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LETTERS: THE EVER-FADING LINE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/07/96)
To the editor: The young couple from Delaware drives nervously to a motel, delivers their baby, kills the baby and puts the baby into a trash container. In Arkansas, two boys have a fight on the school bus while going home for the day. The next morning one of the boys (14 years old) brings a gun to school and shoots the other boy to death. ...
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CHAFFEE WANTS TO KEEP TRAINED POLICE AROUND
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
CHAFFEE -- Tired of training police only to watch them leave for bigger departments, the Chaffee City Council wants new officers to sign on the dotted line. On Monday, council members unanimously approved a three-year "letter of agreement" for all new officers...
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SCHOOL OFFICIALS PROMOTE MASTER PLAN
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
Cape Girardeau public school officials Friday made their first concentrated effort to promote good feelings and votes for the school district's master plan. Dr. Dan Tallent, school superintendent, addressed the Chamber of Commerce First Friday Coffee in the first in a series of presentations he hopes will gather support for a comprehensive overhaul to existing district buildings and programs...
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SEE A DOCTOR WHEN ITS TIME TO GET HELP SLEEPING
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
More than 70 sleep disorders have been identified, said Dr. Bradley K. Bittle, a Cape Girardeau sleep specialist, but most of those are "reasonably rare." Sleep disorders run the gamut from insomnia -- the inability to fall asleep -- to hypersomnia -- feeling sleepy all the time -- to narcolepsy, or "sleep attacks."...
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PERCHANCE TO DREAM: STUDYING SLEEP DISORDERS
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
The sleep lab is equipped with two patient rooms. Pender says good night at "lights out." Pender fitted an Adam's circuit mask on Peggy O'Farrell. The mask, known as a continuous positive airway pressure device, helps force oxygen into the patient's airway and keep the airway open to prevent sleep apnea...
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THE EDUCATIONAL DISASTERS OF COUNTERFEIT SELF-ESTEEM
(Editorial ~ 12/07/96)
For over three decades, education's "self-esteemers" have run the show, distorting education's mission from one of teaching basic skills to one of hiding incompetence while "feeling good" about oneself. Authentic self-esteem, based on genuine learning, remains central to education growth. But for thirty years, we have gutted rigorous, traditional educational subjects and practices in favor of making students "feel good," regardless of actual accomplishments...
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THREE CHEERS FOR A NEW MASCOT TO PROMOTE SEMO PRIDE
(Editorial ~ 12/07/96)
Southeast Missouri State University students want a new mascot to cheer the athletic teams. Mascots are a colorful part of professional and college sports, just as much a staple as the cheerleaders at many colleges and universities. Students here feel they are missing something by not having a mascot, and they feel a mascot will help build team spirit...
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SCHOOL ATTENDANCE POLICY NEEDS COMMON SENSE
(Editorial ~ 12/07/96)
Attendance and truancy have long been school issues. In the old days, if a student missed too much school, he or she was penalized. But several Chicago schools have added a twist to attendance: Students can actually increase their grades with perfect attendance. It is a ridiculous notion...
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U.S. MUST REMEMBER LESSONS OF PEARL HARBOR
(Editorial ~ 12/07/96)
Today marks the 55th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, a day that will live in infamy. We pause to remember the more than 3,000 Americans who died in that surprise raid by the Japanese. That attack thrust the United States into World War II. For 45 months, Americans sacrificed on the battlefield and at home. By war's end, more than 400,000 U.S. servicemen and women had died...
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SEMO's ARMY ROTC TARGETED FOR CLOSING
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
The shadow of military downsizing has enveloped the Army Reserve Officer Training Corps at Southeast Missouri State University, casting doubt on the program's future. Southeast's Army ROTC is one of 28 on college campuses nationwide that the Army has recommended be discontinued...
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WOMAN, NOW IN CITY, NEEDS HOBBY ITEMS
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
Mrs. L is a country girl who misses the family farm. Until very recently she lived with relatives on a farm that clung to the lifestyle of the early 1900s. She was happy there. She has had problems adjusting to life without close family ties, and opoor health has made that adustment even worse because she had to leave familiar surroundings to be near medical technology...
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RETURNING TO SCHOOL TOUGH FOR MOM OF 2
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
Tring to improve herself will cost one single mother her children's Christmas presents this year unless she receives help. A mother of two returned to school after she and her husband separated recently. Tuition is high, she said, and she can't afford to pay tuition for next semester and buy Christmas gifts, too...
