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PROBATION BOARD DOES WELL IN DEBT COLLECTIONS
(Editorial ~ 02/07/92)
With the exception of those who have been placed under its jurisdiction, most people probably are unfamiliar with the workings of the Missouri Board of Probation and Parole. Because the board's officers deal primarily with those who have committed a crime and are on probation, or have been to prison and paroled, the majority of people never come into contact with its officers. ...
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ENFORCE THE RULES OF TRADE; EXPORT SALES CREATE JOBS, SO FAIR PLAY VITAL FOR MISSOURI
(Column ~ 02/07/92)
Trade with other nations is important to Missouri for this basic reason: trade means jobs here at home. Export sales create Missouri jobs in agriculture, commercial aircraft, engineering, pharmaceuticals, and other areas. American workers and businesses in these and other industries have demonstrated that goods and services from the U.S. can compete throughout the world, if we have fair access to markets in other countries...
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PENNSYLVANIA INCIDENT SHOWS HARMONY A TOUGH NUT TO CRACK
(Column ~ 02/07/92)
In the rickety history of modern race relations, Chino Wilson is something of a train wreck. That's not to say he's necessarily an evil character ... just young, perhaps, with reckless thoughts. Let's start with his strong points and go from there: he's forthright, says what he thinks...
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DRURYS IN EVANSVILLE AT SITE OF CRASH
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
Charles, Robert and Jerry Drury, three of the founders of Drury Inns Inc., and several members of the firm's senior management team were at the site of the plane crash in Evansville, Ind., a company spokesman said Thursday. A C-130 transport plane crashed into a Drury Inn and adjacent JoJo's restaurant...
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NEWSLINE: PROGRESS EDITION TO BEGIN SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
The first installment of the Southeast Missourian's annual Progress Edition will be published in Sunday's edition. As has been the custom in recent years, the special edition, entitled "Profiles of Progress" for 1992, will be published over the course of three consecutive Sundays. Subsequent installments this year will be published on Feb. 16 and Feb. 23...
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RIVER PROJECT BEGINS; CAPE ROCK WEIRS TO REDUCE SILTING
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
A navigational project under way in the Mississippi River near Cape Rock will reduce the need for frequent dredging in that area and will allow for safer passage of barge tows around Cape Rock, a spokesman for the Corps of Engineers said Thursday. Rob Davinroy, project designer and hydraulics engineer with the Corps' St. ...
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NEW EPA WASTE-WATER RULE LIKELY WILL COST CITY
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
New federal environmental regulations likely will cost the city of Cape Girardeau more than $500,000 over the next two years. The Environmental Protection Agency, through the Missouri Division of Natural Resources, has required that the city come up with a way to reduce the bacteria, pathogens, in the sludge produced by waste-water treatment...
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SOUTHEAST MAY CLOSE DAY CARE; LACK OF PARTICIPANTS MAKES FACILITY UNFEASIBLE
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
Evening child care at Southeast Missouri State University will likely be discontinued after just one semester because too few students have enrolled their children. Evening care is offered Monday through Thursday from 5:40 to 9 p.m. at the Center for Child Studies on campus. Student workers earn credit to care for the children...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU WOMAN FALLS FROM BALCONY OF APARTMENT
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
A woman remained in stable condition Thursday night after falling for an unknown reason from a second-story apartment balcony. The woman, Clarissa Melrose, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, where a spokeswoman said she was stable...
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OPEN HOUSE IS SET AT VO-TECH SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
The Cape Girardeau Vocational Technical School will hold an open house on Sunday from 12:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. "We're going to have the instructors and students in their shops, labs and classrooms demonstrating what they do," said Gary Gilbert, school director...
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LONNIE MOORE OUT OF COMMISSION CONTEST
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
JACKSON - Lonnie Moore of Millersville Route 1 has had to withdraw as a candidate for the Cape Girardeau County Commission because of a conflict with holding public office and his profession. Moore, who filed for the Republican nomination for 1st District associate commissioner Jan. 22, has a bail bond business...
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`BEGINNING' WEEKEND IN PERRYVILLE SET
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
PERRYVILLE -- A Beginning Experience Weekend designed to help divorced, widowed and separated persons start a new beginning is scheduled Feb. 28-March 1 at Perryville. A team of trained leaders takes participants through presentations followed by private reflection and discussion...
