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THE CASE OF THE WATERMELON PATCH MYSTERY; CHAPTER 9: HANK FINDS A STRANGER IN THE DARK
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
LAST WEEK: Hank has fallen asleep on the job. So has everyone else. But when Hank is the first to awake, he finds himself kissing someone. I had just embraced someone in the darkness of night. I had been dreaming about Beulah the Collie and thought it was her. But it wasn't. And then I heard this squeaky voice say, "Oh. Hi. How's it going? I'm not Beulah."...
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TALKING TURKEY; TEACHING YOUNGER STUDENTS ABOUT THE HOLIDAY TAKES MORE EXPLANATION IN SIMPLE TERMS
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
Aashley Crocker and Lucas Helwege know little about Pilgrims and the Mayflower, but they know all about being thankful. The children, both 3, are learning about Thanksgiving in their class at the Missouri Preschool Project. Teaching Thanksgiving lessons is more than just reciting history and the significance of the holiday when the youngest students are involved. It takes more explanation and in simpler terms...
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TALK, TALK & MORE TALK
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
Talk seems to be a common theme since the election ended. Everybody's debating what will happen and why. Regardless of the court decision, the talk will continue. Last week I mentioned news sites that were getting record hits during this post-election analysis...
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GOVERNMENT: COUNCIL COULD ZONE ADJOINING COUNTY LAND
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
Armed with a state law, Cape Girardeau city officials Monday raised the possibility of imposing zoning restrictions in unincorporated areas up to two miles beyond the city limits. City Manager Michael Miller said the city can't extend zoning beyond its borders until its population reaches at least 35,000...
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CITY DELAYS ANY ACTION ON VIDEOTAPING UNTIL 2001
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
Red-light runners in Cape Girardeau can continue to flout the law, at least temporarily, as city officials Monday night postponed a decision to install video surveillance at one intersection. After extensive discussion of the video system -- which records red-light runners for citation -- at three previous meetings, the Cape Girardeau City Council opted to delay any action until next year...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: HANDY GUIDE TO INSULTING YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER
(Column ~ 11/21/00)
Insulting the local newspaper is a well established, all-American tradition. I was reminded of that tradition by a Speak Out comment from a person who said he/she/it was keeping a newspaper subscription just for the laughs. I'd like to think that person is talking about the laughs he/she/it gets from my column -- not to mention mean ol' Sarge beating up on Beetle every day! -- but somehow I doubt it...
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EDUCATION: CAPE DISTRICT COPING WITH TIGHT FINANCES
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
The Cape Girardeau School District will squeak through its roughest financial period of the year with the help of reduced spending and a line of credit from a local bank on this year's tax revenue. The district's fund balances are dangerously low and could attract the state's attention if there are high, unexpected expenses, district Business Manager Rob Huff told the Board of Education Monday...
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GOVERNMENT: PROPOSED REGULATIONS FACE LITTLE CHALLENGE
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Proposed changes in the city's regulations governing erosion control and storm drainage had an unanticipated easy ride through a public hearing before the Board of Aldermen Monday night. The anticipated crowd of developers armed with questions didn't develop...
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UNINSURED AUTO RATES DROPPING; AREA COUNTIES REMAIN AMONG THE WORST
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- The statewide percentage of uninsured vehicles in 1999 reached its lowest point since Missouri began requiring mandatory automobile liability coverage in 1987. The statewide rate plummeted 18 percent from 1998, when there were a projected 350,483 uninsured vehicles on the road. For 1999, that number was 287,486, a drop of about 63,000 vehicles...
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BLAZE GUTS STORAGE BARN IN JACKSON
(Local News ~ 11/21/00)
JACKSON, Mo. -- When the alarm sounded at 9:39 a.m. Monday, Jackson firefighters knew the blaze was nearby. From the fire station, they could see thick black smoke curling into the sky to the northwest. The fire quickly gutted a storage barn at the Beggs Lime Co. off West Jackson...
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'I EXPECTED MORE': BILLINGS CONCLUDES FIRST YEAR AT SOUTHEAST WITH 3-8 RECORD
(College Sports ~ 11/21/00)
Southeast Missouri State University first-year head football coach Tim Billings might not have expected the Indians to be a powerhouse this season, but he did count on doing better than 3-8 overall and seventh place in the eight-team Ohio Valley Conference...
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OTAHKIANS SEEK REVENGE ON ROAD
(College Sports ~ 11/21/00)
A little payback will no doubt be on the minds of Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball players tonight as the Otahkians have their first road game of the season. Last year, the University of Missouri-Kansas City came to the Show Me Center and scored a late basket to beat the Otahkians 71-70. The squads will hook up in a rematch at 7 o'clock tonight in Kansas City...
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COLLEGE BASKETBALL: SOUTHEAST FINDS DIV. II MINERS IN A DEEP HOLE
(College Sports ~ 11/21/00)
Even if his team was at full strength, University of Missouri-Rolla basketball coach Dale Martin knows how tough a challenge the Miners would face tonight. But throw in the fact that two of the Miners' top returning players from last season won't be in the lineup and Martin realizes the odds are really stacked against his Division II squad as it faces Southeast Missouri State University in a 7 p.m. tipoff at the Show Me Center. Both teams are 1-0...
