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ETHICS COMMISSION GOES TOO FAR
(Editorial ~ 01/18/97)
Cape Girardeau is seeking a few good men and women to serve on its new ethics commission. But stringent disclosure requirements for members may deter many quality applicants. Members must file a financial interest statement every year. The thought is that the city wants to ensure that members do not have financial interests in any of the matters they may be investigating...
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DIRECT ACCESS TO NASH ROAD WOULD SERVE SCOTT CITY WELL
(Editorial ~ 01/18/97)
It is no secret that highway access to Scott City is limited and inadequate. Most people enter and exit this city of 4,300 from the Route AB interchange with Interstate 55. The Missouri Department of Transportation is planning an information-gathering hearing on Thursday to seek input on an alternate route between Scott City and Cape Girardeau. People now travel between the two cities by way of Interstate 55...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 01/18/97)
Two years ago Newt Gingrich led Republicans in a Contract With America. This year Republicans almost let a contract on Newt. When each General Assembly convenes in Jefferson City, someone calls for a historic session. Most Missourians would be satisfied with a less hysterical one...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/18/97)
ABOUT THIS woman who charged the Dallas Cowboys players with sexual harassment. Now that they found out it wasn't true, I think she should be charged and sent to prison for 10 to 20 years with about a $100,000 fine. This would stop this old sexual harassment stuff when it isn't true. That would send a message: If you file a charge, you'd better be able to prove it...
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SLIP SLIDING AWAY: ICE BRINGS ABOUT INJURIES FROM FALLS
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
St. Francis Medical Center groundsworker David Coleman threw ice melter on ice near the hospital sidewalks. This is bad weather for getting outside. With sidewalks, streets, driveways and parking lots turning into skating rinks overnight, Pat Pennington, nurse manager for Southeast Missouri Hospital's emergency services, said 50 percent of the patients brought in to the hospital the past three days are there because they slipped and fell...
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FIRE DESTROYS RESIDENCE OF CAPE FAMILY
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
Fire destroyed a Cape Girardeau house Friday, leaving a family of three without a place to live. Firefighters and police responded to a call of a fire started by a furnace at about 1:30 p.m. at 418 S. Hanover. Nearly 20 firefighters battled the blaze for over an hour...
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LONG-AWAITED WARMUP FORECAST FOR AREA; AFTER COLD SPELL, 50 DEGREES OFFERS WELCOME RELIEF
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
Forecasters finally are calling for the cold spell to snap. In fact, the area should see temperatures reaching near the 50-degree mark by early next week, the National Weather Service said. "It certainly is good news," said Mary Lamm, a weather service forecaster at Paducah. "With all the melting snow and ice, it's going to be soggy, but that's worth it."...
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PAY INCREASES FOR LAWMAKERS, JUDGES HINGE ON SENATE
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
The Missouri Senate could put the nail in the coffin Monday on proposed pay hikes for state lawmakers and judges. Senators will reject the pay plan, state Sen. Danny Staples, D-Eminence, predicted Friday. Staples estimated that at least 23 of Missouri's 34 senators will vote to reject the plan when it comes to the Senate floor Monday. It takes only 18 votes to kill it...
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HIBERNATING UNDER A BLANKET OF ICE; RIVER HAS FROZEN OVER ON OCCASION
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
Quick now: What is the coldest recorded temperature in Cape Girardeau County? How about 27 degrees below zero at Jackson in 1899? That same year a 25-below reading was recorded in Cape Girardeau. These readings were well before the event of wind chill factors, which could have made it feel like 50 below zero with a 12 to 15 mph wind...
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BUCKING THE SYSTEM: BIG-FOOT COUNTRY GIRL CALLS CAPE GIRARDEAU HOME
(Column ~ 01/18/97)
Being a big-foot homegirl -- even in someone else's town -- is familiar territory. I am not a native of Cape Girardeau, nor do I claim to be. As a matter of fact, I didn't even claim Cape Girardeau as my permanent residence until last summer. That's when Patrick, my husband, made me face the fact that we live here, and that's it...
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FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN JACKSON: FAITH LETS BELIEVERS SEE THE BLORIES OF GOD
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
Dr. Bill D. Ellis is a native of Hugo, Okla., and a graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has pastored churches in Oklahoma and two churches in Missouri -- First Baptist in Chaffee and Lynwood Baptist in Cape Girardeau. He has been associate pastor at Jackson for six years...
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WELFARE-REFORM CONFERENCE SET
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
Welfare reform will be the focus of a free, interactive video conference with lawmakers and organizational heads next week. The conference will broadcast from Jefferson City from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Thursday. Eleven sites, including one at the Cape Girardeau County Extension Center in Jackson, are to participate...
