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THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA AT SIU
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
CARBONDALE -- The Blind Boys of Alabama featuring Clarence Fountain bring their electrifying gospel music to Shryock Auditorium at 8 p.m. Saturday. Fountain and company's "Deep River" earned a Grammy nomination for Best Gospel Album last year. The Blind Boys of Alabama have been performing for more than 50 years, and are recipients of the NEA's Heritage Fellowship for Lifetime Achievement...
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TONY SPINNER: BACK IN TOWN
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
Tony Spinner was 14 and had just seen the movie "Woodstock" when he uttered the words most parents dread. "When I saw Hendrix, that's what did it," he recalled. "I said, Dad, I need a guitar." Nearly two decades later, the Cape Girardeau native has just released his second album and is the kind of guitar player -- innovative and fast -- who draws a crowd...
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`SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS'; THE ICE SKATING EXTRAVAGANZA OPENS FRIDAY FOR FIVE SHOWS AT THE SHOW ME CENTER
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
Karen Preston, an Olympian and two-time Canadian National Champion, has been wearing ice skates since age 5 but says her proudest accomplishment was learning to take her skates off. Preston plays the title role in "Walt Disney's World on Ice -- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," which opens Friday at the Show Me Center...
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FAIR FEATURES JUMPING MULES
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
ALTENBURG -- For the past 75 years, it's been tradition for Perry County residents to come to the fair. The 76th annual East Perry County Fair begins at 1 p.m. Friday with a parade; it ends at 9:30 p.m. Saturday with attendance prizes. Fair attendance last year was down slightly because of rain, said fair committee president Earl Lorenz. The weather is expected to turn cool this weekend...
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`AMAHL' AUDITIONS SET TUESDAY, NEXT THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
Auditions for "Amahl and the Night Visitors," the Winter Dinner Theatre presentation by the Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Music, will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Tuesday and next Thursday in Academic Hall. People are encouraged to audition for the following parts:...
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MISSOURI INITIATES REFORMS TO WELFARE AHEAD OF CONGRESS
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's Department of Social Services has implemented several welfare reforms even before Congress agrees to a series of welfare reforms, given a major boost by House Speaker Newt Gingrich's Contract with America. Such welfare correctives as mandatory work for certain recipients of Aid to Families with Dependent Children have been in force in state for several months, long enough to prove they will work and accomplish the bipartisan goal of reducing recipients' dependence on monthly government checks.. ...
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PRESERVATION GROUP FIGHTS FED OFFICE SITE
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
Cape Girardeau's Historic Preservation Commission is lending its support to residents of an historic downtown neighborhood fighting a government proposal to locate a new federal building in the area. Meeting Wednesday night at City Hall, the nine-member commission unanimously agreed to send a letter opposing the idea to the regional representative of the General Services Administration. The GSA is the agency responsible for selecting and obtaining property for the U.S. government...
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THREE SURVIVE COPTER CRASH
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
LifeBeat flight nurse Paula Crossman couldn't have hugged any harder. The 46-year-old Troy, Ill., woman felt lucky to be alive. So did the pilot, Robert Campbell, 41, of Cape Girardeau and flight paramedic Robert Helmers, 29, of Chester, Ill. The three were in a Southeast Missouri Hospital LifeBeat helicopter that crashed shortly after 4 a.m. Wednesday in a swampy, wooded area near the Mississippi River in Union County, Ill...
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AREA STUDENTS JOIN HANDS FOR BEFORE-SCHOOL PRAYER
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
SCOTT CITY -- About 80 Scott City students joined hands around the school's flagpole Wednesday morning to pray as part of a nationwide event dubbed "See-you-at-the-pole" day. Despite the drizzle, sixth graders to high school seniors participated in the service, along with some parents and teachers...
