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LETTERS: PACs BACK THOSE WITH SAME VIEWS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/14/98)
To the editor: It is rare that Alan Journet and I agree on anything, so I was pleased to see him voice his opposition to vote fraud. However, having agreed on this one issue, he then extends the distance between our views by voicing his opinions on PAC funds and once again by attacking U.S. ...
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MEDICAL SURFARI: ENDOSCOPIC CARPAL TUNNEL SURGERY USES TECHNOLOGY TO RELIEVE PAIN
(Column ~ 08/14/98)
With the growth in industrialization and computerization, nearly one percent of the population is affected by carpal tunnel syndrome caused by attendant repetitive hand and wrist movements. Carpal tunnel syndrome is a constellation of signs and symptoms that result from entrapment of the median nerve as it passes through a "tunnel" formed by bones and ligaments in the wrist. ...
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STRAINING TO SEE: EYE STRAIN POSSIBLE EVEN WITH 20-20 VISION
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
Emily Brennan, 11, wears her glasses to reduce eye strain while she plays the violin. A pair of glasses with red and green prescription lenses are used during an eye-focusing exercise. Emily Brennan and Trina Seyer both have 20-20 vision, but they both wear glasses for eye strain...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/14/98)
I SEE someone called in picking on Christine Stephens again, but I don't get the caller's logic. He claimed that her pro-life views have to be religious, because she says that abortion is wrong. So is the caller saying that if you're not religious, then you don't know right from wrong? Or right and wrong isn't an issue for a person who's an atheist? I just don't get it...
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AG GOES TOO FAR ON TOBACCO-SUIT HELP
(Editorial ~ 08/14/98)
Lawsuits by various states against tobacco companies became even bigger news when Congress attempted to reach a national settlement. When that plan failed, mostly over disagreement about how hundreds of billions of dollars should be spent, the focus returned to the states, many of which are still pursuing the tobacco companies because of alleged Medicaid costs associated with smoking over the decades. Missouri officials have estimated those costs are $100 million a year...
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THANK YOU, KINSA PHOTOGRAPHERS
(Editorial ~ 08/14/98)
Eight finalists have been selected in the Southeast Missourian's KINSA contest and will be announced shortly. Over the past six weeks, hundreds of newspaper readers have submitted their favorite snapshots for judging. Although there are only eight photos from our area that will go on to the international level, there were literally dozens and dozens of wonderful photographs entered...
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LETTERS: EMERSON SUPPORTS NTR FOR CHINA
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/14/98)
To the editor: On July 22, U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson supported continuing normal trade relations (NTR) with China. It was a tough vote for many House members, but it represents an important step in ensuring American leadership on issues of peace and security. Engagement with the Chinese is the only way to help influence the progress toward China's becoming a more open society...
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LETTERS: TRUMAN LIVED UP TO THE PRESIDENCY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/14/98)
To the editor: I agree with the Speak Out caller who implied one's personal life is entirely his own and should not be exposed in the news media. Less humiliating is it to husband and wife if a scandal occurs. Just recently a well-known television commentator strongly voiced his belief pertaining to that subject, saying it was a matter for husband and wife alone. He received applause from the audience...
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CAMPUS TAX TALKS GO ON; UNIVERSITY SEEKS MOTEL INDUSTRY'S CONSENT
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
Southeast Missouri State University officials and representatives of Cape Girardeau's hotel-motel industry haven't reached a compromise yet on a proposed tax increase to help pay for the university's River Campus project. But Dr. Dale Nitzschke, university president, is confident an agreement can be worked out before the Cape Girardeau City Council meets Monday...
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REDESIGNED 34 BYPASS MISSES TWO SUBDIVISIONS
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
The redesigned Segment T for the proposed Highway 34 bypass swings north of two subdivisions that previously may have been endangered by road construction. The southernmost route for the Highway 34 bypass -- also referred to as Alternative 9 -- had stirred up controversy because it endangered homes in Briarwood Estates and Stonebridge subdivisions off Bloomfield Road...
