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LAND LOCH'D: SCOTLAND'S HARSH LANDSCAPE AND WEATHER HAVE FORGED A STRONG NATIONAL PRIDE (GO EAST, YOUNG WOMAN: THE OVERSEAS TRAVELS OF ANN OSTENDORF)
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
Editor's note: Ann Ostendorf, 24, of Cape Girardeau is spending a year traveling through Great Britain, Pakistan and Asia. This is the second in a series of articles she will be writing about her journey. SCOTLAND -- After traveling around the Scottish Highlands for a couple of weeks, I began to understand why so many people have left Scotland as emigrants in the past few centuries. ...
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RESTRICTED SCHOLARSHIP CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
VFW Post 383 recently made a gift of $2,000 to Vernon L. Pruitt VFW Restricted Scholarship to be awarded to Southeast Missouri State University students for the fall 2001 semester. The scholarship was established through the Southeast Missouri University Foundation in 1998 with a gift from the Missouri VFW Post 383 in memory of Pruitt, who was VFW Post 3838's only commander to hold that position at the time of his death...
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'WIDE MEADOWS': THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH (A CONTINUING SERIES)
(Column ~ 08/21/01)
Editor's note: This is an installment of a chapter from Jean Bell Mosley's book that was first published in 1960. Lou and I were the only ones enjoying the benefits of the professor. After the new pump was installed we could fill the trough in five minutes. "And look at the time we've got left for other problems!" Lou teased Mom...
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LIGHT, SPACE AND NEW EQUIPMENT: NEW SEMO BUILDING PUTS SHINE ON INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
Windows are everywhere in Southeast Missouri State University's new $9 million Otto and Della Seabaugh Polytechnic Building. They're in hallways and even interior classrooms where they look down on first-floor industrial technology labs. A rounded skylight extends like a spine across the top of the three-story, 60,000-square-foot structure...
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FEDS TO START TRACKING BLOOD
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
For the first time, the government is starting a day-to-day tracking system to monitor the nation's blood supply and sound an alarm when shortages loom. It comes none too soon: A tight blood supply, once a problem only around holidays, has become a year-round crisis for many parts of the country. It may worsen next month when many longtime donors are turned away as a precaution against mad cow disease -- and as hospitals grapple with sharp increases in the price of blood...
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GROUP VOICES CONCERNS OVER NEW POWER PLANT
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- A proposed power plant sparked environmental worries among nearly 70 Cape Girardeau County residents at the county commission meeting on Monday. The crowd included farmers and others who live near the site of the proposed plant south of Crump, Mo., along Highway U in southwest Cape Girardeau County...
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CHURCH WITHDRAWS PERMIT REQUEST
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
A church that plans to build on Old Hopper Road and had been seeking a special-use permit to add a day-care center informed the Cape Girardeau City Council in a letter Monday that it doesn't need the permit after all. The letter from First Assembly of God of Cape Girardeau states that since an Aug. 6 meeting with the council, church leaders researched legal aspects of the special-use permit...
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BENTON MAN HURT IN VEHICLE WRECK
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
PUXICO, Mo. -- A Benton, Mo., man was injured Monday near Puxico. Dennis Wilkerson, 56, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau by helicopter after the 11:31 a.m. accident. It occurred on Highway 51, just south of Puxico. According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, Wilkerson's vehicle went off the left side of the road attempting to avoid a southbound vehicle that turned into his path...
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RESUBMITTED REZONING APPLICATION REJECTED
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- In the latest salvo in a dispute that extends back over 18 months, the Jackson Board of Aldermen Monday night rejected a new application by businessman Jack Priest to rezone as commercial the property his truck refrigeration business occupies along East Main Street...
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CAPE MAN CHARGED IN MURDER PLOT GIVEN 10 YEARS
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- A Cape Girardeau man who joked and laughed about what he thought was the violent death of a man he had paid to have killed was sentenced to 10 years in jail Monday. Ralph John Knoblauch, 61, was sentenced by Circuit Judge William L. Syler for paying an undercover police officer $1,000, to kill Orville Meyer, a man he thought stole a diamond ring...
