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LETTERS: EMERSON'S SOVEREIGNTY STAND
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/14/97)
To the editor: Recently I wrote a letter (below) to U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson. I did not support Mrs. Emerson in the last election, because I am a Libertarian and because I was unsure if she was qualified for the job. I had been a supporter of Bill Emerson since moving to Cape Girardeau...
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POLICE CARRY TORCH FOR DISABLED
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
After running eight miles as part of the Law Enforcement Torch Relay, Cape Girardeau police Cpl. Kevin Orr was barely winded. For him, it was no different than any other day. "I try to run eight miles every day," Orr said. But Orr said Tuesday's run had one special difference. "It's for a good cause," he said, after handing the torch off to a fellow officer, who jogged north with it another four miles along Interstate 55 toward Perryville...
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DOWNTOWN KIOSK WILL SOON BE INSTALLED
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Eight years after the idea was first proposed, Cape Girardeau is poised to erect a shelter with tourist information by the Mississippi River downtown. The city already has spent more than $3,000, and the kiosk is in kit form ready to be assembled. Its spot has been selected: on the northwest corner of Broadway and Water streets just east of the billboard advertising Port Cape Girardeau...
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COUNTY EARNS $8,353 DIVIDEND
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- Cape Girardeau County earned an $8,353 dividend from its workers' compensation insurance policy. The county is part of the statewide Missouri Association of Counties, which operates a self-insurance workers' compensation pool for 86 member counties and seven county health departments...
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CHAMBER BLITZ FOR MEMBERS ON MAY 20
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce will seek new members this month. "Fifty-six" new members is the goal when the chamber kicks off its annual one-day membership blitz early Tuesday. The goal, said Linda Minner, special projects director for the chamber, is based on membership...
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GRANDMOTHERS' GARDENS: GARDEN, KITCHEN TOUR SATURDAY BENEFITS SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Leta Bahn donned her gardening hat, grabbed a rake and headed to the garden, something she does almost every day. "I love it," she said as she checked on the development of some recently planted azaleas. Bahn's rambling garden is one of six on the first Garden and Kitchen tour to benefit Cape Christian School. The tour will be held Saturday from noon to 4 p.m., rain or shine. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the school or at any of the houses on the tour...
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RUST COMMENTARY: `DO UNTO OTHERS' DURING KINDNESS WEEK
(Column ~ 05/14/97)
This is Random Acts of Kindness week in our circulation area and beyond. Whether others know what your kindness is or not ... kindness makes one feel good and is the second key of biblical living: Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. If we could all live by that guideline all of the time, wouldn't life be more enjoyable?...
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TAX BREAK FOR PRIVATE-SCHOOL TUITION IS NEEDED
(Editorial ~ 05/14/97)
It's the final week of the legislative session, and the political rhetoric is getting old. Legislators need to cut to the quick to make sure key bills earn final approval. One issue that shouldn't get lost in the banter is a tax break for parents who send their students to private and parochial schools...
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FRATERNITIES JOIN NO-ALCOHOL MOVEMENT
(Editorial ~ 05/14/97)
Nationwide, more fraternities are embracing the notion of alcohol-free chapters. Two more Southeast Missouri State University fraternities -- Sigma Nu and Phi Delta Theta -- are the latest to join this trend of eliminating alcohol in chapter houses...
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STANDARDIZED TESTS GOOD FOR SELLERS, SCHOOL PRIDE
(Editorial ~ 05/14/97)
There is probably no facet of the educational system that is more mysterious and more misused than that of standardized testing. I have been questioning parents, school patrons, students and anyone else who would listen in an effort to find out just how much they know (or don't know) about testing. Answers are always the same. Most people know absolutely nothing about what test scores really mean, and, worse yet, they don't know one type of test from another...
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TCI, CITY SET TEAMS TO TALK ON CABLE PACT
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Negotiations between Cape Girardeau and TCI Cablevision about changing the city's franchise agreement could start by the end of May. The four-member city negotiating team -- City Manager Michael Miller, City Attorney Eric Cunningham, public awareness coordinator Teri Goodman and Citizens Cable Committee member Jim Dufek -- asked TCI to officially certify negotiators...
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KASTEN: STATE SHOULDN'T RUSH INTO WELFARE-REFORM PACKAGE
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
State Rep. Mary Kasten, R-Cape Girardeau, said she and other GOP lawmakers who voted against a welfare reform bill aren't mean spirited. Kasten said she and other Republicans on the House Budget Committee opposed a Senate bill that would have expanded the welfare bureaucracy...
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TODAY'S RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS: JACKSON STUDENTS READ TO ELDERLY
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- It was fun to watch: Instead of grandma or grandpa reading stories to the young ones, Orchard Elementary School second-graders treated Jackson Manor residents to stories, pictures and candy. After doing a skit about a horrible day, based on a book by Judith Voist, each student individually read their own story creations to a manor resident...
