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AUTHORS AND ARCHITECTS; PRESCHOOLERS LEARN LESSONS FROM FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, ERIC CARLE
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Christine Finley, left, and Ian Spaeth showed a toy they made with straws to explore color and line. Mike Alberson, left, and Kevin Hinton worked with building blocks to study shapes and patterns Frank Lloyd Wright emphasized. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright utilized the elements of shape, color, pattern and line in his buildings, explained Matthew Clements. Symmetry, too, is key to understanding Wright's work...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: WORKING WITH STUDENTS IS REWARDING FOR FIRST-GRADE TEACHER OF 24 YEARS
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Teaching first grade for 15 years has given Kathy Summers lots of experience with lost teeth. In fact, she is sort of the resident expert at the Gordonville Attendance Center on losing baby teeth. But this year she experienced a first: A group of her students were drawing pictures to illustrate a poem about a lost tooth, when one of the youngsters actually lost a tooth. Not long afterwards, a second child lost a tooth, and soon afterwards a third child lost a tooth...
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MEADOW HEIGHTS SUBJECT OF PROBE
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
PATTON -- Bollinger County Prosecuting Attorney William Hopkins says its time to settle things at Meadow Heights schools. Monday's Meadow Heights Board of Education meeting drew a crowd of about 40, including a uniformed deputy from the Bollinger County Sheriff's Department. Three video cameras and at least three audio tape recorders documented the proceedings...
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CITY PAY HIKES SHORT OF REQUESTS
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Cape Girardeau's proposed $54.9 million budget for fiscal 1996 includes a merit pay hike of 2.5 to 3 percent for most city employees but no across-the-board raises. Rank-and-file police officers wanted more: They had requested a 10 percent hike. City officials have insisted there isn't sufficient money to give employees a more substantial raise...
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TELEPHONE AREA CODES MAY SHIFT
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Your next-door neighbor could have a different area code than Eastern Missouri's 314 if Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.'s proposal for an area code overlay is granted, says the Missouri Office of Public Counsel. The new area code, 573, already has been established...
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MARK MY WORD: SAILING A CALLING FOR THE IDLE RICH, NOT A SPORT
(Column ~ 05/16/95)
Sailing, sailing over the ocean blue isn't a sport. It's a calling for the idle rich who don't have to worry any more about pirates or whether the world is flat. Personally, I find it hard to get excited about the America's Cup, you know the yacht race that seemingly went on forever off the shores of San Diego...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 05/16/95)
YOUR front-page story on Cape's municipal court just shows it has become a city money maker where true facts of a case do not enter in. My stopped car was run into by a woman looking down at a baby in her arms. The cop didn't see the accident and was sure I was much more able to pay the heavy fine the judge levied without considering the true facts. ...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/16/95)
Son to Michael and Tina Schaefer of Gordonville, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:44 a.m. Sunday, May 7, 1995. Name, Kolton Michael. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. Mrs. Schaefer is the former Tina Lappe, daughter of Tom and Sharon Lappe of Oak Ridge. She is a salesclerk at Wal-Mart Supercenter. Schaefer is a Diesel mechanic at Wiethop Truck and Trailer. He is the son of Karen Horn of Cape Girardeau and Lee Roy Schaefer of Troy, Ill...
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RALPH E. BRITT
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
CHARLESTON -- Ralph E. Britt, 73, of Festus, formerly of Mississippi County, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at Country Woods Nursing Facility in Festus. Britt was born Oct. 2, 1921, to Richard and Lola Campbell Britt in Crosno. He married Ann Arthurline Parr Dec. 30, 1939. She survives...
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SUE FAULCONER
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
ORAN -- Sue Faulconer, 53, of Oran died Monday, May 15, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangement are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran.
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LAURA A. PENNY
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
Laura Ann Penny, 26, 1315 Jefferson, died Monday, May 15, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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WILLIAM J. SMITH
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
CHARLESTON -- William J. "Bill" Smith, 73, Charleston Route 3, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at his homne. He was born July 10, 1921, near East Prairie, son of Aaron Dellon and Gracie Pauline Harr Smith. He and Chattie B. Johnson were married Dec. 20, 1968...
