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THE PUBLIC MIND: DOES TWO-TIER SYSTEM OF MEDICAL CARE IN UNITED STATES WORK?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/25/93)
To the Editor: Health care in the United States is at its cross roads. We have the most enviable medical care system that is rated as the best in the world. At the same time, the system is costing too much and excluding too many people. A Gallop poll last year showed 91 percent of Americans believe the nation is facing health care crisis. The national debate on health care is the number one domestic issue during the last presidential election...
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EASTER EGG HUNTS APRIL 3 IN CAPE, SCOTT CITY PARKS
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Easter egg hunts are scheduled in Cape Girardeau and Scott City on Saturday, April 3. The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will hold its Fifth Annual hunt at Capaha Park. This year's event will feature separate egg hunts. The first, beginning at 10 a.m., is for children ages 4 and younger, and the second, beginning at 11:30 a.m. is for children ages 5-10...
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JACKSON PAIR WILL CHAIR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS WALK
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
JACKSON -- Mary Kathryn Meyer and her son, Chad Meyer, both of Jackson, have been chosen again this year as local coordinators for the Multiple Sclerosis "Super Cities Walk." Margy Brazie, fundraising manager for the Gateway Area Chapter for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society recently announced the appointment. The walk is scheduled to begin at noon Saturday at Capaha Park in Cape Girardeau...
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AUTHOR RESCHEDULES READING FROM NEW BOOK
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Southeast Missouri State University faculty member Ted Hirschfield will read from his forthcoming book, "Orbiting God," April 29 at 4 p.m. in Crisp Hall Auditorium. The reading had originally been scheduled for April 8. The event, presented by the English department and the Cultural Programs Committee, is part of an ongoing series of readings from works in progress by faculty members in the College of Liberal Arts...
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JACKSON ENROLLEMENTS SCHEDULED ON APRIL 2
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
The Jackson kindergarten and first grade enrollments will be conducted April 2 at the Primary Annex Building from 8:15 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Parents of children who will be five years old before July 1, 1993, are urged to enroll them for the 1993-94 school year at this time...
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CITY HOSTS CRAFTS SHOW ON MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department will be holding its third annual Arts and Crafts Festival at Capaha Park on Mother's Day weekend, May 8-9. The event is open to the public free of charge May 8 from 9 a.m.- 7 p.m. and May 9 from 9 a.m.- 4 p.m...
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BEGINNING EXPERIENCE WEEKEND SET APRIL 16-18
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
A Beginning Experience Weekend is scheduled for April 16-18 at Perryville. This weekend is designed to help divorced, widowed and separated persons start over in their lives. A trained team leads participants through a simple program of presentations, followed by private reflection and dialogue...
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COPING WITH CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE TOPIC OF PROGRAM
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
The American Lung Association and St. Francis Medical Center Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department will sponsor a one-day conference called "Coping With Chronic Lung Disease." The event will be held April 5 in the education department of the medical center...
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WEATHER WATCH PROGRAM SCHEDULED IN CHAFFEE
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
A weather watch program has been scheduled for residents of Chaffee and surrounding area. The program is scheduled to be held at the council chambers in the Chaffee City Building Tuesday at 7 p.m. Anyone interested is invited to attend. Brian Alworth from KFVS-12 will be the guest speaker and will discuss weather-related conditions. Two films will also be shown on weather...
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NEW CAPE MAPS ARE AVAILABLE AT CITY HALL
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
The Cape Girardeau Planning Services Division has updated 1993 city street maps available for 50 cents each at City Hall. The 18-by-24 inch maps also will be available to the public at the SEMO Homebuilder's Association Home Show this weekend. The city's standard base map, on a 36-by-52 inch sheet also has been revised and updated. ...
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WITHOUT A SONG: SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION SHOWCASE - APRIL, 4
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
In a mirrored dance studio in downtown Cape Girardeau, a small group of people gather in a circle twice a month to sing to each other. They are members of the Heartland Songwriters Association, a confederation of wanna-be, would-be and could-be songwriters who support, critique and motivate each other in what one calls their shared "obsession."...
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CENTRAL HIGH PRESENTS `PLAZA SUITE'
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Four days before the opening night of Neil Simon's "Plaza Suite" at Cape Girardeau Central High School, director Cynthia Wyatt fumed like Mike Ditka in a "Cats" sweatshirt. She didn't at all like what she saw in the previous rehearsal, and let her cast know it...
