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MEDICAL SURFARI: SIMPLE SUN SENSE CAN SAVE SKIN OF CANCER
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
In our culture, a golden brown tan is considered attractive, and most of us think we look healthier with a tan. Looks, however, can be deceiving. The fact is that our tanned skin is not healthier. The same damaging process that causes a painful, red sunburn occurs when we tan...
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TAKE A STRESS BREAK
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
The copy machine is jammed again, the phone has been ringing off the hook, your boss wants that report NOW and your computer just crashed. That's enough to get anyone's morning off to a bad start and add a little stress to their life. Stress in the workplace doesn't always start in the workplace. ...
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LOW-POWER TV STATION WOULD BE SECOND HERE
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
If the Federal Communications Commission grants a Los Angeles company permission to take over a local transmitter tower, a second low-power television station could begin broadcasting in Cape Girardeau. MS Communications is seeking permission from the FCC to reassign a construction permit that had been issued last month to the Brewer Family Trust of Canoga Park, Calif...
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COUNTY PROSECUTOR SAYS DEATH PENALTY WORKS
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
Disregarding findings of a recent national study, Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle says the death penalty works in Missouri. "I defy anyone to show me an innocent person on death row in Missouri," Swingle said. Swingle spoke about the death penalty at the Cape Girardeau Lion's Club meeting Wednesday...
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TOMBSTONES OVERTURNED AT OLD LORIMIER CEMETERY
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
Vandals overturned 14 tombstones at Cape Girardeau's oldest cemetery, adding to a growing number of property crimes this summer, police said. Of the 14 gravestones, four were broken into pieces at the Old Lorimier Cemetery, police Sgt. Carl Kinnison said...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: SEARCHING FOR OUR FATHERS ON THE FIELD OF DREAMS
(Column ~ 06/15/00)
June 15, 2000 Dear Ken, One summer while doing some work in Dubuque, Iowa, I drove the 25 miles to Dyersville, the small town where "Field of Dreams" was filmed. I was hoping to find something, anything that reminded me of the green vision in the movie and dreading a theme park. Neither awaited...
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PLANS MADE TO EASE PARKING PROBLEMS AT UNIVERSITY
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department (MoDOT) could OK funding that would help decrease parking headaches and increase the walkability of the Southeast Missouri State University campus by Oct. 1. The university has applied for a $2.5 million in grants for capital improvements and operating funds related to the university's shuttle bus system...
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GROUNDBREAKING FOR DETENTION BASIN TO TAKE PLACE TODAY
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
Construction of a 157-acre detention basin to help eliminate flooding in Cape Girardeau is about to begin. The city will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 9 a.m. today at the project site off Route W, north of the city. The detention basin is the final part of a flood control project that is one of the most significant capital improvement projects ever attempted in the city, officials said...
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LOCAL CHILD WINS GRANT TO HELP WITH MEDICAL EXPENSES
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
Brandon McArthur of Jackson is one of five children with a life-threatening illness to win a $1,000 grant toward his medical expenses from a health and wellness Web site. But his mother is more excited about Brandon's story appearing on the AccentHealth Web site. She hopes his story there will make people more aware of ataxtia-telangiectasia, the deadly, debilitating disease that is robbing 8-year-old Brandon of muscle function, and perhaps increase donations toward A-T research...
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HUMMINGBIRDS NUMBERS ON RISE, BUT LITTLE BIRDS ARE PICKY
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
Hummingbirds are alive and well in southeast Missouri, though the tiny birds may not be in every yard. "We have as many hummingbirds around here as we've always had, though there may not be as many in specific areas," said Dr. Bill Eddleman, who holds a doctorate in wildlife ecology and teaches biology at Southeast Missouri State University...
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DEXTER MAN NAMED DIRECTOR OF BOOTHEEL EDUCATION CENTER
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
MALDEN, Mo. -- Lewis "Rick" Hux of Dexter, Mo., has been named director of the Harry L. Crisp Bootheel Education Center in Malden, Mo. Hux has 31 years of public school service and will retire from his superintendency at Van Buren School District June 30. He will begin his new duties in Malden on July 1...
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LONDON CALLING: MUSICIANS ON TOUR
(Local News ~ 06/15/00)
When Dr. Robert Gifford started directing the Missouri Ambassadors of Music in 1990, only two buses were needed to shuttle the high school students between performances in the European capitals. Now it takes six buses, each of them color coded to make sure all 290 students and teachers make the trip from London to Paris, or from Innsbruck to Venice...
