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CLICK & DOUBLE CLICK: LOCAL WEBSITES OFFER VALUABLE INFORMATION ABOUT AREA'S NIGHTLIFE, GOVERNMENTS, ACTIVITIES (COLUMN 60)
(Column ~ 10/28/97)
Cybertip: Believe or not, our November day and night classes are already full. We didn't advertise; that was just overflow from October signups. There are still plenty of openings in December. You can register now for Dec. 8, 7-9 p.m., or Dec. 11, 1-3 p.m. at Dempster Hall. Cost is $10. Call Joni or Peggy at 335-611 for more information...
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GRADUATE ASSISTANTS WALK FINE LINE BETWEEN TEACHING AND LEARNING
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Graduate assistant Chris Worth, left, talked with freshmen students in English 100 composition class, including from left, Len Berry of Neelyville, Tammie Knighten of Kennett and Holly Williams of Fairfield, Ill. Diane Bogle, right, a graduate assistant working at the university news bureau, discussed an issue of This Week on Campus with director Ann Hayes...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: ORAN ART INSTRUCTOR FINDS A JOB HE ENJOYS
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
ORAN -- Art instructor Jeff Pind is happy to have a job he can enjoy. For the past four years he has taught art in Oran public schools for grades kindergarten through 12, but prior to that time he worked as a visual presentation manager for a corporation...
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DOW FALLS MORE THAN 500 POINTS; ANALYSTS SEE NO CAUSE FOR OVERREACTION
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Financial analysts say there is no reason to panic over Monday's stock market decline. The New York Stock Exchange shut down early Monday after the Dow Jones industrial average suffered its worst single-day point drop in history. The Dow plummeted more than 550 points to end the day at 7,165.15...
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CITY OF ROSES FESTIVAL WILL RETURN IN 1998
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
A disappointing turnout on the last day of the first-ever City of Roses Festival hasn't discouraged the promoter from planning to stage another next year. The music festival held Oct. 16-18 in Cape Girardeau, lost $3,000 to $5,000, festival chairman Bob Camp said...
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NEW BOOK WILL LIST BUSINESS INFORMATION
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
A publication by the Regional Commerce and Growth Association will offer a wealth of business information on the area. The RCGA's "A Blueprint for Progress" directory will contain population demographics, labor statistics, buying information on industrial suppliers and manufacturers, and information on chambers of commerce and their members...
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SCHOOL OVERTIME QUESTIONED; EX-ADMINISTRATOR GOES BEFORE SCHOOL BOARD
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Former Cape Girardeau School District associate superintendent Richard Bollwerk asked the Board of Education Monday night what it plans to do about what he called "wanton disregard for the budget." Bollwerk questioned $10,700 in overtime paid by the district last year to bookkeepers...
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BETWEEN THE LINES: FOOD, FUN, FAMILY MAKE FOR INTERESTING COMBINATION ON ROAD TRIPS
(Column ~ 10/28/97)
"I took the road less traveled and that has made all the difference." -- Robert Frost On my latest journey, I didn't take any roads that were less traveled -- and I doubt it would have helped if I had. This road trip was doomed from the start. My mom, brother and I recently decided to leave town for a weekend in Columbia. It sounded simple, but the plans soured before we even left the city limits...
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DESEG SPENDING: MONEY ISN'T THE ANSWER
(Editorial ~ 10/28/97)
The scandal that is the Kansas City school desegregation case continues to amaze. Last week a joint House-Senate committee looking into the state's two desegregation cases met in Kansas City to hear testimony. They were told the district will need $40 to $65 million in additional money each year after the state's funding of desegregation in Kansas City and St. Louis dries up...
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COCKFIGHTING OPPONENTS WILL SEEK VOTERS' DECISION
(Editorial ~ 10/28/97)
Opponents of cockfighting are tired of years of fruitless efforts in the General Assembly to pass a ban on this ancient practice. These opponents are determined to take their effort to ban cockfighting to the people in the form of an initiative petition. ...
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LETTERS: GLOBAL-WARMING FACTS ARE IGNORED
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/28/97)
To the editor: It has often been noted that the self-styled Christian Right frequently is neither. In his Oct. 26 column denying global warming and arguing against the need to control greenhouse gases produced by human activity, Cal Thomas exhibits exactly the problem of dogmatic denial demonstrated by so many rightist commentators who desperately want to force a contrary world into conformity with their fantasy. ...
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YOUNG LIFE HOLDS FUND-RAISER
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Crazy skits, fast-tempo songs and laughter are always a part of Young Life meetings. But the Cape Girardeau high school students who attend the weekly meetings aren't there just for fun. "It's a fun way to celebrate Jesus Christ in our lives," said 16-year-old member Katie Barbour...
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PROJECT REDIRECTORY UNDER WAY
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Southwestern Bell Yellow Pages and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. have kicked off the 1997 Project ReDirectory program. The annual drive to collect old directories allows area residents to contribute to a better environment, said Donna Burk, Southwestern Bell Telephone Company area manager...
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PRACTICAL NURSING CLASS HOSTS ANNUAL FAMILY NITE AT VO-TECH
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
The Cape Girardeau Area Vocational School of Practical Nursing will host its annual Family Nite '97 tonight. The program will be held at the school, 301 N. Clark, to acquaint family and friends of the students with the nursing program and faculty. Twenty-five students are enrolled in the "Class 24" program...
