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LETTERS: STATE NEEDS COCKFIGHT BAN
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/30/97)
To the editor: When the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in 1985 that the law against cockfighting was constitutionally vague, lawmakers and state officials assured those who abhor this brutal blood sport that the decision was merely a technicality. Twelve years later, cockfighters engage in this ruthless activity with the tacit endorsement of the state, while year after year the cockfighting lobby prevents passage of a ban on an activity that is illegal in 45 other states. ...
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SEMINAR OFFERS ANSWERS TO VARIETY OF PAINS
(Local News ~ 01/30/97)
Knee and hip pains drew about 15 people to a seminar Wednesday at Southeast Missouri Hospital to learn what to do about it. Presented by Debbie Taylor, a registered nurse at Southeast, the seminar dealt with tendinitis, bursitis and arthritis. "It's important to find out exactly what's going on with your knee so you can find out how to treat it," Taylor said. Arthritis is the only condition of the three that is not curable, but it is treatable...
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AN ONGOING GIGGLE
(Local News ~ 01/30/97)
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Audiences don't leave the production "Frogs, Lizards, Orbs and Slinkys" thinking about its significance. Giggling is the predominant response at performances by the unusual theatrical troupe called Imago. An ongoing giggle. "The experience is immediate, it's seldom intellectualized after the event," says Jerry Mouawad, co-founder of the Portland, Ore.-based Imago...
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THE KELLY WILLIAMS BAND
(Local News ~ 01/30/97)
Kelly Williams is calling from somewhere west of Columbia, one of those trucker oases with hash browns on the griddle in mid-afternoon and phones in each booth. She's there because the Kelly Williams Band van has just smacked into a truck in a snowstorm whiteout on the interstate...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/30/97)
THE MANAGEMENT fees paid to Alliance Water Resources from 1993 to 1997 have increased 16, 8, 1 and 15 percent per respectively each year. The overall increase for four years has been 44 percent. When compared with the cost-of-living index and national economy, a 10 percent increase per year in management cost has to be called excessive. The City Council should review the management contract very closely...
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BRIDGE LIGHTS WILL NEED WIDESPREAD COMMUNITY SUPPORT
(Editorial ~ 01/30/97)
Drawings of the new Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge across the Mississippi River at Cape Girardeau show a graceful structure with elegant, clean lines which, in their own right, will be as pleasant to look at as the four-lan bridge itself will be to drive across...
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THE FIRST LADY AND THE CONSERVATIVE MEDIA
(Editorial ~ 01/30/97)
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has pretty much stayed out of the limelight since the fiasco over national health planning that she orchestrated early in her husband's first term. In a recent interview on C-SPAN, which was widely reported elsewhere, Mrs. Clinton indicated a bizarre concept regarding media bias...
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CABLE CHANGES PROPOSED; TCI MEETS WITH CITY TO DISCUSS GRIPES
(Local News ~ 01/30/97)
The Cape Girardeau City Council will consider a proposal from Tele-Communications Inc. that could lead to changes for cable-television subscribers. TCI and city representatives met Tuesday at City Hall to discuss recent customer complaints about the local system...
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RARE FEAT: COW GIVES BIRTH TO TRIPLETS; URSULA HAD TWINS ONLY A YEAR AGO
(Local News ~ 01/30/97)
Ursula is some proud mom. After giving birth to twin calves a year ago, Ursula outdid herself again this time: She delivered more than 200 pounds of healthy triplets. Cows usually have a calf every year, but Ursula is three years ahead of schedule. "She has had five calves in two years," said Gregg Jung of J-5 Simmental Farm near Altenburg...
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MEETING SET ON INTERNET FUNDING
(Local News ~ 01/30/97)
Representatives of local governments, schools, community groups and private businesses will meet Friday to discuss formation of a community information network on the Internet. The meeting will focus on whether to apply for a grant under the state's new Missouri Express program...
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SAM BLACKWELL: MAKING SOMETHING OF A HOT WOK & COLD BIRDS
(Column ~ 01/30/97)
Jan. 30, 1997 Dear Leslie, I awoke a few mornings ago wanting to add up the number of places I'd lived. Not towns and states but apartments and houses. That number, counting the four different homes my parents have had since my birth, is 32. Twenty-eight moves since age 20...
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STAR IN THE DARKNESS; OTAHKIANS FIND A BRIGHT SPOT IN NEWCOMER KOESTER
(College Sports ~ 01/30/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team is having a disappointing season by anybody's standards, struggling to a 4-13 record so far. But it's scary -- particularly for coach Ed Arnzen -- to wonder where Southeast would be without Jamie Koester, a first-year Otahkian who is leading the team in scoring and rebounding...
