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Work hard, says Limbaugh; talk-show host back home to address graduates
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
Opportunities for success are still plentiful, Rush Limbaugh told Cape Girardeau Central High School graduates Friday night. And it still takes hard work to achieve success, he said. "It's not getting worse in America," the radio personality and 1969 Central graduate told students. "It's getting better. Every day it's getting better. Every day more opportunities are being created."...
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LETTERS: SPECIAL THANKS FOR AID IN VFW POPPY SALES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/01/96)
To the editor: Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3838 and its Ladies Auxiliary would like to thank all who participated in the recent Buddy Poppy sales. Although there was no publicity, you recognized this symbolic flower and contributed generously. All proceeds from this sale must be placed in our relief fund to be used only for needy veterans or their families...
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LETTERS: MINIMUM-WAGE RAISE AFFECTS TAX BITE TOO
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/01/96)
To the editor: There has been a lot of attention in the news media lately on raising the minimum wage. This subject has prompted quite a bit of discussion and has stirred a great deal of controversy. It might be well if the public understood that an increase in the minimum wage of the suggested 90 cents an hours -- equivalent to a 21 percent pay raise -- is not just another cash raise. ...
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LETTERS: EXPERIENCE WITH HMO SHOWED SOME PITFALLS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/01/96)
To the editor: As a member of a health-maintenance organization and a retired state of California employee, I will point out one of the dangers of HMOs. The one in California got the state to agree that members would go to arbitration rather than file malpractice lawsuits. ...
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PAVING JASMINE
(Editorial ~ 06/01/96)
It is no accident that revenue from Cape Girardeau's transportation sales tax flows into a dedicated trust fund. Trust was a key issue in the transportation tax's overwhelming approval. Trust remains an essential component today as improvements proceed...
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DOWNED LINES DISRUPT POWER IN LARGE AREA
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
A large area of Cape Girardeau experienced a power outage during the noon hour Friday. The outage affected the west end of the city, roughly from Kingshighway to West End Boulevard and from Broadway to Nash Road, said Union Electric spokesperson Susan Gallagher...
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PETTING FAIR AT LOCAL BUSINESS HELPS 4-H DELIVER ITS MESSAGE
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
When most city dwellers think of 4-H clubs, they think of them as being only for rural kids. But Donna Fields, 4-H youth specialist for Cape Girardeau County, wants the public to know that 4-H is for everybody. "Four-H is for all kids," Fields said Friday at a petting fair conducted by 4-H at Cape Girardeau's Orscheln Farm and Home Supply, which sponsored the fair. "Four-H has just as much to offer city kids as farm kids because there are so many projects that don't deal with animals."...
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MAN TALKED DOWN FROM RIVER BRIDGE; WOMAN SPENDS AN HOUR WITH WOULD-BE JUMPER
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
It was about 3:20 a.m. Friday. Debi Oliver was nearly through with her 12-hour volunteer shift as a reserve police officer when the call came that a man was on the Mississippi River bridge and about to jump. His friend called police and said he had been drinking...
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POLICE MAY DROP CYCLE UNIT
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
Don Hellwege would buckle up if he could. Hellwege is a motorcycle patrolman with the Cape Girardeau Police Department's traffic division. He spends his eight-hour shifts riding a Kawasaki 1000, black and white police motorcycle. He thinks police motorcycles are useful in maneuvering through traffic-congested areas to reach the scene of an accident. They also are an asset in parades for crowd control and escorting of dignitaries, he said...
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WORK HARD, SAYS LIMBAUGH; TALK-SHOW HOST BACK HOME TO ADDRESS GRADUATES
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
Opportunities for success are still plentiful, Rush Limbaugh told Cape Girardeau Central High School graduates Friday night. And it still takes hard work to achieve success, he said. "It's not getting worse in America," the radio personality and 1969 Central graduate told students. "It's getting better. Every day it's getting better. Every day more opportunities are being created."...
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POWER PLAY: FORGET THE FORECAST, LOOK OUT THE WINDOW
(Column ~ 06/01/96)
Virtually all the carbon-based lifeforms on this third stone from the sun -- to borrow a phrase from Jimi Hendrix -- spend an awful lot of time pondering the weather. Weather, of course, is all around us. Unless you live in some cave deep in the bowels of the Earth, it is inescapable. Even then, without the benefit of an expensive designer cave with all the modern amenities, it still probably gets rather damp when it rains...
