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LETTERS: LITERATURE FOR LEARNING
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/15/96)
To the editor: We were delighted to receive funds to purchase the Scholastic Bridges program. My third-grade students and I look forward to enriching our reading program through the whole-class book, "Stuart Little," the small-group books and buddy books...
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RECURITER OF BLOOD DONORS TAKES NEW JOB
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
David Palmer, blood donor recruiter for the American Red Cross in Cape Girardeau the past nine years, is leaving. He has accepted a position with the American Red Cross in Jonesboro, Ark. Palmer will be honored during a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at the American Red Cross office, 2430 Myra Drive, Cape Girardeau...
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EPA AIR-QUALITY PROPOSAL THREATENS COMMUNITIES' EFFORTS
(Column ~ 12/15/96)
Promises by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Clinton administration to use common sense as a guidepost for environmental regulation apparently are not intended to include recent actions take by the EPA to severely tighten air standards for ozone and "fine particular matter" (or dust)...
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MISSOURI WATCH: WE HAVE ENTERED THE AGE OF IRONIES
(Column ~ 12/15/96)
"Unless some understanding of the word irony can be passed to historians of the future, alas, there will be no understanding of this age." -- Charles Dickens Never mind that the English writer was speaking not of the 1990s in America but of conditions he found rife with irony in his native England a century and a half ago. ...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: REVOLT IS BREWING AGAINST JUDICIAL TYRANNY IN AMERICA
(Column ~ 12/15/96)
A gathering revolt against judicial tyranny across America will, I predict, become one of the salient facts of American life over the next 10 to 20 years. Signs abound, though some are mere straws in the wind. Right here in Missouri, the judges didn't exactly have exquisite timing in asking for more pay. ...
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LOOPHOLE IN HANDLING OF DWI CASES NEEDS TO BE CLOSED
(Editorial ~ 12/15/96)
Cape Girardeau County's prosecuting attorney, Morley Swingle, has once again stressed the need for reform in the state's law governing those convicted of repeated offenses of driving while intoxicated. The situation involves an apparent anomaly in how prior convictions are treated when offenders are brought in for subsequent charges...
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NATION NEEDS ACCURATE CPI
(Editorial ~ 12/15/96)
A five-member panel of the nation's top economists has studied the Consumer Price Index and says that this barometer is flawed and inaccurately measures the rate of inflation. They claim that inflation has been overstated by approximately 1.1 percent annually in recent years. ...
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LETTERS: THANKS FOR CIVIC INTEREST
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/15/96)
To the editor: When we received the "Hugs" card for our Toybox and Christmas for the Elderly contributions, I began to reflect on the numerous community and civic activities that the Southeast Missourian so generously supports throughout the area. Many of us take this for granted without considering the time and cost involved in the Missourian's participation in these events...
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LETTERS: YELL GRANT HELPS READERS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/15/96)
To the editor: On behalf of the students of St. Paul Lutheran School, I would like to thank the Southeast Missourian and the Area Wide United Way for the recent grant that our school received as a direct result of the YELL program. That grant will used to expand upon the computerized reading program which our school implemented several years ago...
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A LONG WAY FROM HOME
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Michal Uhorskai is finding life in the United States is very different from life in his home country of Slovakia. Uhorskai is an exchange student at Jackson High School. "I like Jackson and Cape Girardeau," Uhorskai said. But when Uhorskai tried to compare this country with his, he said that the two were incomparable...
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CLASS ACT: READING, WRITING AND ROLE MODELS; BOOKINS SETS EXAMPLE FOR STUDENTS
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Lawrence Brookins takes his teaching and his coaching seriously, which is why he's even got junior high principal Gerald Richards calling him by his nickname of choice: the art coach. "Some people have a negative stereotype about coaches, and unfortunately, there are coaches who have perpetuated that myth," said the Cape Girardeau Junior High art teacher, who also coaches high school football and track and field. "I take personal offense because I believe the two terms are synonymous."...
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LITTLE TIME REMAINS FOR TOYBOX DRIVE
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Today is Sunday, and you're snug in your home, surrounded by Christmas decorations as you sit comfortably reading your Sunday paper. You look at the date of your paper and wrinkle your brow, sure that you have forgotten something. Could it be that you haven't made your donation to Toybox yet?...
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CLASS ACT: READING, WRITING AND ROLE MODELS; MEN MISSING IN ACTION IN CLASSROOMS
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Where the boys, or rather, the men, are is a good question, because where they aren't is serving in the school systems as teachers. School officials believe there are a number of reasons men are missing, and they also say there may be negative effects on children looking for role models...
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GRANDMOTHER RECEIVES NURSING DEGREE
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Sandra Eaves is a nurse now. "It's a lifelong dream come true," said the 48-year-old grandmother who graduated with an associate degree in nursing at Southeast Missouri State University Saturday. She isn't through yet. "My goal is to obtain a bachelor's degree, master's degree and possibly even a Ph.D," said Eaves, who works at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...
