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DR. KINDER WILL BE GUEST ON ASK DOCTOR THURSDAY
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
Dr. Jerry L. Kinder will discuss vascular insufficiency to lower extremities on this week's Ask Your Doctor program. The show airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on cable channel 13. Ask Your Doctor features local doctors answering questions from viewers who call in...
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TWO CAPE STUDENTS NAMED TO DEAN'S LIST
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
Two students from Cape Girardeau have been named to the Dean's List at Hope College in Holland, Mich. for the fall semester. Included on the list are Brandice J. Russell, a freshman, and Shawna R. Gilmore, a senior. To be named to the Dean's List, a student must have a minimum 3.5 grade point average...
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DELTA SENIOR EARNS DAR `GOOD CITIZEN' AWARD
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
DELTA -- Melissa Rietzel, a senior at Delta High School, was chosen to receive the Daughters of the American Revolution "Good Citizen" award. Each year the Nancy Hunter Chapter of the DAR, located in Cape Girardeau, recognizes outstanding area high school students with this award...
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DELTA STUDENT IS CHOSEN HUGH O'BRIAN DELEGATE
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
DELTA -- Amy Quade, a sophomore at Delta High School, has been selected as this year's delegate to the Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation leadership seminar. The seminar will be held in St. Louis is the spring. The Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation, also known as HOBY, has conducted annual, expense paid seminars since 1958...
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CAPE STUDENT EARNS SPOT ON SOUTHWEST DEAN'S LIST
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
Steven W. Logel, of Cape Girardeau, has been named to the dean's list at Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield. He has completed the first semester of his freshman year and is majoring in physical therapy. Logel is a 1991 graduate of Central High School, where he lettered in golf and football and was active in band and orchestra...
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HEALTH SCREENINGS SET IN CHAFFEE AND SCOTT CITY
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
CHAFFEE -- The Tri-County Health Related Services will conduct health screenings in Chaffee and Scott City this week. The Chaffee screening will be held today at the Nutrition Center from 10 a.m. to noon. The screening in Scott City will be held Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon at the Nutrition Center...
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ELEVEN CANDIDATES, INCLUDING SIX INCUMBENTS, FILE IN SCOTT COUNTY
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
BENTON -- Eleven people, including six incumbents, filed for office in Scott County Tuesday, the first day candidates could file for the 1992 election. The filings have already set up a number of contests for the August primary election. In heavily Democratic Scott County, Republican candidates are rare at the county level and most contests are decided in the primary rather than the general election...
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CITY OFFERS NEW REHAB PROGRAM; FUNDS EARMARKED FOR RENTAL UNITS
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
In the midst of a housing rehabilitation program in south Cape Girardeau, city officials are preparing to embark on a similar program aimed at rental properties. Steve Williams, Cape Girardeau housing assistance coordinator, said Tuesday that a public meeting will be held next week to introduce the East Cape Rental Rehabilitation program...
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SNOW: STORM HITS AREA; MORE IS FORECAST
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
At least 2 inches of snow blanketed parts of Southeast Missouri late Monday and early Tuesday, forcing cancellation of schools and causing problems for motorists. Cape Girardeau police reported at least 20 minor accidents in the city, mostly involving vehicles running off roads or sliding into street signs. No injuries were reported...
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TOWERS: DORMITORY IN SERVICE SINCE 1967
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
For 25 years, the Towers dormitory complex has cast a tall shadow over the Southeast Missouri State University campus. Like Academic Hall, it is a university landmark. Paul Carr, director of residence life, said the Towers complex is "a visible symbol of the university."...
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BUY LOCAL DRIVE SET AT SCOTT CITY
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
SCOTT CITY -- Students at Scott City High School hope to encourage city residents to buy locally and keep tax dollars at home. A Buy Local campaign is being developed by the high school's Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) in conjunction with the Scott City Chamber of Commerce...
