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WORLD WAR II VETERAN REMEMBERS LIFE ON BOARD THE `SCREAMING EAGLE'
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
This picture was taken of a B-17 Flying Fortress in the skies near Spokane, Wash., during the time Meyer was training there. Meyer kept this picture in his wallet for sometime. His son made an enlarged copy of it later. (Left to right bottom) Lt. Werner, co-pilot, Lt. Roth, pilot, Lt. Rogers, bombardier and Lt. Brodeur, navigator. (Left to right top) Sgt. Age, Sgt. Carlton Meyer, Sgt. McClain and Sgt. Lecompt...
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JACKSON NATIVE HELPING BOSNIAN MISSION AT HUNGARIAN STAGING SITE
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
GIs put their gear onto cargo trucks at the staging area in Taszar, Hungary. This former Warsaw Pact country is the host to people and supplies moving back and forth between Germany and Bosnia-Herzegovina. (Photo by Michael Tolzmann) TASZAR, Hungary -- For most people in this rural farm village nestled just north of the Balkans, American GIs rolling through their streets is a pretty amazing sight. ...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/26/97)
GOOD MORNING, I'm calling in regard to all the school days being missed due to bad weather. Back in 1950, possibly even earlier than that, when I went to Jackson High School we made up our snow days on Saturdays which worked out very well. I just thought they might want to give that some thought. Since children don't have that much to do on Saturday -- or complain that they don't, this might work very well...
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MISSOURI COMMENTARY: THE VITAL CENTER OR THE DEAD CENTER?
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
It was something of a listless inaugural. American presidential second terms are generally anticlimactic. The two term presidents of this century -- Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan -- all found more political success in their first four years than in their second...
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FROM THE PULPIT: SPORTS AND RELIGION
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
The Apostle Paul frequently alluded to the world of sports in referring to his Faith Journey. In Acts (20:24) in speaking to the presbyters of the Church of Ephesus, Paul is recorded as saying, "I put no value on my life if only I can finish my race and complete the service to which I have been assigned by the Lord Jesus." In Second Timothy (4:7), Philippians (2:16) and First Corinthians (9:24), Paul compares his life as a disciple to the running of a race. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: CARE TO JOIN ME IN CALAMITY CORNER?
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
Even when things appear to be going smoothly in the marble palace overlooking the Muddy Missouri in the County of Cole, some of us worry about problems that appear to be hanging around every street corner in a 10-block area from Capitol to McCarthy avenues...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: RESOLUTION OPPOSES EPA's UNREALISTIC CLEAN AIR STANDARDS
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
This Thursday (Jan. 30) at 8:30 a.m., the Senate Lounge in your State Capitol will be the site of a hearing on a resolution that opposes new clean air standards proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Senate Rules Committee will hear Senate Concurrent Resolution 12, offered by this writer and five colleagues, which asks the EPA to back down from its proposed new National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone and particulate matter (PM). ...
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EFFORT TO LIMIT THIRD-PARTY CANDIDATES IS ILL-CONSIDERED BILL
(Editorial ~ 01/26/97)
State Sen. Jerry Howard, D-Dexter, wants to limit the possibility of third parties' getting access to the ballot. Howard has proposed a bill that would drastically tighten the requirements for new parties and independent candidates seeking a spot on the ballot. The changes are viewed as extreme even by many in Howard's own party...
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MEL HANCOCK IS BACK IN BUSINESS
(Editorial ~ 01/26/97)
Former Rep. Mel Hancock, the Springfield Republican, has retired from Congress after eight years as he promised he would. We may not, however, have heard the last of this interesting figure in Missouri political history. Hancock says he may reactivate the Missouri Taxpayers Survival Association, the organization that made him famous 20 years ago...
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LETTERS: TV VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/26/97)
To the editor: I'm disgusted about all the violence on kids' TV. Power Rangers, X-men, Batman! It's disgusting! Even with the ratings that we have, they won't work unless parents care enough to look at them. With all the violence on TV, kids are learning that violence is the way to solve situations. If this generation grows up thinking it should solve situations with violence, what happens to world peace?...
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GOING TO THE SUPER-MAX: TAMMS PRISON TO BE FINISHED IN 1997
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
TAMMS, Ill. -- The Illinois super-maximum prison here will be one that inmates earn their way into. But they won't like it, says George Welborn, of the Tamms Correctional Center which is expected to open its super-max doors in December. The state's newest prison is taking shape just north of Tamms, off Route 127, in what used to be a soybean field adjoining high bluffs...
