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POOLS OVERFLOW WITH SWIMMING STUDENTS
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
Jennifer Hook, left, helped Jennifer Willis into the water while the children learned how to use life jackets. Crockette Leible learned how to do the back float from Amy Edwards. Lacey Neal, left, dove into the deep end of Capaha Park pool while her instructor watched...
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SAFE WATER AIM OF PROJECT
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- With construction about to begin on a $20 million project to provide safe drinking water in rural areas of five Southern Illinois counties, U.S. Department of Agriculture and state officials met in Villa Ridge Monday to discuss the need for safe drinking water throughout rural America...
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FIVE URGED TO QUIT AT MEADOW HEIGHTS
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
PATTON -- Meadow Heights School District superintendent Tom Waller has resigned, but some residents of the district still aren't satisfied. At a Board of Education meeting Monday, a group of residents called for resignations of five of the seven board members and asked that the former superintendent's wife, Kay Waller, be fired from her secretarial job at the school...
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NEW SUNDAY TICKET SALES BOOST STATE'S LOTTERY TAKE
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
On July 2, the Missouri Lottery Commission did away with a policy of no Sunday drawings, evoking smiles from vendors and frowns from ministers. The rule had been in place since Pick 3 started in February 1987. Although commission spokesperson Susan Goedde said Missouri was just following other states by not having Sunday drawings, local ministers contend otherwise...
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MARK MY WORD: SCIENTISTS FOMENT MAGGOT MEDICINE
(Column ~ 07/18/95)
Goodbye, high-tech gadgets and costly drugs. Say hello to maggot medicine. This isn't everybody's cup of tea. But there are maggot-minded people like David Rogers, an Oxford University entomologist who is considered a pioneer in this fly-invested business...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 07/18/95)
I WILL not vote for a city sales tax Aug. 8 for the simple reason that I live in the northeast section of Cape and we are tired of reporting high weeds, abandoned cars and yards and dilapidated houses only to receive no action. Until city officials start treating all taxpayers the same, I will not vote for any tax increase...
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PADUCAH WEATHER SERVICE GETS ADDITIONAL COUNTIES
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
The National Weather Service is restructuring its offices, but Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois residents probably won't notice many changes. "You'll hear more from us where normally it was from St. Louis," said meteorologist Chris Noles of the service in Paducah, Ky...
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EAST MISSOURI CANCER SCREENINGS HELPING TO SAVE LIVES
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
The free breast and cervical cancer screenings at East Missouri Action Agency are helping save lives, said Kathy Blevins, advanced women's-health-care-nurse practitioner. The Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Control Project began at the agency about a year and a half ago sponsored by grant money from the Missouri Department of Health and Centers for Disease Control. It was designed for Missouri women at or below 200 percent of the poverty level...
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FEDERAL BUILDING HEATS UP WITHOUT AIR
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
Federal Building offices were temporarily closed Monday morning after an air-conditioning failure. Handwritten notices announcing the closing were posted on the entrance to the building. By 3:30 p.m., the entire building was closed. Offices are scheduled to reopen at 9 a.m. today...
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COUNCIL PICKS CITY MANAGER FINALISTS
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
The City Council Monday night narrowed its search for a city manager to five finalists and three alternates. The alternates will be considered if one or more of the finalists withdraw from the field. All eight are men and all have been or currently are city managers. "All these people have somewhere between 15 to 20 years of experience," Mayor Al Spradling III said...
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FIRM GETS CONTRACT TO PREPARE JACKSON CITY HALL
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
JACKSON -- Although there are too many variables involved to pinpoint a date, Jackson City Administrator Steve Wilson said Jackson's city employees may be moved to the new city hall between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The city will move into the downtown Boatmen's Bank building. The bank is going to a newly constructed building...
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PROMISE KEEPERS
(Editorial ~ 07/18/95)
Ask men about their relationships with other men, and many will stumble and fidget. They tend to be uncomfortable about the topic. Moreover, too many men give up their responsibilities to their families, churches and communities. An estimated 8 million children are fatherless, in large part the result of men who couldn't or wouldn't take the necessary responsibility...
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RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT
(Column ~ 07/18/95)
Paul Greenberg's column July 10 gives us the same one-sided, illogical half-truth that has helped lead us to our present-day anti-religious bigotry. He tries to make the point that a government-sponsored religion is not what any of the early founders of our nation wanted. ...
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ASSESSING GANGS: TEEN CRIME TODAY WORSE THAN BEFORE
(Editorial ~ 07/18/95)
Recent talk about gangs in Cape Girardeau amounts to little more than a mincing of words -- words that continue to deflect the city's attention from a problem that will continue to worsen unless residents recognize what is happening and join with police and juvenile officials to combat the situation...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 07/18/95)
Son to Douglas and Teresa Hartmann of Pasadena, Calif., Huntington Hospital there, 3:43 a.m. Wednesday, June 28, 1995. Name, Benjamin Swartz. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. First child. Mrs. Hartmann is the former Teresa Swartz, daughter of Charles and Chiyoko Swartz of Temple City, Calif. ...
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VIVIAN M. REIKER
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
Graveside service for Vivian M. Reiker of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary's Cemetery. Msgr. Richard Rolwing will officiate. A memorial mass will be held later. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Reiker, 83, died Sunday, July 16, 1995, at the Lutheran Home...
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RUBY F. METHENY
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Ruby F. Metheny, 90, of Cairo, died Sunday, July 16, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She married Ray V. Metheny, who died in 1988. The Methenys owned and operated Metheny's Market in Cairo many years. She was a member of Tigert Memorial United Methodist Church...
