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SCHAEFER GETS SCHOLARSHIP
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Valerie Holland Schaefer has been awarded a university fellowship and a full-tuition scholarship at Washington University in St. Louis. Schaefer is pursuing a master's degree in vocal performance. She is a 1990 graduate of Notre Dame High School and a 1995 graduate of The Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is the daughter of John and Dorothy Holland of Cape Girardeau...
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STUDENT GRADUATES
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Josh Cano, son of Janet L. Maevers of Cape Girardeau and Luke Cano of St. Louis, recently graduated from Whitfield School, a private school in St. Louis. He received a scholarship for 11th and 12th grades. Cano was second in his class, St. Louis Post Dispatch scholar athlete, received the President's Award for Educational Excellence, the George Washington Carver Award, the Washington University Book Award and made all-conference in soccer...
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KELLY ENROLLMENT SCHEDULED AUG. 5-9
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Students in kindergarten through sixth grade who are new to the Scott County R-5 School District (Kelly or Benton) and have not enrolled for the 1996-97 school year may do so from Aug. 5 to Aug. 9 from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. each day. Kindergarten students must have reached age 5 before July 1. Parents will need to provide a birth certificate, a copy of the child's health record and the child's Social Security number...
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CLASSES FOR COACHES
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
People who want to coach at the high school level may earn coaching certification by completing the Leader Level Coaching Principles and Sport First Aid courses that begin Aug. 2 at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. The courses are offered in a two-day package by the Department of Physical Education in cooperation with the Division of Continuing Education. They lead to coaching authorization from the Illinois High School Association...
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RACHEL STORY IN KEYBOARD FESTIVAL
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Rachel Story of Cape Girardeau recently participated in the Missouri Baptist Convention Children's Regional Keyboard Festival at First Baptist Church in Cape Girardeau. Story attends Centenary Methodist Church of Cape Girardeau. The event, sponsored by the Missouri Baptist worship development team, is designed to encourage young pianists to develop a love for hymns and hymn playing...
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SUMMER TIME MAKES SCHOOLS SHINE FOR NEW YEAR
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Bruce LaPierre installed window film for earthquake protection on the windows at Louis J. Schultz Middle School. If the glass is broken, the film keeps fragments intact. Robert Martin, a custodian at Louis J. Schultz Middle School, waxed the floor of the choral music room...
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STUDENT ON HONOR ROLL
(Honor Roll ~ 07/16/96)
Joseph Dickerson, a senior physics major from Cape Girardeau, has been named to the spring honor roll at New Mexico Tech. Dickerson is a 1992 graduate of Liberty Christian Academy.
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TCU HONOR ROLL
(Honor Roll ~ 07/16/96)
Lauren Anne Syler, Kathryn Frances Ford and David DuVal Kinder, all of Cape Girardeau, were named to the honor roll at Texas Christian University. Syler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Syler, is a freshman business major. Ford, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Ford, is a senior coordinated dietetics major and a TCU scholar based on achieving a 4.0 grade point average...
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HONOR ROLL ANNOUNCED
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Scott County Central School announced its honor roll. Making the list: Twelfth grade -- Roy F. Alberson, Wilson Glueck, Chad Griffin, John Heeb, Kathy Newsom, Ryan Perkins, Jennifer Slipis, Randy Ulmer. Eleventh grade -- Kelly Rodgers Tenth grade -- Trina Blackmon, Emily Caldwell, Amanda Johnson, Danika Kidd, Jamie Smith, Adrienne Taylor, Michelle Taylor...
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STUDENT AT GIRLS NATION
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Melissa Miller of Burfordville will meet President Bill Clinton at the American Legion Auxiliary's 50th session of Girls Nation this week at the 4-H Center in Chevy Chase, Md. Girls Nation is an educational program that teaches high school girls about national government...
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ST. FRANCIS TO BEGIN SEARCH FOR CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
A search will get under way this week for a chief operating officer at St. Francis Medical Center. "We haven't had a COO in four years," said Robert Hendrix, chairman of the hospital's board of directors. "We'd like to have one on staff in the near future."...