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CENSUS STATISTICS OFFER MISLEADING VIEW OF AREA
(Editorial ~ 03/25/93)
A U.S. Census Bureau report issued this week indicated something about Southeast Missouri that most residents of this part of the state already know: some challenges exist. Census numbers show that the 8th Congressional District is the largest, most rural and poorest in Missouri. As much as we would have liked to be surprised by the new government statistics, we accept the story they tell. We can also resolve that this situation need not persist in the years to come...
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RESTLESS HEART CONCERT APRIL 20
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Tickets for the concert by Restless Heart April 20 at Southeast Missouri State University will go on sale Saturday. The country band will play at 8 p.m. in Academic Auditorium. The opening act will be the Dirt Road Express. Tickets are $13 for the public and $10 for students. They will be on sale at the University Center Information Desk, Disk Jockey, Fun Flicks and Collins Music...
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REGENTS WILL CONSIDER FEE HIKE
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
The Board of Regents at Southeast Missouri State University will consider raising incidental fees when it meets Tuesday. While the full, 1994 fiscal-year operating budget won't be considered by the board until June, Southeast's Budget Review Committee is recommending generally 4 percent increases in salary and benefits for university employees. The increase would be 5 percent for many faculty members, school officials say...
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UNIVERSITY PANEL DRAFTS COMPENSATION PACKAGE
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
A full professor at Southeast Missouri State University would make more than $50,000 on average next fiscal year under a compensation package recommended by the school's Budget Review Committee. Southeast Missouri State University employees would receive across-the-board salary-and-benefit hikes, as well as merit pay, with the package recommended by the committee...
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VOTERS FACE BOTTOM-LINE ISSUES; BOND MEASURE WOULD RAISE TAX 99 CENTS
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Cape Girardeau voters have some bottom-line choices to make before they decide whether to punch the "yes" or "no" slots in the $25 million school bond issue election April 6. The 99-cent tax increase would boost the school tax from $2.87 cents to $3.86 per $100 assessed valuation. Financially, proponents say that bite will be offset in part by the millions to be spent in the local economy and the maintenance of property values...
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TOTAL PAYOUT IS AT LEAST $43 MILLION
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Cape Girardeau's proposed school bond issue raises questions about middle school concepts, technology-ready schools and the need for retrofitting to withstand earthquakes. But there's little question that tax-wary voters these days are just as interested in the dollars and cents...
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STUDENTS LEARN ABOUT WORLD WOES
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Imagine a map roughly the size of a basketball court. Add nearly 200 university students in stocking feet, a slide projector and two microphones. What you have is the World Game Workshop: a four-hour long program in which students solve the problems of the world, while remaining wary its fragile eco-systems...
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AUDITOR DROWNS COMPLEX; KELLY: MARBLE HILL EXPLOITS POOL TRUST
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
The city of Marble Hill's plans to use money bequeathed for a community swimming pool to also build a municipal office complex could expose city officials to lawsuits, says Missouri Auditor Margaret Kelly. Kelly reported her findings of an audit of the city at a meeting Wednesday night before about 100 Marble Hill citizens...
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SEMINAR ON AIDS SET FOR APRIL 22 AT ST. FRANCIS
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
St. Francis Medical Center will present a seminar called "Aids and the Healthcare Worker" on April 22. The seminar is for nurses and others in the health-care field. It will be held in the St. Francis Health and Education Centre. Registration will begin at 7:45 a.m. and the program is scheduled to be from 8:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m...
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AREA PORT GETS NEW DIRECTOR, BUT ANNOUNCEMENT WILL WAIT
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
SCOTT CITY - The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority has a new executive director, but announcement of his name has not been made. Mysie Keene of Jackson, chairman of the port's nine-member board of commissioners, confirmed Wednesday that the board had agreed to hire someone at a special meeting Monday afternoon. But Keene said the director's name cannot be released for about two weeks so he has time to notify his employer...
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CITY HOST TO SPECIAL OLYMPICS SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
More than 300 athletes will converge Saturday on the Abe Stuber Track and Field Complex on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau for the Special Olympics. Penny Wingerter, a city recreation coordinator, said the city's parks and recreation department will host the event...
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COMMUNICATION ON TRAFFIC SAFETY A FOCUS OF SPECIAL WORKSHOP HERE
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Every person has virtually a 100 percent chance of being in a car accident during his or her lifetime. One out of every 50 people will die in a car crash. More than 400,000 car accidents occur throughout the state of Missouri annually, many of them preventable...
