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SLOAN ALBERT WATKINS
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
Sloan Albert Watkins, 86, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, May 22, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.
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ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIFE OF ULLIN MAN
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
McCLURE, Ill. -- An Ullin man was killed Monday on the Grapevine Trail between McClure and Tamms. An Illinois State Police report said Alfred C. Payne, 27, was eastbound on the highway at 4 p.m. when he crossed the center line, ran off the left side of the road, and slid sideways into the path of oncoming traffic in an attempt to right his car...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
Cape Girardeau CountyEug ene A. and Sandra J. Riegle to Gary M. and Doris Jean Arnold; JB Properties Inc. to Jeffrey L. and Karen L. Roth; Michael L. Annis Inc. to Ann Marie Mathes and Paul Anthony Quertermous. Mary Elizabeth White to Jay C. and Kelly R. Purcell; Charles R. Clippard to Barbara J. and Kimberly A. Baker; Harry and June McDowell to Jason Keesee...
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NEW MADRID GETS EMERGENCY GRANT
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
NEW MADRID -- Citizens in New Madrid Public Water Supply District 4 may stop boiling drinking water soon thanks to an emergency grant from the Missouri Department of Economic Development. New Madrid County will receive $17,000 to replace a broken water line. After inspecting the site, officials with the Department of Natural Resources declared the situation an emergency and issued a boil-water order...
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STRAIGHT-A STUDENTS GET FREE GAME TICKETS
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
Straight-A students at area high schools will be treated to a Cardinals baseball game at Busch Stadium thanks to area businesses. More than 1,500 tickets have been dispensed this year, two per straight A student. Last year, about 1,200 tickets were given out, said Dennis Marchi with Schnucks Food and Drug. Schnucks, the Southeast Missourian newspaper and KZIM radio sponsor the Straight A ticket program locally...
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PLANNING COMMISSION MEETS THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
PERRYVILLE -- The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission will conduct its May meeting Thursday at 2 p.m. at the commission's offices in Perryville. Members will hear a report from the Southeast Missouri Private Industry Council regarding job training programs. They also will be updated on progress of a revised tourism map and brochure...
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WHEN JUVENILES ARE CRIMINALS, PUBLIC NEEDS INFORMATION
(Editorial ~ 05/24/95)
Juvenile crime has been growing at alarming rates across the nation. Perhaps most disturbing about this trend is the increase in juvenile involvement in violent crimes such as murder, rape and assault. The number of referrals to juvenile court due to violent crimes has tripled in Missouri during the last decade...
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LETTERS: IT IS SAFER IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/24/95)
To the editor: Columnist Jack Stapleton paints a bleak and all-too-accurate portrait of U.S. urban life ("SOS: Save our cities," May 22). I have to take exception, though, to his utterly unfounded remarks regarding U.S. urban "neighborhoods that more closely resemble poverty-stricken, crime-infested Third World countries" and his advocacy of taking action "before our metropolitan areas become even worse than those in the Third World."...
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LETTERS: RESIDENTS PETITION FOR PAVED STREETS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/24/95)
To the editor: Why is it that over 50 percent of the 1995 city budget of $54.9 million goes to our public works department, yet there are several city streets in bad need of repair? I live in the 1000 block of South Pacific, and it is the only bock of Pacific that is not paved. Was it a simple oversight, or does the city not care about the people who live on this end of town?...
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LETTERS: GEOGRAPHICAL AREA CODES WOULD BE BEST
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/24/95)
To the editor: I appreciated your comments on Southwestern Bell's petition to the Public Service Commission (May 21 editorial, "Phone area codes: The customer is always right. Right?") I'm sure Southwestern Bell knows that the proper thing to do is to make a geographical separation for the new area code. ...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/24/95)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Lewis of Provo, Utah, American Fork Hospital in American Fork, Utah, 8:41 a.m. Thursday, May 11, 1995. Name, Megan Elizabeth. Weight, 7 pounds 3 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Lewis is the former Kimberly Criddle, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Danny Criddle of Jackson. Lewis is employed at Novell. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lewis of Salt Lake City, Utah...
