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FLOWERS ON DISPLAY
(Editorial ~ 06/03/95)
Everything's coming up roses and daisies and petunias at the Council of Garden Clubs flower show today and Sunday. Members of five Cape Girardeau horticulture clubs will display their finest at the Family Life Center of the Centenary United Methodist Church, 333 N. Ellis...
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FUNDING GAPS SHOW FOLLY OF SB380'S FINANCIAL STRUCTURE
(Editorial ~ 06/03/95)
Here is just another illustration of the lunacy of Senate Bill 380 and the Outstanding Schools Act. SB380 was the largest tax increase in the history of Missouri. It passed the Legislature and became law without voter approval. But now nine Southeast Missouri schools find themselves "hold harmless" under a new and convoluted formula that distributes state funds. ...
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HEALTH WORRIES ARISE AS RIVER FALLS; COMMON SENSE CLEANUP IS IMPORTANT IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE FLOOD; TETANUS VACCINATION IS CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
As the Mississippi River falls to within its banks, tensions and the chance for illness rise as people try to move back into their homes and begin the cleanup. "Of course getting their tetanus is important," said Mary Burton of the American Red Cross. "People who got the vaccination in '93 should be good for ten years."...
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CH.A.D.D. SUPPORT GROUP PLANS MEETING JUNE 12
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
A support group for Children with Attention Deficit Disorders (CH.A.D.D.) will meet June 12 from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Community Counseling Center. This meeting is for parents and professionals. Dr. George Dordoni of Southeast Missouri State University will discuss the university's role in providing services for students with learning problems...
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EMERGENCY CONFERENCE SCHEDULED NEXT SATURDAY
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
Emergency conference scheduled Emergency Update '95: Violence Around Us, the eighth annual conference for paramedics, EMTs, nurses, physicians and allied health care professionals, will be held next Saturday at Holiday Inn, Cape Girardeau. The LifeBeat Air Medical Service and Southeast Missouri Hospital are conference sponsors...
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ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER TO HOLD BANQUET JUNE 15
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
St. Francis Medical Center's banquet will be held June 15 at the Show Me Center, with dinner at 7:15 p.m. and the program at 8. Health care futurist Leland R. Kaiser will be keynote speaker. He is president of Kaiser and Associates in Brighton, Colo., and is an expert in communitywide approaches to health care...
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BOOTHEEL MEDIC INSTITUTE SCHEDULED FOR JULY 23-28
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
The Southeastern Missouri Area Health Education Center will sponsor the second Bootheel Medics Health Professions Institute July 23 through 28 at Southeast Missouri State University. Collaborators include the university's college of health and human services, St. Francis Medical Center and Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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CHS NOT AFFILIATED WITH CALENDARS
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
A company soliciting advertising for a Central High School football calendar isn't raising funds for the school's booster club. Athletic Director Terry Kitchen cautioned businesses on being asked to buy advertising for the calendar. Kitchen said several businesses have received phone calls from a company selling advertising for a calendar. Ads are selling for up to $150, but none of the money goes to the school, Kitchen said...
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HARTMANN BUILDS FOUNDATION AT TRINITY
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
The tips of Robert Hartmann's fingers came together in steeple-like symmetry as he weighed a question about his retirement as principal of Trinity Lutheran School. "Teaching and being a principal is all I've ever done, but I don't leave with any sense of sadness or regret," Hartmann said. "When you leave on your own terms, it becomes a good feeling."...
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RIGHT OF CENTER: SIMPLE PLEASURES SPICE A GOOD LIFE
(Column ~ 06/03/95)
There are a few periodicals that I am compelled to read cover to cover, among them "National Review." The magazine, published twice monthly, is filled with cutting-edge analyses of politics, literature, the arts and culture. Rarely do I find fault with any of the fine articles in "National Review," but so it is with a recent issue that described "Pleasure and Its Perils."...
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COMMERCE MAYOR SAYS `NO' TO RIVER TRAFFIC
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
COMMERCE -- Roy Jones says he is probably the most powerful mayor in America, certainly the most powerful along the Mississippi River. Jones, mayor of Commerce, refuses to give the U.S. Coast Guard permission to resume river traffic past his town of 173 people 16 miles south of Cape Girardeau...
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RAMS CALL MARYVILLE UNIVERSITY TEMPORARY TRAINING SITE
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
The St. Louis Rams have chosen Maryville University in St. Louis for their temporary pre-season training camp, but that decision is neither final nor does it eliminate Southeast Missouri State from future consideration. Rams Public Relations Director Rick Smith said the one-year lease agreement between the Rams and Maryville University hasn't been signed yet. ...
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LOCAL AREAS NOT GETTING FLOOD AID YET
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
Cape Girardeau County wasn't among the 12 Missouri counties designated Friday to receive federal disaster assistance, but county and city officials weren't upset by the news. "It's my understanding that FEMA has just made the first announcement," said J. Ronald Fischer, Cape Girardeau city manager...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: MON-DAUGHTER RELATIONSHIPS SURPASS BOUNDARIES
(Column ~ 06/03/95)
It occurs to me this column would have been more appropriate around Mother's Day, but May was the Living Dead Month From Hell. The Other Half and I married April 28, and quickly moved into La Casa del Gato, so named because of Ramses and all the cat-oriented stuff donated for decoration. I fear it's only a matter of days before the neighbor children start calling me "the weird lady who talks to her cat all the time."...
