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LETTERS: ORAN'S FIRE PROTECTION IS TOP-NOTCH
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/10/97)
To the editor: It was with great disappointment that I read the negative comments made in Speak Out concerning the Oran Fire Department. I feel that a reply, addressing the points brought forth by the caller in Speak Out, is necessary. The statement that a little inconvenience of closing a railroad crossing is worth it for saving lives is an admirable statement. ...
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P&Z VOTES AGINST REZONING AFTER OBJECTIONS
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
Becki Essner brought a petition with 118 signatures to the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission hearing because, she said, she wanted to preserve the property values in her subdivision. The majority of the commissioners agreed with her. Essner lives on Stoddard Street in the Highland Heights subdivision east of Perryville Road. ...
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SOUTHEST MISSOURI DISTRICT FAIR WILL HOLD RECIPE CONTEST
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
Along with the traditional entries of preserves and jams, the SEMO District Fair this year will hold its first dinner dish recipe contest. The fair will be held at Arena Park Sept. 7-13. The contest, sponsored by R.B. Rice, has selected the fair to host the new contest for the best hot dinner dish or appetizer (hot or cold) featuring sausage or chili...
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RAPCO BAND: SELLING THE BLUES
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
JACKSON -- Many companies sponsor their own softball team. Rapco, one of the world's largest manufacturers of cable and custom sound equipment for the music industry, has its own band. "Who'd ever believe you could do this at your job," drummer Bill Bolton said after the Rapco Band played a hard-earned set of blues last week for appreciative fellow employees in the company lunchroom...
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SPECIAL EFFECTS: A HANDS-ON EXHIBITION; SCIENCE CENTER BRINGS MOVIE MAGIC TO THE EXPLORADOME
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
Children become a basic special effect in the hands of a makeup artist. Children often look bruised and battered by the time they leave the St. Louis Science Center these days. But it isn't painful. It's Hollywood makeup, and the kids love it. Makeup is just one of the hands-on activities featured in the "Special Effects" exhibition in the Science Center's Exploradome. There is an admission fee to visit Special Effects...
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STATE-FUNDS RULING THWARTS LEGAL PROCESS
(Editorial ~ 07/10/97)
"In a victory for the abortion provider Planned Parenthood," read an Associated Press dispatch from Kansas City last week, "a federal judge said Monday that the Missouri Legislature's anti-abortion majority could not restrict the agency from receiving state family planning money."...
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WELFARE REFORM IS LABORATOY OF DEMOCRACY
(Editorial ~ 07/10/97)
Welfare has ended as we have known it, effective July 1. Credit should go to the Republican majority in Congress and to President Bill Clinton, who on the third try, reversed his earlier vetoes and signed the GOP welfare bill. Changes are dramatic: The 60-year federal entitlement to welfare has ended, replaced by an ambitious plan to move recipients into jobs. ...
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CHARLESTON TOP SITE FOR PRISON
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
A legislative committee Wednesday chose Charleston as the top site for a state prison. But the 12-member committee of House and Senate lawmakers deadlocked over whether to recommend Licking in south-central Missouri or Trenton in the north-central part of the state as the second site for a prison...
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WELFARE REFORM HITS CHILD CARE; FUNDS FOR FOOD REDUCED
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
Some child-care providers will have to find creative ways to make ends meet because of a reduction in governmental aid for nutritional meals. Effective July 1, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 -- commonly known as the welfare reform law -- targets entitlement funds to low-income homes and group child-care homes and low-income children who are served in those homes. ...
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SEMO, CITY DISCUSS USE OF BUS SYSTEM
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
Could Southeast Missouri State University expand its shuttle-bus system to cover Doctors' Park, West End Mall, downtown and other parts of the city? Could it serve nonstudents as well as students? City Councilman Melvin Gateley asked those questions Wednesday night at a meeting on campus between the Cape Girardeau City Council and top executives at the university. University Executive Vice President Ken Dobbins said, "We may be able to work cooperatively on that."...
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HOUSE DEMOLITION REVEALS HISTORIC LOG CABIN; PLANS BEING MADE TO MOVE STRUCTURE
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
No, workers aren't tearing down the log cabin at 127 S. Frederick St, although it may look like it. What employees of Taylor Glass and Remodeling are doing is tearing down the frame house that surrounds the log cabin, while trying to keep what's left of the original structure intact...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: FEELING LONELY AND ABANDONED ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN
(Column ~ 07/10/97)
July 10, 1997 Dear Julie, While staying at the in-laws' cabin last weekend, we dropped in on their neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. B. They're considered neighbors even though they live about a mile away. Mr. B had a bad accident in his backyard sawmill last month. We watched, flinching, while a home-care nurse tended his wound. The stoic Mr. B hardly changed his expression, but he did seem to stare at my Grateful Dead golf T-shirt...