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MAN PINNED IN CAR SIX HOURS; EARLY-MORNING CRASH INJURES JACKSON RESIDENT
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
JACKSON -- Lee Roderick makes a habit of glancing across the grassy incline toward the drainage ditch at the end of East Main at Shawnee. He often sees deer. But just before noon Monday he saw the top of a black Chevrolet Chevette. Donald Fillingham, 41, of Jackson had been pinned inside the car for more than six hours, his car mostly hidden from passing motorists by the grassy bank...
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ENTERTAINMENT FOR FAIR ANNOUNCED
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
It might be Missouri's oldest outdoor fair, but organizers of the SEMO District Fair are hoping some new and young faces in country music will attract thousands of people to the Fairgrounds this year. Members of the SEMO District Fair Association announced the 1996 entertainment lineup Monday. The fair will be held Sept. 8 to 14 in Arena Park...
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UNITED WAY WON'T FUND CIVIC CENTER
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
The Area Wide United Way has canceled its funding of the Cape Girardeau Civic Center, eliminating the center's major source of income. The move could shut down the Civic Center if it can't meet its $619-a-month mortgage payments, former Civic Center board members say...
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MARK MY WORD: EXCUSE ME, QUIT WHINING; I'M IN A DISNEY DAZE
(Column ~ 07/16/96)
You'll have to excuse me if I'm still in a Disney Daze. Our family and a friend's family just returned from four days at Disney World, the sprawling mouse-eared entertainment park that has transformed Orlando, Fla., into the ultimate tourist town. Our clan -- three adults, two 4-year-olds and two 9-year-olds -- flew to this oasis of vacation fun...
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COUNCIL DISCUSSES ROAD WORK, FLOOD BUYOUTS
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
If Perryville Road residents band together behind the city's road improvement plans, they may get the work done for free. If not, it will cost them. At Monday's Cape Girardeau City Council meeting, councilmen voted unanimously to fund improvements on Perryville from money in the Transportation Trust Fund. The offer stands only if residents donate right-of-way to the city...
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TAXING QUESTIONS
(Editorial ~ 07/16/96)
Taxpayers, take note. In Illinois, caps of tax increases are being contested in court. Guess who is challenging the limit on annual tax increase? Why, it is a group of taxpayers. Apparently they think it is OK to raise taxes by leaps and bounds year after year...
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SHERYL CROW SINGS FOR KENNETT
(Editorial ~ 07/16/96)
Small-town girl makes good, holds benefit concert in high school football stadium where she once cheered the home team. What is this? A made-for-TV movie? No. It is the real-life story of a talented Kennett girl who left home for college and the bright lights of rock music, pausing along the way to pick up a Grammy...
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LETTERS: FORMER DEPUTY KNEW INFORMATION WAS WRONG
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/16/96)
EDITOR'S NOTE: This letter is a response to a July 11 story regarding allegations made by a former Perry County sheriff's deputy. To the editor: Since my Democrat opponent has seen fit to fabricate information and present it as facts, knowing it is not true, I wish to add this additional information concerning his allegations...
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`MUSIC FROM THE OLD COUNTRIES' BAND THEME
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
The Cape Girardeau Municipal Band will perform to the theme of "Music from the Old Countries" when it holds its weekly concert Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. in the Capaha Park Band Shell. Selections will be "Entry of the Gladiators" by Julius Fucik, "Poet and Peasant Overture" by Franz von Suppe, "Einzugs Marsch" by JoHann Strauss, "Colonel Bogey March" by Kenneth Alford and "Music of the Beatles" arranged by Michael Sweeney...
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CAPE'S NEW SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT LEADS FIRST BOARD MEETING
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
Everyone was so comfortable with the arrangement that few people other than employees of the Cape Girardeau School District realized a new superintendent took over this month. But the smooth transition was exactly what the schools needed, teachers said. Dr. Dan Tallent, who had been principal at Central High School, is now the district's superintendent. He was hired in January, but started work July 1...
