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LETTERS: AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T SEEM TO CARE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/19/98)
To the editor: I'm disappointed in the American people. Its unnerving to think that the population as a whole doesn't care what the leader of our country does. Clinton has manipulated and shamed almost everyone he has come into contact with. I think he is adding a lot more to this list. Check to see if your name is on it...
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GOOSE HAS OUTFIT FOR EVERY SEASON
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
Virginia Heckrotte was crazy about a custom she saw in Cincinnati. "Up there almost every other person has a goose on their stoop, and they always change the costumes," she said. "It seems they want to out-do each other." So her grandson, who lives there, brought her one for the front of her house at 2021 Sherwood, at the intersection of Robin Hood Circle...
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SOUTHEAST ENSEMBLE, JACKSON BAND TO PERFORM
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
The Jackson High School Symphonic Band and the Southeast Missouri State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble will perform at 8 p.m.. March 26 in Academic Auditorium. The concert will feature guest conductor Lazlo Marosi and clarinet soloist Gabor Mihaltz, both from Budapest, Hungary. Marosi has traveled extensively as a guest conductor and lecturer. He has appeared in the United States five times...
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SOUTHEAST TO HOLD HUNGARIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
Southeast Missouri State University will be holding a "Festival of Hungarian Music" March 23-26. The festival will focus mainly on aspects of Hungarian wind music and some of the developments in Hungarian music in the last 10 years. According to music professor and festival coordinator, Dr. Robert Gifford, Hungarian wind music is a special, distinctive kind of music, using elements of folk and gypsy music. As such, it deserves special attention...
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PAYING FOR THE ARTS, MAKING THE ARTS PAY
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
Paducah's effort mirrors Cape Girardeau's own needs for a performing arts center and for community theater space. Southeast Missouri State University President Dale Nitzschke has committed to finding the funding to build a performing arts center. Half the estimated $20 million would come from private sources...
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PADUCAH INVESTS IN ARTS; PADUCAH'S MARKET HOUSE THEATRE IS EXPANDING, AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS RAISING $20 MILLION TO BUILD A PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
PADUCAH, Ky -- As construction is being completed this month on the second phase of a $1.1 million expansion of the Market House Theatre, the Paducah Chamber of Commerce is spearheading a capital campaign to raise $20 million to build another, larger performing arts complex. The Four Rivers Center will welcome Broadway musicals and become the permanent home of the Paducah Symphony Orchestra...
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RINKING, DRIVING: MESSAGE IS DON'T DO IT
(Editorial ~ 03/19/98)
Pressure is mounting, in Missouri and around the nation, to lower the legal limits on blood-alcohol content for motorists. Missouri is one of 35 states that have set the limit at 0.1 percent. Some other states, including Illinois, have lowered the limit to 0.08 percent. And Congress also is considering legislation that would require states to have the 0.08 limit in order to receive all of their federal highway funds...
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TAMMS TREATS WORST CRIMINALS LIKE BAD GUYS
(Editorial ~ 03/19/98)
The new maximum-security prison at Tamms, Ill., attempts to address some of the major problems among America's growing prison population. In many instances, prisons are unable to attempt any sort of rehabilitation because of a few hardened inmates who are so disruptive and dangerous that most resources are spent dealing with them, not the prison population as a whole...
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LETTERS: DON'T DEGRADE TEACHERS WITH FREEZE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 03/19/98)
To the editor: In view of the recent publicity as to our teachers' salaries, I feel I must come to their defense. In my opinion, if anything is done, let's start in the upper-level of administration. I mean, $90,000-plus a year. Really! Where are our priorities? Nobody blinked an eye at this, but heaven forbid our teachers get a pay raise...
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SIMPLE LESSON: DON'T OUTSPEND INCOME; CAPE GIRARDEAU SCHOOLS' FINANCIAL PLIGHT EXPLAINED
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
Hey, fifth-graders, grab your pencils, paper and calculators. I'm going to explain to you why the Cape Girardeau School District needs to cut $1 million out of its budget next year, and I want you to help your parents to understand. The bottom line is this: You can't spend more than you take in. Now, here's the fancy way to say that: A school district cannot pay out more in expenditures than it gets in revenue...
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MEETING ON RIVER PILOTS' UNIONIZATION HELD
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
PADUCAH, Ky. -- The leader of a movement to unionize river pilots says he isn't discouraged that only about 20 people from the Paducah area attended a meeting here Wednesday. "We have guys who live and work all over the country," said Dickey Mathes, president of Pilots Agree Association, which has threatened a massive walkout if companies don't double pilots' wages. "Just because they don't come from this area doesn't mean they don't work for companies that are based here."...
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EMERGENCY PERSONNEL LEARN TO HANDLE STRESS
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
Emergency personnel from Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois converged on Southeast Missouri State University's Dempster Hall Wednesday while outside the Lifebeat helicopter, an ambulance, a fire truck and a police car sat waiting. But it wasn't an emergency...
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HWY. 34 MEETING LIGHTLY ATTENDED; ONE COUPLE SAY ACTION NEEDED
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
JACKSON -- Roy and Betty Meier wish the state would get in the fast lane for road improvements. The Meiers live on the southwest corner of Highway 72 and 34 in Jackson. The couple say it is difficult for motorists on Highway 34 to see eastbound traffic on Highway 72 at the T-intersection...