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EIGHT CANDIDATES FILE FOR COUNTY OFFICES
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
JACKSON -- Harold G. Cobb wants his old part-time job back. He filed Tuesday for coroner in Cape Girardeau County. "There was never a doubt that I would file," said Cobb, a Democrat who lost to John Carpenter during the 1988 election. "I knew the day that I lost the coroner's position three years ago that I would be on the 1992 ballot."...
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PEOPLE PROFILE
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
ROGER W. LANG Occupation: Jeweler. Home town: Cape Girardeau. What do you do in your spare time? "Fishing and working with my horse." Describe your oddest experience? "Finding Fugitive in the barn last January." What do you like best about this area? "It's close to areas where I can go fishing or horse back riding."...
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ACCIDENT CLAIMS WOMAN'S LIFE
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
CHARLESTON -- A Tennessee woman was killed Tuesday when the car she was driving struck a tractor-trailer along Highway 60 east of Charleston. The Missouri Highway Patrol said the woman, Grace O. Miller, 80, of Clarksville, was killed after the car crossed the center line and struck the tractor-trailer driven by Kenneth R. Jamvold, 50, of East Horton, Kan...
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JACKSON MEN COME TO AID OF ACCIDENT VICTIMS
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
PATTON - Two Jackson men took on heroic proportions Tuesday when they administered first aid to and helped calm three accident victims after being the first to come upon a head-on collision in Bollinger County. One victim is a Cape Girardeau man, John Miller, 30; the other victims, Eddie Stacy, 45, and Mary Perryman, 75, are both of Fredericktown...
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WILHELMINA T. STATLER
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
PERRYVILLE -- Wilhelmina T. Statler, 97, of Perryville, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1991 at the American Care Center in Perryville. She was born May 7, 1894 in Perry County to Jefferson and Wilhelmina Bangert Statler. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Friedheim...
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GARDEN SEMINAR ON TAP FEB. 29 AT VO-TECH
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
A garden seminar, sponsored by the Jackson Men's Garden Club, can give gardeners in the Cape Girardeau area a head start on the 1992 growing season. Club officials have announced that a one-day seminar will be held Feb. 29, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School. The date of this event had been incorrectly reported in Sunday's edition...
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CARRIE E. WESTERN
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
BERTRAND -- Carrie Ester Western, 85, Bertrand Route 1, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1992, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Feb. 13, 1906, in Henderson County, Tennessee, daughter of P.L. and Cora Creasy Carlyle. She married Jim Davidson Western Sept. 25, 1924...
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THELBART T. CURRY
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
MOREHOUSE -- Thelbart T. Curry, 48, of Morehouse, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1992 at St. Louis University Hospital. He was born April 2, 1943 in Dexter, son of Leora Mace Curry, who survives of Morehouse, and the late Delbart Curry. He married Doris Hurley on Nov. 3, 1962. She also survives...
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THOMAS H. ABERNATHY
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
Thomas H. Abernathy, 72, 1515 N. Henderson, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1991, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. He was born July 6, 1919, at Cape Girardeau Route 1, son of Robert and Lela Singleton Abernathy. He married Mamie Kraemer on July 17, 1947, at Blytheville, Ark...
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MANDY AND LAINEY ROBERT
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
SCOTT CITY -- Mandy and Lainey Robert, twin daughters of Doug and Lorie Morrill Robert of Scott City, died shortly after birth Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Survivors include their parents; paternal grandparents, Hugo and Karen Robert of Scott City; maternal grandmother and stepgrandfather, Teresa and Don Sanders of Scott City; maternal great-grandmother, Marian Stubbs of Hazelwood, and maternal great-great-grandmother, Mettie Midget of Florissant...
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VIOLA L. WALTER
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
Viola L. Walter, 79, 226 S. Middle, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Feb. 24, 1912, at Kelso, daughter of Leo and Louisa Ziegler Diebold. She married George W. Walter Sept. 26, 1933, at Kelso. He preceded her in death...
