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HOSPITAL OFFERS TWO-TIER EMERGENCY SERVICE
(Local News ~ 08/26/91)
St. Francis Medical Center now offers a two-tier treatment system with the creation of a new "minor" emergency service called Convenient Care. Convenient Care guarantees treatment for qualifying emergency room patients within one hour or the doctor and room fee of $35 is free, hospital officials said. The new service began today...
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SOUTHEAST'S KENT LIBRARY STACKS UP WELL IN STUDY WITH OVC UNIVERSITIES
(Local News ~ 08/26/91)
For Southeast Missouri State University's Kent Library, statistics tell a good story. The library compares favorably with other regional universities, particularly those in the Ohio Valley Conference (OVC), a study shows. "From what the raw statistics tell you, it says that comparatively we do measure up very well," said James Zink, Kent Library director...
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VOTE ON 911 IN SCOTT CITY LIKELY THIS FALL
(Local News ~ 08/26/91)
SCOTT CITY -- Voters in Scott City, Commerce and Kelso will join those in Cape Girardeau County in November when they are asked to approved the installation of an enhanced 911 emergency system for the three towns. Les Crump, chief of fire and rescue in Scott City, said a committee of officials from each of the three towns has been meeting to plan the proposed system. The three towns are served by the 264 telephone exchange...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 08/26/91)
The Southeast Missourian asked people for their thoughts about the recent events in the Soviet Union. Gerald Stevens: "We should feel gratified that the Soviet young people particularly stood up for democracy despite their hard economic times. I think that Yeltsin will eventually take over in some democratic fashion."...
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CBS COLLEGE TOUR HITS SOUTHEAST TODAY; FOUR LARGE TENTS ON TERRACES OFFER GAMES, ACTING FUN
(Local News ~ 08/26/91)
The CBS College Tour will offer students a variety of television-related entertainment events today and Tuesday on the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Southeast has been selected for a full-scale dress rehearsal of the nationwide tour, which will visit 50 colleges and universities between late August and early May...
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SOVIETS FACE CHALLENG OF MAKING FREE MARKET FROM PILE OF JUNK
(Column ~ 08/26/91)
In political terms, hard-line Communism is dead in the Soviet Union just as it died in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. But hundreds of thousands of old Neo-Stalinists linger in the bloated bureaucracy that permeates the Soviet economic system. Removing the apparatchiks and replacing them with talented free marketeers is but one of the colossal challenges facing the Gorbachev/Yeltsin future...
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ECONOMICS TEACHES SAD LESSON FOR SHOE WORKERS
(Editorial ~ 08/26/91)
For 1,400 workers of Brown Shoe Co., the next few months will be trying times. The company announced Friday that it plans to close four shoe plants in Southeast Missouri within the next three months. Any plant shutdown is bad news in a community. But in the small, rural towns of Southeast Missouri, such news is particularly devastating. The plant closings in Charleston, Bernie, Caruthersville and Fredericktown will hit hard at the local economies of those towns, and the surrounding region...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/26/91)
Son to Mr. and Mrs. Tony Sandusky of Sikeston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:31 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 17, 1991. Name, Cody Ray. Weight, 9 pounds 1 ounce. Second son. Mrs. Sandusky is the former Lisa Sims, daughter of Mattie Sims of Sikeston. She is employed at Plaza Gifts and Office Supply. Sandusky is employed at Reli Electric, and is the son of Bob and Faye Sandusky of Jackson...
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BEVERLY LONG MCFARLIN
(Obituary ~ 08/26/91)
MARBLE HILL -- Beverly Long McFarlin, 23, of Glen Allen, died Saturday, Aug. 24, 1991, at her home as the result of electrical accident. She was born in Cape Girardeau on May 29, 1968, the daughter of Junior L. and Linda Lizenbee Long of Marble Hill...
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WALTER JOE WALLACE
(Obituary ~ 08/26/91)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Walter Joe Wallace, 69, of Cairo, Ill., died Sunday, Aug. 25, 1991, at Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah, Ky. He was born July 18, 1922, son of Walter Wallace and Kate Cook Wallace. He was a retired deck hand, a member of Cairo United Pentecostal Church and a veteran of World War II...
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