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JACKSON COKE PLANT WILL GROW
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
JACKSON -- Some major changes have been announced for Coca- Cola Bottling Co.'s operations in Southeast Missouri following purchase of the local plants by Coca-Cola Enterprise of Atlanta, Ga. The Jackson Coca-Cola facility will be remodeled and expanded and the Sikeston distribution center will close...
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VOLUME-BASED BILLING COULD COST MORE
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
For most people in Cape Girardeau, volume-based trash billing is likely to increase monthly trash fees even more than a proposed $1.46-per-month flat hike proposed by the city staff. Members of the city's Solid Waste Task Force met Tuesday to discuss a request by the city council that they come up with a volume-based billing system for trash service...
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POLICE CHIEF AT JACKSON WILL MOVE TO CITY HALL
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
JACKSON -- Police Chief Larry Koenig will resign soon to accept the new position of personnel director and office manager at Jackson City Hall. The resignation is effective upon the appointment of a new police chief, which should take place within the next 45 days, said Mayor Paul Sander in making the announcement Tuesday...
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GRAHAM HOPES TO CURB GOVERNMENT GROWTH
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
FREDERICKTOWN -- Although he has been in the Missouri House only three years, Jim Graham has been alarmed at the growth in state government during his short tenure. The state budget continues to grow and it seems like new programs are offered as solutions to many problems...
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WILLIAMS SEES NEW ISSUES COMING FROM PAST
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
DEXTER -- Marilyn Williams was looking through a newspaper that was more than 20 years old recently and discovered that the same issues members of the Missouri legislature were concerned with then are being talked about now. Although problems may change slightly, issues like education, welfare, help for small businesses, tight budgets and crime linger...
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RUOPP SEEKS 5TH TERM ON BOARD
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
Incumbent Pat Ruopp filed Tuesday for a fifth term on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education, the only candidate to do so on the opening day of filings. Voters will choose two board members, each to serve a three-year term. Candidates have until 5 p.m. Feb. 1 to file. The election will be held April 5...
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BIDDING OF TRASH SERVICE SURFACES
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
A proposed trash fee hike in Cape Girardeau has resurrected a push to seek proposals from private contractors interested in bidding on the city's solid waste service. Councilman Doug Richards Monday failed to garner enough council support to seek trash service proposals from private companies...
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GOLDIE R. EVANS
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
CHARLESTON -- Goldie Roosevelt Evans, 90, of Charleston, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 1994, at Parkside Towers Retirement Home in St. Louis. He was born Sept. 27, 1903, in Greenwood, Miss., son of Ephrim and Ella Lucas Evans. Evans was a member of Mercy Seat Baptist Church...
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ELIZABETH LONG
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Elizabeth Long, 45, of Mounds, died Monday, Jan. 3, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 18, 1948, in Cleveland, Ohio, daughter of Raymond and Margaret Porter Merritt. Long had worked at Daystar Care Center in Cairo...
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WILLIAM B. SCHOTT
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
William B. Schott, 89, 2731 Gordonville Road, died Monday, Jan. 3, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born May 6, 1904, at Apple Creek, son of Roman and Isabella Anselm Schott. He and Anna Lauck were married Nov. 5, 1928, at Apple Creek. Schott operated Appleton Garage, and in the late 1930s he was a wholesale beer distributor in Cape Girardeau and Perry counties. ...
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JESSICA C. HARRIS
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Jessica C. Harris, 4, daughter of Joseph and Linda Schreck Harris of Burbank, Ill., died Monday, Jan. 3, 1994, at her home. She was born June 1, 1989, in Chicago. Survivors are her parents; her paternal grandparents, Ken and Charlene Potts, Burbank; her maternal grandparents, Gerald and Rosie Schreck, Katy, Texas; and her great-grandmother, Mrs. Curtis Potts, Urbandale...
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OLIVE L. FERRILL
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Olive L. Ferrill, 88, of Mounds, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1994, at her home in Mounds. Arrangements were incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo.
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ALFRED L. DEWROCK
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
Alfred L. "Fuzzy" Dewrock, 52, of 327 Morgan Oak, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1994 at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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MYRTLE L. WOOD
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
SIKESTON -- Myrtle Lee Wood, 92, formerly of Sikeston, died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1994, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews. She was born Feb. 3, 1901, in Graves County, Ky., daughter of Henry W. and Mary E. Taylor Mitchell. She and William Earnest Wood were married in December 1919 in Mayfield, Ky. He died in 1970...