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MARVIN HOLLAND
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
MORLEY -- Funeral service for Marvin "Ben" Holland of Morley will be held at 2 p.m. today at Morley Baptist Church. Burial will be in Forest Hills Cemetery at Morley. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Oran is in charge of arrangements. Holland, 90, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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JOAN M. BOWERS
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
BERTRAND -- Joan Marie Bowers, 46, of Bertrand, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Oct. 9, 1948, at Sikeston, daughter of W.C. "Dub" and Martha McClain Groves. Bowers was owner and manager of Golden Vision Day Program in Sikeston, and was mayor of Bertrand several years. She attended the United Methodist Church here...
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RANDY TUCKER
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
PERRYVILLE -- Abram "Randy" Tucker, 77, of Perryville, died Monday, May 15, 1995, at Perry County Nursing Home. He was born Dec. 21, 1917, in Perry County, the son of Elliott and Myrtle McDowell Tucker. Tucker was a lifetime member of the VFW in Chester, Ill., and in Perryville. He was an Air Force veteran of World War II and the Korean War and a member of the First Baptist Church in Perryville...
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GENEVA HAMPTON
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
WILSON CITY -- Geneva Hampton, 74, of Wilson City, died Saturday, May 13, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 7, 1920, in Blytheville, Ark., daughter of Dennis and Ivory Newhouse Neal. Hampton was a member of Holly Grove Missionary Baptist Church...
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ROSENA CLUTTS
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
ANNA, Ill. -- Rosena Clutts, 93, of Anna, died Saturday, May 13, 1995, at City Care Center. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Anna from 6-8 p.m. today. Graveside service will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Rosehill Cemetery in Thebes, with the Rev. Dennis Cooley officiating...
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JESSE J. TUCKER
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
PARMA -- Jesse James Tucker, 96, of Gainesville, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at Gainesville Health Care Center. He was born July 22, 1898, in Harrisburg, Ill., son of William B. and Ella Mae Gibbs Tucker. He and Olga Mable Hughes were married Sept. 20, 1919, in New Madrid. She died May 24, 1990...
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DONALD R. FOX
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
MARBLE HILL -- Donald Ray Fox, 56, of Marble Hill, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 19, 1938, at Marble Hill, son of William Early and Rosie Alene Stratton Fox. He married Shirley Jean James, who died Nov. 8, 1973. He and Kathryn Underwood were married Jan. 30, 1975...
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LARRY G. YARBRO
(Obituary ~ 05/16/95)
Larry G. Yarbro, 57, 1924 College, died Sunday, May 14, 1995, at his home. He was born Feb 1, 1938, in Cape Girardeau, son of Louis "Doc" and Lois May Yarbro. He and Donna King were married April 29, 1961. Yarbro moved to Cape Girardeau in 1962 from Chaffee. He had worked at Buckstein's Garment in Chaffee, which is now Thorngate Ltd...
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JUVENILES, TAXES WORKIERS' COMP HIGHLIGHT SESSION
(Editorial ~ 05/16/95)
Last Friday at 6 p.m., the curtain fell on another legislative session in Jefferson City. In the absence of a special session, excepting only a two-day session in September to consider bills the governor vetoes, that's it until next January. As is nearly always the case in evaluating lawmakers' work product, the results are a mixed bag. ...
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LETTERS: A WORTHY ATHLETE-SCHOLAR
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/16/95)
To the editor: Being a concerned parent and father of an athlete in the Cape Girardeau school system, I feel there was a more deserving male athlete for the Lou Muegge Award. Apparently there were others who felt the same way. At the All-School Recognition Banquet last week, many people along with myself were bewildered when the winner was announced. ...
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LETTERS: TV SHOULD REFLECT MORAL VALUES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/16/95)
I recently watched "Prime Time Live" and saw something that broke my heart. I watched 3-year-old and 4-year-old children picking out clothes that made them look sexy and describing the act of sex. Ten-year-old boys and girls were shown (by psychologists) two pictures of the same model, one in normal apparel and the other in extremely revealing apparel. Then the children selected the scantily clad picture as the one they liked best, because it was sexier...
