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CHIROPRACTORS GAIN RESPECT
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
For chiropractors, times are most definitely changing. Nowadays new, ambitious doctors in the field, like Dr. Mike Givens in Cape Girardeau, as well as veterans in the business, like Dr. James Wills in Jackson, Mo., are gaining more respect with doctors of conventional medicine and are getting more patients with the use of special techniques...
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MEDICAL SURFARI: EMERGENCY CARE: WHO DECIDES IF YOU CAN'T?
(Column ~ 08/03/00)
It can happen to you. Cancer A heart attack Stroke A slip in the bathtub A car accident and a rush to the hospital When you need medical care, you want the best you can get. The advancement of medical technology has brought about more choices for patients and physicians. This is especially true when patients have critical injuries or illnesses that threaten their lives...
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COUNTY MOVES NATURE CENTER; WAR MEMORIAL WILL STAY
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
A proposed nature center will be built farther away from the war memorial in Cape Girardeau County Park North. The Cape Girardeau County Commission said the war memorial won't be moved. Project architects earlier this summer had proposed building the nature center near the park entrance close to the war memorial. The plan called for relocating the war memorial to a ridge west of the park's main lake, closing the existing park road and building a new entrance road from U.S. 61...
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POLITICAL ADVERTISING IS REACHING ITS PEAK
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
Advertising has become a bigger part of the political campaign with the increase in television, newspaper and radio markets in Southeast Missouri. As Tuesday's primary elections draw near, more candidates choose to air commercials and publish newspaper ads...
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STREET IMPROVEMENTS: DOWNTOWN PROJECTS NUMEROUS
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
Cape Girardeau motorists traveling downtown have seen scenic streets turned into obstacle courses loaded with rough roads, detour signs and a slew of orange construction cones. A number of paving and curbing projects are under way along streets in the city's older northeast and downtown areas. The majority of the work is taking place between Washington and Normal streets south to Themis between the river and West End Boulevard...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: MAKING LIFE MORE WONDERFUL HERE IN THE HOOD
(Column ~ 08/03/00)
Aug. 3, 2000 Dear Pat, Here in the hood, we've got armed robberies, dope deals, little boys who try to dress like gangstas, we've got people whose primary way of communicating with their children is to scream and beat on them, we've got landlords who can't be bothered, unfriendly dogs, squealing tires and car stereos that rap on your windows, we've got women for sale and men trying to drum up their glory days again on the basketball court...
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ST. LOUIS MAN HELD IN SHOOTING
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
Cape Girardeau have arrested St. Louis man after a firearm was discharged along North Street Tuesday night, Cape Girardeau police said. About 9:30 p.m., police received reports of shots being fired in the 500 block of North Street, Lt. Dennis Dolan said. Two officers responded and found a man who witnesses said had been shooting a firearm, Dolan said...
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SB40 BOARD WILL LET COMMISSION DECIDE WHO WILL REMAIN
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- The nine people on Perry County's Senate Bill 40 board will not choose three of their members to leave, as requested in a July lawsuit settlement. The Perry County Commission will do it for them, said Patrick Naeger, board chairman...
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PROGRAM LOOKS TO REDUCE WATERSHED CONTAMINATION
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
BENTON -- A project seeking to reduce water contamination would be a good one for Scott County according to a conservationist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The SALT Project would reduce the threat of surface and ground water contamination, said Darin Gant, district conservationist for the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a federal program formerly known as the Soil Conservation Service...
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WICKS CLAIMS MISSOURI CHAMBER SLIGHTS HIM IN VOTERS' PAMPHLET
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
State representative candidate Stan Wicks says he should have been listed in the Missouri Chamber of Commerce voters' guide. Wicks is one of three Republican candidates on the Aug. 8 primary ballot for the 158th state House seat. The winner will face Democrat Tom Neumeyer in the November election...
