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LETTERS: ARTIFICIAL OR GENUINE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/18/97)
To the editor: Several years ago while living overseas, a tire shortage occurred during a time when I desperately needed a set of tires for my car. A parent of one of our students worked for a well-known tire company, and I was pleased when he offered to go through the red tape to get me the tires I needed. ...
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LETTERS: BRIDGE-BUILDING DREAM
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/18/97)
To the editor: When I first heard of the proposed bridge to the 21st century, I thought it was just a fairy-tale gimmick to get the votes of those who love fairy tales. But after careful though and several conferences with experts, I decided this was a necessary addition to our infrastructure. After all, how else are we going to reach the 21st century?...
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P&G PLANT IS ANOTHER KEY COG IN AREA'S GEARS OF PROGRESS
(Editorial ~ 04/18/97)
The news that Procter & Gamble Co. will build another plant next to its existing facility north of Cape Girardeau caps a string of developments in recent months that clearly put this region near the top of any economic development list, either in Missouri or the Midwest. Consider:...
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EASTER SEAL TELETHON SET TO RAISE FUNDS SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
For seven hours this weekend, the Southeast Missouri Regional Easter Seals Society hopes to inform the public about its services as it generates revenue. The organization is holding its annual spring telethon Sunday, and Easter Seals regional executive director Chuck Martin said the telethon's purpose is twofold...
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SEMO PROF WINS AWARD
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
Dr. Leslee Pollina, associate professor of psychology at Southeast Missouri State University, has received the Richard M. Griffith Memorial Award from the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology. The award was given for the best paper presented at the annual meeting of the society in Atlanta...
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COUNTY COMMISSION RECEIVES REPORT ON SENIOR CITIZENS TAX
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County senior citizens mill tax is generating a $4 return on every dollar spent on programs. The County Commission asked for a cost analysis of how taxes are spent. "The County Commission thought the senior citizens were getting excellent services per dollar spent, but until now we did not have a measuring device," Gerald Jones, presiding commissioner, said Thursday...
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RIVERFEST TO BE HELD JUNE 13-14
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
"Come Home to Riverfest ... Family, Friends and Fun" is the theme of this year's downtown Riverfest. "Riverfest kicks off the summer," said Laural Adkisson, festival vice president. "Riverfest is a time when people come home to Cape Girardeau to visit friends and family; that was the idea for this year's theme," she said...
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FIRE CLAIMS LIFE OF SCOTT CITY MAN
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
SCOTT CITY -- A fire at a Scott City mobile home Thursday claimed the life of a 31-year-old Scott City man. The fire started at approximately 12:12 p.m. at 910 E. Maple, trailer 8. Tony Beckett, 31, died at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, where he was taken by North Scott County ambulance. Investigators said Beckett apparently died of smoke inhalation...
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CAPE COUNTY ECONOMY ROBUST
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
Cape Girardeau County is in the midst of one of its most sustained periods of economic growth in recent years with advances in many major industrial and business sectors. And the area is poised to grow even stronger. Manufacturing continues to grow and prosper, agriculture production continues to provide a cornerstone for many local economies, and the retail sector continues to grow in the hub city of Cape Girardeau...
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SENATE APPROVES ABORTION MEASURE
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
The Missouri Senate voted Thursday to outlaw partial-birth abortions. The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 28-3 and sent it to the House, where passage also is likely. "I am enormously gratified and humbled by the vote," said the bill's sponsor, state Sen. Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau...
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SOUTHEAST HOSPITAL BACKERS GET REPORT ON ACCOMPLISHMENTS
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
Southeast Missouri Hospital administrator Jim Wente spoke of his hospital's accomplishments and breathed a sigh of relief over some finished projects during the hospital's annual dinner meeting Thursday night. Addressing hundreds of supporters at the Show Me Center, Wente spoke of the hospital's open-heart center's low, 3.9 percent mortality rate...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: FLYING, LIKE CATS, DEFIES MY FEEBLE LOGIC
(Column ~ 04/18/97)
How can you explain riding through the air on something you can't lift when it's on the ground? I'm referring, of course, to airplanes, not cats. There is, I suppose, much to be said for modern travel. This week I had to be in Chicago for an 8:30 a.m. meeting. I could have caught a very early flight in St. Louis that morning, finished the meeting and returned to St. Louis by shortly after noon...
