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TURNING SNOW DAYS INTO SCHOOL DAYS
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
After reading the newspaper, crumple up sections for a fun and creative art project. Connect sections in a fund design using masking tape. Alecia thinks Miami, Fla., would be a nice place to live at this time of year. Think of your favorite places or search the newspaper for names of cities and places that interest you. Locate the cities on a map...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: ROOKIE FOURT-GRAD TEACHER MAKES WORK CHALLENGING AND FUN
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Although a newcomer to the teaching profession, Amy Puchbauer has already begun collecting memories that will last a lifetime. Puchbauer said she is enjoying her rookie year as a fourth grade teacher at Franklin Elementary School. Students -- especially older elementary students -- can make work challenging and fun for teachers, she said. They are naturally creative and can easily make the most commonplace lesson fun, she said...
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CLICK & DOUBLE CLICK: READERS SUGGEST FAVORITE SITES; INTERNET OFFERS NEWS ALTERNATIVES (COLUMN 122)
(Column ~ 01/12/99)
Thanks for your tips. Several readers suggested a couple other search engines: www.dogpile.com This site searches some of the lesser-known search engines such as Mining Company, What You Seek, GoTo.com and InfoSeek. It searches up to 12 search engines at one time...
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ASSISTANT REGISTRAR AT SEMO FILES FOR BOARD
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Marty Clay, assistant registrar at Southeast Missouri State University, has joined the list of contenders for a seat on the Cape Girardeau Board of Education. Clay joins Gary L. McIntyre, Andrew Ostrowski and the Rev. William Bird in a contest for one of three, three-year terms up for election April 6...
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UNIVERSITY: FUNDS ANNOUNCED FOR POLYTECHNIC BUILDING
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Southeast Missouri State University's plans to build a polytechnic building are back on track. Gov. Mel Carnahan on Monday released $129.3 million in capital improvements funds for Missouri's colleges. The money is earmarked for 28 projects on 19 college campuses. Included is $5.6 million for construction of the industrial technology building at Southeast...
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JACKSON AND CAPE AGREE TO LAND SWAP
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
JACKSON -- A 2,000-foot section of Old Cape Road East that swerves back toward Interstate 55 south of Highway 61 will be detached from Cape Girardeau and annexed by Jackson. The land swap, taken at the second annual joint meeting of the two cities' governing bodies Monday night, is of relatively minor consequence but symbolizes how a new spirit of cooperation between the two cities can work...
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BETWEEN THE LINES: BEHOLD THE BEAUTY OF THE SNOW, SAND AND SURF
(Column ~ 01/12/99)
I started 1999 with a new appreciation for the strength and unrelenting power Mother Nature holds. After celebrating the new year along the beach in south Florida I returned home to near blizzard conditions. And I didn't see things getting much better during the week when my car didn't start and another ice storm hit Southeast Missouri. Needless to say, I skidded home and have been slipping and sliding my way around town ever since...
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CRACKS IN CUBAN EMBARGO ARE GROWING
(Editorial ~ 01/12/99)
When Fidel Castro became the de facto government of Cuba 40 years ago and failed to accede to U.S. expectations of democracy, Cubans soon discovered they were in for quite an endurance test. U.S. sanctions and an embargo have kept the island country, which is under a hundred miles from Florida, cut off from most of the advancements of the last four decades of the 20th century...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/12/99)
I'VE BEEN able to stay pretty well away from this topic when I've called Speak Out, although it has been tempting. I've gotten completely fed up watching "Nightline" and seeing the umpteenth bozo saying, "Oh, yeah, we can get this impeachment trial over within a matter of a couple of weeks." Yeah. ...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 01/12/99)
Today's modern traveler is one who has experienced at least once the indescribable nightmare of spending a couple of days in an airport terminal. Pork prices have dropped to such low levels that even those who are living high on the hog are barely getting by...
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ENCOURAGE CANDIDATES FOR SCHOOL BOARDS
(Editorial ~ 01/12/99)
Consider how important public schools are to most of us, even when we are no longer students. And then consider the importance of electing qualified, interested and sensible individuals to represent us on local school boards. First, the ways our schools remain important to us all our lives:...
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S. ILLINOIS GOOSE SEASON TO END THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Illinois Natural Resources officials say the Canada goose season in the quota zone of Alexander, Union, Williamson and Jackson counties will end Thursday at 3 p.m. Hunters have bagged almost 10,000 geese during the season. Officials estimate that the quota of 13,100 geese will be reached by Thursday...
