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CITY TO REBID SHAWNEE PARK PROJECT BECAUSE OF HIGH BIDS
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Cape Girardeau will scale back plans for the Shawnee Park sports complex and the Osage Park community center to bring the projects within budget. The council voted this week to rebid the Shawnee Park project because the original two construction bids were about $500,000 too high...
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WOMANLY ART
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
"Black Lake" by Jane A. Barrow The new show opening Wednesday at the University Museum contains no work by men. "Contemporary Women Artists St. Louis IX," writes juror Lisa Norton, "represents art which 'throughout history...has been marginalized; left out of the dialogue and left out of the important museum collections.'"...
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TOP-NOTCH SOUTHEAST MUSICIANS TO PERFORM
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Once a year, Southeast Missouri State University students go head-to-head in the university's Concerto and Aria Competition. Of the 20 or so who compete, most of them music students, four or five are chosen to perform with the University Orchestra. "It's quite an honor, and a recognition of the students," says Sara Edgerton, the University Orchestra conductor...
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FARM BUREAU OFFICIAL LISTS '95 ISSUES
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Wetlands, the 1995 Farm Bill, extension of the one-tenth-cent soils and parks tax, and tax reforms are priority issues being discussed by farmers and ranchers, says Lowell Mohler, chief administrative officer and corporate secretary of the Missouri Farm Bureau...
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MOTORISTS GET DIM VIEW OF MISSISSIPPI RIVER BRIDGE
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Motorists traveling from Illinois get a dim view of the city at night. Only one light burns on the west ramp of the Mississippi River Bridge at the end of Morgan Oak Street. Seven other lights don't work. One fixture is completely missing. The outside glass is broken around most of the old mercury vapor lights while pigeons have made homes in one or two of them...
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BUILDER: COMMON SENSE NEEDED
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
If the book on the BOCA code is considered the bible for builders and building inspectors, it certainly leaves room for more than one interpretation. And when it comes to enforcing BOCA, which stands for Building Officials Code Administrators, Cape Girardeau City Hall should apply common sense to projects involving building renovation...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: ABSOLUTE POETS, TAKING CARE OF UNFINISHED BUSINESS
(Column ~ 02/23/95)
Feb. 23, 1995 Dear Patty, It's just after 5 a.m. and DC is asleep. I've been waking at his unusual hour often recently. She worries that I'm worried about something, but to me it just feels like energy seeking expression. No horses are kicking their stalls at this hour, but soon Margie will be in the barn, doling out their special mixture of grains and molasses, and Expose will beat out his impatience on the wall. The dogs will be there, four overseers for one woman...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 02/23/95)
I FEEL like if you're going to hire a manager to run a pool hall, maybe he ought to at least care and want to know something about the game. I certainly would hope that he would change his attitude about the sport and look at as a challenging and great opportunity for someone to get involved with...
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PAUL R. ROSS
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
Paul R. Ross, 66, of 301 Hillview died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Homes in Cape Girardeau.
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Scott County Estate of Minta B. Hubbard to Phyllis H. Colbert; Mercantile Bank of Sikeston to George S. and Barbara A. McDaniel; Jerry W. and Audrey C. Shaw to Roger and Tammy Stewart. William Clayton Vandivort to Znem Real Estate; Kendall C. and Marjorie L. Krier to Frank Howeel Jr. and Jolene Howell...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 02/23/95)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Maylon Phelps of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:25 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1995. Name, Sarah Leigh. Weight, 7 pounds 8 ounces. Eleventh child, sixth daughter. Mrs. Phelps is the former Maxann Floyd, daughter of Willard and Martha Floyd of Sikeston. Phelps is a self-employed contractor, and is the son of Millus Phelps of Glasgow, Ky., and the late Eliza England of Edmonton, Ky...
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JAMES W. STONE
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for James William Stone of Phoenix, Ariz., was held Feb. 17 in Phoenix. Stone, 70, died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 1995, in Phoenix. He was born July 21, 1924, at Chaffee, son of George William and Bertie Lee Stone. He and Doris Corliss were married Dec. 24, 1946...
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ALICE O. POINSETT
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
DELTA -- Alice O. Poinsett, 87, of Delta, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements.
