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INTERNET GEARS UP FOR SUPER BOWL
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
Five days and counting until Super Bowl Sunday. Of course, it's not so interesting this year since it involves two East Coast teams: New York and Baltimore. But even if you're not a football fan, you might tune in just to watch the commercials. Super Bowl Sunday has turned into an event of sorts with parties and gatherings from sea to shining sea...
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MASCOTS ADD SPIRIT TO SPORTS
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
John Snider, looking for a new activity during his senior year at Cape Girardeau Central High School, found his place in a tiger costume. Snider is one of several students who dresses as the Central Tiger to help boost school spirit during football and basketball games and wrestling matches...
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WIDE MEADWOS: A CONTINUING SERIES; CHAPTER 2: GATHERING THE CORN: JOB OF TOIL, SWEAT ENDS WITH FUN
(Column ~ 01/23/01)
Editor's note: This is a chapter from Jean Bell Mosley's book "Wide Meadows" that was first published in 1960. All the other harvesting efforts pale in stature in comparison with the gathering of the corn. Now we are getting down to business. This is the stuff which will fatten our hogs and feed our chickens and mules, and make nice dents in our debts...
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CAPE SCHOOLS LOSING NEW TALENT
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
Despite a local university and strong community support, the Cape Girardeau School District has problems attracting and retaining teachers because the salaries don't match its status as the third-largest school district in Southeast Missouri. School officials say the district's operating tax rate simply doesn't support its operating expenses. Staff members say something must give to accommodate the district's increased expenses, and they hope it will be taxpayers...
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BENEFITS EXPECTED FROM MAIL MERGER
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
As long as her mail is not delayed, Victoria Brazer of Jackson, Mo., won't pay much attention to the announced alliance between the U.S. Postal Service and longtime rival FedEx. "I think I heard about it somewhere last week," Brazer said Monday on her way into the Cape Girardeau post office. Brazer, a Southeast Missouri State University employee, reacted like most people locally, but behind the scenes, a dramatic reorganization is planned for the way your package reaches its express destination...
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STRANGER THAN FICTION: THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREIGN FILM
(Column ~ 01/23/01)
A friend of mine says he's seen "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" twice and would go again, given the opportunity. I think he's lying. Just in case you're one of those brave folks who don't follow foreign film and make no apologies for it, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" is the hottest thing out of China since kung pao chicken. It's a movie staring Chow Yun-Fat, or, as you ladies may know him, the hottie in "Anna and the King."...
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SCOTT CITY MAN KILLED BY TRAIN
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
SCOTT CITY, Mo. -- Scott City police say a man walking along the railroad tracks was struck and killed by a Union Pacific train shortly before midnight Friday. Rodney Pyle, 27, of Scott City was struck from behind while walking westward on the tracks near Main and State streets, police Capt. Janice Stroup said...
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CARBON MONOXIDE BLAMED IN ILLNESS OF THREE WORKERS
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
Three workers at a Cape Girardeau manufacturing plant were hospitalized in St. Louis Monday, probably from carbon monoxide poisoning. A spokeswoman for St. Francis Medical Center said they were in stable condition. The FRG Mechanical workers were operating a propane-powered forklift in a building at 99 S. Louisiana when they became ill, said battalion Chief Steve Niswonger...
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CITY OKs 3 LIQUOR LICENSES
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
City officials approved licenses for three Cape Girardeau package liquor stores Monday night. The City Council approved liquor licenses for Kidd II, 103 N. Kingshighway; Albertson's, 2126 Independence; and Albertson's Express, 2134 Independence. All are new businesses. Kidd II, managed by Ernestine Kidd, received a conditional license...
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MEETING ON RURAL ISSUES SLATED
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
Property rights and farm financial and marketing strategies will highlight next month's 11th annual Rural Restoration Conference at Sikeston, Mo. "We'll be talking about the property rights issue," said Jill Carlson of Carlson Publications in Iowa. "We'll discuss how farmers are taking of their land, how they can protect the rights to own it, and farming economics."...
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SCHOOL FOUNDATION RAISES $9,850 IN FIRST MONTH
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
The fund-raising arm of the Cape Girardeau School District has raised $9.850 in its first month. Rich Payne and Kandee Metje, co-directors of the school's foundation, reported the figure at Monday's Board of Education meeting. The foundation, formed in 1995 to raise funds to renovate the high school track, was reactivated last year to seek donations from alumni, area corporations and businesses...
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LOCAL WEB USERS LEAN CONSERVATIVE
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
In our weekly Web poll last week, users of semissourian. com overwhelmingly castigated the new TV show, "Temptation Island." Nearly four in five of the more than 300 respondents called the show morally repugnant. The rest said things like they believed it was "all in good fun" or that they had "no opinion."...
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INDIANS BOOST MORALE, DOWN MORRIS BROWN
(College Sports ~ 01/23/01)
ATLANTA -- It might not have made them totally forget Saturday night's tough Ohio Valley Conference loss at Eastern Illinois, but Southeast Missouri State University's basketball Indians definitely had some fun Monday night. Facing host Morris Brown College in a non-conference matchup, the Indians exploded in the second half and went on to romp 82-63 in front of about 1,000 fans at John H. Lewis Arena...
