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SUPPORT ISN'T AUTOMATIC FOR CLINTON IN CONGRESS
(Editorial ~ 11/15/92)
Bill Clinton has climbed one political mountain this year, winning the presidency in a vote of the American people. Next year, he will face another summit that may prove just as formidable: the U.S. Congress. Though he and the majority of congressional members are of the same party, no guarantee exists that the relationship between the executive and legislative branches will be a cozy one. How President Clinton deals with Capitol Hill will certainly provide an early sign of his executive timbre...
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SOME QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON STATE LEGISLATIVE SERVICE
(Column ~ 11/15/92)
Someone once observed that politics is the profession "of the quarter-educated." I do most heartily endorse that observation, and therefore curse this century above all else for its having left all sentient beings with no alternative but to concern themselves with politics...
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BRIAN IS USEFUL, INSTINCT IS VITAL FOR BILL CLINTON
(Column ~ 11/15/92)
His most enthusiastic supporters say Bill Clinton may be another Franklin Roosevelt. We'll see about that. In any event, a battle will now rage for Bill Clinton's mind and soul just as a similar battle raged after FDR was elected 60 years ago. Roosevelt's men had varying and conflicting agendas. ...
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ADOPTION: JUST A DIFFERENT WAY TO HAVE A FAMILY
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
The word "adoption" need not conjure up negative images of unwanted children torn from their biological mothers and placed in the arms of well-meaning, but often naive adoptive parents. In fact, for many people who have gone through the process, adoptive families differ little from any other. If parenting skills are strong and ample love is present in the home, adopted children grow to be well-adjusted, productive adults...
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SCHOOL: ARCHITECT'S PLANS TO BE UNCOVERED
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Architects will present the results of months of planning for two new Cape Girardeau school buildings at meetings Monday. Superintendent Neyland Clark said representatives of the architectural firm, The Christner Partnership of St. Louis, will meet Monday afternoon with staff members...
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USE TAX REVENUES IN ESCROW; SUIT FORCES COUNTY, CITY TO HOLD FUNDS
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
The city of Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, and most other local governments around Missouri have been receiving proceeds from a new use tax the last three months. And while the additional revenue is a welcome sight during tight economic times, many entities are going to wait for a court challenge to be resolved before spending the money...
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PROMOTIONS: SANDERS IS PROMOTED AT DANA CORPORATION
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Richard Sanders has been promoted to shift coordinator at the Dana Corporation facility at Cape Girardeau. Dave Blanchard, plant manager, announced the appointment this week. Sanders has been an employee at Dana since March of 1990. He and wife, Judy, and two daughters, Kerri and Amy, reside in Chaffee...
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UNIVERSITY REGENTS TO MEET ON TUESDAY IN POPLAR BLUFF; SOUTHEAST GOVERNING BOARD HITS THE ROAD FOR FIRST NON-CAMPUS SESSION IN 5 YEARS
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
The Board of Regents of Southeast Missouri State University will meet in Poplar Bluff Tuesday, marking the first such off-campus session in five years. The regents routinely hold their meetings on the Cape Girardeau campus. Art Wallhausen, assistant to the president at Southeast, said the last off-campus regents meeting was held in Poplar Bluff in April 1987. Prior to that, in 1986, a regents meeting was held in St. Louis, Wallhausen said...
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LOCAL AGENCIES HOLD ADOPTION CONFERENCE
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
November is National Adoption Month and local agencies are working together to help families involved with adoption. On Friday and Saturday a conference, "Adoption: Issues and Insights" was held in Cape Girardeau. The event featured a nationally know adoption advocate, Barbara Tremitiere...
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NAACP `SUMMIT' FOCUSES ON THE FAMILY
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Eliminating job discrimination is a key to improving the lives of African-American families, two NAACP officials said Saturday. The officials William Douthit, an attorney for the NAACP in St. Louis, and Ina Boon, regional director of the NAACP in St. Louis discussed the issue at a "Family Summit" at Southeast Missouri State University...
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COLD MISHAP: MAN LOCATED IN WATER IN STABLE CONDITION
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
MARBLE HILL -- A 44-year-old St. Francois County man is in stable condition at a Cape Girardeau hospital after he was found Friday morning nearly frozen to death, sitting chest-deep in Castor River backwater west of Grassy. The Bollinger County Sheriff's Department said a passing motorist found Gary F. Ward of rural Farmington shortly before 11 a.m...
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AUDUBON SOCIETY PLANNING FIELD TRIP
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
The Southeast Missouri Chapter of National Audubon Society will meet Thursday. The meeting will begin at 7 p.m. at Cape Girardeau County Park North Conservation Building. Glen Smart will present the program on "Waterfowl Identification." He was formerly with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...
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LOUIS H. ENDICOTT
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. - Louis H. Endicott, 73, of Edwardsville, Ill., died Friday Nov. 13, 1992 at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Belleville. He was born May 7, 1919 in Cairo, the son of Charlie and Kate Gould Endicott. Mr. Endicott was a driver for Cerro Copper and Brass Co. in East St. Louis. He was of the Baptist faith, a member of the Edwardsville Moose Lodge 1561, and the American Legion Senior Citizens golf leagues...
