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LETTERS: RELIEF OVER CLONING ISSUE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/01/97)
To the editor: Ever since the replication of the Scottish ewe just recently, I have been cringing at the implications, were the technology ever to be applied to humans. It was as if a dark cloud were following me around. This fearful foreboding was threatening to blight my life -- that is, until I read the welcome words of blessed hope by Mona Charen on this pages: "You could not, for example, create another Ronald Reagan by cloning his DNA."...
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TELETHON FOR ROGERS CENTER NEXT WEEKEND
(Local News ~ 03/01/97)
James Guthrie, left, worked with Co9ry Tan, a physical therapist, on his balance and coordination skills. SIKESTON -- Carolyn Fennell says the Kenny Rogers United Cerebral Palsy Center is a blessing for her son, Lorenzo. Developmentally challenged since birth, Lorenzo, 6, and his mother have made regular trips to the center from their Charleston home...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: LIES ABOUT PARTIAL-BIRTH ABORTIONS ARE BEING EXPOSED
(Column ~ 03/01/97)
One by one, the lies are being exposed. Inexorably, the tissue of half-truths, misleading statements, euphemisms and lies shrouding the dirty work of the abortion industry is unraveling. "The truth will make you free. But first it will make you miserable."...
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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE BOUNDARIES SET FOR NOW, BUT FLEXIBLE
(Editorial ~ 03/01/97)
A plan to consolidate Cape Girardeau's six elementary into five earned final approval from the Board of Education this week. To the board's credit, the endorsement came well before the April 1 election. One month from today, voters will be asked to approve a 69-cent tax increase and a bond issue, which would fund a new elementary building, a new vocational-technical school and a number of other improvements. The committee's work is based on a 10-year, two-phase master plan...
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CENTRAL HIGH RECOGNIZES ACADEMIC WINNERS
(Editorial ~ 03/01/97)
Rah! Rah! Go, team, go! Pep rallies for school athletes have been around as long as organized sports. But students excelling in academics are taking their rightful place at scholastic pep rallies. Cape Girardeau Central High School held its second Academic Pep Rally this week. ...
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LETTERS: INACCURATE INFORMATION
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/01/97)
To the editor: The Southeast Missourian has provided two inaccurate stories concerning Zechariah L. James. On Tuesday, Feb. 25, the Missourian reported that Zechariah L. James pleaded guilty to three counts, including armed criminal action and robbery and that he had broken into a home on Sprigg Street and brandished a knife. ...
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LETTERS: COVERAGE WAS WELL DONE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/01/97)
To the editor: Your newspaper covered the groundbreaking ceremony on our new school facility in the Feb. 23 newspaper, and I wanted to write you and thank you for the wonderful coverage we received. The article that Benjamin Israel wrote was informative and represented the feelings of our school in a professional manner that was neither critical nor demeaning to us or to the public school system...
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JACKSON VOTE: UNIONIZATION WON'T MANDATE MEMBERSHIP FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES
(Local News ~ 03/01/97)
JACKSON -- Even if a majority of city public works employees vote in favor of union representation next month, union membership won't be mandatory. Francis Brady, the chairman of the State Board of Mediation, said union representation in a public entity in Missouri isn't the same as representation for employees of a private company...
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SPEAKER: COMMUNITY MAKES HEALTHY YOUTHS
(Local News ~ 03/01/97)
Vision, positive ideals and a little common sense are the only tools a community needs to produce healthier relationships between adults and children. That's what James Vollbracht told about 150 listeners at a kickoff presentation for Southeast Missouri Hospital's new Generations Family Resource Center Friday night at the Show Me Center...
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GENEALOGIST: PEOPLE MADE DO WITH WHAT THEY HAD
(Local News ~ 03/01/97)
In May 1954, Earl Warren delivered the U.S. Supreme Court's decision declaring segregation unconstitutional. Twenty years later he reflected on that time and said: "Interracial marriages were illegal; a black man could not even be picked up on the street by an ambulance accustomed to carrying white people. A black man could not sit in common in a theater with whites. And the worst irony of all, the dead black man could not be buried in the same cemetery with dead whites."...
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ENDING SEGREGATION: CHARLESTON CEMETERY CHANGES POLICIES
(Local News ~ 03/01/97)
CHARLESTON -- A 150-year tradition of separating whites and blacks in Charleston's Oak Grove Cemetery has been stopped. Since the 1840s, whites and blacks have been buried in separate sections of the cemetery. But in February, the Mississippi County Commission, which has controlled the cemetery since 1877, closed an old section in which only blacks were buried...
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TEACHERS BACK CHARLESTON PRINCIPAL
(Local News ~ 03/01/97)
CHARLESTON -- Charleston High School faculty members will go before the Board of Education March 13 to tell members they want their principal back. More than 30 high-school faculty and staff want to know why the board didn't seek their opinions before deciding against rehiring principal Joe Forrest on Feb. 13. Faculty members said they had no idea there was a question about his contract renewal...
