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AMENDMENTS WILL GET CONSIDERATION AT POLLS
(Editorial ~ 07/31/92)
Missouri voters are being asked to consider several constitutional amendments in Tuesday's primary election. In addition to Amendment 11, which earmarks lottery-generated dollars for education and whose passage was endorsed here previously, there are several other constitutional measures up for consideration...
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LOOK AT WHO REALLY LOSES IN THE PRIMARY
(Column ~ 07/31/92)
Who would have expected Missouri's 1992 primary campaign, with its abundance of candidates and multitude of state problems to be addressed, could have ended up being one of the dreariest in years? With 57 candidates for statewide office, including 14 just for the Democratic nomination for U.S. ...
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ROAD PROJECT BIDS WILL BE OPENED TODAY
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
SIKESTON - The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department opens bids today on 17 road projects across the state that are expected to cost more than $21 million. Four of the jobs are in Southeast Missouri, said Bob Simpson, assistant District 10 highway engineer at Sikeston...
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GAS WAR: WHOLESALERS CLAIM PRICE IS BELOW COST
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
The price of gasoline in Cape Girardeau has dropped below 90 cents a gallon at some service stations. "That's below wholesale," says Bob Blank, owner of Bi-State Oil in Cape Girardeau and one of two service station groups that have left their prices at 99.9 cents...
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GOVERNOR RACE: BLUNT WANTS TO LEAD THE STATE INTO 21ST CENTURY
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
(Last in a series) Roy Blunt sees a lot of similarities between the moods of the people in 1974 - the first time he ran for public office - and 1992 as he seeks the governor's office. Running for the office of Greene County clerk, Blunt faced an uneasy mood in the post-Watergate era that featured strong distrust for politicians...
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AMENDMENT 7 ALLOWS SCHOOLS TO RAISE LEVIES
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
A proposed constitutional amendment on Tuesday's election ballot would allow local school boards to raise the minimum operating levy from $1.25 to $2 without voter approval. Amendment 7 would also allow school districts to raise school levies to a maximum of $6 per $100 assessed valuation with approval of a simple majority of voters. Tax rates above that amount would require a two-thirds majority for passage...
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THREE FAMILIAR NAMES COMPETE FOR SENATE NOMINTION
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
For Hugh White, running for the Missouri Senate is an opportunity to offer voters a non-traditional candidate, someone who has gained most of his experience outside of public office. For Betty Hearnes, her candidacy gives voters a chance to elect someone with a broad background in education and someone with proven legislative experience...
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COUPLE FOUND IN RAVINE; HITCHHIKER SPOTTED CAR IN TENNESSEE
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
The search for a missing St. Louis couple ended Thursday after a hitchhiker spotted their wrecked car at the base of an embankment along a Tennessee highway. The bodies of Oscar "Jay" Crites and Lora Jean Crites, were discovered in the car a short time later by police...
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CAR RAMS INTO GASOLINE PUMP
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
An unidentified woman was injured Thursday evening when the car she was driving careened off William Street and ran into a gas pump, which ignited. A spokesman for the Cape Girardeau Fire Department said the fire started when the vehicle knocked the gas pump off its mounting, which caused an electrical short and set the pump on fire...
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JANE BAILEY THINKS LIMITS SET HUSBAND APART FOR GOVERNOR
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
Since completing her duties as a kindergarten teacher in Willow Springs May 26, Jane Bailey has been traveling across the state waging an old-style "sidewalk campaign" telling people why her husband - State Treasurer Wendell Bailey - should be governor...
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CLEMENT GIVES LAROUCHE APPROACH IN SENATE RACE
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
Offering himself as a "LaRouche Democrat," Nicholas Clement is one of 14 Democrats seeking the nomination for U.S. Senator and the right to challenge Republican Sen. Kit Bond in November. "I have been able to see that there is a Democratic Party out there," said Clement. "The good news is there is a Democratic Party with honest people trying to represent the interests of labor, farmers and minorities."...
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SANDER, BOCK CAMPAIGN FOR COMMISSION
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
JACKSON - After 16 years in office, Leonard Sander says he wants to continue his work on the Cape Girardeau County Commission, building on his record of improved roads and bridges, efficient delivery of services, and being part of a commission that has kept the county in sound financial condition despite tough economic times...
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EMERSON FACES CHALLENGE IN PRIMARY
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
For the first time since he won his seat in 1980, U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson is facing a challenge in the Republican primary. He says he is meeting the challenge the same way he has those from Democratic foes over the years. "I'm not taking anything for granted," said Emerson. "I have never taken an election for granted and have a fine army of volunteers out working. I offer the common-sense, conservative values of Southern Missouri, which I think most Republicans and Democrats agree with...
