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NORMAN D. HUGHES
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
Norman D. Hughes, 76, of Jackson, formerly of Cairo, died Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral services are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo.
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WASHINGTON WATCH: POPULATION CONFAB HITS STUMBLING BLOCK
(Column ~ 09/09/94)
The International Conference on Population and Development, now taking place in Cairo, Egypt, demonstrates that there are few issues that divide the world as bitterly as abortion. But if one thing should be learned from this U.N.-sponsored gathering, it is that women's rights, education and equality are essential in controlling the world's population and improving the quality of life all around...
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WHEAT OPENS OFFICE IN CAPE AT 5 P.M.
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
A campaign office for Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Alan Wheat will be opened today at 5 p.m. in Cape Girardeau. Former Gov. Warren Hearnes and his wife Betty will attend a ribbon cutting ceremony, and a reception that will follow. The Hearnes', who live in Charleston, endorsed Wheat for the Democratic nomination earlier this year...
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REBEKAH LODGE WILL GATHER ON SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
Cape Rebekah Lodge 508 will host the District 15 meeting on Saturday at Odd-Fellow Hall, 825 S. Ellis, in Cape Girardeau. Registration will begin at 9 a.m. with the meeting to start at 9:30 a.m. under the supervision of the Missouri Assembly Warden Frances Fox of Farmington. District president Patsy Kimbrel will preside...
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`TRAVEL ABORAD AT HOME' SERIES BEGINS
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
Five noon-time presentations on various countries and topics will be featured in the Travel Abroad At Home" series at Southeast Missouri State University this fall. The programs will be presented from 12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. in Crisp Hall Auditorium. Free pizza and soft drinks will be served. The lectures are free and open to the public...
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NOTRE DAME PLANS SUPPER ON SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
The Notre Dame High School Home and School Association will hold a pot luck supper Sunday at the school. Sophomores, juniors and seniors who made the A honor roll each quarter of the last school year will be honored at the meeting. Parents will also have a chance to meet other parents and faculty members...
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EMERGENCY ROOMS HERE PROVIDE ONLY CERTIFIED PHYSICIANS, SAY DOCTORS
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
Physicians at both Cape Girardeau hospitals believe emergency room patients at the local hospitals receive quality care by competent doctors. The doctors said that patients at St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital are treated in the emergency rooms by board-certified physicians who are employed full time by the hospitals...
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CARSON KELLEY OF UNIVERSITY TO HEAD MAJOR CASE SQUAD
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
The new commander of the Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County Major Case Squad is Carson Kelley, assistant director of public safety at Southeast Missouri State University. He takes over the squad Sept. 19. "It's not a real big shock," said Kelley, "but I didn't know for sure that this was going to happen."...
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`TIE 'EM UP TIGER DAY' SET SATURDAY AT JUNIOR HIGH
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
The Cape Central Junior High School PTA and St. Francis Medical Center will sponsor a "Tie 'Em Up Tiger Day" Saturday for the 8th and 9th grade student body. The event will be held at the junior high school from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. A tie-dye T-shirt contest, free refreshments, games and prizes are planned. T-shirts to tie dye will be available for purchase for $7...
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CAPE'S AIRPORT ATTRACTS COMPETITIVE INTEREST
(Editorial ~ 09/09/94)
A hot item right now is who will be the next fixed-base operator at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport. There are three proposals, and each plan has merits worth considering. A fixed-base operator, usually call an FBO by pilots and others who have an interest in aviation, is an all-purpose business similar to the full-service filling station. There aren't very many full-service filling stations left for motorists these days, but an airport without an FBO isn't likely to have much traffic...
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MISSOURI COMMENT: A QUESTION OF BLACK AND WHITE: WHEAT-ASHCROFT RACE EXAMINED
(Column ~ 09/09/94)
Missouri has been dancing around the subject for months and it's time the music stopped and we faced it. Simply put, the question is: Will Missourians vote in November against the first black candidate seeking a statewide office simply because of the color of his skin?...
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WASHINGTON WATCH: POPULATION CONFAB HITS STUMBLING BLOCK
(Column ~ 09/09/94)
The International Conference on Population and Development, now taking place in Cairo, Egypt, demonstrates that there are few issues that divide the world as bitterly as abortion. But if one thing should be learned from this U.N.-sponsored gathering, it is that women's rights, education and equality are essential in controlling the world's population and improving the quality of life all around...
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LETTER: BUSINESS GROUP TAKES STAND ON LAB
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/09/94)
To the editor: It was with dismay and surprise that we read of your support of the proposed additional cardiac catheterization laboratory at St. Francis Medical Center. The Southeast Missouri Business Group on Health has adopted a position in opposition to the proposed expansion. ...
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HEAD-ON CRASH INJURES THREE
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
MARBLE HILL - A head-on collision on Highway 34 at the west city limits here at 6:01 p.m. Thursday resulted in one man and two teenagers being transported to Cape Girardeau hospitals with serious injuries. The highway patrol said Timothy Crader, 16, of Advance was passing another vehicle westbound on the crest of a hill when his 86 Pontiac collided with an 86 Dodge being driven eastbound by Darrell Hatley, 43, of Murphysboro, Ill...
