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SCHOOL BOARD SHOWED LEADERSHIP IN DECISION
(Editorial ~ 04/09/92)
A good leader must be able to make tough decisions. At the same time, elected officials should be responsive to their constituency. The challenge is to reconcile public wants with the resources at hand. The Cape Girardeau Board of Education met this challenge Wednesday. ...
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HARTMAN, GREBING CLANS WILL GATHER ON APRIL 25
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
FROHNA -- The Hartman-Grebing families will gather for a reunion on Saturday, April 25, at the Frohna Concordia gym, off Highway C. Activities will begin at 9 a.m. with coffee cake and coffee. A basket dinner will follow at noon. Relatives from Mohnhausern, Germany will be special guests...
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SCOTT CITY SCHOOLS HOST MEETING ON FINANCIAL AID
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
SCOTT CITY -- A meeting to discuss financial aid opportunities for college students will be held April 14 at the Scott City High School. High school juniors and seniors and their parents are invited to attend. Grants, loans, scholarships and work-study programs will be discussed. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. at the high school library. To register, call the school at 264-2138...
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KELSO E-911, FIRE DISTRICT WIN APPROVAL
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
BENTON -- Ballot measures clearing the way for construction of a new fire station for the New Hamburg, Benton and Commerce Fire Protection District and establishing an Enhanced 911 system for Kelso won voter approval Tuesday. And in Oran, former Scott County presiding commissioner Louie Hirschowitz was elected mayor, defeating Gil Roslen by a vote of 294 to 179...
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AVIATION DAYS TICKETS ON SALE
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
Tickets now are on sale for the Aviation Days air show May 9-10 at Municipal Airport. Tickets are $3 per person, ages 5 and older. Tickets are available at Schnucks, JCPenney, and the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office on North Kingshighway. Tickets purchased at the gate on the days of the show will be $5 each. Gates will open at 10 a.m...
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OPEN FOR THE SEASON: GLENN HOUSE DIRECTOR HOPES FOR MORE LOCAL INTEREST
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
John Bry wants to change the way some people think of the Glenn House. Primarily, he wants more local people to visit the historic Victorian home. "When I give tours of the house, I'm amazed at how many people who live in Cape Girardeau have never been here," said Bry, director of the house. "It's right in their back yard and they've never seen it."...
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SUNDAY MEETING EXPLORES THE ART OF SHAKER BOX MAKING
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
PATTON -- A meeting of the Bollinger County Historical Society Sunday will feature the art of making Shaker boxes. Bill and Marilyn Kiel of rural Patton make reproductions of the Shaker boxes through their company, Wooden Dreams. In their work, they create the Shaker boxes, with simple lines and no ornamentation, patterned after those made by members of the Shaker movement several centuries ago...
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STUDENT DIRECTS ON BROADWAY
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
A former drama student at Southeast Missouri State University will direct a production of "Smoke on the Mountain" on Broadway in New York this summer. Jerry Mittelhauser, now associated with the Macon (Ga.) Little Theatre, will director the play as part of the American Association of Community Theatres convention...
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STE. GEN WILL HOST ANNUAL ANTIQUE SHOW
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
STE. GENEVIEVE Ste. Genevieve's fourth annual Antique Show and Sale will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Elks Lodge. Shops which form the Ste. Genevieve Antique Dealers Association will be joined by other regional exhibitors to provide an abundant variety of quality antiques...
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REFORM OF CONGRESS IS NEEDED
(Column ~ 04/09/92)
It is time for a wholesale reform of the way Congress does business, particularly Congress' spending habits. With a national debt equal to over $14,000 per man, woman and child in America, Congress cannot continue to budget as usual. Missourians should be fed up with the stalemate and ineffectiveness in Washington...
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EXAMINATION OF THE BASHING OF CONGRESS
(Column ~ 04/09/92)
If past election returns mean anything, Missourians seem to genuinely like and admire the representatives they send to Congress. Only one incumbent a relative newcomer and one whose short record was already blemished by unfavorable publicity was rejected in the last election, and he only lost by 54 votes, while others were being re-elected by pluralities of better than 20,000 votes. One congressman, Rep. Ike Skelton, defeated his challenger by better than 40,000 votes, a margin of 62 percent...
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ANNUAL BROADWAY MILE HAS `BUNNY RUN' THEME
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
The annual Broadway Mile is scheduled Sunday at 9 a.m. beginning at Capaha Park and ending at Main Street. The theme for this year's event is Bunny Run. Gamma Sigma Sigma organization is also raising money during the event for their March of Dimes Mile of Dimes campaign...
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OPING SKILLS CLINICS ARE ON TAP APRIL 14, 21
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
Coping Skills clinics, sponsored by Beginning Experience of Southeast Missouri, are scheduled April 14 and April 21 at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church at 7 p.m. The series is designed to help people who are separated, divorced or widowed. The April 14 topic is "Discovering and trusting yourself." The April 21 topic is "Dealing with your former spouse or the memory of your deceased spouse."...
