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LETTERS: FIDDLING WITH HEALTH CARE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/29/96)
To the editor: HMOs, managed competition, managed care -- whatever -- simply preserves two great myths embedded in our present system. First: The mistaken, longstanding assumption that health-care coverage should be attached to employment. Health care is fundamentally a claim by members of a community on each other. ...
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YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS AT QUEST AND CONQUER PAINT BALL
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Front row, left to right, Matt Gregory, Stuart Knowlan, Ian Lape, Brandon Andrews, Matt Neal. Back row, left to right, Jacob LeGrand, Mitchell Casteel, Matt Litz, Nathan Penlan, and Stuart McIntosh. When you get shot you raise your gun above your head and walk to a safe area...
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PAINSTAKING WORK BLOSSOMS INTO SUCCESSFUL QUILTERS' GUILD SHOW
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
With their scraps of fabric and elaborate seams, the quilts displayed at the River Heritage Quilt Show tell a story. Sewn with painstaking detail, the nearly 100 quilts tell a story about a family pet, "Duchess," or a husband's job, "Twenty Years of Banking," or just represent a quilting tradition with the "Double Wedding Ring" designs...
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WOODEN MODELS KEEP STEARNS BUSY
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Bob Stearns deomnstrates how his wooden model moves. Bob Stearns recently won two blue ribbons and a second place red ribbon at the SEMO District Fair with some of his wood work that he has been doing since last summer. Stearns is disabled and working with wood has kept him busy while he hasn't been able to work...
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CONGRESSIONAL LEADERS TO DEBATE IN WILLISMBURG, VA., TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
A debate between Republican and Democratic Congressional leaders will be held tonight in Williamsburg, Va. Republican leaders Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott will debate Democrats Tom Daschel and Dick Gephardt in an event dubbed a "town meeting." Political commentator Jim Lehrer will moderate the two-hour debate, which will focus on the future Congress...
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MISSOURI COMMENTARY: HOUSE RACES: WHO HAS MONEY?
(Column ~ 09/29/96)
As Bill Clinton's lead over Bob Dole remains very strong, the nation's political eyes and ears turn towards the Congressional races. The Senate (53-47 in favor of the GOP) seems out of reach to the Democrats unless the Clinton coattails were to approximate something like Franklin Roosevelt in 1936 or Lyndon Johnson in 1964. It's the House of Representatives that is the hot battleground for 1996...
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MISSOURI WATCH: THE POLITICS OF PROMISING EVERYTHING
(Column ~ 09/29/96)
Among all the ploys of the' political process, none is more ingrained than the practice of diverting voters' attention from the troubles of today by promising relief tomorrow. The practice is much in evidence in the 'political campaigns of 1996. It is defensible. It fits with the natural human tendency to hope for better time in the future...
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UNEQUAL JUSTICE
(Editorial ~ 09/29/96)
"To the extent that litigation is a business, it's good for St. Louis." -- An unidentified circuit judge, quoted in a St. Louis Post-Dispatch article focusing on the explosion of multimillion-dollar verdicts in the St. Louis City courts, many in cases arising out of accidents occurring up to 300 miles away and having nothing to do with St. Louis...
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SOFTBALL TEAM POSTING AN IMPRESSIVE SEASON
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Christy Teets pitching for Jackson. Mindy Myers waits for the pitch. Dana Sander waits to tag out a baserunner at third as Jessica Sander backs up the play. It has been a good year so far for coach Becky Riney and her Lady Indians softball team. The team is (9-5) this season. Last year's squad finished (9-13)...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU MOVES AHEAD; NEW BUSINESSES BRING NEW JOBS
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Employment in the U.S. is projected to grow by 17.7 million during the next decade to a level of about 144 million. The growth rate translates into about 13.4 percent. But employment in Cape Girardeau could increase that much over the next quarter. Cape Girardeau Mayor Albert M. Spradling III recently told a gathering that "Cape Girardeau is on the grow." That means new construction, new businesses and new jobs, Spradling said...
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LOCAL STORE HELPS SPRUCE UP CIVIC CENTER
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
The Cape Girardeau Civic Center couldn't have begun its first day of renovations without the material and labor of a local business and its manager and employees. Management and employees at Lowe's, the Cape Girardeau building materials retailer, donated mulch, flowers, toilets, floor tiles, lights, and perhaps most importantly, labor Saturday during the first day of work on a facelift for the Civic Center, said Fred Pennington, a center organizer...
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WILL DIET REALLY WORK? REPORTER TO FIND OUT, AND SO WILL YOU
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Editor's note: Southeast Missourian staff writer Heidi Nieland has volunteered to go through a diet plan new to the Cape Girardeau area. She will share her successes and failures in a seven-story, weekly series beginning today. There are pictures to prove I once was thin, maybe even a little emaciated. Really...
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EXPANDING HORIZONS
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Thanks to a new TTY phone at the high school -- donated by the local Telephone Pioneers -- Misty Broshius can talk to the rest of the world. Misty Broshuis has always compensated for her loss of hearing by sharpening her other senses. But it always had been a challenge for her to communicate at a distance...
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MARK MY WORD: KIDS COUNT IN CARRYING ON LIFE'S CONVERSATIONS
(Column ~ 09/29/96)
Moms and dads don't have that many original thoughts anymore. We just recycle the same ones over and over. The silence was deafening. Something was wrong. This couldn't be our car. We must be in the "Twilight Zone," I reasoned. Joni and I were driving along Interstate 24, headed for Nashville and a newspaper conference without the kids...
