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JAY NIXON EMBRACES QUESTIONABLE FUNDING TACTIC
(Editorial ~ 11/23/97)
The president of the United States was in St. Louis this week raising funds for the 1998 U.S. Senate campaign of Attorney General Jay Nixon. He and Nixon attended a $1,000-per-person reception and a $5,000-per-couple dinner that followed. The events are said to have netted more than $200,000 for Nixon's campaign against Sen. Christopher Bond and a similarly huge amount for the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee...
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A LOOK BACK AT JACKSON
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
25 years ago, 1972 Chairmen of two City Council committees and acting city administrator, Carl Talley, were authorized by council Monday night to engage consultant to make long-range plan for city park land; action came following report of swimming pool advisory committee, which indicated that pool location should be decided as part of overall park development plan...
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MADIGRAL FEST & FEAST SERVES UP MEDIEVAL GOOD TIME
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
This roving band of minstrels is from the left, Mark Sickles, Krista Nickelson and Joseph Myers. Ing Bradley Berry and Queen Amanda Webb enjoyed their time at the Madrigal Fest and Feast. If you missed "Ye Olde Madrigal Fest & Feast," put on by the Jackson High School Choral Department at the Bavarian Halle in Fruitland, you missed a medieval good time...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU LICENSE BUREAU ISSUES ADVICE
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
The Cape Girardeau license bureau has some advice for those motorists who will renew their vehicle license plates in January. Effective Jan. 1, motorists must present their insurance card or other proof of financial responsibility, said license bureau manager Norma Wildman...
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LIBERTARIAN MEETING MONDAY
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
The Cape Girardeau County Libertarian Party will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the Cape Girardeau Public Library to discuss a tobacco ordinance proposed by the city of Cape Girardeau. The proposed ordinance, which has not yet been presented to the City Council, would ban possession of tobacco by teens under the age of 18 and would allow prosecution in municipal court for teens found carrying tobacco or tobacco products...
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POPULAR ARTS AND CRAFTS FAIRS CONTINUE TODAY
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
Thousands crowded into crafts fairs scattered throughout Cape Girardeau and Fruitland Saturday for the first day of the Arts and Crafts Extravaganza. The arts and crafts fairs will be open again today at the Show Me Center, Osage Community Centre, National Guard Armory and Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau and the Bavarian Halle in Fruitland...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 11/23/97)
THIS IS in response to the individual who's complaint was about strollers in public. This takes the old saying "Children should be seen and not heard" one step further. Perhaps children should not be seen at all. Children have as much right to go anywhere as anyone else. If you're having a problem with running into strollers, perhaps you need your eyes examined, or maybe you should stay at home...
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KINDER'S COMMENTARY; WHO HAS CLOUT IN WASHINGTON? CERTAINLY NOT THE PRESIDENT
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
President Clinton's defeat by his own party on the question of fast-track authority to negotiate trade agreements hasn't received sufficient attention. This is an event that will reverberate for years, with countless implications, nearly all bad. First, it is bad for the post-World War II consensus favoring free trade and more open world markets. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: IS THIS WHAT WE REALLY WANT?
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
Past experience suggests that fully half of Missouri's voters cannot name, much less characterize, their state legislators, and while this observation is less valid in outstate Missouri, it is virtually the rule rather than the exception in urban areas of the state. Unless one believes representative government is best managed by anonymous men and women, no one can welcome the imminent anonymity that will soon cloak the membership of both chambers in the Missouri General Assembly...
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MISSOURI COMMENTARY: DEMOCRATS STIFLED ON LOW LUNG POWER
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
The president came to town last week. He is still a young man -- 51 -- but not quite so young as he presented himself in the last election. He appears to be a tired young man. Things that went so well for him in 1996 are not going so well in 1997. Some call his predicament lame duckitis. That's as good a phrase as any...
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THREAT OF SADDAM'S HATE STILL WITH US
(Editorial ~ 11/23/97)
So, after a lot of huffing and puffing, Saddam Hussein is letting the United Nations weapons inspectors he has just kicked out of Iraq -- including Americans -- back in. This, we are told, is the result of an agreement brokered, astonishingly, by Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov, who is known for having some sort of friendship with Saddam~ and for having opposed the use of military force by the international coalition during the Gulf War of 1990-91...
