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BUSINESS MEMO: TEAMBUILDING WORKSHOP
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Coaching and Teambuilding Skills for Managers and Supervisors is the title of a seminar to be held next Monday at Holiday Inn in Cape Girardeau, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.. Additional information is available by calling 1-800-873-7545.
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ON THE MOVE: BUSINESS, INDUSTRY IN MARBLE HILL, BOLLINGER COUNTY
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Thunder Valley Smokehouse is one of the businesses Loyd Ivey has opened in Marble Hill. Shirley Thele, seated, owns Personal Touch, a hair and tanning salon in Marble Hill. Hairdresser Johanna Shetley works at the salon. Personal Touch is in a former broom factory building that was remodeled...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Rick C. Shultz, center, received sales awards from Maintenance Engineering vice president Dennis Leno, right, and M.E. Midwest sales director Brian Breitbarth. Bob Heisserer of Rogers, Ark., and formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been recognized by Wal-Mart Stores Inc., and HFN Magazine, as Wal-Mart's "Buyer of the Year."...
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NEW BUSINESS: BEAUTY SHOP MOVES
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Janet's Hair Fashions is at a new site at 2117 William. "We located along the side of the building behind USA Golf," said Janet Bell, owner of the salon. The shop, in newly decorated quarters, includes six stations, operated by Bell, Joanie Kaufman, Rose Bueltemann, Beverly Ratliff, Bridget Understall and Gene Monahan...
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NEW BUSINESS: NEW COMPUTER BUSINESS
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Midwest Electronic & Computer has opened at 419 Broadway. The new business, owned by Ying Yu, will be a dealer for MEC Computers but will sell and service all brands of computers. The store will also design electronic and computer systems for the home and commercial businesses...
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NEW BUSINESS: ANTIQUE/COLLECTIBLE MALL
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
A new antiques, art and collectibles mall will open in downtown Cape Girardeau next fall. Madder Rose Antiques & Art will open at 1 N. Main on Nov. 1. "We can accommodate up to 100 dealers," said Evelyn Boardman, who will operate the facility. John and Evelyn Boardman have leased the building, which extends the entire block from Main to Spanish streets...
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NEW BUSINESS: UNDER NEW OWNERSHIP
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Perry Plaza Shopping Center at Perryville is under new ownership. The shopping center was recently purchased by Greater Missouri Builders Inc., headquartered in St. Charles. Greater Missouri Builders is family with Southeast Missouri. The company has owned Town Plaza Shopping Center in Cape Girardeau the past 25 years...
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NEW BUSINESS: THREE NEW GLIK'S STORES
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Glik's Stores, one of the oldest family-owned apparel store chains in the United States, has added three new stores to its group. The three new operations -- at Greenburg, Ind., Greencastle, Ind., and Greenville, Ohio -- brings the company's total to 51 stores throughout Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DOLLARS & SENSE PROGRAM
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
South East Missouri Bank has teamed with Washington and Clippard elementary Schools to teach fifth-graders how to save and manage their money. The program is part of the statewide Dollars & Sense program, sponsored by State Treasurer Bob Holden. The programs teams elementary schools with local banks, which send representatives to the designated schools at least once a month to help students open savings accounts and make deposits. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SPECIALTY ADVERTISING SHOW
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Specialty advertising and promotional items will be featured during the third annual Promotional Products Resource Show, to be held Tuesday at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau. The program starts at 10:30 a.m. and will continue through 2:30 p.m. The show is designed to discuss and promote items for companies and organizations...
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BUSINESS MEMO: LOCAL BAKERY ON QVC
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
My Daddy's Cheesecake, 111 N. Main, will be one of 20 Missouri business showcased on a QVC Television Special broadcast from St. Louis. The three-hour special -- 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday -- is the 33rd of 50 QVC specials on the "1997 Quest for America's Best -- QVC's 50 in 50 Tour."...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW LOGO, NEW SLOGAN
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
ERA Cape Realty, 1409-A N. Mount Auburn Road has a new look, a new logo and a new slogan. The new logo and an advertising campaign symbolize the significant changes ERA has undergone during the past year, said David S. Glastetter, broker/owner of ERA Cape Realty, "Our new logo says that ERA is a company changing with the times."...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MIDWEST FOREST SHOW
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
The Midwest Forest Industry Show returns to the Show Me Center next weekend. The Friday and Saturday show will include exhibits of the latest in forest products and services.