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MAN INJURED IN CRASH AT DUTCHTOWN
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
DUTCHTOWN -- A Dutchtown man is in the intensive-care unit of Southeast Missouri Hospital after his car was hit by a tractor-trailer on Route 74 1 1/2 miles east of Route 25 Wednesday evening. Keith Miller, 78, of Dutchtown was heading west in his 1992 Ford at Route 74 and County Road 214 at 9:10 p.m. when Karl Deshazier of Monticello, Ark., turned his tractor-trailer into his path, said Tim Meyer of the Missouri Highway Patrol...
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FIRE DESTOYS HOME AT NEELY'S LANDING
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
Less than a week after buying an old house a quarter-mile north of Neely's Landing, Warren Seekell came home Thursday evening to find it engulfed in flames. By the time firefighters from Fruitland arrived, it was nothing but flames and twisted sheet metal...
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WOMAN RELATES EXPERIENCE DURING VICTIMS RIGHTS EVENTS
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
The smartly dressed woman walked up to the podium, smiled nervously and announced that on Dec. 30, 1985, she had been shot during an armed robbery. "I was in a laundry mat that someone decided to rob," Martha Hamilton told about a dozen of those who attended the Victims Rights Ceremony Thursday at Cherokee Park...
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SEMO TO OFFER DOCORATE IN EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
Southeast Missouri State University has joined with other public universities in Missouri to offer a doctorate in education administration. Representatives from the University of Missouri, Central Missouri State, Northwest Missouri State, the University of Missouri-Rolla and Southwest Missouri State University officially signed the agreement with Southeast...
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SEMO STUDENTS GIVE YOUNGSTERS REASONS THEY SHOULDN'T SMOKE
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Students at St. Joseph Catholic School got a multimedia lesson in the hazards of tobacco use Thursday. A five-student team from the "Contemporary Drug Use" course at Southeast Missouri State University gave a presentation to 11 fifth- and sixth-graders in an attempt to keep the elementary students from trying tobacco products...
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SISTER JANE KIEFER GETS BAUMSTARK AWARD
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
In a room filled with angel decorations, Lynette Ballard told more than 350 people they had the best job in the world. Ballard, president of the American Society of Directors of Volunteer Services of the American Hospital Association (ASDVS), was speaker during the annual St. Francis Auxiliary and Volunteer Appreciation Luncheon Thursday. Theme for the event at Drury Lodge was "Volunteers are a Gift from Heaven."...
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KINGSBURY ENSEMBLE WILL KICK OFF HAYDN FESTIVAL
(Local News ~ 04/18/97)
Mozart and Beethoven get most of the "Performance Today" attention these days, but during the last half of the 18th century the most popular composer in Europe was Joseph Haydn. "He was the Andrew Lloyd Webber of the day," says Dr. Sara Edgerton, conductor of the Southeast Symphony Orchestra...
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OTAHKS TRY TO DUPLICATE INDOOR FEAT
(College Sports ~ 04/18/97)
Southeast Missouri State University track and field coach Joey Haines knows his women's team should win the Ohio Valley Conference outdoor championship this weekend. The one thing, according to Haines, that could hurt the Otahkians is if they suffer a letdown after winning the OVC indoor title in February...
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BRIEFLY: OTAHK HOOPS SIGN TWO
(College Sports ~ 04/18/97)
Southeast Missouri's women's basketball signed junior college transfer Tajuana White Thursday. White a 5-foot-9 guard/forward, averaged 17 points and seven rebounds at Coffeyville (Kan.) Community College. Last week the Otahkians signed 5-foot-11 Kimbereley Nicholson out of Central High School in Memphis...
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BRIEFLY: SEMO NETTERS OPEN TWO
(College Sports ~ 04/18/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's tennis team will compete in the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament today and Saturday in Nashville, Tenn. The Otahkians, seeded fifth, finished the regular season with an overall record of 12-7 and an OVC mark of 5-4...
