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WIDE MEADOWS: STRANGER LEFT HIS TRAIN AT THE WRONG STOP (A CONTINUING SERIES)
(Column ~ 05/01/01)
"Who is he?" Mom asked Dad as we made our way back up the stairs. "He didn't say," Dad replied, scratching his cheek slowly. "We, he didn't, did he?" Mom remarked, somewhat surprised. "But then, he didn't ask who we were either, did he?" She laughed softly at the strange state of affairs...
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RECOGNIZING HARD WORK
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
A first-hour English class might not be enough incentive to get some senior high school students roused from their beds every weekday morning, but maybe that's because Bill Springer isn't teaching them. Attendance is nearly 100 percent every day in Springer's senior English class. "It's so much fun that you don't want to miss it," said Lashonda Dugger, a student at Cape Central High School...
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AREA BUSINESS PICTURE INDUCATES IMPROVEMENTS
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
Employment growth and retail sales were flat in Southeast Missouri during the first quarter of 2001, but some promise of economic improvement exists in the months ahead. "There has been a definite slowdown in the U.S. and Southeast Missouri economic growth rate," said Dr. Bruce Domazlicky, Southeast Missouri State University professor of economics. "I think we've avoided a recession and things could get better soon."...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: SIX YEARS OF WEDDED BLISS. OK, FIVE.
(Column ~ 05/01/01)
Just about any family-style restaurant will force its waiters and waitresses to gather around your table and sing "Happy Birthday" while delivering a free piece of cake, causing you to smile graciously while deciding whether to strangle your relatives personally or hire a hit man...
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CITY TAPS HISTORIC TREASURES
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
Five more homeowners in Cape Girardeau have been recognized for their efforts to maintain the historical character of their property. The city's Historic Preservation Commission has developed a program that recognizes the city's "original treasures." Six homes recently were selected...
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PREACHER ADJUSTS TO WEST'S WAYS
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
BENTON, Mo. -- Steve Young has learned to adapt to his surroundings in Cody, Wyo., but it has taken some time to get used to the deer, grizzly bears and buffalo that roam the countryside. Cody is situated along the road to Yellowstone National Park, so the community of 8,000 usually sees plenty of tourists. Yet, it is a close-knit town with hard-working, friendly and pioneering people...
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FALL-CALVING HEIFER SALE SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
FRUITLAND, Mo. -- About 170 heifers will be sold at the fall-calving Missouri Show-Me-Select replacement heifer sale, starting at 1 p.m. Saturday at Fruitland. "This is the second fall-calving heifer sale to be held at Fruitland," said Roger Eakins, University of Missouri regional extension livestock specialist at Jackson, Mo...
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EXPERT ON POPULATION WILL SPEAK AT SOUTHEAST
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
More than 6 billion people live on earth and the population continues to grow. The world's population grew by nearly 78 million last year with 97 percent of the growth occurring in the poorest parts of the globe. Three billion young people, equal to the whole population of the world in 1960, will enter their reproductive years in the next generation. The statistics go on and on...
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ND EDGES CENTRAL FOR THIRD
(High School Sports ~ 05/01/01)
If Notre Dame couldn't reach the championship game of the SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament, it probably did the next best thing -- beat arch-rival Cape Girardeau for third place. The fourth-seeded Bulldogs knocked off the third-seeded Tigers 9-7 Monday night at Capaha Field to finish the nine-team event with two wins in three games...
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RED DEVILS CAPTURE TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 05/01/01)
The smallest school in the first-ever SEMO Conference Baseball Tournament also proved to be the best. Class 2A Chaffee knocked off 3A Sikeston 5-0 in Monday night's championship game played in front of a huge Capaha Field crowd estimated at more than 1,000...
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INDIAN ENGINE STILL PURRS AFTER MAJOR OVERHAUL
(College Sports ~ 05/01/01)
After Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team lost the bulk of its offense and one of its top pitchers from last year's squad that won a school-record 37 games, some people probably expected the Indians to come back down to earth this season...
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CATCHER, HITTER, LEADER: ENOS WILL LEAVE BIG SHOES BEHIND
(College Sports ~ 05/01/01)
Renee Enos is nearing the end of her impressive Southeast Missouri State University softball career, but she's counting on squeezing out as many extra games as she can. Enos and her teammates will have their final regular-season contest today at Austin Peay, but their real focus will be on winning this weekend's Ohio Valley Conference Tournament in Cookeville, Tenn., which would be the first step toward qualifying for the NCAA tourney...
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NOTRE DAME GOLFERS CLAIM FIRST DISTRICT CROWN
(High School Sports ~ 05/01/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Notre Dame captured its first-ever district golf championship with an eight-stroke margin of victory over runner-up Arcadia Valley at the Class 2A, District 1 Golf Tournament Monday at Bent Creek Golf Course. Notre Dame's team total of 346 outdistanced Arcadia Valley (354), St. Pius (363), Caruthersville (370), Malden (395), Doniphan (408), Clearwater (421) and Kingston (534)...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/01/01)
Son to Stanley and Ann Sokolowski of Spring, Texas, Memorial Herman Hospital in The Woodlands, Texas, 4:08 p.m. Wednesday, April 18, 2001. Name, Hayden Arron. Weight, 7 pounds 3 ounces. First child. Mrs. Sokolowski is the daughter of Cheryl Sheffield of San Antonio, Texas. She is employed by U.S. Rep. Kevin Brady in Conroe, Texas. Sokolowski is the son of Earlene Sokolowski of Jackson, Mo., and the late Adolf Sokolowski. He is an attorney in Houston, Texas...
