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LETTERS: SENIOR CENTER WALKATHON IS A SUCCESS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/18/95)
To the editor: The Cape Girardeau Senior Center recently held a "Miles for Meals" walkathon. It was so successful that we would like to express our gratitude to all the people involved: the business community, the people who walked and the people who sponsored walkers...
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WESTERN DAYS SATURDAY, SUNDAY AT BLACK FOREST
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
The Old West rides again when the Black Forest Villages will be the host of the third annual Western Days Saturday and Sunday. The event featuring cowboys, saloon gals, gunfights, bank robberies and even a shotgun wedding will begin at 10 a.m. each day and end at 5 p.m...
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NEA CHIEF TO DEDICATE CEDARHURST SCULPTURE PARK
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
MOUNT VERNON, Ill. -- Jane Alexander, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, will speak Saturday at the dedication of the Cedarhurst Sculpture Park. The 1:30 p.m. ceremony highlights a weekend of activities celebrating the dedication of the open-air gallery of the Mitchell Museum at Cedarhurst in Mount Vernon...
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ILLINOIS FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND CRAFTS SATURDAY, SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
BENTON, Ill. -- The Festival of Arts and Crafts will be held Saturday and Sunday at the Southern Illinois Arts & Crafts Marketplace in Benton. An estimated 25,000 people attended the festival last year. Admission is free, with a $1 parking fee charged per car...
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SENIOR FUN FEST '95
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Huff, Mastery of Mystery & Amusement Saturday will be a great day to show your age in Cape Girardeau. Anybody 55 or older is welcome to attend Senior Fun Fest '95, a free event that will offer Dixieland music, dancing to big band sounds of the '30s and '40s, a magic act, clowns, complimentary snacks, Bingo and exhibits...
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LA FETE A RENAULT AN 18TH CENTURY RENDEZVOUS & SHOOT
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
OLD MINES -- Fans of 18th century history can revisit the time in person Saturday and Sunday during La Fete a Renault, the 10th annual Rendezvous, Black Powder Shoot, Music Festival and Colonial Craft Exhibit held at Old Mines. The festival is in Washington County on Route 21, five miles north of Potosi and about 50 miles east of Ste. Genevieve...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY: EFFORTS MADE ON TAX-LIMIT MEASURE
(Column ~ 05/18/95)
On Tuesday (May 9) of the last week of this year's legislative session that concluded last Friday, the Missouri Senate worked a full day and then some. After morning and afternoon sessions, we returned at 8 p.m. for a night session to take up the proposed tax limitation constitutional amendment. ...
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SEND LETTERS, COMMENTS, QUESTIONS BY E-MAIL
(Editorial ~ 05/18/95)
Letters to the editor of the Southeast Missourian can be sent on the information superhighway. Readers who subscribe to an on-line service or have access to the Internet can send letters by e-mail. The 3-mail address for letters: SEMOpaper@aol.com Letters sent electronically will be subject to the same guidelines as letters that are mailed or hand-delivered...
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AS CITY REVENUE GROWS, WHAT ABOUT LOOKING AT TAX CUTS?
(Editorial ~ 05/18/95)
It is likely few Cape Girardeau taxpayers are aware that $1 million lies dormant in an escrow account in city coffers, the accumulated revenue from a kind of sales tax, called a use tax, on out-of-state purchases. The tax revenue, about $300,000 annually, is Cape Girardeau's share of use-tax receipts collected by the state and allocated to cities in Missouri. ...
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LETTERS: HARASSMENT ISN'T LEGAL; ABORTION IS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 05/18/95)
To the editor: Some ranting anti-choicer, who obviously knows of my belief that the decision to terminate a pregnancy should be left up to the female, shouted out angry words to me from a vehicle recently. Every time anti-choicers act like this, from verbal street harassment to more serious wounding and killing of doctors who perform abortions, they show clearly it is not life they are so interested in preserving...
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STORM RIPS THROUGH CAPE AREA
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
A line of thunderstorms with winds of up to 74 mph raced through the Cape Girardeau area early Wednesday, downing power lines, uprooting trees and damaging homes. The fast-moving storm cells moved into Cape Girardeau County before 6 a.m. and shoved across into Illinois in the space of an hour, emergency officials said...