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THE REV. JOHN D. GEARING
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
The Rev. John Dover Gearing, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 27, 1996, at Ferrell Hospital in Eldorado, Ill. He was born Nov. 24, 1917, at Delta, Ill., son of Joseph C. and Pearl Dover Gearing. He and Pauline Hull were married Dec. 24, 1945, at Harrisburg, Ill. She survives...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: GENERAL WATKINS PROVIDES A CONSERVATION ISLAND
(Column ~ 09/29/96)
General Watkins Conservation Area is located in Scott County, three miles southwest of Benton along Highway 61. The area is composed of 1,038 acres, which lies in a forested hill region of the country and is a remnant of a once extensively forested area...
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MISSOURI RABBIT NUMBERS DECLINE
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's rabbit population showed a decline again this year. The good news for rabbit hunters is that more than a dozen counties still have strong rabbit numbers, and isolated pockets of habitat provide good rabbit hunting in nearly every part of the state...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Scott County Ronnie G. and Mary A. Slinkard, et al. to Harold R. and Bertha M. Brumbaugh; Vernon and Revella Schlosser, et al. to Glenda and Elmer Kenkel; Dana Marie Welter to Wilma J. Henderson; Robert and Pam Kelso to Henry and Lorene Bell; Veachel and Ruth Dover to Noel Dean King; Bradley Ledure to Edwin and Lois Ledure; John and Patricia Ruhl to Loman and Lula Garner; Harley and Vonda Barnes to Billy Joe and Martha Shankle; David and Elizabeth Ligons to Billy Joe and Martha Shankle; Christopher and Tammy Smith to Sarah L. ...
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GERAL CARR
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
SIKESTON -- Geral T. Carr Sr., 84, of Sikeston died Friday Sept. 27, 1996, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center at Sikeston. He was born Jan. 11, 1912, at Eminence, son of Fred and Cordelia Wells Carr. He married Nellie McElreath on May 21, 1947, in St. Louis...
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PATRICIA POWERS
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
SIKESTON -- Patricia Livisey Powers, 83, of Sikeston died Friday, Sept. 27, 1996, at the Missouri Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Sept. 19, 1913, in the Texas Bend Community north of Charleston, daughter of Steve and May Harris Hargan. She and James R. Powers were married in 1939. He died Oct. 6, 1991...
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GERALD E. FILE
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Gerald E. File, 55, of Anna died Friday, Sept. 27, 1996, at the Union County Hospital. File was born Sept. 2, 1941, son of Arthur and Ruth Youngblood File at Anna. He and Barbara Wiggs were married July 8, 1970, at Jonesboro. He was self-employed at File Plumbing Supply in Anna. He was a veteran and a life member of the American Legion. He was a member of the Salem Lutheran Church...
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STELLA M. MATTINGLY
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
SHILOH, Ill. -- Stella Mary Mattingly, 94, of Shiloh died at her home Friday, Sept. 27, 1996. She was born Aug. 27, 1902, daughter of Joseph and Mary Braun Eckenfels. She married Bert J. Mattingly. He died 27, 1957. Mattingly worked in the food industry until retirement. She was a former organist at Our Lady of Victory Parish in Sereno...
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IMOGENE FORD ABERNATHIE
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
Imogene Ford Abernathie, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Sept. 28, 1996, at the Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. Arrangements are pending at the Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.
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SHIRLEY F. TURNER
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Shirley Frances Turner, 47, of Sedgewickville died Friday, Sept. 27, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 4, 1948, at Marble Hill, daughter of Earl and Etta Fulbright. She and Donald E. Turner were married Sept. 1, 1967. He survives...
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BARBARA G. SMITH
(Obituary ~ 09/29/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Barbara Glover Smith, 59, of Birmingham, Mich., died Saturday, Sept. 28, 1996, at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. She was born March 20, 1937, at Blue Island, Ill, daughter of Charles and Ethel Parr Glover. She and Dean Smith were married...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: SIGNPOSTS ALONG THE TRAIL OF JOY
(Column ~ 09/29/96)
Let me walk softly on this earth, leaving no scars, erecting no false signposts, yet leaving a trail of little notices by way of remembered words that urge travelers to stop here and see this. Listen and hear that. Touch, taste and smell these things...
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FOOD, FREINDS AND FUN; CAPE GIRARDEAU SENIOR CENTER OFFERS ALL THREE
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
Playing "Pitch" is a favorite game for these seniors, from left, Doretta Dunning, Melvin Heise, Edward Enderle and Eula Jones. Quilting is another activity at the senior center. From left: Ruby Propst, Velma Huey, Hazel Kester and Jo Williams. Mary Rettig of St. Francis Medical Center led seniors in a PACE (People with Arthritis Can Exercise) class at the senior center...
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BIERSCHWAL REUNION TODAY
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
The Bierschwal family reunion is today at Zion United Methodist Church, west of Gordonville, 1-5 p.m. Glenn C. Randolph of Long Beach, Calif., formerly of Cape Girardeau, will be on hand to help family members learn to use his recently-published book on the Bierschwal family history...
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HARVEST FESTIVAL PAGEANT WILL BE OCT. 12
(Local News ~ 09/29/96)
The Qulin Junior Booster Club will hold a Harvest Festival Pageant on Oct. 12 at the Qulin Middle School at 1 p.m. Girls may enter in seven age divisions from birth to 18 years. Participants will wear pageant wear and three winners will be selected in each division. Deadline to enter is Oct. 11. Proceeds will benefit the Twin Rivers school in Qulin...
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