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EMERSON'S AGRICULTURE TOUR WILL BEGIN FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson will hold her annual agriculture tour in Southeast Missouri beginning Friday and running through Aug. 10. She will visit 8th District farms and agricultural businesses. "Commodity prices are lower than they have been in a long time and they just keep dropping. Farmers are worried," the Cape Girardeau Republican said...
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CAPE AIR SHOW GETS NATIONAL MENTION
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
The Cape Girardeau Airport gained national exposure Tuesday when it was mentioned in a story published in the USA Today newspaper. A reporter for the national newspaper visited the airport's annual air show last month while researching a story on pilots and safety. Pilots performing in the Cape Girardeau air show were featured in the story, which detailed the risks pilots take while performing aerobatics...
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SIKESTON DEPOT FUND RAISING PAYS OFF WITH GRANT FROM CULTURAL TRUST
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- The Sikeston Depot Art Gallery and Museum, which opened in March in the city's renovated train depot, has taken a big step toward securing its financial future. The Sikeston Cultural Development Corporation was approved for the Missouri Cultural Trust Capital Incentive Fast Track Program in January and by June had raised $150,000, most of which becomes an endowment. ...
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DEXTER GETS $600,000 TO EXTEND HIGHWAY
(Local News ~ 08/03/00)
DEXTER, Mo. -- A federal grant of more than $600,000 has been awarded to help finance the extension of HighwayAD to the Conner Industrial Park. The grant of $636,000 was announced Tuesday by the U.S. Economic Development Admininstration. That money will be put with a $500,000 grant awarded earlier by the Missouri Department of Economic Development to help finance the extension of Highway AD from its current terminus at Highway 60 south to Arvin Road...
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HALF OF OVC TEAMS HAVE NEW COACHES
(College Sports ~ 08/03/00)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- The winds of (coaching) change have swept into Ohio Valley Conference football for the 2000 season. Of the league's eight football teams, four have new head coaches this year. They were formally introduced to the rest of the league Wednesday during the conference's annual football media day...
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SE PICKED TO FINISH SEVENTH AGAIN IN OVC
(College Sports ~ 08/03/00)
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- For the fourth year in a row, Southeast Missouri State University's Indians were picked to finish seventh in the eight-team Ohio Valley Conference during the league's annual football media day Wednesday. Not that first-year Southeast coach Tim Billings expected any different...
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EUGENE GEORGE
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Eugene A. George, 78, of Bloomfield died Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2000, at Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter, Mo. He was born Aug. 20, 1921, at Broseley, Mo., son of Esta Anthony and Flossie Bell Ringham George. He and Norma Lee Followell were married in 1965. She died Feb. 13, 1994...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 08/03/00)
Son to Seth and Denise Siemers of St. Louis, Missouri Baptist Hospital in St. Louis, 1:52 p.m. Saturday, June 17, 2000. Name, Andrew August. Weight, 6 pounds 9 ounces. First child. Mrs. Siemers is the former Denise Sauer, daughter of Sue Pierce of Hopkinsville, Ky., and Dennis Sauer of Perryville, Mo. ...
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IRIS NULL
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
GLENALLEN, Mo. -- Iris E. Null, 20, of Glen Allen died Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000, in an automobile accident on state Highway 34 west of Jackson, Mo. She was born March 17, 1980, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Charles R. and Pamela J. Hatch Elledge. She and T.J. Null were married Aug. 7, 1999...
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JAMES REDCLOUD
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
TAMMS, Ill. -- James RedCloud of Tamms died Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2000, at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Marion, Ill. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.
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MICHAEL WALLACE
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
Michael Ray Wallace, 50, of Cape Girardeau died Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2000, at his home. He was born Sept. 23, 1949, in Cape Girardeau, son of Richard "Dick" and Thelma Bass Wallace. Wallace was a retired chemist. He worked at Larron Laboratory many years. He was a member of the Salvation Army...
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EILEEN BISHOP
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Eileen H. Bishop, 76, of Perryville died Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2000, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 14, 1923, in Perry County in Missouri, daughter of Andrew and Hester Edmond Hendrix. She and John E. Bishop were married Jan. 15, 1944. He died Jan. 13, 1997...