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LOUISE CRITTENDON
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
CHAFFEE -- Louise Crittendon, 72, of Chaffee died Friday, Nov. 13, 1992, at her home. She was born Sept. 17, 1920 in Bloomfield, daughter of Benjamin Alfred and Elizabeth Laura Hinze Unger. She was a store clerk with Western Auto. Survivors include one sister, Mildred Von Leffern of Chaffee...
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RAY FRANKLIN WILSON
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
JACKSON -- Ray Franklin Wilson, 74, of Jackson died Thursday, Nov. 12, 1992, at his home. He was born Aug. 10, 1918 at Jackson, son of Louis and Cora Henderson Wilson. He married Martha Mason on Aug. 14, 1954. She survives. He was employed as an electrical engineer in Chicago for 36 years, working first for Guarantee Generator and Armature Co. and then for Sundstrom Press Steel Co...
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JAMES LAWRENCE MOORE
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
James Lawrence Moore of Festus, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Nov. 14, 1992, at age 98. He was born Sept. 1, 1894. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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KATHRYN B. LOIDA
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
SCOTT CITY - Kathryn Beatrice Loida, 77, of 404 Lincoln, Scott City, died at her home on Friday, Nov. 13. She was born in Malden on Feb. 12, 1915 to Ernest and Rose Bledsoe McSwain. She married Oliver D. Loida in Fornfelt on Sept. 4, 1937. He preceded her in death on Dec. 12, 1987...
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ALICE R. GARRETT
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
PATTON - Alice R. Garrett, 37, of Patton, Rt. 1, died Friday, Nov. 13, at her home. She was born May 8, 1955, at Flint, Mich., to Sterling and Bonnie Starkey Stanfill of Bloomfield, who survive. She married Tom Garrett on April 23, 1976 at Bell City. ...
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PAUL N. BENNETT
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
BLOOMFIELD -- Funeral service for Paul N. Bennett will be held at 2 p.m. today at Chiles-Cooper Funeral Chapel. The Rev. David Richardson will officiate, with burial in Walker Cemetery near here. Bennett, 90, died Thursday, Nov. 12, 1992, at Vintage Villa Nursing Center at Dexter...
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DONALD R. FODGE
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
SIKESTON -- Memorial service for Donald Raymond Fodge of Sikeston will be held at 2 p.m. today at Nunnelee Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Lee Fansler will officiate. Friends may call at the funeral home after 1 p.m. today. Fodge, 65, died Thursday, Nov. 12, 1992, at Sikeston Convalescent Center...
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JOSEPH E. CISSELL
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Funeral service for Joseph Elwood Cissell of Perryville will be held at 2 p.m. today at Young and Sons Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Edward Wilson will officiate, with burial in Immanuel Lutheran Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 6:30 a.m. to service time...
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MELVA M. WALTERS
(Obituary ~ 11/15/92)
Melva M. Walters, 75, 2533 Albert Rasche, died Thursday, Nov. 12, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Aug. 2, 1917, in St. Louis, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Becherer. She married Lt. Col. Dolf Wayne Walters Aug. 29, 1942, in Austin, Texas. He died Jan. 31, 1989...
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AREA BIRTHS
(Births ~ 11/15/92)
Daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Micheal W. Locke, 1504 Whitener, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 11:26 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7, 1992. Name, Morgan Elizabeth. Weight, 5 pounds 7 ounces. Second child, first daughter. Mrs. Locke is the former Debra Prince, daughter of Vicky Prince of Cape Girardeau and Gary Prince of Paragould, Ark. Locke is a boilermaker, and is the son of Marion and Edith Hale of Cape Girardeau, and Roy and Ruth Locke of Burfordville...
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SPEAKER: CONCERN ABOUT RIVER ISN'T NEW
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Environmental concern for the Mississippi River is not a recent phenomenon, according to a government scientist who studies the waterway. Claude Strauser of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers gave the first in a year-long series of Cape Girardeau bicentennial lectures Friday night at Southeast Missouri State University...
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COPELAND RECEIVES ENTERPRISE AWARD FROM STATE CHAMBER
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
State Rep. Gene Copeland of New Madrid was one of four state lawmakers honored by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce recently with its "Spirit of Enterprise Award." Copeland, the senior member of the Missouri House who was first elected in 1960, is chairman of the House Democratic Caucus and the longtime chairman of the committee on banks and financial institutions...
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ALZHEIMER'S FAMILIES FORM SUPPORT GROUP
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
A support group for family members and friends of Alzheimer's Disease patients has started at the Cape Girardeau Nursing Center. The group has been organized through the St. Louis Chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. The Cape Girardeau Nursing Center Support Group has access to information and literature on Alzheimer's Disease and other similar illnesses, ranging from updates on research to everyday suggestions on how families can cope...
