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CONFUSION SURROUNDS VOTE DATE; SCOTT CITY PRIMARY TO BE ON MARCH 3
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
SCOTT CITY -- The date of an upcoming primary election for a seat on the Scott City Council seemed to be anybody's guess. "It hasn't been discussed at all around City Hall, so I guess we're not really sure when it is," said City Clerk Nona Walls. City officials months ago set the election date as Tuesday, after they looked up a city ordinance that states primaries for the April election should be held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in February...
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CUTS IN CAPE'S CAPITAL PLAN PROPOSED; PROGRAM IS STILL TERMED `AMBITIOUS'
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
Cape Girardeau would spend nearly $22.6 million on capital improvements projects over the next five fiscal years under a scaled-back plan proposed by the city staff. The City Council tonight will get its first look at the 1992-1997 Capital Improvements Program, which the staff called "reduced" but still "an ambitious program."...
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LANDFILL LAW, STREETS WILL BE BEFORE COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
The Cape Girardeau City Council meeting tonight will include a staff report on the city's compliance with a state landfill law and consideration of improvements to streets where residents weren't happy with the work. The city responded last year to the solid-waste law by implementing citywide recycling, a plan that has been criticized by some...
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ELVIS EARNS PLACE ON POSTAGE STAMP, BUT WHICH FACE WILL IT BE?
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
Elvis "ain't" no hound dog. Fourteen years after the death of the legendary King of rock 'n' roll, Elvis Presley is to be stamped forever into our memories literally. Presley will soon have his own postage stamp, and fans throughout the U.S. will help select the likeness they want to see...
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SCOTT UPS ITS BUDGET THIS YEAR; COUNTY'S FIGURE AT $3.45 MILLION
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
BENTON -- Scott County will operate on a $3.45 million budget this year, up only slightly from last year. Last year the county operated on a $3.41 million budget. "We are marking time trying to find some revenues," said County Clerk Bob Kielhofner. "We are just trying to meet expenses."...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
Charles Daniel: "The president knows that it's an election year and that he has to be at least perceived as taking some definitive action with regard to the economy, and that's what he has done. I believe the country will slowly come out of the recession without a lot of legislation to affect it."...
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WILD HORSES LOOKING FOR HOMES; 100 MUSTANGS WILL BE AVAILABLE AT ILLINOIS AUCTION
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
GOREVILLE, Ill. -- About 100 wild horses will change owners here later this month. "We'll put 100 young, wild mustangs up for adoption," said Jim Boylan, public affairs officer with the U.S. Department of the Interior. "We've had good success adopting these mustangs at Goreville."...
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SUPER KIDS RUN SET FOR FEB. 23 AT THE UNIVERSITY
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
The annual Super Kids Run will be held Feb. 23 at the Student Recreation Center adjacent to the Show Me Center. The event raises money for the Special Olympics. Races start at 1 p.m. The event is open to children up to age 12. All children receive a ribbon and a T-shirt...
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BE OUR GUEST
(Column ~ 02/03/92)
Mike Devaney is an associate professor of finance at Southeast Missouri State University. He has taught at the university for four years. He holds a doctorate degree. `The Only Things Certain Are Death and Tax (changes)' In the 1960's Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, admonished the administration that "taxes should not go up and down like women's hemlines." A rural Arkansas politician, Mills was derided as a fiscal curmudgeon by the bright young economists who talked of "fine tuning" the economy. ...
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MADD GOOD ADDITION TO WAR ON DRUNK DRIVING
(Editorial ~ 02/03/92)
There's a group of people who are mad, and they're venting their energies into forming a MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) community action team in Cape Girardeau County. The organization is a welcome addition in the fight against drunk driving in our county. MADD's goals are really two-fold: to offer support to victims of drunken or drugged drivers, and to reduce the number of deaths and injuries from drunk-driving wrecks. Our county will certainly benefit from both these efforts...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 02/03/92)
Son to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bradford Jackson, Cape Girardeau Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:11 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1992. Name, Charles Taylor. Weight, 8 pounds 5 ounces. Third child, first son. Mrs. Jackson is the former Peggy Johnston, daughter of Wesley and Dorothy Farrow of Cape Girardeau. Jackson is a UPS driver, and is the son of Charles E. and Phyllis Jackson of Cape Girardeau...
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ELSIE M. BUCHER
(Obituary ~ 02/03/92)
MOUNDS, ILL. Elsie M. Bucher, 66, of Evansville, Ind., formerly of Mounds, Ill., died Saturday Feb. 1, 1992, at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville. She was born at Villa Ridge on Sept. 6, 1925, daughter of George Smoot and Emma Brewster Smoot...
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ASHLEY RENEE STOUT
(Obituary ~ 02/03/92)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Ashley Renee Stout, 1-day-old daughter of Jeffrey Lynn and Lisa Williams Stout, died Thursday, Jan. 30, 1992 at St. Louis Children's Hospital. Survivors include her parents of Villa Ridge, a twin sister, Jennifer Dawn Stout; two brothers, Jeffrey Stout and Bradley Stout, all of the home; maternal grandparents, Jerry and Alice Williams of Mounds, and Sharon and Loren Anderson of Chicago; paternal grandparents, Betty Stout of Mounds and Robert and Lavesta Stout of Mt. ...
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FRIEDA A. BUCHHEIT
(Obituary ~ 02/03/92)
OLD APPLETON -- Frieda A. Buchheit, 84, of Old Appleton died Saturday Feb. 1, 1992, at American Care Nursing Center in Perryville. She was born Aug. 4, 1907, in Old Appleton, the daughter of Joseph F. and Ida A. Ponder Buchheit. On Aug. 27, 1940, she married Herman J. Buchheit, who preceded her in death...
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FOUR HURT IN ACCIDENT ON 72
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
PATTON -- A two-car accident near Patton on Sunday injured four people, including a 19-year-old Cape Girardeau woman. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Loya Crites, 74, of Patton, was driving west on Highway 72 about two miles east of Patton when she made a left turn into the path of a car driven by James Paullus, 20, of Coldwater...
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CHRISTINE A. HAMAN
(Obituary ~ 02/03/92)
Christine A. Haman, 96, of Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Feb. 1, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 30, 1896, at Alton, the daughter of Mason and Fannie Jane Sifford Minnich. On Dec. 24, 1919, she married Elmer "Ham" Haman in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death in 1972...
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HILMER J. MAHNKEN
(Obituary ~ 02/03/92)
FARRAR -- Hilmer J. Mahnken, 75, of Farrar died Saturday, Feb. 1, 1992, at the Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. He was born April 14, 1916, at Farrar, the son of Gottlieb and Marie Eggers Mahnken. On April 30, 1955, he married Louise Kassell, who survives of the home...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 02/03/92)
Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Ryland R. and Margaret S. Meyr to Timothy Z. and Lisa K. Thrower; Robert J. and Mary Jane Deevers to Randy G. and Cheryl A. Fornkohl; Robert Michael and Lee Ann Watson to Thomas J. and Patricia L. Murphy...
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