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LETTERS: GLENN WILL MAKE HISTORY AGAIN
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/01/98)
To the editor: When I first saw on television John Glenn's announcement of his intention to return to orbit once again at the age of 76, the first American ever to orbit, I immediately became amazed, surprised and pleased. Without a doubt, if successful this will be the greatest accomplishment yet of his regarding space...
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NOMINEES SOUGHT FOR BOARD
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
SIKESTON - Nominees are now being accepted for the 1998 Honors Board installation by the Parks and Recreation Division. Individuals will be recognized for outstanding volunteer contributions to youth programs in the community. The Honors Board is located near the Ingram Road entrance to the Recreation Complex. Anyone wishing to nominate an individual for this honor can pick up a nomination form from Jiggs Moore at City Hall, 105 E. Center. The deadline for submitting nominees is 5 p.m. Feb. 27...
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A LOOK BACK AT JACKSON
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
25 years ago, 1973 Deadline of March 2 at 4 p.m. has been set for filing for Jackson R-2 School Board; up for election this April are two board seats, presently held by Gene Wills and Joe T. Kurre; neither one has filed for re-election to three-year terms...
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TWO TEENS SERIOUSLY INJURED IN CAR WRECK
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
OAK RIDGE -- Two teens were seriously injured in a one-car accident Saturday afternoon. The accident took place on Route E, one mile east of Oak Ridge. Both victims were taken to hospitals by helicopter. The driver of the vehicle, Jenny M. Schnurbusch, 16, of Jackson was admitted at Southeast Missouri Hospital, where she was in stable condition Saturday evening...
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AILEY DANCERS TO PERFORM AT SIU
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday at SIU's Shryock Auditorium. The professional dance company perform works by African-American choreographers Donald Byrd, Ulysses Dove and Tally Beatty in addition to the highly acclaimed Ailey...
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HUMAN INTEREST PAPER CELETBRATES 5 YEARS
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
When the Jackson U.S.A. Signal began in February 1993 it was in response to a need in the community and surrounding area for human interest stories. People had plenty of media outlets supplying "hard news", but no one at the time seemed to realize the potential of a newspaper that delivered human interest stories as a focus...
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ALEXANDER COUNTY ELECTIONS
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Name recognition could help or hurt two candidates competing for the Republican precinct committeeman position in the March 17 Alexander County primary. Two of seven candidates share the same desire for the position -- as well as the same name. Michael D. Caldwell of Miller City and Micheal D. Caldwell of Thebes are both competing for the position. The two are not related...
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BENEFIT PLANNED TO HELP GIRL WITH CANCER
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
ORAN -- A benefit dinner, dance and auction will be held Feb. 7 at the Oran Knights of Columbus Hall to benefit Jessica Ressel. In April 1996, Jessica was diagnosed with Astrocytoma, an inoperable brainstem tumor. Her parents, Dan and Robin Ressel, were told she had a life expectancy in the range of nine months. The family was told there was no treatment available...
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DUNHAM DANCE COMPANY BEGINS SEMO RESIDENCY ON MONDAY
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
The Katherine Dunham Dance Company begins its residency at Southeast Missouri State University Monday. The St. Louis-based company will remain in residence through Feb. 13, providing workshops, demonstrations and lectures both on campus and off. The programs are under the supervision of Ruby Streate, artistic director of the Katherine Dunham Museum. Many will involve master percussionists James Belk and Gerald Williams...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 02/01/98)
Don't spend my money on sex scandals I CERTAINLY don't approve of what the president is accused of doing. I don't know whether he's right or wrong or whether he has or not done wrong. I do resent the federal government taking money to check into his personal and private life, his sex life. Spending the taxpayers' money for this is about a big a waste of anything I've seen in my lifetime. I don't approve of what he's accused of...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: DON'T READ TOO MUCH INTO HIGH RATING: REMEMBER NIXON IN '73?
(Column ~ 02/01/98)
Tailgate continues inexorably on, and after a boffo State-of-the-Union performance Tuesday night, we are told that nearly 70 percent of the American people approve of the job President Clinton is doing. Maybe. Clintonoids taking refuge in that number may just want to check the overwhelming buoyancy of the Nixon presidency exactly 25 years ago this winter. ...