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ONE-STOP SOCIAL SERVICE NETWORK PLANNED FOR CITY
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
Cape Girardeau County could have a one-stop referral network for people trying to access social service agencies and other information in place before the end of the year. The Area Wide United Way and Community Caring Council last fall instigated the movement for a centralized information clearinghouse. An executive committee was organized in January to develop funding for an information and referral network...
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DEBATES IN MAKING FOR 8TH DISTRICT; TWO CANDIDATES EXCHANGE IDEAS
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
Republican Rep. Jo Ann Emerson and Democratic challenger Tony Heckemeyer hope to agree on where and when to disagree. The two candidates have written each other to set a series of political debates or forums in the sprawling 8th Congressional District...
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YELL EDITION: CHILDREN LIKE BEING READ TO
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
You've just worked an eight-hour shift that felt more like 12, and your 4-year-old child has met you at the door with the book you read to him twice last night. What do you do? According to a local childhood educator and a librarian, you take a deep breath. Then you read the book...
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RIVER CITY JOURNAL: FEARLESS THEOLOGY: SEEK DOUGHNUTS IN BIBLE, AND YOU WILL FIND
(Column ~ 08/14/98)
All that business about a serpent and eating an apple? Looks like we're stuck with some pretty shaky translating. I'll come straight out and say it: I'm addicted to fried sugar. Can you imagine anything more disgusting? But I'll bet an awful lot of you share my affliction...
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VOTES TO BE RECOUNTED IN MISSISSIPPI COUNTY
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
CHARLESTON -- The Aug. 4 primary election ballots in the Mississippi County presiding commissioner race will be recounted Tuesday. Circuit Judge David Dolan ordered the recount following a hearing Tuesday on Presiding Commissioner Jim Blumenberg's petition for a recount...
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POPLAR BLUFF MAN KILLED WHEN HIT BY VAN
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
A Poplar Bluff man was killed Wednesday night as he walked along Highway 53 in Dunklin County. In a separate accident Wednesday night, two young men were injured when their vehicle slid off a road and overturned in Bollinger County. Killed in Dunklin County was Kenneth Rice, 50...
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WEST SIDE OF CITY HIT BY POWER OUTAGE
(Local News ~ 08/14/98)
West Park Mall and Doctors' Park were among several Cape Girardeau businesses without power for about two hours Monday afternoon. The power outage started at 12:10 and ended shortly after 2 p.m., said Mike Cleary, a spokesman for AmerenUE. The outage affected 167 customers on the city's west side, Cleary said...
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RUBIO HOPING TO OPEN SOME EYES DURING STEELERS' TRAINING CAMP
(College Sports ~ 08/14/98)
Angel Rubio realizes that his performance during the Pittsburgh Steelers training camp could determine the course of his life for the next several years. But the former Southeast Missouri State University All-American isn't about to take himself too seriously as he attempts to carve out a career in the National Football League...
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DEMENT TO ENTER COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME TODAY
(College Sports ~ 08/14/98)
Former Southeast Missouri State University All-American Kenneth Dement will receive college football's highest honor today. Dement, along with 23 other former standout collegiate players and coaches, will be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame in South Bend, Ind...
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RYAN NAMED SEMO WOMEN'S NET COACH
(College Sports ~ 08/14/98)
Donna Ryan is happy to be shedding her `interim' tag with Southeast Missouri State University's women's tennis program. Ryan, who served as the Otahkians' interim coach last season, has had that title dropped from her job description. Thursday, she was named the Otahkians' coach for the 1998-99 season...
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BRIEFLY: LOCAL SOFTBALL TEAM GETS STARTED AT WORLD SERIES
(High School Sports ~ 08/14/98)
HOUMA, La. -- The Benton-based girls fast-pitch softball teams competing in the 1998 Babe Ruth National Tournament went 1-1, with one game still pending, during Thursday's opening day of action here. The 13-15-year-old Heartland Nationals beat a team from Louisiana 7-5 while the 12-under Heartland Nationals lost to a squad from Connecticut 6-1...
