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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: INVADING PRIVACY RIGHTS IS NO ANSWER
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/18/94)
To the Editor: Openly criticizing politicians is a favorite American past time. Making time to write or call them to voice our opinions is not. Please send a message to your representatives in all levels of government that more law enforcement personnel, more prisons, harsher penalties for marijuana possession and forfeiture of prisoners' assets is not the answer. ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: CIGARETTE ADS ONE MORE TACT IN A CYNICAL, SELFISH AND HARMFUL STRATEGY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/18/94)
Dear Editor: The latest salvo in the tobacco industry's propaganda war -- full-page ads in major national newspapers -- is really part of its longstanding campaign to convince the public that smoking really isn't as dangerous as the entire world health and scientific community says it is...
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DOES TAX INCREASE DESERVE A VOTE:?
(Column ~ 07/18/94)
It is safe to say that a large majority of Missourians wanted the oppotunity to vote on whatever education tax increases were to be imposed by Gov. Mel Carnahan and a legislative majority in 1993. This governor, acting together with a legislative majority he constructed, carefully and craftily undertook to ensure that such a vote wouldn't happen. ...
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DEATH PENALTY SHOULD NOT BE DECIDED BY QUOTA
(Editorial ~ 07/18/94)
E Pluribus Unum. "Out of many, one." This is, of course, the motto of the United States, representing our highest aspirations to citizenship in a nation of many diverse cultures. Taking the best of all these cultures, we blend them, becoming Americans, thus fulfilling what our founders called Novus Ordo Seclorum, or "A New Order for the Ages."...
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LAND DEVELOPMENT AT ISSUE WHEN COUNCIL MEETS TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
Round two of the battle between property owners and Rendrag Development Corporation will take place in the Cape Girardeau City Council chambers tonight. Dr. Robert Gardner, who is financing Rendrag Development, saw his attempt to rezone a 33-acre tract of land from a single-family to a multiple-family residential district rejected last week by the city's Planning and Zoning Commission by way of an 8-0...
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LOBBYING: BIG HITTERS WIELD POWER IN CAPITOL
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
JEFFERSON CITY -- It was just after the election of his good friend Tom Eagleton that John Britton decided to hang out his shingle as a lobbyist. Already living in Jefferson City, where he had been executive director of the Missouri Bituminous Contractors Association, and thus had some experience in the influence business, Britton decided to expand the number of companies and groups that would pay to have their voice heard in Capitol corridors...
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LAST YEAR'S FLOOD VICTIMS HELPING NEEDY THIS YEAR
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
Betty Ford apologized for not having more cleansers and paper goods to donate to Georgia flood victims as she hustled them onto a Salvation Army trailer Sunday. "This is all I can afford," said Ford, who was just one of thousands to respond to the Salvation Army's flood relief drive in the Schnuck's parking lot...
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OWNERS OF SUNKEN DREDGE WAITING FOR ACTION
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
The owners of the former U.S. Army Corps of Engineers dredge "Ste. Genevieve" wish a Cape Girardeau boat repair company would decide whether to raise and repair the sunken boat. The Ste. Genevieve sank in the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau on March 10 while it was docked at the Missouri Drydock and Repair Service boatyard...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
The Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think the United States should do about Haiti?" Scott Mainord "I really don't think we should send troops into Haiti. Other than that, I don't know." Jeff Highley "I guess we should decide if there is anything to do in Haiti, and why we should be the ones to do it. I don't think we should send troops."...
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HUNDREDS WATCH SOCCER ON BIG SCREEN
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
Kevin Orr brought his entire youth-league soccer team to the Show Me Center Sunday afternoon to watch the final game of the World Cup soccer tournament on the big screen. "We got everyone signed up for the fall season today," said Orr, who volunteers his time as a coach for both his son's and his daughter's soccer teams. "They're real excited. They're all cheering for Brazil."...
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OFFICIALS WANT MOPED LAW STRENGTHENED
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
In the 1950s and early 1960s, the motorized bicycle - also known as a moped or motor scooter - was a popular mode of transportation among the teen and college-age crowd. But the small, two-wheel vehicle, which got great gas mileage, just about disappeared after the larger and in-expensive, Japanese motorcycles started to compete with American motorcycle manufacturers in the mid-1960s...