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WOMAN, TWO CHILDREN INJURED ON BROADWAY
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
A woman and two children were injured Thursday after one of the children ran into traffic and her mother attempted to stop her. Traffic officer John Davis of the Cape Girardeau Police Department said 3-year-old Brittany Porter, her mother, Cheryl Diane Porter, 30, and 1-year-old Tiffany Mead were struck by a car traveling west on Broadway at about 6 p.m. All are from Cape Girardeau...
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HENRY T. BUMGARDANER
(Obituary ~ 02/07/92)
ORAN -- Graveside service for Henry T. Bumgardaner of Memphis, Tenn., was held Jan. 30 at Woodhaven Memory Gardens in Millington, Tenn. Bumgardaner, 74, died Monday, Jan. 27, 1992, at Methodist Central Hospital in Memphis. He was a retired dragline operator, member of Longstreet Methodist Church at Memphis, and Masonic Lodge 599...
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JANICE FROST
(Obituary ~ 02/07/92)
Janice Frost, 43, of Blytheville, Ark., died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 1992, at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. She was born Sept. 20, 1948, at Blytheville, daughter of James and Erma Lee Green. She and Curtis Frost were married Nov. 22, 1967. Survivors include her husband; two sons, Eric and Geon Frost of Blytheville; her mother, Erma Lee Allen of Cape Girardeau; two brothers, Clifton Pugh of Pontiac, Mich., L.T. Strong of Kansas City, and two grandchildren...
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DOVIE FARRIS
(Obituary ~ 02/07/92)
MILLER CITY, Ill. -- Funeral service for Dovie Farris of Miller City will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Crain Funeral Chapel in Tamms. The Rev. Verlee Eaker will officiate, with burial in Olive Branch Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 4-8 p.m. Saturday...
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MINNIE C. FOX
(Obituary ~ 02/07/92)
MARBLE HILL -- Minnie C. Fox, 86, of Marble Hill, died Thursday, Feb. 6, 1992, at Bond Nursing Care Center. She was born Feb. 14, 1905, near here, daughter of Samuel and Mary Crader. She married Franklin Fox Jan. 31, 1921. He died Aug. 25, 1971. Fox was a member of Locust Grove General Baptist Church near Marble Hill...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 02/07/92)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Marty Nagel of Rogers, Ark., St. Mary's Hospital there, 8:35 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, 1992. Name, Haley Beth. Weight, 9 pounds 15 ounces. First child. Mrs. Nagel is the former Beth Ann Todd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Max Todd of Lamar, and is a certified public accountant. Nagel is employed by J.B. Hunt, and is the son of Lloyd Nagel of Jackson and the late Lavern Nagel...
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ELMER R. SCHAPER
(Obituary ~ 02/07/92)
JACKSON -- Elmer R. Schaper, 84, of rural Jackson, died at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau late Thursday afternoon. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson.
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GIBSON CENTER CHANGES ITS LONG-TERM TREATMENT PLAN
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
The Gibson Recovery Center Inc., a facility that offers substance-abuse treatment, has changed the way it handles long-term care of recovering alcohol and drug abusers. Hugh Stone, executive director of the facility, said the Gibson Center, 1112 linden, has closed its long-term domiciliary and adopted Missouri's new Comprehensive Substance Abuse Rehabilitation (CSTAR) program...
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NATIVE AMERICAN DANCING SCHEDULED
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
A group of Native Americans will perform inter-tribal dances Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the Ballroom of the University Center. The Sociology/Anthropology Club at Southeast Missouri State University is sponsoring the performance. Student Government is funding the event...
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FINS, FEATHERS, FUR
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
A former Cape Girardean recently won first place in the 1992 Las Vegas Indoor Archery Shoot, billed as the world's largest indoor archery tournament. Mike Kerr, who won many local and state archery tournaments as a youth in Cape Girardeau, was top winner in the free style limited division at the recent Las Vegas event, held at the Tropicana Sports Complex...
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CANADA GEESE DOING WELL IN MISSOURI; TURKEY DECLINE NOTED
(Local News ~ 02/07/92)
JEFFERSON CITY -- The number of prairie chickens and Indiana bats in Missouri continues to decline, and wild turkeys are having a rough time. But gray bats are doing well, and numbers of giant Canada geese and upland furbearers are booming, according to the 1991 Yearbook of Population Trends for Missouri Wildlife published by the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC)...
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