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VANDUSER TIE PLANT DESTROYED; SMOKE COULD BE SEEN FROM CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
VANDUSER -- Fire Tuesday at a wood-treatment plant burned for five hours, sending a plume of thick black smoke into the air that was visible from 30 miles away. The smoke closed Route Z in Scott County for two hours, reduced the water pressure in Vanduser and destroyed a building where 15 people worked...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: WITH TWO CATS IN THE YARD, LIFE CAN BE HARD
(Column ~ 05/14/97)
With kittens named after chocolate syrup and fun movie characters, how can we go wrong? Even with her little Alex rounding out the Terrible Twos and turning three, my best friend, Lynn, is sold on having children. I've watched her change thousands of diapers, clean hundreds of Cheerios out of her car's back seat and fill countless bottles and "tippy cups." Today, she is unable to sit down and eat a meal like normal folks...
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MS GOLF TOURNEY MONDAY
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- A young mother wakes one morning too weak to pick up her 17-month-old daughter. The young mother has multiple sclerosis, a chronic and disabling disease that randomly attacks the nervous system. That's why Debby Erlbacher Steger of Cape Girardeau wants everyone to play golf. The young woman with MS is her sister. On Monday, the first annual MS golf tournament will be held at Bent Creek Golf Course...
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JACKSON SCHOOLS OK MORE PARKING, NEW BOARD OFFICE
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- There will be more parking for Jackson Indians football fans and a new Board of Education office for the school district next year. Superintendent Dr. Howard Jones announced that the district has acquired two pieces of property, and ongoing negotiations could soon net the district even more property designated for parking. The announcement was made during the Board of Education meeting Tuesday night at the Jackson Middle School...
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MILDE COKE PLANT ITEMS DISPLAYED
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
A collection of memorabilia from the Milde Bottling Works-Coca Cola Bottling Company of Jackson was displayed at the Oliver House recently. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Sander own the collection of items from the bottling company, which was founded in 1894...
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JACKSON TO END POSITION OF ELECTED CITY COLLECTOR
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
On Dec. 28, 1885, the Jackson Board of Alderman, under the leadership of Mayor Jefferson W. Limbaugh, passed a new set of ordinances and among those was an ordinance to create an appointment of a city collector whose primary duty was the collection of taxes. In April 1911 the city collector became an elected position. After 86 years, the elected position of collector has come to an end...
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ASK JACKSON
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
The Southeast Missourian asked students at West Lane Elementary School about "acts of kindness" that they have received. Jennifer Miller: "When I got hurt at recess, my friends went and told the teacher to come over and help me." Kara Thompson: "A family friend was commissioned into the Air Force at a ceremony that we went to. He gave me an Air Force hat."...
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GRADUATION, HOKNORS CEREMONIES SLATED FOR AREA HIGH SCHOOLS
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Flowers are not the only things springing up in May. A rainbow of graduation gowns, cords and mortarboards will be seen this month when nearly 2,000 graduating seniors in the area are scheduled to receive their diplomas. Vernon Huck, Jackson High School principal, said his school has a series of events planned for seniors beginning Friday with an all-night party. Other schools will sponsor all-night parties on graduation night for their students to prevent graduates from drinking and driving...
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ND, CENTRAL VIE FOR TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 05/14/97)
The SEMO Conference baseball championship will be on the line today when Notre Dame plays Cape Central on Tiger Field at 4 p.m. Notre Dame (19-3, 5-2) can wrap up the conference title for the second year in a row with a win. Central (12-11, 4-3) can earn a share of the league title with a victory...
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OTAHKS CELEBRATE OVC ALL-AROUND TITLE
(College Sports ~ 05/14/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's athletic program has done it again. The Otahkians captured the school's third consecutive Ohio Valley Conference women's all-sports championship this year. That's pretty heady stuff, considering that Southeast is only in its sixth season of OVC and NCAA Division I competition...
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BULLDOGS COLLECT 10TH STRAIGHT VICTORY 6-4
(High School Sports ~ 05/14/97)
Notre Dame matched its victory total from last year, improving to 19-3, with a 6-4 win over Shawnee, Ill. The win was Notre Dame's 10th in a row. Tied 1-1 in the fifth inning, Bulldog first baseman Dirk Dirberger led off the bottom of the inning with a long home run to the left of the scoreboard in right-center field. The blast was Dirnberger's third of the year and put the Bulldogs up 2-1...
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INDIANS EARN OVC HONORS
(College Sports ~ 05/14/97)
Southeast Missouri State University seniors LaMonte Collier and Mike Miller were selected to the Ohio Valley Conference all-conference baseball team as selected by the coaches and sports information directors of the league. Collier made the first team at second base after earning second team honors last year batting .313. This year, the 5-foot-9, 185-pound Collier led the OVC in batting with a .429 average. He also had 18 doubles, four home runs, 36 RBIs and 24 stolen bases...
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JACKSON GOLFERS SINK FIRST CLASS 4A DISTRICT TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 05/14/97)
FARMINGTON -- After three second place finishes, the Jackson High golf team won its first ever district title Tuesday at Eagle Lake Country Club. Jackson won the Class 4A District 1 title with a four-man total of 310 to qualify for its fourth state tournament. Sikeston also qualified for state with a second-place total of 317. The state meet will be held May 19-20 at Sedalia Country Club...
