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P&Z PANEL MUST BE IN PLACE SOON; IF NOT, VOTERS GET SAY
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
JACKSON -- A legislative glitch means Cape Girardeau County commissioners need to get cracking if they want to appoint a county planning and zoning commission. Legislation that would have let commissioners wait until after Jan. 1 "got messed up," Presiding Commissioner Gerald Jones said Thursday...
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8TH DISTRICT REPUBLICANS HAVE BIG PLANS DURING CONVENTION; FUND-RAISING EVENTS WILL BRING MEGABUCKS
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
Donna Lichtenegger can't wait to build sand castles at a GOP beach party. Jim McClellan and Reid Forrester plan to take their families to the San Diego Zoo and possibly a side trip to Mexico. The three Southeast Missouri residents will attend the Republican National Convention as part of the six-member 8th District delegation...
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PARK DUCKS' DEATHS BAFFLING
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
Helen Rodriguez doubled her patients Thursday at the intensive care unit of the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri. Five ducks from the Capaha Park Lagoon were brought to the clinic after park workers discovered they were ill. All the animals were limp and lifeless but no one knows why. Five birds already have died...
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PUBLIC WILL DECIDE AREA ROAD CHANGES
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
Gone are the days when Missouri Highways and Transportation Department officials told people what road improvements they would get. Under a new program, Missourians will tell officials what roads should be improved. Then department officials will look at ways to fix them...
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LESS OVERSIGHT FOR HOSPITALS
(Editorial ~ 08/09/96)
Recent changes in Missouri's oversight process for hospital expansions have been a long time coming, and they are welcome. Years ago when hospital competition was a far different game, when hospitals sought to add many new services and when managed health care was still in its infancy, there probably was a genuine need for some review of what was being made available to the consuming public...
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VOTER APATHY
(Editorial ~ 08/09/96)
Much has been made of voter registration in the past couple of years. There are some legislators and other elected government leaders who seem to take some special pride in promoting participatory democracy by registering more and more new voters. Nationally, legislation dubbed the Motor Voter Bill pushed states to increase the number of opportunities for people to register to vote. ...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/09/96)
I JUST heard that so many people are going hungry. This is something I can't understand. If they are eligible for food stamps and if they have food stamps, they should have food. Why are so many people going hungry, and why are meals having to be supplied to school children in the summertime? They should have enough groceries to pack a lunch...
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VACATION: VACATION DESTINATION
(Editorial ~ 08/09/96)
To the editor: I like to think of myself as Bohemian and eccentric. My husband says I'm stubborn and illogical. But since eccentric actually means slightly off-center, we could both be right. I was looking through your paper and noticed all the back-to-school supplies that are going on sale. That means that vacation time is over for most people...
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POSTAL SERVICE MOVES TO LOWER MAILING COSTS
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
If it costs less for the U.S Postal Service to process and deliver, it should cost less to mail. That's the thinking of U.S. Postmaster Marvin Runyon in introducing the Postal Service's Classification Reform, a complete new means of preparation options designed to make business mail a better value...
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T.J. LINHART
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
Funeral service for T.J. Linhart of Cape Girardeau will be held at 10 a.m. today at Warner's Chapel in Granite City, Ill. Burial will be in Jefferson Barracks Cemetery. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel was in charge of local arrangements. Linhart, 72, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1996, at his home...
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LOWELL MANN
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
DEXTER -- Lowell Mason Mann, 84, of Dexter, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1996, at Dudley. He was born Sept. 21, 1911, in Gideon, son of Jess and Stella Fisher Mann. He and Lela Chambers were married Nov. 7, 1931, at Gideon. Mann had lived in the Dexter and Dudley areas since 1950. He was a retired farmer...
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DONNIE FRENCH
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Donnie Fay French of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. The Rev. Richard Farquhar will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. French, 58, died Wednesday, Aug. 7, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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RUSSELL DELAY
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Russell DeLay, 76, of Marseilles, Ill., formerly of East Prairie, died Thursday, Aug. 8, 1996, at LaSalle County Nursing Center in Ottawa, Ill. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements.
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RAYMOND STRICKER
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
CHARLESTON -- Funeral Mass for Raymond M. Stricker of Charleston will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. Henry's Catholic Church. The Rev. Rich Lause will officiate, with burial in Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston after 9:30 a.m. Saturday...
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MARY FETZER
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
Mary Louise Fetzer, 74, of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Aug. 8, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Aug. 23, 1921, in Terre Haute, Ind. She and Norman Wille were married Jan. 5, 1946, in Hamlet, Ind. He died Jan. 20, 1974. She later married Reed Fetzer May 21, 1977, in North Liberty, Ind. He died in May 1991...
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LORETTA ISAACS
(Obituary ~ 08/09/96)
Memorial service for Loretta Isaacs of Cape Girardeau will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel. The Rev. John Ferguson will officiate. Isaacs, 91, died Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1996, at Heartland Care Rehab Center. The former Loretta Firestone was born March 15, 1905, in Cape Girardeau. She first married Melbourne Roach, who died in 1942. She later married Isaacs, who died in 1950...
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SOUTHEAST OFFERING EXAMS
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
Southeast Missouri State University this month will offer a Residual ACT Assessment exam and the ACT ASSET exam, in addition to a final orientation and registration program for new students planning to attend Southeast this fall. The Residual ACT Assessment exam is scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday in the third floor lounge area of the Scully Building. Those taking the exam should bring a photo I.D. or a signed letter of identification...
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CEREMONY FOR VICTIMS CANCELLED
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
Southeast Missouri State University first postponed a wreath-laying ceremony for three victims of TWA Flight 800. Now, it won't hold one at all. Southeast graduate Joe Lychner's wife and two daughters were among 230 people killed when TWA Flight 800 exploded last month over the Atlantic Ocean...
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AIRPORT TO HOLD WOMEN'S AVIATION LUNCH
(Local News ~ 08/09/96)
Female pilots from all over the area will gather Aug. 17 at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport. The Ninety-Nines, an aviation group for women, and the city of Cape Girardeau will hold a luncheon that Saturday to commemorate an event in 1966 that helped keep the airport open...
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