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LETTERS: READER RESPONDS TO RELIGIOUS CONTROVERSY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/06/95)
To the editor: We are still reading Editor R. Joe Sullivan's letter in Sunday's opinion section with several questions: Is it that you do not like the Freedom From Religion Foundation because they are atheists or do you disagree with their tactics? Are you upset because they came to Cape Girardeau? Or are you proposing that their actions and agenda are so absurb that you feel Americans everywhere will suddenly flock to Sunday school singing Kum-Baya?...
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LETTERS: RESIDENT RESPONDS TO SCHOOL BOARD INFIGHTING
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/06/95)
To the editor: Presumably, the members of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education understand that they were elected by the voters to serve as public servants. We who voted them into office have the right to expect thorough and thoughtful service to our community, particularly to our children...
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TAXPAYERS SHOUDL GET SAME RIGHTS AS ACCUSED MURDERERS
(Editorial ~ 04/06/95)
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein As they begin to think about the annual "rendering unto Caesar" known as tax time, many Americans must have savored recent news reports that Congress is considering turning the tables on the Internal Revenue Service...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: MISSOURI FOLLOWS KENTUCKY REFORM
(Column ~ 04/06/95)
The following are non-negotiable: eliminate tracking and ability grouping. All kids should be taught the same thing ... We must vary the time and hold achievement as the constant. -- David Hornbeck, consultant to the New Standards Project, 2/9/93, a consortium of states of which Missouri is a member...
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SCOTT CITY FINANCIAL REPORT DISCUSSED
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
SCOTT CITY -- The type of semiannual financial report published by Scott City in a local newspaper drew comments from council members this week. Councilman Bud Bader said the six-month report published in Sunday's edition of the Scott County Signal for the period July 1-Dec. 31 didn't have enough detail...
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INDUSTRIAL RECRUITER SEEKS FUNDS FOR BUDGET INCREASE
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
Industrial recruiter Mitch Robinson has been using his business-attracting skills to lure more money from Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association members. His budget is $140,000 yearly for two salaries, equipment, marketing, project development -- everything. Robinson would like Cape Girardeau County and the cities involved with the association to give 10 percent more each...
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`ANYTHING GOES' AT NOTRE DAME
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
The spring musical is a big deal at Notre Dame High School. This year, like most years, the number of people either on stage or working behind the scenes to pull it off exceeds 150. The competition is rugged, with seniors naturally hoping that years of underclass diligence pay off with a plum role...
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ART STUDIES: ANNUAL STUDENT EXHIBITION NOW ON DISPLAY AT THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
The Annual Student Juried Art Assessment Exhibition is now on display at the University Museum. More than 200 works of art by 100 students were entered, and 44 were chosen to be exhibited. Tess Irvin's watercolor "Wap Weekend" was judged best of show by juror Robin Brown, chairwoman of the Department of Art and Design at SIU-Edwardsville...
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PROJECT MERCURY: IMPROVING HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT EFFICIENCY
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Project Mercury is the name of a pilot program that could radically alter the way Missouri's highway department is managed, Chief Engineer Joe Mickes said. At a Tuesday meeting sponsored by the Regional Commerce and Growth Association and Southeast Missouri State University, Mickes said the highway department's management structure hasn't been altered since its start in 1920...
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COMPANY FOLDS, RUINING VACATIONS
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
Tonya Hughes of Cape Girardeau was dreaming of palm trees and sandy beaches last week because she booked a trip two months ago with friends to Cancun, Mexico. Hughes was scheduled to fly from St. Louis to Cancun April 30 for a four-night stay at a beach-side resort...
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OLD METHOD FOR NEW ROADS
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's chief highway engineer supports issuing bonds to spur road construction in the state, a financing strategy that has not been used in almost 70 years. Joe Mickes told a Tuesday forum, held by the Cape Girardeau Regional Commerce and Growth Association and Southeast Missouri State University, that if bonds were used to fund improvements, "there will be an awful lot of dirt flying across the state."...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: IN EXOTIC PLACES DANCING ALONE AND TWO BY TWO
(Column ~ 04/06/95)
April 6, 1994 Dear Carol, It's been so long since I heard from you. Everyone knows these periods of silence. My friend Pat sent me a postcard once that said: "The mountain people tell of seeing your footprints in the snow." She's a good myth-maker. I imagine you dancing in exotic places where the sound of drums rolls over a moonlit glen while sinewy shapes cavort with the God in their heads, or maybe just a small, seated figure plays a wooden flute on a sand dune encircled by a gyrating mass...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/06/95)
THIS IS in reference to the editorial in the Southeast Missourian on March 30. I think it's one of the finest editorials that you've run in a couple of years. The editorial ought to run a couple of times a year just so people will know how lucky they are to have veterans. Thank you very much...
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JUNE 9-10 RIVERFEST HAPPENINGS ANNOUNCED
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
Downtown Cape Girardeau will be rocking around the clock June 9 and 10 for the annual Riverfest celebration. Plans for Riverfest '95 were announced Wednesday. Riverfest is a two-day celebration of Cape Girardeau's Mississippi River heritage. The theme for this year's festival is "Rocking Around the Clock." An ornamental clock stands in the intersection of Main and Themis, at the center of Riverfest activities...
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FUTURE OF REDISTRICTING COMMITTEE IN QUESTION
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
Transportation. Accessibility. Pupil adjustment. The factors involved in redistricting the Cape Girardeau School District seemed endless as Dr. Richard Bollwerk, assistant superintendent, discussed them with a committee Wednesday at Schultz School. Over the past few months the committee of school board members, principals and parents has looked at several options. ...