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JOSEPHINE MCKENNEY
(Obituary ~ 07/18/94)
BERTRAND -- Josephine McKenney died at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 16, 1994, at her home in Bertrand. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at the McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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FRED W. HENSON
(Obituary ~ 07/18/94)
Fred W. Henson, 80, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, July 17, 1994, at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center Ford and Sons Funeral Homes are in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete at this time.
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DOROTHY LEE MASTERS
(Obituary ~ 07/18/94)
ADVANCE -- Dorothy Lee Masters, 83, of Advance, died Saturday, July 16, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 11, 1911, at Williamsville, daughter of John and Martha Cowan Mosier. She married the Rev. Henry Masters, Dec. 23, 1945, at Jonesboro, Ark. He died Jan. 21, 1992...
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ARTHUR WILLIAM THILENIUS
(Obituary ~ 07/18/94)
BROOKINGS, S.D. -- Arthur William Thilenius, 92, died on Sunday, July 17, 1994, at the Brookview Manor Nursing Home. He was born April 28, 1902, in Cape Girardeau. He is the son of Emily M. and Emma K. Dittlinger Thilenius. He received his education in Cape Girardeau. Thileneus married Jessie A. Hubbard on March 10, 1925, in Chaffee...
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city council agenda, july 18
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
Public Hearings A public hearing on a volunatary annexation petition from property owner Bloomfield Road, Benton Hill Road and Wolf Lane in Briarwood Estates Subdivision, southwest of the city. Ordinances for final approval Rezoning of a lot at the southeast corner of Main Street and Bellevue St. extended from multiple family to central business district...
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GILBERT WILLIAM EMDE
(Obituary ~ 07/18/94)
BIEHLE -- Gilbert William Emde, 84, of Biehle, died Saturday, July 16, 1994, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 20, 1909, at Lixville, son of George and Matilda Yamnitz Emde. He married Betty Jean Cotner, Nov. 12, 1947, at Pocahontas, Ark. She died Feb. 11, 1973...
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KATHLEEN SANDERS
(Obituary ~ 07/18/94)
Kathleen Sanders, 77, of Eureka and formerly of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, July 17, 1994, at the Marymount Manor in Eureka. She was born Aug. 15, 1916, at Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Charles and Clara Gosche Sanders. She formerly worked at St. Francis Medical Center and in the medical field in Cape Girardeau before moving to Memphis, Tenn., and, later, to the St. Louis area, where she was a home companion and housekeeper for the elderly...
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FLEX TIME BENEFITS EMPLOYEES AND EMPLOYERS
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
The flex-time concept is allowing Jane Unterreiner to keep her skills as a nurse sharp and her busy home running smoothly. When Unterreiner's home life changed a few years ago, she changed her work schedule to fit her personal needs. Unterreiner, who has been a nurse at Southeast Missouri Hospital for 14 years, went from a day schedule to a weekends-only night schedule...
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STUDENTS AND PARENTS WELCOME NEW SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
DELTA -- Nicki Beshears is proud to be among the first seniors at Delta High School to graduate from the district's newest addition. "I expect that there will be a lot of pride in the school this coming year," said Beshears at the grand opening of the new, 19,900-square-foot high school building Sunday. "I'm really excited about all the changes going on around here."...
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THREE PROMISES MADE, THREE PROMISES KEPT
(Column ~ 07/18/94)
When Players Riverboat Casino came around the bend in February 1993, it brought 800 jobs to Metropolis and the fulfillment of the first of three promises by Merv Griffin to Illinois Gov. Jim Edgar. "All three promises have been fulfilled," Griffin triumphantly announced last weekend during grand-opening ceremonies for Players' $1.5 million Merv Griffin Theater."...
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PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 07/18/94)
Teresa Birk has joined the Marcon Promotional Advertising sales staff. Birk, of Jackson, is a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. She previously worked as program coordinator for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Marcon, a division of Horizon Screen Printing, 430 Broadway, is a promotional products business that specializes in sales incentives, employee programs and business promotions and gifts...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 07/18/94)
JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: L. Robert and Gina B. Phillips to Debra A. Leoni; Robert and Lena Newman to SEMO Rentals Inc.; Jerry L. Poston et al. to James Arthur and Dianna Christina Shelton...
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