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SHIRLEY EYE
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral for Shirley Ann Eye of East Prairie will be held at 2 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie. The Rev. Bob Williams will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Eye, 50, died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston...
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SYLVIA EAKER
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
ZALMA -- Sylvia Mae Eaker, 91, of Otisville, Mich., died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998, at Genesys Health Park in Flint, Mich. She was born Aug. 12, 1906, at Zalma, daughter of William and Mary Jane Jones Inman. She and Lynes Eaker were married in September 1926. He died in January 1958...
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LOUIS TEMM
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
Louis Temm, 90, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998, at Ratliff Care Center. He was born July 28, 1908, in St. Louis, son of Nicholas Louis and Mona Clemens Temm. He and Alice Logan were married Sept. 11, 1931, in St. Louis. She died Aug. 31, 1991...
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EDWIN VERSEMAN
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
FARRAR --Edwin J. Verseman, 86, formerly of Farrar, died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998, at Oak Forest Skilled Care in Ballwin. He was born June 7, 1912, at Farrar, son of Gottlieb M. and Martha C. Mangels Verseman. He and Ruth L. Kasel were married May 24, 1942...
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ROY POE
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
JACKSON -- Roy Willis Poe, 88, of Jackson died Thursday, Aug. 13, 1998, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 22, 1910, in Inman, Kan., son of Frank Alonzo and Jennie M. Westling Poe. He first married Vera Mae Smith Nov. 14, 1936, in Winfield, Kan. She died July 12, 1974. He later married Margaret M. Fisher Haas July 5, 1975, in Jackson...
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VELMA SLINKARD
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Velma L. Slinkard, 79, of Sedgewickville died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998, at her home. She was born May 20, 1919, in Mayfield, daughter of John H. and Grace G. Mayfield Bollinger. She and Richard H. Slinkard were married May 15, 1940. He died Aug. 3, 1961...
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VERA JONES
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
CHARLESTON -- Vera Jones, 86, of Charleston died Tuesday, Aug. 11, 1998, at Miner Nursing Center. She was born Oct. 14, 1911, in Macon, Miss., daughter of Grover and Emma McCloud Thomas. She married Brock Jones, who preceded her in death. Jones was a member of Opportunity Church of God in Christ...
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CLEO BOONE
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
ANNA, Ill. -- Cleo M. Boone, 84, of Anna died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. She was born April 15, 1914, in Salina, Tenn., daughter of Dee and Anna Lee Ewing Neighbors. She and Alvin W. Boone were married July 4, 1936...
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ERNEST HOLDERFIELD
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Ernest E. Holderfield, 59, of Cobden died Thursday, Aug. 13, 1998, at Union County Hospital in Anna. He was born July 28, 1939, in Cobden, son of Ray and Alverda Pearman Holderfield. He and Charlene George were married March 20, 1959...
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BIRTH
(Births ~ 08/14/98)
Daughter to Bobby Joe and Kristin Michelle Thorne of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 10:51 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8, 1998. Name, Hailey Rayanne. Weight, 6 pounds 9 ounces. Mrs. Thorne is the former Kristin Wills, daughter of James C. Wills and Yvonne D. Wills of Cape Girardeau. Thorne is the son of Billy J. Thorne Sr. of Chaffee and Karen L. Blumenberg of Oak Ridge. He is employed at Mid-South Steel Products Inc...
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ROBERT CHARLES BROWN SR.
(Obituary ~ 08/14/98)
Robert Charles Brown Sr., a longtime resident of Cape Girardeau, Mo., died Monday August 10, 1998 at St. Francis Hospital in Cape. The son of W. W. (Cap) and Inez Spalding Brown, he was born March 27, 1928 in Cape County. He married Dorothy J. Whitson on June 30, 1946 at Trinity Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau...
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