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CAPE COUNTY PREPARES ANNUAL BUDGET PROCESS
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
JACKSON - With the current year winding down, members of the Cape Girardeau County Commission are looking ahead to 1993 and a new budget. The commission is required to have its budget finished by Jan. 31, however, in recent years the document has been completed in late December or early January...
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ABORTION DEBATE RECALLED; ARGUMENTS LINGER 10 YEAR AFTER FIGHT
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
Ten years ago this month the Cape Girardeau City Council rescinded a month-old ordinance aimed at regulating a local abortion clinic, ending a 12-month clash over the issue. The vote in November 1982 came after the operator of the clinic, Dr. Bolivar Escobedo, threatened to sue the city over the ordinance. The memories of the events remain vivid in the minds of council members and others at the vanguard of the debate...
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HIGHER EDUCATION UNDER NEW LEADERS: SOUTHEAST OFFICIALS VIEW THE FUTURE
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
Two top officials at Southeast Missouri State University are voicing cautious optimism about the future of higher education under new federal and state administrations. Southeast's president, Kala Stroup, and vice president of finance and administration, Ken Dobbins, voiced their views in separate interviews with the Southeast Missourian...
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COUNCIL TO VIEW TOURISM FUND PROPOSALS; SEMINARY RECOMMENDATION, `RECREATION THEME' PROJECT WILL BE DISCUSSED AT MEETING
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
Discussion of two proposals for use of excess city tourism funds will top the agenda for tonight's Cape Girardeau City Council meeting. Representatives of the Colonial Cape Girardeau Foundation and a "recreation theme" project will each have about 15 minutes to present their respective proposals to the city council...
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WOMAN, 88, SAVED FROM FIRE; ATHLETE HELPS CARRY WOMAN FROM BUILDING
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
An 88-year-old woman was carried from her burning house by two passersby Sunday night, an action Acting Fire Chief Max Jauch said may have saved her life. Ruby Stone, who lived downstairs in the frame house at 107 N. Park St., was treated and released at St. Francis Medical Center Sunday night...
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PEOPLE
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
The Southeast Missourian asked people for their thoughts about early Christmas shopping. John Tucker: "It seems that people are starting a lot earlier this year than the years before, but I don't see that it hurts anything. I like to get mine done early. A lot of people are out browsing now."...
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PRO-LIFE LEADER WANTS NEW CITY ORDINANCE
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
The chairman of the southeast region of Missouri Right to Life, Margie Eftink, said Sunday the time is right for Cape Girardeau to renew a decade-old attempt to regulate abortion in the city. Eftink, who lives in Marble Hill, was involved 10 years ago with efforts by a Cape Girardeau pro-life organization to regulate a local clinic that provided abortion services...
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HUNGRY GIVE THANKS FOR FOOD COLLECTION EFFORTS
(Editorial ~ 11/16/92)
When you talk turkey, most people think of a bountiful Thanksgiving feast, complete with a golden browned, stuffed bird. But many people throughout the region are not so lucky. They don't know where their next meal will come from, much less the bounty of a Thanksgiving feast...
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ARRESTS DETER CEMETERY VANDALS
(Editorial ~ 11/16/92)
A chained-link fence surrounding three sides of old Lorimier Cemetery hasn't stopped vandals. What may go a long way to discouraging further damage at this historic site is the fact at least six persons have been arrested there in the last month for curfew violation and vandalism...
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ALMA GERTRUDE PIRTLE
(Obituary ~ 11/16/92)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Alma Gertrude Pirtle, 88, of Mounds died Saturday, Nov. 14, 1992, at the Ridgeview Nursing Center in Malden, Mo. She was born Sept. 14, 1904 in Lounds, Mo., the daughter of Albert and Emma Thurston Charles. She was the owner of Pirtle's Cafe in Mounds for more than 20 years prior to her retirment. She also was a member of First United Methodist Church in Mounds...
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RICKY ALAN BROOKS
(Obituary ~ 11/16/92)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Ricky Alan Brooks, 16, of East Prairie died Nov. 14, 1992, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston as the result of an accident shooting. He was born July 15, 1976, the son of Carroll Lee Clemmons Brooks and the late Ricky Alan Brooks Sr...
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EILEEN E. TRANKLE
(Obituary ~ 11/16/92)
LEOPOLD -- Eileen E. Trankle, 70, of Leopold died Sunday, Nov. 15, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 29, 1922, at Laflin, the daughter of Fred W. and Louise Anger Elfrink. On June 22, 1946, she married August J. Trankle, who preceded her in death July 4, 1968...
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CLARENCE LUTHER CRITES
(Obituary ~ 11/16/92)
JACKSON -- Clarence Luther Crites, 94, of Jackson died Sunday, Nov. 15, 1992, at the Jackson Manor Nursing Home. He was born Oct. 7, 1898, at Bollinger County, the son of Jacob F. and Minnie Drum Crites. On Dec. 25, 1916, he married Sarah A. Smith, who preceded him in death April 15, 1966. He then married Marie Thurman in 1975. She survives of the home...
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VANDUSER WOMAN INJURED IN ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 11/16/92)
VANDUSER -- A Vanduser woman was seriously injured early Sunday morning when her car ran off Route Z eight miles east of Vanduser in Scott County. Connie F. Graham, 42, was airlifted to Southeast Missouri Hospital after the 12:55 a.m. accident. Graham's car was traveling westbound when she failed to negotiate a curve and struck a culvert and a dirt embankment, a spokesman for the Missouri Highway Patrol said...
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WILLIAM KELLER
(Obituary ~ 11/16/92)
William Keller, 53, of 326 Olive Street in Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Nov. 15, 1992, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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LAWRENCE A. NETTLER
(Obituary ~ 11/16/92)
ADVANCE -- Lawrence A. Nettler, 81, of Advance died Nov. 14, 1992, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born May 4, 1911, in St. Louis to Herman and Josephine Nettler, who preceded him in death. He married Betty Williams on June 18, 1966, at St. Louis...
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