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FOSTER PARENT APPRECIATION RECOGNIZES SPECIAL FAMILIES
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
The Stotler family is much like any other on a busy Wednesday afternoon. One teen-ager tries out her graduation cap and gown, another giggles with a visiting boyfriend, a third uses Liquid Paper to make polka-dots on her fingernails. Ann Stotler oversees them all, plus a fourth girl still at school serving detention. The divorced mother of three is used to the frenzy. Two of her grown sons live at home, along with a grandchild and four foster children, the teen-aged girls...
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MISSISSIPPI AGAIN RISING
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
A Corps of Engineers barge made its way past the flooded Honkers Boat Club north of downtown Cape Girardeau on Wednesday afternoon. The rising Mississippi River and barricades on several Cape Girardeau streets, along with rain storms that keep coming, bring echoes of the 1993 flood that devastated Missouri...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: IN CAPE GIRARDEAU, THE RIVER RUNS THROUGH US
(Column ~ 05/18/95)
May 18, 1995 Dear C.C., Received your postcard from Sedona. I thought maybe it was written in glow-in-the-dark ink, a missive containing secret wisdom, but turning out the light didn't help. Lose the yellow ink pen. So far, your signature and your cactus drawing are all I've made out...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 05/18/95)
I'VE JUST been discouraged about recycling in Cape Girardeau. I put out my recycling and a rain storm came. They refused to pick up the newspapers because they said the newspapers were wet. Well, of course, they were wet. It rained on them. It hadn't rained on them before I put them out. I am now taking my newspapers and putting them in the garbage so they can be picked up...
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FED EXECUTIVE UPBEAT ON AREA ECONOMY
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Thomas C. Melzer, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, was impressed with his Wednesday visit here to talk with city and county officials, businessmen and community leaders. "We see a lot of cooperation and people working together in Cape Girardeau's economic efforts as a regional hub," said Melzer, who has served as president of the Federal Reserve Bank in District 8 almost a decade, since June 1985...
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AREA COLLEGE'S LEARNING CENTER HITS THE ROAD
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Mineral Area College is going mobile with its new Mobile Learning and Assessment Center. The center, basically a customized Ford coach equipped with 12 network computers, allows the college to take job training directly to participating businesses that then pay a fee. The price is determined by how long the system remains at the business...
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LADY LUCK, DRAINAGE DISTRICT ENTER PACT
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
SCOTT CITY -- The Little River Drainage District has agreed to lease a spot to moor a Lady Luck Gaming Corp. gambling boat in the district's Diversion Channel at Scott City. Drainage district Executive Vice President Larry Dowdy said the lease option was signed Tuesday...
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KINDER, OTHERS SEEK SPECIAL LEGISLATIVE SESSION
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Saying lawmakers neglected workers' compensation reform in the just-ended session, Sen. Peter Kinder, R-Cape Girardeau, told the Cape Girardeau Lions Club Wednesday that a majority of Missouri's senators and representatives sent a letter this week to Gov. Mel Carnahan requesting a special session of the legislature...
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CENTRAL PRESENTS STUDENT AWARDS
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Students at Cape Girardeau Central High School received honors at the annual all-school recognition program Wednesday. Following are recipients: Art: Greg Huttegger, Kris Naeger, Lars Peterman. Business: Vince Collier, Meredith Surman, Jennifer Trapp...
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RUST COMMUNICATIONS TO LAUNCH DYERSBURG NEWS ON WEDNESDAY
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
DYERSBURG, Tenn. -- The Dyersburg News, a 17,000 circulation free weekly publication, will be launched by Rust Communications next week. The first issue of the new paper will be distributed Wednesday. Christ Rimel, who has worked with three other Rust Communications newspapers -- Dexter Statesman, Daily American Republic of Poplar Bluff and most recently, Southeast Missourian at Cape Girardeau, will be editor/general manager of the new publication. Jon Rust is consultant for the publication...
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KELLY FFA CHAPTER ATTENDS STATE CONVENTION
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
The Kelly-Benton FFA Chapter attended the State FFA Convention recently. It is the highlight of a year's activity by FFA members. To attend from Kelly, each contest team had to place in the top three at district contests in Cape Girardeau. Teams placing in the top three and competing at state:...
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J. KENSEY RUSSELL GETS SILVER BEAVER AWARD
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
J. Kensey Russell of Cape Girardeau recently was presented the Silver Beaver Award by the Greater St. Louis Area Council, Boy Scouts of America, in St. Louis. The award is the highest a local council may present to an adult volunteer. It is presented to volunteers who have made outstanding contributions to Scouting over 10 or more years...
