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COUNT CASIMIR PULASKI GETS A DAY, NOT RECOGNITION
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
Count Casimir Pulaski is no mystery to Cairo Mayor James Wilson. A sixth grader at Meridian Elementary School, located north of Mounds, Ill. in Pulaski County, knows about Count Pulaski. A bank employee in Southern Illinois says she has heard about "the Count," but doesn't know exactly who he was...
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COUNCIL AGAIN DECLINES SEMINARY STUDY FUNDS
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
For the second consecutive meeting, the Cape Girardeau City Council Monday refused to approve spending city money to study the feasibility of converting St. Vincent's Seminary into a Civil War museum. Members of the Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation Task Force had recommended the city pay $10,000-$12,000 for the study...
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SCOTT CITY VIEWS HIRING ADMINISTRATOR
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
SCOTT CITY -- The Scott City Council is considering hiring a city administrator to run the day-to-day business of the city. On Monday, members tossed about the idea at the urging of Scott City Mayor Larry Forhan. In 1985, the Scott City Council passed an ordinance establishing the office and responsibilities of a city administrator...
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VERTIGO IS TOPIC ON `ASK YOUR DOCTOR'; DR. PERRY ROBERTS WILL BE WEEK'S GUEST
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
Dr. Perry T. Roberts will discuss vertigo on this week's "Ask Your Doctor" program Thursday at 8 p.m. on cable channel 5. "Ask Your Doctor" features local doctors answering questions from viewers who call in. The show airs weekly on Thursdays. It is sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri Hospital, the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society and channel 5...
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COMMISSIONERS NAME COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP COUNTY ROAD PLAN
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
JACKSON - The county commission appointed a committee Monday to design a five-year capital improvements plan for roads and bridges in Cape Girardeau County. The 11-member group was recommended by new First District Associate Commissioner Larry Bock as a way of getting more input about maintenance and replacement of bridges and nearly 600 miles of roads under the county's responsibility...
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JACKSON EXPECTS BIG SNOW REMOVAL BILL
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
JACKSON - In the wake of last week's winter storm, Jackson City Administrator Carl Talley expects to see a sizable bill for overtime pay for city crews who cleared the snow from the streets. Talley made that observation at Monday night's meeting of the Jackson Board of Aldermen...
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HEY, ENOUGH WITH THE SNOW!
(Editorial ~ 03/02/93)
Editorials that occupy this space normally are aimed at persuading, lending perspective and provoking thought in this newspaper's readers. This one is aimed at Mother Nature: Hey, enough already with the snow! While growing comfortable in the past few years with meager outbursts of messy winter weather, Cape Girardeau and the area have been hit in the last two weeks with a pair of major snowstorms that dumped up to 20 inches of the white stuff, making ice trays of roads, scrambling school schedules, emptying bread racks and generally playing hell with people's attitudes.. ...
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SUPPORT IS VOICED FOR DIRECTOR OF AGING
(Editorial ~ 03/02/93)
To the Editor: This letter refers to recent articles about nutrition centers for older citizens. The articles contain information that goes beyond decisions that the board of regents and administration of Southeast Missouri State University could make. It concerns considerations that are professional and academic in nature that include my responsibility and that of our faculty members...
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BEATING NATIONAL DEBT IS NOT A PIECE OF CAKE
(Editorial ~ 03/02/93)
Some people talk about the national debt, while others do something about it. Debbie Sisco, an elementary school teacher in St. Joseph, Mo., had her students out Friday selling baked goods in order raise money to help pay America's bills. The day's take: $130.23. It's a cute idea: America needs money, so the kids, taking matters into their own hands, hold a bake sale...
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POPLAR BLUFF COUPLE KILLED
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
POPLAR BLUFF -- A Poplar Bluff couple was killed Sunday when their pickup truck collided with a tractor-trailer truck on Highway 67, nine miles south of Poplar Bluff. Harry Nelson, 80, and his wife, Jewell Nelson, 79, were pronounced dead at Doctors' Hospital in Poplar Bluff. The driver of the tractor-trailer truck, Eldon Bryant, was also taken to Doctors' Hospital, where he remains in serious condition...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 03/02/93)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Collier, Millersville Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:15 p.m. Monday, Feb. 8, 1993. Name, Valerie Elizabeth. Weight, 8 pounds 8 ounces. Mrs. Collier is the former Marilyn Wagner, daughter of Marvin Wagner and Mary Wagner of Rochelle, Ill. She is a hairdresser at JC Penney. Collier is employed by Lincoln Construction, and is the son of Ronald Collier and Patsy Collier of Jackson...
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HENRY GIBBAR
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
PERRYVILLE -- Henry "Ralph" Gibbar, 72, of Perryville, died Monday, March 1, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 5, 1920, at Silver Lake, son of Joseph Benedict and Mary Nettie Duvall Gibbar. Survivors include a brother, F. Norbert Gibbar of Silver Lake, and a sister, R. LaVerne Schnurbusch of Perryville...