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ANNUAL DOWNTOWN FUND-RAISER, AUCTION SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
A $4,000 ranch mink jacket, more than $2,500 worth of Broyhill furniture and a $2,000 bracelet with rubies, emeralds and sapphires are among items to be sold during the Downtown Merchants Association fund-raiser and auction Saturday. The eighth annual event will be held at the River City Yacht Club of Port Cape Girardeau...
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WILLIAM R. BROWNE
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
SCOTT CITY -- William Robert Browne, 69, of Falls Church, Va., died Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at the home of a brother in Scott City. He was born July 25, 1925, in Blytheville, Ark., son of Edward Jerome and Esther Dent Browne. Browne was an attorney with the U.S. Patent Office in Washington, D.C...
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VIRGINIA BROWN
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
DEXTER -- Funeral service for Virginia Brown of Dexter will be held at 1 p.m. today at Liberty General Baptist Church in Auburn Hills, Mich. The Rev. Bryan Johnson will officiate, with burial in Christian Memorial Cemetery in Rochester Hills, Mich. Voorhees, Siple and Summeford Funeral Home in Pontiac, Mich., is in charge of arrangements...
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LESTER A. BIRK
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
JACKSON -- Lester A. Birk, 72, of Jackson, died Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 10, 1922, in Cape Girardeau, son of Walter W. and Ida Hoffmeister Birk. He and Zilpha M. Burnette were married June 23, 1946, in Paducah, Ky...
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CLARA M. SCHAFER
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
Funeral mass for Clara Maria Schafer, 3758 State Highway 74, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Mary's Cathedral. Msgr. Richard Rolwing will officiate, with burial in St. Mary's Cemetery. Friends may call at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel after 5:30 p.m. today. Parish prayers will be at 7...
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V. CAUVEY HARTLE
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
JACKSON -- Graveside service for V. Cauvey Hartle of Jackson will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau. The Rev. Grant Gillard will officiate. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Hartle, 81, died Sunday, April 2, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau...
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BETTY WEED
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
Elizabeth Frances "Betty" Weed, 99, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Nov. 1, 1895, in Mason, Tenn., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George J. Wood. She and Lee H. Weed were married May 29, 1929, in Memphis, Tenn. He died Nov. 12, 1983...
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ROXANNA HITT
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
Roxanna Hitt, 98, of Florissant, died Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at Bent-Wood Nursing Center in Florissant. She was born Jan. 20, 1897, at Fruitland, daughter of Robert A. and Matilda Schweer Noland. She and Jacob S. Hitt were married Sept. 26, 1915...
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LILLIAN YOWELL
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
SIKESTON -- Lillian Yowell, 88, of Jennings, died Tuesday, April 4, 1995, at her home. She was born Sept. 17, 1906, in Kelso, daughter of Albert Clay and Anna Moore Ancell. She and Phillip M. Yowell were married Aug. 23, 1931, in Sikeston. Yowell was a first grade teacher at Sikeston Public Schools in the late 1920s. She then taught in St. Louis city and county elementary schools and also did private tutoring. She was a member of Jennings United Presbyterian Church 55 years...
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ARVEL J. HOWARD
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
CHARLESTON -- Arvel J. Howard, 81, of Charleston, died Wednesday, April 5, 1995, at Charleston Manor. He was born Jan. 24, 1914, in Burfordville, son of Emery J. and Clara Edith Kinder Howard. Howard was employed by General Motors 29 years, retiring in 1974. He served with the U.S. Army during World War II...
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HERBERT SEBASTIAN
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
Herbert Sebastian of Jackson died April 5, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was 81. Arrangements are incomplete at McCombs Funeral Home.
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HOWARD T. COX
(Obituary ~ 04/06/95)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Howard Taft Cox of Tamms will be held at 1 p.m. today at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms. The Revs. Kenneth Johnson and Jim Keller will officiate, with burial in St. John's Cemetery. Cox, 85, died Tuesday, April 4, 1995, at his home...
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ADVANCE OVTERS OK WATER IMPROVEMENTS
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
ADVANCE -- In approving a half-cent sales tax and an $800,000 bond issue, Advance voters are looking at planned improvements in their water system. Newly elected Advance Mayor James J. Harnes Sr. said the funding will "do many things" for local residents. The issues passed with more than 65 percent of the 390 votes cast...
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SOUTHEAST MISSOURI LOBBY CONSTRUCTION UNDER WAY
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
The lobby at Southeast Missouri Hospital was demolished earlier this week as construction began on a new lobby scheduled to open in August 1996. Meanwhile, visitors to the hospital have had to enter the building through a temporary main entrance at the canopied hospital dismissal doors on Lacey Street...
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PHOTO '95 EXHIBIT TO OPEN FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
Photo '95, a nationwide exhibition of photography, will be presented at Gallery 100 beginning Friday. The opening reception and award ceremony will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday at the gallery, 1707 Mount Auburn Road. The show is the fifth annual national photography exhibition sponsored by the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts. Nearly 250 entries were received from 22 states this year...
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THE BLACKWOOD FAMILY TO SING AT JAYCEES EVENT
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
The Blackwood Family from Branson will perform Friday night in the Cape Jaycees ninth annual benefit music show. The 7:30 event at the A.C. Brase Arena Building will benefit Camp Wonderland, the Jaycees' summer camp for disabled children. The Blackwoods have sold more than 40 million records and have been awarded eight Grammys...
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CHILDREN WILL MAKE KITES FOR JAPAN'S FESTIVAL OF SPRING
(Local News ~ 04/06/95)
Japan's Festival of Spring will be presented in an art program Saturday afternoon at Alma Schrader School. The 2 p.m. event is part of the Festivals, Families and the Arts program presented by the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts. Children and their companions and parents will make a kite and fly it. Masa Nataka, a Japanese student at Southeast, will describe how families in Japan celebrate the arrival of spring...
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