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TAX COLLECTIONS SET TO INCREASE
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
JACKSON -- Even though Cape Girardeau County residents received their tax bills the beginning of November, most of them haven't paid yet. Collector Harold Kuehle isn't worried yet, either. Only about $2.5 million of the $18.6 million billed in personal property and real estate taxes have been paid, which is typical...
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STATE MEDICAID WAIVER PLAN STILL ALIVE
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
JEFFERSON CITY -- An estimated 720,000 men, women and children in Missouri have no medical insurance, and unless the Missouri department of Social Services receives a Medicaid waiver from the federal government, there is little likelihood they will have benefits anytime soon...
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JACKSON BOARD SETS FILING DATES
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
JACKSON -- The opening and closing dates for Jackson Board of Education filings were set Tuesday, allowing candidates from 8 a.m. Jan. 3 to 4:30 p.m. Jan. 31 to file for two seats. The terms of members Jeanette Bollinger and Marvin Adams will end next spring. Bollinger was elected to finish out one year of an unexpired term and was re-elected in 1992. Adams was elected to his first term in 1992...
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GILDING THE SCHOOLS
(Editorial ~ 12/14/94)
Next month the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments over one of the most contentious legal battles in Missouri history. How the justices rule on the Kansas City school desegregation case will be a landmark decision. At the core of the case is whether the federal government can require proof of improvements in student achievement before lifting desegregation program mandates. ...
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THIRD MANAGED CARE PROVIDER MAKES ITS PITCH
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
Cape Girardeau looks lucrative to managed health-care providers. A third company is making a pitch for business here. Representatives of HealthLink, a managed-care company with customers primarily in Missouri and Illinois, met Tuesday with Cape Girardeau's two hospital administrators, employers and insurance agents...
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LIGHTING REPRESENTS TRADITION
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
In just three years, a personalized Christmas gift has blossomed into a luminous winter wonderland in Cape Girardeau County. The first seed was planted when Bob Ramsey took his wife Dottie's drawing of a snowman and, at her request, turned it into a life-size Christmas figurine...
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VOLUNTEERS GEAR UP FOR TOYBOX RUN
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
Matt Hopkins and Bob Neff are looking forward to T-Day: Dec. 20. That is the day Hopkins, Neff and 20 other Cape Girardeau Jaycee Santas suit up and deliver toys to needy children in Cape Girardeau as part of the Toybox project. "I've been involved with Toybox for seven years and every year it just seems to get better," Hopkins said. "I have never seen a kid who received a toy from Toybox who wasn't appreciative."...
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BY THE WAY: MA AND PA SANTA CLAUS LIGHT UP 621
(Column ~ 12/14/94)
When you're greeted at the front door by a dog named Toto and the front yard looks like something or somewhere over the rainbow, the journalistic antenna goes up. If stories could be measured in lotteries, I just hit the jackpot. It wasn't exactly the land of Oz. Rather, it seemed like Bob and Dottie Ramsey were the closest thing to Ma and Pa Santa Claus that I had ever seen...
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FIRST-PHASE WORK BEGINS FOR MEDICAL BUILDING, GARAGE
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
This map shows the proposed location of a five-story medical office building and multi-level parking garage at St. Francis Medical Center. Site work for both are now under way. The garage is located near the proposed Silver Springs extension. Phase I site work is under way for construction of a new medical office building and parking garage at the St. Francis Medical Center campus...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 12/14/94)
Son to Dana and Joy Pelley of Wolf Lake, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:48 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 6, 1994. Name, Richie Paul. Weight, 6 pounds 9 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Pelley is the former Joy Russ, daughter of George and Bethal Russ of Wheatland, Iowa. She is a registered occupational therapist at St. Francis Medical Center. Pelley is self-employed, and is the son of Janet Pelley of Toronto, Iowa, and Charles and Ann Pelley of Wheatland...
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VERLENE LAWRENCE
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
CHARLESTON -- Verlene Lawrence, 54, of Charleston, died Sunday, Dec. 11, 1994, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Nov. 28, 1940, in Catron, daughter of James and Mary Williams Lawrence. Lawrence was a 1960 graduate of Lincoln High School in Charleston, and attended Opportunity Church of God In Christ...
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LOUIS C. ZOELLNER
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
BIEHLE -- Louis C. Zoellner, 76, of Biehle, died Monday, Dec. 12, 1994, at his home. He was born Aug. 18, 1918, in Perry County, son of Adolph and Elizabeth Renaud Zoellner. He and Regina C. Buchheit were married Oct. 12, 1946. Zoellner was retired from Rockwell International. He was a member of St. Maurus Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...