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DR. ROBERTS TALKS ABOUT HEARING LOSS TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
Dr. Perry Roberts will be featured on tonight's "Ask Your Doctor" show on Cable Channel 13. His topic will be hearing loss. Local viewers can call in to ask questions of Dr. Roberts. It begins at 8 p.m. "Ask Your Doctor" is jointly sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri Hospital and the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society. Hosts are Martha Muench and Dr. Jean Chapman...
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GOVERNOR PROMOTES SCHOLARSHIP
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
Missouri Governor John Ashcroft was in Cape Girardeau Wednesday to meet "Governor's Scholars" at Southeast Missouri State University, and he even entertained the students with a "mini" piano recital. Governor's Scholarships are awarded each year to students at Southeast who meet certain academic standards...
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LEGISLATURE STUDIES VIDEO LOTTERY TO HELP EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
JEFFERSON CITY - In the aftermath of last November's overwhelming defeat of Proposition B, state legislators and education officials are attempting to put together methods to increase revenue that will enhance education programs at all levels. Some officials who analyzed the negative vote concluded that the measure was too difficult for voters to understand, that there was distrust among the people that funds would be spent as promised, and a prevailing feeling from many people that state lottery proceeds were to have been earmarked for education.. ...
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`BUSINESS LEADERS MUST PLAY CUSTOMER-SERVICE GAME'
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
The retail market is changing, consumers are moving faster and shopping fewer stores, and customer loyalty is a thing of the past, says the chief executive officer of a consumer research firm. "Business leaders have to play the customer-service game," said C. ...
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BOARD FINDS PRINCIPAL SOLUTION; SCHOOL LAYS GROUNDWORK FOR TAX HIKE
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
Cape Girardeau director of elementary education, Richard Bollwerk, also will be assigned as principal of Washington Elementary School for the coming school year. The Board of Education made the decision at a special meeting Wednesday attended by about 35 people...
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`CINDERELLA' HAS MAGIC TOUCH, FAR MORE THAN FAIR FAMILY FARE
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
Cinderella! W~hat little girl hasn't dreamed of being the object of a prince's search for love? And in what woman's secret heart doesn't lurk the image of the abused stepchild whose fairy godmother makes all her dreams come true? And, for that matter, what man (never admitting it, of course) does not fancy himself as the handsome prince who may have his choice of the most beautiful women in the land?...
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STUDENTS PREPARE `EVENING OF LIGHT OPERA'
(Local News ~ 04/09/92)
The music department at Southeast Missouri will present "An Evening of Light Opera" on April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Academic Hall. Students of the opera workshop at Southeast, directed by Louisa Panou-Takahaski, will perform scenes from Offenbach's "Bluebeard," the relentless husband who murders his wives in an attempt to quench his thirst for new brides...
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SARAH ANN SHAVER
(Obituary ~ 04/09/92)
SIKESTON -- Sarah Ann Shaver of Sikeston died Wednesday, April 8, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was 90. She was born Oct. 16, 1901, in Gatewood, Mo., daughter of Willis A. and Melissa Ann Johnson McCamey. She worked for 10 years as a seamstress at Graber's Department Store in Sikeston, and she was a member of the Shady Acres Church of Christ in Sikeston...
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ROY J. CALLAHAN
(Obituary ~ 04/09/92)
CHARLESTON -- Roy J. Callahan, 80, of Charleston, died Wednesday, April 8, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 27, 1911, in Portia, Ark., son of Minor and Maggie Saffel Callahan. He and Louise Lee were married Aug. 4, 1935...
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JERRY A. MULLINS
(Obituary ~ 04/09/92)
Jerry A. Mullins, 43, 617 Mt. Auburn, died Wednesday, April 8, 1992, while on a camping trip near Piedmont. He was born July 22, 1948, at Portageville, son of Richard R. and Dorothy L. Harden Mullins. He and Norma Lee Robbison were married Oct. 21, 1967, in Cape Girardeau...
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RUTH PAYNE
(Obituary ~ 04/09/92)
ULLIN, Ill. -- Ruth Payne, 92, of Ullin, died Wednesday, April 8, 1992, at Styrest Nursing Home in Carbondale. Crain Funeral Home here is in charge of arrangements.
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LEE R. SUITS
(Obituary ~ 04/09/92)
ANNA, Ill. -- Lee R. Suits, 59, of Lakeland, Fla., died Tuesday, April 7, 1992, at Jacksonville Naval Air Station Hospital in Jacksonville, Fla. He was born Dec. 14, 1932, in East Alton, son of David and Isabel Newell Suits. Suits was a graduate of Wood River High School, and attended Illinois State University at Normal. He was retired from the U.S. Air Force, and had been a manager with Wal-Mart...
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DOROTHY SPEARS
(Obituary ~ 04/09/92)
BELL CITY -- Dorothy Evelyn Spears, 87, of Bell City, died Thursday April 8, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 14, 1904, near Tilman, the daughter of Jack and Minnie Taylor Jankson. She was a homemaker and a member of the United Methodist Church of Bell City. She was also a member of the United Methodist Women and the Ladies Aid of the General Baptist Church of Bell City...
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