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LETTERS: LET'S PUT RESPONSIBILITY ON US
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/06/99)
To the editor: After the tragedy at Columbine High School, I feel there are a few things that need to be said: The anti-gun nuts have massed together, clapped their hands and shouted, We've got them now. But is that really the answer? In reality, no. How long have guns been a vital part of our country's existence? We have had gun availability for generations...
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'WHAT MAKES A PEOPLE SURVIVE?': DENVER PHOTOGRAPHER'S EXHIBIT ON ORTHODOX JEWS OPENS FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
"Buying Shabbat Flowers" "Williamsburg Street Scene #1" The question that kept recurring as he photographed Orthodox Jews across America was this, Bernard Mendoza says: "What is it that makes a people such as the Jews survive? Is there an answer?" His very contemporary photographs illuminate a culture in which many of the bearded elders are Holocaust survivors and little girls wear skirts 9 inches below their knees. ...
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'A TRIBUTE TO ALL MOTHERS'
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
American ballet dancer Dana Goodin went to Italy to write stories about dance. There she met a motocross racer named Luigi Vanoni, married and opened a fitness center and dance school near Milan. Thirteen years later, Vanoni comes home to Southeast Missouri periodically to visit her parents, James and Carolyn Goodin, and her sister, Robyn Gross. ...
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RUST COMMENTARY: BIG NAMES IN SAN DIEGO, BUT A HIGHTLIGH WAS WWII MUSEUM
(Column ~ 05/06/99)
Last week my wife WENDY and I attended a national newspaper meeting at the Del Coronado Hotel in San Diego. The history and setting of this hotel on the Pacific Ocean makes it one of the finest old Victorian hotels in the country. Besides the business meetings, speakers included former President GERALD FORD, Dr. LAURA SCHLESSINGER and Energy Secretary BILL RICHARDSON. ... A museum visit was one of the highlights of the trip...
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FEDERAL BUILDING SITE GETS NOD OF APPROVAL
(Editorial ~ 05/06/99)
For several years now, plans have been made to construct a new federal building in Cape Girardeau to replace the existing federal building on Broadway. At one time, there was talk of moving court-related operations out of the existing building and using it to house other federal agencies. Now the plan calls for the new building to be as much as five stories tall with all federal operations housed in one location. The existing building likely would be sold...
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LETTERS: SCOTT CITY COACH WRONGLY ATTACKED
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/06/99)
To the editor: As I am writing this, there is an employee of Scott City High School who is being persecuted wrongly and without justice. Coach Derek McCord, head basketball coach, is being dragged through the ringer by members of the school board who also are allegedly considering relieving him of his coaching position. ...
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STATE'S SCHOOLS SEEK MORE STATE MONEY
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
Cape Girardeau and 50 other Missouri school districts stuck at 1993 state funding levels are looking to a legislative solution for more state money. The Missouri House of Representatives and Senate are considering legislative changes that could give school districts cost-of-living increases or make money for at-risk student programs available...
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CITY WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU WANT IN WAY OF PARKS
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
Have you been to a city park lately? Which ones? What did you like about your visit? The Parks and Recreation Department wants to know. The department is compiling information through a public survey to be used in creating a development plan for city parks...
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NEW TRAIL HEAVILY USED; WORK ON FINAL SEGMENT WILL BEGIN SOON
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
Wind your way around the city by way of the Cape La Croix Recreation Trail and you could find yourself in a traffic jam of bikes and fitness walkers. The 4.7-mile-long trail is in constant use by exercise enthusiasts and cyclists. It is open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m...
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RIVER CAMPUS FUNDS IN SPENDING MEASURE
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
The Missouri Senate Wednesday passed a spending bill that includes $4.6 million for Southeast Missouri State University's River Campus project. The measure also includes $615,000 toward construction of a new vocational-technical school in Cape Girardeau and $50,000 for expansion of the Cape Girardeau Veterans Home parking lot...