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ROAD PAVING FALLS SHORT; COUNTY GETS HALF OF WORK DONE THIS YEAR
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
Cape Girardeau County paved only about half of the gravel roads it had hoped to pave before this year's construction season ended. The County Commission planned to pave about eight miles of county roads before cold weather set in, but only about four miles were completed...
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WASTE BURNING AT LONE STAR TOPIC OF THURSDAY MEETING
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
Lone Star Industries, which burns shredded rubber and toxic-waste fuels in its kiln under interim status, hopes within the next year to acquire a permit to do so permanently from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: SALVATION AND TEMPTATION: SERVINGS OF THE SALAD BAR
(Column ~ 12/07/96)
Man I love pay week. It's not because I suddenly have money; that is a fleeting thing with me. In no time what once was a positive balance in my checking account will decay to a negative and I'll have to sweat out the last couple of days until my check arrives and the whole illusion begins again...
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BENTON MAN DIES IN CRASH
(Local News ~ 12/07/96)
A 26-year-old Benton man died Friday when the car he was driving ran off the roadway, struck a tree and overturned. Thomas Lupardus was the 83rd person killed in traffic accidents in Southeast Missouri's Troop E region this year, the Highway Patrol said...
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MILAM M. WINDERS
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
WICKLIFFE, Ky. -- Milam M. Winders, 83, of Wickliffe, formerly of Benton, Mo., died Thursday, Dec. 5, 1996, at Countryside Health Care in Bardwell. He was the son of John W. and Nannie J. Fritts Winders. He worked for the Waldschmidt Lumber Co. for more than 50 years and was head sawyer...
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STELLA MENZ
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
Funeral service for Stella E. Menz, 1232 Linden, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Cy Smith will officiate, with burial in Lorimier Cemetery. Friends may call at the chapel from 11 a.m. to service time. Menz, 74, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital...
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AMANDA ENDERLE
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
CHAFFEE -- Funeral Mass for Amanda Marie Enderle of Chaffee will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Ambrose Catholic Church. The Rev. Lewis Hejna will officiate, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee after 4 p.m. Sunday. The rosary will be at 7 by Daughters of Isabella...
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BRIAN GARNER
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Funeral service for Brian Patrick Garner of Cairo will be held at 1 p.m. Sunday at Barkett Funeral Home in Cairo. Dr. Larry L. Potts will officiate, with burial in Spencer Heights Cemetery at Mounds. Friends may call at the funeral home after 4 p.m. today. Cairo Elks Lodge 651 will have a service at 7:30...
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RAYMOND NELSON JR.
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
MARSTON -- Raymond Wood Nelson Jr., 75, of Leipers Fork, Tenn., died Friday, Dec. 6, 1996, at Williamson County Medical Center in Franklin, Tenn. He was born Nov. 25, 1921, at Marston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Nelson Sr. He and Mary Thompson were married Nov. 10, 1972, at Lilbourn...
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OMAR SHIPLEY
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
STURDIVANT -- Omar A. Shipley, 82, of Sturdivant died Friday, Dec. 6, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 26, 1914, at St. Elmo, Ill., son of Wesley and Millie Kelley Shipley. He first married Edith Crum March 5, 1942. She died Dec. 22, 1981. He later married Fleda Brown Sept. 29, 1992, in Randolph, Vt...
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JOSEPH GOZA
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
Joseph Edward Goza, 69, of Saginaw, Mich., died Friday, Dec. 6, 1996, at St. Luke Hospital in Saginaw. Ford and Sons Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
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NANNIE SEABAUGH
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
FARMINGTON -- Funeral service for Nannie L. Seabaugh of Farmington will be held at 11 a.m. today at Taylor Funeral Chapel in Farmington. Dr. William Miller will officiate, with burial in New Calvary Cemetery at Farmington. Seabaugh, 88, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 1996, at the home of a daughter in Scott City...
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LOREN BAILEY
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
THEBES, Ill. -- Loren Eugene Bailey, 56, of Thebes died Friday, Dec. 6, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, Mo. He was born Jan. 12, 1940, in Belle Rive, son of Columbus and Sula Mae Wind Bailey. Bailey was employed by the city of Thebes. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War...
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WOODROW BURLISON
(Obituary ~ 12/07/96)
WARDELL -- Woodrow W. Burlison, 79, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 1996 at his home in Wardell. He was born Jan. 6, 1917 in Hornersville, the son of the late J.I. and Lillie Jane Marler Burlison. He married Donnie Lee Long on Aug. 16, 1939. She preceded him in death Oct. 18, 1980. He married Peggy Foster on Dec. 27, 1982. She survives...
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