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Alligator in tunnels likely fiction
(Column ~ 12/06/04)
If you have a question, e-mail factorfiction@semissourian.com or call Speak Out (334-5111) and identify your call as a question for "Fact or fiction?" Q: In a previous column, you talked about the tunnels running beneath the older buildings at the university. Is it true that an alligator owned by Dr. Dan Cotner was lost in the tunnels there on College Hill?...
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Recruiting offices on the move
(Column ~ 12/06/04)
With all the hustle and bustle that typically surrounds the holiday season, imagine the added pressure of moving into a new building across town before the new year. That's the situation facing Cape Girardeau military recruiters. Their mandate is to be out of their location at 1313 Broadway and into the old Dr. ...
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Senior centers trying to be draw for out-of-towners
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
Sometime early next year, signs will sprout along Missouri interstates announcing that senior citizen centers are as available at oncoming exits as hospitals, rest stops, gas stations and fast-food restaurants. This is a marketing ploy aimed at increasing attendance at senior centers...
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Construction continues for Sears Grand, Kohl's
(Business ~ 12/06/04)
With the harvest in and frost on the ground, this is hardly the growing season. But from the cold mud along a stretch of Siemers Drive in Cape Girardeau, the seeds of commercial development have sprouted and are growing rapidly. Fighting the oncoming cold, construction continues on the new Sears Grand and Kohl's Department Store...
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Senator suggests annual gas tax boost
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A key Missouri lawmaker is floating a proposal that would slightly increase the state fuel tax each year. The lawmaker, however, says his primary purpose is to spur a discussion on how to best generate more money for transportation and that he doesn't expect the bill to become law next year...
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ABWA holds Miss Jackson pageants
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
The Miss Jackson Pageants, sponsored by the American Business Women's Association Jacksonian Charter Chapter, were held recently celebrating the theme, "Honoring the Red, White and Blue!" Names of the age categories, with the exception of Miss Jackson, were changed from holiday names to conform to rules and regulations of the state pageant sponsored by the Miss Missouri local pageants each summer...
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Business memo 12/06/04
(Business ~ 12/06/04)
** Business center holding counseling sessions The Small Business Development Center of Southeast Missouri State University will conduct counseling sessions for area small businesses in Southeast Missouri this month. Counselor Gil Degenhardt will be available for free one-hour sessions by appointment at:...
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People on the move 12/06/04
(Business ~ 12/06/04)
** Area consultants attend conference Sarah Berkbigler and Emily Lewis of Hillin and Clark PC of Cape Girardeau recently attended the QuickBooks Counsultant's Conference. The conference covered advanced training for QuickBooks. Hillin and Clark PC will hold a QuickBooks training program sometime later this month...
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Holiday of Lights
(Editorial ~ 12/06/04)
For some families, a visit to the Holiday of Lights display at Cape Girardeau County Park is as much a part of their holiday traditions as exchanging presents or decorating a Christmas tree. The park display includes more than 190 exhibits filled with lights and holiday decorations. More than 45,000 cars visit the displays each year, park officials say...
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Jackson Board of Aldermen agenda
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
** 7:30 p.m. City hall Public hearings Hearing to consider the voluntary annexation of 0.507 acres of property on Old Toll Road as submitted by Chug Crites. Action items A motion changing the regular board of aldermen meeting date from Jan. 17 to Jan. 18 in observance of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday...
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Perryville grabs third in Potosi's tournament
(High School Sports ~ 12/06/04)
The Perryvillle boys basketball team finished third at the Potosi Tournament with a 46-43 win over Fredericktown on Saturday. Phillip Buerck led the Pirates (2-1) with 12 points. Andrew Norman, Ricky Dunn and Scott Ozark scored nine points apiece for Perryville...
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Della Anglin
(Obituary ~ 12/06/04)
Della Anglin, 83, of Cape Gir ardeau, formerly of Cairo, Ill., died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, at Saint Francis Medical Center at Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Barkett Funeral Home at Cairo.
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Visions of toy trucks dance in infant's head
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
** Toybox If it weren't for help from Toybox, a young mother wouldn't be able to give her child any gifts for his first Christmas. One-year-old Cymone likes to play with toys -- but he has few. His mother says he's interested in toys that light up or move. He wants a Singing Elmo doll, toy trucks that light up or roll, coloring books and Leapfrog Learning Pads. Balls, blocks and books also are good toys for this infant...
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Thai military drops origami payload to promote peace
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
BANGKOK, Thailand -- In a novel approach to peacemaking -- and damage control -- Thai warplanes dropped millions of folded paper cranes over the country's troubled southern provinces, expressing hope for an end to the separatist violence that has killed hundreds in the Muslim-dominated region...
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Area Boy Scout receives Eagle Scout rank
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
Nicholas Summary of Cape Girardeau, son of Larry and Rebecca Summary, was awarded the rank of Eagle Scout in a court of honor at the Elks Lodge on Nov. 21. Summary, a Troop 5 Boy Scout, chose to improve the outdoor classroom at Clippard Elementary, his former grade school. ...
