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CHUCK PIERCE CAMPAIGNS IN CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
State auditor candidate Chuck Pierce said Friday he would side with the taxpayers when it comes to Hancock Amendment tax refunds. Pierce, deputy state auditor for the past five years, hopes to succeed retiring state Auditor and fellow Republican Margaret Kelly...
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SKYDIVERS TO LAND IN CAPE NEXT WEEK
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
More than 100 skydivers are expected to fall from the skies Oct. 2 and 3 at the Cape Girardeau Regional Airport's Sky-toberfest Skydiving Boogie. The public is welcome to come and watch the skydiving activities, said airport manager Bruce Loy, and an area off the airport ramp will be roped off for spectators. Admission is free...
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HEALING HANDS: 'POWER OF FAITH, TRUST IN GOD OFFER HOPE FOR BELIEVERS SEEKING MIRACLES
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
Hundreds of people raised their hands in response to a question about faith healing posed by the Rev. Peter M. Rookey during a healing Mass in Biehle. Rookey visits the Perry County parish about once a year to hold healing services. Reciting the rosary is an integral part of the healing Mass performed by the Rev. Peter Rookey who is known as the "healing priest."...
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CASHING IN ON DINING OUT
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
As of July 1, some 64 new businesses were added to the rolls for Cape Girardeau's hotel-motel-restaurant tax. That addition, in keeping with an April vote to expand the tax to include bed and breakfast inns, convenience stores, supermarkets and other businesses, brought in nearly $13,000 in additional revenue in July and August...
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NATURE CENTER VOTE ON HOLD
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
Southeast Missourian Missouri's Conservation Commission asked for more details about possible funding and financing agreements concerning a proposed nature center for Cape Girardeau County. The commission met in Cassville Friday. The project is back on the commission's agenda for its Nov. 6 meeting in St. Joseph. The commission heard a proposal in January from officials from Cape Girardeau County and Southeast Missouri State University to develop a nature center in the county's north park...
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WOMAN STITCHES STORY OF HER LIFE
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
Idell Dockins of Jackson spent more than a year piecing together the pictures of her family's life for a quilt titled simply, "The Browns." Dockins used 62 family photographs scanned into computer images then transferred to fabric to create the quilt. It tells the story of her parents, William and Nellie Brown, and her many siblings...
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BANK MERGER MIGHT MEAN NEW SIGNS HERE
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
A new set of signs could crop up in the Cape Girardeau banking scene soon. With the merger of NationsBank and BankAmerica, a new name may be selected for NationsBank operations, says Bob Stickler, a NationsBank spokesman. The new holding company in the merger of the third and fourth largest banks in the nation will be BankAmerica Corp., added Stickler. "We haven't arrived at a new name for the banking operations yet."...
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MINORITY INITIATIVE EXAMINED
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
The grim statistics of Bootheel poverty troubled Southeast Missouri State University President Dr. Dale Nitzschke. A newspaper article on the annual Kids Count report caught his attention last year. The report documents the status of children across the state by examining infant deaths, babies born to teen-age mothers, annual high school drop out rates and other factors...
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BUCKING THE SYSTEM: IMPENDING BIRTH BRINGS THOUGHTS OF SIMPLER TIMES
(Column ~ 09/26/98)
When Patrick and I were still newlyweds, we would do all the impetuous things our minds could think of and our pockets could afford. I smile when I think of all the Friday afternoon decisions to take weekend getaways and the long car rides in driving rains. Not to mention those evenings when we'd put on our robes, pop in a good video, and lounge around drinking screwdrivers 'til dawn...
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BLESSING CEREMONY TODAY
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
The Most Rev. John H. Leibrecht, bishop of the Springfield Cape Girardeau Diocese, will bless St. Francis Medical Center's new Healing Garden in a special ceremony today. The blessing ceremony at 4 p.m. will cap off a garden party celebrating the opening of the new Healing Garden...
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LETTERS: NOVEMBER ELECTIONS OFFER A CURE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/26/98)
To the editor: A few months ago, the Senate held hearings on abuses by the IRS which the public has known about for decades, but the senators acted as though the abuses were a great surprise to them. One wonders how they know who to call to testify if this was going on unknown to them all this time...
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DRUG-RELATED DEATH BRINGS GUILTY PLEA
(Editorial ~ 09/26/98)
A young girl was dead. But the weapon wasn't a gun or knife. It was methamphetamine. The second-degree murder case came to the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse in Jackson on a change of venue. Before the trial's end, the defendant agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter...
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LETTERS: HOSPITAL MERGER GOOD FOR COMMUNITY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/26/98)
To the editor: Cape Girardeau's two hospitals, Southeast Missouri Hospital and St. Francis Medical Center, have proposed to merge their resources into a single health-care organization with two campuses. This new health system would provide a complete array of services and programs for our community...
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LETTERS: TRUST FUNDS USED TO 'BALANCE' BUDGET
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/26/98)
To the editor: Much ado in the nation's capital and across the land is made of the federal balanced budget and even a surplus. Coupled with this is an occasional mention of the unified budget. Without the unified budget, there is no balanced budget, much less a surplus...
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LETTERS: IMPORTANT SERVICE FOR DEAF PEOPLE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/26/98)
To the editor: I am writing because I would like to inform your readers of a valuable service to Americans coping with hearing loss: the Captioned Media Program. The program has been lending captioned videos to the public free of charge for many years. The only requirement is that a person with hearing loss be in the audience...
