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FEELING FEVERISH?
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
A person's temperature can be displayed on this digital oral thermometer. Non-aspirin pain relievers are recommended to reduce fever. People get hot about fever. They often overreact when it comes to rising temperatures, health-care providers say. The ancient Greeks thought fever was beneficial because they thought it cooked off substances that made people ill...
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MEDICAL EXPERTS DIFFER OVER ACCURACY OF EAR THERMOMETERS
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
When it comes to taking your temperature, nothing is quicker than an ear thermometer. But is it accurate? Some health-care providers say it is; others disagree. Thermometers such as Thermoscan can take a temperature in as little as a second, which is particularly nice when you are trying to take the temperature of a crying baby...
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METEOR SHOWER MONDAY MORNING TO BE SPECTACULAR
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's -- a meteor shower. Specifically, it is the Perseid meteor show, one of the more spectacular cosmic light shows on view this year, and Mike Cobb wants people to get a good, long look. "It's the biggest one of the year," he said...
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STATE PONDERS FEDERAL LAW BEFORE ENACTING WELFARE CHANGES
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
JEFFERSON CITY -- As soon as state officials unravel details of an 1,100-page document approved by Congress, welfare assistance as Missourians know it will be ending. The nation's 60-year-old welfare entitlement program will be replaced by a number of changes and innovations. Emphasis will be placed on required work provisions and payment limitations that can't exceed five years for most of the more than one-half million Missourians receiving some form of public assistance...
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POWER PLAY: PRO WOMEN'S TEAM SPORTS WILL NOT SUCCEED
(Column ~ 08/10/96)
OK everybody, it's safe to drink Pepsi again without fear of being branded as anti-American for forsaking Olympics sponsor Coca Cola, the Official Carbonated, Malted-Battery Acid Tasting Stuff of the Atlanta Games. Now everybody can return to their normal lives and stop watching television, at least until the upcoming fall season on NBC, which Bob Costas assured us over and over again during the Games will be the network's best ever...
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DAYS OF CARING OFFERS A LOOK
(Editorial ~ 08/10/96)
When the Area Wide United Way comes calling, the fund-raising organization wants potential contributors to understand how vital these dollars are to so many local agencies. Through the second annual Days of Caring, employees who contribute through a company-sponsored donation are asked to see how their money is being spent by volunteering a few hours at a United Way agency...
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JACKSON'S BIG WIN
(Editorial ~ 08/10/96)
It feels good to be a winner. The Jackson School District has once again beat the odds and has promoted a successful building campaign. Organizers should feel gratified by the overwhelming margin of approval. The school district needed 57 percent to win approval for the $7.8 million bond issue. When all the ballots were tallied, an impressive 66 percent of the voters supported the measure...
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WHAT TERRORISM IS, AS WELL AS WHAT IT ISN'T
(Column ~ 08/10/96)
After listening to nearly hysterical appeals from President Clinton, FBI Director Louis Freeh and various others about the "Terrorist Crisis" that the country is supposedly enduring and all the urgent counter-terrorist legislation we must enact immediately, the Congress last week decided to take a month-long vacation. This decision, like the habit of Calvin Coolidge of taking a nap every afternoon while president, was wise...
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LETTERS: LAKE PLAN SMELLS FISHY
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/10/96)
To the editor: My wife and I are from a fairly large East Coast city, and in 1988 we were looking for a place to retire to. We were tired of the rapid growth of our area without the good quality of life that was to go along with this growth. We found this quality of life in abundance here in Southeast Missouri. So we retired here in 1995...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/10/96)
Son to William C. and Carla S. Stokes IV of Jackson, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 5:40 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, 1996. Name, Andrew Christian. Weight, 6 pounds 9 ounces. Third child, second son. Mrs. Stokes is the former Carla Pollard, daughter of Kay Pollard of Leonard, Texas. Stokes is the son of Bill and Mickie Stokes of Rowlett, Texas. He is a pharmaceutical salesman...
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CLYDE TULEY
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
DUDLEY -- Clyde Forest Tuley, 89, of Dudley, died Friday, Aug. 9, 1996, at the Dexter Nursing Center. He was born Aug. 16, 1906, in Dudley, son of James Y. and Emma Jane White Tuley. He married Nina Lee Chase June 17, 1933. She died June 28, 1974. Tuley was a lifelong resident of Dudley and a retired lathe-setter at IXL Handle Co. at Dexter and Bernie. He was a Methodist...
