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TUESDAY: SCIENCE FAIR ATTRACTS OVER 200 ENTRIES
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
Gifted junior and senior high students throughout the region will compete in the 37th annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair opening Tuesday at the Show Me Center. More than 200 entries in 22 categories will be judged by a select group of doctors, scientists and other professionals...
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COUNTIES COUNT ON FOOD BANK; MORE THAN 200 AGENCIES DISTRIBUTE FOOD TO NEEDY
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
SIKESTON -- Trucks brought 4,029 cases of food and other items to the Bootheel Food Bank during one day last week. Along with the 12 cases of diced beef and six cases of chopped pork came 180 cases of Cinnamon Mini Buns cereal, 102 cases of non-dairy creamer and 87 cases of Oreos...
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JACKSON MAYORAL CANDIDATES MEET PUBLIC
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
JACKSON -- A rare mayoral race between a three-term Jackson alderman and the 11-term incumbent mayor will highlight this year's municipal election in Jackson. For the 74-year-old Meyer, this is the first time he's had opposition for re-election since 1981. Sander, 37, is the first candidate to oppose Meyer since former Jackson businessman Tom Schulte was defeated by Meyer by 232 votes. Meyer was first elected in 1973 when he defeated then-mayor Paul Leonard...
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BOOTHEEL FOOD BANK NEEDS TO GROW AS DEMAND FOR SERVICES SKYROCKET
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
SIKESTON -- In the last quarter of 1992, 21,800 households in Southeast Missouri received food donated through the Bootheel Food Bank. Situated among the state's poorest counties (nearly 36 percent of Pemiscot residents 7,700 people live below the poverty line), the organization is a lifeline to many...
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JAZZ GROUP PERFORMS ON TUESDAY
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
The "Faculty Three and Friends," a jazz group from the Department of Music at Southeast Missouri State University, will give a concert Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the University Center Ballroom. The "Faculty Three" consists of music professors Dr. Dan Dunavan, drummer; Dr. David Green, bassist; and Dr. Jerry Richardson, guitarist...
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CHANGES IN PROCEDURE WOULD AID COUNCIL WORK
(Editorial ~ 03/29/93)
The Cape Girardeau City Council will consider new procedural guidelines at its next meeting. The changes will affect both council members and the public. If adopted, this proposal should streamline future council meetings, and add a new sense of order, fairness and efficiency...
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BE OUR GUEST: BELL OFFICIAL: YELLOW PAGES BILL HAS NO HIDDEN AGENDA
(Column ~ 03/29/93)
Craig Felzien is a community relations manager for Southwestern Bell Telephone. Recently you have read quite a bit about House Bill 302, dubbed by many as the "Yellow Pages Bill," that is currently before legislators in Jefferson City. This bill has no hidden a~genda. Yet, in a guest column this week, the president of Long Distance Discount Inc., made liberal application of the word "fact" when attempting to build his case against this bill...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 03/29/93)
Ross Perot asks voters to tell him how they feel about waste in government. That's like a preacher polling his congregation members on how they view sin. --- St. Louis' new rapid-transit system can't be completed until 2,500 bodies in a cemetery blocking the route are relocated. Who's going to relocate the project engineers who are obviously dead from the neck up?...
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PUBLIC INVITED TO OPEN HOUSE AT SCHOOL
(Editorial ~ 03/29/93)
To the Editor: One of the hallmarks of our society is our freedom to choose. Not only do our laws guarantee this freedom, but our free market economy system enhances our choices. For example: bread can be purchased at any number of stores, in any number of varieties, and in a wide range of prices. ...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 03/29/93)
Son to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Myers of Leopold, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:37 a.m. Tuesday, March 16, 1993. Name, Matthew Richard. Weight, 8 pounds 15 ounces. First child. Mrs. Myers is the former Michelle Turner, daughter of Fred and Teresa Wilferth of Leopold, and Charles and Martha Turner of Lowndes. Mr. and Mrs. Myers are developmental aides at Terrace Gardens of Jackson. He is the son of Bob and Ellen Myers of Advance...
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HAZEL B. SKILES
(Obituary ~ 03/29/93)
Hazel B. Skiles, 76, of Route 1, McClure, died March 28, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 12, 1916, in Reynoldsville, Ill., to Ed and Eva Ellis Smith. They preceded her in death. On Feb. 26, 1934, she married Everett Skiles in Jonesboro, Ill. He survives...
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PERRYVILLE TEENAGER DIES IN AUTO ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
FRUITLAND -- One Perryville youth was killed and two others injured after their car struck a tree on Highway 61 about four miles north of Fruitland Saturday night. Sgt. J.J. King of the Missouri Highway Patrol said that at about 9:40 p.m. Saturday, the driver lost control of the 1979 Oldsmobile while rounding a curb on the wrong side of the road, causing the car to spin out of control and slam into a nearby tree...
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LANNES A. OAKES
(Obituary ~ 03/29/93)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Lannes A. Oakes, 55, of Mounds, Ill., died Saturday, March 27, 1993, at the Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 26, 1937, at Mounds, Ill., son of Wayne and Beatrice Griffith Oakes. Oakes owned and operated a H&R Block business in Cairo, Ill...
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JASON R. RITCH
(Obituary ~ 03/29/93)
PERRYVILLE -- Jason R. Ritch, 16, of Perryville, died Saturday, March 27, 1993, in a car accident Cape Girardeau County. He was born April 27, 1976, in St. Louis, son of William and Shirley O'Neal Ritch. He was a junior at Perryville High School. Survivors include his parents, William and Robbie Ritch, Robert and Shirley O'Neal Foster, all of Perryville; and his twin brother, Jeremy Ritch...
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MERNA LOCKE
(Obituary ~ 03/29/93)
Merna Locke, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, March 28, 1993, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was the daughter of John P. and Jennie L. Monahon Ewart. She was married to Harold Block Sr., on July 25, 1925, in Greenup, Ill. He died in 1984. She was a homemaker...
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ETHEL W. JONES
(Obituary ~ 03/29/93)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Ethel W. Jones, 88, of Cairo, Ill., died Sunday, March 28, 1993, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo, Ill. She was born April 28, 1904, at Wickliffe, Ky., daughter of Allen and Frances Robertson Lunsford. She was married to Sam Jones. She was a member of the Urbandale Community Church in Urbandale, Ill...
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BLOMEYER SCHOOL PLANNING REUNION
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
All past teachers and students are welcome to the Blomeyer School reunion on June 13 at Shelter 8 at Cape Girardeau County Park. Lunch will begin at 1 p.m. If you attend you should bring a covered dish and service for your own family. For more information call Madline Hente at 335-8900, or Sherman Woods at 243-5848...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 03/29/93)
The Southeast Missourian asked people what they thought about the hard-line lawmakers in Russia trying to remove Boris Yeltsin from office. Walt Wilburn said, "I think they wanted a quick fix and they did not get it so they are reverting back to the only thing they know, communist rule. Of the two choices, Yeltsin or the lawmakers, I think the lawmakers as a group should be making the laws."...
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