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REAL ESTATE TOPIC OF WORKSHOP
(Local News ~ 01/18/97)
A two-hour real estate workshop presented by Fortune 21 Inc. will be held at the Holiday Inn Monday with sessions at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. Topics include how to start a part-time real estate business and how to obtain funds to operate the business. James S. Byrd, owner of Fortune 21 Inc., a small-business development company, will conduct the workshop...
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INDIANS TRY TO FORTIFY TOP SPOT; SOUTHEAST VISITS MTSU TODAY
(College Sports ~ 01/18/97)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Middle Tennessee State University coach Randy Wiel pretty much summed up the way this Ohio Valley Conference basketball season is going so far. "Our league is so balanced. You can lose one game and go from first to sixth," he said. "But that's good for the league. Some leagues are strong at the top and very weak at the bottom. This league isn't that way."...
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TIGERS HOST 2ND ANNUAL SHOOTOUT
(High School Sports ~ 01/18/97)
Cape Central will host its second annual Tiger Shoutout today with four games on the slate. Cape Central's girls will host Carbondale at 1 p.m. Notre Dame's boys and Carbondale will follow at 2:30. Jackson's boys and DeSmet will tangle at 4 p.m. Cape Central's boys and St. Louis University will cap the day of basketball at 5:30...
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TIGERS' BIG SECOND HALF GROUNDS EAGLES 63-47
(High School Sports ~ 01/18/97)
Cape Central used a relentless second-half onslaught to avenge an early season loss to New Madrid County Central Friday, defeating the Eagles 63-47. Cape Central (11-3) trailed 31-24 at halftime, but outscored New Madrid 39-16 over the final 16 minutes...
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RAMS GUN DOWN 'DOGS BEFORE OVERFLOW GYM
(High School Sports ~ 01/18/97)
As a group of young fans approached the entrance to Notre Dame High School's gymnasium, a Notre Dame official was ready at the door to tell them the gym was full. "But it's the game of the year," the young fans pleaded. Those students didn't get into Friday night's game between Notre Dame and Scott City, and they missed what will go down as one of the top individual performances Southeast Missouri will see this season...
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OTAHKIANS HIT TOUGH STRETCH
(College Sports ~ 01/18/97)
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball coach Ed Arnzen probably doesn't know what will bother his team the most -- fatigue or two extremely talented opponents this weekend. The road-weary Otahkians will take on two of the better squads in the Ohio Valley Conference when they play Middle Tennessee State at 4:30 p.m. today and Tennessee Tech at 5:45 p.m. Monday...
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HAWKS END HIBERNATION, POST VICTORY OVER ORAN
(High School Sports ~ 01/18/97)
BENTON -- Jim Hulshof netted a game-high 18 points to lead Kelly past Oran 71-52 Friday night. Ben Klipfel came off the bench to add 11 points for the Hawks, who improved to 8-6. Kelly took a 16-9 lead into the second quarter and extended the margin to 33-19 by halftime...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 01/18/97)
Son to Diane Marie Perdue, Benton Route 1, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 12:49 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 11, 1997. Name, Seth Tyler. Weight, 6 pounds 3 ounces. Second child, first son. Mrs. Perdue is the former Diane Elfrink, daughter of Norbert and Irene Elfrink of Benton. Paternal grandparents are the late Jean Swinson and Catus Perdue...
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TALITHA HOEHN
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Talitha D. Hoehn, 83, of Perryville died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 24, 1913, in Perry County, daughter of Arthur C. and Clara Wirth Lintner. She and Friedmund Hoehn were married July 20, 1930. He died Nov. 23, 1987...
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LOUISE BETTS
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
CHARLESTON -- Louise Betts, 88, of Charleston died Thursday, Jan. 16. 1997, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Nov. 24, 1908, in Macon, Miss., to Grover and Emma Thomas. On April 14, 1925, she married Elijah Betts, who died March 26, 1972...
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WILLIAM KENT HAHS
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
JACKSON -- William Kent Hahs, 61, of Sedgewickville, died Friday, Jan. 17, 1997, at his home. Arrangements are incomplete and will be announced later by McCombs Funeral Home at Jackson.
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LLOYD ALVIN JONES
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
Lloyd Alvin Jones, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Dec. 16, 1916, in Stillings, son of John Rufus and Hazel Irene Orendorff Jones. He first married Myrtle McGinnis Oct. 24, 1936, in Liberty. She died June 20, 1988...