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NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY TO GATHER
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
The Missouri Native Plant Society will hold its annual meeting in Cape Girardeau today and Sunday. The meeting, a joint session with the Illinois Native Plant Society, features six field trips and an evening program. The public is invited to join the group on a choice of two hikes Saturday morning, Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning to view wildflowers in the area...
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CARL SCHLITT
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
ORAN -- Carl Louis "Butch" Schlitt, 66, of Oran died Thursday on his farm. He was born Jan. 16, 1930, in Oran, son of the late Otto Louis and Mary Josephine Dohogne Schlitt. He married Shirley J. Ates Oct. 20, 1954 at Flint, Mich. She died Jan. 12, 1995...
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RICHARD STERN
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
JACKSON -- Richard Lee Stern, 53, of Jackson, died Thursday, May 30, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Feb. 3, 1943, in Turlock, Calif., son of Everett and Pauline Tucker Stern. He and Kathryn Stearns were married July 15, 1977...
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FRANCES FELTER
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
Frances M. Felter, 93, 723 William, died Thursday, May 30, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born March 15, 1903, at Kelso, daughter of Louis and Theresa Fischer Ziegler. She and Killian Felter were married April 24, 1921, at Kelso. He died June 29, 1990...
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JOAN HOUSTON
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
Private service for Joan Houston of Cape Girardeau was held Tuesday at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. Ziegenhein Funeral Home of St. Louis was in charge of arrangements. Houston, 67, died Saturday, May 25, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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CARL MCCAULEY
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
JACKSON -- Carl J. McCauley, 94, died Friday at Deal Nursing Home in Jackson. He was born Jan. 6, 1902, in Perryville, son of the late James and Mary Klump McCauley. He married Reba Morton on March 12, 1927 in Granite City, Ill. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. C. William Ade of St. Louis; three sisters, Esther Leible of Cape Girardeau, Stella Warncke of St. Louis and Bernice Holtman of Horseshoe Bend, Ark.; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren...
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ROSETTA TAYLOR
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
DUDLEY -- Funeral service for Rosetta Taylor, Dudley Route 1, will be held at 10:30 a.m. today at Watkins and Sons Chapel in Puxico. The Rev. Dolan Morris will officiate, with burial in Puxico Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 10 a.m. to service time...
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MELVIN BONDS
(Obituary ~ 06/01/96)
CHAFFEE -- Melvin Eugene Bonds, 54, of Marion, Ill., died Friday, May 31, 1996, at his home. He was born May 17, 1942, at Randles, son of John H. and Rosey E. Breese Bonds. He and Wilma Kincade were married Feb. 20, 1959, at Arbor. Bonds was a retired assembly line packer with General Foods in Kankakee, Ill. He moved to Marion four years ago from Bradley, Ill...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 06/01/96)
Son to 1st Lt. Luis and Meleia Garza of Camp Lejeune, N.C., Naval Hospital there, 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, April 30, 1996. Name, Riley Joseph. Weight, 7 pounds 7 ounces. Second son. Mrs. Garza is the former Meleia Ticer, daughter of Lewis and Janis Ticer of Jackson. Garza is the son of H.E. and Oma Fairchild of Houston, Texas. He is stationed with the U.S. Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune...
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FRANKLIN SCHOOL VOLUNTEER WINS STATE HONOR FOR WORK
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
Teachers at Franklin Elementary School know Jacque Brotherton's phone number by heart. That's because when teachers need help, they call Brotherton, who calls volunteering her second career. Brotherton was recently honored as the Outstanding Title I Volunteer for Missouri...
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KIDS LEARNING ABOUT SURGERY; HOSPITALS USE PUPPETS, FILMS TO TEACH KIDS ABOUT SURGERY
(Local News ~ 06/01/96)
At Melinda's Magical Medicine Show, Melinda McCulley spoke to the gathering which included, from left, Gabe Sauer, Mary Jane Sauer and Stephen Sauer of Jackson. McCulley uses puppets to present information about surgery to her young audience. Mary Jane Sauer of Jackson remembers when she was little and had her tonsils out...
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