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: MARBLE HILL HAD VARIETY OF CITY NAMES
(Business ~ 08/18/97)
Marble Hill, situated on both sides of Crooked Creek in Bollinger County, hasn't always been called Marble Hill. Nor has it always been situated on both side of Crooked Creek. When Bollinger County was organized, a few years before the Civil War, the county seat of the new settlement was an unincorporated town named New California...
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EXCERPTS FROM `HARDSHIP AND HOPE'
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
From Marie Watkins' letters to R. Burett Oliver: April 28, 1876 "... We thank you most sincerely for the picture of yourself. I should not have been so impertinent as to ask you for it, had it not been Mama's earnest request, though I must confess I had some curiosity to know what manner of man you are .....
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THOUSANDS IN LEOPOLD FOR KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS HORSESHOE TOURNAMENT
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
LEOPOLD -- Dressed in white, a black straw hat on his head, Al Perhake was a study in concentration Sunday as he stared across 40 feet of grass at a small metal pole jutting from a dirt pit. Perhake held a blue-tinted horseshoe in his right hand. About 40 people lined the wire fence surrounding the pit, hands ready to throw into the air and cheers barely leashed to straining throats...
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`HARDSHIP AND HOPE': WRITINGS BY WOMEN FROM STATE'S PAST
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
The writings of two area women from bygone eras are included in a new book about pioneering Missouri women. One, Marie Watkins Oliver, is known as the designer of the Missouri state flag. The other, Elizabeth Flora Anna Dierssen, is hardly known at all but her diary is a lively reflection of women's changing public roles in the years before World War I...
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DRUGS OR DARE: AREA LAW OFFICERS AND ADMINISTRATORS STAND BEHIND D.A.R.E. DESPITE CONTROVERSY
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Sikeston Department of Public Safety officer Shirley Smith disagrees with the naysayers who claim the Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E. program, doesn't work. "Until those people get into the classroom and see what's going on, they're not justified in what they're saying," she said...
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NO REZONING FOR VICTORIAN ESTATES; DEVELOPER WITHDRAWS REQUEST FOR HEARING
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
A local developer has withdrawn a rezoning request and saved the Cape Girardeau City Council from a difficult decision at tonight's meeting. Planning and Zoning Commission Chairman R.J. McKinney said Larry McCulley has withdrawn his request for a rezoning of Victorian Estates Subdivision. That will negate the need for tonight's scheduled public hearing to discuss the request...
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LOCAL CHILDREN, TEENS THINK D.A.R.E. PROGRAM IS WORKING
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Regardless of what adults and survey-takers may think about the Drug Abuse Resistance Education, or D.A.R.E program, area children interviewed think the program's working just fine. Students from Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois said the D.A.R.E. program has given them good information about what drugs are and how they can hurt people. The program works, they said, because it arms them with facts rather than fiction and prepares them for situations in which someone offers them drugs...
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MISSISSIPPI CO. DECISION HAS BEEN MADE
(Editorial ~ 08/18/97)
Although voter turnout was extremely light, Mississippi County voters have spoken in favor of a half-cent sales tax for three years to help pay for a new Mississippi County courthouse in Charleston. The 839 voters who favored the tax decided it would be better to come up with the money in three years rather than use general revenue funds over 20 years and repay it with between $100,000 and $150,000 in road and bridge money each year. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: POLITICAL POWER TAKES A BATH
(Column ~ 08/18/97)
The political saga of the former speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives is winding down. Days from now a federal judge will sentence Bob Griffin of Cameron, Mo., to a jail term for two crimes the defendant now admits to, said admission coming after two of his former allies agreed to testify against him to mitigate their punishment...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 08/18/97)
I SAW your headline to the effect that Missouri Republican U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft is testing the presidential waters in New Hampshire. As a result, I hope New Hampshire lifeguards have been placed on full alert. LIKE VIRTUALLY all citizens of Cape and the surrounding area, I hate crime and stand ready to do my part in curbing it. Having said that, I must admit I think a televised "Cops in Cape" would be cool...
