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SPORTS PROJECT RECOMMENDED BY PARK BOARD
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
Proponents of the two leading proposals for use of excess city tourism funds have forged a single project that would expand sports and recreation in two areas of Cape Girardeau. At Monday's meeting, t he Parks and Recreation Advisory Board unanimously approved a recommendation that excess tourism funds be spent for softball and soccer facilities at Shawnee Park and land acquisition in the northwest end of town...
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SCHOOL BOARD TOLD TO END BACCALAUREATES
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
A privately sponsored baccalaureate might present an alternative for Cape Girardeau public schools in light of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling banning prayer at graduations. At Monday's Board of Education meeting, school district attorney Joseph Russell told board members that the district shouldn't sponsor baccalaureate in light of last spring's ruling...
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TWO RURAL FIREFIGHTERS HURT IN CRASH; FIRE ENGINE, PICKUP COLLIDE AT INTERSECTION
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
FRUITLAND -- Two rural Cape Girardeau County firefighters were injured early Monday when a fire truck driven by one collided with a pickup truck driven by fellow volunteer. The men were speeding to a fire call when the accident occurred at 6:30 a.m., at intersection of Route C and CC in northeastern Cape Girardeau County...
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PERRYVILLE SEMINAR TO ADDRESS MAKING END-OF-LIFE DECISIONS
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Perry County Memorial Hospital is sponsoring a free seminar Thursday at 6:30 p.m. titled "Making End-of-Life Decisions: Advance Directives." Sister Jean de Blois of the Center for Health Care Ethics in St. Louis will host the events, which will culminate in an open session to address ethical and emotional issues relating to the care of terminally ill patients...
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PORT AUTHORITY DISCUSSES EDA GRANT OF $2 MILLION
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
SCOTT CITY - Commissioners of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority Monday discussed a $2 million Economic Development Administration grant announced by Vice President Dan Quayle during a port visit last month. Fred Surman, chairman of the port's construction committee, told the board that new procedures with EDA grants require that contracts be signed for all projects that will be funded with the grant before money can be received...
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FRIENDS SAY GOVERNOR-ELECT HAS INTEGRITY; CARNAHAN WILL FACE UP TO PROBLEMS, THEY SAY
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
Longtime associates of Mel Carnahan say Missouri's next governor is a man of high ideals and integrity one who will work methodically toward dealing with problems facing the state. Don Dickerson, a Cape Girardeau attorney and law school classmate of Carnahan's, said: "I think he's going to be an outstanding governor. ...
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MISS AMERICA WILL VISIT HERE ON NOV. 17
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
Miss America will visit Cape Girardeau next week. Leanza Cornett, Miss America 1993, will appear at Rust & Martin, 2502 Tanner Drive, from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 17, as a spokesperson for Home Furnishing Council and at a special fund-raiser reception for the Salvation Army Building Fund from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m...
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HOW THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM HAS FAILED US
(Column ~ 11/10/92)
Perhaps the best benediction for the Campaign of 1992 is that it's over. It was too much to expect that we could escape an election-eve flurry of 30-minute commercials by the candidates, and so just hours before Americans went to the polls, we were even denied an evening to ourselves just to review the candidates and contemplate our decisions in the voting booth the next day...
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HAZARDS IN RAILROADING A TWO-WAY PROPOSITION
(Editorial ~ 11/10/92)
Encounters between moving trains and individuals along the rails usually end grimly. Most often, the result is a crushed automobile whose driver sped carelessly into a crossing or a pedestrian whose encroachment on railroad right of way is resolved tragically. ...
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MAN KILLED, TWO OTHERS HURT IN ACCIDENT ON ILLINOIS ROUTE 3
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- A driver was killed Monday afternoon in a crash involving a passenger car and two semi-trucks on Route 3 four miles north of Wolf Lake. Fatally injured was the driver of one of the semis, Robert Miller, 54, of Aledo, Ill. He was taken to Union County Hospital in Anna after the 4:45 p.m. collision...
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CHRISTIAN M. BERKBUEGLER
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Christian M. Berkbuegler, 84, of Perryville, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 1992, at his farm in Longtown. He was born Aug. 22, 1908, in Cape Girardeau County, son of John and Cecilia Renner Berkbuegler. He and Flora Leible were married Nov. 4, 1944...
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ROBERT A. CLYBURN
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Robert A. Clyburn, 95, of Perryville, formerly of Leeper, died Sunday, Nov. 8, 1992. He was born March 17, 1897, in Carter County. He and Clara May Lane were married April 6, 1918. She died Oct. 8, 1986. Clyburn was a farmer, and charter member of Shady Nook Baptist Church. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I...
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ANGELA LAWLESS
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
BENTON -- Funeral service for Angela Mischelle Lawless, Benton Route 1, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Unity Baptist Church. The Rev. Dale Huff will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Amick-Burnett Funeral Home at Benton is in charge of arrangements...
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EDWIN F. LIPPMANN
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Edwin F. Lippmann of East Prairie will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Paul Latham will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery. Lipmann, 89, died Monday, Nov. 9, 1992, at Bertrand Retirement Home...
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JOHN C. BUERKLE
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
Funeral service for John C. Buerkle of Alton, Ill., will be held at 10 a.m. today at College Avenue Presbyterian Church in Alton. Smith Funeral Home in Alton is in charge of arrangements. Buerkle, 79, died Saturday, Nov. 7, 1992, at his home. He was born March 11, 1913, in Cape Girardeau. Buerkle received a bachelor's degree from Southeast Missouri State University, and master's degree from Southern Illinois University. He was a state registered vocational counselor and psychologist...
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ROBERT J. STIEGEMEYER
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
Funeral service for Robert J. Stiegemeyer, 215 Camellia, will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Andrew Lutheran Church. The Rev. Louis Launhardt will officiate, with burial in Memorial Park. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements...
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WILLIAM HARMON
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
William Harmon, 83, 7 North Park, died Monday, Nov. 9, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Morgan Funeral Home in Advance is in charge of arrangements.
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 11/10/92)
Daughter to Michael Woeltje and Cheri Fisher, 225 N. Frederick, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 2:20 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4, 1992. Name, Aeriel Nicole. Weight, 7 pounds 5 ounces. First child. Miss Fisher is the daughter of Linda Fisher of Cape Girardeau. Woeltje is the son of Dennis Woeltje and Wanda Woeltje of Jackson...
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PAULINE HADDER
(Obituary ~ 11/10/92)
SIKESTON -- Funeral service for Ethel Pauline Hadder of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Carroll Gibbons will officiate, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to service time...
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GROUP DISCUSSES TISSUE BANK
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
The Eye Tissue Bank operated through the Lion's Club will be the program topic when the United Ostomy Association meets Wednesday at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Regional Cancer Center. The meeting will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the first floor classroom. The program will be presented by Lion's Club member John Carpenter...
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VETERANS HOME RECEIVES GIFT FROM LEGION AUXILIARIES
(Local News ~ 11/10/92)
Members of area American Legion Ladies Auxiliary Units presented the Cape Girardeau Missouri Veterans' Home with a new bingo machine and a nearly-new Spinet piano. The new bingo machine, with wall-mounted flashboard for the home's dining room, was presented by American Legion Auxiliary Home Representative Barbara Yallaly, who had solicited funds from auxiliary units...
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