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AREA'S EXPENSIVE HOMES OFFER PLENTY OF ROOM
(Business ~ 07/28/97)
Currently 17 homes are up for sale in Cape Girardeau and Jackson, priced at $300,000 or more. Story by Mark Bliss Photos by Lou Peukert If you want lots of bathrooms, bedrooms and closet space, you better have a good bank account. The area's expensive homes offer plenty of room, wrapped up in architectural details that set them apart from other houses...
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ERA ENDS: WOOLWORTH CLOSES LAST FIVE & DIME
(Business ~ 07/28/97)
It may have been only a "Dime Store," but it held treasures ... Big Little Books and bags of shiny marbles for the kids, "Evening in Paris" for the sophisticated woman, and a soda fountain with chocalate malts and grilled cheese sandwiches beyond compare...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 07/28/97)
Steve Marchbanks has joined Finch-Temples Insurance Agency as a new partner. Marchbanks is experienced in the area of retirement investment products, which include 401k's, tax deferred annuities and IRA's. He previously worked in the St. Louis area as a broker for Aetna Investments Services for nine years...
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BUSINESS MEMO
(Business ~ 07/28/97)
'Target Missouri' sessions "Target Missouri: Creating a Foundation for the 21st Century Economy" will be the subject of a series of public meetings held throughout the state this month. The meetings will be part of a strategy to focus on the growth industries of the future, according to Missouri Department of Economic Development Director Joseph L. Driskill...
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MAKING HAY: FARM FAMILY USED TO THE HARD WORK
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
UNIONTOWN -- Small yellow butterflies danced atop the purple blooms of the volunteer clover and alfalfa. In the distance, a red 270 Massey Ferguson tractor appeared, pulling a 1110 Hesston mower conditioner. Sitting in the driver's seat was John Telle. Despite the tractor's umbrella protecting him from the 3 o'clock sun, Telle squinted under the green brim of a yellow Dekalb hat...
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TEAM SPIRIT HELPS TEENS STOP DUI
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
It takes a team effort to teach teamwork. That's one of the lessons the developers of Team Spirit have learned and passed on the last two years. On Tuesday, the Team Spirit Leadership Conference will start its third year of teaching teams from regional high schools how to help their schools curb teen-age drinking and driving...
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INVENTING WAYS TO BEAT CAPE'S HOT WEATHER
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Gary Mungle beats the heat with a bowling ball. He lives with his parents in a house without air conditioning at 811 Elm St. When the temperature soars as it has over the last few days, he goes bowling. "They keep it nice and cold at the bowling alley," Mungle said. "By the fourth ball, I'm cool."...
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GOBY SOLUTION ELECTRIFIES WILDLIFE INTERVENTION EXPERTS
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
The goby are coming! The goby are coming! Don't worry, though; the intrepid folks at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are on the case. It seems that U.S. waterways are about to be invaded by the round goby, a tenacious little fish that snuck over here from Europe...
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TEAM SPIRIT WORKSHOPS
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
About 111 students and 21 counselors will be participating in this year's Team Spirit Leadership Training Conference at the Victorian Inn. Beginning Tuesday and ending Friday, these students will be exposed to a wide range of speakers and workshops...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 07/28/97)
A SPEAK Out caller recently asked Mr. Degenhardt to rethink his position. The caller evidently felt Mr. Degenhardt favored some form of confiscating and redistributing wealth. If so, Mr. Degenhardt's position is a sentiment I sympathize with, at least to the extent that the wealth being confiscated and redistributed isn't mine...
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HOW POLITICIANS ARE BORN
(Column ~ 07/28/97)
I know, I know, the last thing on your mind right now is Missouri politics. This is the vacation season, the time of year when everyone frets about the weather even though no one can do a thing about it, the critical period between the All-Star Game and the World Series, the time to admire once again the golfing skills of Tiger Woods. Hey, nobody's thinking about politics except the wonks...
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REGIONAL CONCEPT HELPS HIGHWAY PLANS
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Missouri's approach to soliciting recommendations for highway improvements under the umbrella of regional planning and economic development commissions is a good way for the state to obtain local input on highway needs. It makes sense that recommendations for road improvements are generated locally: Who else knows better the transportation needs of a region than those who live there? It seems the logical way to approach highway needs rather than having the state deciding what is needed in the way of local road improvements.. ...
