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JACKSON BAND TO PERFORM AT PARK TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Municipal Band under the direction of Nick Leist will perform at 8 tonight at Jackson City Park Band Shell. Special guests this week will be a jazz trio composed of Dr. Richard Moore, Matt Pittman and Ryan Harper. Moore, known throughout the area as an outstanding jazz keyboard player, has performed with many of the top jazz players in the Midwest and records Christmas tapes...
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PERFORMERS CURE SUMMERTIME BLUES
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
The Saint Louis Symphony, a Shakespearian national touring company based in Virginia, and "The Stephen Foster Story" have something in common this summer: They will use the talents of former Cape Girardeau performers. Soprano Lizbeth Estes Reszel's performance Saturday night with the Saint Louis Symphony is her first featured role with a major performing group...
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KISS TRIBUTE BAND PLAYERS FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
The KISS tribute band Black Diamond will perform Friday night at Players in Cape Girardeau. Doors will open for the concert at 7 p.m., with music beginning at 8:30. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Also appearing with Black Diamond will be special musical guests...
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FRENCH HERITAGE WEEKEND IN STE. GENEVIEVE
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
STE. GENEVIEVE -- French Heritage Weekend will be held Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Ste. Genevieve. The event celebrating the community's Gallic roots will feature sidewalk artists, quilting demonstrations, garden tours, French food in the village's restaurants, an art show, entertainment and activities for children...
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ON TOUR WITH THE AMERICAN WIND SYMPHONY
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
Jeff Nall envisions his future as a professional musician reaching as far as Bozeman, Mont., and perhaps as high as his toughest note on the trumpet. The touchstone that decides whether dreams become reality? Practice, practice and more practice. "The only way I'm going to get where I want to go is by studying with the best and practicing as much as possible every day," Nall said. "If I can beat out the competition at some auditions along the way, I'll get what I want eventually."...
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JACKSON DOESN'T WANT FIRECRACKERS IN PARKS
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
JACKSON -- People who bring firecrackers to Jackson City Park this year shouldn't be surprised to feel a police officer tapping on their shoulders. Aldermen passed a law last August banning fireworks from public property. Folks are welcome to light firecrackers in their own yards until midnight on July 4, but Capt. Robert Hull Jr. said to keep them out of the city park...
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STROUP WANTS COMMISSIONER JOB
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
Southeast Missouri State University president, Dr. Kala Stroup, would take Missouri's Coordinating Board for Higher Education commissioner's job, if offered. She made that clear at a closed-door university Board of Regents meeting Wednesday afternoon...
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REGENTS SEEK FUNDING FOR BUILDING'S RENOVATION
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
Southeast Missouri State University wants $3.6 million in state money to renovate the social science building, the campus' oldest structure. The Board of Regents agreed Wednesday to ask for $8.9 million in state money for fiscal 1997 to renovate the 93-year-old building and fund other capital projects...
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BOND RESISTS COMMERCE ELIMINATION
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
One of Missouri's U.S. Senators expects to butt heads with other Republican party members as he tries to keep divisions of the U.S. Department of Commerce intact or create a U.S. Department of International Trade. Christopher "Kit" Bond, R-Missouri, said his biggest opposition will be fellow Republican and presidential hopeful Bob Dole, R-Kansas, also the Senate majority leader...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: WHEN SOMETHING LOST'S AND SOMETHING'S GAINED
(Column ~ 06/22/95)
June 22, 1995 Dear David, From our bicycles, DC and I have watched the Mississippi River retreat to its banks over the past two weeks. Not many days ago, we couldn't follow our usual route next to the river because the road was flooded and closed by the police. Now the water is gone, leaving behind dirt, a rotten backwater smell and not much else...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/22/95)
IT APPEARS the people on government giveaways are starting to complain through Speak Out. Get out of the wagon and help pull a while. I'm not rich, and I'm sure sick and tired of my taxes going to lazy bums complaining about not getting their checks. Get a job...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU WAL-MART STORE LOSES POWER FOR NEARLY 24 HOURS
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
Wal-Mart lost thousands of dollars in perishable food Tuesday night and Wednesday after lightning struck a transformer that powered refrigeration units at the store. Steve Smith, co-director of Cape Girardeau's Wal-Mart, said the lightening struck at about 10:30 p.m. Tuesday. Maintenance personnel first tried to replace the fuses, then discovered that the entire transformer was damaged...
