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GARDENING EVENT IS SCHEDULED FEB. 29
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Authorities in the field of horticulture will highlight the program of a garden symposium for the public to be held at the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School Feb. 29. The Jackson Men's Garden Club is presenting the seminar, and all but one of the talks will be given by club members...
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GREENWOOD BAND WILL PLAY IN OLIVE BRANCH
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Steve Hornbeak and three other members of the Lee Greenwood band will perform Feb. 28 at Beginnings in Olive Branch, Ill. Hornbeak, a native of Tamms, Ill., is Greenwood's keyboard player and also sings for the band. "We'll be doing some standard Lee Greenwood favorites, but we'll also do a lot of our own material," Hornbeak said in a telephone interview from his home in Nashville, Tenn...
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CANDIDATE FOR SECRETARY OF STATE VISITS CAPE AREA
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
After spending the last 14 months on the campaign trail, Howard Wagner is now looking forward to the time when Missouri voters will begin focusing on candidates seeking statewide offices in the August primary election. Wagner, who is in his second term as Jefferson County circuit clerk, is seeking the Democratic nomination for secretary of state. He spent Wednesday on a campaign swing through the area...
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GLADIATOR CHALLENGE: TOUR COMES TO CAPE mARCH 28
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Contender and Gladiator, each armed with seven-foot pugil sticks, stand on separate four-foot diameter platforms, 16 inches apart. The Contender has 30 seconds to knock the Gladiator off his or her platform without being knocked off in the process. Points are scored by the Contender's success in knocking off the Gladiator or how long the Contender is able to last on the pedestal...
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`GOSPEL EXPLOSION' SCHEDULED FOR FEB, 29 AT SOUTHEAST
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
A "Gospel Explosion" will be held at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 at Academic Hall Auditorium. The event, sponsored by the Black Fellowship Mass Gospel Choir, is one of several events being held at Southeast Missouri State University in observance of Black History Month...
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BOSTON-BASED TRIO TO PERFORM AT YACHT CLUB
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Men of Clay, a Boston-based pop trio, will perform at the River City Yacht Club in Port Cape Girardeau this weekend. The three have a sound that combines contemporary influences such as the Police, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel with the driving rhythms of funk and fusion...
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MAIN STREET OPRY CONCERT WILL BENEFIT UNITED WAY
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
The Main Street Opry will come to Cape Girardeau Sunday for a special performance that will benefit the Area Wide United Way. Based in Lake of the Ozarks, Main Street Opry includes Steve and Sarah West and Gabby and Sandy Gumm. The four have been performing together since 1987...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU YOUNGSTER IS AUTHOR OF SECOND BOOK
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Eleven-year-old author Tara Koosak has written and published her second book, "Boy Girl Daze Craze." Koosak, of Cape Girardeau, was in third grade when she wrote and illustrated her first book of cartoons entitled "School-Biz Is..." The second edition of that book, published by Stewart Printing and Publishing of Marble Hill, was released last spring...
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DESPITE PRIMARY, BUSH WILL PREVAIL, SAY LEADERS
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Republican leaders in Southeast Missouri agreed Wednesday that voters of New Hampshire sent President George Bush a message, but all are confident the president will survive if he heeds the warning. Most said they were surprised by the showing of Patrick Buchanan in the nation's first presidential primary of 1992, but they also expressed doubts about whether Buchanan is capable of being president...
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SEMO PANEL WILL LOOK FURTHER INTO SEXUAL ORIENTATION ISSUE
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Southeast Missouri State University's affirmative action committee says it will look into proposals to include rights for homosexual students in the institution's non-discrimination policy. The Student Senate and leaders of student organizations, including the Gay and Lesbian Student Association (GLSA), have called for such a provision. Faculty Senate Chairman Allen Gathman also has offered a similar proposal...
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BOARD TELLS CVB STAFF TO RUN AS USUAL
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
The Cape Girardeau Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Board has given the CVB staff the nod to "go ahead with business as usual." The resolution, which was unanimously approved by the board Wednesday was in response to questions by CVB Director Lyn Muzzy concerning the level of budgeting for the CVB for 1992-1993...
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STUDENTS COULD BE BILLED FOR VANDALISM COSTS
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Southeast Missouri State University students living in Towers West dormitory will have to foot the bill for vandalism to two elevators in the building unless those responsible for the damage are found. "It's a very difficult and frustrating situation," said Paul Carr, director of residence life at Southeast. "There is no real good way to pay for senseless damage," he said Wednesday...
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COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER BUBBLE REPLACEMENT AT MEETING TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
The Cape Girardeau City Council tonight will consider whether to share with the Cape Girardeau School District the cost of replacing the Central Swimming Pool bubble. Also included on tonight's agenda is "discussion" of the state solid-waste law. Last week City Manager J. Ronald Fischer and Superintendent Neyland Clark reached a tentative agreement to split the cost of a new bubble, estimated at $110,000 to $120,000. Final approval for the agreement rests with the council and school board...
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MCDONALD'S RESTAURANT MADE OF STRAWS ENTERTAINS CHILDREN
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
Jefferson Elementary School students took a trip to a McDonald's restaurant Wednesday without leaving school. The restaurant is a miniature version of the famed fast-food enterprise, and is constructed out of 6,500 McDonalds' straws pasted and pinned in place, plus some coffee stirrers...
