SIKESTON - Staff Sgt. and Mrs. Carl E. Diehl Jr. are parents of a son born Wednesday in Sioux City, Iowa. Mrs. Diehl is the former Miss Mary Emma Heath, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.R. Heath of Sikeston.
CHARLESTON - The new officers of the Jaycee Wives of Charleston are: Mrs. Junior Malugen, president; Mrs. Pat Staples, vice president; Mrs. Ralph Smith, secretary; and Mrs. Joe Leible, treasurer.
SIKESTON - Although she insists she is "not much on old things," Stella Lee has kept a page of the January 1800 Ulster County (New York) Gazette announcing the death of General George Washington. However, her husband, Paul, interjects, "Sure she likes old things. She's got an old man she kept for 52 years," he jokes about himself. The page was given to her by her father and she has kept it for the past 50 years.
NEW MADRID - Funding one of the federal government's mandates will cost New Madrid County taxpayers more than $200,000 during 1995. In setting up the budget that was approved earlier this month, the County Commission set aside $210,000 for the completion of the American Disabilities Act required renovations to make the courthouse and other county-owned buildings handicapped accessible.
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NEW MADRID - Maxwell Williams was honored as the New Madrid County Soil and Water District's 1995 Conservationist. Williams, who has overseen the farm operations for the Ralph Anderson Farms (formerly Gideon-Anderson Lumber Co.) and its clients for many years, was presented with an engraved plaque by Arthur Duncan, chairman of the SWCD Board.