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NOT ALWAYS A JOLLY OLD ELF: THE LEGEND OF SAINT NICHOLAS
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
O who loves Nicholas the Saintly, O who serves Nicholas the Saintly, Him will Nicholas receive And give help in time of need. Holy Father Nicholas. -- "Hymn to Saint Nicholas" The Eastern Slovakian Church 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house...
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CHAMBER BOARD DISCUSSES MSA
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce will continue its efforts toward designation of the area as a Metropolitan Statistical Area during the coming year. "The Census Bureau has some complicated rules concerning MSA designations," said John Mehner, president of the local chamber. "We want to look into all the options and see if there is anything we can do to receive urbanization designation."...
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LAW UNDER FIRE: GUN DEALERS SAY NEW REQUIREMENT CAUSES SALES DELAYS
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
Area gun dealers have had to contend with delays in sales and the potential loss of business because of a provision in a federal gun-control law that went into effect this week. David Lange, owner of Shooters Gun Shop in Cape Girardeau, said he has lost a couple of sales this week because of delays caused by a provision of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act that went into effect Monday. ...
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TREE OF LIGHTS DRIVE LAGS BEHIND LAST YEAR'S
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
If the people beside the Salvation Army kettles seem to be swinging those bells more briskly than usual this holiday season, perhaps it is because the 1998 Tree of Lights campaign is running behind. The Tree of Lights campaign so far has raised $56,512 toward its goal of $200,000. Receipts from the kettles are $8,000 behind the $37,000 that had been taken in by this time last year. The campaign is about $3,000 behind in mail donations...
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JONES CITES NEW COOPERATION IN 'STATE OF COUNTY'
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
Gerald Jones has a positive outlook about the future for Cape Girardeau County. "The best is yet to come," said Jones, Cape Girardeau County's presiding commissioner, who was guest speaker at a large gathering at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 12/05/98)
THE WISH giving father to the thought award for November goes to SEMO's George Dordoni. In a recently published letter to the editor, Dordoni praised Cape for being an international city. Yeah, right. And Speak Out reflects Cape's multicultural cosmopolitanism...
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PUBLIC TO MEET SUPERINTENDENT FINALISTS
(Editorial ~ 12/05/98)
Cape Girardeau's Board of Education has settled on two finalists to lead the district. Dan Tallent, who has filled the superintendent job with distinction these past two and a half years, will leave in June. The two finalists come from districts of differing sizes...
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RESTAURANTS RAISE UNITED WAY FUNDS
(Editorial ~ 12/05/98)
Restaurants gave the Area Wide United Way a boost last Monday with its first Restaurants Organized for Charity. This first year about 25 restaurants participated, raising about $2,000 for the United Way. This certainly was a great effort for the first year. Members of the Southeast Missouri Restaurant Association hope the participation grows each year. It involved restaurants -- fast food and sit down -- in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City...
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LETTERS: STORY ABOUT DOG WAS VERY TOUCHING
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/05/98)
To the editor: I never had a pet dog, but my heart still goes out to the precious little black dog that had such an untimely way of dying. It was alone in a house and burned to death when the owners were away and the house burned to the ground. How sad to learn the lady lost both her husband and puppy on the same day...
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LETTERS: TRUTH RELIES ON FACTS, NOT SUPPORTERS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/05/98)
To the editor: In his Nov. 27 letter, Stan Crader derided those uninformed people in a world full of information. He then went on to state that the earth's temperature had actually decreased by O.014 degree Celsius over the past 18 years. Perhaps Mr. ...
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JACKSON STUDENTS TO COMPETE IN FOOD DRIVE
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
JACKSON -- Students at South Elementary and North Elementary schools will compete next week in a Christmas canned food drive. The food will be donated to the Ministerial Alliance. "It's fun to have a friendly competition," said Debbie Lusk, a teacher at South Elementary...
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INDIANS LOOK FOR RARE OVC ROAD SWEEP
(College Sports ~ 12/05/98)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- When Southeast Missouri State University's basketball team left for its two-game road trip to open the Ohio Valley Conference season, coach Gary Garner figured a split would put the Indians in good shape. Well, now the Indians have a chance to finish the trip in great shape...