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LEONA M. KIEFER
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
PERRYVILLE -- Leona M. Kiefer, 73, of Perryville, died Tuesday, May 23, 1995, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Feb. 26, 1922, in Perry County, daughter of William and Anna Moonier Kiefer. Kiefer was retired from International Shoe Co. She was a member of Daughters of Isabella, Ladies Sodality, and Western Catholic Union...
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MARY E. HOPSON
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
CHARLESTON -- Mary Ell Hopson, 68, of Charleston, died Sunday, May 21, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born March 12, 1927, in Ridgely, Tenn., daughter of Johnny and Emma Mae Henderson Johnson. Hopson had lived in Missouri more than 31 years...
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LAURA B. BEAL
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
ADVANCE -- Laura Bell Beal, 90, of Advance, died Monday, May 22, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 30, 1904, at Sturdivant, daughter of William and Altona George Arnold. She and Dewey Beal were married Sept. 17, 1921, at Bloomfield. He died April 29, 1977...
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NELLIE M. CLARK
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
ORAN -- Nellie Mae Clark, 92, of Oran, died Monday, May 22, 1995, at Heartland Care Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 9, 1902, in Clay County, Ill., daughter of Jesse and Elizabeth Ince Altom. She and Ben F. Clark were married Feb. 21, 1920. He died Sept. 13, 1983...
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RAYMOND W. WILLER
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
JACKSON -- Raymond W. Willer, 75, of Jackson, died Tuesday, May 23, 1995, at Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 17, 1920, in Jackson, son of Alpha and Minnie Rasche Willer. He and Dorothy Goehring were married July 13, 1952. Willer and his father co-owned the former Willer Seed Co. from 1945-62. He was a representative with Shawneetown Feed and Seed Co. from 1962-86, and was currently employed by Cheesmore Seed Co. of St. Joseph...
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FRED PAYNE
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
ULLIN, Ill. -- Fred Payne, 27, of Ullin, died Monday, May 22, 1995, in an automobile accident on Grapevine Trail. He was born May 6, 1968, in Cape Girardeau, Mo., son of Alfred Cleveland Collins and Betty Jean Payne. Payne was a welder with Transcraft Inc. in Anna...
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EMERSON A. MAYS
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
WILSON CITY -- Emerson Amos "Sugarman" Mays, 82, of Wilson City, died Sunday, May 21, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Nov. 8, 1912, in Augusta, Ark., son of Bert and Henrietta Dorsey Mays. He and Lela Graham were married Dec. 27, 1931...
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MAXINE B. WARREN
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
Funeral service for Maxine B. Warren of Lower Burrell, Pa., will be held at 11:30 a.m. today at Fitzpatrick Funeral Home in Kankakee, Ill. The Rev. David Applegate will officiate, with burial in Memorial Gardens Cemetery at Kankakee. Warren, 67, died Sunday, May 21, 1995...
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RUTH C. COLSON
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Ruth Clementine Colson, East Prairie Route 2, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. Mike Johnson will officiate, with burial in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery. Colson, 93, died Monday, May 22, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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BARBARA J. HARPER
(Obituary ~ 05/24/95)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Barbara Janet Harper of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Powerhouse of God Church, with Betty Ware officiating. Burial will be in Sunset of Memories Cemetery. Williams-Farr and Purnell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements...
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MISSISSIPPI CLOSES AS BARGES STACK UP AT CAIRO
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
Parts of four rivers in the eastern river systems above Cairo, Ill. remained closed today due to flooding conditions. The Mississippi River is closed in three areas between Cairo and St. Louis, resulting in more than 500 barges being moored along the Ohio River at Cairo...
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INSURANCE RULES SHIFT LEAVES SOME STRANDED
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
COMMERCE -- When the flooding Mississippi River threatened his home in 1993, Roy Jones went out and bought federal flood insurance. He did so again this year, but it won't help. Instead of a five-day waiting period as in 1993, those who buy flood insurance today must wait 30 days for it to go into effect...
