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COOL
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
It's 90 degrees. Do you know where your children are? If they're not outside in the water, they're probably inside near air conditioning. This summertime beat-the-heat cycle seems unbreakable. Southeast Missouri offers a few wrinkles in this pattern to keep you cool...
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LEADERSHIP CAPE GROUPS OUTLINE PROJECTS AT GRADUATION
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
Some of Cape Girardeau's newest leaders, fresh from their training and filled with energy, are already planning their five-year reunion at a new city park they proposed during a group project. Twenty-six members of the Leadership Cape 2000 outlined their plans for projects that included a new family aquatics park, an online community calendar, youth mentoring program, a youth activities calendar particularly geared to residents on the city's south side and a central volunteer network...
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COMPANY PROPOSES HIKE IN GAS PRICES
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
Southeast Missouri residents will get a chance to sound off to the Missouri Public Service Commission about AmerenUE's request for a 14 percent increase in natural gas rates. The PSC plans to hold a public hearing in Cape Girardeau on Aug. 24, one of five scheduled around the state to solicit opinions on the proposed increase. The hearing is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. in the Osage Community Centre...
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JACKSON SCHOOL FUNDING PLAN TO BE DISCUSSED
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Jackson school officials hope community members can envision the problems that come from educating 800 students in a building built for 600 when they go to the polls next month. To help that vision along, a public meeting will be held at R.O. Hawkins Junior High at 7 p.m. Monday. School officials will be on hand to answer questions about two funding proposals to be considered in elections Aug. 8, and tours of the building will be offered...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: UNDER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, WE COULD USE MORE DATA
(Column ~ 07/21/00)
In the beginning, if I had been put in charge, I wouldn't have created wasps. Frankly, I don't know what God was thinking when he took the time and effort to make buzzing insects that sting us and hurt us. He just as easily could have taken a day off. He didn't have to work six days before resting. He could have taken a coffee break instead of creating wasps...
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SUSPICIOUS FIRE GUTS HOUSE IN CAPE
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
A suspicious fire that gutted a boarded-up house on south Pacific Street late Wednesday is being investigated by Cape Girardeau police and fire departments, officials said. "We know very little right now about the fire, except that it appears to have started in the front room," said Dan White, fire chief...
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FORMER SIKESTON MAN RECEIVES GRANT TO STUDY TRAUMA AT UCLA
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- Former Sikeston, Mo., resident Chris Johnson was admitted into the University of Los Angeles (UCLA) Ph.D. program in clinical psychology. He is one of 10 graduate students selected for the competitive five-year program. The son of son of Doug and Teresa Johnson of Sikeston, Johnson said the competiveness made him hesitate about applying to UCLA, but his wife, Linda, convinced him to at least try...
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BAILEY PROPOSES SINGLE TICKET CAMPAIGN
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
Republican Wendell Bailey says Missourians should consider electing the governor and lieutenant governor on a single ticket as is done on the federal level with the president and vice president. Visiting Cape Girardeau Thursday, Bailey said he wants to organize a bipartisan panel to consider the issue...
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UNITED METHODISTS CELEBRATE CONSOLIDATION
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
United Methodists in Missouri are working toward consolidation and celebrating their efforts during a "Journey of Installation" for new district superintendents and staff. With the consolidation of the East and West conferences, Missouri's United Methodist congregations are able to expand their programs and meet the needs of people around the world, said Janet Culvert, area coordinator of communications for the Methodist church...
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7-YEAR-OLD CHILD KILLED WHEN HIT BY CAR
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
FISK, Mo. -- A 7-year-old child was killed Thursday after being hit by a passing motorist. Daniel Sprous, 7, of Fisk, Mo., was killed in the accident, on Highway FF about three miles south of Fisk. According to reports from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the child was riding a bicycle when he pulled from a private driveway into the path of a car driven by Samuel Arnold, 73, also of Fisk. Arnold was not hurt...
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CANDIDATE PLEADS INNOCENT TO ASSAULT
(Local News ~ 07/21/00)
A Wayne County commissioner facing primary elections has pleaded innocent to assaulting a man and his girlfriend with a handgun, the Cape Girardeau County prosecutor said. In a telephone conference Thursday between the judge, prosecutor and defense attorney, a waiver was read from incumbent commissioner Bruce W. Keel stating that he was not guilty of pistol whipping a man from Mill Spring, Mo., or of threatening both the man and his girlfriend with a handgun...
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SIKESTON KNOCKS CAPE LEGION OUT OF TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 07/21/00)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Sikeston tried to gift-wrap a victory for Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team Thursday night -- but Cape could not take advantage of the offering. As a result, Ford & Sons' season is over. Cape, seeded fourth in the seven-team District 14 Tournament, scored six unearned runs -- including two in the ninth inning to force extra frames -- but third-seeded Sikeston pushed across a run in the bottom of the 11th to prevail 8-7 in an elimination game at Hillhouse Park.. ...
