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HERMAN L. HARDY
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
JACKSON -- Herman Lee Hardy, 75, died at the Hospitality House in Bloomington, Ind., Monday, May 27, 1996. He was born Sept. 11, 1920, at Chaffee, son of the Rev. Samuel H. and Carrie Stamps Hardy. He married Doris Illers March 28, 1943. He was a veteran of World War II, having served in the Army Air Force...
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LEND ME YOUR EAR: ERMA BOMBECK, NO-NONSENSE HUMORIST
(Column ~ 05/29/96)
The recent death of Erma Bombeck touched millions of readers and TV watchers from scholars to couch-potatoes the country over. Everyone could relate to her because her subject was family and everyone comes from one -- and most want a family of their own...
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TAMMS, ILL., BANK LOOKS AT HOME IN CAPE
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Tamms State Bank is looking at the Cape Girardeau banking market. The Illinois bank is seeking a new name, a national charter and new headquarters site in a new state. "We have applied for permission to convert to a national banking association," said John Abercrombie, president of Tamms State Bank, currently headquartered at Tamms...
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HMO DEBATE TO CONTINUE
(Editorial ~ 05/29/96)
As in every other state, managed-care health organizations, which last year took in $1 billion and cover more than one million Missourians, are coming to Missouri's health-care delivery system in a big way. Although the thinly populated northern and southern counties have too few physicians to be in the vanguard of managed care, health maintenance organizations have arrived in the state's three largest cities and in central Missouri. ...
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CAPE BOARD OF EDUCATION TO HOLD SPECIAL MEETING
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
The Cape Girardeau Board of Education will meet at noon today to hire new teachers and staff. The meeting will be held at the Board of Education Office at 61 N. Clark. About 30 teachers retired this year and the district needs to fill its open positions. Since it is the height of the hiring season, the board called a special meeting to do that, said Dr. Steve DelVecchio, business manager...
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TRIVIA EXPERT TO SPEAK AT COPPER DOME DINNER
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
David Strauss, trivia expert and author, will present the address at the annual Copper Dome dinner June 6 at Southeast Missouri State University. The event, which recognizes donors to the Southeast Missouri University Foundation, will begin at 6:30 p.m., followed by a dinner at 7 p.m. in the Show Me Center...
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FIRE CHIEF CONCERNED ABOUT STATE ORGANIZATION
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
The Cape Girardeau fire chief says a state organization soliciting funds for firefighting is legitimate but not very helpful. Local residents are receiving calls from the Missouri State Council of Firefighters requesting help to purchase smoke detectors. Chief Robert Ridgeway said money sent the council does little to benefit local residents...
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KEY MISSOURI LEGISLATION FROM 1996 SESSION
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
Safe schools/Alternative funding -- Would toughen penalties for violent behavior in Missouri schools. Would create alternative education programs for students who cannot be taught in the regular classroom. Would also: require schools to report acts of violence when a student transfers schools; expand drug-free zones around schools; establish tougher penalties for carrying weapons in school and for assaulting a person on school property; and establish school violence education programs...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 05/29/96)
I WOULD like to voice my opinion about the congressmen and all politicians in recognition of Memorial Day, what they say about how they owe the veterans so much and they are so sorry about the veterans. Well, that's true. They are sorry about the veterans. ...
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MONEY FOR BRIDGE
(Editorial ~ 05/29/96)
The recent announcement that Illinois will commit nearly $14 million over the next five years in discretionary funding for construction of the new Mississippi River bridge at Cape Girardeau was a welcome one indeed. The Missouri Highways and Transportation Department had long been committed to the project, even going so far as to begin construction on two phases of the new route connecting Interstate 55 with the planned bridge. ...
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LETTERS: HELP SAVE THE SEMINARY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/29/96)
To the editor: I am writing this letter in support of the efforts of the good people in Cape Girardeau who are fighting to preserve the former St. Vincent's College from condemnation and, ultimately, destruction. My support for this effort does not stem from the fact that I am Catholic and wish to preserve these structures as religious icons. Rather, my interest lies in the preservation of a historic treasure...
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LETTERS: FIREFIGHTERS FIX FOUNTAIN
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/29/96)
To the editor: Once again our local firefighters have come to the rescue with water. As a resident of downtown Cape Girardeau, I am keenly aware of things gone astray in my neighborhood. For the last two years the fountain at Common Pleas Courthouse Park has been inoperable. After many calls to local officials, I was repeatedly informed that the fountain was too old to be fixed. Being a preservationist and an antique aficionado, those were fighting words...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/29/96)
Son to Keith and Lisa Gerlach of Dearborn, Mich., Henry Ford Hospital, 12:38 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, 1996. Name, Kohl Krystian. Weight, 7 pounds 6 ounces. First child. Mrs. Gerlach is the former Lisa Edwards, daughter of Harold and Betty Edwards of Columbus, Ohio. She is a nurse at Henry Ford Hospital's Fairlane Clinic. Gerlach is the son of Kevin and Mary Ellen Gerlach of Cape Girardeau. He is an engineer at Ford Motor Co...