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MAXINE PEEBLES
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
Memorial service for Maxine E. Peebles of Cincinnati, Ohio, will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday at Anderson Hills United Methodist Church in Cincinnati. Peebles, 71, died Sunday, Aug. 4, 1996, at Christ Hospital in Cincinnati. She was born May 7, 1925, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Thomas and Jennie Vangilder Campbell. She and Herbert R. Peebles were married April 27, 1946, in Cape Girardeau...
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RUSSELL DELAY
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Funeral service for Russell DeLay of Marseilles, Ill., will be held at 1 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Chapel in East Prairie. The Rev. David Dowdy will officiate. Burial will be in East Prairie Memorial Park Cemetery, with military graveside rites by Brown-Twitty Legion Post of New Madrid...
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WILLIAM BRASHER
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
William Owen Brasher, 76, of Horseshoe Bend, Ark., died Sunday, Aug. 4, 1996, in Horseshoe Bend. He was born March 16, 1920, at Morley, son of Jesse Owen and Viola Nanney Brasher. He married the former Margaret A. Thacker. Brasher served in the U.S. Navy from 1938-58, retiring as chief. He later worked at Arkansas Best Freight in Cape Girardeau...
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LOLA POSTON
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
VANDUSER -- Lola Mae McAllister Poston, 84, of Vanduser died Friday, Aug. 9, 1996, at her home. She was born Feb. 18, 1912, in Sikeston to Perry and Donie Meyers Ward. She married Joseph Herbert McAllister, who died in 1956. She later married the Rev. Bert Lee Poston, who died July 22, 1987...
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MOTORCYCLIST INJURED NEAR PERRYVILLE
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
PERRYVILLE -- A Memphis man suffered moderate injuries in an early morning accident Friday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Ronald Melton, 42, was southbound on Interstate 55, approximately 2 miles north of Highway B, when his 1970 Harley Davidson motorcycle was struck in the rear by a 1995 Ford...
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ODIS REED
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
BENTON -- Odis P. Reed, 77, of Houston, Texas, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at Veterans Memorial Hospital in Houston. He was born May 12, 1919, at Benton. Reed worked for National Marine 24 years, retiring June 1, 1981. Survivors include his wife, Cornelia Reed of Houston; a daughter, Carla of Houston; a stepdaughter, Phyllis of Houston; a stepson, Mike Harris of Jackson; two brothers, Clyde Reed of Scott City, Curtis Clymer of Cape Girardeau; a sister, Dorothy Kunz of St. ...
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MILLARD PRICE
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
Millard Baysinger Price, 79, of Cape Girardeau, died Friday, Aug. 9, 1996, at Heartland Care and Rehab Center. He was born Oct. 23, 1916, in Grand Tower, Ill., son of Richard and Elizabeth Price. Price had been a butcher at the former Central Packing Co...
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BILL FINLEY
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
CHARLESTON -- Bill Finley, 68, of McHenry, Ill., died Friday, Aug. 9, 1996, at Northern Illinois Medical Center in McHenry. He was born Oct. 16, 1927, in East Prairie, son of Robert and Delpha Finley. He and Hetty Wagner were married May 27, 1947. Finley was a regional sales manager for the state of New Jersey with CP International. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He had lived in McHenry 22 years...
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MARTA RIOS
(Obituary ~ 08/10/96)
COBDEN, Ill. -- Marta Gaytan Rios, 33, of Cobden, died Thursday, Aug. 8, 1996, in an automobile accident north of Cobden. Friends may call at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden from 5-8 p.m. Sunday. Funeral service and burial will be in Mexico...
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FARMERS SHARE SPOTLIGHT AT CHAMBER'S ANNUAL BBQ FEST AUG. 23-24
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
Chefs and barbecue teams will be spotlighted at the fourth annual Cape BBQ Fest this month. But a small group of competitive farmers also will grab a share of the spotlight. The annual barbecue contest, to be held Aug. 23-24 at Arena Park, is sponsored by the Agri-Business Committee of Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce and a number of co-sponsors...
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FRIEDRICH REUNION SCHEDULED AUG. 18
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
JACKSON -- The Friedrich family reunion will be held Aug. 18 at noon at Emanuel United Church of Christ, 304 E. Adams. Those attending are to bring their own food, drinks and tableware. Families are urged to bring photos or other memorabilia to share...
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BREDEMEIER BLASTS NIXON FOR TAKING GAMBLING CONTRIBUTIONS
(Local News ~ 08/10/96)
Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon was wrong to accept campaign contributions from gambling interests, his Republican challenger said Friday. The challenger, lawyer Mark Bredemeier of Lee's Summit, said Nixon has received more than $30,000 in campaign contributions from gambling firms since 1991...
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