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MARGIE B. GRANTHAM
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
PERRYVILLE -- Margie Beulah Grantham, 60, of St. Louis, died Monday, Dec. 12, 1994, at Missouri Baptist Medical Center. She was born Oct. 26, 1934, in Perry County, daughter of Valley M. and Mary T. Farrar. She married Donald Grantham. Grantham was employed at Heimos Greenhouse and Nursery in St. Louis...
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OSCAR L. GOEHMAN
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
Oscar L. Goehman, 73, 519 Sunset, died Monday, Dec. 12, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, following a lengthy illness. He was born July 3, 1921, in Jackson, son of Otto William and Anna Oldham Goehman. He and Verna Duncan were married Nov. 4, 1938, in Cape Girardeau...
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DOROTHY E. VEAL
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
ANNA, Ill. -- Dorothy E. Veal, 72, of Anna, died Monday, Dec. 12, 1994, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. She was born Dec. 11, 1922, in Anna, daughter of Lee and Lillie Seets Adams. She and John H. Veal were married March 7, 1945, in Arkansas. He died May 31, 1965...
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DWAYNE E. NEUBER
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
BLOOMFIELD -- Dwayne Earl Neuber, 34, of Fisk, died Monday, Dec. 12, 1994, at Dexter Nursing Center, following a lengthy illness. He was born Sept. 14, 1960, at Sikeston, son of Carl and Christine Pratt Neuber. Neuber lived in Bloomfield from 1975-87, and was a 1979 graduate of Bloomfield High School. He was a carrier with the Daily Statesman several years, and had been a member of Bloomfield Jaycees...
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MARY J. THOMPSON
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Mary Jane Thompson of Sikeston will be held at 1 p.m. today at McMikle Funeral Chapel in Charleston. The Rev. Robert Kriete will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery at Sikeston. Friends may call at the funeral home after 9:30 a.m...
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AUGUST J. ASMUS
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
CHAFFEE -- August Joseph Asmus, 64, of Chaffee, died Monday, Dec. 12, 1994, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 22, 1930, at Oran, son of Adam and Frances Margaret Wiedefeld Asmus. He and Myra June Darby Miskell were married April 9, 1976...
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LENICE E. STEPHAN
(Obituary ~ 12/14/94)
Graveside service for Lenice Evelyn Stephan of Monroe, La., will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Lorimier Cemetery, with the Rev. Neil Stein officiating. There is no visitation. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Stephan, 81, died Friday, Dec. 9, 1994, at the home of a son in Monroe...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
Scott County Rickey and Cindy Fodge to Christopher Lee and Leigh Anne Rataj; Seven-Thirty Inc. to Delta Express Inc.; Jerry L. and June M. Lafferty to Frederick J. Glastetter. Diane Gladys Hanks to Darrel Ray Hanks; Lester L. and Carla Powell to Thomas W. and Sheri M. Jackson; Adreianna G. Sturgeon to Donald W. and Peggy A. Holman...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
Cape Girardeau CountyThe Judith A. Hutson Trust to the Christopher L. Hutson Trust; Charles L. and Judith A. Hutson to the Charles D. Hutson Trust; D.J. Roth Construction Inc. to Mark W. and Sandy D. Hosler. Robert J. Rafferty to Barbara J. and Kimberly A. Baker; Six Thirty Corp. to Danny S. and Tammy R. Lynn; Lori B. Wheeler and Rock N. Bodenschatz to Paul and Cynthia E. Aufdenberg...
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SENATOR-ELECT TALKS WITH BUSINESSMEN
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
Small businesses face excess taxes, regulations and litigation, all of which must be brought under control, Sen. Christopher Bond told about 50 business people at a forum in Cape Girardeau Tuesday. The event, sponsored by Southeast Missouri State University and the Small Business Development Center, was held at the Show Me Center on the Southeast campus...
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UNIVERSITY STUDY EXAMINES DAY CARE
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
Cape Girardeau County's day-care sites also could help provide health screenings and immunizations, a study suggests. The study by three students in the master's degree in nursing program at Southeast Missouri State University said there is a need for more health promotion within day-care facilities...
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JONES EAGERLY AWAITS BEGINNING COMMISSION ROLE
(Local News ~ 12/14/94)
JACKSON -- Given his controversial avocations, Gerald Jones doesn't know how he got elected presiding commissioner of Cape Girardeau County. He's both a newspaper publisher and a high school football referee, so Jones is accustomed to public criticism...
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LADY BUG: HOLIDAY TRADITIONS IN EACH COUNTRY RECOGNIZE THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTMAS
(Column ~ 12/14/94)
Christmas is a time of family traditions -- caroling, the yule log, stockings hung by the fireplace, tree decorating, midnight candlelight church service, family dinners and reading the Christmas story from the Bible. This is true throughout the Christian world...
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