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FORD & SONS STOPS THE BLEEDING WITH WILD 11-10 WIN OVER MURPHYSBORO
(High School Sports ~ 06/15/00)
The Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team used a big late uprising and then held off a final charge by Murphysboro (Ill.) to bounce back into the win column with a wild 11-10 triumph Wednesday night. Cape, coming off a lopsided doubleheader sweep at the hands of District 14 rival Dunklin County on Tuesday, improved to 11-5 overall with the non-district home victory at Capaha Field...
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WIND MAKES BENT CREEK TOUGHER ON JUNIORS
(High School Sports ~ 06/15/00)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Brutal. That, in a word, is how young golfer John Kelly described conditions at Bent Creek Golf Course Wednesday in the second round of the Heartland Junior Championships. With wind gusts strong and inconsistent, the second round wasn't as kind as Tuesday's round where several youngsters shot in the mid-70s...
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CAPE JR. LEGION SPLITS DOUBLEHEADER
(High School Sports ~ 06/15/00)
The Cape Girardeau junior legion baseball team split a doubleheader at home against Anna-Jonesboro Wednesday. It won the first game 4-2, then fell 2-1 in the nightcap. In the first game, Jason Gibson threw a complete game for the win, allowing two earned runs on eight hits and a walk. He struck out five...
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BRIEFLY: HOLE-IN-ONE
(High School Sports ~ 06/15/00)
Cliff Rudesill, 75, of Cape Girardeau hit his first hole-in-one on May 31 at Kimbeland Country Club. He used a 7-wood to ace the 145-yard, No. 6 hole. Dewey Keller and Herb Brase witnessed the shot.
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BRIEFLY: PINGEL SIGNS FREE-AGENT CONTRACT WITH BILLS
(High School Sports ~ 06/15/00)
St. Vincent High School graduate Scott Pingel, the NCAA's all-time leading receiver, has signed a free-agent contract with the Buffalo Bills. Pingel was a three-time Division III All-American at Westminster College in Fulton, Mo., and he was selected Division III Player of the Year in 1999. He holds several Division III records and his 436 receptions are the NCAA's all-division mark, breaking the previous record of 301, set by Jerry Rice...
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MARGARET SPETH
(Obituary ~ 06/15/00)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- A memorial service for Margaret Gladys Speth of Marble Hill will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church. The Rev. Fred Ritter will officiate. Burial will be in Rosewood Cemetery in Palmyra, Neb. Speth, 71, died Wednesday, May 31, 2000, at Smith County Memorial Hospital in Carthage, Tenn...
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LARRY NISWONGER
(Obituary ~ 06/15/00)
Larry Dallas "Deeds" Niswonger, 62, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, June 14, 2000, at Fountainbleau Lodge. He was born Aug. 13, 1937, in Cape Girardeau, son of Pinkston and Ella Welker Niswonger. Niswonger had been a welder, and also an antique dealer. He was a country and western musician in the 1960s and early 1970s, and a music writer. In his early life he was in Boy Scouts and played on various sports teams...
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MARGARET HUNTER
(Obituary ~ 06/15/00)
Funeral Mass for Margaret Lucille Hunter of Salt Lake City, Utah, was held May 27, 2000, at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Salt Lake City. Burial was in Mt. Calvary Cemetery in Salt Lake City. Neil O'Donnell and Sons Mortuary in Salt Lake City was in charge of arrangements...
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LOTTIE L. FOX
(Obituary ~ 06/15/00)
Lottie L. Brown Fox, 89, died Wednesday, June 14, 2000, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was formerly of Mississippi County in Missouri. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.
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IN SPITE OF ALL, IT'S A GOOD DEAL
(Editorial ~ 06/15/00)
To the editor: I am one of the minority who voted in favor of all the Jackson school bond and tax issues in April. I know teachers are grossly underpaid, and we need to retain, recruit and attract the best. We've recently lost some great prospects. Many folks, and rightly so, are unhappy that the Board of Education went out and bought land for a new East Elementary School prior to obtaining voter approval for a new school. ...
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ELIMINATION OF THE FEDERAL DEATH TAX IS LONG OVERDUE
(Editorial ~ 06/15/00)
There are those who would like to make the so-called federal death tax a complicated issue. Republicans in the U.S. House, joined by 65 Democrats, have rightly tossed aside those arguments in the face of a promised presidential veto. These taxes generate somewhere between 1.5 percent and 2 percent of total federal revenue. ...
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WARNINGS ABOUT RASH REDUCTIONS IN SALES-TAX REVENUE DUE TO THE INTERNET MAY BE OVERSTATED
(Editorial ~ 06/15/00)
Another big tax topic in recent months has been the anticipated loss of sales-tax revenue due to untaxed Internet sales. But, in fact, coffers continue to overflow in most state and local treasuries that rely on sales taxes, despite forecasts of gloom and doom...
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