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HEARING ON ILLINOIS PRISON SITES TONIGHT AT METROPOLIS
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
METROPOLIS, Ill. -- Illinois Department of Corrections officials start final site-selection hearings tonight to determine site for two new prisons: an 1,800-bed medium-security adult prison and a 400-bed medium-security juvenile institution. Tonight's hearing will be held at the Merv Griffin Theater in Metropolis at 7 p.m...
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BICYCLISTS REACH CAPE ON CROSS-COUNTRY RIDE
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
On bicycles loaded with essentials, backpacks strapped over their shoulders and helmets fixed to their heads, 12 teen-agers and two adults are traveling by from Norfolk, Va., to Los Angeles. Why? For the adventure. The 14 members of a group called Overland bedded down at Cape Girardeau Wednesday night after crossing the Mississippi River bridge to officially start the western portion of their journey...
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BANQUET TO HONOR VFW STATE COMMANDER
(Local News ~ 07/10/97)
A banquet honoring the new state Veterans of Foreign Wars commander, Charles Thrower of Cape Girardeau, will be held Saturday at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Convention Center. Thrower was elected state commander of the Department of Missouri VFW at the state convention held recently at Jefferson City. He is a member of the Clippard Wilson Taylor VFW Post 3838...
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MARTY KATZER
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
MATTHEWS -- Graveside service for Marty Cobert Katzer of Rawlins, Wyo., will be held at 10 a.m. today at Forest Hills Cemetery near Morley. Pastor Fred Girdwood will officiate. Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie is in charge of arrangements. Katzer, 32, died Friday, July 4, 1997, in Rawlins...
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MARY LITVIAK
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Mary Kathryn Litviak of McKenzie, Tenn., will be held at 10 a.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Home. Burial will be in Walker Cemetery near Bloomfield. Litviak, 68, died Monday, July 7, 1997, at Columbia Regional Hospital in Jackson, Tenn...
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RICKIE DRAKE SR.
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
CANALOU -- Rickie C. Drake Sr., 39, of Canalou died Tuesday, July 8, 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born July 25, 1957, at Dexter, son of Doyle Eugene and Mary Frances Carter Drake. He and Kay LaDon Pierce were married Sept. 24, 1986, at Matthews...
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TURK MOORE
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
Robert Nelson "Turk" Moore, 72, 1844 Thilenius, died Tuesday, July 8, 1997, at the Lutheran Home. He was born Oct. 11, 1924, in Cape Girardeau, son of Fred A. and Anna Baird Moore. He and Lillian Powers were married July 17, 1967, at Scott City. She died May 26, 1986...
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RUTH JONES
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
ADVANCE -- Ruth L. Jones, 86, of Advance died Tuesday, July 8, 1997, at Advance Nursing Center. She was born Nov. 6, 1910, near Advance, daughter of Benjamin L. and Elsie Posten Hitt. She and William L. "Bill" Jones were married May 25, 1928, in Jonesboro, Ill. He died Nov. 16, 1983...
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ELMAN CRITES
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
GREENBRIER -- Elman B. Crites, 73, of Mitchell, Ill., died Tuesday, July 8, 1997, at his home. He was born Oct. 1, 1923, at Greenbrier, son of Horace and Dovie Cato Crites. He and Pearline Davis were married May 2, 1948, in Alton, Ill. Crites was a certified welder with Laclede Steel Co. in Madison, Ill. He was a member of Lick Creek Southern Baptist Church in Bloomfield. Crites served in the U.S. Army during World War II...
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STELLA HELD
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Stella E. Held, 89, of Scott City died Tuesday, July 8, 1997, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 16, 1907, at Commerce, daughter of Henry C. and Rosa Bretzel Koch. She and Herman F. Held were married April 8, 1928, at Illmo. He died May 21, 1976...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 07/10/97)
Daughter to Sgt. Richard Edward and Christine Diane Buttram of Camdenton, Lake of the Ozarks General Hospital, 9:44 p.m. Wednesday, July 2, 1997. Name, Rachel Grace. Weight, 6 pounds 15 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Buttram is the former Christine Birk, daughter of Loyd and Vera Birk of Jackson. She is employed at Central Bank Lake of the Ozarks at Osage Beach. Buttram is the son of Nancy and Herman Campbell of Fairdealing. He is a trooper with Missouri State Highway Patrol...
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FRANCES ROELKER
(Obituary ~ 07/10/97)
CAMDENTON -- Frances L. Roelker, 76, of Camdenton, died Sunday, July 6, 1997, at Lake of the Ozarks General Hospital in Osage Beach. She was born Feb. 15, 1921, in Charleston, the daughter of Ben E. and Della F. Duncan Baker. On Nov. 28, 1938, she married Howard B. Roelker, and he died April 20, 1995...
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