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BRIEFLY: MYERS, FOWLER WIN LASSIES CLASSIC
(High School Sports ~ 07/21/00)
Harriett Myers and Diane Fowler of New Madrid successfully defended their Lassies Classic title Thursday with a three-shot victory in the 36-hole, two-day scramble tournament at Cape Girardeau Country Club. Myers and Fowler finished with a 15-under-par 125 total to hold off runnerups Kathy Downes and Cindy Barnard of St. Louis, who shot 128. Placing third was Betty Belote of Jackson and Sandi McGinnis of St. Louis, who finished at 133...
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BRIEFLY: CHIEFS RELEASE HINTON
(College Sports ~ 07/21/00)
Former Southeast Missouri State University football standout Brian Hinton was one of three players released Thursday by the Kansas City Chiefs just a day before training camp was scheduled to begin. Hinton, an undrafted free agent, and the others were released as the Chiefs made room on their training-camp roster for four players they signed Thursday...
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STEVEN VOLKERDING
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
Steven Wade Volkerding, 47, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, July 19, 2000, at his home. He was born Oct. 29, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, son of Glenn W. and Lottie Bates Volkerding. Volkerding was a graduate of Central High School. He was a baker with Dixie Creme Donuts and Donut Drive-In 30 years. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church...
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WAYNE LEARUE
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Wayne Learue, 51, of Sikeston Route 3 died Wednesday, July 19, 2000, at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 28, 1948, in Sikeston, son of Onis H. and Virginia D. Harper Learue. He and Sharon Williams were married June 12, 1971...
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CALLISTA THOMPSON
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
Sister Callista Thompson, 91, former associate administrator at Notre Dame High School six years, died Wednesday, July 19, 2000, at DePaul Hospital in Bridgeton, Mo. She was born in Fort Madison, Iowa. She entered the congregation of the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1927, and professed her final vows in 1937...
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WALLACE KARRAKER
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Wallace Gordon Karraker, 74, died Thursday, July 20, 2000, at Rehab and Care Center of Jackson County in Murphysboro, Ill. He was born Oct. 1, 1925, in Carbondale, Ill., son of Ray Wallace and Margaret Browne Karraker. Karraker was a 1943 graduate of Anna-Jonesboro Community High School. He received degrees in electrical and mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois...
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CLOYD REAVIS SR.
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
Cloyd E. Reavis Sr., 80, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, July 20, 2000, at his home. He was born Sept. 4, 1919, in McClure, Ill., son of James B. and Agnes Charles Reavis. He and Helen McCullough were married Sept. 11, 1937. She died Oct. 6, 1979. He and Mattie Calhoun Retherford were married March 19, 1981, in Cape Girardeau. She died Dec. 5, 1999...
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FINLEY WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Finley Woodrow Wilson, 82, of Sikeston, died Thursday, July 20, 2000, at Clearview Nursing Center. He was born March 4, 1918, at East Prairie, Mo., son of George W. and Sarah Frances Moore Williams. He and Hallean Margaret Oliver were married Oct. 9, 1936, at East Prairie. She survives...
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ADDINE CREGER
(Obituary ~ 07/21/00)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Addine Creger, 89, of Sikeston, died Thursday, July 20, 2000, at Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. She was born March 18, 1911, in Lamar County in Alabama, daughter of George Washington and Rosa Everline Lawrence Price. She and Kelly Lindsey were married Dec. 6, 1925. He died Feb. 13, 1974. She then married Arthur Creger. He died May 3, 1988...
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HUGE SURPLUSES PAVE THE WAY FOR HUGE TAX CUTS
(Editorial ~ 07/21/00)
Look at those numbers. The size of federal surpluses forecast for the next 10 years -- already massive to begin with -- keep getting bigger and bigger. Just last month the White House more than doubled its own prediction to $1.87 trillion. That's right: trillion. Then this week the nonpartisan Congression Budget Office issued its own forecast of $2.17 trillion in surpluses by the time 2010 rolls around...
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CLINTON GETS THE NEWS MEDIA TO SWOON ONE MORE TIME, BUT THEY'RE SNIFFING VAPORS
(Editorial ~ 07/21/00)
President Clinton does it again. The slickest PR president ever gets headlines across the nation by announcing he will give Alzheimer researchers $50 million over the next five years. This is a topic of importance to every American. There are few of us who won't be touched in one way or another by the disease that mainly affects our elderly population...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 07/21/00)
Daughter to Evan and Cindy La Bruyere of Farmington, Mo., Jefferson Memorial Hospital in Festus, Mo., 1:49 p.m. Tuesday, June 27, 2000. Name, Kaylin Elizabeth. Weight, 7 pounds 12 1/2 ounces. First child. Mrs. LaBruyere is the former Cindy Monroe, daughter of Frank and Linda Monroe of Jackson, Mo. She is employed at Southeast Missouri State Mental Hospital in Farmington. LaBruyere is the son of Pat and Judy LaBruyere of Desloge. He is self-employed...
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