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LETTERS: MAYBE IT'S JUST A JOKE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/10/96)
To the editor: Donn Miller's Nov. 6 letter seemed to (shockingly) prove that the totalitarian mindset is alive and well in Tamms, Ill. Mr. Miller expressed the view that the United States made a mistake in promoting the Soviet Union's pullout from Afghanistan a number of years ago...
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UNIQUE `BABY SHOWER' STRESSES CHILD SAFETY
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
This particular baby shower wasn't just for one baby. About 40 people, including several expectant mothers, attended the Baby Shower for Safety Workshop on Saturday at the Drury Lodge. The third annual workshop was sponsored by the Safe Communities Program, the Safe Kids Coalition and the Missouri Division of Highway Safety...
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MARCHING BAND AND ENSEMBLE WILL PERFORM
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
The Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will join Southeast's Golden Eagles Marching Band for an evening of music Nov. 17. The symphonic wind ensemble will open the concert at 8 p.m. in Academic Auditorium with English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams' "Toccata Marziale." It will be contrasted by two settings of British fold music by Australian-born composer Percy Granger...
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SPECIAL PEOPLE COMPETE DURING SPECIAL OLYMPICS TOURNAMENT
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
Danny and Nancy Biri enjoy bowling, country music and spending time with their friends. Like many newlywed couples, they like to be near each other, and they often glance at each other during conversation. They are young, happy and independent, and they don't look like "the type" of people who participate in programs like the Special Olympics bowling tournament that took place Saturday afternoon in West Park Lanes...
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HILTY SPEAKS TO HISTORICAL GROUP
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
Dr. Peter Hilty will speak about a collection of letters written during the Civil War when he addresses the Historical Association of Greater Cape Girardeau Monday. The letters were written to Captain Thomas Crooks from 1850 until the time of his death in 1910. Most of the letters were from his intended. According to Hilty, "It makes a nice story."...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 11/10/96)
I WANT to comment about the presidential and congressional elections. The people have sent a mandate. Clinton only got 49 percent of the vote, and they gave the Republicans the House and Senate. They want these investigations to continue because if Clinton would have just got defeated, they wouldn't have been investigated. But now that he's president and Newt's in control, they want him fully investigated...
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MISSOURI WATCH: THE GREAT CAMPAIGN ILLUSION
(Column ~ 11/10/96)
When the 1996 campaign really got under way following this summer's primary elections, I decided to save every mailed, expressed and faxed press release from state, congressional and presidential candidates. I was not trying to determine how many rolls of facsimile paper were consumed, although if you are interested the number was 11, nor which candidate issued the most press releases...
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MISSOURI COMMENTARY: BILL CLINTON HAS OPPORTUNITY IN FOUR YEARS TO DETERMINE ULTIMATE LEGACY
(Column ~ 11/10/96)
The 1996 election campaign will not go down in the history books in any positive or defining sense. The rhetoric was less than inspiring. The TV ads at all levels were nauseatingly repetitive, insultingly accusatory, and mostly ugly. The stench of excessive money was everywhere...
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INDICTMENTS ARE CULMINATION OF GRIFFIN'S FREE-WHEELING STYLE
(Editorial ~ 11/10/96)
This year, Halloween came five days before the Nov. 5 general election and brought with it the long-anticipated indictment of a former speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. Former Rep. Bob Griffin, at 15 years the longest-serving speaker in Missouri history, resigned from the House early this year after it became widely known that he was the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into alleged criminal acts...
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STADT COMMISSIONED FOR DUTY IN JACKSON
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
Stadt rides in back of the vehicle in a cage with a fan. Stadt doesn't like bad guys. So be a good guy, or else. The strong arm of the law just got stronger as the Jackson Police Department commissioned its first K-9 unit, Stadt, on Monday. Stadt was imported from Czechoslovakia by Mike Ervin of Cape Girardeau for the Jackson Police...
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WATCHING POUNDS DROP MAKES CHANGE WORTH IT
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
EDITOR'S NOTE: Staff writer Heidi Nieland has volunteered to go through a diet plan new to the Cape Girardeau. She is sharing her successes and failure in a weekly series that will end on Saturday's health page. Until last spring, I was gaining about 5 pounds a month...
