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LETTERS: MIKE ROYKO HITS NEW LOW
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/28/96)
Dear Editor: In the Aug. 24 Southeast Missourian, Mike Royko hit a new low. He criticized Bob Dole for being old. I am old too and if he isn't by now, he will be old one day, too. Republicans do not call "them" blacks, Afro-Americans or Negroes any more than do Democrats. We have blacks we call our friends. Can Mike Royko say that?...
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CAIRO PREPARES FOR VISIT BY CLINTONS AND GORES
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
CAIRO, Ill. -- It is more than one man's visit to a small Illinois town -- it is the day Cairo welcomes the president. When President Bill Clinton first announced his plans to leave Cape Girardeau on his campaign tour across Illinois to Paducah, Ky., the mayor of Cairo was told it was possible -- if reaction was favorable enough -- that Clinton would stop there and speak...
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KEM-PEST CLEANUP COULD BE COMPLETED IN SEPTEMBER
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
The removal of contaminants from the Kem-Pest Superfund site north of Cape Girardeau could be finished by the end of September, the EPA's project site administrator said Monday. Steven L. Sanders said crews have been removing the old formulation building, basement and soil from the surrounding area...
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COPY EDITOR TAKES CAMPAIGN JOB
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Marc Powers has resigned from the Southeast Missourian to take a job as communications director for the Emily Firebaugh for Congress campaign. Powers began his new job Monday with the Democratic candidate's office in Farmington. He had worked at the Southeast Missourian since February 1994. He was a copy editor for the past five months...
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PRESIDENTIAL TICKETS IN GREAT DEMAND
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Robert Hamblin summed it up best: "It's going to be an exciting day." Of course, Hamblin was referring to President Bill Clinton's Friday campaign visit to Cape Girardeau. As did thousands, Hamblin spent time in the long line Monday morning at the Show Me Center waiting for free tickets to attend Clinton's speech to be held Friday at Capaha Park...
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CONSTRUCTION OF LEXINGTON MEANS NAME CHANGES FOR CAPE STREETS
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Construction of Lexington Avenue means address changes for residents of north Cape Girardeau. The City Council recently voted to change the name of Melody Lane to Lexington Avenue and change Melody Lane South to Melody Lane. The name changes started years ago when Melody Lane was a gravel road in the county. A small spur off the road came to be known as Melody Lane South. Both were annexed into the city, along with the homes along them...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/28/96)
I'M SO glad Bill Clinton's going to get to come and see this fine city of ours and what we've managed to spite him. I've also got a vacation coming and I think it'd just be the opportune time for me to enjoy Washington, D.C. I JUST wanted to comment that I thought the circus was coming to town at a appropriate time. The clowns will be arriving Friday at the airport on Air Force One...
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LETTERS: JUDY CROW EARNS PRAISE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/28/96)
Dear Editor: The Chinese proverb, "Be not afraid of going slowly. Only be afraid of standing still," may well apply to Judith Ann Crow, long-time worker at the Southeast Missourian. Judy, as she is familiarly called, struggled many years with her crippling disease, slowly but surely with determination in her heart...
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ANTI-ABORTION GROUP TO PROTEST
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
An anti-abortion group hopes President Bill Clinton gets the message even though he won't be at the group's prayer vigil in Cape Girardeau Friday. The SEMO Lifesavers, a chapter of the Missouri Right to Life group, will hold a prayer vigil at 11 a.m. along Siemers Drive west of Interstate 55...
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EMERGENCY WORKERS ARE HEROES
(Editorial ~ 08/28/96)
A recent seminar provided stress management tips to local emergency services personnel. These police, fire and medical professionals are on the scene when crisis strikes, and must act within minutes despite dire circumstances. Unlike television shows, the blood is real, the cries are from real people and the scenes can be gruesome. Emergency personnel never know what the call may entail: accidents, fires, child abuse, murder, suicide or hundreds of others crises...
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HIGHER ED BARGAIN
(Editorial ~ 08/28/96)
When Money magazine ranked Truman State University as one of the best values in the nation, it came as no surprise. The university has consistently landed in the top five for the last three years. In fact, since the university changed its mission to a liberal arts university, the Kirksville institution of higher learning has garnered considerable national attention...
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LETTERS: FISCAL RESTRAINT AND HATS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/28/96)
Dear Editor: It has been said that a candidate running for office needs deep pockets because he/she needs five hats: one to wear, one to throw into the ring, one to pass around for donations, one to talk through and one out of which to pull rabbits...
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SCHOOLS OUT EARLY FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Cape Girardeau schools will dismiss early Friday to allow buses on the streets before traffic is halted for the presidential visit. "It's for transportation and safety more than anything else," said Dr. Dan Tallent, school superintendent. President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore will stop Friday on a campaign visit to Cape Girardeau. The president is expected to speak at 1:30 p.m. at Capaha Park...