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HARLEY POOLE
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Funeral service for Harley W. "Buddy" Poole of Tamms will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at Jones Funeral Home in Tamms. The Rev. Johnnie Gibson will officiate, with burial in St. John's Cemetery near Dongola. Friends may call at the funeral home from 5-8 p.m. today...
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ROBERT EVANS
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
Funeral service for Robert C. Evans of Eldon and Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Elmwood Family Farm. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum. Friends may call at Phillips Funeral Home in Eldon from 4-7 p.m. today, and at Elmwood from 4-8 p.m. Friday...
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EVA JONES
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
SIKESTON -- Eva B. Jones, 86, died Tuesday, May 13, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 13, 1910, in Mississippi County, daughter of Virgil and Ellen Blake Sweet. She first married William Paul Haynes May 29, 1929. He preceded her in death. She later married Elmer A. Jones Oct. 19, 1957. He also preceded her in death...
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DUSTIN MEYER
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Dustin G. Meyer, 16 of Perryville died Monday, May 12, 1997, in an automobile accident near Perryville. He was born Dec. 22, 1980, in Perryville, son of David L. and Denise A. Brewer Meyer of Perryville. Meyer was a sophomore at Perryville High School, and member of St. Vincent's Catholic Church...
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HERBERT SIDES
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- Herbert Charles Sides, 60, of Jackson died Tuesday, May 13, 1997, at his home. He was born June 28, 1936, at Longtown, son of Wilbert Floyd and Lydia O. Funke Sides. He and Bettye Jackman were married April 1, 1995, in Cape Girardeau. Sides was a mechanic in Cape Girardeau, and then worked at General Motors in St. Louis from 1962 until retiring in 1988. He was a member of St. Andrew Lutheran Church and Eagles Aerie 3775...
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NELLIE REYNOLDS
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
MOREHOUSE -- Nellie Eva Reynolds, 88, of Morehouse died Monday, May 12, 1997, at Arcadia Valley Hospital in Pilot Knob. She was born Jan. 29, 1909, in Poco, Ill., daughter of John Claborn and Luella Harmon Reynolds. Reynolds was a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. She taught school 35 years at Morehouse and Sikeston, retiring in 1974. She was a member of Morehouse Chapter 450 Order of Eastern Star, and attended First Baptist Church...
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THEODORE HEARD
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
WYATT -- Theodore R. Heard, 92, of Wyatt died Tuesday, May 13, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born March 15, 1905, in Jasper County, Miss., son of Williams and Sally Pickens Heard. He and Armen Dale were married Dec. 14, 1932...
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ROUTE J RELOCATION BIDS DUE MAY 23
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- Things are moving quickly around the Procter & Gamble plant north of Cape Girardeau. To accommodate the company's proposed $250 million expansion, the Missouri Department of Transportation plans to build a 1.1-mile road around the perimeter of the expansion area in a little more than three months...
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ALMA KINDER
(Obituary ~ 05/14/97)
JACKSON -- Alma Mary Kinder, 82, of Jackson died Monday at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born July 14, 1914, at Oran, daughter of Frank and Anna Halter LeGrand. She and Andrew Darling Kinder were married Oct. 3, 1945. He died Jan. 31, 1994...
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ORAN GETS HIGH MARKS
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Twenty-six students from Oran Schools attended the Senath Band Festival recently and received 19 "I" ratings and five "II" ratings on solos or duets. The following students received an "I" (superior): Kellee Griffin, Amanda Graviett, Ashley McCann, Rebecca Trankler, Amanda Eftink, Trey Teague, Candice Duncan, Nikki Evans, Brandi Shy, Alicia Webb, Teresa Hodges, Nathan Seyer, Tyler Cookson, Danielle Klipfel, Justin Lacy, Trey Graviett, Brent Graviett, Jenny Morey, Jan Eftink, and Deidre Black. ...
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A HARTE APPETITE: MEMORIAL DAY SIGNALS BEGINNING OF COOKOUT SEASON
(Column ~ 05/14/97)
Memorial Day is just a little over a week away and that means the outdoor cooking season is about to begin. Kitchens will be moved into the open air and even those who wouldn't be caught dead cooking during the rest of the year will try their hand at the grill...
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KINDNESS HOTLINE CALLS
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Perryvilee's goodwill ambassador Sue Sides also reported that "Popeye" Schremp of Perryville is always selling tickets to events at his church and for organizations in the community. Sides said this good citizen is unassuming, but is truly a goodwill ambassador for Perryville in a personal way...
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TROUT SHOWS KINDNESS TO VETERANS AND OTHERS
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
Annette Trout has a kind word for everybody and a smile to match. A devoted Christian, Trout regularly visits the aging veterans at the Cape Girardeau Veterans Home. The Cape Girardeau woman also is a volunteer with Southeast Missouri Hospital's hospice program, befriending the dying...
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KINDNESS IS A FAMILY AFFAIR: KIBLINGERS PERFORM KIIND ACTS YEAR AROUND
(Local News ~ 05/14/97)
You can't have a conversation about Debbie Kiblinger without mentioning her family. That's because she and her husband, Mark, have five children and do as many activities together as they can. The Kiblinger family has a penchant for good acts and a strong dedication to community service. ...
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