TIME TO YELL: SPECIAL EDITION HITS STREET TUESDAY

Among the highlights of Tuesday's special YELL edition will be two historic front pages from the Southeast Missourian's past: the Kennedy assassination and the 1906 California earthquake.

YELL Day is Tuesday. Volunteers will hit the streets at 6 a.m. to sell the special edition of the Southeast Missourian for a $2 donation.

Money raised through the project supports literacy programs in the area, including the Southeast Missourian's Newspapers in Education project. NIE distributes newspapers to teachers for use in their classrooms at no cost.

The historic front pages are one way the YELL edition hopes to promote reading, said Kim McDowell, coordinator of NIE and YELL.

The front page from Nov. 22, 1963, reports John F. Kennedy's death. The banner headline reads "Kennedy Slain." The same page includes a story about the arrival of polio vaccine in Cape Girardeau.

The front page from April 19, 1906, when the newspaper was named The Daily Republican, details news about the California earthquake. The massive quake prompted the newspaper to print the first extra editions in its history. The page included in YELL is the 2nd Extra printed that day.

A headline on the page reads "Most horrible scene in world's history."

This front page, from nearly a century ago, includes an advertisement for a new subdivision, Marble City Heights.

The YELL edition includes articles on reading, education, books, the Area Wide United Way and more.

It also has a free Marvel comic book featuring the Flintstones or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

And those who buy a YELL paper might win one of 2,000 four-week subscriptions to the Southeast Missourian or one of three St. Louis getaway packages for two at the Regal Riverfront Hotel in St. Louis.

The edition also has coupons for free and half-price offers from area merchants.

"The $2 donation is going directly to literacy, and the value is certainly there," said McDowell.

"Reading is such an important skill," she said. "A non-reader in today's society looks to a life of crime while students with reading ability and newspaper reading habits have been proven more likely to succeed."

McDowell added that motorists Tuesday morning should be prepared to see volunteers at most major intersections selling the newspaper.

"Have your $2 ready," she said. "Once you have purchased your copy, you can always hold it up in the window as you pass through other intersections."

CAPE GIRARDEAU YELL LOCATIONS

Broadway & Perry

Sprigg & Bertliing

Olive & Frederick

Scully & Dempster Halls

Cape Vocational School

Independence & Rodney

Perryville & Cape Rock

William at St. Francis Medical Center

Kingshighway & William

Broadway & N. West End Blvd.

William & Sprigg

William & S. West End Blvd.

Kingshighway & Bloomfield

Kingshighway & Cape Rock

Broadway & Caruthers

Bloomfield & Silver Springs Rd.

Kingshighway & Independence

Mt. Auburn & Independence

Cape Public Elementary Schools

Lexington & Kingshighway

Forest & Ritter

Sprigg & Morgan Oak

Kingshighway & Southern Express

William & Sprigg

L.J. Schultz School

Central High School

Route K and Siemers

Rt. K and Mt. Auburn

William & Silver Springs

Kingshighway at New 74

Kinshighway & Broadway

Independence & West End Blvd.

Broadway & Pacific

Mt. Auburn & Kingshighway

Perryville Rd. & Lexington

Broadway & Sprigg