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Insurgents ambush bus, kill 17 Iraqis
(International News ~ 12/06/04)
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Gunmen ambushed a bus carrying unarmed Iraqis to work at a U.S. ammo dump near Tikrit on Sunday, killing 17 and raising the toll from three days of intensified and bloody insurgent attacks to at least 70 Iraqi dead and dozens wounded...
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Mideast begins to thaw with prisoner-spy swap
(International News ~ 12/06/04)
Relations between Egypt and Israel warm with trade of students for Arab spy. By Salah Nasrawi ~ The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt -- In a series of dramatic steps capped Sunday by a high-profile prisoner swap, Israel and Egypt are moving rapidly to improve relations, seizing the opportunity for a Middle East peace deal presented by Yasser Arafat's death...
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Employment outlook given a setback
(National News ~ 12/06/04)
WASHINGTON -- For a while, it looked as if the conclusion to the 2004 election would prove to be a rejuvenating tonic for the nation's economy. Then, as has happened so often over the past three years, news on the jobs front fell short of expectations...
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Oklahoma, USC paired in title game
(Professional Sports ~ 12/06/04)
Now Auburn knows what it feels like to be the odd team out. Southern California and Oklahoma finished atop the final Bowl Championship Series standings Sunday and will meet in the Orange Bowl on Jan. 4 in a title game that might not produce a unanimous national champion...
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$2 million for a presidential yacht?
(Column ~ 12/06/04)
Immediately after Election Day, President Bush promised that he would use his political capital to bring unity back to America. Less than month later, he is about to sign a spending bill which voids all those nice words and promises. It is not what the president says that matters, it is what he does that counts...
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Recycling tech trash still in its infancy
(Business ~ 12/06/04)
NEW YORK -- When Office Depot stores ran an electronics recycling drive last summer that accepted everything from cell phones to televisions, some stores were overwhelmed by the amount of e-trash they received. Contrast that with a mobile phone recycling drive by Westchester County, N.Y., home to more than 900,000 people. It collected just 32 cell phones, which the county sold on eBay Inc. for $82...
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In Lloyd Smith, state has its own Karl Rove
(National News ~ 12/06/04)
WASHINGTON -- In Washington, Karl Rove is seen as the wizard behind President Bush's electoral successes. In Missouri, that distinction belongs to an affable, silver-haired Republican operative named Lloyd Smith. Smith ran Bush's re-election campaign in Missouri, a state that crept from battleground to Bush country in a matter of months this year. And he steered Republican Jim Talent to the U.S. Senate in 2002 in a hard-fought campaign...
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Marilyn Logel
(Obituary ~ 12/06/04)
Marilyn J. Logel, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 4, 2004, at the Lutheran Home. She was born March 6, 1931, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Joseph and Francis Simpher Logel. She worked at Potashnick Construction Co. and then at the Tucker Truck Lines for 32 years as a clerk. She last worked at Schott and Van De Ven Accounting. She was a member of St. Vincent De Paul Catholic Church and the Council of Catholic Women...
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Opal Rose
(Obituary ~ 12/06/04)
WAPPAPELLO, Mo. -- Opal L. "Billie" Rose, 82, of Wappapello and formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Thursday, Dec. 2, 2004, at Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Rose was born Nov. 8, 1922, at Advance, Mo., daughter of Albert W. and Della M. Fields Revelle. She was a charter member of VFW Ladies Auxiliary 3416...
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Speak Out 12/6/04
(Speak Out ~ 12/06/04)
** Littering in the city REGARDING THE Speak Out comment regarding a team effort to clean up streets: Until you have picked up trash nearly every day, no one really cares. I have picked up trash in the Westfield area for 1 1/2 years. I have seen foam cups, empty cigarette packs, calling cards, broken beer bottles, beer cans, drug needles and fast-food trash. ...
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A walk through the first century
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
Three women diligently weaved baskets, and bakers called out the varieties of their freshly baked bread. The blind man tapped his cane along the sawdust-covered path, while the sandal maker shouted, "Get away, beggar!" Potters hid their money as Roman soldiers drew near, ordering the villagers to move along, tapping them with the haft of their spears...
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Virginia vintner takes wine fight to U.S. Supreme Court
(Business ~ 12/06/04)
MIDDLEBURG, Va. -- It has always bothered Juanita Swedenburg that so many of her customers are criminals in the eyes of the law. n Swedenburg sells premium handcrafted wines made from grapes she grows on her 130-acre farm in the heart of Virginia hunt country. She makes the kinds of wines she likes to drink herself -- traditional, European-inspired wines -- and she has developed a loyal customer base after nearly 20 years in business...
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MLB not likely to punish players for admissions of steroid use
(Professional Sports ~ 12/06/04)
NEW YORK -- For all the fuss over reported admissions of steroid use by Barry Bonds, Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, Major League Baseball probably won't discipline them. Instead of addressing the past, baseball commissioner Bud Selig is more concerned with pressuring players to agree to more frequent testing before the current labor contract expires in December 2006...