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SCHOOL MAKEUP DAYS REMAIN UNCHANGED
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
The Cape Girardeau Board of Education decided Monday not to reverse its decision to use planned school holidays in January and February to make up days missed because of inclement weather. The board originally set aside Jan. 18 and Feb. 15 to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday and Presidents Day. However, after canceling classes four days in December and January, school officials opted to use both holidays as makeup days...
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COUNTY SEEKS IDEAS ON ROAD PAVING
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Cape Girardeau County wants to pave additional miles of county roads, but the perennial question remains: Which roads are to be paved? The County Commission and highway department are drafting a paving policy, and commissioners are looking for suggestions...
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KELLY BOARD OF EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Agenda, Jan. 14, 7 p.m. Board of Education Room New Business -- Discuss after-school tutoring program -- Discuss purchase of two additional handheld radios -- Discuss concrete culverts on elementary playground. -- MSIP report on governance and administration...
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STUDENT HURT IN CANOPY COLLAPSE
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
NEW HAMBURG -- A student was injured Monday after a garbage truck knocked down a wooden canopy attached to the Kelso C-7 school building. The student, a sixth-grader whose name was not released by the school, was walking under the structure and into the school building when the accident occurred. He was treated at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau for minor injuries and released...
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CENSUS BUREAU WORKERS WILL HIT THE STREETS NEXT WEEK
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
Census Bureau workers will take to the streets this winter to verify residential addresses throughout Cape Girardeau County and Scott City. The block-by-block canvassing will begin Monday and run through Feb. 26. Similar address checks will be made throughout Missouri and Oklahoma during that time period, said Tom Beaver, a spokesman for the Census Bureau's regional office in Kansas City...
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COURT SESSION: INDIANS READY FOR BIG WEEK
(College Sports ~ 01/12/99)
We start a very important homestand tonight when we entertain Austin Peay as a part of the Union Planters Bank Basketball Extravaganza. It will just be a great week of basketball, with men's and women's games tonight against Austin Peay, Thursday night against Murray State and Saturday night against Tennessee-Martin...
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IT'S SHOW (ME) TIME: OVC-LEADING INDIANS RETURN HOME
(College Sports ~ 01/12/99)
Austin Peay might be struggling a bit, but that doesn't mean the Governors don't possess some of the top basketball talent in the Ohio Valley Conference. Tonight, Southeast Missouri State University will look to slow down that talent. If the Indians do, then they will continue to remain at the top of the OVC standings...
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OTAHKIANS TRY TO GET BACK BACK ON TRACK
(College Sports ~ 01/12/99)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team will tonight look to begin re-establishing itself as an Ohio Valley Conference contender. The Otahkians, saddled with their first two-game losing streak of the season, kick off a three-game homestand when Austin Peay visits the Show Me Center for a 5:30 p.m. tipoff...
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NCAA TURNS DOWN SHUMATE
(College Sports ~ 01/12/99)
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. -- The National Collegiate Athletic Association has rejected an appeal by former Southeast Missouri State basketball coach Ron Shumate seeking dismissal of penalties against him. In April, the NCAA's Committee on Infractions cited several violations, many involving payments to players. Shumate, who coached the Indians for 17 years, was fired in May 1997 and replaced by Gary Garner. Three assistant coaches who worked for Shumate were not rehired...
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SCOTT CITY, KELLY GIRLS WIN IN SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 01/12/99)
Scott City and Kelly found little resistance in the opening round of the Scott Mississippi Conference Tournament Monday night as both posted lopsided victories. Kelly, seeded second, posted an 82-24 victory over No. 7 East Prairie. Scott City, seeded third, scored an identical 82-point total in a 82-34 win over No. 6 Chaffee...
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LADY BULLDOGS NET VICTORY, STYLE POINTS AGAINST 'JAYS
(High School Sports ~ 01/12/99)
Almost from start to finish, Notre Dame coach Jerry Grim wore a toothy grin, happy to finally return to action, happy to lean back and take in his team's leisurely victory over visiting Charleston. Then, late in the third quarter, Jessica Seratti rebounded her own miss as she tumbled to the floor, instinctively flung up a "shot" while seated on the hardwood, and Grim and the rest of the Notre Dame bench nearly guffawed themselves silly...
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JOHN STRATMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
LOOSE CREEK -- Funeral for John Henry Stratman of Loose Creek was held Jan. 6 at Immaculate Conception Church in Loose Creek. The Rev. Richard Cronin officiated, with burial in the church cemetery. Morton Funeral Home at Linn was in charge of arrangements...
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DENVER PERKINS
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
Funeral for Denver F. Perkins of Cape Girardeau will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel. The Rev. Leo Perkins will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park, with graveside service by VFW Post 3838. Friends may call at the chapel from 4-8 p.m. today...