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CLARA PENROD
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Clara Penrod, 78, of Dongola, died Monday, Jan. 13, 1992, at Union County Hospital in Anna. She was born June 6, 1913, at Naylor, daughter of Lewis and Susan Sheppard Perrin. She married Ashley Clay Penrod Jan. 14, 1931. He died Feb. 19, 1978...
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RUTH M. SPENCER
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Ruth M. Spencer, 84, died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1992, at the Meredian Manor in Mounds. She was born Nov. 12, 1907, in St. Louis, the daughter of Charles Boyd and Anna Patterson Boyd. She was a past record of the Royal Neighbors and member of the Cairo Business and Professional Women's group. She was a retired accountant...
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AUGUSTA "LADY" PEETZ
(Obituary ~ 01/15/92)
SCOTT CITY -- Augusta Ann "Lady" Peetz, 83, of Scott City, died Tuesday, Jan. 14, 1992, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born June 30, 1908, in Ancell, daughter of William Walter and Amelia Sander Walter. She married Otto Henry Peetz on Feb. 15, 1930 at Illmo. He preceded her in death on Aug. 17, 1973...
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MAN HURT IN ELEVATOR FLASH FIRE
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
An employee of Dover Elevator Co. of St. Louis was injured in a elevator shaft flash fire in the Scully Building on the Southeast Missouri State University campus Tuesday afternoon. Authorities said Don Reynolds, age unknown, was injured when the welding torch he was using apparently ignited cleaning fluid fumes in the shaft...
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JACKSON SCHOOL BOARD EYES `SURVIVAL' TAX HIKE
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
JACKSON -- The Jackson School District Board of Education Jan. 28 will consider a "minimal, survival," 35-cent increase in the district's operating levy. If approved, the issue would go on the April ballot. If voters approve the issue, the levy would increase to $3.19 per $100 of assessed valuation...
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WHO'S RESPONSIBLE FOR U.S. TRADE DEFICIT?
(Column ~ 01/15/92)
Two Missouri legislators, one a Republican state senator from Creve Coeur and the other a Democratic state representative from Mexico, Mo., recently provided considerable insight into the American-Japanese trade problem that seems to have been around for at least a decade. ...
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NEWTON'S LAW: SOME GULL: DON'T FIRE 'TIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THEIR EYES
(Column ~ 01/15/92)
What do sea gulls and Palestinians have in common? For both, the place they consider their homeland is a dangerous place. Palestinians, of course, are humans who claim a religious endowment in the form of property. They are ardent in their beliefs. They've also been known to return fire...
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MARTIN LUTHER KING TRIBUTES ARE MEANINGFUL
(Editorial ~ 01/15/92)
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live," Martin Luther King Jr. once observed. King practiced what he preached, pushing for civil rights in an era of discrimination marked by a society that all too often was segregated from bathrooms to buses...
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GROUPS, FIRMS WILL BE HONORED FOR SEAT BELT USE
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
State and federal officials will today recognize 14 Cape Girardeau organizations, businesses, departments and a school for making the state and national "70 percent+Honor Roll" for safety belt use. The event is scheduled for noon at the Cape Girardeau Holiday Inn. ...
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TEACHER'S CORNER: MARGE KING ENJOYS TEACHING FIFTH, SIXTH GRADES AT ST. DENIS
(Local News ~ 01/15/92)
The rewards of a teacher are many. Just ask Marge King who teaches at St. Denis School in Benton. "Seeing a child's eyes light up," King said, "when he or she finally comprehends a difficult task, or having a child say `thank you' as a token of appreciation," are a few of the rewards...
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IN REGION'S EARLY DAYS, MINING ATTRACTED MANY SETTLERS HERE
(Column ~ 01/15/92)
One of the individuals who contributed in an outstanding manner to the distinction of the Cape Girardeau-Jackson area was Col. William H. Ashley. His story adds to the bicentennial in an important way. Ashley arrived in Cape Girardeau soon after the Louisiana Territory became part of the United States, and lived in Cape Girardeau when the town was being formed. ...
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