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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County Recorder of Deeds: Evelyn B. and Edwin R. Puls to the Evelyn B. Puls Trust; the Blanche T. Kohlfeld Trust to Gail Jones; Michael D. and Barbara A. Kohlfeld to the Michael and Barbara Kohlfeld Trusts...
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SEA OF CAPE GIVES YOUTHS DAY AT LIBRARY
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
At least 30 of the hundreds of people who took advantage of the Cape Girardeau Public Library's annual book sale Saturday and Sunday were youngsters who face limited opportunities to use the facility. The Southeast Area of Cape Girardeau Association (SEA of Cape) Sunday took a group of about 30 youths from that section of town to the library sale...
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GUNS: DEALERS DENOUNCE CONTROLS
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
Like abortion and capital punishment, gun control is an issue that always seems to surface during national election years. This year's presidential campaign is no exception, and the positions of the three presidential candidates on the issue offers little comfort to those whose livelihood is the private sale of weapons and ammunition...
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CITY BEING READIED FOR RIVERFEST; WORKERS HIT STREETS DOWNTOWN SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
Volunteers hit the streets of downtown Cape Girardeau Sunday in preparation for this weekend's Riverfest celebration. "We're cleaning the streets, sidewalks, cutting the weeds and picking up trash along the riverfront," said Riverfest general chairperson Evelyn LeGrand as she and others took a break Sunday afternoon...
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UNIVERSITY EXPECTS THOUSANDS FOR CAMPS
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
Thousands of youngsters will take part in summer camps at Southeast Missouri State University this year. The camps involve everything from chemistry for kids to rock climbing, and basketball to music. Music, cheerleading and athletic camps annually are big attractions, say university personnel involved with the camps. Each of the camps lasts a week at most...
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LOCAL NAACP GIVES MESSAGE OF FRUSTRATION; ACTIVITIES OUTLINED AT SPECIAL MEETING
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
Cape Girardeau's black leaders, who Sunday used the forum of public-access television to inform residents of local NAACP activity, voiced frustration at a lack of progress in race relations. They also bemoaned what they described as limited economic opportunities for Cape Girardeau's black residents...
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CITY TO OFFER WRESTLING CLASSES
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will offer basic youth wrestling classes at the A.C. Brase Arena in Arena Park. Classes will be for four weeks on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. the first session will meet from June 16 to July 9 and the second session runs from July 13 to Aug. 6. Classes run from 10 a.m. to noon...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
The Southeast Missourian asked people what they like about the annual Riverfest celebration, which runs this Friday and Saturday in downtown Cape Girardeau. Norma Mabrey: "I like to go and see people I haven't seen for a long time. I also like the crafts and the food, like elephant ears. Last year I rode the riverboat. Riverfest brings a lot of people to the downtown area, which is an important part of Cape Girardeau."...
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LEONARD R. PALISCH
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
ALTENBURG -- Leonard R. Palisch, 63, of Altenburg, died Saturday, June 6, 1992 at his farm. He was born April 14, 1929 in Altenburg, the son of Rudolph and Ella Leimbach Palisch. He was a retired dairy farmer and presently worked as a school bus driver for Meyer Bus Lines...
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DRIVER INJURED IN FIRE TRUCK ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
SCOTT CITY -- A fireman with the New Hamburg-Benton-Commerce fire department was injured Sunday in a fire truck accident in Scott County. The Missouri Highway Patrol said David Perkins, 19, of Scott City, received minor injuries. He was taken to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, where he was treated and released...
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CLARENCE L. BURFIEND SR.
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
Clarence L. "Pepsi Mike" Burfiend Sr., 72, of 525 South Middle, died Saturday, June 6, 1992 at his home. He was born Dec. 10, 1919 at Festus, the son of Ernest and Martina Worth Burfiend. He married Mary Lashley Jaco on July 29, 1973. She survives of the home...
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LAWRENCE JOB
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
Lawrence Job, 78, of Kewaunee, Wis. died Sunday, June 7, 1992 at the Bellin Hospital in Green Bay. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Funeral Home.
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CELIA HAHS
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
Celia Hahs, 83, of 1135 South Ellis, died Sunday, June 7, 1992 at the Lutheran Home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Funeral Home.
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ELEANOR E. HORROCKS
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
Eleanor E. Horrocks, 88, of Joplin, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, June 6, 1992, at St. John's Medical Center in Joplin. She was born Dec. 25, 1903, in Jackson. She was a graduate of St. Luke's Nursing School in St. Louis and was a member of the Maple Avenue United Methodist Church of Cape Girardeau...
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EVA O. MORGAN
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
ADVANCE -- Eva O. Morgan, 80, of East Alton, Ill. died Saturday, June 6, 1992, at the VIP Manor Nursing Home in Wood River, Ill. She was born Sept. 4, 1911, the daughter of Lewis and Emma Davis Jackson. On Dec. 26, 1936, she married Arza Morgan, who preceded her in death June 12, 1987...