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SHOW TIME: GROUP SEEKS FUNDS FOR PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AT SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
Supporters of the arts want to build a performing arts center large enough to land Broadway shows at Southeast Missouri State University. State and private funding would be needed to build the center. The center could be built on the north end of the university campus near the Show Me Center. It could cost $20 to $50 million, said Dr. Robert Fruehwald, who chairs the university's music department...
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SOUTHWEST PAYS PRICE FOR PERFORMANCE CENTER
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Broadway shows regularly come to Southwest Missouri State University's new performing arts center. But not without a price. In February 1992, the school's Board of Regents forced then-president Marshall Gordon to resign because of a $7 million cost overrun in the construction of the performing arts center...
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BLAZE DAMAGES HOUSE
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
A fire that may have been caused by a propane-tank explosion heavily damaged a Cape Girardeau home Saturday evening. The fire broke out shortly before 5:30 p.m. at Thomas and Teresa Robinson's home at 1506 Scott Street. They were cooking dinner on their gas grill...
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MARK MY WORD: BATH, BAND-AIDS AND CHEESEHEADS DO MIX
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
Life's worth a good splash in the tub. Water parks are great -- particularly, when it's your bathtub in the dead of winter. My daughters think it's great to splash around in the tub. Becca is almost 5; Bailey just turned 1 last month. Put them in a tub and you end up with more splashing than you can find at a beach party...
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WAR HERO FILES LAWSUIT OVER VETERAN BENEFITS
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
A Congressional Medal of Honor recipient is taking on the government with the hopes of restoring free medical care for retired military veterans. Retired Air Force Col. George Day said that from the 1930s until recent years the military had promised lifetime medical care to recruits who served 20 years or more. Day, a former pilot and prisoner of war, said the government is breaking that promise...
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CARNAHAN HEADS SEMO'S PANEL FOR ANNIVERSARY
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
Gov. Mel Carnahan and Donald Dickerson, president of Southeast Missouri State University's Board of Regents, will serve as honorary co-chairmen of a committee to plan the school's 125th anniversary in 1998. The committee will hold its first meeting in the next couple of weeks, said Jim Biundo, chairman of the committee. Biundo expects Southeast President Dr. Dale Nitzschke to receive a proposed schedule of events by the end of spring semester...
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CAPE CENTRAL POWERS PAST EAST CARTER COUNTY 79-45
(High School Sports ~ 01/26/97)
It didn't take Cape Girardeau Central High coach Brett Reutzel many words to explain why his team dominated visiting East Carter County 79-45 at the Tiger Field House."We were just bigger, faster, stronger and deeper," Reutzel said. Central was all of that and more Saturday. The Tigers, winner of this years University High Christmas Tournament, outmanned and eventually wore down East Carter, the winner of the Bloomfield Christmas Tournament...
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PANTHERS KEEP SE SLUMPING
(College Sports ~ 01/26/97)
As a first-year Ohio Valley Conference member, Eastern Illinois University was somewhat of an unknown quantity among the rest of the league. That's probably a major reason why the Panthers were picked to finish just eighth in the 10-team conference during the pre-season poll...
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THE LATEST LINE: SURE, RODMAN IS A CASE, BUT CAMERMAN DIDN'T DO BAD
(Sports Column ~ 01/26/97)
Considering all the antics Dennis Rodman has pulled over the years, should anybody have really been surprised when the Chicago Bulls' wild and crazy rebounding machine recently kicked a cameraman? But even by Dennis the Menace's standards, this was stooping pretty low...
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SPORTS BRIEF: TABLE TENNIS TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 01/26/97)
PERRYVILLE -- A table tennis tournament will be held Sunday, Feb. 2, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Perryville. Action will begin at 1 p.m. For more information, call Bob Schnurbusch at 788-2208.
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SPORTS BRIEF: CAYSA SOCCER SIGN-UPS
(High School Sports ~ 01/26/97)
CAYSA will hold its spring league sign-ups on Jan. 26 and Feb. 2 at the Venture courtyard in West Park Mall. Sign-up hours will be noon to 5 p.m. each Sunday for boys and girls ranging from pre-kindergarten to eighth grade. Registration cost is $20 per child...
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SEBACHER, THOMAS JOIN NEW PRO TEAM
(College Sports ~ 01/26/97)
They won't exactly be getting rich, but two members of Southeast Missouri State University's highly successful volleyball program will have the chance to play professionally. Theresa Sebacher, who completed her eligibility this past season, and assistant coach Eunice Thomas have made the roster of the St. Louis Spirits of the new National Volleyball Association...