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CAPE MAN COPS PLEA IN DRUG CASE
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
In separate cases, three Southeast Missourian men pleaded guilty Monday in federal court, including a Cape Girardeau man who was charged with possession of crack cocaine with the intent to distribute. Scott Mosley, 40, of Cape Girardeau pleaded guilty to one felony count of possessing 5 grams or more of cocaine base, also known as crack cocaine. He appeared Monday before U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber...
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TV PROGRAM TONIGHT TO FEATURE EMERSON BRIDGE
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
Television viewers could get a lesson in bridge construction if they watch an upcoming episode on WSIU that features the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge. The half-hour program will air at 9 tonight on Channel 8, a PBS affiliate in Carbondale, Ill. A program on the NOVA Superbridge will air at 7 p.m...
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JACKSON HOMECOMERS STARTS TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 08/21/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Homecomers promises to be extra fun for children this year. The annual Jackson celebration begins at 6:30 tonight and continues through Saturday. Beginning at 3 p.m. Saturday on the cooler east lawn of the courthouse, two Jackson civic clubs will present games in which children can win prizes. ...
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CAPE CENTRAL WINS SEASON OPENER
(High School Sports ~ 08/21/01)
It took four innings for the Cape Central offense to warm up in its season opener, but once the Lady Tigers did, they proved too hot for the visiting Perryville Lady Pirates Thursday at Arena Park. Trailing 2-0 in the bottom of the fifth inning, Cape Central busted loose for 12 runs for a 12-2 run-rule victory...
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GREEK CENTER STILL FINDS CAPE ELUSIVE
(College Sports ~ 08/21/01)
Kostas Avgerinos is having a heck of a time making his way to Cape Girardeau. And if he's going to ever wind up playing basketball for Southeast Missouri State University, it won't be for another year. Avgerinos, a 7-foot-1 center from Athens, Greece, who has already signed with Southeast twice, did not pass enough junior college classes this summer to be eligible to play for the Indians during the 2001-2002 season...
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BILLINGS: MCDOWELL WILL BE QB
(College Sports ~ 08/21/01)
The verdict is in. Jeromy McDowell will be Southeast Missouri State University's starting quarterback Sept. 1 when the Indians open the season on the road against Division I-A opponent Eastern Michigan. Southeast coach Tim Billings announced his decision prior to the Indians' practice Monday evening after the coaching staff had met with the three quarterbacks vying for the position...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/21/01)
Son to Arthur C. and Dawn K. Silva of Jackson, Mo., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:53 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13, 2001. Name, Dominick Anthony. Weight, 6 pounds 11 ounces. First child. Mrs. Silva is the former Dawn Straccia, daughter of Robert and Beth Straccia of state of California. Mr. and Mrs. Silva are employed at Procter & Gamble. He is the son of Evangelina Silva of state of California...
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JUNE MICHAEL
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
BENTON, Mo. -- June Michael, 80, of Benton died Monday, Aug. 20, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Benton.
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GERTRUDE SHIELDS
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Gertrude Grace Shields, 95, of Jonesboro died Thursday, Aug. 9, 2001, at City Care Center in Anna, Ill. She was born in 1906 in Chicago, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Knox Gifford. She and Roy William Shields were married in 1929. He died in 1984...
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GOLDIE MOORE
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
GRAY RIDGE, Mo. -- Goldie B. Moore, 83, of Gray Ridge died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2001, at her home. She was born April 6, 1918, near Essex, Mo., daughter of Jesse and Josie Davis Lowery. She and Ora Lee Moore were married Sept. 26, 1942. He died July 28, 1999...
