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SOUTHEAST MISSOURI HOSPITAL ANNOUNCES THREE NEW PROGRAMS
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
Southeast Missouri Hospital has announced the addition of three new programs to its services. The programs are a new oxygen therapy treatment, educational program and health care information on the Web. Southeast will become the first area hospital to offer Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy, which is a medical treatment that allows patients to breathe pure oxygen in a pressurized chamber. The treatment will be available in June...
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HELPING SICK NEWBORNS
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
Women who experience difficulties during pregnancy or delivery will have more options when making the decision to stay in Cape Girardeau to receive care instead of being transferred to St. Louis or Memphis, Tenn. But whether the patients and their newborns are transferred still will depend on the severity of their problems...
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PICKING UP GARBAGE CAN BE DANGEROUS; JACKSON TRASH COLLECTOR HIT BY CAR; THIRD IN YEAR
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- After about a month on the job, a 33-year-old Jackson city employee found out how dangerous trash collecting can be. Chris Hill was working as a loader on the back of a municipal garbage truck Monday when a car hit him. The driver had been waiting in a line as he gathered trash bags near the intersection of Old Cape Road and Marilyn Drive...
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SKATEBOARD CRAZE PROMPTS OUTCRY FOR SUITABLE PARKS
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- They're out virtually every sunny Saturday afternoon -- skateboarders, skidding along curbs and speeding down inclines at top speed. Where there are no skateboard parks, boarders devise their own hazards. Skateboard parks have been constructed throughout the nation as the craze has climbed to epidemic proportions, resulting in more than 200 professional boarders...
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CITY, BELL BATTLE OVER DSL BOX PLACEMENT
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
Cape Girardeau city officials blocked Southwestern Bell's construction of two telephone remote terminals for nearly two months, then lifted the ban after learning they had no control over such projects. The city had argued that the telephone company couldn't build remote terminals without special use permits. Southwestern Bell disagreed, saying any regulatory authority rested solely with the Missouri Public Service Commission...
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LETTERS FROM HOME: LIFE IS A BANQUET; DON'T EAT THE TURKEY LOAF
(Column ~ 04/26/01)
April 26, 2001 Dear Ken, Spring is the season for banquets. If you haven't been to one yet, you will. Students are getting awards and graduating. It's all very uplifting and hopeful and high-minded. Usually the hardest thing to stomach is the food. At age 50 and on a diet, I have divided the world into good food and bad food...
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VO-TECH CENTER FINALLY READY FOR OCCUPANTS
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
The process of converting a shiny new building into a functioning school has begun for Cape Girardeau vocational faculty and staff. School officials received the keys to the Career and Technology Center earlier this month. The project, begun nearly two years ago, was originally scheduled for completion in September but was delayed by numerous delays, changes to construction plans, and higher-than-expected labor and material costs that set all of the district's building projects behind and in the red.. ...
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PUBLIC ADMINISTRATOR CONFERENCE FEATURES ANTI-EUTHANASIA SPEAKER
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
Euthanasia is not the answer for the terminally ill, a Cape Girardeau pastor told a convention of county public administrators Wednesday evening. "Ending life is God's domain," the Rev. Ron Watts told a group of about 120 public administrators visiting Cape Girardeau for a three-day convention. "To do anything else is playing God."...
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DYLAN'S FIRST-EVER CAPE CONCERT MEANINGFUL TO FANS OF ALL AGES
(Local News ~ 04/26/01)
Forty years after they began making sense of the '60s, Bob Dylan's songs are as powerful as ever. His performance of some of them may have softened, in the sense that he sees things from a different perspective. But as his searing reading of "All Along the Watchtower" proved Wednesday night, Dylan has relinquished none of his passion for making music...
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KERRY-ING OUT A DREAM
(College Sports ~ 04/26/01)
Kerry Robinson has been with the St. Louis Cardinals for a little more than a week now but he says he still has to sometimes pinch himself to make sure it's all real. Robinson, a former Southeast Missouri State University baseball star, is living out a lifelong dream and he doesn't want to wake up anytime soon...
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CENTRAL STRIKES BACK, CLAIMS THIRD GAME IN CROSS-TOWN TRILOGY
(High School Sports ~ 04/26/01)
If one were to write a script for a soccer match between two rivals, it would be tough to top this one. And we're not talking about just one game, but a three-game season series. The Cape Central Lady Tigers (9-3-4) edged the Notre Dame Lady Bulldogs 1-0 Wednesday in overtime to complete the sensational season trilogy between the two friendly, but fierce, rivals...
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SE SOFTBALL REMAINS TIED ATOP OVC
(College Sports ~ 04/26/01)
MARTIN, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University's softball team remained in a first-place Ohio Valley Conference tie as the Otahkians knocked off host Tennessee-Martin Wednesday afternoon. The Otahkians actually swept a doubleheader, 3-2 and 5-2, but only the opener counts in the OVC standings...
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ORAN POSTS IMPRESSIVE 7-2 WIN OVER SIKESTON
(High School Sports ~ 04/26/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Oran High picked up arguably its most impressive baseball win of the year Wednesday, knocking off Class 3A Sikeston 7-2 on the road. The Bulldogs, state-ranked in Class 3A and the top seed in the upcoming SEMO Conference Tournament, dropped to 11-3 after starting the year 10-0. The 1A Eagles improved to 11-2...