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ND's VOLLINK NETS 1A-3A ALL-STATE
(High School Sports ~ 01/26/97)
Notre Dame High's Matt Vollink was widely regarded as one of the area's top soccer players last fall and the rest of the state evidently noticed that as well. Vollink was recently named to the Missouri Class 1A-3A all-state second team as selected by the Eastern Missouri High School Soccer Coaches Association...
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LADY INDIANS SQUEAK PAST UPSET-MINDED NERINX HALL 34-30
(High School Sports ~ 01/26/97)
JACKSON -- Jackson's girls used a second-half rally to overcome a slow start and defeated Nerinx Hall 34-30 Saturday afternoon.Jackson (12-2) found itself trailing 10-1 in the opening minutes of the game and saw Nerinx Hall take a 20-14 lead into intermission.The Lady Indians, led by a game-high 16 points from Shannon Perry, caught Nerinx in the third quarter. ...
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OTAHK HOMESTAND BEGINS WITH A LOSS
(College Sports ~ 01/26/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team, after struggling for most of the season, had high hopes of making plenty of noise during a crucial four-game home stretch. That may still happen -- but the Otahkians certainly didn't get the homestand off on the right foot...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: MISSOURI OUTDOORSMEN NEED TO TAKE NOTE OF RULE CHANGES
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
Missouri hunters and anglers should be aware of regulation changes that may affect their outdoor activities. Rule changes that appear in the 1997 Wildlife Code will become effective March 1. Hunters and anglers are encouraged to familiarize themselves with rule changes before venturing afield...
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FLOYD K. HAAS
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- Floyd K. Haas, 82, of Anna died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. He was born Aug. 1, 1914, at Milwaukee, Wis., son of Floyd E. and Melanie Kleih Haas. He married Elizabeth "Betty" Geffine on Feb. 26, 1938, at Lakewood, Ohio. She died on Feb. 17, 1989...
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LESTER DAILEY
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
Lester Dailey, 78, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Jan. 24, 1997, at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Center. He was born Aug. 22, 1918, at Elko, Ill., son of William and Josephine V. Redelman Dailey. He and Gladys Butterfield were married Aug. 7, 1938, at Jackson...
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CARROL "CARL" STEPHENS
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Carroll "Carl" Stephens, 66, of Poplar Bluff died Friday, Jan. 24, 1996, at John Pershing Veteran's Hospital. He was born May 7, 1930, at Cape Girardeau, son of Charles Zenith and Violet "Lorena" Allen Stephens. Stephens was employed by WIlford Raines Farms. He served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War...
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MARYBELLE ELIZABETH JENKINS
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
MaryBelle Elizabeth Jenkins, 89, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Jan. 25, 1997, at Fountainbleau Lodge. She was born Sept. 19, 1907, at Cape Girardeau, son of John Joseph and Anna Katherine Hauptman McGinnis. She and Ernest Lilbourn Jenkins were married Nov. 28, 1935 at Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death Dec. 22, 1983...
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JESSIE WESLEY DENTON SR.
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
MARBLE HILL -- Jessie Wesley "J.W." Denton Sr., 78, of Marble Hill Route 1 died Friday, Jan. 24, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 16, 1918, at Essex, son of James Monroe and Annie York Denton. He married Florence Keltie Denton on March 29, 1941, at Poplar Bluff...
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CHARLES HOMER PALMER
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- Charles Homer Palmer, 57, of Anna died Saturday, Jan. 25, 1997, at Union County Hospital in Anna. Funeral arrangements are pending at Hileman & Parr Funeral Services in Jonesboro.
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NELL WALDEN
(Obituary ~ 01/26/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Nell Walden, 93, of Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Jan. 25, 1997. She was born Sept. 26, 1903, at Allenville, the daughter of Joel Mathis and Sarah Isabelle Rhodes English. She married Ray Nelson Walden on Dec. 26, 1926, at East Prairie. He died on Aug. 5, 1970...
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JOY ALONG THE WAY: ICICLE SPLENDOR
(Column ~ 01/26/97)
When nature punches us with an icy fist, first from the right, then the left and delivers an almost knockout uppercut, like a gracious adversary, she comes back with crystaline beauty for us to enjoy. On the first recent ice-covered morning I looked out the west window to assess the tree damage I had heard going on in the night. ...
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MORE THAN JUST A GAME; PACKERS, PATS FANS PREDICT SUPER BOWL HISTORY TODAY
(Local News ~ 01/26/97)
To confessed Cheesehead Mike Bender, only one National Football League team is worthy of being known as America's Team. And it isn't the certain Texas-based team with a flashy image and a penchant for off-field trouble which has claimed the title. "To me that is a misnomer. the Green Bay Packers have always been America's Team," Bender said. "I think Green Bay has a greater claim to the title."...
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