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LETTERS: A PAIR OF COMPLIMENTS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/21/96)
To the editor: I want to extend to your paper two compliments. First of all, the Southeast Missourian was the only newspaper that I read (and I read several) that carried any editorial comment whatsoever on Flag Day. The one your staff wrote was just right. ...
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LEINE EARNS MBA
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Daryl W. Leine, son of Margie and Doyle Leine of Daisy recently completed a master's degree of business administration at St. Louis University in St. Louis. Leine is employed as a commercial lender at Mercantile Bank of St. Louis. He and his wife, the former Dawn Booth of Jackson, reside in Maryland Heights...
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SCOUTS TO ATTEND SEMINAR
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Two Cadette-level Girl Scouts from the Otahki Girl Scout Council have been selected to attend a Girl Scout Wider Opportunity seminar. Casey Hampton, daughter of Chris and Nancy Hampton of Chaffee, will be attending Great Lakes Aquatic Biology Wider Opportunity seminar to be held in Swartz Creek, Mich., in the fall. Heidi Sadler, daughter of Jim and Marty Sadler of Anna, Ill., will attend the We Found W.A.L.D.O. Wider Opportunity seminar this summer at Sheboygan, Wis...
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TRINITY AWARDS ASSEMBLY
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Trinity Lutheran School held its year-end awards assembly on May 30. The following awards were presented to the following eighth grade students: Valedictorian, Jennifer Daume; salutatorian, Elizabeth Meyr; math contestp participation award, Jarrod Grebing; music award, Ramsey Stevens; boy's athletic award, Jake Burgfeld; girl's athletic award, Kim Griffaw; DAR Award, Jarrod Grebing; American Legion Award, Jarrod Grebing and Elizabeth Meyr; the Optimist Club Young Citizenship Award, Liz Hobbs; President's Physical Fitness Award, Jennifer Daume; President's Education Award, Jennifer Daume, Liz Hobbs, Elizabeth Meyr and Ramsey Stevens; Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award, Jennifer Daume and Elizabeth Meyr; Scholastic Acheivement Award, Liz Hobbs.. ...
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MUSIC ACADEMY RETREAT
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
The Southeast Missouri Music Academy held a planning retreat for its community advisory board on May 18 at the Johnson Faculty Centre. The retreat was the final component of a grant received from the National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. The grant provided a consultant/facilitator from St. Louis, and was part of the guild's new mentoring and partnerships program which was made possible by a significant three-year grant from the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund...
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HOFFMEISTER RECEIVES DEGREE
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Timothy Alan Hoffmeister was one of 156 osteopathic medical students who received a doctor of osteopathic medicine degree from the University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kansas City. Hoffmeister is the son of Myron B. and Carol E. ...
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AREA GROUP PROMOTES DISABILITY AWARENESS
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
SEMO Alliance for Disability Independence Inc. and SEMO Tech are sponsoring a Disability Resource Awareness Day at the Park Saturday. The fair will be held at Arena Park's Trinity Lutheran Picnic Pavilion from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Support Dogs Inc. of St. Louis will offer demonstrations, and a touch dog will be on display. Demonstrations of assistive devices and technology will also be featured...
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SUMMER BEGINS TODAY
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
It's been hot for weeks. Temperatures have danced around 90 degrees with high humidity to match. This isn't the kind of weather people associate with spring. But it should be. Today is officially the first day of summer. Those prior hot days technically were as much a part of spring as rain and early May flowers...
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HONEY RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Todd H. Honey of Tamms, Ill., has been awarded a President's Scholarship to attend Southeast Missouri State University in the fall. The scholarship is awarded to high school seniors who score 24 on the Enhanced ACT or 1010 on the SAT. Recipients must also rank in the upper 20 percent of their graduating class and achieve a grade point average of 3.5. ...
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TCU GRADUATES
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Two Cape Girardeau area residents were among the 906 Texas Christian University students who completed degree requirements in May. Kathryn Frances Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Ford, graduated cum laude and received a bachelor of science degree with a major in coordinated dietetics. David DuVal Kinder, son of Dr. and Mrs. Jerry Kinder, graduated cum laude and received a bachelor of business administration degree with a major in finance...
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ATTENDS PHARMACY INSTITUTE
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Kirk Yount, son of Grady and Christy Yount of Cape Girardeau, attended a Pharmacy Career Institute held during the month of June at the St. Louis College of Pharmacy. Students were selected on the basis of academic merit achieved in high school, counselor recommendations and motivation to pursue a career in pharmacy. Yount will be a senior at Cape Central High School in the fall...