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MARY ALICE OEHLER
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
CACHE, Ill. -- Mary Alice Oehler, 84, of Cache, Ill., died Wednesday, June 21, 1995, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 11, 1911, daughter of James M. and Alice Cleary McManus. Oehler was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Parish in Cairo and was active in church functions...
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DATHOL TAYLOR
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
CAIRO, ILL. -- Dathol Taylor, 85, of Cairo, died Wednesday, June 21, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 16, 1909, at Martin, Tenn., daughter of Richard and Alma Rabey Taylor. Taylor was of the Baptist faith and was known for her candy-making...
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THELMA OWENS MASTERSON
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
JACKSON -- Thelma Owens Masters, 71, 2138 Otto Drive, Jackson, died at her home Tuesday, June 20, 1995. She was born April 18, 1924, in Augusta, Ga., daughter of John and Nellie Mae Redd Owens. She married Samuel D. Masterson on June 30, 1945. He survives...
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GRACE LEE JAMES
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
ARBOR -- Grace Lee James, 89, died Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 4, 1906, in Bollinger County, daughter of Francis and Louella Lincoln Stevens. She married Harl James on March 31, 1929, at Hurricane. He preceded her in death...
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ALFRED MIRLY
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
JACKSON -- Alfred Mirly, 84, of Highway 61 North, Jackson, died at Wednesday, June 21, 1995, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. McCombs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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MARY LOUISE SCHERER
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
BENTON -- Mary Louise Scherer, 60, of Benton died Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 23, 1934, in Benton, daughter of Celeste Enderle and Cletus Scherer. She married Gregory B. Scherer on Aug. 27, 1955, in Benton. He survives...
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MARION W. AISTHORPE
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
Marion W. Aisthorpe, 85, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Cairo, Ill., died Wednesday, June 21, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. Arrangements were incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo.
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WILLIAM ANDREW GNANN
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
SCOTT CITY -- William Andrew Gnann, 73, of Route 1, Scott City, died Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. There are no services or visitation scheduled. Arrangements made by Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City...
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BERISIMO SCHEFFER
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
CHARLESTON -- Berisimo Albert Scheffer, Sr., 56, of Phelan, Calif., died Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at his home. He was formerly of Mississippi County. He was born Dec. 25, 1938, in the Texas Bend Community of Mississippi County, son of Clem and Emma Gibbar Scheffer Sr...
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HELEN VALLANCE
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
MORLEY -- Helen Loretta Vallance, 73, of Pocahontas, Ark., died Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at Randolph County Medical Center in Pocahontas. She has lived in Pocahontas Convalescent Center for the past two years. She was born June 24, 1921, in Morley, daughter of John Robert Brackston and Minnie Stanley Nations. She lived her entire life in Peach Orchard, Ark. She was a homemaker. She was a member of First United Pentecostal Church of Knobel, Ark...
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MAE HEFNER
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
ADVANCE -- Mae Hefner, 78, of Advance died Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born April 3, 1917, at Lowndes, daughter of Luther and Katie Weithers Wallace. She married Jesse Hill Sr. in 1937. He preceded her in death. She later married Carl Hefner Sr. in 1951. He also preceded her in death...
