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LETTERS: EPA IS GOING TOO FAR
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/25/97)
To the editor: The Environmental Protection Agency is running amok. It is a good example of too much money and not enough brains. If left unchecked, the EPA will completely bankrupt the middle class in America with its useless and over-costly regulations...
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SAFE SCHOOLS PROGRAM TARGETS PROBLEMS
(Editorial ~ 01/25/97)
Safety is not just a concern on school buses. Missouri has allocated $10 million in grant funding to help schools establish and improve security measures. Of that, $1.2 million has been issued to schools in Southeast Missouri. The districts must match these safety grants with local funds...
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SAFETY DEVICES WOULD PROTECT YOUNGSTERS ON SCHOOL BUSES
(Editorial ~ 01/25/97)
A move is under way in both Missouri and Illinois to mandate 10-foot-long safety arms on the front of public school buses. Gov. Mel Carnahan put funding in his proposed budget to pay for installing this equipment on school buses in Missouri. He wants the equipment in place by the start of the 1998 school year. The governor feels that if this small step protects the life of even one Missouri child, it is an action worth taking...
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HOSPITAL REHAB CENTERS LET PATIENTS CATCH THEIR BREATH
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
Vicki Frank, cardiopulmonary rehabilitation supervisor at Southeast Missouri Hospital, checked on Herman Jansen of Scott City as he arm-pedaled. Charlie Weber of Cape Girardeau operated a pullover weight station to improve upper body strength at the St. Francis Center for Health and Rehabilitation...
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JACKSON SEEKS SUGGESTIONS ON CENTER FOR CITY
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
JACKSON -- The Jackson Multipurpose Building Feasibility Study Committee wants to find out if residents want a community center and, if so, what it should include. An enthusiastic group of volunteers met for the first time Thursday to study the possibility of building a multipurpose community building in Jackson...
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SCHOOL PLANS MOVE TO CENTER
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
Cape Girardeau's Alternative Education Center will move to the Cape Civic Center next month. John Jenkins, president of the board of the reorganized Civic Center, said, "I feel like it's a win-win situation for the alternative school and the Civic Center."...
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NEW HEAD START GUIDELINES PASSED DOWN
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
Head Start has completely overhauled its performance standards, and not all of the Head Start programs in the area have gotten the word. The new standards were released in mid-January. Employees in Illinois Head Start programs are attending district training sessions to help them understand and begin implementing the new standards. Missouri programs have been slower to act...
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BUCKING THE SYSTEM: CHASING THE BOOGIE MAN WITH LIGHT OF EDUCATION
(Column ~ 01/25/97)
I'm a nosy person, which often helps me as a reporter. I like to join other people's conversations, and the offended down-the-nose stares they give me do not deter me from giving my opinion when I think I need to. It was not so long ago that I listened in on a parenthood discussion while sitting under the hair dryer at a local beauty shop. Two young women were joking about the sex of their future children, and they both said they only wanted to have daughters, not sons...
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EMPTY SCHOOL BUS HIT; CAR DESTROYS `WELCOME' SIGN
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
A Ryder Student Transportation school bus was slightly damaged after being involved in a three-vehicle accident Friday. Earlier in the day, a man destroyed the "Welcome to Cape Girardeau" sign at Morgan Oak and South Spanish when he hit it with the car he was driving...
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JACKSON CHAMBER TO MEET MONDAY
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
JACKSON -- Mayor Paul Sander will be guest speaker at the Jackson Chamber of Commerce general membership meeting Monday at 5:30 p.m. at Delmonicos. Sander will provide an update on the city's activities, including the study for a community center. The chamber has established April 25 for the fifth annual chamber golf tournament...
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S. ILLINOIS VOTERS FACE CONTESTS APRIL 1
(Local News ~ 01/25/97)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Incumbent mayors will face challenges in Southern Illinois elections April 1. Elections are scheduled at Tamms, Thebes and Olive Branch in Alexander County; at Mounds, Mound City and Olmsted in Pulaski County; and at Jonesboro, Mill Creek, Alto Pass and Dongola in Union County...
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INDIANS BEGIN CRUCIAL HOMESTAND TONIGHT; SEMO TAKES ON EASTERN ILLINOIS IN FIRST-PLACE OVC BATTLE
(College Sports ~ 01/25/97)
Southeast Missouri State University will be playing a virtual brand-new opponent tonight, but the stakes will be just as high as if the Indians were facing a longtime rival. When Eastern Illinois comes to the Show Me Center for a 7:45 Ohio Valley Conference tipoff, it will mark the first time the schools have squared off in basketball since 1976...