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ALVIN HOUSE
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
SIKESTON -- Alvin G. House, 76, of Sikeston died Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, at his home. He was born Jan. 27, 1922, in Lepanto, Ark., son of Frank and Fronea Brazelton House. House had lived in Charleston most of his life, where he worked at McBride Cooperage Co. and Rolwing Moxley Co...
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ROGER EAST
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
Roger East, 46, of Lone Oak, Ky., died Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, at Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Ky. He was born April 27, 1952, in Cape Girardeau, son of J.J. and Dorothy East. East was a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University. He was a pharmaceutical representative...
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CLIFFORD ACKMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
CARLSBAD, N.M. -- Clifford Ackman, 78, of Carlsbad died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at Landsun Homes Health Care Center. He was born May 8, 1920, at Neely's Landing, Mo., to Thomas Jefferson and Effie Foster Ackman. He married Frieda Mae Pinkerton Oct. 25, 1941, at Neely's Landing. She died Nov. 3, 1997...
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EULA E. RAINEY
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
BERNIE -- Eula Ellawee Rainey, 67, of Bernie died Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, at her home. She was born April 5, 1931, at Lamar, Ark., to Sam and Lois Sparks Standridge. She married James W. Smiley Nov. 13, 1961, at Sikeston. He died Aug. 22, 1974. She married Lloyd G. Rainey July 15, 1987, at Bernie. He died March 26, 1991...
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WALTER AMSCHLER
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
PERRYVILLE -- Walter Hugo Amschler, 87, of Perryville died Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Feb. 27, 1911, in Perry County, son of George Ernst and Sophia Unterreiner Amschler. He and Regina A. Winschel were married April 6, 1937, at Apple Creek. She died April 5, 1988...
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LAWRENCE REDDIC
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
Lawrence Reddic, 44, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Jan. 8, 1999, at Heartland Care Rehab Center. He was born Sept. 17, 1954, in St. Louis, son of Naomi Reddic. Reddic had worked at VIP Industries. There are no known survivors. A memorial service will be held at a later date...
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ALEXANDER HOUSTON
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
GLEN ALLEN -- Alexander J. Houston, 55, of Glen Allen died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born April 11, 1943, in Boston, Mass., son of John and Catherine Foley Houston. He and Barbara Ann Edwards were married July 20, 1963...
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ICY ROAD CLAIMS POPLAR BLUFF TEEN
(Local News ~ 01/12/99)
POPLAR BLUFF -- One teen died and two others were injured Sunday when their car slid off an icy roadway and struck a tree, the Missouri Highway Patrol reported. The driver, Tyler McKnight, 16, of Poplar Bluff, was pronounced dead at the scene. His two passengers, Brian Green, 16, and Kenneth Howell, 15, both of Poplar Bluff, suffered moderate injuries and were taken to Lucy Lee Hospital...
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CHARLES HUNT JR.
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
SERENO -- Charles A. Hunt Jr., 91, of Sereno died Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville. He was born July 28, 1907, at Sereno, son of Charles A. and Eva Albrecht Hunt Sr. He and Bertha M. Moore were married Sept. 3, 1934...
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VERDA TRICKEY
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
Verda Kay Trickey, 87, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, at Chateau Girardeau Health Center. Cracraft-Miller Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.
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RUPERT KLAUS
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
PERRYVILLE -- Rupert A. Klaus, 77, of Murfreesboro, Tenn., died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at National Health Care Center. He was born in Perry County, son of August H. and Mathilda Mahken Klaus. Klaus was a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University, and received master and doctoral degrees from Peabody College...
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BIRTH
(Births ~ 01/12/99)
Daughter to Steven Clay and Amy Elizabeth Galemore of Charleston, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 6:24 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4, 1999. Name, Mallory Myers. Weight, 8 pounds 5 ounces. First child. Mrs. Galemore is the former Amy Warren, daughter of Harry and Suzanne Warren of Charleston. She is a kindergarten teacher at St. Henry's Catholic School. Galemore is the son of Jeanne and Gary Adkisson of East Prairie and Richard and Debbie Galemore of Charleston. He is sales manager at Galemore Motor Co...
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GENEVIEVE M. KEUSENKOTHEN
(Obituary ~ 01/12/99)
Genevieve Marie Diebold Keusenkothen, 95, of Kelso died after a brief illness fortified by the Sacraments, Sunday, January 10. 1999, at Alexian Brothers Hospital, in St. Louis. She was born December 19, 1903, in Kelso, daughter of Joseph F. Diebold, founder of Diebold Orchards, and Josephine Ressel Diebold. ...
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