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AUTUMN GETS COOL GREETING THIS WEEKEND
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
Autumn arrives Friday, and Old Man Winter may be close on its heels. The National Weather Service is calling for unseasonably lower temperatures and possible early frost in parts of Missouri and Illinois. Autumn officially arrives at 6:13 a.m. Friday as chilly Canadian air that hit northern areas of Missouri and Illinois Wednesday is pushing into the central and southern areas of the two states...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: THE SERENDIPITY OF WHIMPERING IN THE PARK
(Column ~ 09/21/95)
Sept. 21, 1995 Dear C.C. A little bundle of boy arrived at our home on a chilly, wet morning this week. DC was up before sunrise to go to a meeting when she heard whimpering from the park next door. Whimpering's the wrong word. Whatever the sounds were, she could hear them from inside the house...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 09/21/95)
LET ME suggest that the only real reason why Colin Powell is being groomed by the liberal media as a presidential candidate is their need to create another Ross Perot. Remember that Clinton was elected with 43 percent of the popular vote, which he will undoubtedly receive again in 1996. ...
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EMERSON'S ALTERNATIVE FARM BILL REJECTED BY AGRICULTER COMMITTEE
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
An alternative farm bill drafted by U.S. Reps. Bill Emerson, R-Mo. and Larry Combest, R-Texas, failed by two votes Wednesday in the House Agriculture Committee. Emerson, of Cape Girardeau, said in a statement that he was disappointed the bipartisan farm bill, called the Agricultural Competitiveness Act of 1995, failed as the substitute to the Freedom to Farm Act introduced by U.S. Rep. Pat Roberts, R-Kan...
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POLICE, OTHERS OBSERVE FIRSTHAND DANGERS OF REGION'S RAIL CROSSINGS
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
SCOTT CITY -- It took the deaths of three friends to make Jim Johnson realize the need for railroad safety. Almost 20 years ago, Johnson saw three friends die in a train-crossing accident along a rural road in Illinois. And he's been involved in train safety programs ever since...
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W. LEE SEXTON
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Wallace Lee Sexton of Muskogee, Okla., was held Sept. 6 at Fosters Ivory Chapel in Muskogee, with the Rev. Rick Milam officiating. Burial was in Ft. Gibson National Cemetery in Ft. Gibson, Okla. Sexton, 72, died Friday, Sept. 1, 1995, at his home...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 09/21/95)
Daughter to Wayne and Sheila Baylor of Braggadocio, The Med in Memphis, Tenn., 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, 1995. Name, Hannah Grace. Weight, 7 pounds 15 ounces. Second daughter. Mrs. Baylor is the former Sheila Abernathy, daughter of Buck and Judi Abernathy of Jackson. Baylor is employed at Terra Nitregen in Blytheville, Ark. He is the son of Sonny and Shirley Baylor of Jackson...
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BRANDI MASON
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
DEXTER -- Brandi Nicole Mason, two days old, of Dexter, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1995, at St. Louis Children's Hospital. She was born Sept. 17, 1995, in Poplar Bluff, daughter of Terry and Ramona Montgomery Mason. Survivors include her parents; two sisters, Amanda and Kristin Hunsaker of the home; maternal grandparents, Philip and Barbara Montgomery, and maternal great-grandparents, Garfield and Francis Montgomery, all of Dexter...
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THOMAS L. WILLIAMS JR.
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Thomas Lee Williams Jr., 54, of Cairo, died Saturday, Sept. 16, 1995, in Mounds. He was born March 6, 1941, in Cairo, son of Thomas and Dorothy Johnson Williams Sr. He and Eddie Lou Vickers were married in 1962 in Chicago. Williams lived in Chicago 20 years and in Hope, Ark., five years. He returned to Cairo in 1988...
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ZILPHA M. BIRK
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
JACKSON -- Zilpha Mae Birk, 68, of Jackson, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Feb. 15, 1927, in Harrodsburg, Ky., daughter of Voris H. and Lucille B. Tewmey Burnette. She and Lester Birk were married June 23, 1946, in Paducah, Ky. He died April 5, 1995...