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OTAHKIANS NEED TO FIND PULSE SOON
(College Sports ~ 01/25/97)
Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball coach Ed Arnzen doesn't believe the Otahkians are dead yet in the Ohio Valley Conference race. But Arnzen knows his team will have to show plenty of life during its upcoming four-game homestand that starts today with a 5:30 game against Eastern Illinois at the Show Me Center...
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JACKSON HOLDS ON TO SLIP PAST NOTRE DAME
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/97)
JACKSON -- Neither Jackson High nor Notre Dame entered Friday's basketball game riding the hottest of streaks. Jackson entered the game on the heels of a 40-point humbling by state power DeSmet. And Notre Dame entered the contest in the midst of one of the toughest stretches the team has endured in recent years. ...
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CENTRAL GIRLS RIP NERINX HALL; SC BOYS WIN LEAGUE TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/97)
Cape Girardeau Central High girls basketball coach Paula Watkins was expecting an extremely tough challenge from Nerinx Hall, rated seventh among large schools in the St. Louis area. Watkins' Lady Tigers answered the challenge -- and then some. Central stormed to a 34-18 halftime lead and routed the Markers 62-40 Friday night at the Tiger Field House...
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SEMO TRACK TEAMS WIN DUAL MEETS
(College Sports ~ 01/25/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's track teams set three Student Recreation Center records as they routed Murray State in indoor dual-meet action Friday night. The Southeast men won 80-39 while Southeast's women prevailed 81-32. Bryan Alfultis set a SRC record in the men's shot put with a toss of 53 feet 6 inches; Heather Fisher set a SRC record in the women's high jump by clearing 5-6; and Tammy Wenkel broke the facility's record in the women's 600-meters with a time of 1:36.3...
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BRIEFLY: POPLAR BLUFF HIRES GRID COACH
(High School Sports ~ 01/25/97)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Mark Barousse, a former assistant football coach at Poplar Bluff High School, was hired on Thursday as the Mules' new head football coach for the 1997 season. Barousse served as a Poplar Bluff assistant from 1988-90. He most recently has been an assistant at Ball High School in Galveston, Texas...
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TRUE POWERS
(Obituary ~ 01/25/97)
ADVANCE -- True V. Powers, 91, formerly of Advance, died Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born July 24, 1905, at Parma, son of John W. and Nebraska Stratton Powers. He and Wilma Bryant were married Sept. 24, 1924, at Parma. She died Jan. 25, 1990...
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SHARON WALKER
(Obituary ~ 01/25/97)
CHARLESTON -- Sharon "Tutti" Walker, 38, of Charleston died Wednesday, Jan. 22, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born May 12, 1958, in Diehlstadt, daughter of Mose and Alice Faye Robinson Walker. Walker was a 1978 graduate of Charleston High School...
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HOWARD MORRISON SR.
(Obituary ~ 01/25/97)
Howard Douglas Morrison Sr., 58, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997, at his home. He was born May 24, 1938, in Clarksville, Ark., son of Jefferson Davis and Eva Violet Vaught Morrison. He and Ruth Joan Ludwig were married June 27, 1992. Morrison worked at Vulcan Shoe Co. in St. Louis a number of years, until retiring in 1994 due to ill health...
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WINNIE LINEBERRY
(Obituary ~ 01/25/97)
SIKESTON -- Winnie Lineberry, 52, of Jackson, Tenn., died Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997, at the University of Alabama Medical Center in Birmingham. She was born Sept. 29, 1944, at Conran, daughter of Alfred H. and Ora Irene Willbanks Caudle. She and Jack Lineberry were married Sept. 26, 1996, in Trenton, Tenn...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 01/25/97)
Son to Wendell Doyce Blount and Kristina Michelle Bertrand of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:40 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 7, 1997. Name, Dakota Jordan. Weight, 9 pounds 5 ounces. Third child, first son. Ms. Bertrand is the former Kristina Leonard, daughter of Andy Leonard of Cape Girardeau, and Peggy and Alan Benson of Jackson. She is a certified nurse assistant at Jackson Manor. Blount is the son of Wendell and Wynette Blount of Calhoun City, Miss. He is a nurse aide at Jackson Manor...
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REV. CHARLEY SITZES
(Obituary ~ 01/25/97)
MARBLE HILL -- The Rev. Charley E. Sitzes, 90, of Marble Hill died Thursday, Jan. 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 19, 1906, at Marquand, son of Jacob and Caroline Pulliam Sitzes. He and Lillian I. Rhodes were married Sept. 5, 1926. She died Dec. 5, 1982. He later married Opal Denmann, who also preceded him in death...
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