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BANDITS GUNNED DOWN NEAR WITTENBERG 75 YEARS AGO
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
Today only a battery box stands across from where the Wittenberg depot used to be. It was abandoned in 1967. The train doesn't stop in Wittenberg anymore. Southeast Missourian newspaper clippings from 1922, tell the story of the demise of Missouri's last great train robber...
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FROM THE PULPIT: GIVE THANKS FOR YOUR SETBACKS
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
On Thursday, most of us will pause from the daily repetition of the mundane to give thanks for our blessings. It amazes me how even the most hard-hearted, narrow-minded, tight-fisted curmudgeon will wistfully acknowledge a note of gratitude. For the most part, we'll give thanks for all the good things in our lives...
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PAYBACK: MISSOURI CRIME VICTIMS COMPENSATED $6,147,000
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
Missouri crime victims received more than $6 million through the state's Crime Victims' Compensation program in fiscal 1997. The payments were the highest ever from the program since the state began compensating crime victims in 1983. More than 1,400 crime victims received, on average, $4,311 to help cover various expenses, ranging from funeral costs to medical bills...
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GETTING THE WORD OUT TO VICTIMS
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
Missouri's Crime Victims Compensation program dates back more than a decade, but many crime victims have never heard of it, a victims' advocate says. The victims' advocate, Bettie Knoll, said prosecutors and police officers need to do a better job of informing victims of their rights, including that they could be eligible for state compensation...
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HOLIDAY HIRING WOES
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
"Pre-Christmas help wanted! Second income, earn $1,000 or more for Christmas." "We have openings for cashier-checkers, sales clerks." "Part-time Positions available, $6 an hour!" "Selling Specialists. Full and part-time positions available." "Now Hiring for the Holidays."...
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ADVANCE OPENS NEW SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
ADVANCE -- The floors are so clean in the new Advance High School that sneakers squeak. The smell of fresh paint hangs in the air, and boxes are still being unpacked. But students and teachers moved in last week to a new building for grades sixth through 12...
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SOUTH SIDE CLEANUP
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
Cold weather didn't keep some 50 volunteers from completing a community beautification project in South Cape Girardeau Saturday morning. Members from Vision 2000 and the Class of 2000 gathered volunteers on the lot of the old Schnucks Midtown store for the "Pride on the South Side" project. The job included a trash detail throughout the surrounding area...
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CASINOS CONTINUE FLOATING
(Local News ~ 11/23/97)
There will be no permanent dockside gambling in Illinois over the next year. Illinois riverboat casinos will continue cruising after a plan to allow dockside gambling failed in the final hours of the legislature's fall session last week. A House committee blocked the proposals after it had cleared both a Senate committee and the full Senate, 32 to 25...
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MARK MY WORD: SHOES TIE PARENTS UP IN KNOTS DURING MORNING RUSH
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
"One, two, buckle my shoe." It sounds easy enough in a nursery rhyme. But it is far from easy when you're trying to put such shoes on your children. Joni bought oldest daughter Becca a new pair of black shoes the other day. Each shoe had two straps and two buckles...
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THE LATEST LIN: IT WAS FAR FROM PRETTY, BUT SE CAGERS NABBED INITIAL VICTORY
(College Sports ~ 11/23/97)
Well, it wasn't all that pretty, but Southeast Missouri State University's basketball team got its first win of the Gary Garner era Friday night when the Indians beat Central Methodist 94-78. Sure, the Indians didn't play all that great, which is not too surprising considering they were playing a lower-division team they were supposed to beat handily, which always makes for a scary situation...
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OTAHKS SEE OVC PRESEASON FAVORITE GEL IN POSTSEASON
(College Sports ~ 11/23/97)
Whatever impelled Ohio Valley Conference volleyball coaches to pick Eastern Illinois University to win the league this season never surfaced -- until now. Fifth-seeded Eastern Illinois controlled No. 1 Southeast Missouri State 15-12, 16-14, 9-15, 15-5 on Saturday before 555 at Houck Field House in an OVC Tournament semifinal match...
