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SECONDARY PRINCIPALS CONFERENCE SET
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
The 27th annual Fall Conference of the Southeast Missouri Secondary Principals' Association will be held Sept. 16 on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The Southeast group is the largest regional principals' association in Missouri. The conference is sponsored jointly by the College of Education of Southeast Missouri State University and the Southeast Missouri Secondary School Principals' Association...
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WEEK OF FAMILY FUN AWAITS ALL AT DISTRICT FAIR
(Column ~ 09/09/92)
The Southeast Missouri District Fair, which began in 1855, has always offered excitement and fun. This year the fair committee, whose president is Pete Poe, engaged an eight-camel hitch from the 5-H Ranch for the Fair parade and for viewing at the Fair. Cape Girardeau is one of the first cities to have the novel attraction, which is fast gaining national attention...
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THOMPSON WITHDRAWS RECOUNT
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
ROLLA -- James L. Thompson, defeated candidate for the Democratic nomination for the 8th District congressional seat, withdrew his petition for a vote recount Monday. Thad Bullock of Cape Girardeau remains the Democratic nominee. Bullock got 204 more votes than Thompson in the Aug. 4 primary, according to the final state canvass...
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AIRPORT: RENOVATION OF TERMINAL PROGRESSING
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
A long-awaited, $1 million project to renovate the terminal building at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport should be completed by February, city officials say. Airport Manager Mark Seesing gave the Airport Advisory Board an update on the renovation project at the board's monthly meeting Tuesday...
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REGENTS WORK TO FINALIZE TOP ADMINISTRATIVE SALARIES
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
The Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State University appears close to finalizing a new contract for the institution's president, Kala Stroup. Stroup is in the last year of a three-year contract under which she receives a salary of $105,000 plus benefits...
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BUILDING BOOM AFFECTS SUPPLIES; SHORTAGES DUE TO HURRICANE BUILDING EFFORT
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
Rebuilding after Hurricane Andrew has created an instant construction industry boom in Florida and Louisiana that is creating some far-reaching but hopefully short-term effects nationally. Rebuilding in the hurricane areas will take a lot of plywood, sheeting materials, lumber and shingles, area building supply spokesmen said...
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COMMUNITY OUTPOURING ASSISTS FRANKLIN; PUPILS, TEACHERS, CITIZENS REPLACE WORK OF VANDALS
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
It's been nearly three weeks since vandals trashed the colorful landscape at Franklin School. But evidence of the devastation is hard to find these days thanks to a community outpouring. The broken windows and glass doors have been replaced. The battered rose bushes along the front sidewalk are blooming again. Brightly colored bedding plants again surround the flag pole, and other flowers, shrubs and bushes in the front of the school have replaced those destroyed by the vandals...
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JACKSON ALDERMEN APPROVE FALL ASPHALT STREET OVERLAY WORK
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Aldermen approved a list of six asphalt street overlay projects that will be done this month and in October. The list was compiled by the street committee, who met prior to Tuesday night's board meeting. Paul Sander, chairman of the committee, submitted the list to the aldermen during the regular meeting for their approval...
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PEOPLE PROFILE
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
PAULA STIDHAM Occupation: Sewing machine operator. Birthplace: Cape Girardeau. Now lives in Chaffee. Pet peeve: "People who use bad words." The best part of my job is: "The people I work with." What do you do in your spare time? "Play the piano and go to the ballgames my son is playing in."...
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DOLPHIE R. WELKER
(Obituary ~ 09/09/92)
Funeral service for Dolphie R. Welker of Collinsville, Ill., will be held at 10 a.m. today at Allan and Ciuferi Funeral Home there. The Rev. Dale Clemens will officiate, with burial in St. John's Cemetery at Collinsville. Welker, 72, died Sunday, Sept. 6, 1992, at Notre Dame Hills Living Center in Belleville, Ill...
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AIM LEADER KEYNOTES DINNER
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
Curtis M. Long, president of Associated Industries of Missouri (AIM), will be the featured speaker at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Industrial Appreciation Dinner. The annual dinner will be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus Oct. 1...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 09/09/92)
Son to Mr. and Mrs. Paul D. Burkman, Marble Hill Route 3, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:44 p.m. Monday, Aug. 31, 1992. Name, Matthew Paul. Weight, 5 pounds 10 ounces. First child. Mrs. Burkman is the former Ruthie Deck, daughter of the Rev. Walter and Margie Deck of Marble Hill. Burkman is a trackman with Union Pacific Railroad, and is the son of Bertha Burkman of Advance and James Burkman of Pascola...
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GLADYS G. HERBST
(Obituary ~ 09/09/92)
Funeral service for Gladys G. Herbst of San Bernardino, Calif., formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Ernest Swartz will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home Thursday from 10 a.m. until service time...
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DELORIS J. LITTLETON
(Obituary ~ 09/09/92)
CROSSTOWN -- Deloris J. Littleton, 66, of Crosstown, died Monday, Sept. 7, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 23, 1926, at Crosstown, daughter of Burton and Zita Eichhorn Clifton. She married Charles C. Littleton in October 1947...