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William Arthur Lessar
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
ELCO, Ill. -- William Arthur Lessar, 49, of Elco, Ill. died Sunday, June 7, 1992 at his home. He was born Nov. 7, 1942 at Elco, son of Joseph and Mable Sharp Lessar. He was a member of the Elco Pentecostal Church. Surviving are his wife, Barbara Dickerson Lassar of Elco; two sons, Melvin and Scott Lassar, both of Elco; four sisters, Carrie Dickerson and Sherry Dickerson, both of Elco and Gladys Ramage and Dora Bell Warren, both of Miller City, Ill; one brother, Edward Lassar of Tamms, Ill.; one grandson and one step-granddaughter.. ...
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VIVIAN HOLLAND LITCHFORD
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
SIKESTON -- Vivian Holland Litchford, 59, of Sikeston, died Saturday, June 6, 1992 at the Cherokee Hospital in Cherokee, N.C. as the result of a heart attack. She was born March 9, 1933 in Tyronza, Ark., the daughter of the late William Boshell and Rosa Lee Frost Boshell, who survives of Smithland, Texas...
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FLOSSIE MATILDA CRITES
(Obituary ~ 06/08/92)
CHAFFEE -- Flossie Matilda Crites, 74, of 126 Tenny Mae Drive in Chaffee died Saturday, June 6, 1992, at her home. She was born March 24, 1918, at Oak Ridge, the daughter of Edward and Eula Lape Moore. On Jan. 8, 1934, she married Lloyd V. Crites, who preceded her in death Jan. 13, 1978...
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SLEEP DISORDER GROUP WILL MEET TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
A support group for sufferers of sleep disorders will meet for the first time tonight at St. Francis Medical Center. AWAKE will meet every other month in the Health and Education Center at the hospital. The program begins at 7 p.m. AWAKE stands for alert, well and keeping energetic. Leading the discussion tonight will be Dr. Khalid I. Khan, a Cape Girardeau pulmonologist who will speak on obstructive sleep apnea, its causes and treatments...
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CHILDREN LEARN AT TRAIL OF TEARS SPIDERS AREN'T SO BAD AFTER ALL
(Local News ~ 06/08/92)
Spiders are not what you'd call man's best friend, but 12-year-old Jarrett Ford thinks they're not so bad. "I think spiders are pretty neat," said Jarrett, of Jackson, who watched a spider presentation with members of his family Sunday at Trail of Tears State Park...
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GED PROGRAM DISPLAYS ITS WORTH OVER 50 YEARS
(Editorial ~ 06/08/92)
The General Educational Development test, commonly referred to as the GED test, has for the past 50 years given approximately 10 million people who lack a high school education a second chance to increase their literacy skills and enhance their potential in the work place...
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FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS FAILING TO PROTECT WETLANDS; THEIR EFFORTS TO DO THE "RIGHT THING" HAVE LEAD TO CONFUSION, ABUSE AND A SITUATION THAT, IF IT WEREN'T SO SERIOUS, WOULD BE COMICAL
(Editorial ~ 06/08/92)
Today, few people deny the value of wetland to our overall ecological system. There has been a heightened awareness of the need to preserve existing wetlands. Wetlands support wildlife, such as waterfowl, assist in flood control, deposition of eroded soil, water purification and serve some recreational and educational functions...
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WETLANDS: ECOLOGICAL NEEDS VERSUS PROPERTY RIGHTS; SAVING ALL OF OUR REMAINING WETLANDS - FROM MUCKY FIELD CORNERS TO FORBIDDING SWAMPS - SOLVES MANY PROBLEMS
(Editorial ~ 06/08/92)
Swamps, bayous, marshes, bogs, sloughs or bottomlands we have a lot of names for what are now popularly termed "wetlands." Most of those names have negative connotations. They conjure up vague visions of mosquitoes, oozy mud, and poisonous snakes. Of course, wetlands are valuable for wildlife. ...
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WETLANDS PRESERVATION VITAL; BUT IMPLEMENTATIO OF A WETLAND IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM BEFORE FIELD-BASED RESEARCH CAN VALIDATE THE SYSTEM'S PROPOSED CRITERIA GUARANTEES INCORRECT LABELING AND ADDITIONAL COST
(Editorial ~ 06/08/92)
The topic of wetlands and the proposed revisions to the Federal Manual for Delineating Wetlands has raised the issues of environmental concerns and individual property rights. Clearly, the good of society demands wetland preservation; however, recent statements that "agribusiness is seeking to maximize its economic status at the expense of the environment" is, perhaps, unfounded...
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WETLANDS: ECOLOG8ICAL NEEDS VERSUS PROPERTY RIGHTS; OVER REACH OF REGULATIONS DENIES BASIC RIGHTS AND DEFIES SENSE
(Editorial ~ 06/08/92)
In 1972, Congress passed a landmark environmental measure known as the Clean Water Act which introduced farmers to federal wetlands policy. In the two decades that have passed, wetlands policy has evolved for the worse. Unfortunately, it's not the law that has changed but rather a federal bureaucracy that has defied common sense and denied the protection of Fifth Amendment private property rights guarantees through the development and implementation of the Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands.. ...
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