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OPAL THOMPSON
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Funeral for Opal Robinson Thompson of Lawrenceburg, Tenn., was held Monday at Neal Funeral Home in Lawrenceburg. Tom Byers and David Parr officiated. Burial was in West Side Cemetery. Thompson, 82, died Saturday, July 29, 2000, in a Lawrenceburg hospital...
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EUNICE FLANAGAN
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
Graveside service for Eunice Flanagan of Cape Girardeau will be held at 2 p.m. today at Villa Ridge Cemetery in Mounds, Ill. The Rev. Dale Huff will officiate. Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel is in charge of arrangements. Flanagan, 89, died Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2000, at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Services of Cape Girardeau...
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ROSE MCLARD
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
Rose Marie McLard, 65, of Rockford, Ill., died Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2000, at Nelson-Debes Subacute Complex in Rockford, following a lengthy illness. She was born June 28, 1935, in Rockford, daughter of Floyd and Marie Lersch. She and Elbert N. McLard were married April 8, 1972, in Rockford...
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MARTHA BOONE
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Memorial service for Martha Lou Boone of Butler, Mo., was held July 26 at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Butler. Schowengerdt Funeral Chapel in Butler was in charge of arrangements. Boone, 70, died Monday, July 24, 2000, at St. Joseph Health Center in Kansas City, Mo...
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PAULINE THURMAN
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Pauline Christina Thurman, 83, of Charleston died Tuesday,. Aug. 1, 2000, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. She was born Dec. 24, 1916, at Charleston, daughter of William Henry and Lucretia Christina Scheffer Hart. She and Elmer William "Mike" Thurman were married July 25, 1939. He died Oct. 19, 1968...
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PAULINE THURMAN
(Obituary ~ 08/03/00)
CROWDER, Mo. -- Flora Belle Phillips, 77, of Crowder died Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2000, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Blanchard Funeral Chapel in Sikeston, Mo., is in charge of arrangements.
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FOR ONE FAMILY, MARRIAGE IS SACRED AND FOREVER
(Editorial ~ 08/03/00)
So much is said these days about prenuptial agreements, which are contracts that basically anticipate a marriage, in all likelihood, won't last and legal arrangements about who owns what should be made before anyone repeats "I do." What a sad state of affairs...
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DANIEL NORTH LEAVES A STRONG ARTS COUNCIL THAT HAS GROWN AND PROSPERED
(Editorial ~ 08/03/00)
You wouldn't think Daniel North, at age 25, would have much to tell you about his career so far. But take a look: In 1997 he became an intern at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, then served a year and a half as the council's assistant director and now is completing a year and a half as director of the busy arts council...
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CAPE'S RIVERFRONT COULD BE A GEM, NOT AN EYESORE
(Editorial ~ 08/03/00)
A recent Speak Out comment in the Southeast Missourian has had some people thinking I called in to the newspaper's phone line to leave an anonymous message. By the very nature of what I do -- writing a weekly column for the Banner Press in Marble Hill which often includes opinions aired openly -- I would not call in to the phone line. I'll admit, however, that despite my professional disdain for most anonymous activity, I'm an avid reader of Speak Out...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/03/00)
THE SPEAK Out caller who listed all the different scandals of the Clinton administration and then said that nobody was held accountable is absolutely right. The problem is there have been so many scandals, and this administration has been so corrupt, that you get to where you can't even remember all of them. ...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: JIM DRURY HOLDS GRUDGE LONG TIME
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/03/00)
To the editor: This letter is in response to Jim Drury's full-page ad in last Sunday's Missourian. Some people hold grudges for a very long time. Mr. Drury seems to be one of those people. Ever since the city and the university decided to locate the Show Me Center on campus, Mr. Drury has been mad. If the Show Me Center and River Campus were located on Cape's west side, we would never have heard a peep out of Mr. Drury...
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