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MISSOURI HAS EXPLOSION IN STATE SPENDING
(Editorial ~ 02/01/98)
Gov. Mel Carnahan continues to preside over a state budget that is growing explosively. His proposed fiscal year 1999 budget, unveiled in Jefferson City week before last, seeks to spend $15.4 billion. This is a huge, $800 million increase over the current budget year. The state budget has ballooned by $4.4 billion since Carnahan took office in 1993...
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STUDY FORSEES ADJUSTMENTS IN TAXATION
(Editorial ~ 02/01/98)
At the same time there is so much news of overflowing state revenue coffers, along comes a study looking years down the road and warning of changes to come. The survey on the future of state and local revenue sources was done by the National Governors Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the National League of Cities. ...
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LETTERS: SEX ISSUE IS AN AFFRONT TO WOMEN
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/01/98)
To the editor: What happens behind closed doors between two consenting adults is their business. If the act is adultery, it may also be a concern to the non-participating spouses. If the offended spouse is aware of the sexual liaison and does not bring charges against the transgressor in order to stop the activity, he or she is in effect giving assent to the activity, and the offender is absolved of wrongdoing by the spouse...
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LETTERS: ABORTION DOCTORS IGNORE THE FETUS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/01/98)
To the editor: Dr. M. Krieger, a Canadian physician, in a letter to the editor wrote in December that "during abortions, the MD's duty is to the pregnant woman" and that "safe medical abortion does not refer at all to the fetus." While many pro-choice people conveniently leave considerations about the fetus out of any discussion on abortions, it is very sad to see a member of the medical profession to do...
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LETTERS: WE NEED TO STOP AND LAUGH
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/01/98)
To the editor: How long has it been since you had a really good laugh? In these fast-paced times, it may have been a while. We are all so busy with our jobs and computers or just watching television that we don't laugh enough. Sometimes television makes me laugh, but it often leaves a lot to be desired...
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NEWS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE: FOUR SCORE AND A FEW WEEKS AGO...
(Column ~ 02/01/98)
This week marks the fifth anniversary of the Jackson U.S.A. Signal and with that it's time to put the paper's existence into perspective. Let's start by naming a few things that are older than the Jackson U.S.A. like most children in school, the Ten Commandments, the Whitewater scandal, Stonehenge, The Cash-Book Journal, most fruit cakes given at Christmas, dirt, and the pyramids in Egypt...
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SIGNS OF THE TIMES: TAXPAYERS FOOT BILL FOR BILLBOARD REGULATIONS
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
Taxpayers are footing most of the bill when it comes to regulating Missouri's billboard industry. The Missouri Department of Transportation spent more than $651,000 last year to regulate billboards and other road signs, and junk yards. Permit fees for billboards generated $173,235 last year. Annual $10 permits for junk yards brought in another $1,650...
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STUDENTS TAKE OFF IN REGIONAL SCIENCE COMPETITION
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
The rockets parachuted back to earth after the launch and were judged on time aloft. The device was the creation of Tim Estes and Adrienne Carver, an egg drop team from Arcadia Valley School. The contraption was actually a small basket, about six-to-eight inches square. A cardboard lid was sliced in strips from the middle. Inside was cotton, beneath some netting...
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THREE SETS OF TWINS BORN IN CAPE IN FIVE DAYS
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
Visitors to Southeast Missouri Hospital last week who thought they might be seeing double were right. Three sets of boy-girl twins were born within five days, perhaps setting a record. All six babies were born healthy, and three sets of parents report the babies are doing well at home...
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MARK MY WORD: CHILDREN STICK UP FOR ART, TURN HOME INTO GALLERY
(Column ~ 02/01/98)
Our children have turned our home into an art studio and gallery. It makes our house seem like a never-ending, work-in-progress. As a parent, you want to encourage your kids' artistic side. But when your children are 2 and 5 years old, art takes on a messy quality...
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THE LATEST LINE: TRCC's BESS ACCOMPLISHES MILESTONE WIN
(Sports Column ~ 02/01/98)
This region has been blessed with some outstanding basketball coaches over the years but Gene Bess will no doubt go down as one of the all-time best. Monday night, Bess won his 800th game as the head coach at Three Rivers Community College in Poplar Bluff. The Raiders' 93-40 romp past East Central College gave Bess a stunning 800-193 record in 27 seasons as TRCC's head coach...
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SE SHOOTERS FIND ZONE, RIDDLE EKU; INDIANS SINK 15 3-POINTERS, WIN 97-78
(College Sports ~ 02/01/98)
Southeast Missouri State University basketball coach Gary Garner was especially elated that he made it back to Cape Girardeau for Saturday night's game against Eastern Kentucky. Garner was able to witness a scintillating performance by the Indians, who clicked on all cylinders during a 97-78 Ohio Valley Conference romp...