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HEROIN MAY BE STATE'S DEADLIEST DRUG
(Editorial ~ 09/26/98)
Another drug is getting quite a bit of attention in Missouri. A new report suggests that heroin may be the state's most deadly drug. The state health department said that for every person who died from methamphetamine in Missouri last year, four died from heroin...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 09/26/98)
SURELY KENNETH Starr and the Republican Congress must have a sick and perverted mind to work so hard to put this garbage on the Internet so that every grade-school student has access to it. I have a 10-year-old great-grandson who is very knowledgeable with computers, and I have no desire for him to be exposed to such garbage. ...
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TIGERS RALLY TO VICTORY
(High School Sports ~ 09/26/98)
Friday night's game was a special one for Cape Girardeau Central High's football team. Three special teams touchdowns, including kickoff returns of 94 and 90 yards from junior Donnie McClinton, helped Central rally from a 28-7 second-quarter hole, and the Tigers held on for a 35-28 victory over host Oakville...
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JACKSON FINDS FIRST WIN
(High School Sports ~ 09/26/98)
JACKSON -- The Todd Wessel Highlight Film was shot at Jackson last night. If the Beaumont Bluejackets know what's good for them, they'll catch the movie early this next week. Wessel rushed for a career-high 280 yards on 32 carries Friday night in Jackson's 37-21 win over Graves County, Ky...
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PIRATES SLIP PAST RAMS ON LATE KICK
(High School Sports ~ 09/26/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Perryville High senior Joel Heuring tried not to be too nervous -- even though he was about to decide the outcome of Friday night's football game against visiting Scott City. The Pirates trailed the Rams by two points when Heuring lined up to attempt a 26-yard field goal attempt in the closing seconds of the contest...
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PREP FOOTBALL
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
Friday's Results Cape Central 35, Oakville 28 Jackson 37, Graves Co. 21 Perryville 13, Scott City 12 Portageville 20, Chaffee 0 St. Vincent 14, Herculaneum 12 New Madrid 42, Charleston 21 Poplar Bluff 28, Sikeston 14 East Prairie xx, Thayer xx Kennett 45, Hayti 8...
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INDIANS LOOK FOR MOMENTUM
(College Sports ~ 09/26/98)
Since Southeast Missouri State University's football team played powerhouse Murray State on virtually even terms last weekend, they should automatically be able to take care of struggling Tennessee-Martin, right? No so fast, says Southeast head coach John Mumford...
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PORTAGEVILLE ROLLS PAST CHAFFEE 20-0
(High School Sports ~ 09/26/98)
CHAFFEE -- Portageville defender Travis Scherer turned in two touchdowns as the Bulldogs kept Chaffee winless with a 20-0 victory over the Red Devils Friday night. Scherer opened the scoring when he scooped up a blocked punt for a touchdown at the 7:33 mark of the first quarter. Portageville's lead grew to 14-0 when Chris Robinson broke loose for a 43-yard touchdown run with 52 seconds left in the opening quarter...
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THREE HURT IN COLLISION
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
MARBLE HILL -- A Bollinger County deputy sheriff and an elderly couple were injured Friday afternoon when their cars collided on Highway 34. Dep. Kendall Ward, 33 of Zalma, was discharged from St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau after suffering moderate injuries in the accident...
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AVIE LEE WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
SCOTT CITY -- Avie Lee Williams, 86, of Scott City died Friday, Sept. 25, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements will be announced later by Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Scott City.
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CLARA HOLMES
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
Clara Coletta Holmes, 91, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Sept. 25, 1998, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 10, 1907, at New Hamburg, daughter of John Andrew and Crescent Heisserer Stike. She had been a department manager in retail stales for W.T. Grant and Co. in Cape Girardeau. She was a member of St. Mary's Cathedral and the St. Mary's Sodality...
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ROBERT JOSEPH GLAUS
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
CHAFFEE -- Robert Joseph Glaus, 62, of Chaffee died Thursday, Sept. 24, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 30, 1935, at Commerce, son of Joseph Ulrich and Beatrice Fay Knight Glaus. He was a farmer and a member of the St. Ambrose Catholic Church and the St. Ambrose Men's Club in Chaffee...
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BESSIE MAE TATUM
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
SIKESTON -- Bessie Mae Tatum, 75, a resident of Sikeston and formerly of East Prairie, died Friday, Sept. 25, 1998, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center. She was born Oct. 11, 1923, at Wyatt, daughter of George E. and Essie Mae Foster Lowry. She had lived in Mississippi and Scott counties most of her life...
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MARTHA BLACKWELL
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
Martha Elizabeth "Blondie" Blackwell of 611 Themis died Thursday, Sept. 24, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was 81 years old. She was born June 11, 1917, in Scott County, daughter of the late Albert and Nora Low Greer. On May 2, 1935, she married Earl Blackwell in Jackson. He died Sept. 1, 1956...
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LUTHER E. WASSON
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Luther Eugene Wasson, 76, of East Prairie, died Thursday, Sept. 24, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born April 8, 1922, in Strawberry, Ark., son of the late John and Virginia Wadley Wasson. He had lived most of his life in Mississippi County, where he was a retired farmer...
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MARGUERITE L. GATES
(Obituary ~ 09/26/98)
SIKESTON -- Marguerite "Margie" L. Gates of Sikeston, formerly of Carlyle, Ill., died Friday, Sept. 25, 1998, at her home. She was 74 years old. She was born Oct. 22, 1923, in Thorn Grove, Ark., daughter of the late Wayne and Emma Pugsley Tucker. On June 9, 1949, she married Edward Gates in Peach Orchard, Ark. He survives...
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CAPE PASTOR SPEAKS AT NATIONAL CONFERENCE
(Local News ~ 09/26/98)
Jim Caughlan, pastor of Evangelical United Church of Christ in Cape Girardeau, explained how a partnership with a Jamaican church helped his congregation understand more about the gospel. Caughlan spoke at the National Conference of Global Partnerships in Cleveland, Ohio, Sept. 18-20...
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