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RUBY KOLA
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
SIKESTON -- Ruby Kola, 74, died Tuesday, May 28, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Nov. 5, 1921, in Doniphan, daughter of Robert Ernest and Ada Elrod Lee. Kola was employed by the federal government 35 years. Survivors include a son, Len Kola of San Anselmo, Calif.; three brothers, John Lee of Ann Arbor, Mich., Robert Lee of Sikeston, Billy Lee of Granite City, Ill.; two sisters, Ermadean Emmons of Sikeston, Roberta Zielinski of Naperville, Ill.; a grandchild; two great-grandchildren, and two stepgrandchildren.. ...
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ALICE JOHNSTON
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
SIKESTON -- Mary Alice Johnston, 53, of Warrenton, Va., died Monday, May 27, 1996, at Fauquier Hospital in Warrenton, following an extended illness. She was born May 6, 1943, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of F.X. and Alma Jean Morgan Schumacher Jr. She and Dean Johnston were married Aug. 14, 1965, at Sikeston...
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SISTER VINCENT HAUPTMAN
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
WEBSTER GROVES -- Sister Vincent Clare Hauptman, 95, died Tuesday, May 28, 1996, at her room at Nerinx Hall in Webster Groves. She was born April 22, 1901, to Edward and Wilhelmina Fassel Hauptman. She was accepted into the Order of the Loretto in 1923 and graduated from Webster Groves University. She taught school in St. Louis, Denver, Illinois, New Mexico and in Cape Girardeau at St. Vincent's Grade School. She retired and left Cape Girardeau in 1981...
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FREEMAN HUBERT CHOATE
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
Chaffee -- Freeman Hubert Choate, 75, of Chaffee died Tuesday, May 28, 1996, at the Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. He was born Jan. 16, 1921, in Bell City, son of John and Mayme Downs Choate. Choate was a former electrician for Noranda Aluminum Inc. in New Madrid. He was a member of the Chaffee Masonic Lodge No. 615 and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 1 of St. Louis...
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DANIEL FARROW
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
Funeral service for Daniel Lawrence Farrow of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Revs. Jeffrey Sippy and Joel Sarrault will officiate, with burial in McLain's Chapel Cemetery at Oriole. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. today...
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HARRIET PHILLIPS
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
VANDUSER -- Harriet Mable Phillips, 85, of Vanduser, died Tuesday, May 28, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 3, 1910, in Gladewater, Texas, daughter of Nickolas F. and Annie Stover Troxell. She and Roy F. Phillips were married Feb. 11, 1932, in Sikeston. He died Dec. 29, 1993...
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DOCK TOLER
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Dock Perry Toler, 92, of Dongola, died Monday, May 27, 1996, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. He was born June 2, 1903, in Union County, son of Sam and Lillian Smitty Toler. He and Ethel Turner were married Dec. 20, 1924. She died April 27, 1989...
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RUBY BLASINGAIN
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Ruby Lee Blasingain, 78, of Herrin, Ill., formerly of East Prairie, died Sunday, May 26, 1996, at Friendship Nursing Home in Herrin. She was born March 15, 1918, in Wayne County, Tenn., daughter of Claude Gilbert and Dovie Pearl Robinson Ricketts. She and James Blasingain were married in 1955. He died Jan. 6, 1969...
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JAMES WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for James E. Williams of Bloomfield was held Monday at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home. The Rev. Greg Greason officiated, with burial in Memorial Garden Cemetery at Kennett. Williams, 71, died Saturday, May 25, 1996, at Bloomfield...
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LOUIS FISHER
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
BELL CITY -- Louis "Louie" Fisher, 77, of Bell City, died Tuesday, May 28, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 29, 1919, in Bell City, son of Jeptha and Ruth Osborn Fisher. He and Jewell Rhine were married Feb. 15, 1947, in Piggott, Ark...
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JOSEPH CONROY JR.
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral Mass for Joseph F. Conroy Jr. of Palm Bay, Fla., was held Tuesday at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Palm Bay. Fountainhead Memorial Funeral Home in Palm Bay was in charge of arrangements. Conroy, 74, died Friday, May 24, 1996, at Atlantic Shores Nursing Home in Melbourne, Fla...
