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GOVERNOR FORTIFIES HIS LINK WITH UNIONS
(Editorial ~ 09/22/96)
A little-noticed statement by Gov. Mel Carnahan this past week should receive a lot more attention than it has from Missourians who care about the future of our state government. At the Lake of the Ozarks Monday to speak to a meeting of the state AFL-CIO, Carnahan exhorted delegates to give him larger working majorities of Democrats in both houses of the General Assembly. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: VOICE OF THE TURTLE HEAR ACROSS STATE
(Column ~ 09/22/96)
When election returns are tabulated and the winners and losers on Nov. 5 are recorded, the name of the most important participant will be missing. As important as it is to report who has won and lost in this campaign, the missing person will be the Missouri Citizen for whom the election was held and for whom the results will have the greatest impact...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 09/22/96)
LAST EVENING a friend of mine called me, very upset about the decision to keep Ross Perot out of the debates. Knowing that I'm a Perot supporter, he wanted to jump on the bandwagon, helping out however he could. He had been on the fence about whether to vote for Dole or not, being a conservative himself. ...
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FICTION WRITER TO HOLD DEXTER WORKSHOP
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
DEXTER -- How do I write this story? That's what many local authors are hoping to have answered Saturday when they attend Connie Bennett's "Novel Idea" workshop at the Housing Authority community room in Dexter. Bennett, who has been a published writer of fiction since 1983, said her eyes were opened about a year ago when she was introduced to a 12-step system for structuring a plot...
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HOSPITAL HOLDS HOSPICE FUND-RAISER
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
Those looking for a good cause and a good time found it Saturday at Rhythm on the River. The fund-raiser, described as a celebration of life and music along the Mississippi, was for Southeast Hospice, a service of Southeast Missouri Hospital, which hosted the event...
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JACKSON VOLLEYBALL LOOKS TO WORK ON THE MENTAL GAME
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
The Jackson Lady Indian Volleyball Team is off to a good start to the 1996 season, even though they are a young team prone to make mistakes. Coach Nancy Ellis is in her first year as head coach. She moved up to the position from assistant coach last year. Ellis also spent time as the head tennis coach, but she has played volleyball all of her life...
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WEATHER DICTATES CROWD AT FIRST EVER WHIPPOORWILL RENDEZVOUS
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
Brian Burns of Moorehouse, left, started the first annual Whippoorwill Lake Rendezvous. His friends Dale Kemp of Bloomfield, center, and Mike Staggs of Sikeston, also attended. Jim Reeves of Greenville, fired a 42 inch .50-caliber Pennsylvania Long Rifle at the rendezvous with the help of an electric car seat motor to raise and lower the rifle and an electric car door lock to pull the trigger when he hit a button with his left wrist...
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NEWS FROM THE ARMED FORCES
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
Airman graduates basic training Air Force Airman Lisa M. Lettau has graduated from basic military training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas. Lettau is the daughter of Manon D. Gentry of Columbia, Ill., and David Chagolla of St. Louis, Mo...
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MUSIKGARTEN GIVES CHILDREN A LOVE OF MUSIC
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
One year ago, Paula Andrews started a Musikgarten program in Jackson to teach kids to love music. The program helps children ages 2-6 to love music, improve language skills, learn rhythm, match pitch and learn social skills as they interact with each other in the class...
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SUMMER GIVES WAY TO FALL AT 6:56 TODAY
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
Summer has come and gone, and autumn is coming on. Can Old Man Winter be far behind? Autumn arrives officially at 6:56 p.m. today. The National Weather Service, in its first autumn forecast, calls for continued fall-like weather early this week. That means comfortable days and cool nights with highs in the 70s and lows in the 50s. But the extended outlook calls for partly cloudy skies with highs in the mid-60s and lows dipping to the mid-40s by week's end...
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SOUTHEAST BEEFS UP ACADEMIC STANDARDS; LOCAL EDUCATORS BELIEVE UNIVERSITY IS NOW TOUGHER
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
The nation's colleges have been accused of dumbing down America. Some of that criticism was justified in the past, said Dr. Dale Nitzschke, Southeast Missouri State University president. But, he said, times have changed for the better at schools like Southeast that have raised admission standards and graduation requirements...
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TEACHER PROGRAM ACCLAIMED
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
A new report has painted a bleak picture of teacher-education programs at the nation's colleges But the situation is different at Southeast Missouri State University, said Dr. Dale Nitzschke, the school's president. Southeast has received national acclaim for its revamped teacher-education program. The program is nationally accredited...
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MARK MY WORD: HAND-WASHING SURVEY SHOULD BE FIRST OF OTHERS
(Column ~ 09/22/96)
"Wash your hands." When I was growing up, moms routinely said that to their kids. My mom used it almost as a greeting. It was common household advice, along with "brush your teeth." But times have changed: Washing your hands is ancient history for many people today...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: U.S. OBSERVES 25TH NATIONAL HUNTING AND FISHING DAY
(Column ~ 09/22/96)
In 1972, Congress and President Richard Nixon made a decision to set aside the fourth Saturday in September to recognize hunters and fishermen for the important role they had played in wildlife conservation. Thus was the birth of National Hunting and Fishing Day...