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EMMA A. SACHSE
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
Emma Angeline Sachse, 85, of Washington, Mo., died Monday, Jan. 3, 1994, at Cedar Crest Manor in Washington. She was born Oct. 10, 1908, in Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Madison Hurst. She and Harry Charles Roberts Sachse were married Feb. 27, 1943, in Providence, R.I. He died Aug. 12, 1975...
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ALVIN ZIERATH
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
Funeral service for Alvin "Fritz" Zierath, 101 S. Benton, will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at Trinity Lutheran Church in Egypt Mills. The Rev. Mark Martin will officiate, with burial in Thompson Cemetery near Egypt Mills. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today...
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BOB "BLUE" JACKMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/05/94)
BENTON -- Bob "Blue" Jackman, 54, of Benton died Tuesday, Jan. 4, 1994 at the Delta Community Hospital in Sikeston. He was born Sept. 4, 1939 in Bell City to Lloyd Cazey and Lillian Reynolds. He worked as a heavy equipment operator. On June 24, 1961, he married Betty Roberts in Chicago, Ill. She survives...
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BOCK WILL RUN FOR SECOND TERM AS ASSOCIATE COMMISSIONER IN COUNTY
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
JACKSON - Cape Girardeau County First District Associate Commissioner Larry Bock said Tuesday that he will seek re-election this year. In making the announcement, Bock stressed that he had followed through on campaign promises to promote economic development, promote cooperation, move toward long range planning for roads and bridges, and to be open minded to the needs of citizens...
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NEW BINGO TAX WILL HURT LOCAL CHARITIES, NOT THE PLAYERS
(Editorial ~ 01/05/94)
The state excise tax on bingo game sales has more than doubled this year -- an act that has bingo sponsors crying foul. The tax may appear innocent enough on the surface -- it's a kind of "sin" tax that benefits state veterans homes and carries a five-year sunset clause...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: COACH'S REMARKS ARE INSENSITIVE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/05/94)
Dear Editor: Watching the Notre Dame Bulldogs take charge of the court during the third quarter of their Thursday night game at the University High Christmas Tournament, I wondered what their coach had said to them during the halftime interval. Coach Chris Janet answered that question in an interview reported by the Southeast Missourian's sports writer, Jeff Breer on Dec. 31...
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LEND ME YOUR EAR: ON FLOGGING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
(Column ~ 01/05/94)
Readers of these columns became familiar with Richard Lederer's book CRAZY ENGLISH when it was published, and the whole country was delighted with the widely-known author's observations. Even when small children are forever questioning the logic of our usage. Bil Keane bears this out in the examples he drives into the heads of his small fry in Family Circus...
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HIDDEN TREASURES: ATTICS, CLOSETS OR BASEMENTS MAY CONCEAL VALUABLE ANTIQUES
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
True Story: An old trunk was purchased from a homeowner conducting an estate sale. The small trunk was unceremoniously tucked away by its new owner for more than two years before he took a close look at it. Noticing that the inside bottom of the trunk appeared to be higher than the outside bottom, he investigated. Tucked away inside a false bottom were two old World Series Programs, signed by a half-dozen St. Louis Cardinal baseball players...
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ZONTA REALLY COOKING WITH BOOK OF 500 RECIPES
(Local News ~ 01/05/94)
Cooks and collectors, a new cookbook features more than 500 favorites from members of Cape Girardeau's Zonta Club. Joyce Kuntze with Zonta Club explained that the cookbook is a fund-raising effort for the non-profit organization. "We raise a lot of money for a lot of projects," she explained. "We were searching for something new that we've not done before."...
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NOW'S THE TIME GARDENERS DEVOTE TO THEIR NEW WISH BOOKS
(Column ~ 01/05/94)
Along with the holiday greeting mail came the onslaught of the annual seed catalogs. Now that the greetings have been read and reread and tucked away for another year, there is time to devote to the new wish books. If you are tired of Big Boytomatoes and Heavenly Blue morning glories, maybe you would like to try something different. ...
Stories from Wednesday, January 5, 1994
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