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DELTA BOYS ROUGH UP LEOPOLD 69-36
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/97)
DELTA -- Delta's boys basketball team bounced back from a two-point loss suffered Tuesday with a resounding 69-36 victory over Leopold on Wednesday. Four Bobcats reached double figures as Delta improved to 12-7 on the season. The win helped ease the sting of a narrow 70-68 loss suffered to Marquand the night before...
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BRIEFLY: SMITH LEAVES PERRYVILLE HIGH SCHOOL
(High School Sports ~ 01/30/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Perryville High School football head coach Doug Smith recently resigned his position to join NCAA Division II school Missouri Western. Smith served as head coach at Perryville for the past three years. The Pirates were 3-7 under Smith in the 1996 season and 11-19 in his three seasons...
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VIVIAN EDDLEMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Vivian C. Eddleman, 87, of Dongola died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997, at Jonesboro Health Care Center in Jonesboro. He was born July 29, 1909, in Dongola, son of Calvin T. and Nellie Swink Eddleman. He and Elsie King were married March 11, 1932...
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DOROTHY BOOZER
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
PARMA -- Dorothy D. Boozer, 27, of Parma was found dead at her home Saturday, Jan. 25, 1997, the victim of a gunshot wound. She was born June 10, 1969, in Chicago. She attended New Madrid County High School. Survivors include a daughter, Kaendria Chester of the home; two sons, Davawn Chester and Joseph Sandridge of the home; her adoptive parents, Leon and Delois Cox of Parma; her parents, Clyde and Gearldine Boozer Claytor of Chicago; four brothers, Clyde Boozer, John and Zachary Claytor of Chicago, David Claytor of North Carolina; three sisters, Deanna Cohen and Victoria Claytor of Parma, Nancy Claytor of Chicago; and a friend, Michael Barnes of the home.. ...
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LILLIAN SIEBERG
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
Lillian Mae Sieberg, 73, 208 Sandstone, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997, at her home. She was born May 14, 1923, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Arch H. and Fannie Haley Wallace. She and Walter T. Sieberg were married Jan. 20, 1946, at Sikeston. Sieberg had worked at Hirsch Brothers Stores, A&P Store, Central Junior High cafeteria, was first cafeteria manager at Louis J. Schultz School when it opened, and had worked at Mr. C's Foodliner and Denny's IGA...
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DONALD GERTIS
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Donald E. Gertis, 62, of Villa Ridge died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 25, 1934, in Buffalo, N.Y., son of John and Dorothy Schneider Gertis. He married the former Melanie Konemann...
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CORA LINDSAY
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
Cora Marie Lindsay, 88, 6121 State Highway 74, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997, at Chateau Girardeau. She was born Nov. 21, 1908, at Millersville, daughter of James Leo and Emma Mae Ervin Slinkard. She and Rufus W. Lindsay were married April 7, 1928, at Jackson. She died Feb. 23, 1992...
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JACK WATSON
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
Jack David Watson, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1997, at Missouri Veterans Home. He was born Feb. 3, 1926, in Lebanon, Mo., son of Paul and Bessie Marie Ozellis Watson. Watson came to Cape Girardeau in 1963 and opened Scott's Shoe Stores in Cape Girardeau and surrounding area. While in Cape Girardeau he was a member of First Baptist Church and a Masonic Lodge. He left here in 1980, returning recently to the Veterans Home...
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LEO LAUCK
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
CHAFFEE -- Leon Barney Lauck, 87, of La Center, Ky., died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1997, at Lifecare of La Center. He was born June 29, 1909, in Chaffee, son of Vince and Frances Ourth Lauck. He and Leona Jane Roberts were married Feb. 9, 1932. She died Dec. 31, 1969...
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DESSIE PEPPLE
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
CHAFFEE -- Dessie Pepple of Chaffee died Wednesday, Jan. 29, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel at Chaffee is in charge of arrangements.
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 01/30/97)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Richard Panitch of Northbrook, Ill., Lake Forest Hospital, 10:13 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 18, 1997. Name, Rebecca Chapman. Weight, 8 pounds 13 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Panitch is the former Decima Israel, daughter of Thomas and Kilja Israel of Cape Girardeau. Mr. and Mrs. Panitch are teachers at Maple School in Northbrook. He is the son of Mamie Panitch of Northbrook, and the late Milton Panitch...
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WILLARD BROWN
(Obituary ~ 01/30/97)
DEXTER -- Willard LaRue Brown, 68, of Dexter died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 1997,. at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Aug. 28, 1928, at Chaffee, son of Grover and Agnes Beringer Brown. He and Viola Louise Brockmire were married July 11, 1952. Brown was owner of Brown Construction in Dexter. He was a member of Ducks Unlimited and Masonic Lodge. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II...
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