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JOSEPH MILLER
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
Joseph Miller, 75, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are pending under the direction of McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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BOBBY HEURING
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
DANVILLE, Ill. -- Bobby "Gene" Heuring, 66, of Danville, Ill., died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at his home. He was born Nov. 30, 1930, in Danville to Garland Earl and Nettie Alexander Heuring. He married Patty Young on Jan. 14, 1951, in Danville. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the U.S. Army...
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CARMELITA NEW
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
SIKESTON -- Carmelita New, 85, of Boomer, W.Va., died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1997, at Montgomery General Hospital in Montgomery, W.Va. She was born Jan. 30, 1911, near East Prairie, daughter of James Monroe and Nuner Lea Benton Jones. She married Jack New in 1954. He died in 1971...
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MARGUERITE ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Marguerite Hockersmith Allen, 88, of East Prairie died Friday, Jan. 17, 1997, at East Prairie Nursing Center. She was born May 18, 1908, at Dorena, daughter of Burris and Katherine Kelly Doss. She and Roy Hockersmith were married Jan. 2, 1926. He died Aug. 23, 1968. She then married Raymond Allen Nov. 18, 1970. He died May 4, 1988...
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VIOLET DRAPER
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Violet Draper, 73, of Elgin died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at the home of a son in Elgin. She was born Sept. 25, 1923, at Mill Creek, daughter of E.L. and Vina Reedy Burnett. She and John Draper were married April 14, 1942, in East St. Louis...
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LAWRENCE ROBINETT
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
DEXTER -- Lawrence A. Robinett, 72, of Dexter died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at his home. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Dexter is in charge of arrangements.
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FRANCIS POWELL
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
DEXTER -- Francis Powell, 85, of Dexter died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. Watkins and Sons Funeral Home at Dexter is in charge of arrangements.
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ALVIN MYERS JR.
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
SIKESTON -- Alvin Myers Jr., 66, Sikeston Route 1, died Friday, Jan. 17, 1997, at his home. He was born June 2, 1930, at Blodgett, son of Alvin and Lillie Roundtree Myers Sr. He and Ann Learue were married May 23, 1957, in Tupelo, Miss. Myers owned Sikeston Termite Pest Control. He served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War...
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CLYDE LANGE
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
EGYPT MILLS -- Clyde L. Lange, 77, of Stockton, Calif., died Friday, Jan. 17, 1997, in Stockton. He was born Jan. 5, 1920, at Egypt Mills, son of Charles and Francis Holmes Lange. He and Marion Retzoff were married in 1940. Lange attended Trinity Lutheran Church at Egypt Mills, and was a veteran of World War II...
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FLOYD HAAS
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- Memorial service for Floyd K. Haas of Anna will be held at 11 a.m. Feb. 1 at Crain Funeral Home in Anna. Entombment will be later at Pleasant Grove Memorial Park Mausoleum in Murphysboro. Haas, 82, died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale...
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WILDA ASH
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Wilda Ash, 98, of Phoenix, Ariz., died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, in Phoenix. She was formerly of Dongola. Crain Funeral Home in Dongola is in charge of arrangements.
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THOMAS LAURENTIUS
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
ST. MARYS -- Thomas W. Laurentius, 71, of St. Marys died Thursday, Jan. 16, 1997, at John Cochran VA Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born Nov. 29, 1925, at Biehle, son of Stephen and Theresa Lee Laurentius. Laurentius was a carpenter with Sides Construction Co. in Cape Girardeau. He was a member of St. Maurus Catholic Church at Biehle, and VFW Post 4282 in Perryville. He served in the U.S. Marines during World War II, and was a prisoner of war for a year...
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MARY STATEN
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
OLMSTED, Ill. -- Mary Helen Staten, 77, of Olmsted died Friday, Jan. 17, 1997, at Shawnee Christian Nursing Home in Herrin. She was born May 11, 1919, in New Columbia, daughter of Julius and Nora Simmons Holmes. She married Alvin T. "Abby" Staten, who died Nov. 28, 1994...
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HELEN DILLOW
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- Helen Faye Dillow, 65, of Mesa, Ariz., died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1997, at Chandler Regional Hospital in Chandler, Ariz. She was born Sept. 27, 1931, in Alto Pass, daughter of Charley and Lucy Fite Massey. She and Glenn S. Dillow were married Sept. 27, 1975, in Carbondale. He died June 11, 1991...
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AMY JO SCHWETTMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/18/97)
DENVER -- Amy Jo Schwettman, 31, of Denver and formerly of Jackson, died Wednesday, Jan. 15, 1997, in Denver of acute pneumonia. She was born Feb. 3, 1965, in Cape Girardeau to Jerry L. Schwettman and Judith A. Schuch. She was a 1983 graduate of Jackson High School...
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