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CLINTON TO INVADE HOMETOWN OF LIMBAUGH
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Conservative radio commentator Rush Limbaugh put his hometown of Cape Girardeau on the national map. But it is President Clinton who will call attention to the town when he visits it Friday on the first leg of a two-day, four-state campaign trip. Forget about politics; it is publicity that counts to local tourism officials...
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EMERSON GETS GOP BACKING IN SPECIAL ELECTION
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Despite Richard Kline's Republican primary win, his party will back Jo Ann Emerson for the 8th District congressional seat. Members of the 8th Congressional District Republican Committee met at the Holiday Inn in Poplar Bluff Tuesday night. With a vote of 41 to zero, they nominated Emerson as their candidate in the upcoming special election...
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PARK, CITY BEING READIED FOR PRESIDENT
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Organizers say Cape Girardeau will be ready for the president when he arrives Friday for his campaign visit. Members of President Clinton's campaign and the Secret Service met Monday at Capaha Park with local law enforcement representatives and city officials to discuss some of the specifics...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: NECK BRACES, CRUMPLED HOODS, INSURANCE, OH MY!
(Column ~ 08/28/96)
If only The Other Half loved me as much as his car. Something is wrong with me. Sure, there are the obvious things. I'm 26 and still buy anti-acne creams. My thighs look like the inside of orange peels. I can't do simple multiplication in my head. But there's something else. Something not so noticeable but much more damaging...
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SOUTHEAST ENROLLMENT INCREASES BY 63 STUDENTS
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Southeast Missouri State University's enrollment is up for the second consecutive year. Total headcount at Southeast stood at 7,846 on the first day of classes Monday, up 1 percent or 63 students from a year ago. Graduate students account for the enrollment gain. Southeast has 730 graduate students enrolled this fall, up 85 students or 13 percent from a year ago...
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LOCAL DELEGATE ELATED OVER CONVENTION; STILL LOBBYING FOR RIDE ON AIR FORCE ONE
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Democratic National Convention speakers can count on being greeted by lots of signs. Delegates on the convention floor are instructed to hold up signs that visibly back the speakers and their speeches, and show up well on television. When former Republicans James and Sarah Brady came to the podium Monday night to push gun control, delegates held up signs supporting the gun-control Brady bill...
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TODD EARNS MEMBERSHIP
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- Nancy Todd of Jackson was recently accepted for membership in the Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, Julie Dent Grant, Tent No. 16, in St. Louis. To be eligible for membership, a woman must prove lineal descent from an ancestor who served in the Union Army during the Civil War...
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ASK JACKSON
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
The Southeast Missourian asked, "What effect do you think President Clinton's visit Friday to Southeast Missouri will have on local and area political contests?" Vickie Sievers: "I don't think he'll have any effect, because I don't think anybody would change their opinion around here."...
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YELL CAPTAINS TO MEET THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- YELL captains will meet Thursday at 7:30 a.m. at the Southeast Missourian-Jackson USA office to discuss strategies for the Sept. 10 sale of the special newspaper. Val Tuschhoff, YELL chairwoman in Jackson, said several organizations have signed up to sell the papers. Funds raised will benefit organizations that promote literacy...
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CHURCH PROGRAM OFFERS HELP FOR OLDER AMERICANS
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- New McKendree United Methodist Church wants to help residents reach out to senior citizens in the community. The Rev. Scott Lohse, senior pastor at New McKendree, said the church's limited-activity-persons program is geared toward encouraging residents to "adopt" older people...
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BESSIE SACHSE
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- Bessie M. Sachse, 87, of Jackson died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 3, 1909, at Mayfield, daughter of Henry M. and Carrie C. Killian Yount. She and Leo W. Sachse were married Sept. 7, 1940. He died in March 1957...
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WILSON ABERNATHY
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
PIEDMONT -- Funeral service for Wilson Abernathy of Piedmont was held Monday at Ruegg Funeral Home. Burial was in Flatwoods Meador Cemetery. Abernathy, 83, died Friday, Aug. 23, 1996, in Piedmont. He was born Feb. 12, 1913, in Leemon, son of Fred and Bertha Sides Abernathy. He and Dorothy Ridgeway were married Dec. 15, 1940. She preceded him in death...
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JACK CALLOW
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
ORAN -- Jack Callow, 70, of Oran died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at Miner Nursing Care. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Home in Chaffee.
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ANNA KANE
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- Anna Lee Kane, 64, of Sanger, Calif., died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, at Valley Medical Center in Fresno, Calif. She was born Feb. 22, 1932, in Cape Girardeau County, daughter of Henry and Lula Crites Sachse. She and Thomas L. Kane were married June 12, 1960...
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SARAH ADKINS
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
MOREHOUSE -- Sarah Jane Adkins, 99, of Morehouse died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, at Clearview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Sikeston. She was born March 31, 1897, in Weatherford, Texas, daughter of A.J. and Lucy Jane Sosebee Anderson. She and Milem Taylor Adkins were married Oct. 7, 1918, in Panama, Okla...