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OTAHKS FALL SHORT AGAINST E. KENTUCKY
(College Sports ~ 02/01/98)
Southeast Missouri State University put up a valiant effort, but Eastern Kentucky showed why it is considered the cream of the crop in Ohio Valley Conference women's basketball. The Otahkians played tough for much of the game but the powerful Lady Colonels were able to hang on for a 86-77 victory at the Show Me Center Saturday night...
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CHENIER LEADS OTAHKS GYMNASTS TO ROAD WIN
(College Sports ~ 02/01/98)
CHICAGO -- The Southeast women's gymnastics team improved their record to 2-1 Saturday with a 187.550-186.725 dual victory over the University of Illinois-Chicago. The Otahkians used team victories on the parallel bars (48.200-47.700) and vault (46.150-44-625) to offset close loses on the balance beam (46.425-46.000) and floor exercise (47.975-47.200)...
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AREA BRIEFS: CAPE CENTRAL HALL OF FAME
(High School Sports ~ 02/01/98)
Cape Central High is accepting nominations for the school's athletic Hall of Fame. All nominations need to have complete resumes which include the nominees honors, stats and reason why the deserve to be inducted. Send nominations to Central athletic director Terry Kitchen or call 335-8467 for more information...
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AREA BRIEFS: MEN'S SOFTBALL MEETING
(High School Sports ~ 02/01/98)
A meeting for the Jackson men's slow-pitch softball league will be held Feb. 22 in the lower level of the Jackson Elks Lodge at 1 p.m. Sponsor fees for the 1998 season must be paid at this time. For new teams the fee is $150 and for returning teams $125...
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CENTRAL GIRLS TOP NERINX HALL
(High School Sports ~ 02/01/98)
ST. LOUIS -- The Cape Central Lady Tigers faced some early adversity on the road Saturday afternoon, but put together their "best performance of the season" according to Central coach Paula Watkins to beat Nerinx Hall 52-40. Central improved to 12-5 overall despite playing without two of its top players. Spot-starter Courtney Haman was sick and didn't make the trip and early in the first quarter 5-foot-11 freshman Katie Dougherty left the court with a dislocated kneecap...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: BOTTOMLAND FORESTS RARE, BUT EXIST
(Column ~ 02/01/98)
A hunt for the largest of Missouri's champion trees will take you to New Madrid County. There, in the remnants of our state's once-great bottomland forests, stands a 118-foot-tall cherrybark oak measuring 26 feet around, with a crown that is 110 feet wide. Not far away is the state's champion baldcypress, with its crown rising 128 feet above the murky backwaters...
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EVELYN HUCKABA RENDA
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Evelyn Huckaba Renda, 80, of Dongola, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born Mar. 23, 1917, at Martinsville, daughter of Claude and Inez Grace Martz Huckaba She was retired from the Ferguson-Florissant School District, where she was head of the copy center...
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CAROLE ANN MOUTELL
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
Carole Ann Moutell, 52, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998. She was born at Granite City, Ill., Sept. 17, 1945, daughter of James D. and Louise Ruth Brooks Hackney. She married Charles Moutell on July 11, 1973, at Cape Girardeau. He survives...
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EDNA HUNZE
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
Edna Hunze, 86, of Ferguson died Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1998, at her home. She was born June 21, 1911, in Clarksville, Ark., daughter of Charles T. and Nina Mae Pope Howard. She and Charles Leo Hunze had been married 58 years. She was a retired teacher. Service will be held at 1 p.m. Monday at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau, with the Rev. Jeffrey Sippy officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park...
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PEARL KING
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
DEXTER -- Pearl King, 85, of St. Charles, formerly of Puxico, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Aug. 13, 1912, at Puxico, daughter of Alexander and Elva Oakley Patterson. She was a member of the First Christian Church in Puxico and attended the Harvester Christian Church in St. Charles. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Puxico, Chapter 422. She had lived in St. Charles since 1987...
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NORMAN E. NOENNIG
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Norman A. Noennig, 74, formerly of Altenburg, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 13, 1923, at Altenburg, son of Arthur and Amanda Kaufmann Noennig. He married Vera Steffens on June 10, 1950. She survives at Black Jack, Mo...
