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WASHINGTON WATCH: THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
(Column ~ 12/28/94)
It is a pleasure to be in Cape Girardeau for the holidays. Not just because seeing family and friends is always a treat, but because it is exciting to gauge the region's growth with my own eyes. Reading the Missourian keeps me abreast of expanding business and residential developments, but until I witness the changes in person they never seem real. ...
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COUNSELOR USES BIOFEEDBACK INSTEAD OF DRUGS
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
JACKSON -- Andrew Leonard's waiting room looks like any other counselor's -- chairs along the walls and copies of "Psychology Today" and "Longevity" stacked on the tables. It is the treatment room that is different. There's a special chair with speakers on the headrest, and the music that plays through them is designed to relax the listener...
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VOTERS NEED MORE SPECIFICS ABOUT TAX FOR TRANSPORTATION
(Editorial ~ 12/28/94)
Mayor Al Spradling thinks a third time might be a charm. The mayor is proposing that a half-cent transportation tax be placed before Cape Girardeau voters at the April election. Twice in the last eight years, voters have nixed the proposal, albeit by narrow margins on both occasions...
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WASHINGTON WATCH: THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME
(Column ~ 12/28/94)
It is a pleasure to be in Cape Girardeau for the holidays. Not just because seeing family and friends is always a treat, but because it is exciting to gauge the region's growth with my own eyes. Reading the Missourian keeps me abreast of expanding business and residential developments, but until I witness the changes in person they never seem real. ...
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TREE DISPOSAL OFFERED
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
The annual end-of-the-year holidays -- Christmas and New Year's -- are rapidly disappearing, and residents are being faced with the chore of dismantling or disposing of the family Christmas tree. You can't drag the tree to the city dump any more. Senate Bill 530, solid-waste legislation passed three years ago, took care of that...
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POSTAGE INCREASE DRAWS NEAR
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
The Jan. 1 postage rate increase will cost people who mail 20 letters a month an additional 60 cents a month or $7.20 a year. The 29-cent stamp will cost 32 cents Jan. 1. But for companies that depend on the mail the cost will be much higher. Some companies are rushing to mail before Jan. 1 to beat the increase; others are changing the way they mail...
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CHRISTMAS LETTER TELLS MAN TO RETURN $2,196 FLOOD GRANT
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
JACKSON -- Phillip Halter of Chaffee was looking forward to a happy holiday season, but two days before Christmas he received a disturbing letter from the State Emergency Management Agency. A former Dutchtown resident, Halter was a victim of the 1993 flood. It destroyed his mobile home and everything in it. He sought shelter at his parents' home in Jackson for a few months, then bought a used mobile home. A $2,196 grant from SEMA furnished it...
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SALES TAX COULD FUND 12 PROJECTS
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
A proposed half-cent transportation sales tax would allow the city to widen Broadway, reconstruct a major section of Perryville Road and make a number of other street improvements. Mayor Al Spradling III says such road projects are already on the city's unfunded needs list...
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BY THE WAY: TRADITIONS CHANGE IN SHORT YEAR
(Column ~ 12/28/94)
With one eye on the year that was and the other on the year that is nearly upon us, I realize that several American traditions are no longer available for safe keeping. Nothing seems predictable any more. In some ways this is bad; in other ways it could be considered an improvement...
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LEGISLATORS RECALL 15-YEAR HIGHWAY PLAN PROMISES
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
Rep. David Schwab clearly remembers pressing state highway officials concerning whether they could complete the 15-year highway plan they offered in exchange for a 6-cent increase in the fuel tax. "I directly asked the question, and they assured me the plan could be completed in 15 years and that they had no problems," Schwab said. "I still remember that."...
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OLIVER: HIGHWAY OFFICIALS DESERVE PRAISE FOR HONESTY
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
Highway Commission Vice Chairman John Oliver of Cape Girardeau said people like Rep. Larry Thomason should praise the highways department for admitting its mistakes, not attack it. "I don't understand politicians like that. How has he been deceived?" asked Oliver...
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BOLLINGER OFFICIALS TO BE SWORN IN
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
MARBLE HILL -- At least three new officials will be among officeholders sworn in for new terms Friday in Bollinger County. A fourth new official could be sworn in if Gov. Mel Carnahan decides by then who to appoint to fill a vacancy for prosecuting attorney that will occur at the end of the year...
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COUNTY COMMISSION OKs 1995 BUDGET
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
JACKSON -- Retiring Cape Girardeau County Commissioner Gene Huckstep praised his colleagues, other county officials and employees for their dedication Tuesday as he delivered his final budget address. Huckstep, the county's chief budget officer, read a three-page message at a public hearing on the budget before joining Associate Commissioners E.C. Younghouse and Larry Bock in giving unanimous approval to the document...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
Scott County Warranty Deeds: Benny R. and Clara Sue Thompson to Louie D. and Lavern A. Griffin; Bart A. and Angela B. Grant and E.E. and P. Joan Grant to Bart A. and Angela B. Grant; Calvin J. LeGrand to Thomas and Debra A. Dirnberger; Lois Lavern Horn to Edward Lee Sanders...