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ROSIE G. CONDER
(Obituary ~ 06/22/95)
ADVANCE -- Rosie G. Conder, 93, of Advance died Wednesday, June 21, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb. 18, 1903, daughter of Billy and Gertrude Haw Roe. She married Daniel W. Conder on Dec. 9, 1933, at Bloomfield. He preceded her in death. She was a homemaker...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 06/22/95)
Daughter to Dawn Necole Musgrave of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:40 p.m. Wednesday, June 14, 1995. Name, Crystal Cherie. Weight, 5 pounds. First child. Ms. Musgrave is the daughter of Denise Williams of Cape Girardeau. She is a homemaker...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: WILLY-NILLY BILLY AND HIS BUDGET PLAN
(Column ~ 06/22/95)
President Bill Clinton's about-face last week on the budget -- he announced his own, 10-year plan that would supposedly balance it -- triggered anguished cries from the still-dominant left/liberal majority of congressional Democrats. Consider the acid remark of liberal Rep. ...
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HEALTH SAVINGS PLAN MAKES GOOD SENSE FOR MEDICAL REFORM
(Editorial ~ 06/22/95)
Although the Republican sweep in the 1994 congressional elections likely buried any immediate Democratic hopes for socialized health care in the United States, the problem of skyrocketing health care and insurance costs refuses to go away. Now the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Bill Archer of Texas, has suggested a possible solution: medical savings accounts...
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COUNCIL ACTS WISELY
(Editorial ~ 06/22/95)
The Cape Girardeau City Council has taken a step rarely seen in the real world of government and politics. Led by Mayor Al Spradling III, the council this week voted to rescind earlier actions that increased some city fees higher than a 5 percent cap the council imposed on itself a year ago. And the council rolled back a planned 5 percent boost in sewer rates...
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DOCTOR PLANS CLINIC FOR WALK-IN IN CLIENTS
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
During his four years as an emergency room physician, Dr. Robb Hicks saw a need for another choice in health care. Patients needed a facility that combined services of an emergency room and a family physician's office, so Hicks is opening Immediate HealthCare Inc., Center for Occupational Medicine at 1702 N. Kingshighway, at Lexington and Kingshighway...
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AMERICAN WIND SYMPHONY CONCERTS WILL BEGIN TONIGHT
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
Rain or shine, the American Wind Symphony Orchestra will perform in Cape Girardeau today through Sunday. In the event of rain, Saturday's main concert would shift from Capaha Park's Municipal Band Shell to Academic Hall on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University. The concert is scheduled for 8 p.m...
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AMERICORPS RECYCLING PROGRAM HELD AT SC
(Local News ~ 06/22/95)
SCOTT CITY -- It looked more like two piles of trash than objects used in a relay race. But the objects weren't trash; they were reminders about the importance of recycling. About 40 children attended and competed in the Recycling Olympics. AmeriCorps volunteers presented the recycling program at the Scott City Riverside Regional Library Wednesday...
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USA TODAY NAMES KERN MISSOURI'S TOP PLAYER
(High School Sports ~ 06/22/95)
Robert Kern's approach to the game of baseball is very simple: Improve every single day. That view and an abundance of talent have earned the Cape Girardeau Central High outfielder virtually every local honor a baseball player can get. Now he's catching a glimpse of the national limelight after being named USA Today's Player of the Year for the state of Missouri...
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CAPAHAS FALL TO WATERLOO 14-4
(High School Sports ~ 06/22/95)
WATERLOO, Ill. -- Using a four-home run attack, Waterloo, Ill., dealt the Kohlfeld Capahas an eight-inning, 16-4 loss Wednesday night. Kohlfeld saw its record even at 11-11 on the season. David Michel suffered the loss. He gave up two home runs in a five-run Waterloo first inning...
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CAPE PONTIAC-GMC TO HOST WOMEN'S FAST-PITCH TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 06/22/95)
Cape Pontiac-GMC will host its Eighth Annual Pontiac Klassic women's fast-pitch tournament this weekend and also seek its second crown. Play begins Friday night at 7:30 p.m. at Kelso City Park and continues through Sunday. Among the 11 teams in the field will be defending champion West Frankfort, Ill., which won a rain-shortened tournament in 1994. ...
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