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HETTIE BARNES
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
SIKESTON -- Hettie Mae Barnes, 100, of Essex, died Tuesday, May 28, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Nov. 28, 1895, in Formosa, Ark., daughter of Walter and Eva Jane Kirkpatrick Bell. She and Claude Howell Barnes were married March 2, 1916, in Formosa. He died Oct. 31, 1972...
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VIOLET HOTOP
(Obituary ~ 05/29/96)
BIEHLE -- Violet M. Hotop, 77, of Biehle, died Monday, May 27, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Dec. 22, 1918, in St. Louis, daughter of John and Julia Trapp Snyder. She and Julius E. Hotop were married Nov. 27, 1937, at Biehle. Hotop was a member of St. Maurus Catholic Church and St. Ann's Sodality...
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JACKSON SCHOOL PROPOSAL TO VOTERS
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
JACKSON -- Dr. Howard Jones, superintendent of the Jackson School District, doesn't mind the challenge of building new schools or adding to existing ones. So the Jackson Board of Education Tuesday night agreed to submit a $7.8 million bond proposal to voters...
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CITY DUMPS ROAD FROM PAVING PLAN; TRANSPORTATION TAX FUNDS WON'T BE USED ON JASMINE
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
Tricia Brown was more than excited when she saw signs of surveying work on Jasmine Lane. She was overjoyed. Brown said the sight of little blue flags in her yard, put there in April to mark water lines, literally made her jump up and down. Finally, after years of struggling with the city, her street was going to be paved...
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MISSOURIANS WILL FEEL IMPACT OF LAWS PASSED DURING SESSION (LAST OF THREE PARTS)
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
From telephone service to child birth, Missourians will feel the impact of legislation approved by the General Assembly in the 1996 session. The new telecommunications law will be felt in the daily lives of Missourians, Southeast Missouri lawmakers say...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: WEDDING, GRADUATION SEASON CREATES PARTY POOPERS
(Column ~ 05/29/96)
Whose idea was it to make late spring the big gift season? Don't ask me for any money. I gave at the office. And at home. And at other people's homes. 'Tis the season that makes Christmas spending look paltry by comparison. Mailboxes fill with wedding and graduation invitations from people who don't necessarily want you to share in their weddings or graduations...
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ST. FRANCIS RECOGNIZES WORKERS AT BANQUET
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
St. Francis Medical Center recognized 263 employees recently at the at the hospital's fifth annual service awards banquet. The hospital's board of directors honored employees who had reached five to 35 years of service at the hospital. The 263 employees have worked at the hospital for a combined 2,595 years, said Bob Owen, the hospital's director of human resources...
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GOP CANDIDATES BRING CAMPAIGNS TO CAPE
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
The Democratic administration of Gov. Mel Carnahan is influenced by special interests, lobbyists and gambling firms, two Republican candidates for statewide office charged Tuesday. State Sen. Bill Kenney, who is running for lieutenant governor, and Mark Bredemeier, who is running for attorney general, made a campaign stop in Cape Girardeau...
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ADVANCED TEACHER TRAINING AIM OF NEW SALARY SCHEDULE
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Board of Education wants its teachers to go back to school, so they revamped the salary schedule to provide the incentive. "We want to invest in our classroom teachers because that's the key to a good system," said Superintendent Dr. Howard Jones. "It's logical to have incentives for earning advance graduate work, but there's not enough incentive to get training."...
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KIDS DAY IN THE PARK SET FOR SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Noon Optimists Club will sponsor Kids Day in the Park Saturday. The event, which emphasizes safety education, will be held from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Jackson City Park, said Beverly Nelson of the club. "It's kind of an outdoor safety fair," Nelson said. Among the attractions will be appearances by Vince and Larry, the crash test dummies; Buckle Bear and a "Wheel of Misfortune" game featuring questions about safety...
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RADIO PERSONALITIES TO DELIVER COMMENCEMENT ADDRESSES
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
Selecting a commencement speaker for Notre Dame and Cape Girardeau Central high schools was almost as easy as tuning in a radio station. Both schools invited a radio personality to be commencement speakers Friday. The Rev. Harry Schlitt, a California radio-show host, will speak to the 1996 graduating class at Notre Dame High School. Commencement begins at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the school gymnasium...
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WEATHER FORCES STRAWBERRY FANS TO WAIT FOR SPRING'S VERY BEST
(Local News ~ 05/29/96)
It's not easy being a strawberry lover. A few colder-than-average days, a late frost, a week of gray skies and spring's most heralded event -- strawberry season -- may never materialize. This year, it'll materialize a little late, but better late than never...
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