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WILLIAM L. REED
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
BLOOMFIELD -- William Lonnie Reed, 90, of Idalia, formerly of Sikeston, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1992, at St. Louis. Reed was born Dec. 12, 1907. He married Ruth McCollum on July 26, 1927. She died in January 1997. Reed retired from International Shoe Factory in Sikeston in 1969, after 30 years...
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BEULAH MATHIS
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Beulah Effie Morgan Mathis, 96, of Montgomery, Ala., formerly of East Prairie, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, in Montgomery. She was born March 11, 1901, in Manila, Ark., daughter of Oscar Morgan and Annie Ross Morgan. She married William Richard Mathis in 1920. He died in 1989...
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DALE OLIVER HEISE
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
EGYPT MILLS -- Dale Oliver Heise, 89, a longtime farmer in Egypt Mills, died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998, at his home. He was born April 21, 1908, at Egypt Mills, son of Gustav and Anna Ophelia Abernathy Heise and was a lifelong resident of Egypt Mills...
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LARRY G. BOYER
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
SIKESTON -- Larry G. Boyer, 58, of Sikeston, formerly of East Prairie, died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 6, 1939, son of Imogene Prince of Cape Girardeau and the late Johnnie Boyer. He had lived in Mississippi County most of his live, moving to Sikeston 15 years ago. He was a retired welder and was Baptist...
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HELEN EDDLEMAN
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
ANNA, Ill. -- Helen Eddleman, 89, of Anna died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998, at her home. She was born Nov. 18, 1908 near Anna, daughter of George D. and Josephine Poole Jenkins. She was married to Joseph Paul Eddleman on Jan. 12, 1935. He died June 5, 1953...
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SHIRLEY A. CURLEY
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
She was born Nov. 11, 1938, in Cairo, daughter of Dorothy Jones King and Arthur Thomas King of Cairo. She is survived by her father; a son, Martin R. Curley of Kansas City; a daughter, Carolyn C. Curley of St. Louis; a brother, Fay King of St. Louis; and two grandchildren...
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DONALD LEE HAYDEN
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Donald Lee Hayden, 60, of Perryville died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born May 25, 1937, in Perry County, son of Joseph Frank and Emma I. Otto Hayden. He worked at Mississippi Lime and was a member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Sereno. He was an American Legion Booster...
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ROBERTA L. CAUSEY
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
Roberta L. Causey, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born April 13, 1924, at Finch, Ark., daughter of John L. and Nannie Sikes Smith. On June 3, 1942, she married Lemis Causey at Blytheville, Ark. He died April 4, 1984...
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ILEEN CARNEY CARLE
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
SIKESTON -- Ileen Carney Carle, 80, of Sikeston died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at Sikeston Health Care Center. She was born Nov. 28, 1917, at Gideon, daughter of Charlie and Allie May Healy Carney. She worked as an insurance adjuster for 17 years with Hartford Insurance Co. in Houston, Texas. She was Lutheran...
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RENA L. VOGES
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
JACKSON -- Rena L. Voges, 76, of Jackson died Friday, Jan. 30, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 7, 1921. On Sept. 16, 1974, she married Harold Voges in Jackson. He survives. She is also survived by a son, Wilson "Bill" Estell of Tokyo, Japan; four daughters, Sandra O'Brien of Weston, Conn., Patricia Barnes of Pensacola, Fla., Billie Jo Azevedo and Donna Estell, both of Bakersfield, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren...
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MARCELLA O. ROBINSON
(Obituary ~ 02/01/98)
SCOTT CITY -- Marcella O. Robinson, 90, of Scott City died Saturday, Jan. 31, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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ALL EYES ON JAPAN; WINTER OLYMPICS BEGIN IN NAGANO FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 02/01/98)
Artist Utamaro Kitagawa (1753-1806) rendered this portrait of a Geisha girl, a traditional Japanese entertainer. She wore a kimono and her face is painted with white make-up. Two modern-day geisha, wearing the traditional kimonos and make-up, crossed the street near the Ginza, Tokyo's high class shopping district...
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FOR MOST OF THE CENTURY: GRANDMA DIES (PART 27)
(Column ~ 02/01/98)
Jean Bell Mosley's new autobiography, "For Most of the Century," is only available in serialized form in the Southeast Missourian. Return each week for her continuing story. During the winter of my first year at Flat River, Grandma became ill. At home on weekends, I'd walk the short distance over to her house. ...
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