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FIREFIGHTERS BATTLE 3 BLAZES
(Local News ~ 01/27/92)
Cape Girardeau firefighters responded to three fires Sunday morning, one of which might have been started by "vagrants" trying to keep warm in an abandoned building. No injuries were reported. A small brick building at 605 Good Hope that city fire and police officials say was a frequent overnight shelter for drifters was destroyed by fire at about 1 a.m. Sunday...
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INCOME IN STATE DOUBLES; STUDY SAYS 1980s GOOD FOR MISSOURI
(Local News ~ 01/27/92)
A recent study by the University of Missouri Extension's Office of Social and Economic Data Analysis shows the state's total income has more than doubled during the past decade. Daryl Hobbs, director of the office that compiled the study, said Missouri's per capita income in 1989 ranked nationally about the same as it did in 1979 slightly above the median...
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BELL CITY TO GET GRANT FOR BALL FIELD
(Local News ~ 01/27/92)
BELL CITY -- Bell City is slated to receive a $37,500 federal grant to build a lighted ball field at a meeting Tuesday. The grant is from the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund. More than $597,000 in grants will be awarded for outdoor recreation projects in Missouri at a meeting Tuesday of the State Interagency Council for Outdoor Recreation in Jefferson City...
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HOLDEN SET FOR STATE TREASURER'S RACE
(Local News ~ 01/27/92)
Four years ago in an election year dominated by Republicans in Missouri, Democrat Bob Holden received 48 percent of the vote against incumbent State Treasurer Wendell Bailey, a Republican. Holden was obviously disappointed with the defeat, but felt he had laid the groundwork for a successful race four years later. In thanking his supporters in 1988, Holden left little doubt that he would be back in 1992 as a candidate for treasurer...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 01/27/92)
The Southeast Missourian asked subscribers of TCI Cablevision about their viewing habits of the local cable access channel. Tonight at 6:30 at City Hall, the Cape Girardeau Cable TV Citizens Committee will hold a "town meeting" to receive input from residents about the local cable television service...
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THE PUBLIC MIND: FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDES PRACTICALITY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/27/92)
To the Editor: I have just finished reading in the Public Mind column of the Southeast Missourian a letter headed "Please no new taxes." I, too, endorse the thinking that adding more taxes will not solve all of our problems and that what is needed is "fiscal responsibility." However, another element we must include is practically. ...
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DRUG TASK FORCE HAS SUCCESS FIGHTING CRIME
(Editorial ~ 01/27/92)
The head of the SEMO Drug Task Force last week released some statistics that serve as proof the special investigative unit has had a real impact on illegal drug trafficking and other crimes in the area. In the two years the task force has been in operation, it has maintained a 100 percent conviction rate in the arrests of 264 people for 422 different crimes, its president, Dennis Long, told a task force gathering in Dexter Wednesday. ...
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THE PUBLIC MIND: MTV HELPS DESTROY AMERICA'S VALUES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/27/92)
An Open Letter to Cape/Jackson Cable TV (TCI): Eddie Rabbit, country-western singer/entertainer, was quoted in Southeast Missourian as follows: "MTV promotes the most violent acts in front of our children ... If parents saw someone around the corner from their house peddling hardcore pornography to their children, they'd have them arrested. That is what MTV does and it's wrong."...
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SAMUEL D. DOLLAR
(Obituary ~ 01/27/92)
SIKESTON -- Samuel D. Dollar, 92, of Sikeston died Saturday, Jan. 25, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Dec. 6, 1899, in Cedarview, Miss., the son of Thomas D. and Ruth Amanda Ham Dollar. On May 5, 1916, he married Mary Louis Alsup, who preceded him in death July 30, 1972...
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JUNIOR CHEFS HAVE A CLASS AT ARENA
(Local News ~ 01/27/92)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will offer an eight-week "Junior Chefs Cooking Club" class at the A.C. Brase Arena Building. The Tuesday classes will be held from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m., beginning Tuesday. The fee for the class is $10.50 for residents and $11.50 for non-residents. The classes are open for anyone ages 7 to 12...
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ADA M. MILLIGAN
(Obituary ~ 01/27/92)
SIKESTON -- Ada M. Milligan, 87, of Sikeston, died Saturday, Jan. 25, 1992 at the Sikeston Health Care Center. She was born April 6, 1904 at Sidney, Ark., daughter of Henry Thomas Blevins and Margaret Ellen Pierce Blevins. She married Marvin Milligan in 1937. He preceded her in death...
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INEZ BARTELS
(Obituary ~ 01/27/92)
Inez Bartels, 74, of Fountainbleau Lodge in Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 26, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Sept. 7, 1917, at Dexter, the daughter of Ralph and Kathleen Parker Huston. In 1941, she married Linus Wesley Bartels in Dexter. He preceded her in death Aug. 11, 1985...
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HERMAN P. MEYER
(Obituary ~ 01/27/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Herman P. Meyer, 85, of Perryville died Sunday, Jan. 26, 1992, at the Perry County Nursing Home in Perryville. He was born March 17, 1906, in Apple Creek, the son of Hugo J. Meyer Sr. and Mary Schnurbusch Meyer. On Oct. 20, 1931, he married Justina J. Lauck, who preceded him in death Feb. 23, 1981...
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