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MANDATORY CRIME REPORTING IS NEEDED
(Editorial ~ 08/30/98)
The numbers don't add up. Missouri officials may never know the true extent of the methamphetamine crisis across the state because of incomplete reporting. Missouri is one of only two states that don't require mandatory reporting of crime statistics...
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NOT A SINGLE RESIGNATION FROM THE SCANDALOUS ADMINISTRATION
(Column ~ 08/30/98)
Eight years ago this fall, this writer despaired, watching as President George Bush climbed down from the impregnable fortress of Reaganism. Bush had been the first sitting vice president since Martin Van Buren, 150 years earlier, to win the White House, in what the American people understood to be essentially Ronald Reagan's third term. ...
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ZIPPERGATE BREEDS NEW SERVICES
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
One of the characteristics of highly trained students who pursue the arcane science of economics is the ability to create new fiscal components that will contribute to the nation's Gross Domestic Product. Putting it another way, there is a vast army of economists, analysts and moneychangers in American society already at work devising new money-making products and services that will turn a Microsoftlike profit for well-heeled investors who momentarily have run out of ways to earn a living while doing practically nothing.. ...
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DRUG WAR FILLS JAILS IN COUNTIES ACROSS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
BENTON -- Sheriff Bill Ferrell knows all too well how an increase in methamphetamine traffic has affected Scott County. It has gained his department a notoriety that he didn't seek nor wants to claim. Just last week he was interrupted by a phone call from Reader's Digest during an interview with the Southeast Missourian. Both reporters were seeking details about how the county deals with the meth dilemma...
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TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENTS: VESTIGES OF MISSOURI SETTLEMENT
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
SUMMARY: Stoddard County is one of only 23 among the state's 114 counties that have townships. BLOOMFIELD -- A vestige of the western migration that originally settled Missouri lives on in Stoddard and 22 other counties that still have township governments...
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UNITED WAY KICKS OFF CAMPAIGN
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
SUMMARY: CEO luncheon features Craig Schnuck as speaker The Area Wide United Way is in the process of changing its role within the community, expanding from just fund raising to becoming a watchdog for service agencies. The role hasn't been entirely defined, explained United Way executive director Nancy Jernigan, but the changes are inevitable...
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DANGER IN REST AREAS ON RISE
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
Visitor safety a growing concern of tourism and transportation officials Interstate rest stops may be convenient, but they're not always safe. Growing numbers of crimes reported at rest areas have prompted some states to take steps to help assure motorists who stop at the facilities -- especially during late-night and early-morning hours -- will be safe...
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BANKIG ON BUCKS: SEMO FOUNDATION RECEIVED MORE THAN $51 MILLION SO FAR
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
The Southeast Missouri University Foundation has received more than $51 million in cash, land, buildings and other items since its inception 15 years ago. The bulk of the gifts -- more than $30 million -- has come in cash, but there also have been other gifts...
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SEMO FAIR STARTS SOON
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
Junior Peetz, a member of the SEMO District Fair Board, kept a watchful eye as volunteers scraped dirt and laid framework for a new concrete walkway. The walkway, Peetz's idea, will offer better handicapped accessibility to the livestock exhibits at the fair. The walkway is inside the large Future Farmers of America building where cattle are exhibited...
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INCREASED DRUG-RELATED CRIME BURDENS RURAL LAW ENFORCEMENT
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
The tidal wave of methamphetamine labs that washed over Southeast Missouri leaves more than just hazardous waste and destruction of lives in its wake. The illegal drug, its increased consumption and production have created an abundance of other problems for sheriffs in Southeast Missouri...
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IN WORLD OF ART, OUR CHILDREN ARE GLUED TO THEIR WORK
(Column ~ 08/30/98)
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But what looks good to a graffiti artist could well be defined as vandalism by spray paint. St. Louis city officials recently had that point driven home when they allowed some 400 young artists to spray paint on a floodwall...
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PREP VOLLEYBALL TEAMS HOLD HIGH HOPES FOR SEASON
(College Sports ~ 08/30/98)
As a first-year coach, months after concluding an acclaimed volleyball playing career at Southeast Missouri State University, Leanne Huffman steered her Leopold volleyball team to a Class 1A state championship last season. Lady Wildcats followers believe the trophy would look much better with a mate. "People are already asking, `Are we going to go back to state this year?' " Huffman said with a laugh...
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NOW COMES THE REAL TEST FOR MIZZOU
(High School Sports ~ 08/30/98)
Tigers must prove that last season was not a fluke. By any standards, 1997 was a glorious season for University of Missouri football. The once-proud program that produced so many great teams over the years had suffered through 13 straight losing seasons and there didn't really appear to be any relief in sight...