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GARY M. FORRESTER
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
Gary M. Forrester, 38, of LaCenter, Ky., died Sunday, July 16, 1995, at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky. He was born Sept. 18, 1956, son of Herbert and Alvina Forrester. Survivors include a son, Jared Forrester of LaCenter; his parents of Cape Girardeau; two sisters, Vicki McGrath of Jacksonville, Ill., Sandy Lonergan of Franklin, Ill.; two brothers, David Forrester of Plano, Texas, and Herbert Forrester Jr. of Oklahoma City, Okla...
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TERRY MARTIN
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
DEXTER -- Terry Martin, 37, of Powe, drowned Sunday, July 16, 1995, in the St. Francis River near Campbell. He was born Dec. 30, 1957, in Okolona, Miss., son of Manley Bruce and Susie Newby Martin. Martin lived in Southeast Missouri the past 20 years. He was a farm laborer...
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LOUISA `MILLIE' BROWN
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
MARBLE HILL -- Louisa "Millie" Brown, 56, of Marble Hill, formerly of Mounds, Ill., died Sunday, July 16, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 16, 1918, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of Clyde Marian and Ima Mae Mangrum Stratton...
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KENNETH O. BROWN
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
JACKSON -- Kenneth Owen Brown, 73, of Jackson, died Sunday, July 16, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born May 16, 1922, in Kincaid, Ill., son of Owen and Sadie Barnes Brown. He and Dorothy Fuller were married Feb. 2, 1946, in Springfield, Ill...
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BEAULAH BROWN
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
JACKSON -- Funeral service for Beaulah M. Brown of Jackson will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home, with the Rev. Al Brown officiating. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...
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JOHN F. COOK
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
John Franklin Cook, 78, 311 Mason, died Sunday, July 16, 1995, at his home. He was born Feb. 16, 1917, in Mayfield, son of John Willis and Laura M. Stevens Cook. He and Helen B. Brotherton were married Dec. 30, 1944, in Cape Girardeau. Cook worked at SEMO Body Shop 20 years and at Huckstep Body and Paint Shop 15 years. He was a member of New Life World Outreach Center...
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GRACE SCOBEY
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
SIKESTON -- Grace Scobey, 86, of Bells, Tenn., formerly of Sikeston, died Monday, July 17, 1995, at West Tennessee Skilled Nursing Center in Jackson. She was born Nov. 22, 1908, in Lilbourn, daughter of William M. "Mitt" and Ada Cline Robinson. She and Homer Scobey were married Nov. 29, 1926. He died Sept. 19, 1989...
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RAYMOND M. LYNN
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Raymond M. Lynn, 77, of Murray, Ky., formerly of the Jonesboro area, died Monday, July 17, 1995, at the University of Chicago Hospital. Friends may call at Hileman and Parr Funeral Home in Jonesboro after 11 a.m. Wednesday. Funeral service will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home...
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MORRIS D. YOUNG
(Obituary ~ 07/18/95)
BENTON -- Morris D. Young, 63, Benton Route 1, died Monday, July 17, 1995, at his home. He was born Feb. 22, 1932, in Grants Farm, Ill., son of John Tunis and Jennie Myrtle Baldwin Young. He and Catherine Pearl were married Oct. 15, 1955, in Attica, Ind...
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CITY SEEKS ALTERNATIVES TO WATER PLANT PROBLEM
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
While workers at Cape Girardeau's water plant disassemble and reinstall intake pumps, other city employees are looking for a permanent solution to problems behind last week's boil-water order. The city issued the order at about 10:30 a.m. Friday, warning residents that they should boil all drinking water for five minutes...
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ST. FRANCIS HOPES TO BUY MRI SYSTEM
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
St. Francis Medical Center hopes to buy a new magnetic resonance imaging system for an estimated $1.65 million. The hospital has filed an application for a certificate of need to purchase the machine. A decision is scheduled to be made Oct. 18 by the Missouri Health Facilities Review Committee...
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TWO HURT IN WRECK NEAR MARBLE HILL
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
Two people were injured in an accident near Marble Hill. Kevin Menz, 24, and his wife Jill, 30, both of Marble Hill, were injured in the two-vehicle accident. The accident occurred at 2:20 p.m. Sunday on Highway 34 about five miles east of Marble Hill, said a Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman. A car driven by Kelly Barks, 19, of Marble HIll, crossed the center line and struck a car driven by Kevin Menz, the patrol said...
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ENTRIES FOR PEACH FAIR PAGEANT BEING ACCEPTED
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
Entries are being accepted for the Miss Missouri Peach Fair Pageant to be held in the Campbell Community Building in Campbell Aug. 12 at 7 p.m. To be eligible, women must be single and never have married and between 16 and 20. There is no Missouri residency requirement...
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JACKSON STUDENT EARNS SCHOLARSHIP
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
Elizabeth Harshaw of Jackson has received a scholarship from the Mechanical Contractors Association Industry Benefit Fund. The program provides each scholar a $1,500 annual award for four years. A total of $18,000 goes to 12 students annually. Harshaw is a graduate of Jackson High School and plans to attend Southeast Missouri State University. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Harshaw Jr. of Gordonville...
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ULLIN STUDENT NAMED TO ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY
(Local News ~ 07/18/95)
Brad Ulrich has been recognized by the U.S. Achievement Academy for academic achievement as a U.S. National Honor Roll Award winner. Ulrich attends Century Junior High School at Ullin, Ill.. His name will be in the U.S. Achievement Academy Official Yearbook...
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