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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: D-DAY, I WAS THERE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/21/94)
Dear Editor, Fifty years ago June 6, 1994, I was there, as were many from Southeast Missouri. Machine guns were emplaced in the steep cliffs to cross-section the whole Omaha Beach at right angles -- leaving all areas exposed like ducks in a shooting gallery. ...
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POLICE TO HOST SAFETY FAIR TODAY
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
If you're cruising down Mount Auburn Road today and find yourself being corralled into the Boatmen's Bank parking lot by police officers, be sure you're wearing your seat belt. The Cape Girardeau Police Department, in cooperation with the Community Traffic Safety Program, the Missouri Division of Highway Safety and Boatmen's Bank, will host its annual Safety Check and Awareness Fair at the Mount Auburn bank facility today...
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR MDA SUMMER CAMP AT CARBONDALE
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
The Muscular Dystrophy Association is looking for men and women age 16 and older to volunteer a week of their time at the MDA summer camp. The camp will be held in Giant City State Park at Touch of Nature Environmental Center near Carbondale, Ill. June 19-24...
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AN EVENING WITH JOE PISCATELLA TUESDAY
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Joe Piscatella, best selling author and president of the Institute for Fitness and Health, will speak Tuesday at a free presentation hosted by St. Francis Medical Center and The Heart Institute at St. Francis. Piscatella survived open heart surgery in 1977, when he was 32 years old. Since then, he's done research on how to live a health lifestyle...
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SOUTHEAST HOSPITAL OFFERS SUPER SITTER CLASSES
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Super Sitter, a medically-oriented training program of basic babysitting skills for boys and girls ages 11-16 will be offered once again this summer by Southeast Missouri Hospital. Young people interested in the program may enroll in one of five classes to be offered during June, July and August. Dates are June 17, June 23, July 22 and Aug. 15...
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DIABETIC RETINOPATHY TOPIC FOR `ASK YOUR DOCTOR'
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Three doctors, Charles H. Cozean, Daniel S. Duick and Peter Paulus will discuss diabetic retinopathy on this week's "Ask Your Doctor" program. "Ask Your Doctor" airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on Cape Girardeau Cable Channel 5. It is sponsored by St. Francis Medical Center, Southeast Missouri Hospital, the Cape Girardeau County Medical Society and channel 5...
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HEIGHT: THE TALL AND SORT OF IT
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Bill Port and Jane Wernsman are the long and short of it when it comes to height. Port, the administrator of Doctors' Park, is 6 feet 6 inches; Wernsman, a nurse and nurse supervisor at the Cape Girardeau County Health Center, is 5 feet 1 inch. Although being tall or short can be a challenge both physically and psychologically, Port and Wernsman say they have accepted their extremes without complaint or resentment. ...
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WHEN A PRESIDENT NEEDS A LEGAL DEFENSE
(Editorial ~ 05/21/94)
Former Arkansas state employee Paula Jones' civil lawsuit against President Bill Clinton raises important questions pertaining to the institution of the presidency. Legal minds are at work within the Clinton Justice Department preparing a brief on the question of possible presidential immunity during the term of his office. On these arcane legal issues we offer no opinion...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: JACKIE KENNEDY, WE HARDLY KNEW YE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/21/94)
Dear Editor: I had just completed watching the videocassette version of "The Remains of the Day" when I turned to CNN and learned of the death of Jackie Kennedy. There seemed to be an eerie parallel between the movie I had just seen and the news I heard...
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CENTRAL HIRES NEW ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Long-time Cape Girardeau Central High School coach and teacher Mark Ruark hopes his new job will give him a chance to put his coaching skills to work on a larger scale. Ruark was named one of two new assistant principals for Central High Friday. Joining Ruark as assistant principal is Bill Biggerstaff, currently principal at Chaffee High School...
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BIDS OPENED FOR TRASH SERVICES PROVE HIGHER THAN CITY OFFER
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Bids from two outside contractors for Cape Girardeau trash pickup came in higher than the city's proposed fee for solid waste service. A complete bid from Continental Waste Inc. of Jackson and an alternative bid from Browning-Ferris Industries Inc. of Marion, Ill., were opened Friday...
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SCOTT COUNTY RECOUNTS BALLOTS TWICE, BUT GETS DIFFERENT TOTALS
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
BENTON -- Vote counting in Scott County isn't an exact science, even when the totaling is being done by a $33,000 optic scanning machine. Ballots cast in the April 5 election on riverboat gambling were run through the machine twice Friday as part of a statewide recount...