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RALPH AYERS
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
DEXTER -- Ralph Ayers, 58, of Dexter, died Sunday, Feb. 16, 1992, in Dexter Hospital. He was born March 24, 1933, at Essex, son of Lee and Odell Williams Ayers. He married Joan Smith July 9, 1977, at Essex. Survivors are his mother, of Cape Girardeau; his wife, of the home; sons, Bruce and Stanley Smith, both of Cape Girardeau, Elliott Smith and Gregory Ayers, both of Dexter, Jackie Ayers, Gainsville, Fla., and Rufus, Ayers, St. ...
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LAURA E. SPRENGER
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
SCOTT CITY -- Laura Evelyn Sprenger, 78, of Scott City, died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born May 22, 1913, at Oran, daughter of James Frederick and Edna Myrah Shoulders Griffith. She and Adolph Sprenger were married Sept. 15, 1929, at Illmo. He died March 13, 1989...
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ELSIE V. VITITOE
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
Funeral service for Elsie V. Vititoe, 222 Camellia, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Revs. J.C. Mattox and Raymond Oxford will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...
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EVAN MORLEY AND IAN DAVID SWINGLE
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
Graveside service for Evan Morley and Ian David Swingle was held Wednesday at Memorial Park, with the Rev. Neil Stein officiating. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel was in charge of arrangements. The infants, twin sons of Harry Morley and Candace Ann Ely Swingle Jr. of Cape Girardeau, were stillborn Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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JESSE G. PRINCE
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
Jesse G. Prince, 65, 232 S. Ellis, died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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CLETIS A. BUCKINGHAM
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
GLEN ALLEN -- Cletis Alexander Buckingham, 64, of Glen Allen, died Monday, Feb. 17, 1992, at his home. He was born Nov. 8, 1927, at Glen Allen, son of Alvis and Lorada Farmer Buckingham. He and Lola Gromer were married July 26, 1965. Buckingham had worked for an electrical manufacturing company...
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STANLEY F. ROBINSON
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
JACKSON -- Stanley F. Robinson, 81, Jackson Route 4, died Wednesday, Feb. 19, 1992, at his home. McCombs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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BILLY N. AMOS
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Billy N. Amos of Esther will be held at 1 p.m. today at Liley Funeral Chapel here. The Rev. Sidney Laxton will officiate, with burial in Union Light Cemetery at Marquand. Friends may call at the funeral home from 10 a.m. until service time...
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DOROTHY V. SHAMBLIN
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
SIKESTON -- Dorothy Virginia Shamblin, 74, of Sikeston, died Saturday, Feb. 15, 1992, at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland, Fla. She was born March 8, 1917, in Elkville, Ill., daughter of William Silas and Viola Foster Eaton. She married Orval R. Shamblin Sept. 6, 1942, in Cape Girardeau. He died Nov. 24, 1991...
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AUSTIN T. ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
SIKESTON -- Austin Taylor Allen, two months old, died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1992, at his home. He was born Dec. 14, 1991, at Sikeston, son of Chasity Allen of Sikeston and Darrell Mitchell of Lilbourn. Survivors include his parents; a sister, Deanna Allen of the home; maternal grandparents, Mike and Vicki Seyer of Lilbourn; maternal great-grandparents, Leon and Joan Allen of Pocahontas, Ark., and Thelma Dalton of Chaffee...
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HOUSTON J. EVANS
(Obituary ~ 02/20/92)
Houston J. Evans, 67, 212 Koch, died Tuesday, Feb. 18, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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DEMOCRATS AIM PROPAGANDA AT TSONGAS
(Column ~ 02/20/92)
For nearly two weeks Capitol Hill Democrats have been waging a subtle propaganda war against, of all people, Paul Tsongas, Democratic candidate for president. Their battle plan: constantly repeat the idea that he is "unelectable," thus encouraging Democrats in the New Hampshire and soon-to-follow "Super Tuesday" primaries to vote for someone else. Or, if that doesn't work, at least to pave the way for a "draft-anybody-else" Democratic convention this summer...
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BUCHANAN'S CHALLENGE RANKS WITH TR IN 1912, RR IN 1976
(Column ~ 02/20/92)
The revolt is on. Patrick J. Buchanan's challenge places President George Bush in exclusive, if unwelcome company. With Buchanan's nearly 40 percent showing in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, Mr. Bush, like his GOP predecessors William Howard Taft and Gerald Ford, faces an intraparty insurgency that seriously threatens his continuity in office. ...
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CITY IS WORKING TO MAKE BEST OF LANDFILL MANDATE
(Editorial ~ 02/20/92)
Recycling programs in Cape Girardeau, begun last fall, have already reduced the amount of solid wastes deposited into local landfills by about 25 percent, say city officials. It's a good start. And pilot recycling programs in the city have helped. The city is trying to meet state mandates through innovative programs that don't place an excessive burden on citizens. But even with the success of these programs, more citizen participation is needed...
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TWO RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES SCHEDULED
(Local News ~ 02/20/92)
The American Red Cross and West Park Mall are sponsoring a blood drive there Friday from 1-6 p.m. On Feb. 26, a blood drive will be held at the Holiday Inn from 2-7 p.m. This drive is sponsored by the Excelsior Optimist Club. Each week over 5,500 units of blood are used in this region. For more information, call 335-9471...
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