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HERBERT R. SMITH
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
SCOTT CITY -- Herbert R. Smith, 67, of Scott City, died Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
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SISTER MIRIAM COOVERT
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
Funeral service for Sister Miriam Coovert was held Sept. 2 at Villa Gesu in St. Louis, with burial in the villa cemetery. Coovert, 87, died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 1994, at Villa Gesu. She was born Oct. 23, 1906, daughter of William and Catherine McNamara Coovert...
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JERRY L. NISWONGER
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
Funeral service for Jerry Leon Niswonger of Emporia, Va., will be held at 11 a.m. today at Main Street Baptist Church in Emporia. Burial will be in Seminary Cemetery at Wake Forest, N.C. Echols Funeral Home in Emporia is in charge of arrangements. Niswonger, 63, died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1994...
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ROSANA B. SQUIRES
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
Funeral mass for Rosana Buckley Squires of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Cathedral, with the Revs. Willis Darling and Glenn Eftink officiating. Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel from 6-8 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7...
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RUTH I. BOND
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Ruth Irene Bond of Chaffee will be held at 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home here, with the Rev. Gerald Collier and Kenneth Roberts officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park at Cape Girardeau. Bond, 97, died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 1994, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau...
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BRYCE R. FISHER
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
MARBLE HILL -- Funeral service for Bryce Robert Fisher of Marion, Ill., will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Liley Funeral Chapel here. The Revs. Verlee Eaker, Cecil Parrish and Eldo Eaker will officiate. Entombment will be in the family mausoleum at Bollinger County Memorial Park Cemetery near Marble Hill...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 09/09/94)
Son to Thomas and Dawn Lichtenegger, Scott City Route 2, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:01 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 31, 1994. Name, Branden Scott. Weight, 5 pounds 13 ounces. First child. Mrs. Lichtenegger is the former Dawn Brown, daughter of Donna Brown of Cape Girardeau and Garry Brown of Bernie. She is employed at Burger King on Broadway in Cape Girardeau. Lichtenegger is plant operator at Havco Wood Products in Scott City, and is the son of Herb and Barb Lichtenegger of Jackson...
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WILLIAM J. DEAN
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
CAIRO, Ill. -- William J. Dean, 37, of Cairo, died Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994, at his home. He was born Dec. 31, 1956, in Cairo, son of William Homer and Edith Haney Dean. Dean was employed by Daystar Community Program, and was a former fireman here. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church...
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SELMA I. SCHMID
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
Selma I. Schmid, 76, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Sept. 8, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born March 29, 1918, in Cowden, Ill., daughter of Frank and Fern Christy Fagg. She married Eugene Schmid July 25, 1937, in Edwardsville, Ill...
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PRIVATE PARTY HELD AT NIGHTCLUB
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- A private party was held at the Hush Puppy Too nightclub during the Labor Day holiday. The nightclub's liquor license was suspended in August for an indefinite period by the Alexander County liquor control commissioner, Louis Maze. "The club has not reopened," said Jeff Farris, Alexander County state's attorney, following reports that the club was open last week...
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MARGARET R. DAVIS
(Obituary ~ 09/09/94)
PERRYVILLE -- Margaret R. "Peggy" Davis, 59, of Perryville, died Wednesday, Sept. 7, 1994, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born May 31, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of William K. and Ruby Nelson Lakenan. She and H. Harold Davis were married April 5, 1958...
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HEFTY PENSIONS AWAIT MISSOURI'S FEDERAL LAWMAKERS
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
If you are a voter who has been angry about perks members of Congress bestow on themselves, then get ready for a real tantrum. Such perks as free parking, subsidized meals and free haircuts are mere chicken feed to the millions of pension dollars that will be raked in once they retire...
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POPEYE FANS PICK CHESTER FOR NEW START
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
CHESTER, Ill. -- It didn't take a can of spinach to give Michael and Debbie Brooks and David and Laurie Randall the strength to give up their careers and move to Chester, Ill. The conviction that Popeye's hometown offered a chance for a new beginning was all it took...
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CAPE CHAMBER, RCGA VOTE TO COMBINE FORCES
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and the Regional Commerce and Growth Association have joined forces after years of strong and often public disagreements between leaders of the two groups. The 18-member chamber board voted unanimously Tuesday to join the RCGA. The decision, however, wasn't announced until Thursday afternoon...
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WILDMAN TO QUIT RCGA POST
(Local News ~ 09/09/94)
Walt Wildman is stepping down as executive director of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association. "An organization like this needs new blood," said Wildman. "Jobs like mine are in cycles, and it's time for a change." The announcement came at Thursday night's RCGA meeting...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: READING CAN MAKE A MOM PROUD
(Column ~ 09/09/94)
When you stop and think about the first book you ever owned, you have to push the little gray cells to remember that far back. Recollecting how you became an avid reader has been prompted by a special event next week. In just a few days the streets of Cape Girardeau will be swamped, not by Mississippi floodwaters, but by hundreds of volunteers on street corners selling the 1994 YELL edition of the Southeast Missourian. ...
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