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GLENN PRIEST
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
Glenn Priest, 64, 8375 County Road 203, died unexpectedly Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1995, at his home. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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FRED E. GROSS
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
BLOOMFIELD -- Fred Eugene Gross, 52, Bloomfield Route 3, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, at Dexter. He was born April 16, 1942, at Kennett, son of Tom Henry and Eithel Mae Neldon Gross. Gross was an elevator operator at Cargill Grain Co. in Dexter. He was a member of Hooe Baptist Church near Oran...
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INEZ MEYER
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
SCOTT CITY -- Inez Meyer, 87, of Scott City, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, at her home. She was born May 7, 1907, in Burfordville, daughter of Samuel Colbert and Ona Moore Snider. She and Fred Alonzo Meyer were married Aug. 25, 1939. He died Aug. 6, 1982...
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CLARENCE F. BERGMAN
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
PERRYVILLE -- Clarence F. "Dutch" Bergman, 88, of Dayton, Ohio, died Sunday, Dec. 4, 1994. Originally from Perryville, he attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. He was captain of the football team in 1932, and made the first touchdown in Houck Stadium...
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ANNIE M. RANSOM
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Annie M. Ransom, 71, Tamms Route 1, died Tuesday, Feb. 21, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Sept. 17, 1923, in Augusta, Ark., daughter of Will and Mattie Miller Vance. She and Bob Ransom were married Dec. 29, 1962, in St. Louis...
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ERVIN NISWONGER
(Obituary ~ 02/23/95)
MILLERSVILLE -- Ervin Niswonger, 81, of Millersville, died Wednesday, Feb. 22, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements were incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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KENNETH PHILLIPS GUEST ON TV SHOW
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Dr. Kenneth D. Phillips will discuss pregnancy and potential complications on this week's "Ask Your Doctor" program. The show airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on Cape Girardeau cable Channel 5. "Ask Your Doctor" is sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri Hospital, the Cape Girardeau County Medical Center and Channel 5...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU MOVING FORWARD, MAYOR TELLS LIONS CLUB
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Cape Girardeau Mayor Al Spradling III has no trouble touting his city -- whether it is street and sewer improvements or commercial growth. Spradling spoke of these things at Wednesday's noon meeting of the Lions Club at the Holiday Inn. Keith Tolliver was honored at the meeting for his 55 years of membership in Lions clubs...
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STATE AUTO TAGS OFFER OPPORTUNITY FOR SELF-PROMOTION
(Editorial ~ 02/23/95)
Missouri's standard license plates are ugly: a solid dark red for automobiles, solid black for trucks. A move to spice up the plates has fallen short in year's past, but the effort is gaining momentum this year. About a dozen bills addressing the state's plates are before the Motor Vehicle and Traffic Regulations Committee in the Missouri House. Rep. Larry Thomason of Kennett anticipates a real battle in changing the plates. License legislation is also being considered in a Senate committee...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: EFFORTS SEEK TO UNDO SENATE BILL 380
(Column ~ 02/23/95)
Missourians for Academic Excellence is the grass-roots organization grown up to resist Senate Bill 380 and its plans for the radical transformation of Missouri's public schools. MAE has a handful of proposals they are commending to the General Assembly for passage in this year's session, which continues through adjournment on May 12. ...
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LETTER: THERE IS MUCH MORE TO LOVE THAN PHYSICAL LOOKS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 02/23/95)
To the editor: Recently there has been a lot of controversy about Regina's House of Dolls. Most offensive to me was the woman who called Speak Out to say that if women took care of their looks, their men wouldn't go down there to see her dance. It was a sad thing to read, for she must see the only relationship between the sexes to be a superficial one based on physical attributes alone. She isn't alone, for society and certainly television are caught up in the lust-without-love idea...
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NATIONAL CHAIN PLANS SHOOT OF CATALOG IN CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
Catalog models are photographed in all America's premier cities -- Miami, Memphis, Dallas, Cape Girardeau. Yes, Children's Apparel Service will shoot its fall 1995 catalog in Cape Girardeau in May, and a longstanding relationship with Children's Bazaar is bringing the company's photographer here...
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BIG MUDDY FILM FEST ATTRACTS TOP DIRECTORS
(Local News ~ 02/23/95)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- The 17th annual Big Muddy Film Festival opens Saturday at Southern Illinois University and continues through March 5. This year's festival will feature appearances by "Hoop Dreams" co-director Steve James and "Before the Rain" director Milcho Manchevski. Both films are Oscar nominees and both men earned degrees from SIU's cinema and photography department...
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