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ALUMNI, PROFESSOR WILL RECEIVE SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY MERIT AWARDS
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
The Alumni Association of Southeast Missouri State University has selected five alumni and a Southeast professor to receive the institution's annual alumni and faculty merit awards. Each Alumni Merit Award is presented by an academic college at Southeast to honor a distinguished alumna or alumnus. ...
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WOMEN'S ADDITIONS IS TOPIC OF SEPT. 17 LUNCHEON
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
"Women's Addictions" is the topic for the September Women to Woman luncheon. The meeting will be noon Sept. 17 in Conference Rooms A and B at St. Francis Health and Education Centre. Marti Sturm, RNC, and director of The Center for Recovery at St. Francis, will be the featured speaker. During stress-filled days, many women rely on means other than their own coping skills to ease the stress. The program will help women recognize and act when signs and symptoms of the disease are apparent...
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ABWA MEETS THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
JACKSON -- The annual business associate meeting of the City of Roses and Jacksonian Charter Chapters of American Business Women's Association will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in the lower level of Jackson KC Hall. The program on "Women in Business" will be given by Karen Hendrickson, assistant administrator at Southeast Hospital...
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HOSPITALS JOIN TO OFFER FREE CANCER SCREENING
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
For the third consecutive year, Cape Girardeau's two hospitals will provide a free screening program to help men find out if they may have the second most fatal form of cancer. St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital will jointly sponsor a free one-day prostate cancer screening program on Sept. 26. The screening clinic will be available from 7:45 a.m. until noon in the St. Francis Rehabilitation Center, located on the far north end of the medical center...
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BUSINESS AND SCHOOLS COOPERATE FOR SOLUTIONS
(Editorial ~ 09/09/92)
An interesting study was released last week concerning the relationship between education and business, particularly the "product" schools turn out in comparison with the "need" of potential employers. What it points to a significant and deepening relationship that is developing between these two entities, whose interests are essentially the same: the adequate preparation of young people for life outside the classroom...
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U.S. SENATE AND GOVERNOR CANDIDATES OFFER DIFFERENCES
(Column ~ 09/09/92)
Let's discuss two of the Missouri statewide candidates for the general election on November 3rd. I give credit for most of the following data to the Monday St. Louis Post-Dispatch. U.S. SENATE: Senator CHRISTOPHER BOND vs. GERI ROTHMAN-SEROT. Kicking off a two-day campaign swing in St. Louis Sunday a.m. Rothman-Serot scrapped her prepared speech "when only two reporters and no crowd appeared for the event on a picture perfect morning."...
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POLITICAL SPIES, WEAK REMARKS
(Editorial ~ 09/09/92)
Labor Day marked the more-or-less official beginning of the fall campaign season, though it's difficult for anyone who follows politics to characterize the rhetoric of recent days as a "fresh start." This has been a year of fierce, and often wild, charges and countercharges, few of which add anything to the general knowledge voters need to make a decision this November. One recent accusation in particular has prompted us to do some head-scratching over the state of modern politics...
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CAPE RESIDENT NAMED PROGRAM COORDINATOR
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
Michele Matzat of Cape Girardeau has been named a program coordinator in the Student Activities Center of the Coyote Student Center at the University of South Dakota. She began work in July as coordinator of co-curricular programs. Matzat will advise the program council, oversee the student center outing center and advise the Dakota Days committee. ...
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HOME EDUCATORS GATHER IN CAPE ON THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
The Mississippi Valley Home Educators will start the new school year with a meeting to introduce the new Region VII directors of Missouri State Families for Home Education. The meeting will be held Thursday from 3-5 p.m. at the Cape Bible Chapel, Kage Road...
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BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION TRADES COUNCIL GIVES $25,000 TO UNIVERSITY
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
The Southeast Missouri Building and Construction Trades Council has pledged $25,000 to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation as part of the university's capital campaign. Named "A New Vision of Excellence," the five-year campaign will culminate with a victory celebration and dinner Sept. 17...
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FORMER JACKSON WOMAN PUBLISHES MUSIC ARTICLE
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
JACKSON -- Carol McDowell, formerly of Jackson, has published part of her master's thesis in the Missouri Journal of Research in Music Education. The article is titled "The History of Classroom Instruments in the Silver Burdett Music Series." She received her master's degree in music education from The Florida State University. McDowell is also a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, 1986, and Jackson High School, 1982...
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ASSISTANT PROFESSOR EARNS DOCTORATE IN PHILOSOPHY
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
Brian J. Toy of Cape Girardeau has received the doctor of philosophy degree in sports medicine from the University of Toledo, Ohio. The title of his dissertation is "Concentric and Eccentric Isokenetic Strength Evaluation of College Aged Males and Females."...
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STUDENT RECEIVES VOGEL SCHOLARSHIP TO SOUTHEAST
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
Keith C. Essner of Cape Girardeau has received a Viola Boyce Vogel Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1992-1993 academic year. The Vogel scholarship is open to entering freshmen or students currently enrolled at the university and seeking a business degree...
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SOUTHEAST PROFESSOR RESEARCHES AT UCSC
(Local News ~ 09/09/92)
Mitchel Gerber, a Southeast Missouri State University assistant professor and political theorist in the political science department, spent the summer at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) as a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) program...
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