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HIGHER STANDARD SHOULD HELP GUARANTEE SUCCESS
(Editorial ~ 12/23/92)
Southeast Missouri State University is moving to make its admission standards "moderately selective." The change is in line with the Missouri Coordinating Board for Higher Education push to require entering students to be better prepared academically...
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TRANSCRIPT OF THE DISPUTE ON CITY COUNCIL
(Editorial ~ 12/23/92)
The following is excerpted from Monday night's Cape Girardeau city council meeting. It is the discussion that ensued after Calvin Chapman, chairman of the Cape Girardeau Solid Waste Task Force, revealed that he had been contacted by Mayor Gene Rhodes and a representative of a private trash collection company regarding the task force's study...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 12/23/92)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John T. Busey of Patton, Perry County Hospital, 3:27 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1992. Name, Kelsea Sue. Weight, 6 pounds. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Busey is the former Kelly James, daughter of Mike and Sue Fox of St. Peters, and the late Jack James. Busey is a foreman at Busey Truck Equipment in Jackson, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jerrel Busey of Wappapello...
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PETE GREEN
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
HIRAM -- Pete Green, 90, of Hiram, died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1992, at Greenville Nursing Care Center in Greenville. He was born Feb. 27, 1902, at Glennon, son of David and Bell Ward Green. He and Flossie L. Moyers were married Oct. 17, 1935. She died Feb. 17, 1992...
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HARLAN F. STRONG
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
Harlan F. Strong, 82, 1400 S. West End Boulevard, died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born June 29, 1910, in the Puxico area, son of Linus and Birdies McGuire Strong. He and Daisy Webb were married May 21, 1935. Strong was a retired sheet metal worker, and member of VFW. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II...
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CAROL BARRETT
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
MARBLE HILL -- Cynthia Caroline "Carol" Barrett, 85, of Ferguson, died Monday, Dec. 21, 1992, at Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis. She was born July 13, 1907, at Marble Hill, daughter of John H. and Ida M. Kirkpatrick Berry. She married Theodore Nanney in 1928, who died in 1929. She later married Chester A. Barrett in 1932, who died Oct. 14, 1982...
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JERRY D. EAKENS
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
RISCO -- Jerry Dale Eakens, 54, of Risco, died Monday, Dec. 21, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Feb. 5, 1938, at Tallapoosa, son of Ben and Maggie Mollineaux Eakens. He and Goldie Young were married May 26, 1959, at New Madrid...
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DAVID F. PIERCE
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
Funeral service for David Franklin Pierce of St. Louis, formerly of Cape Girardeau, was held Monday at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Neil Stein officiated, with burial in Memorial Park. Pierce, 86, died Saturday, Dec. 19, 1992, at his home...
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JAY S. WEBB
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Jay Stephen Webb, 22, of Marion, formerly of Olive Branch, died Tuesday, Dec. 22, 1992, at Memorial Hospital in Marion, from injuries received earlier that day in a two-car accident at Marion. He was born Nov. 10, 1970, in Cairo, son of James R. and Judith K. Kurtz Webb Sr. of Marion...
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STEPHEN D. MCINTOSH
(Obituary ~ 12/23/92)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Stephen Dale McIntosh, 28, of San Diego, Calif., formerly of East Prairie, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 1992, in San Diego, following an extended illness. He was born May 7, 1964, at Sikeston, son of Billy W. and Georgia Alsup McIntosh. He attended East Prairie schools, and served in the U.S. Army...
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LEND ME YOUR EAR: ALL IN THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS
(Column ~ 12/23/92)
Only two more days, and the day we call Christmas will make its official appearance. No one really knows when Christ was born, and the first recorded observance of His birth was in the year 98 A.D. But it was not until the year 340 A.D. that Dec. 25, the first day of the Jewish Festival of Lights, was established as official by Pope Julius of the Roman Catholic Church...
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