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JACKSON FALLS IN TOURNAMENT FINAL
(High School Sports ~ 08/30/98)
ST. LOUIS -- Jackson High's girls softball team reached the championship game of the Cor Jesu Tournament Saturday, but found itself overpowered by Notre Dame of St. Louis 10-0. Jackson, which won its pool with a 2-1 record, managed just two hits, struck out nine times and committed seven errors in the field...
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SEPTEMBER WELCOMES 1ST FLOCKS OF MIGRATORY BIRDS
(Outdoors ~ 08/30/98)
This week brings the beginning of September, which is considered the first fall month. Fall is a pretty important time of the year, in my book, anyway. Fall is a time for the first flocks of migratory birds to show up in the area. Fall is the traditional beginning of some of our favorite hunting pastimes. Put these things together and September must mark the opening of some excellent migratory bird hunting opportunity...
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AREA GOLF
(High School Sports ~ 08/30/98)
Swartz records hole-in-one Dick Swartz carded his third career ace Saturday at the Cape Girardeau Country Club. Swartz achieved the feat with a 7-iron on No. 8, a 139-yard par 3. Witnesses to the shot were Ted Streete, Bill Reno and Rogers VanAusdall...
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AREA BRIEFS
(College Sports ~ 08/30/98)
Cape Central season sports passes Season passes for Cape Girardeau Central High School's upcoming football season and season passes for Central's entire sports season are now available. Football season passes are $10 apiece while all-sports complimentary passes are $40 each...
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JAMES O. BYFORD
(Obituary ~ 08/30/98)
James O. Byford CHARLESTON -- James O. Byford, 63, of Bertrand, died Friday, Aug. 28, 1998 in a grain truck accident near Charleston. He was born Jan. 3, 1935, in Deventer, son of George L. and Christeen White Byford. He married Jerry Ruth Young on May 23, 1973. She survives...
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CLIFFORD SANDLIN
(Obituary ~ 08/30/98)
Clifford Sandlin PERRYVILLE -- Clifford Martin Sandlin, 78, of Perryville died Friday, Aug. 28, 1998, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Oct. 15, 1919, at Crosstown, son of Elia E. and Christina Bohnert Sandlin. He was retired from Rozier's after working 19 years in the men's clothing department. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Perryville, the VFW and American Legion. He was a World War II Army veteran...
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ALPHONSE STOVERINK
(Obituary ~ 08/30/98)
Alphonse Stoverink JACKSON -- Alphonse H. Stoverink, 79, of Jackson died Thursday, Aug. 27, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 30, 1918, at Leopold, son of Anthony J. and Rose VanDoren Stoverink. He and Irene Thiele were married March 18, 1943, at Leopold...
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ROSA MCKINLEY
(Obituary ~ 08/30/98)
Rosa McKinley CHARLESTON -- Rosa McKinley, 87, of Bertrand died Saturday at the home of her daughter, Marlene Harris, in Bertrand. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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JERI HEISNER
(Obituary ~ 08/30/98)
Jeri Heisner ANNA, Ill. -- Jeri Heisner, 48, of Jonesboro, Ill., died Friday, Aug. 28, 1998, at her home. She was born Feb. 24, 1950, in Harrisburg, daughter of Bert Scobey and Doris Boatright Fuller. She married Fred Heisner were married Aug. 7, 1993. He survives...
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WHERE YOU FIND DRUGS, YOU'LL FIND CRIME
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
By B. Ray Owen Methamphetamine usage and manufacturing has taken root in Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois. "Meth is suddenly in the drug spotlight in Missouri," said Sgt. Kevin Glaser, a member of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, and coordinator of the SEMO Drug Task Force...
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METH CAMPAIGN AIMED AT TEEN-AGERS PULLS NO PUNCHES
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
What's the future of methamphetamine abuse? Law enforcement and courts attack the supply. But that's just half the battle. Demand must also decrease and authorities are targeting today's youth. A new graphic government PR push to squash methamphetamine use among teens 13 to 17 borders on scare tactics...
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LEARN MORE ABOUT METH AT FREE FORUM MONDAY NIGHT
(Local News ~ 08/30/98)
Over the past six weeks, the Southeast Missourian staff has questioned more than 100 sources about the meth crisis gripping Missouri. Now it's your turn. A free community forum Monday evening will give audience members a chance to ask their own questions of area experts...
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ARABIAN NIGHTMARE
(Column ~ 08/30/98)
I'm not sure Lou or I ever had any "scenes" wherein we were a Scherherazade or any other Persian princess. It was too foreign to our way of life. We knew where Persia was. The old Loughboro school globe had it located, in purple. And I remember reading, at an early age, something in the "Book of Knowledge" about the Garden of Persia where daisies, lilies and irises grew so tall one could easily get lost in them. ...
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