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WILLIAM EASTON
(Obituary ~ 12/24/95)
CHARLESTON -- William "Hawk" Easton, 78, of Charleston died Thursday, Dec. 21, 1995, at the Charleston Manor Nursing Center following an extended illness. He was born Dec. 25, 1916, in Burdette, Ark., son of Matthew and Nellie Johnson Easton. He was preceded in death by four brothers, a sister, a son, a daughter and his wife...
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SENATE BILL ON WILD HORSES TO BE HEARD SOON
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Missouri's U.S. senators have gained a promise from Frank H. Murkowski that hearings will be held early next year on the Senate bill to protect wild horses in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways. Sens. Christopher "Kit" Bond and John Ashcroft co-signed the Ozark Wild Horse Protection Act to prevent the National Park Service from removing some 30 free-roaming horses for relocation or slaughter, except in medical emergencies or natural disasters...
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CHRISTMAS DECORATING CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
The Christmas decorating contest of December, 1995, sponsored by Project ENDEAVOR, yielded several winners in the Marble Hill area. Entries were judged on the basis of beauty creativity, originality and visibility Businesses in Marble Hill winning free advertising with FM104 gospel station were Flower Hut, $100 advertising; Liley Monument, $50; Bond Nursing Center, $50; and honorable mention Sunset Floral and Lutesville Motor Company...
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FOUR-WHEELING TO FAME IN MISSOURI CHAMPIONSHIP
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Keuhn participated in 14 races this year, both here and Illinois, winning 10 of them. submitted/Randy Keuhn Kimberly Keuhn, 3, has her own battery-operated four wheeler, just like her daddy. She and her mother, Christina, enjoy watching Randy Keuhn race. Jackson U.S.A./Scott Moyers...
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SANTA BRINGS JOY MORE THAN JUST ONE NIGHT
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Scotland, Mexico, England and China -- Gross collects Santas from all over the world. LaVerne Gross decorates her entire tree with Santas but gives much credit to 13-year-old grandson, Matthew Palish. Jackson U.S.A./Scott Moyers Many of Gross' shelves are lined with Santas. Gross says Christmas is her favorite holiday...
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FLIGHT NURSE NABS LOFTY STATE HONOR
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Inside the Air Evac office at Saint Francis Medical Center, air ambulance personnel study a flight map of the area. Standing from the left are Jim Damron, base manager and pilot; Sandy Lyles, flight nurse; and Ben Hancock, pilot; seated is Jeff Romines, flight medic. (Jackson U.S.A./Jim Obert)...
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WHITAKER CHAMBERS: TOKENS OF HOPE AND TRUTH
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
An ancient Chinese curse says, "May you live in interesting times." This has been an interesting year. I say that not in self-pity, but with a smile and a rich appreciation of ironies that abound. An effort to awaken Missourians to the manner in which our own public schools are being hijacked by a small bunch of educational elites, begun in this space last February and continuing as a periodic work-in-progress since, has had its setbacks and its small triumphs, its long days and nights, its huge frustrations. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: HE IS AN AFRICAN BOY, AND HIS NAME IS EMMANUEL
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
Every day I pass by a picture on my office wall that never fails to give me pause, a moment of reflection; a twinge of pain, a trace of sadness that will not leave despite the passage of several months. It is a picture of a small, extremely frail 11-year-old African boy leaning for consolation and safety for the support and reassurance of my daughter. ...
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MISSOURI COMMENTARY; RUSSIA'S AUTHORITARIAN LEGACY
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
Americans, by nature, are an impatient lot. We like instant solutions, instant cures, instant coffee, instant meals, instant replay. We want instant peace in Bosnia. We hoped for instant democracy in Russia. Russia had no history of or experience with democracy and no political or social democratic infrastructure. Russia had been ruled by a centuries-old history of authorizationism. From this unpromising soil, no nation in Europe was less likely to blossom forth as a democratic flower...
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`FOR UNTO YOU IS BORN THIS DAY A SAVIOR, WHICH IS CHRIST THE LORD'
(Editorial ~ 12/24/95)
It is a simple story, but the birth in a stable some 2,000 years ago changed the world. On this Christmas Eve, the story is presented again from the Holy Bible (the gospel according to St. Luke, Chapter 2): And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed. (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.) And all went to be taxed, every one unto his own city...
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JESS DU JOUR: O CHRISTMAS TREE, O CHRISTMAS TREE
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
Bob was beginning to get on my nerves. We had been meandering around his Christmas tree farm for three literal hours, and a few of his mannerisms and body aromas were becoming quite unbearable. He ushered us down row after endless row of trees -- and the longer I stared at the trees, the worse Bob smelled...
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MARY RUTH SNELL
(Obituary ~ 12/24/95)
Mary Ruth Snell, 81, of Lick Creek, Ill., died Saturday, Dec. 23, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by Ford & Sons Sprigg Street Chapel.
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SONNY HOUSEHOLDER
(Obituary ~ 12/24/95)
SIKESTON -- Royce P. "Sonny" Householder, 65, of Sikeston Route 2, died Saturday, Dec. 23, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 19, 1930, in New Madrid, son of Robert Vance and Anna Lue Rice Householder. He was a farmer and a member of the First Baptist Church of Blodgett where he was a Sunday School teacher for 47 years and a church deacon since 1958...
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MICHAEL A. SPRAGGINS
(Obituary ~ 12/24/95)
Michael A. Spraggins, 38, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Dec. 21, 1995, at St. Louis Regional Hospital Clinic. He was born Jan. 13, 1957, in St. Louis, son of John and Mamie Harriet Reed Spraggins. They preceded him in death. He is survived by a daughter, Michelle Gavin of Harvey, Ill.; four brothers, Phillip Spraggins of Harvey, Tony Spraggins of Beverly Hills, Calif., and Gregory Starkey and Robert Starkey Jr., both of Atlanta; and a sister, Robin Starkey of Atlanta...
