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LETTERS: MARCHING TIGERS DID WELL
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/14/96)
To the editor: I would like to thank you, Peggy Scott and everyone at the Southeast Missourian for the great coverage you provided the Marching Tigers during their season. Not only did you provide an article after each of our competitions -- five in all, you also covered the band's involvement in President Clinton's visit and the Jackson Band Festival...
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TASK FORCE IS LOOKING AT MISSOURI'S HIGHWAY NEEDS, COSTS
(Editorial ~ 11/14/96)
When voters approved a 4-cent increase in Missouri's fuel tax back in 1987, they were voicing their approval of an ambitious 15-year plan of highway construction and improvements with a $12.6 billion price tag. The bold plan included the resurfacing of nearly 43,000 miles of pavement, repair or replacement of some 1,900 bridges and improvements to major highways linking cities all over the state. ...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 11/14/96)
Bill Clinton is the first Democratic president to win a second term since Franklin Roosevelt. Many Americans knew Roosevelt, and Bill's no FDR. Nearly a quarter of a million fewer Missourians voted this year than in 1992. That's the trouble with politics: The more you know about it, the less you like it...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 11/14/96)
WELL, THE election's over. I'm glad President Clinton won. I think the people are kind of contradictory. They try to say they don't trust him, but apparently they do have trust in him. He won by a landslide. I think the people who elected a Republican Congress wanted to give him a chance. They weren't happy with Congress this past two years, but they wanted to go by checks and balances. No, I don't think the Republicans can take that as a win. They can call that a second chance...
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LITTLE ROCK SERVES UP MUSICAL GUMBO; DIFFERING AGES AND CAREERS MAKE POPULAR BAND MORE COHESIVE
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
PERRYVILLE -- You couldn't find five more diverse people than the members of Little Rock. The band includes a mental health counselor, a carpenter and an X-ray technician. Their ages span the 20s, 30s and 40s. They live all over parts of Cape Girardeau, Bollinger and Perry counties...
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`INDEPENDENCE': PLAY LOOKS AT A FAMILY FRACTURING
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
Director Bob Clubbs "Independence" was playwright Lee Blessing's attempt to write stronger roles for women. But Bob Clubbs, who is directing the student-produced drama opening Wednesday at Southeast's Lab Theater, doesn't regard "Independence" as a "women's play."...
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ST. FRANCIS FOUNDATION CELEBRATES 20 YEARS
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
Five hundred people gathered at the Holiday Inn Convention Center Tuesday night for the 20th anniversary celebration of St. Francis Medical Center Foundation. Edythe Davis, executive director, was one of the recipients honored for her work and dedication over the past 20 years...
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BUILDER OBJECTS TO WALKS PROPOSAL
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
Before Wednesday night, Cape Girardeau's proposed sidewalk ordinance met with unusual silence from local developers. Steve Strom broke that silence at the monthly Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. The City Council had asked commission members to compose a sidewalk ordinance that would work for all new developments. The issue arose when Texas-based developer Harold Holigan agreed to put sidewalks in his subdivision that adjoins Cape Girardeau School District property...
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CITY CONTINUES PROCESS OF HIRING POLICE, FIRE CHIEFS
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
Cape Girardeau City Manager Michael Miller plans to announce the names of new police and fire chiefs in three weeks while the search for a new airport manager begins. Miller said the new fire and police chiefs should be in office by the first of the year...
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PARKING METERS GREET SEMO VISITORS
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
You have to feed the meter to park in visitor parking spaces behind Academic Hall. Southeast Missouri State University has installed six digital parking meters in visitor parking spaces behind Academic Hall, the first meters in Cape Girardeau in more than a decade...
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REHAB CENTER NEEDS REPAIRS
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
Most people in Cape Girardeau can tell you about the Mid-America Teen Challenge organization. But not many know how the organization has managed to thrive over 27 years. "We're unashamedly Christian, and if you want to know why we're so successful, that's it," said the Rev. Jack Smart, its executive director...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: YOU ARE GETTING VERY SLEEPY .... VERY SLEEPY
(Column ~ 11/14/96)
Nov. 14, 1996 Dear Pat, Years ago I read a book called "Four Arguments for the Abolition of Television." Must've just picked it off the library shelf for the sheer revolutionary spirit of the title. Three of the reasons for abolishing television did not remain in my memory but the fourth did. The author, a former big-league advertising executive, maintains that watching TV is nothing more than mass hypnosis...
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MAN SEEN AT HOSPITAL AFTER PUSHING OUT-OF-GAS CAR
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
A 72-year-old Cape Girardeau man was taken to a hospital Wednesday after trying to push his out-of-gas car to a service station by himself. Firefighters responded to a motor vehicle accident and medical emergency at 449 S. Kingshighway. A Cape Girardeau Fire Department spokesperson said the man's car had run out of gas and he was pushing it to a gas station when he lost control of it and the opened door knocked him down...