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COLLECTION SPARKS INTEREST IN PLUGS
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Wayne McPherson plugs along with a hobby that has sparked his interest for nearly a decade. He collects spark plugs. An assistant professor of math at Southeast Missouri State University, McPherson estimates he has about 4,000 spark plugs. He's listed about 3,000 of them on his computer. "It's hard to keep up," he acknowledged...
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IS HUNTING FOR LOST THINGS FACTORED INTO GNP?
(Column ~ 11/15/92)
"What's the use of saving things if you're going to forget where you put them?" I muttered to myself after spending a half hour looking for a half yard of material I've been saving for weeks to make yet another fabric-covered cardboard box model house for a Christmas gift...
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IT'S TIME TO PREPARE GARDEN FOR WINTER
(Column ~ 11/15/92)
Blustery winds have snatched the last of the gaily colored leaves from drowsy trees, and cold has strengthened its grip on fainting summer. This is the proper time to check the garden to make sure the plants are being prepare for the rigors of winter. One must give them some TLC to assure their withstanding the coming months...
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REGIONAL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CONTINUES STRONG
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Business development continues at a brisk pace in Southeast Missouri. A total of 18 new businesses situated in Cape Girardeau County during the third quarter of 1992. That was the situation in just one of the seven counties served by the Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission headquartered at Perryville...
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CORNETT PRESENTS SEMINAR; MISS AMERICA AT RUST & MARTIN
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Leanza Cornett wants to complete a degree in communications, pursue a theater career, and be a volunteer for social causes. The degree may have to wait an extra year while the Jacksonville, Fla., native fulfills her duties as Miss America 1993. During her reign as Miss America, Cornett is making personal appearances at home-furnishings stores and industry events. One of those appearances will be in Cape Girardeau next week...
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DELTA AIRLINES PILOT WILL SPEAK TO THE CHRISTIAN BUSINESSMEN
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
William F. "Fritz" Klumpp, a captain with Delta Airlines, will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau Christian Business Men's Luncheon Friday in the lobby meeting rooms of the Show Me Center. The event begins at noon. Cost is $6 per person, and seating is limited. Reservations are available by calling Dr. Bill Terry at 334-4635, Don Rasche at 335-6962, or Jack Mehner at 334-9113 before Wednesday...
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REAL ESTATE UPDATE
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Several brokers and sales associates from Century 21 Ashland Realty, 105 South Broadview, recently attended the Century 21 Super Rally in Columbia. Attending were Herb and Thelma Annis, Patti Morrow, Dale Wolfenkoehler, Richard Ryan, Bud and Barbara Leming, Doris Jean Arnold, Karla Marquart, Lorilee Short, Jim Below II, Angie Colyer, Scott Welker, Virginia Boren and Brian Turner...
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FUTURE BUSINESS LEADERS HOST BLOOD DRIVE NOV. 23
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
CHAFFEE - The American Red Cross and Chaffee High School Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) will host a blood drive on Monday, Nov. 23. It will be held from 2 to 6 p.m. in the gym lobby, 109 N. 5th Street. "During the summer months, our blood supplies are used very rapidly. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO
(Business ~ 11/15/92)
KRCU Radio will hold an open house Thursday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. to observe the anniversary of its affiliation with National Public Radio. Tours of the newly-renovated studios at 338 N. Henderson will be conducted. --- The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in three areas this month...
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SCHNUCKS BEGINS ANNUAL `SANTA DOLLAR' CAMPAIGN
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
"Santa Dollars" are again available at Schnucks. The Christmas holiday program, now in its third year by Schnuck Markets Inc., provides a stocking-stuffer gift and funds for the local Salvation Army. Santa Dollars are crisp, brand-new, one-dollar bills with Santa's jovial face placed over the face of George Washington. The bills are legal tender (approved by the U.S. Treasury Department) and may be spent or saved like any other dollar...
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TRAINING/SEMINARS
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Nancy Mattingly, cancer program coordinator at Southeast Missouri Hospital's Regional Cancer Center, and Dr. Paul Thompson, medical adviser for the Cape Girardeau unit of American Cancer Society, were among those recognized at the 46th Missouri Division American Cancer Society annual meeting held recently at Jefferson City...
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STUDENTS EXAMINE ECONOMICS
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Nine Southeast Missouri State University economics majors got an in-depth look at roles of economists. The students participated in an "Economist's Workshop" Oct. 21 in St. Louis that took them from the Federal Reserve Bank to a discussion session with economists at Southwestern Bell...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
JACKSON -- Warranty deeds issued at the office of Janet Robert, Cape Girardeau County recorder of deeds: Robert Cressey et al. to Wilburn B. and Patricia A. Beal; Delores Ford Hampton et al. to Wilburn B. and Patricia A. Beal; Karen Sue and Dennis Kubla to Wilburn B. and Patricia A. Beal...
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NEW EMPLOYEES
(Local News ~ 11/15/92)
Michelle Elkins has joined Perry Travel Center, 225 S. Plaza Way, as a travel consultant. Elkins, who has traveled extensively throughout the world, recently completed a comprehensive travel and tourism program at Carlson Travel Academy in St. Louis...
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