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A DAY IN THE LIFE: `ACCENTUATE THE POSITIVE' THIS CHRISTMAS
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
Well, Christmas is upon us, though it hardly looks like it if you look out your window. And I don't mean the lack of snow either. It's a literal mess out there. Crime is still a problem -- people killing each other for the $4 they have in their wallets. Women are still raped every day in every state in the U.S. People are still driving while under the influence of alcohol even after all the people that have been killed as a result...
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KENNETH SEXTON
(Obituary ~ 12/24/95)
MOREHOUSE -- Kenneth Sexton, 74, of Appleton, Ark., formerly of Morehouse, died Friday, Dec. 22, 1995, at Baptist East Hospital in Memphis, Tenn. He was born April 4, 1921, in Canalou, son of James Allen and Lillie Gilliam Sexton. He was a retired carpenter and a member of the First Assembly of God Church in Sikeston...
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V. EVELYN SCHUESSLER
(Obituary ~ 12/24/95)
PERRYVILLE -- V. Evelyn Schuessler, 77, of Perryville died Friday, Dec. 22, 1995, at the Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Nov. 18, 1918, at Perryville, daughter of William and Emma Vogt Kaiser. She married Melvin Schuessler on Nov. 17, 1956. He preceded her in death on Sept. 20, 1991...
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RIGHT OF CENTER: THE OBEDIENCE OF THE SHEPHERDS
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
Most people are familiar with the Christmas story, of the blessed Christ child in the manger, of the angels and wise men, of the star in the East. The characters of the nativity are more familiar in America than even the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock and the heroes of the Revolution. Such is the apex of history intertwined with American culture...
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SANTA CLAUS AROUND THE WORLD
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Although no one really knows how the legend of Santa Claus was started, everyone seems to know who he is. The World Book Encyclopedia says the myth probably began in 300 A.D. when Saint Nicholas, a Turkish priest, helped a poor nobleman whose daughters had no marriage dowry. The story of his good deed spread around the world...
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SANTA ANSWERS THE INEVITABLE: HOW CAN YOU BE EVERYWHERE?; BEING ST. NICK DEMANDS ALERT RESPONSES
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus -- and he easily can be found this time of year at holiday parades, parties and area shopping malls. But one question remains: How is he able to be everywhere at once and still fulfill every child's Christmas wish in time for the big day?...
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NO PAPER MONDAY
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
The Southeast Missourian will not publish a Monday edition in observance of Christmas. The newsroom will be closed today and reopen Monday afternoon. The newspaper's business offices will be closed Monday. The Monday business section will be moved to Tuesday for the next two weeks. The Learning Page will resume Jan. 9...
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TRAVELER DECLARES STRONG FAITH IN GOD
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Like Mary and Joseph, Robert Jennings has found no inn during his travels. Home to the native Iowan is a modest tent. And although the road he has traveled has not been without trials, he nurtures a strong faith in God and in mankind. This Christmas, Jennings, a self-called minister, is looking forward to the new year and renewed hopes of pursuing his lifelong dream of ministering in all corners of the country. And then building a church...
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SHOPPERS OUT IN FULL FORCE
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
Thousands of area shoppers and their families are expected to return to retail establishments on Tuesday, the day after Christmas. "It's a big merchandise-return day," said Harry Rediger, manager of JCPenney in West Park Mall. "But it has developed into a good sales day, too."...
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TWO INJURED IN ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
BENTON -- Two Scott County men suffered injuries when their vehicles collided on Route 61 two miles north of Benton early Saturday morning. Eric Berghoff, 22, of Kelso, driver of a northbound car, and Johnny Broyles, 24, of Benton, suffered serious injuries. Both were taken to St. Francis Medical Center, where Berghoff was reported in serious but stable condition late Saturday. Broyles was reported in satisfactory condition...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 12/24/95)
THERE ARE a few senior citizens like myself at doctor's offices, in restaurants or at the hospital for treatment. What galls me is I hear them blast President Clinton and the Democratic administration for too much spending and too much government and things of that order. ...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: SOME RULES OF THE `GAME' TO CHANGE IN '96
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
With only seven days remaining in 1995, it might be appropriate to take a look ahead to the new year. The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) issues a new edition of "The Wildlife Code of Missouri" on Jan. 1 each year. The "Code Book," as it is generally known, is a pocket-sized listing of the rules and regulations of the department and is subject to revision throughout the year...
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A GRIMM CHRISTMAS IS A FESTIVE HOLIDAY
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
A lighted 1950s music box plays "Silent Night" with doors that open. Bubble light ornaments were popular Christmas decorations in the 1940s and 1950s. Stan and Jane Grimm at 2208 Crown Point enjoy collecting antique Christmas ornaments and other Christmas memorabilia...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: CHRISTMAS IN THE ATTIC
(Column ~ 12/24/95)
Lou and I had just come home from the school Christmas program and were still excited about the real live lamb one of the school "shepherds" had brought for the nativity tableau. This was new. "I wish we had something live for "our" Christmas tree," Lou said...
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VIP PANELS NEEDED FOR CP TELETHON
(Local News ~ 12/24/95)
VIPs are needed to serve in the 16th annual Kenny Rogers Cerebral Palsy Center Telethon March 9 and 10. Organizers are requesting businesses, civic organizations, churches and individuals to serve on six-person panels. Pannels will appear on the telethon in 30-minute time slots to represent their organizations and make calls requesting pledges to the center. Time slots are available from 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. on March 9 and 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on March 10...
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