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DONALD FORD WAS AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL OF US
(Editorial ~ 08/18/97)
Donald K. Ford superbly exemplified the will within all of us to live a full and rewarding life regardless of the grim circumstances that may grip us. Ford, 52, died Aug. 7 after a lengthy struggle with bone marrow cancer. Despite the many setbacks brought on by the disease, Ford kept his hopes and his head high, determined to make the best of things for himself, his family and his community...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think Sen. John Ashcroft's chances are of winning the Republican nomination for president in 2000?" Charlotte Hill, Thebes, Ill. "I think they're good. He has a wide political base in Southeast Missouri and he's well known politically. And I don't think he has a negative record compared to other candidates."...
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SIX AREA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ATTEND GIRLS STATE
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Six local girls were among 700 girls from across Missouri who recently attended Girls State. The program, sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary of Missouri, is held on the campus of William Woods University in Fulton. Each girl is chosen based on leadership, citizenship and patriotism...
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CAPE MAN RECOVERS FROM BURNS
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
As an experienced painter of seven years, 25-year-old Doug Benton of Cape Girardeau never expected that routinely spraying lacquer varnish on woodwork could be potentially fatal. While spray painting wood on a utility closet door in a new condominium March 12 in Breckenridge, Colo., Benton received third-degree burns over 32 percent of his body...
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`STOP, DROP AND ROLL'
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Cape Girardeau Fire Marshal Tom Hinkebein said most burn accidents could be avoided if people would use their heads. "People need to read directions and use common sense," he said. Paint products with Toluene, Xylena, petroleum distillates, ester solvents, and Ketone solvents should be handled with care, he said...
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SEMO DEFENSE STRONG IN OPENING SCRIMMAGE
(College Sports ~ 08/18/97)
As far as controlled football scrimmages go, Southeast Missouri State University's Indians took part in a pretty typical one Saturday night. At least that was the observation of Southeast head coach John Mumford after his team's opening scrimmage of the preseason that lasted nearly 90 minutes at Houck Stadium...
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LOCAL GIRLS WIN NATIONAL TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 08/18/97)
BENTON -- After playing from behind all day in the championship round of the 1997 Girls Babe Ruth Softball National Tournament, the under-12 Heartland Nationals All-Stars finally put their bats to work Sunday afternoon. The Nationals -- made up of fast-pitch softball players from New Hamburg, Delta, Kelso and Oran -- scored 12 runs in their final four at-bats to rally for a 13-7 national-championship win over Jax Beach, Fla...
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MAUDAREE DICKERSON
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
JACKSON -- Maudaree Dickerson, 94, of Jackson died Sunday, Aug. 17, 1997, at Heritage Gardens. She was born Oct. 8, 1902, in Millersville, daughter of Andrew and Maude Davenport Clifton. She married Glenn Dickerson on May 26, 1922, in Paragould, Ark., and he preceded her in death on April 11, 1982...
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CHAFFEE COUNCIL TO AIR GRANT TO IMPROVE CITY
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
CHAFFEE -- The Chaffee City Council will have to decide how much it is willing to spend to spruce up the business district. Vincenza Haney, who has lived in Chaffee for four years, has been working on getting the council's support on an application for a $400,000 state grant. The money would be used for sidewalks, curbs, lighting and landscaping...
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FIRES
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Cape Girardeau Monday, Aug. 18 Firefighters responded to these calls Saturday: At 6:01 p.m., an alarm sounding at 611 S. West End Blvd. At 6:58 p.m., a rescue at Interstate 55 and Highway 61. At 7:11 p.m., an emergency medical service at 104 Vantage Drive...