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LADY INDIANS STOP PERRYVILLE
(High School Sports ~ 01/23/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The Jackson Lady Indians improved to 11-2 on the season with a 55-38 victory over Perryville Monday night. Andrea Koeper, who had 13 points, led 10 Lady Indians in the scoring column. Jenna Leet hit two 3-pointers in adding 12 points...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 01/23/01)
Son to Johnie Burton and Danielle Lorianne Woolly of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:21 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2001. Name, Dominick Anthony. Weight, 9 pounds 1 ounce. First child. Mrs. Woolly is the former Danielle Chandler, daughter of Nellie Fraser of Milbridge, Maine. She is a prep cook at Cracker Barrel. Woolly is the son of Lonnie and Sharon Woolly of Jackson, Mo...
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EFFECT OF FCC RULING EXPECTED TO BE MINIMAL
(Local News ~ 01/23/01)
The Federal Communications Commission ruled Monday that cable-television operators do not have to provide both analog and digital versions of TV stations' programming. Broadcasters and cable-TV operators don't expect the new ruling to have any immediate local effect...
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EARL JACKSON
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Earl W. Jackson, 82, of East Prairie died Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. He was born Sept. 3, 1918, at Bucklin, Mo., son of Floyd M. and Goldie E. Carriker Jackson. He and Vertis Juanita Portwood were married May 7, 1946. She died Feb. 11, 1970...
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WOODROW HELDERMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Woodrow Arthur Helderman, 84, passed away Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call Tuesday, Jan. 23, from 4-8 p.m. at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson, Mo. Funeral service will be Wednesday, Jan. 24, at 11 a.m. at the funeral home. The Revs. John Rice and Jimmy Corbin will officiate. Burial will be in Russell Heights Cemetery at Jackson...
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JAMES BLANCHARD
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Graveside service for James Blanchard of St. Louis will be held at 11 a.m. today at Oak Grove Cemetery. Military rites will be conducted. Friends may call at Sparks Funeral Home from 9-10:30 a.m. Blanchard, 55, died Monday, Jan. 15, 2001, in an automobile accident...
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VICTOR TAYLOR
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Victor H. Taylor Sr., 66, of Olmsted died Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001, at his home. He was born March 22, 1934, in Cairo, Ill., son of Sanford and Gertrude Mitchell Taylor. He and Mary Lou Foster were married Feb. 4, 1957. Taylor attended First Baptist Church in Mound City, Ill. He served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He was formerly of Mound City...
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MONA KAISER
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
Mona Fern Kaiser, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Jan. 20, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born April 11, 1932, at Patton, Mo., daughter of Harley and Mettie M. Grindstaff Pulliam. She and Paul Kaiser were married Feb. 5, 1984, in Cape Gir-ardeau...
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ELMA DEY
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
Elma V. Dey, 92, of Cape Girardeau died Monday, Jan. 22, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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GRACE ABERNATHY
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Grace K. Abernathy, 95, of Perryville died Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Sept. 19, 1905, in Duncan County, Mo., daughter of Marion and Minnie Hahn Killian. She and Bern W. Abernathy were married April 12, 1929. He died in May 1986...
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THELMA CHAPPELL
(Obituary ~ 01/23/01)
Thelma M. Chappell, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 21, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Oct. 1, 1925, in Champion City, Mo., daughter of Arthur and Elizabeth Schults Bailey. Chappell moved to Cape Gir-ardeau in 1963 from Ironton, Mo. She had owned and operated Thelma's Lounge many years and also was a teacher at Head Start. She was a member of First Assembly of God Church, VFW Auxiliary and a charter member of Eagles Auxiliary...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/23/01)
ALL YOU folks who continue to try to push what the Bible says on everyone else are no different to me than the Moonies of a few years back. It gets old. Please quit trying to tell us it's the law of the land. CAN YOU imagine having been the leader of a nation during the terrible 17th-century Thirty Years' War or for a portion of time during the horrific Hundred Years' War, which preceded it by several centuries? Now comes David Limbaugh who, in a column published a while back, tries to convince us that George Bush is inheriting a very difficult time. ...
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MORE STRANGE DOINGS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
(Editorial ~ 01/23/01)
A while back we mentioned a New Hampshire state representative who, after he was elected, revealed he supports killing police officers in certain instances. When that came out, there was immediate pressure for the legislator to step down. Now Rep. Tom Alciere has done just that, with the provision that another representative would put his name on eight bills Alciere had introduced. Those bills deal with education, underage drinking and drug abuse, not the police...
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PRO WRESTLING IS BOY'S MURDER DEFENSE
(Editorial ~ 01/23/01)
Pro wrestling -- the kind seen on television and in large-capacity arenas all over the country -- has its true-blue followers. There's no question about that. Why else would the TV and Show Me Center versions of adults pretending to beat the tar out of each other attract such huge audiences?...
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LETTERS: FRESH AIR COMES TO WASHINGTON AMID COURT LIES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/23/01)
To the editor: A breath of fresh air has swept into Washington this weekend, drawing aside the dark curtain that has blanketed and nearly choked the very life out of all those who believe in dignity, honesty, humility, purity and life. Those of us who believe that every human being, no matter how small, should be protected are praying that this administration will begin to wash away the sludge of death from our communities around this great country. ...
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LETTERS: MORE INTEREST IN EARLY HISTORY IS WELCOME TREND
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/23/01)
To the editor: As a member of the Cape Girardeau Area Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission, I would like to express my appreciation for your editorial in support of the Red House project as well as your recent news article. Sam Blackwell's excellent understanding of his subject and attention to detail are a credit to your paper...
Stories from Tuesday, January 23, 2001
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