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NANCY LINDSAY
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
Nancy Lindsay, 81, died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2001, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born Aug. 3, 1920, in Peoria, Ill., daughter of Robert J. and Alice Padden Phalen. She and James E. Lindsay were married in 1950, in Peoria. He died in 1977. Survivors include a brother, Robert Phalen of Cape Girardeau...
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ELLA DUSCHL
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral for Ella Mae Duschl of Anna will be held at 1 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Anna. The Rev. Rick Hertenstein will officiate. Burial will be in McGinnis Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 10 a.m. until time of service...
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RICHARD BRIGHT
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Funeral for retired Chief Master Sgt. Richard E. "Dick" Bright of East Prairie will be held at 11 a.m. today at First Christian Church. Fred Girdwood will officiate. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery, with full military rites conducted...
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EVERETT FRAZIER
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
Everett V. Frazier, 86, died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2001, at Missouri Veterans Home. He was born July 25, 1915, at Puxico, Mo., son of Ernest and Annie Elizabeth Chronister Frazier. He and Burdetta Garner were married Feb. 5, 1938, in Cape Girardeau. Frazier was employed at General Motors in St. Louis more than 30 years, retiring in 1974. He moved to Cape Girardeau in 1979. He was a member of United Auto workers Local 25...
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LOUISE DUFFEY
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Louise Duffey, 78, of Bloomfield died Monday, Aug. 20, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 17, 1922, at Bloomfield, daughter of John and Mamie Adel Miller Cox. She and Aymond Duffey were married July 5, 1944. He died Nov. 20, 1998...
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MARIE STRACK
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
Marie Amanda Strack, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 31, 1908, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Kramer Koeppel. She married William Strack, who preceded her in death...
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ROSCOE MCBRIDE
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- R. Roscoe McBride, 87, of Anna died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2001, at Union County Hospital. Crain Funeral Home in Anna is in charge of arrangements.
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LILLIAN RUSSELL
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- Funeral for Lillian Alberta Russell of Anna will be held at 3 p.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. The Rev. Jon Hartley will officiate. Burial will be in Anna Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after noon...
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LINDA REEVES
(Obituary ~ 08/21/01)
SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- Linda L. Reeves, 54, of Scott City died Sunday, Aug. 19, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 22, 1947, at Bernie, Mo., daughter of Jesse James and Dovie Sue Worley Reeves. Reeves was a 1965 graduate of Bloomfield High School at Bloomfield, Mo. She worked at First National Bank in Poplar Bluff, Mo., more than 20 years, and worked at WBM two years. She lived at Dexter, Mo., several years and had lived in Scott City 15 years...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/21/01)
I'M CONCERNED about the grandparent who considers life in the womb as a fungus, growth or leech. This left me dismayed. Just think, if the parent or parents of the grandchildren had so desired, they could have terminated those grandchildren at any time. Then their body parts could have been harvested and they would be a commodity on the market. All life is important, even the child in the womb. It was planned that way by a higher authority, God...
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FATE OF RIVER CAMPUS FUNDING STILL UP IN AIR
(Editorial ~ 08/21/01)
Officials of Cape Girardeau and Southeast Missouri State University remain optimistic they will prevail in the current legal struggle over the fate of hotel-motel sales-tax revenue being set aside for the university's River Campus, even though judges and appellate judges have ruled that the ordinance putting the tax issue on the ballot was defective...
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AREA'S GROWTH COULD BENEFIT FROM GOOD PLANS
(Editorial ~ 08/21/01)
A map showing how Cape Girardeau's land area has grown since 1808 is a graphic illustration of the city's expansion from the banks of the Mississippi River. The last major extension of the city limits occurred in 1967 when Interstate 55 became the western limit and large areas to the north and south were taken into the corporate limits...
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RESTORING TRUST WILL FIX OUR HIGHWAYS
(Editorial ~ 08/21/01)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- On my recent walk to Jefferson City I learned a lot about our highways, and it gave me plenty of time to think about possible solutions to some of our transportation problems here in Missouri. I got a firsthand look at road conditions, dangerous bridges and traffic patterns. ...
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