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EDNA LINDWEDEL
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Edna Lindwedel, 82, of Jonesboro died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at Jonesboro Healthcare Center. She was born July 1, 1914, in Walsh, Ill., daughter of Henry and Rose Hapke Eggemeyer. She married August Lindewedel, who died in 1979. Survivors include a daughter, Alberta Hanebutt of Coulterville; and a brother, Walter Eggemeyer of Steeleville...
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DR. FOREST COULSON
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
Dr. Forest Hilton Coulson, 81, of Shreveport, La., died Friday, Aug. 23, 1996, at his home. He was born May 5, 1915, in Ottumwa, Iowa, son of Elvin and Eleanor Peek Coulson. Coulson graduated from the University of Iowa Medical School in 1940, and completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at the University of Iowa...
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KEITH WIPFLER
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
KELSO -- Funeral Mass for Keith Eugene Wipfler of Columbia, formerly of Kelso, will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at St. Augustine Catholic Church, with the Rev. Oliver Clavin officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City after 4 p.m. today. A parish rosary will be held at 6:30, followed by a Knights of Columbus service...
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CHIC YOUNG
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
Robert G. "Chic" Young, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Jan. 5, 1907, son of Robert I. and Ada Elizabeth Kinder Young. He and Nada Ervin were married April 20, 1934, in Cape Girardeau. Young was a truck driver with Midwest Dairy, and operated a bicycle shop at his home. He was a member of Third Street United Methodist Church...
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KYLE TRAMMELL
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
DEXTER -- Kyle Trammell, 71, of Dexter died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, at his home. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Dexter is in charge of arrangements.
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BARBARA JUDEN
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
Barbara Jeanne Juden, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Sept. 24, 1925, in San Francisco, Calif., daughter of Roy Thomas and Alta Nadine Underwood. She and Kenneth Neher were married in 1947 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She and Dr. A.G. Juden were married March 8, 1955, in Jackson. He preceded her in death...
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CYNTHIA RUTLEDGE
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- Cynthia Janene Givens Rutledge, 42, of Pine Cliff, N.C., formerly of Jackson, died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, at Richmond Community Hospital in Richmond, Va. She was born Aug. 11, 1954, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Jack and Janene Wampler Givens...
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JACKSON BOARD CAUTIOUS ON SAFE SCHOOLS ACT
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
JACKSON -- The Missouri Safe Schools Act takes effect today, and the Jackson School District wants to be ready with the necessary changes. But school administrators don't want to be too hasty. "We want to make sure that we make solid decisions, not something that is ill-considered or not considered enough," said Assistant Superintendent Fred Jones...
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BRITTANI POHLMAN
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
Brittani Nichole Pohlman, infant daughter of Tim Pohlman and Belinda Kay Hopper of Cape Girardeau, died at birth Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Survivors include her parents; paternal grandparents, Alfred and Dorothy Pohlman of Perryville; maternal grandmother and stepgrandfather, Marilyn and Arthur Tracy of Cape Girardeau; maternal great-grandmothers, Ruby Ellis of Chaffee and Lois Yarboro of Cape Girardeau...
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EARNEST BARNETT
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Earnest "Ted" Barnett, 89, of Poplar Bluff died Tuesday, Aug. 27, 1996, at the Doctor's Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born Aug. 10, 1907, in Clines Island, the son of the late Morton and Mary Elizabeth Sherrard Barnett. He moved to Poplar Bluff in 1962 and was a retired saw operator at the Himmelberger-Harrison plant in Morehouse...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/28/96)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. John Shrewsbury of Crestwood, St. John's Hospital, 10:35 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, 1996. Name, Christina Elizabeth. Weight, 7 pounds 12 ounces. Third daughter. Mrs. Shrewsbury is the former Renee Humburg, daughter of Chris and Sandra Humburg of Scott City. Shrewsbury is the son of Eileen Shrewsbury of Kirkwood, and the late John Shrewsbury. He is an engineer with MSD...
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JAMES DRAKE SR.
(Obituary ~ 08/28/96)
SIKESTON -- James Eugene Drake Sr., 49, Sikeston Route 1, died Monday, Aug. 26, 1996, in an automobile accident near Morehouse. He was born Aug. 25, 1947, in Canalou, son of Doyle Eugene "Gene" and Mary Frances Carter Drake. He and Jo Ann Basinger were married Aug. 21, 1991, in Dyersburg, Tenn...
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RIVER HERITAGE QUILTER'S GUILD SPONSORING JUDGED QUILT SHOW
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Entries will be taken through Friday for an open, judged quilt show set for Sept. 28- 29 in Cape Girardeau. The two-day River Heritage Quilt Show to be held in the Family Life Center of Centenary United Methodist Church is open to entries from Arkansas, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri and Tennessee...
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OLD-FASHIONED QUILTING MEETS THE FUTURE
(Local News ~ 08/28/96)
Chatting is part of the fun in the quilting session that Bambi Robinson attends once a month. The small group "pretty much amounts to an old-fashioned quilting bee," Robinson said. Make that old-fashioned with a few twists. Individual projects are the norm during their monthly gatherings and the membership is of wide range in age and interest...
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