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Jackson, Chandler team up to lead Rams in 16-6 win
(Professional Sports ~ 12/06/04)
ST. LOUIS -- Together, the oldest player and the youngest player on the St. Louis roster came through. The Rams' best call in a 16-6 victory over the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday was backup quarterback Chris Chandler, 39, handing off to Steven Jackson, 21. Marshall Faulk's understudy showed he's ready for full-time duty and Chandler helped the Rams survive Marc Bulger's shoulder injury...
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Some question pastor's influence on mom who cut off baby's arms
(National News ~ 12/06/04)
PLANO, Texas -- Long before Dena Schlosser took a blade to her baby's arms, her parents had begun to worry. In the years after she moved to Texas with her husband and children, their gentle, dependent daughter had become increasingly isolated. And, according to her stepfather, she was dangerously consumed by a self-described prophet and his church...
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Television shows get preschoolers up and moving
(Entertainment ~ 12/06/04)
NEW YORK -- TV's hot new characters for preschoolers are designed to get the little couch potatoes up and moving. PBS' "Boohbah," Nickelodeon's "LazyTown" and the Disney Channel's "JoJo's Circus" are all examples of an industrywide search for programming that responds to the increase in childhood obesity -- for which all the time spent in front of the tube gets some blame. Networks are eager for parents to see them as being part of the solution instead of just the problem...
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World briefs 12/6/4
(International News ~ 12/06/04)
** Opposition readies for new election in Ukraine KIEV, Ukraine -- Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko kicked off campaigning for the Dec. 26 presidential election rerun Sunday with a call for quick passage of anti-fraud legislation. Supporters signed up by the thousands to monitor balloting and ensure a fair vote. ...
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Sunday's NFL games 12/6/04
(Professional Sports ~ 12/06/04)
Sunday's Games COLTS 51, TITANS 24 Peyton Manning threw three touchdown passes, Edgerrin James ran for two more scores and Indianapolis returned a blocked field goal for another TD as the Colts routed Tennessee and moved closer to clinching the AFC South...
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Congressional leadership urges vote on intelligence overhaul
(National News ~ 12/06/04)
WASHINGTON -- If House GOP leaders would allow a vote on post-Sept. 11 legislation overhauling the nation's intelligence community, it would easily pass, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle predicted Sunday. A top Republican scolded opponents who worry the Pentagon would lose some of its authority, saying national security is far more important than turf battles. ...
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Cape Girardeau City Council agenda 12/6/04
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
7 p.m. today at city hall, 401 Indepence St. Study session at 5 p.m. Public Hearings n A public hearing regarding the petition for annexation from the city of Cape Girardeau for a 1.5-acre portion of Delaware Park adjacent to the northern city limits east of Old Sprigg Street and north of Lexington Avenue...
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Community briefs 12/6/04
(Local News ~ 12/06/04)
** Scott City seeks donations for toybox The Scott City High School Student Council is coordinating fund-raising efforts for this year's toybox project for Scott City children. Community members can help by dropping donations off at the Scott City High School office during the day until Dec. ...
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Cape police report 12/6/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/06/04)
** Cape Girardeau The following items were released Sunday by the Cape Girardeau Police Department. Arrests do not imply guilt. DWI Herbert Eugene Goodman Jr., 60, of 2800 Woodland Park Lot 29, Scott City, was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated...
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Cape fire report 12/6/04
(Police/Fire Report ~ 12/06/04)
** Cape Girardeau Firefighters responded to the following calls Saturday: At 9:40 p.m., emergency medical service in the 800 block of William Street. At 9:50 p.m., emergency medical service in the 1400 block of North Kingshighway. Firefighters responded to the following calls Sunday:...
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Out of the past 12/6/04
(Out of the Past ~ 12/06/04)
** 25 years ago: Dec. , 1979 Declaring the city of Cape Girardeau is doing an inadequate job of furnishing municipal services within its present boundaries, Circuit Judge William L. Ragland has denied the city's request to annex 4,350 acres of Cape Girardeau County land; the ruling says the area proposed for annexation was too extensive...
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Charlene Baker
(Obituary ~ 12/06/04)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Charlene Smith Baker, 76, of Sikeston died Sunday, Dec. 5, 2004, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Dec. 16, 1927, at Formosa, Ark., daughter of Claude and Cora Shipley Smith. She and Jack Baker were married in 1947 in New Madrid, Mo. He died in May 1994...
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Births 12/6/04
(Births ~ 12/06/04)
** Middleton Daughter to Elmer Joseph and April Yvonne Middleton of Cape Girardeau, Southeast Missouri Hospital, 8:47 a.m. Monday, Nov. 29, 2004. Name, Zoey Dhagen. Weight, 6 pounds 13 ounces. Third child, first daughter. Mrs. Middleton is the former April Martin, daughter of Jack Martin and Barbara Martin of Oran, Mo. She is employed at Chaffee Nursing Center. Middleton is the son of Sharron Middleton of Farmington, Mo. He is employed by Withers Broadcasting...
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