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MARG(AR)INE OF WIN: BUTTERFIELD; SE UNABLE TO STOP TSU RECEIVER IN 32-27 LOSS
(College Sports ~ 11/23/97)
A big-play passing attack barely nosed out a big-back running attack Saturday afternoon as Southeast Missouri State University's football team closed out a disappointing season on a disappointing note. The Indians fell behind early and never led, although they made things mighty interesting before suffering a 32-27 loss to Tennessee State in front of 1,252 fans at Houck Stadium...
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SOUTHEAST LIPS MUM ON MUMFORD
(College Sports ~ 11/23/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's football team had barely concluded its season Saturday with a 32-27 loss to Tennessee State when already the question was posed to John Mumford. Does Mumford think he will be back next year for his ninth season as the Indians' head coach?...
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OUTDOOR CORNER: WALLEYE FISHING PICKS UP DURING WINTER MONTHS
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
Just because it is deer season people shouldn't forget that there are some excellent walleye angling opportunities in Southeast Missouri. While Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Canada are famous for their walleye fishing, anglers trying to catch a "wall hanger" should try fishing the Black River or the Diversion Channel. Walleye fishing in the lower Black River has been good, with anglers catching 7- to 10-pound fish. Walleye angling in the Diversion Channel is best throughout the winter...
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JOSEPH W. KIES
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
JACKSON -- Joseph W. Kies of Phoenix, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1991, at his home. He was 54. He was born in Cape Girardeau on Sept. 26, 1943, the son of William Kies Jr. and Thelma Chron Kies. He grew up in Cape Girardeau, graduating from Central High School. After receiving degrees from William Jewell College and Arizona State University, he moved to Scottsdale, Ariz., where he worked as a teacher until his health forced him to retire...
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TOY C. WALTON
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
MARBLE HILL -- Toy C. Walton of Marble Hill died Saturday, Nov. 22, 1997, at the Bond Nursing Care Center in Marble Hill. He was 88. He was born Aug. 30, 1909, in Flat River, the son of B. and Laura Ross Walton. He worked until retirement as an electrician...
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CATHERINE E. CULLICK
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
Catherine E. Cullick, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 22, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are pending at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel.
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LILLIAN I. DAVIS
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
Lillian I. Davis, 81, of Kansas City died Saturday, Nov. 22, 1997, at the Armour Home in Kansas City. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Funeral Home.
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DEWEL SMITH
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
MARBLE HILL -- Dewel "Wayne" Smith of Marble Hill died Friday, Nov. 21, 1997, at Sedgewickville from injuries in an automobile accident. He was 45. He was born June 26, 1952, at St. Louis, son of Dewel and Ella May Statler Smith. On Sept. 1, 1984, he married Rita Hinkle...
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NORAH MAE GARMS
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
Norah Mae Kohrmann Garms, 99, of St. Louis, formerly of Steelville, died Thursday, Nov. 20, 1997, in St. Louis. She is survived by two sons, Irvin Garms of Cape Girardeau and John Garms of Scott City; two daughters, Ruby Garms and Dorothy White, both of St. Louis; a brother, Kenneth Kohrmann of Owensville; grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and great-great-grandchildren...
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JOSEPH GREANEY
(Obituary ~ 11/23/97)
HAMMOND, Ind. -- Joseph E. Greaney, 79, of Hammond, Ind., died Saturday, Nov. 22, 1997, at Hammond. He was born Oct. 10, 1918, at Cairo, Ill., the son of Joseph P. and Margaret Murphy Greaney. He is survived by a brother, Tom Greaney of Hammond, a sister, Mary Jane Perkins of San Antonio, and several nieces and nephews...
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FOR MOST OF THE CENTURY: SCHOOL DRESSES
(Column ~ 11/23/97)
Jean Bell Mosley's new autobiography, "For Most of the Century," is only available in serialized form in the Southeast Missourian. Return each week for her continuing story. There was another sound, not exclusively a country sound, but very sweet to the ears of three little girls, and that was Mama's sewing machine...
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