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MARK MY WORD: TICKLE ME ELMO CRAZE NOT A LAUGHING MATTER
(Column ~ 12/15/96)
The Grinch stole Christmas; do you think he had anything to do with this Elmo caper? There's nothing funny about Tickle Me Elmo, that fake-red fur of a doll that giggles when you tickle it. It's no laughing matter to parents, who can't find the Sesame Street character anywhere. Stores all across America have run out of them, leaving a whole bunch of us out in the cold...
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WOMEN MOVE INTO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Women may dominate the teaching profession locally, but they are rare at the administrative level. But the times, they are a-changing. Although women make up 81.4 percent of school teachers in Cape Girardeau, they represent only 15.8 percent of the principals and head administrators for the district. In Jackson public schools, females account for 78.1 percent of the teachers, but only 12.5 percent of all administrators...
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FACES OF THE ST. FRANCIS RIVER
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Farmington, Mo. -- In the St. Francois Mountains of Iron County, one of Missouri's most unique streams begins as a trickle born out of granite. This stream's journey south is a series of transitions, each resulting in a different personality. The St. ...
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8TH DISTRICT VICTORY BITTERSWEET; JO ANN EMERSON IS FOLLOWING IN HER LATE HUSBAND'S FOOTSTEPS
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
Rep. Jo Ann Emerson's daughter Katharine spoke for both of them recently as they sat at a celebratory dinner with other incoming House freshmen at the Folger Shakespeare Library. "This is a little bit weird, Mom," the 14-year-old told the new Republican congresswoman from Missouri's 8th District...
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MARGARET W. ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
SIKESTON -- Margaret W. Allen, 87, of Sikeston, died Friday, Dec. 13, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born April 28, 1909 in Sugar City, Colo., daughter of Patrick Seymour and Mary Butler Woods Seymour. She was member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. She was a registered nurse. She was a graduate of Stephens College in Columbia, and Washington University School of Nursing...
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TOM SECOY
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Tom Secoy, 91, of East Prairie, died Friday, Dec. 13, 1996 at the East Prairie Nursing Center. He was born May 6, 1905, in Caruthersville, son of Lois Albert and Lillie Metcalf Secoy. He married Mae Darnell on July 13, 1925. She preceded him in death Nov. 16, 1992...
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AMERILOUS ROBBINS
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
ADVANCE -- Amerilous Ramona Robins, 66, of Piedmont, died at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau Saturday, Dec. 14, 1996. She was born Feb. 20, 1930 at Blytheville, Ark., daughter of Rolla E. Jones and Mary Pearl Scott Jones. She married Tom Robins Sr. Jan. 2, 1949 at Cape Girardeau. He survives...
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DALE MILLER
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Dale Miller, 44, of Springfield, Tenn., formerly of East Prairie, died Saturday, Dec. 14, at his residence. He was born Aug. 17, 1952, at Dorena, Mo., son of L.C. and Alfreda Bennett Miller. He married Lisa Jo Morgan July 20, 1975, at East Prairie. She survives...
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MARION~ "BUD" CHAMBERS
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
SIKESTON -- Marion F. "Bud" Chambers, 76, of Morehouse, died Friday, Dec. 13, at his home. He was born April 17, 1920, in Morehouse, son of Francis Marion and Henrietta Benson Chambers. He married Ida F. Denton on Nov. 15, 1952 in Piggott, Ark. She preceded him in death Nov. 3, 1987...
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ROSA SOPHIA BRUGGER
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Rosa Sophia Brugger, 83, of Sedgewickville and formerly of Jackson, died Saturday, Dec. 14, 1996 at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Brugger was born Nov. 7, 1913, daughter of Andrew and Thresa Hunt Riehl. She married Fred A. Brugger Feb. 1, 1938. He preceded her in death Aug. 6, 1975...
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IMOGENE HUNT SCHRUMPF
(Obituary ~ 12/15/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Imogene Hunt Schrumpf, 80, of Perryville, died Friday, Dec. 13, 1996, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Nov. 2, 1916 at Rowe, Mo., daughter of William Edward and Ora Lodema Jones Hunt. She married Woodrow Wilson Schrumpf June 9, 1935. He preceded her in death Feb. 1, 1969...
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ACCIDENT CLAIMS LIVES OF COUPLE
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
PIEDMONT -- An Annapolis man and his wife were killed in a two-vehicle accident about five miles north of Piedmont Saturday afternoon. David L. Hackworth, 28, and his wife, Donna S. Hackworth, 27, were killed when they were thrown from their vehicle following a head-on collision...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: SECOND CHILDHOOD CHRISTMAS
(Column ~ 12/15/96)
Christmas, they sometimes say, is for childhood. What about second childhood? I wondered if there was a dictionary definition for second childhood. To my surprise, there is. Well, in a way. It says, "See dotage; senility." Somewhat chilled, I turned to those definitions, as if I didn't already know. ...
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SHAWNEE NATIONAL FOREST: IT'S HOME TO ENDANGERED SPECIES AND CONTROVERSY
(Local News ~ 12/15/96)
The wind shapes the plants and rocks on the western face of the limestone bluffs. Hikers taking the Little Grand Canyon Trail, on the northwest side of the Shawnee, can scale a shallow waterfall as a part of the trail. The Shawnee is made up of rolling forested hills that give way to the limestone bluffs on the west end of the park and open up to a vast swamp...
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