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MARCHING: RALLY IN SIKESTON DRAWS SMALL CROWD
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
SIKESTON-- George Baker III, senior managing editor for the Sikeston-based African-American Informant newsletter, walked up to the podium. He looked around at the 60-plus empty seats in front of him, then he looked at the few faces that waited expectantly...
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WILD GOOS CHASE ON THE WING: SOUTHERN ILLINOIS GEARS UP FOR GOOSE SEASON
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
WARE, Ill. -- On a cold winter's day in January of 1991, more than 850,000 Canada Geese were counted in a four-county area of Southern Illinois. "That was a peak count for that year," said Rich Whitten, waterfowl biologist for the Illinois Department of Conservation...
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REGION GETS FIRST TASTE OF WINTER WITH SNOWFALL
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
Al Robertson wasn't thrilled when he noticed the tiny white flakes drifting down from a slate-gray sky Saturday afternoon. Quite a few people in Southeast Missouri may have shared that feeling as the region got its first snowfall of the season. "Usually we don't get any snowfall until the first part of December," Robertson, a climatologist at Southeast Missouri State University, said...
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MARK MY WORD: IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT, GO HOME
(Column ~ 11/10/96)
I couldn't believe it, but there it was in print. "Unhappy people do better work than cheerful people," reported the News of Norway newsletter. The newsletter is published by the Norwegian Embassy in Washington and sent across the country to inquisitive reporters who want to know just what is going on in Norway anyway...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: DEER HUNTERS CAN TRACK DOWN HUNGER VIA SHARE THE HARVEST
(Column ~ 11/10/96)
Here is a riddle for you: What do Christmas and firearms deer season have in common? One thing they share is the anticipation that children (regardless of age) feel as they go to bed the night before. Some will dream of deer making a clatter on the rooftop. Others will dream of deer hooves rustling among the fallen leaves that carpet the floor of a mid-November woods...
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VIDEO DOCUMENTS MISSOURI'S FIRST WILD COUGAR SINCE 1927
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
ELLINGTON -- When David Morrison heard a commotion in his field Monday night, he thought his two longhorn bulls had gone after each other. But when he investigated, he found the carcass of a freshly-slain doe, with deep claw marks on its back and belly and a broken neck...
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EULAS DEAN COMSTOCK
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
CAMPBELL, Mo. -- Eulas Dean Comstock, 58, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996, at 3:50 a.m. in his home in Campbell. He was formerly of Mississippi County. He was born May 1, 1938, at Elizabeth, Ark., son of John and Rosezitta Helms Comstock. On Dec. 23, 1956, he married Rita Hedge, who preceded him in death on June 9, 1974...
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BACIL LOWERY
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
PUXICO -- Bacil Herman Lowery, 85, of Puxico, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996 at Doctors Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Nov. 3, 1911, in Idalia, son of the late Elisha and Mary Floyd Lowery. He had lived and farmed in Puxico for the past 26 years and was a life-long resident of Stoddard County...
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PAUL COUCH
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
SIKESTON -- Paul Couch, 78, formerly of Sikeston, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 7, 1918, in Diehlstadt, the son of the late Robert S. and Stella B. Robertson Couch. He had served in the U.S. Army during World War II and had worked as a manager of the LP Gas Division of Home Oil Company in Sikeston for 30 years...
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HASKELL L. CARVER
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
CHARLESTON -- Haskell L. Carver, 91, of Charleston, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 6, 1905, in West Plains, son of the late Mann and Hettie Bailey Carver. He lived in Mississippi County most of his life, working for Frank Lair Furniture and Undertaking Company and Shelby Funeral Home in Charleston...
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BARBARA "KIKI" LAPIERRE
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
JACKSON -- Barbara "Kiki" LaPierre, 76, of Jackson died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996 at Bond Nursing Home in Marble Hill. The funural will be held at McComb's Funeral Home in Jackson. Arrangements are incomplete at this time.