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PLEA GOES OUT FOR SANTA HAT
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
SCOTT CITY -- Santa Claus lost his hat Christmas eve and would like it back. Terry Johnston, a former Scott City council member, said he returned home from playing the part of Santa Claus on Saturday night and dropped the hat while getting out of his car...
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GATHERING FOR COMMISSIONERS SET
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
JACKSON -- A farewell reception for two retiring Cape Girardeau County commissioners will be held Thursday afternoon. Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep, who has been in office since 1979, and 2nd District Associate Commissioner E.C. Younghouse, who has served since 1988, didn't seek re-election this year...
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STEPHEN M. HINES
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
Stephen M. Hines, 95, died Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1994, at his home in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 11, 1899, in Woolstock, Iowa, to Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Hines. Hines was a veteran of the armed services. He served in the Army in World War I and in the Navy during World War II. He was also a former U.S. Postal Service guard and retired from the Wagner Electric Co. in St. Louis. He was also a member of the Jehovah's Witness church...
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CALLIE WEST
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
FARMINGTON -- Callie West, 81, of Desloge and formerly of Sikeston, died Monday, Dec. 26, 1994, at the Mineral Area Regional Medical Center in Farmington. She was born on Feb. 20, 1913, in Cocke County in Tennessee to the late R.M. and Martha Lindsey Ellison...
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GEORGIA C. REGELSPERGER
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
PERRYVILLE -- Georgia C. Regelsperger, 96, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994, at the Perry County Memorial Hospital. She was born Nov. 29, 1898, in Clareyville to George and Lavina Riney Esselman. On Jan. 11, 1920, she married Phillip F. Regelsperger who preceded her in death on Dec. 5, 1985. She was also preceded in death by one son, seven brothers, two sisters and four grandchildren...
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JAMES PAUL JENNINGS
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
BELL CITY -- James Paul "Bun" Jennings, 82, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Jennings was born March 6, 1912, in Bell City to the late Thomas Allen and Ruth Ann Oakley Jennings. He spent his entire life in the Bell City community. ...
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RUTH J. ARCHIBALD
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
DEXTER -- Ruth J. Archibald, 80, died Monday, Dec. 26, 1994, at the Dexter Nursing Home. She was born June 27, 1914, at Briarwood to Lewis and Emaline Davis Jackson. Archibald was a resident of Bloomfield where she worked at the Elder Manufacturing Co. for more than 30 years. She was also a member of the Brush Creek Church...
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TINA MARIE BLECHLE
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
ST. LOUIS -- Tina Marie Blechle, 35, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Tuesday, Dec. 26, 1994, in St. Louis. She was born July 7, 1959 in Festus to Robert A. and Bonita K. Partney Blechle. She was a medical technologist. Survivors include her parents and three brothers, Dale R. Blechle and Lonnie J. Blechle, both of Festus, and Gary A. Blechle of Imperial...
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MARIE MILLER
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
DEXTER -- Marie Miller, former co-owner of the Dexter Daily Statesman, died Monday, Dec. 26, 1994. She was 70. Miller and her husband, Barney, owned and published the Daily Statesman for 27 years. She had been a resident of Dexter for 37 years. She was a resident of the Dexter Nursing Center for the past two years...
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OSCAR W. HAHS
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
JACKSON -- Oscar W. Hahs, 90, died Sunday Dec. 25, 1994, at the Jackson Manor Nursing Home. He was born May 8, 1904, at Daisy, the son of P. K. Hahs and Cora Linebarger. Survivors include: three daughters, Margie Roberts of Oak Ridge and Debbie Hahs and Tami Boeckman, both of Springfield; brothers, Clinton Hahs of Sedgewickville and Cletus Hahs of Daisy; a sister, Mabel Friese of Millersville; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren...
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THELMA BOYER
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
MARION, Ill. -- Thelma Boyer, 74, of Marion, formerly of Cobden, Ill., died Tuesday at Marion Memorial Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.
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KENNETH STALLINGS
(Obituary ~ 12/28/94)
CHARLESTON -- Kenneth Stallings, 80, of Charleston died Tuesday, Dec. 27, 1994, at the Charleston Manor. Stallings was born in Morley Feb. 6, 1914, to Charles and Ella Tomlinson Stallings. He married Wilma Kekow May 29, 1971. She survives. Stallings was employed as a bookkeeper for Charleston Auction Co. for 35 years...
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MOCKTAILS: RING IN THE NEW YEAR WITH NONALCOHOLIC DRINKS
(Local News ~ 12/28/94)
Glasses raised, toasts will ring out as the New Year rings in. New Year's Eve is the night many people look forward to all year long. Hosts and hostesses know that preparing for the big party takes hours, sometimes days, of planning and effort. But hosting one of the best parties in town means more than serving tasty hors d'oeuvres and promoting sparkling conversation...
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LADY BUG: GARDNERS NEED TO MAKE RESOLUTIONS
(Column ~ 12/28/94)
Resolutions for a gardener as an old year passes and a bright new one beckons: Resolved: To be kinder to house plants next year. It is not a momentous decision. It is simply looking over the collection of plants and those that are unhealthy, unattractive or have seen better days -- just get rid of them and replace them with others...
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