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GROVER R. LONG
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
ADVANCE -- Grover Ray Long, 60, of Advance, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1995, in Sonora, Texas. He was born March 2, 1935, in Painton, son of Evans and Georgia Flowers Long. He and Dola Meador were married in May 1956. He later married Mary Wagoner Sept. 3, 1994...
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ELVA A. SMITH
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Elva S. Smith, 88, of Cobden, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1995, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born Sept. 29, 1906, in Alto Pass, daughter of John and Josephine Smith Haley. She married Raymond Chamness, who died Jan. 20, 1934. She later married Herbert R. Smith, who died July 30, 1966...
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MATTIE E. WIGGINS
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Mattie E. Wiggins of Jonesboro will be held at 1 p.m. today at Hileman and Parr Funeral Home in Jonesboro. The Rev. Larry Shacklee will officiate, with burial in Jonesboro Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. to service time...
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WALLACE L. STEPHENS
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
BELL CITY -- Wallace L. Stephens, 71, of Bell City, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1995, at his home. He was born Oct. 20, 1923, in Clinton, Ky., son of Elder and Izora Kelly Stephens. He and Glida Wood were married June 28, 1953. Stephens received a bachelor of science degree from Murray State University in 1950...
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NIQUAVIOUS L. WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
CHARLESTON -- Funeral service for Niquavious L. Williams of Charleston will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday at Sparks Funeral Home, with the Rev. J.L. Posey officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 1 p.m. to service time...
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PHILLIP C. ST.CIN
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
PERKINS -- Phillip C. St.Cin, 58, of Perkins, died Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 24, 1936, at Neelyville, son of Raymond and Loretta Rainey St.Cin. He and Georgia Burns were married April 4, 1958, at Oran...
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EVELYN YOUNG
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
Evelyn Young, 83, 639 Perry, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1995, at Vencor Hospital in St. Louis. Ford and Sons Mt. Auburn Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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MAMIE P. BUHL
(Obituary ~ 09/21/95)
DEXTER -- Mamie Pearl Buhl, 66, of Dexter, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1995, at her home. She was born March 15, 1929, in Leoma, Tenn., daughter of George Albert and Mollie Bertha Thompson Collier. She and Francis C. "Frank" Buhl were married July 10, 1958, in Kennett. He died July 29, 1983...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: EDUCATIONAL FREEDOM IS WORKING
(Column ~ 09/21/95)
As described here on many occasions, the battle for full parental freedom in education continues across America. In the Missouri General Assembly, those of us fighting to extend to parents of poor and middle-income children the same choices wealthy parents have always had -- to send their children to the school of their choice without financial penalty -- have our plow stuck in some hard ground. ...
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`SPEND IT OR LOSE IT' MENTALITY DOOMS STATE AIDS FUND
(Editorial ~ 09/21/95)
In an astonishing example of bureaucratic ineptitude, a state-run AIDS program has spent itself into a $1.5 million to $2 million hole, and Missouri taxpayers might be left with the tab. Missouri's Department of Health received the $2.2 million in federal grant money last April 1 to administer the program for 12 months. By the end of July, -- a scant four months later -- the entire budget was gone...
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THE INTERNET: IT'S BOTH UNLEASHED AND UNSTOPPABLE
(Editorial ~ 09/21/95)
Recent congressional attempts to regulate the Internet are doomed to fail -- not because bills like Sen. James Exon's banning obscene and indecent speech will never be enacted, but because laws that prohibit speech on the Internet will be unenforceable from day one...
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VOLUNTEERS HELP ORGANIZE FOOD PANTRY
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
The Salvation Army's food pantry was in serious need of attention: Cases of canned goods were stacked next to donated shelves the Salvation Army staff didn't know how to assemble. Distributing food to needy families was tough because staff members and volunteers had trouble finding what they needed...
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EMERGENCY CENTERS GET SATELLITE BACKUP
(Local News ~ 09/21/95)
JACKSON -- County emergency operations centers got added insurance Wednesday in communicating during crisis situations. The Missouri Farm Bureau, with its offices linked by satellite, has agreed to let the state use the company's communication system as a backup in emergencies...
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