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MABEL S. "TANCY" BROWN
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
Mabel S. "Tancy" Brown, 74, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 20, 1922, in Columbia, daughter of the late Philip and Susie Rawlins Simpich. She worked as a nurse assistant at Southeast Missouri Hospital for 13 years, attended the Christian College in Columbia and was a member of the First Christian Church in Cape Girardeau...
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GRANTBERG MAN SUFFERS INJURY IN JOHNSON COUNTY ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
A Grantberg man was hospitalized after a two-vehicle accident Saturday night on Interstate 24 in Johnson County, Ill., Illinois State Police reported. Chad B. Newberry, 17, of Grantsberg, Ill., was driving a GMC Jimmy carryall and fell asleep and struck the rear of a pickup truck causing it to hit an embankment. The truck was driven by Jerrod William Walker, 21, of Goreville...
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OTTO CHRISTIAN PEETZ
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
JACKSON -- Otto Christian Peetz, 77, of Jackson, formerly of Gordonville, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996. He was born Aug. 12, 1919 in Tilsit, the son of Ferdinand and Amelia Peetz. He married Lawana Farrow on June 7, 1946. She preceded him in death on June 14, 1989. Two brothers and one sister also preceded him in death...
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PATRICIA BRADY
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
Patricia A. Brady, 768 Cedar Lane, Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996, at her home. Funeral arrangements are pending at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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GILBERT G. "GIB" GRAY
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Gilbert G. "Gib" Gray, 76, of Cobden, Ill. died Saturday, Nov. 9, at the Veteran's Administration Hospital in Marion, Ill. He was born Aug. 31, 1920 in Sikeston, the son of Garnett and Lala Robertson Gray. He married Vesta O. Rogers in May 1938 in Malden. She preceded him in death June 6, 1996. He was also preceded in death by a grandson, his parents, four sisters and one brother...
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MARY EDNA VERBLE WOMICK
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Mary Edna Verble Womick, 74, of Anna died Saturday, Nov. 9, 1996, at her home. She was born April 22, 1922 in Mt. Pleasant, Ill., the daughter of Arlie and Maude Mae Helton Verble. She married Paul W. Womick Aug. 1, 1952 in Dongola, Ill. He preceded her in death April 13, 1986. A sister and three brothers also preceded her in death...
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CLIFFORD B. DIEBOLD
(Obituary ~ 11/10/96)
GLADSTONE -- Funeral services for Clifford B. Diebold, 58, of Gladstone, who died Wednesday, Nov. 5, 1996, at the Ramona Villa Nursing Center, were held Friday at St. Charles Borromeo Church in Gladstone with burial in White Chapel Cemetery. He was born Jan. 1, 1938, in Benton, son of Leon and Marcella Diebold, who survive him. He married Jean Ann Stehr of Oran on May 3, 1958, who survives him...
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FOLLOWING IN BILL'S FOOTSTEPS: JO ANN EMERSON GOES TO WASHINGTON
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
Jo An Emerson listed to vote tallies on election night with her youngest daughter Katharine. On election day, Jo Ann Emerson visited the Hillsboro Cemetery grave of her late husband, Bill Emerson. That night she celebrated her victory, winning the 8th District congressional seat twice -- both in the general election and in the special election to fill the unexpired term of her late husband...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: SHOPPING FOR THINGS I NEED NOT
(Column ~ 11/10/96)
Here come the gift catalogs, regular as calendars and seed catalogs at the first of the year. I understand that lots more people shop by mail nowadays. Perhaps that accounts for the plethora of these gift catalogs. With congested traffic seemingly everywhere, parking spaces elusive, purse snatchers here, there and yonder, plus fear of crazies who love to thin crowds by bullets or bombs, one can understand why shopping by mail seems comfortable...
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AUDUBON SOCIETY MEETS WEDNESDAY
(Local News ~ 11/10/96)
The Four Seasons Audubon Society of Southeast Missouri will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Missouri Department of Conservation Building at Cape County Park. Walter Crawford Jr., an expert on the conservation of birds of prey and director of the World Birds of Prey Center in St. Louis, will present the program. He will bring along some birds of prey and will answer questions after the meeting...
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