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POSHARD CONFIDENT OF WIN IN NOVEMBER
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
MARION, Ill. -- The long days, short nights and a commitment to what he calls "core values" have paid off for Glenn Poshard. The candidate once summarily dismissed as a "regional contender" has turned out to be a heavy hitter in Illinois politics. The affable, mustachioed Poshard, 52, is the first Illinois gubernatorial candidate from outside the Chicago area since 1968...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: FINDING BALM FOR THE SOUL AT CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE AND THE CITY OF REFUGE
(Column ~ 03/19/98)
March 19, 1998 "No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me but that one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same ... In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago."...
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ALL RETURNS ARE IN AND RACES DECIDED IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
With all returns in for Southern Illinois, some primary election races that were too close to call late Tuesday have been decided. With only half of the precincts counted in Alexander County, two close races were in doubt. Supervisor of Assessments Dorothy Mayberry had led challenger Debbie M. Henderson by only 11 votes with six of 11 precincts reporting. Mayberry emerged the winner by a vote of 1,463 to 1,371...
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BRIEFLY: SEMO CONFERENCE HOOP TEAMS
(High School Sports ~ 03/19/98)
Several players from schools in the immediate area were recently named to the All-SEMO Conference basketball teams. On the boys side, first-team selections are Cape Central's Chris Bergerson (6-foot-5 senior), Jackson's Jeff Walter (6-5 senior), Charleston's Larico Coleman (5-8 senior) and Howard Biles (5-10 sophomore) and New Madrid's Ed Farr (6-2 senior)...
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CENTRAL SWIMMERS WIN AT HOME
(High School Sports ~ 03/19/98)
Cape Girardeau Central High's girls swimming team opened its home schedule Wednesday with an exciting 95-91 dual-meet victory over Fort Zumwalt South. The Lady Tigers, now 2-1 in duals, won 10 of the 12 events. "We not only got a lot of first places but we also had a lot of thirds and fourths which really made a difference in the team total," said Central coach Dayna Powell. "It was a good meet. We'd never beaten that team before."...
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DEBBY BURCH
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
SIKESTON -- Debra Diann "Debby" Burch, 43, of Sikeston died Wednesday, March 18, 1998, at her home. She was born July 7, 1954, in Sikeston, daughter of Roy O. and Pauline "Penny" Babb Ross. She and Ronald E. Burch Sr. were married July 23, 1984, at Benton...
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MILDRED HAWKINS
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
SIKESTON -- Mildred Hawkins, 65, of Sikeston died Tuesday, March 17, 1998, at Sikeston Convalescent Center. She was born Aug. 5, 1932, in Winona, Miss., daughter of Temp Robinson and Hattie D. Hawkins. Hawkins had worked at Sikeston Community Sheltered Workshop. She was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses...
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EULA MATHENEY
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral for Eula E. Matheney of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at Shelby Funeral Chapel, with the Rev. David Dowdy officiating. Burial will be in Dogwood Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel after 4 p.m. today. Matheney, 73, died Tuesday, March 17, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center...
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DARLENE VANGENNIP
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
ADVANCE -- Darlene VanGennip, 39, of Advance died Tuesday, March 17, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born May 12, 1958, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Norman and Betty Schott Burger. She and David VanGennip were married Sept. 16, 1989, at Kelso...
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WILLIAM WOOLSEY
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
SCOTT CITY -- William Dale Woolsey, 67, of Hammond, Ind., died Tuesday, March 17, 1998, at the veterans hospital in Chicago. He was born March 26, 1930, in Granite City, Ill., son of Weaver Ora and Mary E. Catron Woolsey. Woolsey had been a seaman on a cargo ship. He served in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II...
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RUDOLPH JAMES
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Rudolph Buster James, 93, of Carterville died Wednesday, March 18, 1998, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. He was born Oct. 1, 1904, in Cobden, son of William L. and Lady Corrigan James. He and Louise B. Jackson were married Oct. 13, 1935, in Jonesboro. She died May 18, 1992...
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ORVILLE STONE
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
JACKSON -- Orville J. "O.J." Stone, 95, of Jackson died Wednesday, March 18, 1998, at Jackson Manor. Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 5-8 p.m. Friday. Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 03/19/98)
Son to Berry Lee Bright and Amy Ladon Norville of Anniston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:30 a.m. Sunday, March 8, 1998. Name, Berry Lee Jr. Weight, 8 pounds 4 ounces. Second child, first son. Ms. Norville is the daughter of Kay Norville of East Prairie and Marty Norville of Metropolis, Ill. Bright is the son of Jessie and Barbra Bright of Anniston. He is a route salesman with Pepsi...
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JEWEL CHANEY
(Obituary ~ 03/19/98)
SIKESTON -- Jewel Chaney, 80, of Canalou died Wednesday, March 18, 1998, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. He was born May 4, 1918, at Canalou, the son of John and Emma Sanders Chaney. He and Louise Kem were married June 26, 1943, at New Madrid. She died Oct. 16, 1997...
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BAWDING `TOM JONES' BUSTS CLASSIC MYTH (PLAY REVIEW)
(Local News ~ 03/19/98)
Early in the stage version of "Tom Jones," Patridge, a supporting character as well as the play's narrator, says, "A knowledge of the classics improves the meaner soul." Exposure, then, to Jackson High School's spring production of "Tom Jones," presented on Friday and Saturday evening, can only improve the souls of its audience, for the play is based on one of the true classics of English literature, Henry Fielding's 1749 novel, "Tom Jones."...
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