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BILL GARNER
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
SIKESTON -- Bill Garner, 50, of Mamou, La., died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, at Savoy Medical Center there. He was born May 23, 1942, in Blytheville, Ark., son of Dyer D. and Billie Loflin Garner. He married the former Mercedes Fuselier. Garner was a 1960 graduate of Sikeston High School, where he played baseball, basketball and football. He graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 1964...
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NADIA C. HAYNES
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
CHARLESTON -- Nadia Commenecai Haynes, 6, was dead on arrival Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 5, 1986, in Rockford, Ill., daughter of Elliott and Landell Haynes Turner. She was a student at New Dawn State School in Sikeston...
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MARIE F. MATHIS
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Marie F. Mathis of Sikeston will be held at 10 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jim Guffie will officiate, with burial in Sikeston City Cemetery. Mathis, 93, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews...
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LILLIAN G. CLAYTON
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lillian G. Clayton of Sikeston will be held at 10 a.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Charles Buck will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Clayton, 85, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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JOHN R. FELKER
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
SIKESTON -- John Russell Felker, 69, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Nov. 17, 1923, at Sikeston, son of C.E. "Daddy" and Mary Alberta Utterback Felker. He and Mary Joline Edwards were married Jan. 18, 1946. She died Jan. 16, 1988...
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LUCILLE TETLEY
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
SIKESTON -- Lucille Tetley, 75, of Sikeston, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Jan. 1, 1918, in Henderson, Tenn., daughter of William and Evans Sumler. He and Emory "Cotton" Tetley were married Sept. 25, 1937...
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LELA MARTIN
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lela Martin of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jim Guffie will officiate, with burial in Sikeston City Cemetery. Martin, 77, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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MARCELLA J. MURPHY
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
CHARLESTON -- Marcella J. Murphy, 63, of Charleston, died Monday, March 1, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 8, 1929, in Walnut Ridge, Ark., daughter of Jesse and Jewell Holder McEntire. She and Ira Murphy were married June 23, 1951. He died May 31, 1985...
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MAXINE BERRY
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
BLOOMFIELD -- Maxine Berry, 61, of Bloomfield, died Monday, March 1, 1993, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 20, 1931, in Hornbeck, Tenn., daughter of Eddie L. and Eva Perminta James. She and Clifford "Jeff" Berry were married May 4, 1948...
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JAMES E. SANFORD
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
BENTON -- Funeral service for James Everett "Jimmy" Sanford of Houston, Texas, was held Feb. 18 in Houston. Sanford, 34, died Wednesday, Feb. 17, 1993, at Ben Taub Hospital in Houston, following an extended illness. He was born Aug. 25, 1958, in Watseka Ill., son of Rufus Roy and Shirley Sanford...
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RONALD W. CONLEY
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
Ronald Wayne Conley, 42, of Hanover Park, Ill., died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1993, at his home. He was born July 23, 1950, in Cape Girardeau, son of Richard Elwood and Virginia Job Conley. He and Celia Alcantor were married March 10, 1984, in Chicago. Conley had been an attorney with Illinois Department of Public Aid in Chicago for 15 years. He was a member of St. Ansgar Catholic Church in Hanover Park...
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MARTHA HEATH
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
CHAFFEE -- Martha "Maggie" Heath, 43, of Chaffee, died Monday, March 1, 1993, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born March 28, 1949, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Ollie Richard and Maggie McBride Groves. She and David H. Heath were married May 13, 1972...
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REV. DEWEY R. HALE
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Rev. Dewey R. Hale, 46, of Nashville, Tenn., formerly of Cairo, died Saturday, Feb. 27, 1993, in Bolivar, Mo. He was born Sept. 25, 1946, in Alexander County, son of Thomas and Susie Winemiller Hale. He and Evelyn Hagar were married May 20, 1967. She died May 26, 1991. He later married Kimberly Daniels Oct. 24, 1992, in Nashville...
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TIVIS E. STATLER JR.
(Obituary ~ 03/02/93)
Tivis E. Statler Jr., 69, of Graham, Texas, died Sunday, Feb. 28, 1993, at Graham General Hospital. He was born Dec. 6, 1923, at Cape Girardeau, son of Tivis E. and Mabel Catharine Seabaugh Statler. He was reared by George and Polly Roe of Sedgewickville...
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IRON MOUNTAIN RAILROAD SET FOR SEASON WITH WESTERN FLAIR
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
JACKSON -- When the "All Aboard" is sounded this spring for the 1993 season, passengers riding the steam-powered, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway will be treated to something new. Those booking passage on the tourist railroad's Saturday dinner train will enjoy a western flavor to their meal and trip, according to Mary Strong, operations manager...
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TRANSPORTATION MIXUP FORCES CANCELLATION OF GIOVANNI EVENT
(Local News ~ 03/02/93)
Sunday night's scheduled lecture by poet Nikki Giovanni at Southeast Missouri State University was canceled because the driver who was to have driven her to Cape Girardeau from St. Louis was late getting her, a university spokesperson said Monday. The spokesperson, Debra Mitchell-Braxton, assistant director of minority affairs, said the driver spent two hours trying to find the place at which she was to have been picked up. ...
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