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BUCKING THE SYSTEM: SOME TRADITIONS BEST LEFT UNPRACTICED
(Column ~ 03/01/97)
Part of the African-American heritage is embedded in Greek-letter organizations. We have a number of service-oriented fraternities and sororities who work nationally and internationally to improve the lives of as many people as possible. They also provide a good support system for students before, during and after college...
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OTAHKS YOUNG, BUT ARMED FOR '97
(College Sports ~ 03/01/97)
Asked to describe her 1997 Southeast Missouri State University softball team, veteran coach Lana Flynn Richmond smiles and says three words. "Young, young, young." But that's just fine with Richmond, who will be looking to lead her Otahkians to yet another Ohio Valley Conference championship...
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1A-2A DISTRICTS REV UP ENGINES
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/97)
District tournaments for 1A and 2A schools get started tonight across the state. Talking with local coaches, most are looking forward to some highly competitive tournments on the local scene. A look at the hopes of area teams: Boys Class 2A, District 2...
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PIRATES AVENGE LOSS, WIN CROWN
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/97)
PARK HILLS -- He who laughs last, laughs best and Friday night at the Park Hills gymnasium in the 3A District 2 championship game, the Perryville Pirates couldn't help but laugh out loud. The Pirates beat North County 64-51 in the title game to avenge an early season loss to the Raiders in Perryville. The win extended the Pirates' school-record for wins to 27 against only two losses. North County's season ended at 22-4...
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CHARLESTON CLAIMS ANOTHER DISTRICT TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/97)
CHARLESTON -- The matchup area Class 3A high school basketball fans have waited for was set Friday. In the District 1 boys championship game at Charleston, the host Blue Jays, the top seed, beat No. 2 New Madrid County Central 59-48. The win sets up a sectional game at Poplar Bluff H.S. Wednesday between Charleston, ranked No. 1 in 3A, and Perryville, the No. 8-ranked team. Charleston is 25-3 and Perryville is 27-2...
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FREDERICKTOWN GIRLS PREVENT PERRYVILLE SWEEP, WIN 49-43
(High School Sports ~ 03/01/97)
PARK HILLS -- An 11-0 run to close out the first quarter gave Perryville's girls an 11-3 lead entering the second quarter. But from there the Lady Pirates couldn't hit from the free-throw line, and top-seeded Fredericktown won the Class 3A, District 2 championship game at Park Hills Friday 49-43...
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JAMES HARRIS
(Obituary ~ 03/01/97)
DEXTER -- James Robert Harris, 76, of Dexter died Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. He was born Oct. 20, 1920, at Advance, son of Monroe Freeman and Althea Pixley Harris. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bloomfield, a 50-year member of the Bloomfield Lodge 153 AF&AM and a past master of Advance Lodge 590 AF&AM, had served on the Bloomfield City Council and was a charter member of the Bloomfield Lions Club. ...
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LUCILLE SUTTON
(Obituary ~ 03/01/97)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Lucille G. Sutton, formerly of Matthews, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Larry Long will officiate, with burial in Matthews Cemetery. Sutton, 86, died Thursday, Feb. 27, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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HELEN DAVIDSON
(Obituary ~ 03/01/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Helen Louvine Davidson, 79, of Scott City died Thursday, Feb. 27, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 2, 1917, at Fornfelt, daughter of William and Victoria Kern Corvick. She first married Albert E. Martin in 1942 in Spokane, Wash. He died June 20, 1944. She and Woodrow Wilson Davidson were married July 19, 1952, in Jonesboro, Ark. He died April 20, 1984...
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GENEVA CARR
(Obituary ~ 03/01/97)
CHARLESTON -- Geneva Elaine Carr, 91, of Charleston died Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, at Bertrand Nursing facility. She was born April 24, 1905, in Charleston, daughter of H.T. and Minnie English Carr. She and Ralph Carr Sr. were married Dec. 26, 1925. He died May 12, 1981...
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HERMINA GARDINER
(Obituary ~ 03/01/97)
DUTCHTOWN -- Funeral service for Hermina Lenora Gardiner of Dutchtown will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Mary's Cathedral in Cape Girardeau. Msgr. Richard Rolwing will officiate, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee after 4 p.m. Sunday. Parish prayers will be at 7...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 03/01/97)
Son to Neal A. and Tammy K. Honickman, 1339 Copper, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 7:46 a.m. Friday, Feb. 21, 1997. Name, Nicholas Stephen. Weight, 5 pounds 6 ounces. First child. Mrs. Honickman is the former Tammy Palmer, daughter of Aliene and Dwight Keesling and Jerry Palmer of Columbia. She is a psychotherapist. Honickman is the son of Florence Honickman of Chesterfield. He is a physician at Cape Retinal Surgery Center...
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BOBBY GENE DAVIS
(Obituary ~ 03/01/97)
DEXTER -- Bobby Gene Davis, 55, of Dexter died Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, in Dexter. He was born March 27, 1941, in Granite City, Ill., son of Alro T. and Georgia Mae Lane Davis. He married Irene Baumer on Oct. 9, 1971, at Olivette. Davis had lived in Dexter since 1986. Before that, he lived in St. Louis. He was a truck driver for B&D Haulers. He was a member of the Faith Lutheran Church in Dexter...
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