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FIRE DESTROYS MCCLURE MOTEL OFFICE; OWNER WANTED WATER
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
MCCLURE, ILL., -- Bill Spraggs, owner of Bill's Motel north of McClure, said a fire that destroyed the motel's front office Monday wouldn't have happened if it weren't for the East Cape Girardeau-McClure Water District. Spraggs said he signed an agreement with the water district to get hooked up to a water line more than a year ago when he first bought the motel...
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JOSEPH WHITESIDE
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
Joseph Lee Whiteside, 63, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, July 14, 1996, at Frederick Street Manor. He was born Nov. 14, 1932, in Sikeston, son of Cecil Orvil and Belma Bradley Whiteside. Whiteside was a graduate of Gray Ridge High School, and attended Cape Business College. He had been a layout manager with Sears, Roebuck Catalog Department in Chicago, and was an insurance salesman in Peoria, Ill...
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WALLACE LEE JR.
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Wallace O. Lee Jr. of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ponder Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Friends may call from 12:30 p.m. to service time. Lee, 64, died Monday, July 15, 1996, at Sikeston Health Care...
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FRANCES UMFRESS
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
SIKESTON -- Frances Umfress, 92, of Amory, Miss., died Sunday, July 14, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Feb. 22, 1904, in Tupelo, Miss., daughter of Andrew and Alice Kelso Dodd. She and Trannie Umfress were married in 1919. He died April 6, 1944...
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ISABELLE PALSGROVE
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
Isabelle Palsgrove, 77, of Cape Girardeau, died Monday, July 15, 1996, at her home. She was born Oct. 12, 1918, at Monett, daughter of Roscoe and Ella Brinkman Brooks. She and Elmer Palsgrove were married Feb. 24, 1940, in St. Louis. A graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, Palsgrove taught kindergarten and third grade at Jefferson School, retiring in 1978. She was a member of First Baptist Church...
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GOLDIE MAINER
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Goldie C. Mainer, 86, of Edwardsville, died Sunday, July 14, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Mo. She was born June 1, 1910, at Wolf Lake, daughter of William and Minnie A. Castleman Lindsey. She and Jasper F. Mainer were married March 14, 1926. He died Dec. 17, 1979...
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CAREL BEYATTE
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
MCGEE -- Carel Beyatte of McGee died Monday, July 15, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. Morgan Funeral Home in Advance is in charge of arrangements.
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HARRY FELTZ
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Harry Joseph Feltz, 73, of Perryville, died Monday, July 15, 1996, at his home. He was born Nov. 25, 1922, in Perry County, son of Dennis V. and Louise A. Kiefer Feltz. He and Vera Mae Schweiss were married Sept. 3, 1960. Feltz had worked at Kiefner Brothers. He was a member of American Legion and a 3rd Degree with Knights of Columbus. He served in the Merchant Marines during World War II...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 07/16/96)
Son to Steven R. and Sandra K. Moore of St. Mary's, Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Festus, 5:18 p.m. Thursday, June 20, 1996. Name, Andrew Robert. Weight, 7 pounds. First child. Mrs. Moore is the former Sandra Dirnberger, daughter of Paul and Frances Dirnberger, Oran Route 1. Moore is the son of Melvin and Betty Moore of Ste. Genevieve. He is employed at Mississippi Lime Kiln...
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EDWIN B. KIRN
(Obituary ~ 07/16/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Edwin B. Kirn, 87, of Perryville died Monday, July 15, 1996, at his home. He was born Oct. 1, 1908, at Biehle, son of William A. and Rose Isabelle Winkler Kirn. He and Mary LaVerne Grass were married May 13, 1935, at Brewer. Kirn owned West End Grocery in Perryville and worked as a farmer. He was a member of the Holy Name Society at St. Vincent de Paul parish...
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JACKSON RECYCLING PROGRAM GETS HELP FROM STATE GRANT
(Local News ~ 07/16/96)
It would appear that Jackson's recycling program just received a boost with a $24,000 grant from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Jackson Mayor Paul Sanders read a letter to the city's Board of Aldermen Monday night that indicates the city has received the grant. The letter congratulated the city on becoming an award recipient and scheduled a workshop to instruct city officials on collecting and disbursing the funds...
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