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CHRISTOPHER BRITT GETS WEST POINT NOMINATION
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Christopher Alan Britt of Jackson has accepted appointment to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. Britt was accepted in December, and received his offer of appointment in January. He was nominated by U.S. Rep. Bill Emerson. Britt, a senior at Jackson High School, is the son of Jim and Carolyn Britt...
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ERIN RICHES RECEIVES SCHOLARSHIP TO RHODES
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Erin Riches of Cape Girardeau recently accepted a Walter D. Bellengrath Scholarship to attend Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., this fall. It is a full four-year scholarship. She was selected as one of 24 finalists from a poll of more than 600 applicants nationwide...
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THREE ELEMENTARY PUPILS BRING HOME MATH AWARDS
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Three local elementary school students brought home awards from the 10th annual Missouri Student Mathematics Contest State Competition in Columbia this month. Allison Bryant, a sixth-grader at Alma Schrader School, placed fifth in problem solving; Ryan Granger, a sixth-grader at West Lane Elementary School in Jackson, placed eighth in Concepts; and Danny Robert, a fifth grader at St. Mary's School, took ninth in concepts...
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FLOYD A. DAVIS
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
WAPPAPELLO -- Floyd Almon Davis, 67, of Wappapello, died Tuesday, May 16, 1995, at John J. Pershing VA Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. He was born April 4, 1928, in Cape Girardeau, son of William S. and Mary Lowery Davis. Davis was retired from Federal Mogul in Malden, and was a member of the Church of Christ. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II...
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ESTON H. MAYFIELD
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
PATTON -- Eston Harold "Eck" Mayfield, 79, of Patton, died Tuesday, May 16, 1995, at his home. He was born Sept. 25, 1915, at Mayfield, son of John F. and Ercy Brown Mayfield. He and Sarah Elsie Woodmore were married April 5, 1945. She died Oct. 31, 1994...
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PEGGY S. FAULCONER
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
ORAN -- Funeral service for Peggy Sue Faulconer of Oran will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran. The Rev. Jerry Williams will officiate, with burial in Forest Hill Memorial Gardens near Morley. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Friday...
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FAYE FORSHEE
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
JACKSON -- Faye Forshee, 90, of Jackson, died Wednesday, May 17, 1995, at her home. McCombs Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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J.W. CORA
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
J.W. Cora, 71, 16 N. Henderson, died Wednesday, May 17, 1995, at his home. He was born Oct. 12, 1923, at Sikeston, son of William Arthur and Mabel Skaggs Cora. He first married Georgia Ann Kremer June 4, 1950, in Cape Girardeau. She died June 11, 1972. He later married Gloria Lopez July 15, 1972, at Sikeston...
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DESSIE V. HARRIS
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
VANDUSER -- Dessie Viola Harris, 84, formerly of Vanduser, died Tuesday, May 16, 1995, at Sells Rest Home in Matthews. She was born Oct. 29, 1910, in Clarksville, Ark., daughter of William E. and Nancy Jane McCarley Morrison. She and Milburn P. Harris were married May 2, 1931, in Lamar, Ark. He died May 7, 1994...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 05/18/95)
Son to Jamie Dodd II and Yvaughna Hinkebein of Cape Girardeau, St. John's Mercy Hospital in St. Louis, 7:34 a.m. Sunday, April 30, 1995. Name, Tyler William. Weight, 2 pounds 12 ounces. First child. Miss Hinkebein is the daughter of Geralyn Maglone of Cape Girardeau and Vaughn Hinkebein of Jackson. She is a student at St. Mary's Grade School. Dodd is employed at Sides Steel Supply and Metal Recycling Co. He is the son of Jamie and Sandy Dodd of Cape Girardeau...
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WILD HORSES ACT
(Local News ~ 05/18/95)
Wild horses act Partial transcript of the statement Rep. Bill Emerson, R-Mo., will give in the House today in support of the "Wild Horses Protection Act of 1995," which the congressman introduced. As you know, this legislation is of high importance to the folks in my congressional district in southern Missouri. ...
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MARVIN TOWNSEND
(Obituary ~ 05/18/95)
SIKESTON -- Marvin Edward Townsend, 24, of Jackson, Tenn., formerly of Sikeston, died May 13, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 14, 1970, in Sikeston, to Shirley Jones of Sikeston and Marvin Edward Townsend Sr. of Maywood, Ill...
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