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AGRICULTURE UPDATE: TIMBER JOBS, DOLLARS AND TOWNS AT RISK
(Column ~ 07/23/94)
Jobs, our schoolchildren and our rural livelihood. These are three entities vitally important to Missouri's rural, timber-dependent communities and which benefit from national forest timber sales. For years, the receipts generated from federal timber sales have added important dollars to the tax coffers of many local governments. ...
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WHAT HAPPENED TO PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
(Editorial ~ 07/23/94)
Safety concerns about mo-peds, those mini-motorcycles that are a cross between a bicycle and riding lawn mower, are an example of the conflict so many Americans have about government intrusion into their private lives. On the one hand, some safety-conscious cyclists and many law enforcement officials would like to see stringent regulations, including a requirement that mo-ped operators wear a helmet, just as motorcycle operators and passengers already must do in Missouri...
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THE BIG ITCH: IDENTIFYING POISON IVY IS KEY TO PREVENTION
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
Doctors agree that the best way to prevent a case of poison ivy or poison oak is to be able to identify the plants and take precautions against making contact with them. "Children should be taught in schools what poison ivy looks like in all seasons, and then be sternly warned to avoid it," said Dr. Mike Kolda, emergency services director at Southeast Missouri Hospital. "Then, if the kids pointed it out to their parents, we wouldn't have this problem."...
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WILKINSON VOICES CONCERN OVER ROADS IN CHALLENGING COMMISSIONER BOCK
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
JACKSON -- Fred Wilkinson said he filed for Cape Girardeau County Commission because he is concerned about the way county roads are maintained and how the highway department is operated. Larry Bock, who is completing his first two-year term as commissioner, points to the work he has done overseeing county roads and bridges as a reason he should be re-elected...
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BOARD PRESIDENT REVISES AGENDA FOR MONDAY'S CLOSED MEETING
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
Cape Girardeau's Board of Education will discuss Superintendent Neyland Clark's performance at its closed meeting Monday. Board President Ed Thompson Friday revised the agenda for the noon meeting. On Thursday, Thompson said he called the special meeting to give board members a chance to discuss issues and concerns raised by a group of school patrons who are circulating petitions calling for Clark's resignation...
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LOCAL ANGLES: THIEVS AND JERKS: ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES
(Column ~ 07/23/94)
It's been a rough week. After a brutally long day at work on Monday and no significant break on Tuesday and Wednesday, I was ready to vent some steam by the time I left work early Thursday morning. Bad idea. It's not like I never delay my trip home. I'm a late-night regular at Mr. B's restaurant, where I enjoy a first-name relationship with all the waitresses. They bring me my coffee without even their having to take my order. Most of the time, they know my order, too...
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DRURY SAYS ST. LOUIS PROPERTY FLAP WILL BE RESOLVED
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
Charles Drury says there is no way his company is going to lose the Union Market property in downtown St. Louis. Drury's response was to an article which appeared in the Friday St. Louis Post Dispatch, in which city officials demanded Drury pay $189,583 in back lease payments on the Union Market...
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CROWD SOARS TO MORE THAN 4,000 AT BALOON FEST FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
A crowd of between 4,000 to 6,000 people jammed the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport Friday evening to watch 45 tethered hot air balloons "glow" in the fading light of dusk. Many in the crowd took the opportunity to go up in the tethered balloons. The balloon glow and rides were the first of a series of events for Balloon Fest '94, which continues today and wraps up Sunday...
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CRASH CAUSED BY BEE STING HURTS EIGHT
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
PATTON -- A bee sting is blamed for a motor vehicle accident that injured eight people in Bollinger County Friday. The Missouri Highway Patrol said eight people were injured at 12:15 p.m. Friday, after the driver of a car was stung on the leg by a yellow jacket or bee. The driver lost control of the vehicle and overturned on Highway 72, two miles west of Patton...
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`SAVED BY THE BELL' STAR AT MALL TODAY
(Local News ~ 07/23/94)
Martin "Spanky" Rogers, co-star of the television program "Saved by the Bell," will sign autographs today at West Park Mall from 1-3 p.m. Rogers' signing party is sponsored by the River Heritage Regional Black Family Reunion. He joins a new cast of the television program this fall. Rogers plays the character Bobby Wilson...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 07/23/94)
Son to Drs. Sarah Aydt and Michael Jedlinski, 3905 Carolewood, 8:45 a.m. Saturday, June 25, 1994. Name, Matthew Thomas. Weight, 6 pounds 13 ounces. First child. Aydt is the daughter of Elizabeth A. Aydt of Cairo, Ill., and the late Louis T. Aydt. She is an internist and pediatrician with Internal Medicine Group. Jedlinski is also an internist with Internal Medicine Group, and is the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henryk Jedlinski of Champaign, Ill...
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NORMAN J. BURGER
(Obituary ~ 07/23/94)
KELSO -- Norman Joseph Burger, 64, of Kelso, died Thursday, July 21, 1994, at his home. He was born Feb. 4, 1930, at Kelso, son of Fred P. and Freda J. Heisserer Burger. He and Betty M. Schott were married Nov. 25, 1954. Burger was a salesman with Sears, retiring after 20 years. He was a member of St. Augustine Catholic Church and its Men's Club, and Knights of Columbus Council 1111 in Cape Girardeau...
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DALE L. CRITES
(Obituary ~ 07/23/94)
JACKSON -- Dale L. Crites, 45, of Jackson, died Friday, July 22, 1994, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Dec. 21, 1948, in Cape Girardeau, son of Alfred R. and Rettia Sebaugh Crites. He and Brenda Cook were married July 21, 1977. Crites was a 1966 graduate of Oak Ridge High School. He worked at the former Jackson Hosiery Mill from 1966-72, at United Shoe Machinery from 1972-78, and since then had been employed at Procter & Gamble...
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BEATRICE E. BELL
(Obituary ~ 07/23/94)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Beatrice Elizabeth Bell of Tamms has been changed to 2:30 p.m. Sunday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City, Mo. The Rev. William Dickey will officiate, with burial in New Morley Cemetery at Morley, Mo. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...
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