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BIRTHS
(Births ~ 04/26/01)
Daughter to Jerry Wayne Jaco and Deborah Michelle Cain of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 3:35 p.m. Monday, April 16, 2001. Name, Cheyenne Rain. Weight, 7 pounds 13 ounces. Ms. Cain is the daughter of Susan J. Cain of Daytona Beach, Fla., and Thomas E. Cain of Cape Girardeau. Jaco is the son of Jerry J. Jaco of Cape Girardeau...
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VIRGINIA SAMPLE
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
A memorial service for Virginia Irene Sample of Cape Girardeau will be held at 6 p.m. Friday at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel. The Rev. Jesse Perry will officiate. There is no visitation. Sample, 70, died Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at Heartland Care Rehab Center...
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BRIDWELL CRENSHAW
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Bridwell Logan Crenshaw, 86, of Sikeston died Tuesday, April 24, 2001, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 20, 1914, in Charleston, Mo., son of Joseph M. and Lela Finley Crenshaw. He first married Maxine Collins Sept. 26, 1936, in Sikeston. She died Oct. 9, 1991. He and Loretta Alcorn were married April 9, 1993, in Sikeston...
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LINDA NOYES
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Linda Carlene Noyes, 56, of Bloomfield died Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 15, 1945, at Clines Island, Mo., daughter of Carl and Lenora Gooch Smith. She and Bob Noyes were married July 17, 1965...
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PAUL DOVER
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
MOUND CITY, Ill. -- Paul Edward Dover, 65, of Mound City died Wednesday at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 12, 1935, at Mound City, son of Mark Dover Sr. and Mildred Hayes Dover. He was a member of the St. Mary's Catholic Church at Mound City and had retired as a towboat pilot from Cargo Barge Co...
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JOSEPH VERSEMANN
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
FARRAR, Mo. -- Joseph Leonard Versemann, 75, of Friend, Neb., died Monday, April 23, 2001, at Bryan LGH East Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb. He was born Oct. 2, 1925, at Red Rock Landing near Farrar, son of Joseph and Lina Brueckner Versemann. He and Ella Mae "Mick" Rule were married April 29, 1951, in Friend. She died Dec. 9, 1999...
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MILDRED BAZZELL
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Mildred B. Bazzell, 84, of Marble Hill died Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at the home of a son. She was born Sept. 10, 1916, in Hardinsburg, Ky., daughter of William and Mae Roberts Basham. She and Lowell Bazzell were married July 19, 1932, in Venice, Ill. He died July 7, 1994...
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GLENN JONES
(Obituary ~ 04/26/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Glenn R. Jones, 79, of Sikeston died Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at his home. He was born Sept. 21, 1921, at Morehouse, Mo., son of Robert N. and Ruth Vaselo Jones. He and Bonita Baugher were married Sept. 5, 1946, in Sikeston. She died Nov. 30, 1979...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/26/01)
PRESIDENT BUSH is giving workers and families tax relief, but Missouri Gov. Bob Holden is planning on ramming through the largest tax increase in Missouri's history. Voters can plainly see which party is for the working people. Tax and spend is the Democrats' motto. ...
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SPACE STATION VISIT A VERY COSTLY PROPOSITION
(Editorial ~ 04/26/01)
It looks as if California millionaire Dennis Tito will be the first tourist in space when he travels aboard a Soyuz spacecraft with a Russian crew to the International Space Station for a week's stay. Tito, 60, the founder of an investment firm, paid the Russians $20 million for the privilege despite the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's prudent concerns about his safety and the safety of the crew because of his presence in the event of an emergency...
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PINPOINTING CELL CALLS COULD SAVE LIVES
(Editorial ~ 04/26/01)
A surprising 45 million Americans made 911 calls from their wireless telephones last year. And unless the callers were able to tell the emergency services operator where they were, the operator had no way of knowing. That can be tragic in the case of an emergency situation. In one such case, a Florida woman died after her car sank in a canal off the Florida Turnpike in February. She dialed 911 but couldn't tell the operator where she was...
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LEGAL FEES: JAMES GANG RIDES AGAIN
(Editorial ~ 04/26/01)
NEW YORK -- If Jesse James and his gang were alive today, they would not be plundering banks. They would be fleecing Missouri taxpayers. Being a tort lawyer representing Missouri in its suit against tobacco companies is far more lucrative and devoid of risk...
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LETTERS: DONORS URGED TO RESTRICT FUNDS TO HUMAN STUDIES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/26/01)
To the editor: On Saturday the March of Dimes will be holding its WalkAmerica fund-raising event for the worthy goal of raising millions of dollars to prevent birth defects. But most donors are unaware that their gifts help fund painful experiments on animals...
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LETTERS: WALKAMERICA HELPS GIVE BABIES START THEY DESERVE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/26/01)
To the editor: Each year more than 450,000 babies are born too soon, some so small they're the size of a dollar bill. Many of these babies will have to fight for life. And many who survive may have lifelong health problems like blindness and other disabilities...
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