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JACKSON ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday, May 15 7:30 p.m. Action Items Authorized preventive maintenance contract with Robert Boitnott Painting for Wastewater Treatment Plant at a cost of $10,000 or less. Authorized renewal of lease on property located at 198 Oak Hill Road...
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CITY COUNCIL REJECTS PAWN SHOP REQUEST
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
The Cape Girardeau City Council won't let a pawn shop operate in an old, residential neighborhood whose residents voiced alarm over the idea. The council Monday night unanimously rejected a request by Money-Time Check Cashers Inc. for a special-use permit to turn a building at 155 S. Park into a pawn shop and establish parking on property across a city alley at 148 S. West End Boulevard. The pawn shop itself would be on the northwest corner of Park and William...
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LITTERING PROBLEM LEADS TO THREAT OF CLOSED JACKSON HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUS
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
JACKSON -- Jackson High School Principal Vernon Huck has two lunch schedules in his desk: one for an open campus and one for a closed campus. High school students are allowed to leave for lunch, and many travel to nearby fast-food eateries to gulp down burgers and fries before returning to class. Some drop cups and wrappers on the ground or dump them out car windows, making for a major litter problem...
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ST. VINCENT PRINCIPAL TO JACKSON
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
The principal of St. Vincent de Paul Grade School has announced she will leave to become principal of West Lane Elementary School in Jackson. Judy Fisher, who has been principal at St. Vincent for the past two years, will take over as principal of the Jackson elementary school this fall.20She will also be principal of Millersville Attendance Center in Millersville...
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SEVERAL BLOOD DRIVES SCHEDULED IN AREA
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
While the Oklahoma City bombing focused nationwide attention on the need for blood donations, the American Red Cross says blood is needed all the time for surgeries and emergencies. Volunteers can help make sure blood is available locally by participating in blood drives in the area over the next several weeks. The first is today at Central High School, 205 Caruthers, from 8 a.m. until 4 p.m...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Action Monday, 7:30 p.m. City Hall, 401 Independence Public Hearings Request of Money-Time Check Cashers Inc. for a special-use permit for a pawn shop and parking at 155 S. Park Ave. and 148 S. West End Blvd. A hearing on the city's performance in carrying out a 1993 Emergency Disaster Fund grant project involving construction of sewer lines in the area of Southern Expressway and Corporate Circle...
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SIX CAPE GIRARDEAU GIRLS CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE IN GIRL'S STATE
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Six girls from Cape Girardeau will attend the American Legion Auxiliary Girl's State program at William Woods University in Fulton June 18-24. They are: -- Michelle Bennett, a student at Central High School where she is involved in varsity tennis, National Honor Society, Beta Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and chamber choir, and is a captain of pompon squad. She is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Michael Bennett. She is sponsored by the Lion's Club...
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ORAN STUDENT ADVANCES TO NATIONAL FBLA CONFERENCE
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
ORAN -- Laramie Klipfel, a junior at Oran High School, is Missouri's top keyboardist. She won first place in keyboarding applications at the state Future Business Leaders of America leadership conference April 24 and 25. Students competing in the keyboarding competition had 30 minutes to type eight documents. They were scored based on how many were completed without errors. Klipfel completed five error-free documents...
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LOCAL STUDENT GETS AWARD FROM CORNELL
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Sarah Knaup of Jackson has been awarded a Natural and Physical Science Scholarship at Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa. The $7,000 annual scholarship is awarded to high school seniors based upon science aptitude, performance in high school courses, and standardized test scores. She is the daughter of John and Dolores Knaup and is a senior at Notre Dame High School...
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REBECCA OSTRENGA GETS PRESIDENT'S SCHOLARSHIP
(Local News ~ 05/16/95)
Rebecca A. Ostrenga of Cape Girardeau has been awarded a President's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University during the 1995-96 academic year. Ostrenga is the daughter of William and Barbara Ostrenga. She will graduate from Central High School, and plans to major in accounting at Southeast...
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