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SOUTHEAST'S HIGH HOPES WITHER INTO 2-5 RECORD
(College Sports ~ 10/28/97)
What started out as a season full of optimism and hope has turned into a fight for survival to simply reach even a moderate level of respectability. That's the situation Southeast Missouri State University's football team finds itself in with four games remaining to the 1997 campaign...
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BELL CITY ADVANCES TO DISTRICT FINAL
(High School Sports ~ 10/28/97)
ESSEX -- Two familiar foes will square off tonight for the championship of the Class 1A, District 2 volleyball tournament. Defending 1A state champion Bell City and fellow Stoddard County Conference member Advance will meet at 6:30 p.m. for the right to compete in Saturday's sectionals...
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GEORGIA RUSSELL
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
DUDLEY -- Georgia Russell, 79, of Dudley died Monday, Oct. 27, 1997, at Lucy Lee Health Care System in Poplar Bluff. She was born Oct. 6, 1918, near Dexter, daughter of Robert and Minnie McGowen Maze. She and Lonon Leo "Pete" Russell were married Jan. 19, 1935, at Essex. He died Jan. 21, 1981...
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YVONNE WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Yvonne Nelda Williams, 59, of Jonesboro, died Sunday, Oct. 25, 1997, at her home. She was born April 29, 1938, in Brainerd, Minn., daughter of Roy and Nelda Fox. Williams was a founder and former administrator of Haven House in Anna. She was a member of Water Valley Christian Church...
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CHARLES PARSLEY
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
Former Southeast Missouri State University's men's basketball coach Charles Parsley, 71, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1997, at his home, from cancer of the esophagus. He was born Oct. 13, 1925, in London, Ky. He and Edith Udell were married in 1949...
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CHERI HELTON
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Cheri Helton, 49, of Scott City died Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 19, 1948, in Cairo, Ill., daughter of Clyde and Jean Dillow Mohundro. She married Melbourne "Pete" Helton. Helton was a cook at Chris' Restaurant in Cairo, and member of Cairo Baptist Church...
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JAMES WILLYERD
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- James F. "Bud" Willyerd, 59, of Jonesboro died Monday, Oct. 27, 1997, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born Oct. 10, 1938, in Union County, son of Everett and Lorene Samples Willyerd. He and Louise Sivia were married July 21, 1959, in Dongola...
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DOROTHY SAUERBRUNN
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Funeral service for Dorothy Sauerbrunn of Olmsted will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at First Methodist Church. The Rev. Joey Dunning will officiate, with burial in Concord Cemetery. Friends may call at Barkett Funeral Home in Mounds after 5 p.m. today, and at the church Wednesday from 9:30 a.m. until service time...
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BRUCE GODWIN
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
SIKESTON -- Bruce Godwin, 95, died Sunday, Oct. 26, 1997, at Sikeston Health Care. Ponder Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 10/28/97)
Daughter to Henry and Vanessa Terry, 3833 Eagle Ridge, St. Luke's Hospital in Chesterfield, 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20, 1997. Name, Moriah Shavonne. Weight, 8 pounds 9 ounces. Third child, second daughter. Mrs. Terry is the daughter of the Rev. and Mrs. Henry Harriford of Bowling Green, Ky. She is self-employed. Terry is the son of Gardenia Hayes of Louisville, Ky. He is employed at Procter & Gamble...
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TRUCK DRIVER KILLED IN I-57 CRASH
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
ULLIN, Ill. -- A 61-year-old West Plains truck driver was fatally injured at 4:23 p.m. Sunday in a collision with another semi-tractor trailer that had stopped in the passing lane, according to the Illinois State Police. Russell S. Phillips, 61, died after the truck he was driving struck the other truck that was stopped in the passenger lane on I-57 northbound near the Union County line, police said...
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NELLIE MILLER
(Obituary ~ 10/28/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Nellie Mae Miller, 87, of Scott City died Monday, Oct. 27, 1997, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 7, 1910, at Benton, daughter of Joseph and Ida Halter Glueck. She and Weldon Charles Miller were married Nov. 10, 1931, at Kelso. He died Oct. 28, 1972...
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TECHNOLOGY RESOURCE CENTER PLANNED
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Southeast Missouri State University plans to establish a Manufacturing Technology Resource Center. Union Electric Co. will coordinate establishment of the center. It is being designed to serve students and area industries in an effort to help them better understand technologies in manufacturing. There is a void in supporting industries toward the latest process technologies, school officials said...
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UNIVERSITY FARM GETS WATER TUBING
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's agriculture department has received a donation from Buchheit Inc. and Vanguard Plastics Inc. Buchheit's and Vanguard have donated 10,500 feet of water tubing. The tubing will be used for a water grazing system at Southeast's Demonstration Farm. Buchheit is the regional sales and service representative for Vanguard Plastic products...
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NORTHERN CHEROKEE NATION POWWOW SET
(Local News ~ 10/28/97)
The Northern Cherokee Nation of the Old Louisiana Territory and Southeast Missouri State University will host an intertribal powwow Nov. 15. The powwow will be held in the Student Recreation Center at Southeast from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Dr. Carol Morrow, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology, chairs the powwow committee. ...
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