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TIGERS END SKID WITH 5-4 WIN OVER MULES
(High School Sports ~ 04/18/97)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Cape Central's baseball team broke a five-game losing streak Thursday with a 5-4 victory over Poplar Bluff. In breaking the skid, Central (5-8, 2-3 conference) avenged Thursday's 15-7 loss to the Mules. "It felt pretty good just to win a game today," said Cape Central coach Steve Williams. "Our kids came ready to play today. The effort and attitude was very good today and it was reflected in the way we played."...
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RUTH M. CRABTREE
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Ruth M. Crabtree, 82, of Cairo died Thursday, April, 17, 1997, at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky. She was born Aug. 25, 1914, in Cairo, daughter of Green and Margaret Coyle Crabtree. She was an assistant cashier at First Bank & Trust Co. in Cairo before her retirement...
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MARY TARR
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
Mary B. Tarr, 73, of Jackson died Thursday, April 17, 1997, at Heritage Garden Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born June 24, 1923, at Hines Landing, the daughter of Floyd Kendall and Clara E. Wiggins Hines. On March 23, 1943, she married Alonzo Tarr. He died Aug. 5, 1993...
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JETT O. FARMER
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
LEMAY -- Jett O. "Bob" Farmer, 71, of Lemay, died Wednesday, April 16, 1997, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born July 27, 1925, in Bonne Terre, son of Jett L. and Hanna Wray Farmer. He married Donnie A. Yount on Dec. 4, 1941, and she died Jan. 17, 1994...
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MARY DROLET
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
SIKESTON -- Mary R. Drolet, 89, of Sikeston died Wednesday, April 16, 1997, at Clearview Nursing Center. She was born Feb. 25, 1908, in Chicago, daughter of James Thomas and Mary Rice McGreevy. She married William James Drolet June 4, 1932. He preceded her in death...
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PAULINE MAE CLANTON
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. -- Pauline Mae Clanton, 69, died Friday, April 4, 1997, after an extended illness. She was born Nov. 14, 1927, daughter of Hudson and Bertha Condict Wethington. She was married to Cecil R. Clanton Jr. and was a former resident of Gray Ridge, Mo. She was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force...
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ARTHUR W. RUEHLING
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
POCAHONTAS -- Arthur W. Ruehling, 91, of Pocahontas died Thursday, April 17, 1997, at the Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born Feb. 24, 1906, at Pocahontas, son of Henry and Christine Walthers Ruehling. He married Olga Schuessler Sept. 2, 1936...
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EDITH PITTS
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- Edith G. Pitts, 87, of Anna died Thursday, April 7, 1997, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born July 18, 1909, in Anna, daughter of William and Willie Thomas Cooper. She married Clarence Pitts on Dec. 25, 1925, in Carbondale. He preceded her in death...
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DR. WILLIAM CRITCHLOW
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
SIKESTON -- Dr. William C. Critchlow, 82, of Sikeston died Wednesday, April 16, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Nov. 5, 1914, in Matthews, son of Clarence A. and Ruth Hill Critchlow. He married Wanda F. Radcliffe April 8, 1939, in Sikeston...
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FRANCES KLUGHART
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Frances Faye Klughart, 91, died Wednesday, April 16, 1997, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 5, 1905, in Pine Bluff, Ark., daughter of Edward B. and Julia Ann Berry Gardner. She married Louis William Klughart Oct. 9, 1932, in Fornfelt...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 04/18/97)
Son to Gregory Lynn and Candy Rochelle Crites, 1400 S. West End Boulevard, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 1:17 p.m. Thursday, April 10, 1997. Name, Ryan Michael. Weight, 6 pounds 14 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Crites is the former Candy Caldwell, daughter of Sharon Simpkins of Scott City and J.C. Caldwell of Sebring, Fla. She is employed in housekeeping at Holiday Inn. Crites is the son of Ruth Faries of Jackson and Larry Crites of Cape Girardeau. He is a drywall worker with Doug Buckmiller...
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TONY BECKETT
(Obituary ~ 04/18/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Tony Beckett, 31, of Scott City died Thursday, April 17, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Chapel.
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