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Police response is appreciated

WE WOULD like to thank the Cape Girardeau Police Department for the quick response and thorough investigation of a late-night Sunday call. Your efforts were very much appreciated.

Boycott appears to be working

I WOULD like to comment on this Disney boycott. Disney said the reason its latest release, Hercules, did so poorly at the box office was because people did not get out and watch the movies on the Fourth of July. Thats simply not the case, because if it is, look at Men in Black. It grossed over $50 million. So the boycott is working.

No professional discipline

DOES ANYONE else detect a lack of discipline with the Mars mission control team? They hoop and holler, and I dont blame them. Theyve accomplished quite a feat. However, they now seem so passive and unfocused. That little rover has already collided with a rock due to untimely steering data. Now the wrong data are being supplied telling the rover when to listen for commands, losing 24 hours of exploration time. The original mission controllers may have seemed stiff and self-centered, but they got Apollo 13 and the crew home safely. Why cant todays young controllers exhibit such professional discipline.

200-foot limit should be removed

I THINK the city council should rethink the ordinance on complaints if a dilapidated house or building is just over 200 feet from you. The city council should know that whether its 200 feet or 1,000 feet from this dilapidated building, it still devalues the property in the whole neighborhood. Therefore, I feel that they should give the chief of police the power to file complaints against these people and make them clean their places up for the benefit of the ones who do keep their place clean. If one neighbor lets his property go, it just runs the whole neighborhood down and this 200 feet is strictly wrong.

Purse in grocery cart is returned

A GREAT big thanks to the lady who took my purse into Schnucks Monday at noon which I had left in my cart. May God bless you.

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