancer treatment. Cancer is no longer a certain death sentence. Sunday's Cancer Survival Day provided a good opportunity to talk about these advancements. Cancer treatment has come a long way since the early 1900s, when few patients survived more than a year or two...
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MITCHELL'S BOOK TAUGHT GEOGRAPHY
(Column ~ 06/05/91)
Samuel Augustus Mitchell decided to write a special type of book in 1839 because the children of the United States were not being kept informed about the amazing political changes that were taking place in the United States. "To be educated the children of this country must know about the vast stretches of land that have been added to the United States recently and the changes that these new acquisitions will make in their lives," wrote Mitchell...
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APPLE ORCHARD OF FUTURE TO HAVE MORE TREES PER ACRE
(Local News ~ 06/05/91)
NEW FRANKLIN, Mo. The apple orchard of the future will contain smaller trees planted closer together. A demonstration orchard being planted at the Horticulture Research Center near New Franklin will contain 700 trees per acre. That compares with the current average of about 125 trees an accord, according to Michele Warmund, horticulturist at the University of Missouri-Columbia...
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