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PROJECTS TO DELAY TRAFFIC
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
The Missouri Highway and Transportation Department has awarded a $319,000 contract to a Jackson contractor for bridge joint repair and overlay work on several Southeast Missouri bridges later this summer. Some work on Interstate 55 bridges may result in delays to motorists, the department said...
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LOCAL ANGLES: BELIEVING THE GREAT LIE; EQUALITY IN AMERICA
(Column ~ 05/21/94)
The most overused and troublesome phrase in our patriotic lexicon is the notion "that all men are created equal." The phrase, which is in the second sentence of the Declaration of Independence, leaves one with a sort of warm glow of goodness. But does it square with observed truth?...
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CAPE POLICE OFFICER RECOVERING AFTER SURGERY
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
ST. LOUIS -- A Cape Girardeau police officer injured in a May 2 motorcycle accident in Cape Girardeau was listed in stable condition late Friday after undergoing six hours of surgery to remove his right leg and a part of the pelvic bone. Dr. Kevin Baumer, a resident orthopedic surgeon at St. Louis University Hospital, said Dan Niswonger was back in his room in the hospital, "experiencing some post-operative discomfort, but in stable condition."...
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STAR TREK FAN CLUB EARNS STATE AWARDS FOR LETTER CAMPAIGN
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
Messages of "live long and prosper" sent by the local Star Trek fan club delivered state honors in a national Mail for Our Military campaign. The local club, U.S.S. Sally Ride, was the top group in Missouri for both the Christmas and Valentine's Day letter writing campaign. Club members sent a total of 219 cards...
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DEDICATION OF STE. GENEVIEVE HOME SYMBOLIZES SURVIVAL AFTER FLOOD
(Local News ~ 05/21/94)
STE. GENEVIEVE -- A new home in Ste. Genevieve will be dedicated Sunday at 2 p.m. as a symbol of the town's survival after the flood of 1993. The home, at 43 Linn Drive, is the first of a number of houses being erected by a task force called Build-Up Ste. Genevieve. The task force is made up of volunteers from churches, businesses, civic groups and private citizens...
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ALTA BITTERMAN
(Obituary ~ 05/21/94)
ADVANCE -- Alta Bitterman, 88, of Advance died Thursday, May 19, 1994 at the Advance Nursing Care Center in Advance. She was born June 1, 1905 near Advance, the daughter of Finis Edward and Cora Evelyn Kinder Ladd. She was a homemaker and a member of the Ladds Chapel General Baptist Church...
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ANNA MARIE EFTINK
(Obituary ~ 05/21/94)
MARBLE HILL -- Anna Marie Eftink, 78, died Thursday, May 19, 1994. She was born July 5, 1915, at Leopold, daughter of August and Wilhelmina Radin Trankle. She married Joseph B. Eftink on April 27, 1937. He survives, of Leopold. Other survivors include four sons, Charles Eftink, Leopold, Robert Eftink of Marble Hill, Joseph Eftink of Advance, and Mark Eftink, Leopold; three daughters, Bernice Horman, Chaffee, Carol Welker, Patton and Rita Holshouser, Marble Hill; a brother, Fred Trankle, Leopold; a sister, Mary Landewee, Leopold; 14 grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.. ...
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LUTRELL M. GRAY
(Obituary ~ 05/21/94)
Lutrell M. Gray, 94, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, May 20, 1994, at Alamon Heights Manor Nursing Home in San Antonio, Texas. Arrangements were incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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JOHN MACK LEIGH
(Obituary ~ 05/21/94)
PARMA -- John Mack Leigh, 81, of Parma died Thursday, May 19, 1994 at the Gideon Care Center in Gideon. He was born Jan. 27, 1913 at Parma, son of John Grover and Elizabeth McMullin Leigh. He had lived in Parma all his life until 1991 when he went to the Gideon Care Center. He was a retired insurance agent and realtor. He owned and operated the Leigh Insurance Agency in Parma for 35 years...
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AUGUSTA ANNA MARTENS
(Obituary ~ 05/21/94)
PERRYVILLE -- Augusta Anna Martens, 79, of Belgigue, died Friday, May 20, 1994, at the Perry County Hospital in Perryville. She was born in Belgigue on Dec. 5, 1914, to August and Caroline Hoog Martens. Survivors include two brothers, Leo Martens of Perryville and Joseph Martens of St. Marys; and one sister, Ida Essleman of Perryville...
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