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LETTERS: AGENCIES DIDN'T EXIST
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/25/97)
To the editor: It is estimated by those who create all the statistics about everything in this country that small businesses provide about 80 percent of all jobs in the country. I suppose this is so if one takes into account the ratio of small businesses in relation to large ones in small towns and the ratio of small towns to large cities...
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SONS, DAUGHTERS JOIN PARENTS IN PRETEND SURGICAL ROUTINE
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
When 16-year-old Collin Vandergraaf drew his name, he didn't win a trip for two or a car. He won the privilege to be the patient in an appendectomy. A pretend appendectomy that is. Vandergraaf was a participant in the second annual St. Francis Operating Room Mother-Daughter-Son Day held Thursday. The day was prompted by the annual "Take Our Daughters to Work" day organized by the MS Foundation five years ago...
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WORK TOPIC AT COUNCIL RETREAT
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
The Cape Girardeau City Council will grapple with some of the major problems facing the city in a daylong retreat today at Black Forest Village. For years, the city council has huddled with department heads to shape the coming year's budget and brainstorm about policy questions...
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DISASTER AWARENESS DAY ALLOWS GROUPS TO DISCUSS PREPARATION
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
The movie "Volcano" doesn't depict a natural disaster common to this region, but several emergency organizations hope it will remind people to be prepared for other emergencies. Wehrenberg's West Park 4 Cine' will sponsor Community Disaster Education Awareness Day at West Park Mall on Saturday, and it has called on several local organizations to help educate people on earthquake and disaster preparedness...
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MOTORCYCLE GROUP DONATES $2,000 FOR FOOD PANTRY
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
JACKSON -- Thanks to a donation from SEMO Field Events, a group of dedicated motorcycle enthusiasts, the Jackson Food Pantry will have months of nutrition for area needy. Gilbert Leimer, Food Pantry manager, said the $2,000 donation, from the group, will keep a food supply in the pantry for four months. ...
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NEW VO-TECH SITE MAKES SINESE -- AND IT'S A BARGAIN AS WELL
(Editorial ~ 04/25/97)
With what amounts to another display of competent leadership, the Cape Girardeau Board of Education has picked a site for a new vocational-technical school. That same site is likely to be used for a new high school in the district's master plan, provided voters approve another bond issue down the road...
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STUDENT SHOWS POLITICS AT ITS BEST
(Editorial ~ 04/25/97)
When Tom Shupe, a student at Southeast Missouri State University, raised questions about recent student government elections, he did so as a two-time winner. First, Shupe had won his Senate seat representing off-campus students. Second, he believed problems with the election should be corrected, even though his own election was already decided...
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LETTERS: NATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/25/97)
To the editor: Millions of Americans of all faiths will gather together across the nation at town squares, state capitol steps, stadiums, parks, churches, synagogues and other public places on May 1 to observe the National Day of Prayer. In Cape Girardeau, believers will unit in prayer to honor God by interceding for our leaders, thanking him for his blessings and asking for forgiveness and guidance. ...
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LETTERS: QUALITY OF EDUCATION
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/25/97)
To the editor: I voted in the school election a few weeks ago. Back in the early 20s, I began my educational experience at the old Jefferson School which was located at the corner of Jefferson and Ellis streets. Names like Miss Fisher, Miss Bremerman, Miss Moore, Philipson and Bahn come to mind. ...
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MISSISSIPPI COUNTY IN COURTHOUSE DILEMMA
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
CHARLESTON -- The azaleas and flowering trees still lend beauty to the stately brick structure that once housed Mississippi County's offices. The Mississippi County Courthouse, heavily damaged by an arson blaze Feb. 10, remains a talking piece, but the discussion today is whether to rebuild or construct a replacement...
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BUYOUT HOUSES COMING DOWN
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
By mid-afternoon Thursday, 11 houses purchased by the city as part of the flood buyout program were no more. Since Wednesday, three track hoes owned by Nip Kelley Equipment Co. knocked down the 11 houses that sat in South Cape Girardeau. In the next couple of days, eight dump trucks will collect the debris and transport it to Lemons Waste Systems in Jackson, said Frank Myers, general foreman for Kelley Equipment...
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COUNTY MAY SEEK PARK LAND ANNEXATION
(Local News ~ 04/25/97)
JACKSON -- The Cape Girardeau County Commission is considering asking the city of Cape Girardeau to annex the remainder of the county's North Park. In addition to easing expansion of city services into the parks, county commissioners hope that annexation might make a future Missouri Department of Conservation nature center possible...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: A BOOK LASTS 6 WEEKS -- A GOOD ONE JUST 3 HOURS
(Column ~ 04/25/97)
I don't need a calendar. Just give me a No. 2 lead pencil and a chocolate candy bar (with almonds) and see which lasts longer. The roll of paper in the adding machine on my desk was just about used up. But, on the other hand, it wasn't really gone. So I kept putting off replacing the paper...
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OVC LANDSLIDE: WIDE VICTORY A SURPRISE
(College Sports ~ 04/25/97)
Southeast Missouri State University track and field coach Joey Haines expected his women's team to win last weekend's Ohio Valley Conference outdoor championship. But the Otahkians' impressive performance on their way to the title surprised even Haines a bit...
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ND GOLFERS CARD RECORD DAY, WIN TRIANGULAR
(High School Sports ~ 04/25/97)
Dan Buerck and the Notre Dame golf team had a record-setting day Thursday during a triangular win over Cape Central and Poplar Bluff at the Cape Girardeau Country Club. Buerck shot a 2-under par 33 to shatter the nine-hole school record of 36 set by Scott Roe three years ago. Buerck's score helped Notre Dame shoot a four-player total of 158, which was also a new school record. The old record was 162, also set in 1994...
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CLETUS BARLOW
(Obituary ~ 04/25/97)
FAIRDEALING -- Funeral service for Cletus M. "Pete" Barlow of Fairdealing was held Wednesday at West Point Pentecostal Church in Doniphan. Burial was in Doniphan Cemetery. Edwards Funeral Home at Doniphan was in charge of arrangements. Announcement courtesy of Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee...
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ALDEEN KOCH
(Obituary ~ 04/25/97)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Aldeen Koch, 83, of Cairo died Thursday, April 14, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She married Leonard R. Koch, who died in 1985. Koch was a telephone operator with Illinois Bell Telephone Co. 45 years, and a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church...
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CYRUS MORGAN
(Obituary ~ 04/25/97)
PARMA -- Cyrus Morgan, 82, of Greenville, Tenn., died Monday, April 21, 1997, at Laughlin Memorial Hospital in Greenville, Tenn. He was born Dec. 11, 1914, at Parma. He married Addie Mayrean McPherson, who preceded him in death. Morgan was a graduate of Parks Air College in St. Louis. He retired from a management position with Ryan and Kunzel in Marshall, Mich...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 04/25/97)
Son to Bradley T. and Marla C. Eftink of Sikeston, Missouri Delta Medical Center, 4:31 p.m. Thursday, April 3, 1997. Name, Gavin Bradley. Weight, 6 pounds 10 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Eftink is the former Marla Thomure, daughter of Earl and Lisa Thomure, East Prairie Route 1. Eftink is the son of Tom and Mary Ann Eftink, Chaffee Route 1. He is a parts man at Double D Tractor in Sikeston...
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NORMA BROWN
(Obituary ~ 04/25/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Norma L. Brown, 55, of Perryville died Wednesday, April 23, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 20, 1941, at Kaskaskia Island, daughter of Marvin Robert and Estlea Cindy Mowry DeWeese. She married Harry L. Brown on Nov. 1, 1985...
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