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LAVERN EMMENDORFER
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Lavern I. Emmendorfer, 77, of Perryville died Sunday, April 29, 2001, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Nov. 21, 1923, in St. Louis, daughter of Amiel Lawrence and Sarah Edith Bass Colin. She first married Thomas Ferdinand Abernathy in 1942. She later married Franklin G. Emmendorfer Jan. 15, 1965. Both preceded her in death...
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THREE HURT IN SEPARATE ACCIDENTS ON AREA ROADS
(Local News ~ 05/01/01)
A Glenallen, Mo., woman and Fredericktown, Mo., woman were injured in a collision in Madison County Monday, and a single-vehicle crash left a Cape Girardeau man injured as well. Diane Campbell, 21, of Glenallen was taken to Madison County Medical Center after an accident at 10:30 a.m. Monday on U.S. 67 at Millcreek in Madison County. Also sustaining injuries in the accident was the other driver, Ruth Propst, 75, of Fredericktown...
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FRANCES COURTOIS
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Frances W. Courtois, 88, of Perryville died Sunday, April 29, 2001, at Barnes Extended Care in Clayton, Mo. She was born Dec. 25, 1912, at Biehle, Mo., daughter of Frank and Theresa Kirn Unterreiner. She and Albert J. Courtois were married April 23, 1940, at Perryville. He died Aug. 31, 1975...
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MARIE PHILLIPS
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Marie D. Phillips, 92, of Cairo died Monday, April 30, 2001, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. Arrangements are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo.
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THOMAS GIBSON
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
Thomas Albert Gibson, 78, of Carlsbad, Calif., died Saturday, April 21, 2001. He was born June 21, 1922, in Cape Girardeau, son of David Murray and Pearl Phillips Gibson. He and Margaret Jamison were married Dec. 7, 1946, in San Francisco. Gibson was a 1939 graduate of Central High School. He was an insurance agent several years, served with the Los Angeles Police Department, and after retiring managed an apartment complex in Carlsbad...
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LILY MANDRELL
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
Lily Mandrell, 70, of Fort Worth, Texas, died Thursday, April 5, 2001, in Fort Worth. She was born March 11, 1931, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Willard David Mandrell and Ruby Probst Hobbs. Survivors include two daughters, Deborah Fisher of Fort Worth, Miriam Thompson of Prattsville, Ark.; four sisters, Blanche Mandrell Swinford of Brownwood, Mo., Vivian Burton and Wilma Mandrell of Centralia, Ill., Norma Hobbs of Jackson, Mo.; four brothers, John Hobbs of Foristell, Mo., Lou and Darrell Hobbs of Jackson, Louie Hobbs of Fruitland, Mo.; and seven grandchildren.. ...
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JO TYRONE
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Jo K. Tyrone, 88, died Sunday, April 29, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Sept. 30, 1912, in Lexington, Tenn., daughter of David and Catherine Barnes White. She and Robert F. Tyrone were married April 3, 1932. He died Feb. 20, 2001...
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LUCILLE WALLEN
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Lucille Cline Wallen, 89, of Sikeston died Monday, April 30, 2001, at the Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born April 12, 1912, at Vanduser, Mo., the daughter of John Henry Cline and Rose Belle Leigh Cline. She married Edgar Russell Wallen in October 1939 in Flat River, Mo. She married Emerson Laseter in 1976. He died in December 1976...
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DORIS ECHOLS
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
ULLIN, Ill. -- Doris Nelms Echols, 76, of Ullin died Monday, April 30, 2001, at her home. Visitation will be from 6 to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Crain Funeral Home in Ullin. Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home, with the Rev. Bill Gholson officiating...
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MAE CAMPBELL
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral for Mae A. Ray Campbell of Anna will be held at 1 p.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Rev. Roy Hill will officiate. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a.m. Campbell, 88, died Sunday, April 29, 2001, at City Care Center...
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BOB MUNGLE
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
PATTON, Mo. -- Bob G. Mungle, 65, of Patton died Sunday, April 29, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 10, 1935, at Patton, son of Rufus "Butch" and Metta Yamnitz Mungle. He and Patricia A. Fadler were married Sept. 15, 1959...
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VERDA DOVER
(Obituary ~ 05/01/01)
SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- Funeral for Verda Ellen Dover of Scott City will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City. The Rev. Terry Eades will officiate. Burial will be in Lightner Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 4-8 p.m. Wednesday...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 05/01/01)
AS THE office manager of a small health-related business in Cape Girardeau County, I would like to warn people out there about a couple of scams that have come across our desks recently. The first one involves people calling and claiming to have a great price on copier toner. ...
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SOUTH POLE RESCUES SHOW OUR WILL TO SURVIVE
(Editorial ~ 05/01/01)
Between February and November, flying to the South Pole isn't advisable. It's winter down there -- temperatures 65 degrees below zero this time of year -- and the sun doesn't shine. But against these odds, two planes in separate rescue attempts last week successfully reached their destinations and safely returned...
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TWO TRAGEDIES PRODUCE DIFFERENT RESPONSES
(Editorial ~ 05/01/01)
The captain of the submarine that collided with a Japanese fishing boat, killing nine men and boys, has received as punishment a letter of reprimand. His Navy career is in tatters, and Cmdr. Scott Waddle will retire Oct. 1, years earlier than he would ever have planned...
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LETTERS: ASSISTED SUICIDE, EUTHANASIA SPREAD AROUND THE GLOBE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/01/01)
To the editor: Not satisfied with eliminating so many children through abortion, mankind is now trying to kill off the helpless and the elderly. The Netherlands has legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia after looking the other way for 20 years. In April, Sharon Carstairs, one of the foremost euthanasia activists in the Canadian Senate, was give special responsibility for overseeing palliative care. ...
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