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SCOUTS TO PICK UP FOOD FROM HOMES
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
About 1,100 area Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts and Explorers will collect bags of food today to help replenish food pantries. Last week the Scouts distributed 25,000 bags to Cape Girardeau residents in the hopes they would fill them. People who wish to participate are to fill up the bag with nonperishable foods and place the bag back on the door handle or the porch, said Tom Turpin, Shawnee District executive for Boy Scouts. ...
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WEIGHT LOSS IS AN ONGOING EFFORT
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
EDITOR'S NOTE: In October, staff writer Heidi Nieland volunteered to go through a diet plan new to Cape Girardeau. She shared her successes and failures in a weekly series. So this is it. I've let readers peek at my bathroom scale. They served as temporary priests as I confessed my horrible eating habits. Now I'm writing the final article in my series on Biometrics...
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ATKINS, REDUX TAKE AREA BY STORM
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
Some believe Dr. Robert C. Atkins is a weight-loss messiah. Most nutritionists believe he is the diet Antichrist. Either way, the Atkins Diet is sweeping the Cape Girardeau area. Doctors are recommending it to patients. Patients are recommending it to each other...
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SCOTT CITY MAN INDUCTED INTO WESTERN SWING HALL OF FAME
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Bob Rosenquist quietly described his disbelief at the honor he recently received. "You know, these people really have accepted me -- a trumpet player from Scott City," he said. Rosenquist joined the ranks of musical legends that include Gene Autry, Dale Evans, Merle Haggard and Mel Tillis when he was inducted into the national Western Swing Society Hall of Fame in October...
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ON THEIR OWN TIME: LACK OF FUNDING DOESN'T STOP WORK OF VOLUNTEERS
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
Juanita Spicer. Sherry Maxwell. Carrie Kline. Donna Wilson. For these women, the maxim "each one, reach one" is a way of life. They have given from deep within their hearts and pockets to help area youths survive and flourish in society. Juanita Spicer founded the Edward M. Spicer Tutorial Program in Cape Girardeau four years ago. She started the program with no funding or materials as a way to honor her late husband. She said it quickly became a labor of love...
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AFFORDABLE-HOUSING PROJECT TO BEGIN
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
Construction of a 15-unit affordable-housing project will begin Monday at the site of one of the units, officials announced Friday. A groundbreaking will be at 10 a.m. with developers, investors and local and state officials participating. Site of the ground-breaking will be a vacant lot at 1025 Good Hope, where one of the first five homes are to be built possibly by the end of the year...
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DRAINAGE DISTRICT TO PRESERVE OLD PHOTOS
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
The Little River Drainage District has taken steps to preserve its past, captured in the stillness of 6,500 old photographic negatives. Secretary of State Bekki Cook awarded a $12,791 grant to the drainage district Friday to make contact prints of the negatives, which date from 1910 to the mid-1930s...
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LETTERS: TELEPHONE COMPETITION
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/16/96)
To the editor: When the Federal Telecommunications Act was adopted earlier this year, it was intended to open up competition at all levels of the telecommunications industry. The goal was to usher in a new era of advanced services at affordable prices for consumers...
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KIDS COUNT STATISTICS SHOW SOME GAINS AND SOME LOSSES
(Editorial ~ 11/16/96)
It was a case of good news and bad news. Overall, the lives of Missouri children are improving, according to the 1996 Kids Count report released last week. But not all the state's counties shared in this upward trend. This marks the fourth year for the Kids Count report, which compiles statistics concerning children. ...
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SIKESTON ANTI-DRUG EFFORT INVOLVES SCHOOLCHILDREN
(Editorial ~ 11/16/96)
The numbers are amazing. Sikeston Elks Lodge 2319 has teamed up with the other businesses in the community to promote its "Just Say No" club. Their efforts have paid off with more than 2,000 elementary school members. Elks members deserve a hearty pat on the back. Since the club's creation last May, members have traveled 1,540 miles, worked 445 hours and distributed more than 20,540 pieces of literature to promote drug awareness. That is impressive...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 11/16/96)
Son to Larry and Suzanne Eftink of Kelso, St. Mary's Hospital in St. Louis, 4:16 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 22, 1996. Name, Hunter Preston. Weight, 2 pounds 11 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Eftink is the former Suzanne Priest, daughter of Don and Sue Priest of Cape Girardeau. The Eftinks own and operate Kelso Kwik Stop. He is the son of Louis and Alene Eftink of Scott City...