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LETTERS: A CHRONOLOGY OF SOCIAL SECURITY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/28/97)
To the editor: Upon seeing the response to my recent letter supporting the concept of the more affluent Medicare Part B subscribers paying higher premiums, it is gratifying to know that there is someone out there who reads our stuff. It recalls the comment of a prominent politician of the past in St. Louis: "I don't care what you say about me, just spell my name right."...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "Do you think Missouri should follow Illinois' lead and lower the legal drunk driving limit to .08?" Josie Zimmerman, Cape Girardeau "Oh yes, I think the less people who drink and then get on the road the better."...
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OBITUARIES
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Bobby Smith BUNCOMBE, ILL. -- Bobby Eugene Smith, 59, of Buncombe, Ill., died Saturday July 26, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born June 16, 1938, in Raleigh, N.C., the son of Linwood D. and Willie Mae Ware Smith. He was a deck hand on the barge lines...
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OBITUARIES
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Pearl Ross Funeral services for Pearl S. Ross of 3120 Independence in Cape Girardeau will be at 2 p.m. today at McCombs Funeral Chapel in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call from noon until the time of the service. Burial will be in Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau...
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OBITUARIES
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Curtis Aslin BLOOMFIELD -- Curtis Alan Aslin, 17, of Bloomfield died Saturday, July 26, 1997, north of Bloomfield as a result of an auto accident. He was born Dec. 28, 1979, in Poplar Bluff, the son of Gary Aslin and Robin Harris Hartline. He was a member of the Bloomfield High School class of 1998. He belonged to the school choir, Beta Club and the golf team...
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TAMMS MAN DIES WHEN PICKUP LEAVES ROAD AND HITS TREE
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- A Tamms man is dead and his 4-year-old daughter hospitalized after an accident Sunday south of Olmsted. At 11:50 a.m., Joseph R. Eaves, 28, was driving his pickup on Route 37 two miles south of Olmsted when he ran off the roadway, according to the Illinois State Police. He apparently drove back on the road, oversteered and went off the road on the other side, hit a guardrail and rolled down a steep embankment...
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OBITUARIES
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Helen `Gussie' Richards Helen "Gussie" Richards, 81, of Sioux Falls, S.D., formerly of Chaffee and Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, July 27, 1997, at Dow-Rummel Village in Sioux Falls. She was born Oct. 1, 1915, in Chaffee. On Dec. 24, 1943, she married Russell Richards in Farmington...
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OBITUARIES
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
Betty Jean Mize MOUNDS, Ill. -- Betty Jean Mize, 66, of Mounds died Saturday, July 26, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 9, 1931, in Cairo, the daughter of Bonnie and Mary Wildy Daniels. She was a nurse's aide for TIP of Illinois Health Service...
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SHERIFF'S TEAM USED CAUTION IN RAID OF ALLEGED METHAMPHETAMINE LAB
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
When officers raided a suspected methamphetamine laboratory Friday in Cape Girardeau County, they had to be careful that their actions did not set off a potential explosion. Cape Girardeau County Sheriff John Jordan said the size of the lab and the chemicals used in the production of methamphetamine could have presented a real problem if something had gone wrong...
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WOMAN KILLED NEAR FREDERICKTOWN
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
FREDERICKTOWN -- A Lodi woman died after she drove her car into a tree near Fredericktown. Doloris Huggins, 64, was headed north on Highway 67 seven miles south of Fredericktown when she apparently lost control of her car and went off the left side of the road, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol. The accident occurred at 9:57 a.m. Sunday. She died at the scene...
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JACKSON MAN HURT IN I-55 ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 07/28/97)
A Jackson man was in St. Francis Medical Center Sunday night after sustaining injuries in a traffic accident in Perry County early Sunday morning. Monty Jennings, 25, fell asleep at the wheel about 4:30 a.m. Sunday while driving his car home from St. Louis on Interstate 55 just south of the Ste. Genevieve County line, Jennings said...
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