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OFFICIALS BREAK GROUND FOR SENIOR HOUSING
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
State and local officials broke ground Friday on a housing complex at Linden and West End Boulevard planned for senior citizens with low and moderate incomes. Missouri's secretary of state and treasurer were on hand with the Cape Girardeau mayor and officials from the company building the 44-unit apartment complex made possible because of the 1993 flood...
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EMPLOYERS EXPLAIN WHAT THEY WANT IN WORKERS
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
Southeast Missouri employers say they are seeking employees with work skills, a desire to learn and dedication. These traits were among those given in a work-force survey of the Task Force on Enhancing Basic Skills and Values, a group formed following a Southeast Missouri State University Education Business/Industry Summit held on the university campus more than a year ago...
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CAPE BOY'S BOMB TO BE TOPIC OF TERMAN TV SHOW
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
A television crew working for a German national network was in Cape Girardeau Friday filming interviews for a story about the 16-year-old boy who built a bomb by following instructions on the Internet. Glen Abbott, a producer with Video Information in Topeka, Kan., said the RTL network (the equivalent of ABC, CBS or NBC) wanted a story about the bomb-making teen for an upcoming television news magazine called "Explosive." He said RTL routinely hires his company for stories of interest in the United States.. ...
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S. ILLINOIS WILDLIFE AGENTS SEARCH FOR BLACK BEAR
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
BENTON, Ill. -- No bears have been seen in the Southern Illinois woods since the early part of the century. That's why the black bear that has been raiding garbage cans in the region is getting so much attention. The bear has ranged widely in Jefferson County near Mount Vernon since it was first spotted a month ago. It was last seen at dusk Thursday north of the town of Bonnie along Interstate 57, about 10 miles north of Benton...
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TYSON FOODS DROPS SIKESTON SITE FOR PLANT
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
SIKESTON -- Tyson Foods Inc. has dropped the Sikeston area as a site for a poultry processing plant, partly because of its closeness to an earthquake area. Sikeston Department of Economic Development Director Bill Green learned of Tyson's decision Friday...
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HASSIE CODY
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
BELL CITY -- Funeral service for Hassie Cody of Bell City will be held at 2 p.m. today at Morgan Funeral Chapel in Advance. The Rev. Bill Etheridge will officiate, with burial in Morgan Memorial Park. Cody, 82, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...
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ARTS COUNCIL CHANGES NAME
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
The Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts has changed its name to the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri and has adopted a new logo. "Although the events sponsored by the organization are well-known throughout the area, we needed a recognizable umbrella name and logo to give the arts council heightened visibility and identity," said Marge Nichols Sullivan, a member of the council's board of directors...
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ANNA, ILL., MAN STILL IN A COMA
(Local News ~ 06/03/95)
ST. LOUIS -- A 27-year-old Anna, Ill., man remains in a coma at St. Mary's Medical Center in St. Louis more than a month after his near-fatal car accident. Jimmie Rambeau was driving on Route 177 five miles north of Cape Girardeau around 7:45 a.m. Saturday, April 29. His car ran off the road and struck a tree, and Rambeau was thrown from the vehicle...
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IMOGENE HOWARD
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
ESSEX -- Funeral service for Imogene Howard, Essex Route 2, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel in Sikeston. The Rev. Carl Addison will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Howard, 67, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at Martin Hills Retirement Home in Essex...
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MARY P. KIMBLE
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Mary Patricia Kimble of Chicago will be held at 11 a.m. today at Shiloh Baptist Church. The Rev. Debbie Thornton will officiate, with burial in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the church from 10 a.m to service time...
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MARIE H. REEKER
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
Marie Helen Goad Reeker, 70, 1830 William, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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WAYNE F. HILEMAN
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
MILL CREEK, Ill. -- Wayne F. Hileman, 73, of Mill Creek, died Friday, June 2, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 27, 1921, in Union County, son of Oliver and Ida Kohler Hileman. He and Dimples Smithey were married in 1941 in Missouri. She died Jan. 22, 1993...
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H. DOUGLAS HOUSTON
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
MARBLE HILL -- H. Douglas "Doug" Houston, 70, of Marble Hill, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at Bond Nursing Care Center. He was born Jan. 5, 1925, in Marble Hill, son of Guy R. and Berth Lock Houston. He and Almeta Stevens were married Nov. 19, 1947...
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MARTHA A. SMITH
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Martha A. Smith, 68, of Cairo died Friday, June 2, 1995, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. She was born in Cairo Jan. 10, 1927, the daughter of Arthur and Mena Deimund Kessler. She was the city clerk for Cairo for many years before her retirement...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 06/03/95)
Son to Dale and Christie Bigham of Cache, Ill., Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:16 a.m. Thursday, May 25, 1995. Name, Bryce Dale. Weight, 8 pounds 2 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Bigham is the former Christie Dover, daughter of J.C. and Mary Lawrence of Jackson. Bigham is an electrician with K&K Electric. He is the son of Clarence and Naomi Bigham of Olive Branch, Ill...
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GERALD MASON
(Obituary ~ 06/03/95)
JACKSON -- Gerald "Jerry" Mason, 81, of Jackson, died Thursday, June 1, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 19, 1914, in Bradford, Ark., son of James and Grace Pierce Mason. He and Blanche Burgfeld were married Feb. 23, 1957...
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