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RUBY LEE DAY
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
DEXTER -- Ruby Lee Day, 82, of Dexter died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born in Van Zanot County, Texas, Aug. 1, 1914, daughter of Finnis and Esther Wortham Birdsong. She was a member of the Bible Missionary Church of Dexter...
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LOUISE WEBER
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Louise Weber, 88, of Cairo died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born March 9, 1908, at Bandana, Ky., daughter of Albert S. and Maude Feast Slaughter. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lester H. Weber, in 1984...
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PERRY H. GRINDSTAFF
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
JACKSON -- Perry H. Grindstaff, 76, of Jackson died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 16, 1920, son of Frank and Ida Fellows Grindstaff at Alliance. He married Marjorie Birk on Nov. 22, 1947. Grindstaff was co-owner of McCombs Funeral Home and the former McCombs Furniture Co. in Jackson. He joined the company in 1940 and retired in January 1988...
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GEORGE E. YALLALY SR.
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
HOUSE SPRINGS -- George E. Yallaly Sr., 73, of House Springs died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at his home. He was born in Marshall Jan. 24, 1923, son of George E. and Genevieve Doll Yallaly. Yallaly was a supervisor for a surveying company. He was a member of Our Lady Queen of Peace Catholic Church...
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LESTER SAVERS
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
JACKSON -- Lester "Bud" Savers, 73, of Jackson died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 30, 1922, at Jackson, son of Bern and Minnie Weiss Savers. He married Marie Wedekind on Aug. 22, 1948. She survives...
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HARRY L. LANKFORD
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
BLOOMFIELD -- Harry Lee Lankford, 84, of Bloomfield died Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. He was born Jan. 26, 1912, at Essex. He is survived by his wife, May Lankford of the home; daughters, Ada May Wheeler of St. Joseph and Carol Lewis of Piedmont; and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren...
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ROBERT M. WILSON SR.
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Robert M. Wilson Sr., 78, of Wolf Lake died Friday, Sept. 20, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born July 15, 1918, at Wolf Lake, son of Alfred M. and Daisy Lyerly Wilson. He married Juanita Vincent in Jackson, Mo., Oct. 31, 1938. She survives...
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RUBY A. CALDWELL
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
JACKSON -- Ruby A. Caldwell, 93, of Jackson died Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996 at the Masonic Home in St. Louis. She was born Aug. 6, 1903, at Millersville, daughter of T.O. Niswonger and Radia Niswonger. She married Frank V. Caldwell at Jackson on Jan. 21, 1933. He died Feb. 29, 1988...
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JUDY H. WAGNER
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
CHARLESTON -- Judy Hornback Wagner, 56, of Sikeston, formerly of Charleston, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. Service arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by McMikle Funeral Home of Charleston...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 09/22/96)
Daughter to Bob and Dana M. Christisen, Perryville Route 7, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:59 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, 1996. Name, Emily Lauren. Weight, 8 pounds 9 ounces. Mrs. Christisen is the former Dana Evans, daughter of Bernice Richardet and Ron Richardet of Perryville, and the late Elmer Evans and Pat Evans of St. Marys. Christisen is the son of Mary Ann Clifton and Sonny Clifton of Perryville, and the late Robert Christisen Sr. He is employed at Bob's Auto Body...
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MYRTLE I. DOWD
(Obituary ~ 09/22/96)
MARBLE HILL -- Myrtle I. Dowd, 93, died Saturday, Sept. 21, 1996, at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Fredericktown. She was born Aug. 24, 1903, daughter of Louis and Rhoda Ridings Upchurch at Hurricane Fork. She married Andrew Jack Dowd who preceded her in death...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
Cape Girardeau County Land Transfers James E. McGahey and Debra L. McGahey to Darren Ellis and Rhonda Ellis; Six Thirty Inc. to Keith Wayne Cotner and Ronald Cotner, dba R&K Development; William J. Lindsay, et al., to Robert Christopher Sinn, et al.; Charles E. Chatneuf and Patricia A. Chatneuf to Martyn R. Clay and Evelyn M. Clay; Suan E. Meek to Winford J. Vaughn and Wilma L. Vaughn; Maurice E. Stauffer and Beatrice R. Stauffer to Michael Stause and Joyce Stause...
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WOMEN MINISTERS TAP THE STAINED-GLASS CIELING; WOMEN MOVE FROM CHURCH SUPPERS TO THE PULPIT
(Local News ~ 09/22/96)
Paula Austin, left, youth pastor at Centenary United Methodist Church, shared time with high-school students including Jo Ann Henry, center, and Allison Johnson, at McDonald's before school. Nancy Gillard, pastor of Lutesville Presbyterian Church, read a story to her children, from left, Austin, Claire and Barbara Gillard...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: THE BEST LITTLE APPLE PIE EVER
(Column ~ 09/22/96)
First, choose the right day for this apple pie. You know, a Helen Hunt Jackson day when the goldenrod is yellow...apples in the apple orchard...asters by the brookside... . There must be blue skies too, for you're going to walk the lanes between the apple trees and you want no rain to dampen the wings of the grasshoppers that hop along in front of you as if showing the way...
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