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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY CAMP FOR CHILDREN
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Universal Physique Fitness Center will hold a summer physical activity camp for children ages 5 through 12 from July 8-13. The camp is designed to introduce children to a variety of activities as well as teach some of the benefits of physical activity. Each day will be filled with games and sporting activities to enhance important fundamental skills...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/21/96)
GEORGE WASHINGTON was known as the man who could not tell a lie. Bill Clinton is known as the man who cannot tell the truth. I HAVE several cans of hazardous waste materials, thinner, paint, varnish and spray paint and I'm wondering if the Southeast Missourian can tell me or find out where I can take those and how to dispose of them. I do not want to put them in a solid waste situation because I'm 100 percent concerned about recycling...
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INCLUDE RIVER IN RIVERFEST
(Editorial ~ 06/21/96)
This year's Riverfest celebration in Cape Girardeau was, by nearly all accounts, a lively and well-attended two-day event. Organizers are to be congratulated for the activities and entertainment that drew thousands of people to the downtown area for a good time...
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KERR WINS OPTIMIST CONTEST
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Debbie Kerr, a junior at Cape Girardeau Central High School, was the winner of the Breakfast Optimist Club's Essay Contest. Kerr is the daughter of Bonnie Kerr and Pete Kerr. She spoke on "Freedom, A Right or a Privilege?", the topic assigned by Optimist International. The second place winner was Rebecca Roe, a sophomore at Notre Dame High School. The third place winner was Elizabeth Shivelbine, a junior at Cape Girardeau Central High School...
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HERTER NAMED AWARD WINNER
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
The United States Achievement Academy announced that Joshua Herter has been named a United States National Award winner in honor roll and mathematics. The academy recognizes less than 10 percent of all high school students. Herter who is a student at Ste. ...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: CONCEAL-CARRY LAW LOOKS GOOD
(Column ~ 06/21/96)
Recent events on the criminal justice scene right here in Cape Girardeau County are helping make the case for passage of a concealed-weapon law in Missouri. Consider: The young punks and scum who prey upon vulnerable elderly ladies in supermarket parking lots are, of late, getting bolder and bolder. ...
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MAIL GOES THROUGH
(Editorial ~ 06/21/96)
There are few organizations that have been the butt of jokes more than the U.S. Postal Service. It is a fact that employees of the massive, national mail service endure for the most part. But a careful look at the Postal Service's track record shows that the foul-ups and mail snafus are the exceptions, not the rule. In fact, the nation's letter carriers get good marks for such things as on-time delivery of first-class mail...
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GAMBLING PANEL TO ANALYZE INDUSTRY
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
JEFFERSON CITY -- The chairman of the Missouri Gaming Commission said Wednesday that the Missouri gambling market is saturated and instructed the commission to analyze the industry. The ultimate outcome of a statewide survey would determine whether to allow any more riverboat gambling licenses...
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FATAL FIRE: MANY WANT TO HELP MINER-AREA COUPLE
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
MINER -- Shortly after they heard the news, people from Sikeston, Miner, Charleston and Cape Girardeau began searching for ways to help Bill and Rebecca Beck recover from their tragedy. All three of their children -- Bryan Hatfill, 15, Kimberly, 12, and Donald Beck, 9, -- were killed in a mobile home fire Wednesday morning south of Miner. The children were sleeping when the fire broke out. Both parents already had left for work...
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SIKESTON OFFICE OFFERS COUNSELING TO ALL IN NEED
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
SIKESTON -- Accepting death is difficult, but when young children die in an accident it makes the grief even more unbearable, counselors say. Relatives and close friends are grieving for the Miner family whose three children died in a mobile home fire Wednesday, but strangers also are upset...
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CAPE TEEN GETS NEW HEART
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
"All right!" said Kevin Lossing when he and his parents were notified Wednesday night that his heart transplant would take place within the next 12 hours. The Cape Girardeau teen-ager, who had waited 92 days for a new heart, received it Thursday morning...
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SEMINARY GROUP EXPECTS BANK LOANS
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Although they recently asked the city of Cape Girardeau for $250,000, people hoping to buy St. Vincent's Seminary now say the loan may not be necessary. For more than a year, the Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation has been looking for a way to pay off a lease-purchase agreement with the Vincentian Fathers of St. Louis. The group owes $600,000 on the seminary land and buildings...
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SEMO VO-TECH EXPANSION ON AGENDA
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Southeast Missouri State University will expand vocational-technical training under a statewide plan that could lead to construction of a building at the Cape Girardeau school. The university wants $4.2 million from the state to construct a building to house an expanded industrial technology program...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: DELAYED REUNION MEANS MORE TIME TO COOK
(Column ~ 06/21/96)
For the first time in memory, the descendants of Hans and Millie have postponed getting together. Does this mean more food? The report on this year's Miller family reunion, the tribe from Brushy Creek that always schedules its annual get-together on the hottest day of the year, is short...