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BETTY ESTES
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Betty Jane Estes, 67, of Imperial died Thursday, Nov. 14, 1996, at Lake Ozark General Hospital in Osage Beach. She was born July 15, 1929, at Commerce, daughter of Alvin "Tiny" and Vera McGee Held. She and Raymond Miller were married Aug. 12, 1945. He died April 19, 1970...
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GLENN FORNKOHL
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
Funeral service for Glenn E. Fornkohl of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. today at Trinity Lutheran Church. The Rev. David V. Dissen will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park, with graveside rites by VFW Post 3838. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements...
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ELLA SATTERFIELD
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
SIKESTON -- Ella Mae Satterfield, 76, died Friday, Nov. 15, 1996, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born March 29, 1920, in Pottsville, Ark., daughter of Joe Virgil and Lanie Ford. She and Wade Satterfield were married Sept. 9, 1939, in Pope City, Ark. He died Oct. 15, 1973...
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AMANDA WESTRICH
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
CHAFFEE -- Amanda Westrich, 91, of Chaffee died Friday, Nov. 15, 1996, at Chaffee Nursing Center. She was born July 4, 1905, at New Hamburg, daughter of Lawrence and Theresa Scherer Westrich. Westrich retired as a seamstress at Thorngate Ltd. She was a member of St. Ambrose Catholic Church and Daughters of St. Ambrose...
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CHESTER BLAYLOCK
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
N. Chester Blaylock, 86, 108 S. West End Boulevard, died Friday, Nov. 15, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Jan. 9, 1910, at Highland, son of Robert and Margaret Fleming Blaylock. He and Clara Rubel were married Feb. 17, 1929, in West Frankfort, Ill. She died Dec. 28, 1994...
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SHEILA LAYTON
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Sheila Jane Layton of Nashville, Tenn., will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Ponder Funeral Home. Burial will be in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today. Layton, 45, died Thursday, Nov. 14, 1996, at St. Thomas Medical Center in Nashville...
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LUTHER BUEHLER
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
ZALMA -- Luther H. Buehler, 78, of Zalma died Friday, Nov. 15, 1996, at his home. He was born Aug. 20, 1918, at Gipsy, son of Joe and Zilla Shiverdeck Buehler. He and Mildred Talley were married Sept. 28, 1940, at Gipsy. Buehler was a retired farmer and shoe factory worker. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...
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AMELIA LANGSTON
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
WHITEWATER -- Amelia E. Langston, 83, formerly of Whitewater, died Friday, Nov. 15, 1996, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee. She was born May 26, 1913, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Wilson and Ida Koehler Eaves. She and Marvin W. Langston were married Dec. 20, 1931. He died March 6, 1995...
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DEWEY SHAW
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
Dewey V. Shaw, 72, 2833 Hopper Road, died Thursday, Nov. 14, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born July 14, 1924, at Quaker, son of Benjamin F. and Leona Blankenship Shaw. He and Leona E. Meyer were married Sept. 30, 1947, at Apple Creek...
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NUEL GREER
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
JACKSON -- Nuel A. Greer, 81, of Jackson died Thursday, Nov. 14, 1996, at Beverly Health and Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 26, 1915, at Oran, son of Charles and Minnie Dipperline Greer. Greer served in the U.S. Navy 20 years. Survivors include two daughters, Toni Lucy of Grover, Rhea Hogan of Chesterfield; two sisters, Virginia Dennis of Oran, Marcella Elledge of Chaffee; and two grandchildren...
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VIRGINIA SIEBERT
(Obituary ~ 11/16/96)
Virginia Pauline Siebert, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Nov. 15, 1996, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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YELL LITERACY GRANTS ARE AWARDED IN CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Local News ~ 11/16/96)
Literacy grants in Cape Girardeau, funded through this fall's YELL newspaper drive, were awarded this week. Additional grants will be awarded in Jackson and Scott City. Grants are based on the total dollars raised in each city. Cape Girardeau grants totalled $14,000. Half of that, $7,000, went to the Southeast Missourian newspaper to fund a portion of the newspaper's Newspaper in Education program. NIE offers newspapers to area teachers and students for use in their classrooms...
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