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MILDRED MCKINNEY
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
Mildred McKinney, 62, of 1542 Trenton Lane, died March 24, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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GENE F. WILSON
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
PERRYVILLE -- Gene Franklin Wilson, 49, formerly of Perryville, died Monday, March 22, 1993, at his home in Overland. He was born Dec. 22, 1943, in Perryville, son of Eugene and Cora Rose Wilson. Wilson was a computer programmer for Mosby Yearbook. Survivors are cousins, Woodrow Wilson, Wittenberg, and Harold Wilson, Grand Tower, Ill...
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BETTY L. ALCORN
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
MARBLE HILL -- Betty Lou Alcorn, 65, of Rock Springs, Wyo., died Tuesday, March 23, 1993, at the University of Utah Medical Center in Salt Lake. She was born Feb. 26, 1928, in Advance, daughter of Sherman and Ethel Ridings Moxley. She and Richard Alcorn were married Aug. 15, 1949. He died in 1985...
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ALMA L. FREEMANN
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
Alma Louise Brown Freemann, 52, of Las Vegas, Nev., died Tuesday, March 16, 1993, following an extended illness. She was formerly of McClure, Ill. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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ELOY L. SUTTERER
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
PERRYVILLE -- Eloy L. Sutterer, 82, of Perryville, died Wednesday, March 24, 1993, at home. He was born April 3, 1910, at Perryville, son of Henry and Mary Huffman Sutterer. He and Iloa L. Moll were married Nov. 29, 1933. Sutterer was a letter carrier with U.S. Postal Service. He was a member of Knights of Columbus and Third Degree Knight, member of Western Catholic Union and National Association of Retired Federal Employees...
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POLLY A. GOODALE
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
SCOTT CITY -- Polly Ann Goodale, 34, of Scott City, died Wednesday, March 24, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 17, 1958, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Henry Orville and Pauline Jones Goodale. Goodale was a data input filer at Community Counseling Center in Cape Girardeau, and member of the Assembly of God Church here. She was a 1977 graduate of Scott City High School...
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LAWRENCE M. ROBBINS
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
CHARLESTON -- Lawrence Max Robbins, 67, of Charleston, died Tuesday, March 23, 1993, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born Oct. 8, 1925, in McNairy County, Tenn., son of Jimmy Alfred and Alice Pearl Curtis Robbins. He and Loretta Flatt were married Oct. 8, 1949...
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ROY B. CRAIG
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
ANNA, Ill. -- Roy B. Craig, 81, of Anna, died Tuesday, March 23, 1993, at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born June 10, 1911, in Sparta, son of John M. and Margaret Boyd Craig. He and Alberta Wilson were married July 21, 1939. Craig retired in 1969 as supervisor of Farmers Home Administration. He was a member of American Legion and Anna United Methodist Church. He was a veteran of World War II...
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BETTE SCHWARTZ
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
CHAFFEE -- Graveside service for Bette Schwartz of Manchester will be held at 1 p.m. today at Forest Hills Memorial Gardens in Morley. David Coon will officiate. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee from 12-12:30 p.m. Schwartz, 70, died Tuesday, March 23, 1993, at Surry Place Nursing Home in Chesterfield...
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BETTY L. FULLER
(Obituary ~ 03/25/93)
Betty Lou Fuller, 59, 20 S. Pacific, died Wednesday, March 24, 1993, at her home. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 03/25/93)
Daughter to Leslie Cauble of Scott City, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 9:02 a.m. Tuesday, March 16, 1993. Name, Skyler Nicole. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. First child. Miss Cauble is the daughter of Jan Cauble of Jackson, and Scott Cauble of Dexter. Son to Mr. ...
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REP. DRISKILL LIKELY CHOICE FOR CATINET POST
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
JEFFERSON CITY - State Rep. Joe Driskill, who has made economic development legislation a key focus of his career, will be named director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development today by Gov. Mel Carnahan. Carnahan has called a 1 p.m. press conference today to make the announcement...
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MUSIC FESTIVAL THIS WEEKEND TO ATTRACT 50 SCHOOLS
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
Students from as many as 50 high schools will participate in the Southeast Missouri Music Festival to be held at Southeast Missouri State University this weekend. "Thousands of students will perform during the weekend, starting Thursday at 5 p.m. at Academic Auditorium," said Bonnie Wanick, a teacher at Perryville High School and coordinator of the music festival. "Band performances will be open to the public."...
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SCOTT CITY YOUTH BASEBALL SIGNUPS SET
(Local News ~ 03/25/93)
SCOTT CITY -- The city Park Board will hold signups for summer youth baseball league from 5-8 p.m. today in Room 12 of the Scott City High School. Boys and girls between the ages of 6 and 18 are eligible to play. A one-time $20 registration fee is required for all players...
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