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LEGISLATURE: STATE SENATE PASSES ANTI-ABORTION BILL
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
Three Southeast Missouri state senators thought it was the right thing to do. So did 24 other senators. After nearly 38 hours of debate over several days, the Senate passed an anti-abortion bill early Wednesday by a 27-6 vote. The measure heads to the House where lawmakers overwhelmingly passed an anti-abortion bill earlier in the session...
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ZENAIR ABANDONS PLAN FOR NEW PLANT
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
Zenair of Canada Ltd. won't be coming to Cape Girardeau. Independent Manufacturing Development Co., a subsidiary of Zenair aircraft company, have notified Cape Girardeau officials that it was terminating its memorandum of understanding with the city and will not put a plant at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport...
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CHANGES INSIDE
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
Readers of today's Southeast Missourian will find changes on the inside pages of this section. Beginning today, regional news is displayed on the front pages of Section A, while national and world news is moved from those pages to the back pages of the section. The changes are in keeping with the newspaper's emphasis on local news...
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HUNDREDS GATHER IN CAPE FOR YOUTH PRAYER RALLY
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
With heads bowed and hands uplifted, nearly 400 youths and their leaders gathered inside a school gymnasium to pray Wednesday night. They asked for repentance and forgiveness, healing and help. They offered simple prayers to a God who has "the only answers and the only hope" for the nation...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: WHEN NOTHING NEEDS TO BE ADDED OR NEEDS TO BE TAKEN AWAY
(Column ~ 05/06/99)
May 6, 1999 Warren Beatty to Dustin Hoffman in "Ishtar": "To be this old and have nothing takes a lot of nerve." Dear Julie, A moment comes every spring when I want to yell, "Stop. This is perfect." The sky is a blue that sucks the air from your lungs, the temperature so ideal you feel weightless, floating in a sea of green over a rainbow of blossoms. Nothing needs to be added, nothing taken away...
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OPEN HOUSE MAY 13 AT NEW PORT BUILDING
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority will show off its new office building next week., The building in the middle of the Port Authority complex sits on high ground at 10 Bill Bess Drive, a street named after the late Bill Bess, a longtime port director. The level presents a good view of the Mississippi River and the entire port operation...
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BARN DANCE SET FOR MAY 21 IN CAPE
(Local News ~ 05/06/99)
The Cape Friends of Old Time Music and Dance will host an old-fashioned barn dance on May 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Parker Building dance studio at Southeast Missouri State University. Joe Surdyk of Carbondale, Ill., will be the caller. Gary Watson of Fredericktown and his daughter Jenny Watson of Cape Girardeau will play traditional dance tunes...
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OERMANN A FIXTURE FOR SEMO SOFTBALL
(College Sports ~ 05/06/99)
Jenny Oermann has accomplished just about everything imaginable during her brilliant Southeast Missouri State University softball career -- but one thing had been missing. It's missing no longer. Oermann has the final notch to her already impressive belt as she and her teammates have qualified for the NCAA Division I Tournament for the first time in school history. The Otahkians earned an automatic berth by winning the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament last weekend...
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SEMO TRACK HOLDS PLENTY OF PROMISE
(College Sports ~ 05/06/99)
Even though they failed to win any team titles, Southeast Missouri State University track and field coach Joey Haines came away quite pleased with the performance of his squads during last weekend's Ohio Valley Conference Outdoor Championships. Southeast's women saw their two-year streak of outdoor titles end as the Otahkians finished second. Southeast's men, who are again on the upswing, placed third...
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: GRACE FREEMAN
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/99)
Grace Freeman School: Cape Central Sport: Swimming Coach: Dayna Powell Week Report: Freeman, a senior, anchored a 400 freestyle relay team which took first at the Springfield Invitational on Saturday. Central's team of Jennifer Freeze, Jean Maguire, Mary Beth Owen and Freeman finished the race with a time of 3:42.81, breaking a meet record and coming just short of a school record. ...
