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WELCOME, MISSOURI BAPTISTS
(Editorial ~ 04/20/96)
Cape Girardeau will be a busy place this weekend as the Missouri Baptist Convention convenes here. Events include the Missouri Women's Missionary Union annual meeting and the Southern Baptist Convention Foreign Mission Board's appointee meeting, attracting as many as 5,000 Baptists to town...
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BOOST POLICE PAY
(Editorial ~ 04/20/96)
Equitable pay for officers of the Cape Girardeau Police Department has been a reoccurring topic of discussion between city and law enforcement officials for several years. Turnover in the department has been too high in recent years. More than 30 percent of the officers have been on the force less than two years. Many of these officers undergo extensive local training and then move onto higher-paid departments...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/20/96)
TO THE person who has lived in Oran 36 years and can't understand what the big deal is about putting lights and gates at the crossing because of his clear view of the tracks. No: I guess you can't understand why it's so important. It wasn't your mother, wife, sister or child. But one day it could happen to your family. And this is why I'm fighting so hard. I don't want anyone to go through this horrible, violent nightmare...
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FATHER AND DAUGHTER JOIN MU BOARD
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Neal Tanner and his daughter, Angela, recently agreed to sit on the University of Missouri School of Health Related Professions Alumni Organization Board in Columbia. Both graduated from the school, Neal Tanner in 1971 and Angela Tanner in 1995, and both are physical therapists in Cape Girardeau...
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LADY LUCK PITCHES PROPOSAL TO GAMING BOARD
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Lady Luck Gaming Corp. has asked the Missouri Gaming Commission to proceed with its investigation of its company. The investigation is a required step to obtain a license to operate a riverboat casino in the state. Officials for Lady Luck, which hopes to start gambling operations at Scott City and Kimswick, appeared before the Missouri Gaming Commission Thursday. ...
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BROADWAY SINGER PERFORMS IN CAPE
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Performing in Cape Girardeau isn't just another quick tour stop for Jo Sullivan Loesser. It's also a trip home. Loesser, a Broadway performer, returned to Cape Girardeau Friday to visit her parents and perform at Chateau Girardeau. She is the daughter of Hessie and Eileen Sullivan...
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COUNCIL TOLD QUICK ACTION NEEDED ON WATER SYSTEM
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Last July, Cape Girardeau water customers got a taste of possible things to come. They lived under a boil water order for two days after Mississippi River intake pumps stopped working. One pump was awaiting repair, another broke on a Thursday and the third broke on a Friday. Water pressure dropped, and officials feared back siphonage and a contaminated water supply...
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NOTRE DAME SITE SELECTED; $5 MILLION CONSTRUCTION FUND DRIVE UNDER WAY
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Notre Dame High School will move out of Cape Girardeau, but it won't be for some time.School officials announced Friday that a new high school will be built on a 40-acre site at Route K and Hitt Road, just east of County Road 206 and about two miles west of Interstate 55."We are very excited today to stand on the 40-acre tract that will be the future site of Notre Dame High School," said Sister Mary Ann Fischer, principal of the private, Catholic school, while showing the site to reporters Friday morning.The site, an undeveloped grassy field, was donated to the school by the James L. ...
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RAILROAD AUCTION OF A LIFETIME TO BEGIN
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
CHAFFEE -- Inside the scaled-down replica of a train depot his late father, Lee, helped build and erect in his backyard, Jim Chronister taps out "Frisco" on the telegraph key and talks about the smell old-time depots always had. He loves that smell and everything about railroads...
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5,000 EXPECTED AT MISSIONARY SERVICE
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
It has been about five years since Jim Bryant served overseas as a missionary for the Southern Baptist Convention, but he wont forget the appointment service that took his family to Bangladesh and then Thailand."There's a satisfaction about your work and what you have if you know you are where you're supposed to be," said Bryant, who now serves as director of missions for the Cane Creek-Stoddard Baptist Association in Poplar Bluff. ...
