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NAACP LAUDS PLAN TO REGULATE PARADES
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
Members of the local chapter of the NAACP Monday applauded a proposed law to give Cape Girardeau police more latitude to regulate parades. But Debra Willis, community action chair of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said she was disappointed that the law doesn't apply to "rallies" and that a proposed "de-hooding" ordinance wasn't included in the measure...
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HOSPITAL LETS BIDS TOPPING $13 MILLION
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
Bids have been let for construction of a four-story, 105,000-square-foot clinical services building at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Southeast administrator James W. Wente has announced that contracts totaling more than $13.3 million have been let to three firms...
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CITY HOSTS: SIMULATION OF FAKE DISASTER LARGEST IN U.S.
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
Cape Girardeau in October will host the largest emergency medical response exercise in the nation's history, federal, state and local authorities announced Monday. The exercise, "Operation Steel Cure II," will be carried out over a two-day period starting Friday, Oct. 23 to respond to a simulated major earthquake measuring 7.4 on the Richter scale. The mock earthquake will be centered three miles west of Cape Girardeau...
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CAIRO WELCOMES NEW CHIEF; NELSON FIRST BLACK TO LEAD CITY POLICE
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Cairo has a new police chief. Harold Nelson, 60, a retired Illinois State Policeman who was named assistant chief here in February, has been elevated to the chief's position. He becomes the first black police chief in the city's history...
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PEACOCK EXPECTS TO RISE ABOVE CROWDED SENATE FIELD OF 15
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
Amid a crowded field of 15 Democratic candidates for the U.S. Senate, Bill Peacock believes his education, experience and electability will enable him to rise to the top in the August primary. After the primary, Peacock said he is confident that he can wage the kind of campaign to unseat Republican Christopher Bond, who is seeking a second term...
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PARADE FEATURES CHILDREN; RIVERFEST ACTIVITY WILL PROMOTE SAFETY
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
Participants are being sought for a children's parade, planned June 13 during Riverfest. The parade, which has a safety theme, begins at 9 a.m. at Capaha Park, proceeds down Broadway to Main Street. "We want to help promote Riverfest on Saturday morning," said Susan Helwege, who is coordinating the parade along with Amy Snyder...
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WEEK GROWERS MAY FACE FINES IN SCOTT CITY
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
SCOTT CITY -- Property owners who don't keep their yards free of overgrown weeds will be forced to pay for the city to cut them, under a measure being considered by the Scott City Council. Currently, the city takes property owners to court to force them to have tall weeds cut. But council members said Monday a new procedure should be studied...
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KENNEDYS BESTOW PROFILE IN COURAGE HONOR TO A SOULMATE
(Column ~ 05/19/92)
Bulletin: John F. Kennedy Jr. and sister Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg announced Monday that their second annual "Profiles in Courage" award will be given to Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker. What was Weicker's "profile in courage"? He bucked widespread populist anti-tax sentiment to lead enactment of a first-ever state income tax in Connecticut. Before last year, Connecticut was one of only ten states to have no such levy on incomes...
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SHOW ME CENTER GETS CAUGHT IN MARKET FORCES
(Editorial ~ 05/19/92)
The Show Me Center, since opening in 1987, has attempted to fulfill a commitment to provide a well-rounded schedule of events while warding off red ink. For the most part, the center has lived up to its charge. Where it hasn't, the obstacles are recognizable. In trying to fetch big-time entertainment to the Show Me Center, officials there have constantly to deal with market forces within that industry, and those forces often don't favor relatively small arenas in non-metropolitan markets...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/19/92)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Hency, 1731 New Madrid, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 4:47 a.m. Sunday, May 10, 1992. Name, Sheyanne Jo. Weight, 8 pounds 3 ounces. Third daughter. Mrs. Hency is the former Angelia Rodenberry, daughter of Willie Rodenberry and Vernell Rodenberry of Cape Girardeau. Hency is an aircraft mechanic at Sabreliner, and is the son of Ralph Hency and Betty Hency of Cape Girardeau...
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KENNETH L. HENSLEY JR.
(Obituary ~ 05/19/92)
Kenneth L. Hensley Jr., 54, 522 N. Sprigg, died Friday, May 15, 1992, at Price Memorial Nursing Home in Eureka. He was born Sept. 19, 1937, in St. Louis, son of Kenneth L. and Evelyn Martin Hensley Sr. Hensley owned and operated a hair salon in New York 25 years, and then worked at David Daine's in New York. He was active in the cancer society in New York...
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KATIE M. TURNAGE
(Obituary ~ 05/19/92)
ORAN -- Funeral service for Katie M. Turnage, Oran Route 2, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Hooe Baptist Church. The Rev. Mark McDaniel will officiate, with burial in Forest Hills Memorial Gardens near Morley. Turnage, 68, died Sunday, May 17, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...
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CLAUDE E. KELLER
(Obituary ~ 05/19/92)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Claude E. Keller, 77, of Dongola, died Monday, May 18, 1992, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born April 5, 1915, son of Gardner B. and Ella Eddleman Keller. Survivors include his wife, the former Lydia Scherer; two sons, Claude Keller of Fairfield, Robert Keller of Spring Grove; a daughter, Frances Kruse of Danvers; two stepdaughters, Jacqueline Spanley of Anza, Calif., Liela Greiman of El Cerrito, Calif.; brothers, sisters, grandchildren, and stepgrandchildren...
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LURENA JOHNSTON
(Obituary ~ 05/19/92)
CHAFFEE -- Lurena Johnston, 95, died Sunday, May 17, 1992, at Cape LaCroix. She was born Jan. 3, 1897, in Cumberland Mountain, Ala., daughter of Issac and Miranda Graham Johnson. She had farmed and raised livestock near Chaffee and Oran, and was a member of House of Prayer at Chaffee...
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JACKSON APPROVES JAYCEE PLAN FOR HOLIDAY
(Local News ~ 05/19/92)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen gave an enthusiastic "thumbs up" Monday, for the Jackson Jaycees to hold its third annual community July Fourth celebration in the city park. A delegation of Jaycees Monday sought permission to hold the event in the park, and for a donation to help with the fireworks display. The city agreed to give $1,000 to the fireworks fund, the same as last year...
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ETHEL M. WOODS
(Obituary ~ 05/19/92)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Ethel Mae Woods, 92, of East Prairie, died Sunday, May 17, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Oct. 11, 1899, near Piggott, Ark., daughter of William and Sara Jane Statler Thurman. She married George H. Woods Oct. 30, 1916. He died Dec. 21, 1991...
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LYDIA A. EDDY
(Obituary ~ 05/19/92)
MATTHEWS -- Funeral service for Lydia A. Eddy of Matthews will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. Shelton Peeler will officiate, assisted by Edsel Wylie and Neal Wagley. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Sikeston...
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