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DRAGONS BURN TIGERS; DE SOTO EDGES CENTRAL 63-61
(High School Sports ~ 12/05/98)
De Soto High didn't look like it was playing its first game of the season Friday night. The Dragons made 10-of-11 free throws in the fourth quarter and shot 48 percent from the field in edging Cape Girardeau Central 63-61. The Tigers -- who trailed 49-42 with 7:45 left in the game -- pulled to within 59-58 with 1:12 left when junior guard Eric Wessel nailed a 3-pointer from the top of the key off of an inbounds play...
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ND LOSES BULLDOG FIGHT
(High School Sports ~ 12/05/98)
SIKESTON -- Notre Dame trailed by five at halftime and was still in the game late in the third quarter before a Sikeston spurt pushed the hosts ahead and on to a 65-45 victory Friday night. Notre Dame held an 11-9 first-quarter edge but trailed 25-20 at halftime...
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OTAHKS, STANFORD PLAY LATE MATCH
(College Sports ~ 12/05/98)
In Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball team's first-round NCAA Division I tournament match, the Otahkians were tied 1-1 with Stanford when the Southeast Missourian went to press Friday. Stanford, the winner of the past two NCAA tournaments, won the first game in the Mountain Sub-Regional match in Palo Alto, Cailf., 15-10...
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BEULAH TEMPLETON
(Obituary ~ 12/05/98)
Beulah "Boots" Templeton, 84, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Dec. 4, 1998, at Ratliff Care Center. She was born Jan. 5, 1914, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of V.E. and Evelyn Parks Jones. She and Howard T. Templeton were married in 1933. He died Nov. 22, 1996...
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RALPH STOLL
(Obituary ~ 12/05/98)
Ralph Foeste Stoll, 81, of Arnold, Md., died Tuesday, Dec. 1, 1998, at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md. He was born Sept. 17, 1917, in Cape Girardeau. He and Ruth Esther Wagner were married in 1944. She died in 1982. Stoll was a 1935 graduate of the former College High School...
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TROY BROWN
(Obituary ~ 12/05/98)
MARBLE HILL -- Troy Lee Brown, 96, of Bond Nursing Care Center died Thursday, Dec. 3, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 3, 1902, in Bollinger County, son of Lee and Eva Stone Brown. He first married Sara E. Fox Sept. 5, 1920. She died March 23, 1972. He later married Loveda Johnson Dec. 26, 1974...
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PATRICIA BAUGHMAN
(Obituary ~ 12/05/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Funeral for Patricia Ann "Patti" Baughman of Perryville will be held at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church. The Revs. Jonathan Brown and Michael Lockhart will officiate, with burial in Evergreen Cemetery in Chester, Ill. Friends may call at Young and Sons Funeral Home from 6:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m...
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LETTERS TESTIMONY TO CAMP'S GOOD
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
The letters that the Rev. Harry Douma receives from children thanking him for operating Camp Penuel tell a wonderful story. It is a story of fun, frolic and a chance to walk in the woods. The majority of children who come to Camp Penuel near Ironton live in neighborhoods filled with shootings, gang activity and high crime. Many have never spent a week outdoors, let alone at a nondenominational camp filled with activity...
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SCRIPTURE IN CLOTH
(Local News ~ 12/05/98)
Sina Kaiser carefully places cloth remnants on the 4-by-6-foot banners draped across tables in the basement of First Presbyterian Church, hoping to get just the right image based on stories from the Bible. Kaiser spends about 100 hours on each banner creation, making them from scrap cloth and material she has collected over the years. Each banner tells a story, whether it is the creation of mankind or the wedding feast at Cana. There are 10 in all...
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PASTOR'S PERSPECTIVE: FILL YOUR CHRISTMAS WITH LOVE
(Column ~ 12/05/98)
How will you celebrate Christmas this year? A recent sampling of America showed that Christmas is the favorite holiday of 90 percent of Americans, but only 28 percent say they enjoy Christmas shopping a great deal. And 25 percent admit that they sometimes feel depressed at Christmastime. The most popular ways to celebrate: 97 percent buy gifts, 85 percent have a tree at home, 78 percent send cards and 68 percent go to Christmas parties...
Stories from Saturday, December 5, 1998
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