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COMMISSION RECONSIDERS COUNTY ZONING
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
JACKSON --In November 1992, Cape Girardeau County voters said no to a proposal to implement countywide zoning. But a new state law has the Cape Girardeau County Commission wondering how voters might feel about such a plan now. Commissioners were in Jefferson City last week when Gov. ...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: BACK WHEN A DOLLAR MEANT SOMETHING
(Column ~ 04/20/96)
My state taxes were slipped into the post office slot under cover of darkness Monday night. The federal forms were filed weeks ago, about two minutes after the accountant announced The Other Half and I were getting a refund. We had to pay the state, thus the delay...
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LOCAL WOMAN TO HEAD WOMAN'S MISSIONARY
(Column ~ 04/20/96)
As a child attending First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau, Barbara Popp learned about Southern Baptist missionaries working abroad. Now she will head a woman's organization that promotes Christian missions worldwide. Popp, a member of First Baptist Church in Jackson, was elected state president of the Missouri Woman's Missionary Union Friday afternoon at the 72nd annual meeting in Cape Girardeau. The group is affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention...
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KIDS TOPIC OF PANEL DISCUSSION AT SEMO
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Citing the pluses and minuses of the lives of Missouri's children, the director of Citizens for Missouri's Children said improvements have been made but continue to be needed. The director, Ruth Ehresman, spoke to 75 people gathered Friday at Southeast Missouri State University to hear her and other panel members including Rep. Mary Kasten, R-Cape Girardeau...
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY FORMS IN CHAFFEE
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
CHAFFEE -- Preserving Chaffees railroad history is just part of the job for a newly-formed historical society. Residents formed the Chaffee Historical Society April 9 in this Scott County railroad town. The organization meets at 7 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month. Officers will be elected at next month's meeting...
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SOUTHEAST MISSOURI BATTERED BY STORMS
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Several Southeast Missouri counties were pelted by rain and hail Friday night, with confirmed tornadoes touching down in at least three. In Perry County, Highway 51 was closed for two hours while sheriff's department officials cleaned up from a tornado that struck around 8 p.m...
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AIRLINES, INDUSTRY INTERESTED IN AIRPORT
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Two commuter airlines are considering a move to Cape Girardeau to compete with Trans World Express. Greg Chenoweth, manager of Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, told city councilmen Friday that Lone Star Airlines in Dallas and Northwest Airlink may start running flights from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis. The City Council was on a retreat Friday at Black Forest...
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EDITH NEWBERRY
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Edith Mable Newberry of Chaffee has been changed to 2 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. R.L. Robinson will officiate, with burial in Union Park Cemetery. Newberry, 80, died Wednesday, April 17, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...
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MUREL ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
JACKSON -- Murel Ray Allen, 68, of Jackson, died Friday, April 19, 1996, at his home. He was born June 14, 1927, in Cape Girardeau County, son of Ray and Rhoda Johnson Allen. He and Vera Birk were married March 30, 1952, at Tilsit. Allen worked on the family farm, and was a truck driver with Penzel Construction from 1968-80. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church...
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MYRTIE ROSE
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
BLOOMFIELD -- Myrtie C. Rose, 75, of Bloomfield, died Friday, April 19, 1996, at her home. She was born June 24, 1920, in Bloomfield, daughter of William Martin and Lillie May Butler Rose. Rose moved to Flint, Mich., where she had worked at General Motors and in the used car business. She moved back to Bloomfield in 1983...
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L. HARRIS MARSHALL
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
L. Harris Marshall, 74, of Columbia, died Monday, Feb. 26, 1996, at his home. He was born Nov. 11, 1921, in Poplar Bluff, son of Sterling and Etna Penelope Marshall. He and Virginia Shepherd were married Oct. 26, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nev. Marshall was reared in Cape Girardeau. He had lived in Columbia three years...