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DOUGLAS W. MEYERS
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
BELL CITY -- Douglas Wade Meyers, 49, of Bell City, died Wednesday, July 29, 1992, at his home. He was born Sept. 3, 1942, at Bell City, son of Roy Charles and Minnie Florence Wood Meyers. Meyers was a carpenter, and veteran of the U.S. Army. Survivors include a sister, Henrietta Gilles of Cape Girardeau...
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WALTER H. VASTERLING
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
Walter H. Vasterling, 78, of San Diego, Calif., died Wednesday, July 29, 1992, at Pomerado Hospital in Poway, Calif. He was born Aug. 2, 1913, at Fornfelt, son of Julius and Ida Voges Vasterling. He and Madeline Carr were married June 12, 1936, at Potosi...
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MAN REMAINS IN SERIOUS CONDITION FOLLOWING AUTO ACCIDENT WEDNESDAY
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
A Cape Girardeau man remained in serious condition Thursday at a hospital after being injured in an vehicle accident in the city. The man, James B. Daly, 24, of 1112 Cape Hills, was at Southeast Missouri Hospital after the car he was riding in overturned on Sprigg Street Road north of Bertling, said police and hospital spokespersons. Daly, who was not wearing his seat belt, was thrown from the car, said police...
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KERMIT D. FELTY SR.
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
Kermit D. Felty Sr., 69, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, July 30, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 14, 1922, at Millersville, son of Walter and Myrtie Limbaugh Felty. He and Helen Kuehn were married April 17, 1954. Felty was a truck driver with Millard Schlimme more than 14 years, and a member of St. Mary's Cathedral...
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U.V. CAMPBELL
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
U.V. Campbell, 86, of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, July 28, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Oct. 17, 1905, in Shuqualak, Miss., son of Jim and Luvertta Ramsey Campbell. He and Sarah Lockett were married Nov. 27, 1927. She died May 9, 1959...
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PATRICIA GRAY
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
Patricia Gray, 53, of Destin, Fla., died Tuesday, July 28, 1992. A native of Cape Girardeau, she was a 1957 graduate of Central High School, and received a nursing degree from Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She had resided in the Fort Walton area since 1979, and was a high school nurse for a time. She was owner/operator of Nutri-System in Fort Walton...
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MARK GLODJO
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
CHARLESTON -- Mark Glodjo, 30, of Bowling Green, Ky., died Wednesday, July 29, 1992, in a car accident near there. His fiancee was also killed. Glodjo was born July 29, 1962, in Chicago Heights, Ill., son of Billy Eugene and Doris O'Guin Glodjo. He worked at Camping World in Bowling Green, and was a member of Greenwood Baptist Church...
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MARY L. MORGAN
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Mary Lois Morgan, 50, of East Prairie, died Thursday, July 30, 1992, at her home. She was born March 6, 1942, in Hickman, Ky., daughter of William and Katie Carol Vaughn. She married Gerald Paul Morgan Nov. 26, 1977. Survivors include her father; a son, William Gammons; a daughter, Pansy Sisk, all of East Prairie; a brother, Samuel Vaughn of Okeechobee, Fla.; two sisters, Ida Cobb of Lilbourn, Kay Higgins of East Prairie, and five grandchildren...
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HELEN M. CASSOUT
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
Helen Marie Cassout, 79, 2852 Independence, died Wednesday, July 29, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born June 24, 1913, at Fornfelt, daughter of William and Mary Jane Bollinger Brooks. She married Walter Cassout July 3, 1930. He died Dec. 2, 1966...
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AGNES C. PETERS
(Obituary ~ 07/31/92)
MARBLE HILL -- Agnes C. Peters, 74, of Marble Hill died Thursday, July 30, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 4, 1917, at St. Louis, the daughter of George and Emma Laurentius Beel. On May 15, 1935, she married Charles Peters, who preceded her in death April 5, 1988...
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BOND MEASURE WOULD TRIM SIZE OF CONGRESSIONAL PANEL STAFFS
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
Citing abuses in the way congressional committees operate, U.S. Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo., has introduced legislation to trim the size of committee staffs. His legislation would cut committee staff by 25 percent over the next two years. "The committee staffs are the areas that are way out of control," Bond said Thursday in a telephone interview with reporters from several Missouri newspapers. "Some committees have more than 100 members on staff," he pointed out...
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FINS, FEATHERS AND FUR
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
WICKLIFFE, Ky. Westvaco Corporation, a major manufacturer of paper, packaging and chemical products, has received the corporate National Wetlands Conservation Award from the U.S. Department of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Westvaco was honored for its work with the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to establish the Westvaco Wildlife Management Area in Western Kentucky...
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HEALTH SCREENING TO BE HELD HERE AUG. 7
(Local News ~ 07/31/92)
A cholesterol, glucose and blood pressure screening will be held Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Shop 'n Save in Cape Girardeau. Blood pressure checks are free. Cholesterol and glucose screenings cost $5. The clinic is sponsored by Country Garden Residential Care Facilities and Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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