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DOCTOR SAYS FUN LIFESTYLES GOOD FOR HEALTH
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
A fun-filled, pleasurable lifestyle may go a lot further in preventing illness than all the low-fat, aerobically-correct regimes in the world, says Dr. David Sobel. Sobel, the regional director of patient education and health promotion for the Kaiser Permanente Medical Program in northern California, spoke Thursday night at St. Francis Medical Center's annual banquet about healthy pleasures...
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ST. FRANCIS PURCHASES UNIVERSAL PHYSIQUE
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
St. Francis Medical Center finalized the purchase of a Cape Girardeau health and fitness club Thursday. Effective July 1, Universal Physique Fitness and Racquet Center will become Universal Health and Fitness Center, representatives of the hospital and the health club announced...
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NURSING CLASS GRADUATES AT SE HOSPITAL
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Glen Dirnberger of Cape Girardeau was awarded the Delmar A. Cobble Outstanding Student Nurse of the Year Thursday night at graduation ceremonies for Southeast Hospital's School of Nursing. Dirnberger began his health care career as a volunteer in Southeast's emergency services department, and later became an employee there. ...
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FRANCES CANGE
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Frances Eulaine Cange, 86, of Cairo, died Wednesday, June 19, 1996, at Crest Park Nursing Home in Forrest City, Ark. She was born March 27, 1910, in Pinckneyville, daughter of Otto and Blanche Craig Brey. She married Robert Cange, who died Jan. 13, 1996...
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IDA B. ESTES
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
JACKSON -- Ida B. Estes, 88, of Jackson died Thursday, June 20, 1996, at the Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 30, 1908, in Pope, Miss., daughter of James M. and Mary Green Hubbard. She married Fred Estes Jan. 26, 1940. He died July 20, 1968...
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WILLIAM HELMS JR.
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
SIKESTON -- William Helms Jr., 76, of Sikeston died Thursday, June 20, 1996, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Jan. 8, 1920, at Matthews, son of James William and Edna Ida Shaffer Helms. He and Delcie M. Phegley were married March 18, 1939, at New Madrid. She died Sept. 26, 1992...
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SERVICE SATURDAY FOR FIRE VICTIMS: BRYAN SCOTT HATFILL, KIMBERLY BECK, DONALD BECK
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
SIKESTON -- Bryan Scott Hatfill, 15, Kimberly Beck, 12, and Donald Beck, 9, all of Sikeston, died Wednesday, June 19, 1996, at their home following a fire. Hatfill was born July 11, 1980, at Vandalia, Ill., son of Danny Ramirez and Rebecca A. Hatfill Beck. He was a student at New Madrid County Central schools...
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MARY CARDWELL
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
Funeral service for Mary Louise Cardwell, 419 S. Hanover, will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at St. James AME Church. Rev. David Allen will officiate, with burial in Fairmount Cemetery. Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. today...
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HARVEY A. HOWELL
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
DELTA -- Harvey A. Howell, 69, of Delta died Thursday, June 20, 1996, at his home. He was born on May 16, 1927, in Vanduser, the son of William and Lucy Ann Smith Howell. On Nov. 5, 1981, he married Novella Slinkard Borneman. Howell was a member of the Abundant Life Church in Gordonville and a lifetime member of the Chaffee VFW Post 3127. He was a member of the Chaffee American Legion Post 389, having served in the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean War...
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HAROLD BUMPOUS
(Obituary ~ 06/21/96)
CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Harold Lynn Bumpous of Charleston will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston. The Rev. Gerald Collier will officiate, with burial in Barlow Cemetery at Barlow, Ky. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. today...
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RIBBON-CUTTING FOR NEW BUILDING SET FOR TODAY
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Ribbon-cutting ceremonies will be held at the new Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association's new Speculative Shell Building at 4901 Nash Road at 1:30 p.m. today. Quentin Wilson, deputy director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development, will be guest speaker at the ceremony...
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COUPLES CLUB TO HOST DINNER
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
JACKSON -- The Heartland Stonecroft Couples' Club will host a "Salute to the Olympics" dinner party at 6:30 p.m., June 28 at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Jackson. Ned Hauss of Cordova, Tenn., named top salesman for several year at Roadshow BMW in Memphis, will be the guest speaker, discussing "Beamers and Business in the Fast Lane."...
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LAWMAKERS GALLOP AHEAD WITH PLANS TO PROTECT WILD HORSES
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
Congress has galloped ahead with plans to protect a band of wild horses in the Missouri Ozarks. By a unanimous voice vote, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee cleared the bill for action by the full Senate. The House overwhelmingly passed the bill in November and the full Senate could act by the end of the summer...
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EMERSON HOSPITALIZED
(Local News ~ 06/21/96)
U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson was hospitalized Monday for a respiratory infection. Emerson, who is battling lung cancer, was admitted to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland so doctors could monitor his condition. "I am resting comfortably and following doctors' orders," the Cape Girardeau Republican said in a prepared statement issued Thursday...
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