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HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL: NOTRE DAME GIRLS DEBUT WITH 59-58 WIN OVER N. COUNTY
(High School Sports ~ 11/21/00)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Lisa Millham hit a pair of free throws inside the final minute of play as Notre Dame, which led by 10 points at one time in the fourth quarter, rallied for a 59-58 over North County in the round-robin Perryville Tournament Monday night...
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OSCAR GASSER
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
DUDLEY, Mo. -- Oscar Gasser, formerly of Dudley, died Monday, Nov. 20, 2000, in a hospital in Memphis, Tenn. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.
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DR. FREDERICK RAWLINS
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
Frederick Ernest Rawlins died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital, where he practiced the greater part of his life. Frederick Rawlins was born April 19, 1916, in Thebes, Ill. He graduated from Cape Central High School, Southeast Missouri State University, and taught school at Wardell, Mo., and Ullin, Ill...
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DONNA BRUCE
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
PUXICO, Mo. -- Funeral for Donna Bruce of Desloge, Mo., will be held at 2 p.m. today at Watkins and Sons Funeral Home in Puxico. The Rev. Pat Myers will officiate. Burial will be in Puxico Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 11 a.m...
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CASPER ELFRINK
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
LEOPOLD, Mo. -- Funeral for Casper John Elfrink of New Florence, Mo., was held Nov. 11 at Immaculate Conception Church in Montgomery City, Mo. The Rev. Gerald Kaimann officiated. Burial was in St. Mary's Cemetery in Montgomery City. Schlanker Funeral Home in Montgomery City was in charge of arrangements...
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LOIS MINOR
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Lois Adeline Minor, 74, of Mounds died Monday, Nov. 20, 2000, at the home of a son in America, Ill. She was born Aug. 13, 1926, in Pulaski County, Ill., daughter of Israel and Ethel Ervin Rhude. She married Raymond E. Minor Sr., who died Aug. 29, 1998...
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WALTER HESSKAMP
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
Walter Henry Hesskamp, 89, of Mesa, Ariz., formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Nov. 16, 2000, in Mesa. He was born Jan. 16, 1911, in St. Charles, Mo., son of John and Anna Mittlebusher Hesskamp. He married Erma Trampe, who died Oct. 2, 2000. Hesskamp lived in Cape Girardeau 35 years, and had been a supervisor at a shoe store. He moved to Arizona three years ago...
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JAMES HENSLEY
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- James L. "Buster" Hensley, 70, of Imperial, Mo., died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2000, at St. Anthony's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born April 10, 1930, at Caruthersville, Mo., son of Elmer Clinton and Ida Estell Curtis Hensley. He and Helen T. Hensley were married Sept. 3, 1988, at Brentwood, Mo...
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ARTHUR WILKE
(Obituary ~ 11/21/00)
FRIEDHEIM, Mo. -- Arthur L. Wilke, 91, of Friedheim died Sunday, Nov. 19, 2000, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Mo. He was born Jan. 28, 1909, at Friedheim, son of William F. and Mathilda L. Zoellner Wilke. He and Mary M. Clements were married Feb. 21, 1943. She died Jan. 4, 1995...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 11/21/00)
Son to Steve and Holly Phillips of Florissant, Mo., St. John's Mercy Medical Center in St. Louis, 11:56 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2000. Name, Parker Scott. Weight, 8 pounds 7 1/2 ounces. First child. Mrs. Phillips is the former Holly Miller, daughter of Jack and Marilyn Miller of Jefferson City, Mo. She is a registered nurse at St. John's Mercy. Phillips is the son of Julius and Janet Phillips of Jackson, Mo. He is a manager at Aldi in Ferguson, Mo...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 11/21/00)
WHY DO people keep saying the Republicans are usurping the rights of the Floridians who are so dizzy they can't cast a ballot? The leftist media would have us believe that it is all Dubya's fault they can't do hand count after hand count after machine count. ...
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PROP B: LAW OF UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
(Editorial ~ 11/21/00)
This looks like another instance of the Law of Unintended Consequences. A ballot initiative proposed by anti-billboard interests received enough signatures to get on the Missouri ballot. The measure, known as Proposition A, would have banned new billboard construction. Prop A was the subject of a spirited campaign. After millions of dollars were spent on both sides, voters narrowly defeated the measure, which also would have required some billboards to come down...
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ANSWERS NEEDED IN ST. LOUIS VOTING FIASCO
(Editorial ~ 11/21/00)
It's been quite a while since Missouri has seen an election night like the one that unfolded Nov. 7. Democrats alleged people were being denied their right to vote in St. Louis and said the problem worsened as the day wore on. In the afternoon, state Sen. ...
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IF IT'S BROKE, FIX IT: THE BROKEN ELECTION MACHINERY OF 2000
(Editorial ~ 11/21/00)
Cape Girardeau County Clerk Rodney Miller has defended the punch-card ballot system used in this county (and in a great many others among the nation's 3,051 counties) as an accurate and relatively trouble-free method of recording and counting votes ("Punch cards work well here, clerk says," Nov. 17 Southeast Missourian article)...
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