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RURAL RESTORATION CONFERENCE SET FOR FEB. 16-18
(Local News ~ 11/14/96)
SIKESTON -- The 1997 Rural Restoration Conference will attract some big names to Sikeston. Mike Salisburg, certified agricultural consultant and president-elect of the American Society of Agriculture Consultants in Eaton Rapids, Mich., and Robert S. McGee of Houston, Texas, president and founder of Rapha Christian Hospital Treatment Centers and author of "The Search for Significance," will attend the three-day conference at the Ramada Inn Feb. 16-18...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 11/14/96)
Son to Dr. Thomas Myles and Dr. Rosa Galvez-Myles of Oak Park, Ill., Thursday, Oct. 17, 1996. Name, Michael Luis. Weight, 8 pounds 3 ounces. First child. Dr. Galvez-Myles is the daughter of Rosa Taico of Skokie, Ill., and Luis Galvez of Chicago. She is a family physician at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Chicago. Myles is the son of Ken and Jean Myles of Cape Girardeau. He is an assistant professor at the University of Illinois School of Medicine in Chicago...
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WAYNE MILLER
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Wayne L. Miller, 81, of Alto Pass died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996, at his home. Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home at Alto Pass is in charge of arrangements.
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FRANKIE DOYLE WILLCUT
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
CLARKTON -- Frankie Doyle Willcut, 63, of Clarkton died Wednesday Nov. 13, 1996, at his home. He was born July 14, 1933 in North Island, son of the late Richard and Ollie Walter Willcut. He married Frances Aurelie Montoya on Dec. 25, 1954 in Deming, N.M., who survives him...
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WANDA LEA SMITH
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Wanda Lea Smith, 67, of Poplar Bluff, died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996, at the Lucy Lee Hospital in Poplar Bluff. She was born July 6, 1929, near Dexter, the daughter of the late George and Rachel Winemiller Gaines. She married Hurshel E. "Gene" Smith on Nov. 22, 1948, in Piggott, Ark., and he survives her. She was a homemaker, lifelong resident of Stoddard County and a member of the Bridge Church of Christ...
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WILLIAM THOMAS CHAPMAN
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
William Thomas Chapman, 81, of Anderson, S.C., died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at his residence. He was born June 7, 1915, in Elbert County, Ga., the son of the late James and Leona Chapman Booth Abercrombie. He married Frances Sanders Chapman in Anderson, who survives him...
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HELEN STILLEY
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
Helen Stilley, 89, of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday Nov. 13, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home.
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RAYMOND DUNN SR.
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Raymond Richard Dunn Sr., 63, of Olive Branch died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at his home. He was born Nov. 3, 1933, at Tamms, son of Hershel Lee and Clara Belle Lacey Dunn. He and Sharon Ice were married Dec. 12, 1960, in Mounds...
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ADELLE SPELL
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Adelle Theresa Spell, 88, of Perryville died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Dec. 22, 1907, at Perryville, daughter of William and Julia Pouyer Valleroy. She and Carter Q. Spell were married Oct. 23, 1950. He died Feb. 24, 1984...
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W.S. BABB
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
CHARLESTON -- W.S. Babb, 80, of Charleston died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996, at his home. He was born June 26, 1916, at Diehlstadt, son of William Smith and Lucy Randall Babb. He and Vivian Cox were married Feb. 18, 1939. Babb was a retired farmer. He was a member of First Christian Church, Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame, honorary member of FFA, former member of Lions Club, served as a Boy Scout leader, and received the Farmer's Recognition Award...
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ELBERT COOK
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
MARBLE HILL -- Elbert "Dude" Cook, 73, of Marble Hill died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 18, 1923, in the Hurricane community of Bollinger County, son of the Rev. Elza and Hattie Cook. He and Geraldine Garland were married Aug. 4, 1944...
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TONY PICKETT
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
CHARLESTON -- Tony Pickett, 39, of Charleston died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston, following an extended illness. He was born Feb. 15, 1957, in Anniston, son of Lee Doyle and Jackie Thurman Pickett. Survivors include two daughters, Adrienne and Amy Pickett of Charleston; and a sister, Jennifer Borders of Charleston...
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ROBERT WILCOX
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
SIKESTON -- Robert A. "Bob" Wilcox, 44, of Sikeston died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at his home. He was born March 31, 1952, son of Lynn and Charlotta Wilcox. He and Patty Pobst were married June 21, 1974. Wilcox was a lab technician at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, and a senior at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau. He was a graduate of Gradwohl University in St. Louis and Kentucky School of Mortuary Science...
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LLOYD WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
Lloyd E. Williams, 57, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, Nov. 12, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements.
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FERN CROWDEN
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Fern Crowden, Chaffee Route 2, will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee. The Rev. Ronnie Brown will officiate, with burial in Morgan Memorial Park in Advance. Friends may call at the chapel after 4 p.m. today...
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DALLAS DOVER
(Obituary ~ 11/14/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Dallas E. Dover, 52, of Scott City died Wednesday, Nov. 13, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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