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BAD NEWS: MORE RAIN MAY RAISE CREST
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
The National Weather Service is calling for 2 to 5 inches of rain north of Cape Girardeau in the next two days, a forecast that could wreak havoc with today's scheduled Mississippi River crest of 47 feet. If there is no rain in Kansas, Nebraska, southwestern Iowa and northwest Missouri in the next 24 hours, the river will drop in Cape Girardeau to 45.8 feet on Thursday and 44 feet shortly thereafter...
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EMERGENCY PANEL DAILY GRAPPLES WITH FLOOD
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
Members of the Emergency Operations Committee listened intently to the weather forecast at their daily meeting Tuesday. The committee includes city, county, Red Cross and Salvation Army officials. "The problem right now is that the tributaries along the Missouri and Mississippi rivers are full," Mark Hasheider, city emergency director, said. "The rivers can only go up when that rainfall happens."...
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BY THE WAY: VOLUNTEERS' CHANCE TO DO THE EXTRAORDINARY
(Column ~ 05/24/95)
As distasteful as natural disasters are, they do seem to have a way of allowing people to turn the ordinary into something extraordinary. It happened in 1993 and the same thing could occur again. This year, however, the Mississippi has swollen to alarming levels in a shorter period of time...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 05/24/95)
I READ that there are businesses that can't seem to find enough employees even during the summer when kids are out of school and looking for jobs. If those employers would take a look at the conditions in which their people work they might find out why they can't keep people working for them. ...
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CIVIC CENTER TO HOST TALK ABOUT AIDS, TV PROGRAM
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
Cape Civic Center leaders are inviting area teens to watch "In a New Light: Sex Unplugged" at the center at 7 p.m. June 1. The ABC television program, which deals with HIV and AIDS in teen-agers, will be broadcast on a big-screen television. It is part of a national AIDS awareness event called "A National Night to Talk About AIDS" and encourages people to get their questions about the disease answered...
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SIX ESCAPE BURNING HOUSE IN DELTA
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
DELTA -- Local residents said six people are lucky to be alive after a house fire in Delta early Tuesday. A spokesman for the Cape Girardeau County Sheriff's Department said Delta firefighters were summoned to the scene at 6:09 a.m. A dispatcher for the Chaffee Fire Department said its firefighters also fought the blaze that gutted the home...
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WEST END MERCHANTS MEET TO FORM WEST END MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
About 20 merchants on Cape Girardeau's west side gathered Tuesday night at the Holiday Inn to form the West End Merchants Association. An invitation to attend was extended to the owners of 263 area businesses, primarily those situated west of Kingshighway. Bob Hoppmann, who was elected secretary of the group, said west end merchants wanted more weight in city planning, marketing and other issues...
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LEND ME YOUR EAR: NO ONE SETS OR LAYS DOWN IN OUR SANCUM SANCTORUM
(Column ~ 05/24/95)
Requests for explanations of "sit/set" and "lay/lie" never cease. These two pairs of verbs required separate treatment in 1983, and since then we have learned so much more, we could probably write a whole book of distinctions. But no such plans are on our agenda because we have more urgent topics to occupy our thoughts. Cheers!...
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LADYBUG: BUTTERFLY GARDENING TAKES OFF
(Column ~ 05/24/95)
There is always something new in the gardening world. This year it is Butterfly Gardening. Much material is available telling of the merits of gardening to attract butterflies. Butterfly watching ranks high among outdoor pleasures, right up there with enjoying birds and wildflowers, the Missouri Department of Conservation, published in 1990,. ...
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STAWBERRIES: COME ONE, COME ALL!
(Local News ~ 05/24/95)
Protected in their straw beds, strawberry plants rest through the cold months, waiting until nature initiates a risky dance with spring frost. Come May, the sweet fruits of the gardener's and farmer's labors are revealed. For a few weeks, red, ripe strawberries hunker beneath green foliage, just waiting to be plucked and savored...
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