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SARAH FREEMAN
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Sarah Elizabeth Freeman, 67, of Anna, died Thursday, April 18, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. She was born Jan. 27, 1929, daughter of Rollie and Mollie Russell Morgan. Survivors include a daughter, Diane Livesay of Anna; a son, David Freeman of Navasota, Texas; her mother of Anna; three sisters, Mary Morgan of Henderson, Ky., Jeanette Harley and Juanita Sadler of Anna; two brothers, Everett Morgan of Jonesboro, Russell Morgan of Lick Creek, and three grandchildren.. ...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 04/20/96)
Son to Jeffrey Scott and Samantha Karen Eftink of Olathe, Kan., Shawnee Mission Medical Center, 6:53 a.m. Monday, March 11, 1996. Name, Zachary Scott. Weight, 8 pounds 13 ounces. First child. Mrs. Eftink is the former Samantha Merrill, daughter of Ron and Mary Ann Yeamans of Lebanon, Mo. She operates a home day care. Eftink is the son of Tom and Mary Ann Eftink, Chaffee Route 1. He is a mechanical engineer at The Marley Cooling Tower Co. in Overland Park, Kan...
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JESSIE JONES
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Jessie Pauline Jones of East Prairie will be held at 10 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Jerry Willer will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Jones, 81, died Wednesday, April 17, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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OPAL CRAWFORD
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
SIKESTON -- Opal D. Crawford, 90, of Sikeston, died Friday, April 19, 1996, at Sikeston Health Care. She was born Oct. 9, 1905, in Thayer, daughter of Joe and Jane Storms Smith. She married Lytle Crawford, who preceded her in death. Crawford was a member of Temple Baptist Church...
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HENRY GOODALE
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Henry Orville Goodale, 76, of Bagdad, Ariz., formerly of Scott City, died Thursday, April 18, 1996, at Meadow Park Care Center in Prescott, Ariz. He was born May 1, 1919, in Fulton County, Ky., son of Hattie Frank and Jessie Belle Carter Goodale. He and Pauline Jones were married Dec. 15, 1952...
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HAZEL APPLEWHITE
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Hazel Applewhite of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at St. John Baptist Church. Leon Applewhite will officiate, with burial in Sunset of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 1 p.m. to service time...
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GEORGE VRBOSKY
(Obituary ~ 04/20/96)
Funeral service for George J. Vrbosky of Jackson will be held at 11 a.m. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Jackson. The Rev. Robert Henrichs will officiate, with burial in Russell Heights Cemetery. Vrbosky, 82, died Thursday, April 18, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...
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WORK CONDITIONING PROGRAMS HELP INJURED RETURN TO JOB
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Pat Strom watched the bioscope, which displays on a moving graph how she is using her shoulder muscles when she raised her arm. The bioscope helps the patient learn how to use muscle groups without injuring the muscles. Physical therapist Allison Keith talked with Brad Nielsen as he used the Air Dyne bicycle to strengthen and help extend the range of motion of his knees after he had knee surgery...
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DMDA TO MEET MONDAY
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
The Depressive and Manic Depressive Association of Southeast Missouri will hold its monthly meeting Monday at 7 p.m. in St. Francis Medical Center's Education Center, Conference Room B. Dr. Corlis McAlister from Southern Illinois University will discuss depression and its effects on the body...
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DIABETES FROLIC SCHEDULED
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
St. Francis Medical Center will conduct a "Diabetes April Frolic" at 7 p.. Tuesday in the Health and Education Center. People with diabetes and their friends and families are invited to attend the event, which will include a number of prepared recipes to sample and several diabetes-related products. Admission is free. For more information, call 339-6897...
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BLOOD DRIVE PLANNED
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
The Telephone Pioneers will sponsor an American Red Cross blood Drive Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Cape Girardeau. The blood drive will be held from 2 to 4 p.m. Type O blood is especially needed, and first-time donors are encouraged to donate...
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AWARENESS WALK WEDNESDAY
(Local News ~ 04/20/96)
Southeast Missouri Hospital, St. Francis Medical Center and other organizations are helping MidAmerica Transplant Services sponsor the annual Organ and Tissue Donor Awareness Walk at 6 p.m., Wednesday. Participants will walk from the KFVS-TV building to Capaha Park. For more information, call Gary Anderson, 243-0560...
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