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK: GARRETT BROSHUIS
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/99)
Garrett Broshuis School: Advance Sport: Baseball Coach: Chuck Powers Week Report: Broshuis, a junior pitcher who also plays shortstop and outfield, turned in one of the area's most dominating mound performances in recent memory when he struck out 19 batters in a seven-inning one-hitter against Bloomfield. At the plate, he went 8-for-11 with a home run and six runs scored...
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JACKSON'S ESTES MAKES 4A STATE GOLF TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 05/06/99)
FARMINGTON -- Jackson's Gabe Estes qualified for state Wednesday by shooting an 83 on the par-72 Eagle Lake Golf Course in the Class 4A, District 1 Tournament. The district's top two teams and top 10 individuals qualify for state. Jackson's team finished sixth with a score of 348, followed by Cape Central at seventh with a team score of 369...
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GLADYS MABREY
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
SCOTT CITY -- Gladys Francis Mabrey, 91, of Scott City died Tuesday, May 4, 1999, at Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 9, 1907, at Oran, daughter of C.C. and Mary Chaney Myers. She and Lee Adkins Mabrey were married Jan. 2, 1926. He died Sept. 2, 1989...
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EVA THOMAS
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
HERRIN, Ill. -- Eva Thomas, 93, of Herrin died Tuesday, May 4, 1999, at Shawnee Christian Nursing Home. She was born June 16, 1905, in Herrin, daughter of James and Margaret Ellis Joe. She married Edward Thomas, who died in 1974. Formerly of Cairo, Thomas was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, charter member of Cairo VFW Auxiliary, Order of Eastern Star, and White Shrine of Jerusalem...
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PERLE B. MONTGOMERY
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
Perle Black Montgomery, age 99, of Sikeston, Mo. died at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, 1999 at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born July 16, 1899 near Morley, Mo. to the late William and Cordelia Domec Black. She attended Morley Public Schools and graduated in 1919 from Normal College, now Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Mo...
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LILLIE BIERBAUM
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Lillie Bierbaum, 94, of Olive Branch died at 11:50 a.m. Wednesday, May 5, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.
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ALBERTA COLE
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
JACKSON -- Alberta Marie Cole, 75, of Jackson died Wednesday, May 5, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau is in charge of arrangements.
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CLARA CROOK
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
JACKSON -- Clara Aimee Crook, 92, of Jackson, died Tuesday, May 4, 1999, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home. She was born Sept. 6, 1906, in Hawkeye, Iowa, daughter of Henry and Clara Henderson Foote. Crook moved to Jackson in 1994 from Springfield. She worked 15 years at Trenton Livestock Sale Barn, a family business in Trenton. She had been active in the Chrysanthemum Garden Club and Order of Eastern Star in Springfield...
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MABEL LOWES
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
JACKSON -- Genevieve Irene "Mabel" Lowes, 84, of Adelanto, Calif., died Sunday, May 2, 1999, at Agape Senior Center in Apple Valley, Calif. She was born July 15, 1914, at Commerce, daughter of Charles and Matty Portis Rauh. She and Elmer Lowes were married Sept. 25, 1934, in Jonesboro, Ill. He died April 17, 1986...
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REV. STEPHEN BRUENING
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
Funeral for the Rev. Stephen Paul Bruening of Alexandria, Minn., was held April 30 at Zion Lutheran Church in Alexandria. Burial was in Geneva Cemetery in Alexandria. Anderson Funeral Home in Alexandria was in charge of arrangements. Bruening, 52, died Monday, April 26, 1999...
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FLORA BRANTLEY
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral for Flora May Brantley of Columbia will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. Burl Britt will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Friday...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/06/99)
Son to Samuel Gordon and Catherine Graber of Louisville, Ky., Norton Suburban Hospital, 9:11 p.m. Tuesday, April 27, 1999. Name, Samuel Chamberlain. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. First child. Mrs. Graber is the former Catherine Louise Chamberlain, daughter of Mr. ...
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FRANK SNIDER
(Obituary ~ 05/06/99)
Frank L. Snider Jr., 50, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, May 5, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel.
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