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MRS. A WOULD ENJOY A BIBLE
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
Although Mrs. A is alone most of the time, she takes great comfort in her religion. She lives alone in an older mobile home in the country. Her daughter visits rarely. Mrs. A has arthritis, diabetes and suffered a stroke in 1989 that affected her ability to get around...
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JOBS: ROAD BILL CONSIDERED A REAL BOOST
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
About this time last year, Congress was completing a lengthy process to pass a new federal highway bill. U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson and Sen. Christopher Bond were working hard to see that it included provisions that would benefit rural states like Missouri...
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MAIL EARLY TO INSURE DELIVERIES; U.S. POSTAL SERVICE ENTERS BUSY SEASON
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
Postal employees are bracing for what's expected to be an even greater volume of Christmas mail this year than last in Cape Girardeau. In 1991, Operation Desert Storm was responsible for a large increase in mailing of Christmas parcels, letters and cards...
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TOYBOX CAMPAIGN IS OFF AND RUNNING
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
Today the hard work of Toybox begins. Starting at 10 a.m., applications for Toybox gifts will be accepted at the Salvation Army headquarters, 701 Good Hope. Traditionally, parents and guardians of needy children stand in line the first day applications are accepted, hoping to ensure a place on the Toybox list for their children...
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BUBBLE BACK: POOL AT CENTRAL REOPENS TODAY
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
The grand opening planned in a few weeks is sure to be splashy, but the best news for area swimmers is that the bubble is back. The Cape Girardeau Central High School municipal swimming pool reopened today, exactly three months after closing for renovations and replacement of the synthetic bubble which has enveloped the pool for the past 12 years...
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`WOOLLY WORMS' GIVE INSIGHT TO WEATHER; COLD START AND END TO THIS WINTER WITH MILD TREND IN BETWEEN
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
"Woolly worms," long thought to reveal through their band markings the severity of winter weather, apparently are in short supply in many parts of Missouri this year. Helen Wohlschaeger Dowell of St. Louis, known in that city as the "Woolly Worm Woman," has predicted winter weather for years by "reading" the little critters...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
The Southeast Missourian asked people if the election of Bill Clinton would affect their decision making and if they expect any sweeping changes. TIM TANZ: "I feel that we are going to have to give him a chance. He's in for four years, and we'll have to see what he can do. I think he is going to follow through on some of his promises. Let's hope he can keep his energy up over the entire four years."...
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TOYBOX, CHRISMAS FOR ELDERLY DESERVE SUPPORT
(Editorial ~ 11/30/92)
What began 18 years ago as a modest project in which a limited number of the city's needy children were given food baskets and some toys for Christmas has grown into a full-fledged, annual outpouring of generosity by people of the community toward hundreds of less-fortunate families...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 11/30/92)
Missouri football coach Bob Stull made a pretty good exchange the other day when he traded his mustache (shaved off after the Kansas win) for another year at Columbia. --- President-elect Bill Clinton is calling numerous political analysts to Little Rock to help him plan his new administration. So where's Jay Leno?...
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THE PUBLIC MIND: READER: PROPONENTS OF CITY ZONES STUCK UP FOR THE `COMMON MAN,' WERE NOT DUPED
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/30/92)
To the Editor: I have read over the past week all the negative front page news and editorials concerning the city zones issue. It was a mandate by the people, 2-1 that they wanted change - why can't the purveyors of all this doom and gloom recognize this fact? Evidently many of the city council that has been part of the past and present At Large System do not agree with the people, nor think they have the common sense to make intelligent decisions without these doomsday messages. ...
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MILUS D. KERBY
(Obituary ~ 11/30/92)
ANNA -- Milus D. Kerby, 83, of Anna died Nov. 28, 1992, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 7, 1908, in Lick Creek, Ill., the son of James Monroe and Mary Elizabeth Speck Kerby. He was married on Dec. 15, 1950, to Phyllis Wayne. She preceded him in death on March 18, 1980...
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THELMA E. WILLIAMSON
(Obituary ~ 11/30/92)
JACKSON -- Thelma E. Williamson, 68, of Jackson died Saturday, Nov. 28, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 29, 1924, at Haleyville, Ala., the daughter of William and Alice Flanigan Head. She married James Williamson at Malden, and he preceded her in death Sept. 4, 1978...
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HERMAN EUGENE CAIN
(Obituary ~ 11/30/92)
TAMMS, Ill - Herman Eugene Cain, 57, of Tamms, Ill., Rt. 1, died Saturday, Nov. 28, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born in Tamms, on June 25, 1935, to Herman Otto and Grace May Holshouser Cain. He was married in Tamms to Mary Kay Pasdertz. ...
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WENDELL FRANKLIN HAMLIN
(Obituary ~ 11/30/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Wendell Franklin Hamlin, 31, of Alton, Ill. died Saturday, Nov. 28, 1992, at Christian Hospital Northesast in St. Louis County. He was born April 5, 1961, at St. Louis, the son of the late Franklin Hamlin and Dorothy Hamlin Hagen, who survives of Godfry, Ill...
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PERSONNEL ASSOCIATION GIVES SCHOLARSHIP
(Local News ~ 11/30/92)
The Cape Area Personnel Association has awarded a $500 scholarship to Tara Cassidy, a Southeast Missouri State University student from Ste. Genevieve. The award is given to a human resources management major at Southeast who has completed at least 85 credit hours and at least six credit hours in human resources management courses...
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