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JACKSON BOARD OF ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
Tonight, 7:30 Power and Light committee -- Certify Aug. 5 election results. -- Set Dec. 12 for the annual city Christmas party. Street committee -- Establish a 1997 tax rate. -- Rezone 1701 S. Hope St. from R-1 and R-2 (single family residential) to R-3 (general residential) as submitted by Dr. Howard Jones of the Jackson R-2 School District...
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MAN DIES IN COLLISION NEAR FREDERICKTOWN
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
FREDERICKTOWN -- A Wappapello physician died in a head-on collision Saturday night in Madison County. Dr. Aloysius Cush, 51, was pronounced dead at the scene after his car drifted across the center line of Highway 67 at about 10:20 p.m. Saturday, six miles south of Fredericktown, according to the Missouri Highway Patrol...
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SUSIE HILEMAN
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- Susie Hileman, 83, died Sunday, Aug. 17, 1997, at her daughter's home in Jonesboro. Born May 21, 1914, in Alexander County to Lewis and Dora Mason Poole, she married Carl "Doc" Hileman Dec. 10, 1928. He died Feb. 5, 1968. She had lived in Southern Illinois all her life and was a homemaker. She was a member of the Anna Heights Baptist Church...
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ALVIN SAUER
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
FRIEDHEIM -- Alvin Sauer, 97, of Friedheim died at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau on Sunday, Aug. 17, 1997. Arrangements are incomplete at the McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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NANCY KRIEGER
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Nancy Krieger, 49, of Dongola died Saturday, Aug. 16, 1997, at City Care Center in Anna. There will be no visitation. Services will be private, with interment in Chicago. Local arrangements were supervised by Crain Funeral Home.
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GEORGE DAVID SEIFERT
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
SEATTLE -- George David Seifert, 57, of Seattle died Saturday, Aug. 16, 1997, in Seattle. He was born July 20, 1940, in Cape Girardeau, son of Garrett and Fran Seifert. He married Barbara Burns on Aug. 25, 1976, in Reno, Nev., and she survives. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy...
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FIREFIGHTERS LEARN TECHNIQUES FOR FIGHTING CHEMICAL BLAZES
(Local News ~ 08/18/97)
MARBLE HILL -- Firefighters don't just suit up and dump water on fires anymore. With the proliferation of household and workplace chemicals, firefighters have to be aware of techniques to handle different emergencies. Some 33 firefighters from Stoddard, Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties trained with foam and flammable liquids Friday and Saturday in Marble Hill...
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COZETTE MURPHY
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
Cozette Murphy, 79, formerly of Wyatt, died Saturday, Aug. 16, 1997, at the home of her niece in Makanda, Ill. She was born March 18, 1918, in Mississippi County to Barney Clay and Mary Frances Bailey Frans. On July 25, 1936, she married John E. Murphy. He died Oct. 27, 1979...
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CHRISTOPHER LANCE POPE
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
MARBLE HILL -- Christopher Lance Pope, 23, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Aug. 16, 1997, at St. Louis University Hospital from injuries received in a highway accident Friday in Festus. He was born Feb. 19, 1974, in Festus to Ronald and Brenda Pope. He attended schools in Festus and was stationed in Germany during his service in the U.S. Army...
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FLOYD ODELL BAUGHMAN
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
Floyd Odell Baughman, 58, of DeSoto, Ill., and formerly of Anna-Jonesboro died Thursday, Aug. 14, 1997, in Anna. He was born Feb. 18, 1939, in Alexander County, Ill., the son of James W. and Viola Holmes Baughman. He was well known in the Union County area, where he worked for many home owners and businesses as well as school and park districts...
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CLARA ELIZABETH BRUCKER
(Obituary ~ 08/18/97)
ORAN -- Clara Elizabeth Brucker, 83, of Oran died Sunday at the Mineral Area Regional Medical Center in Farmington. She was born in Chaffee May 21, 1914, to Please and Minnie Owens Howard. On Oct. 12, 1934, she married Hurstle Snider. He died Jan. 29, 1969. On Aug. 12, 1971, she married Nicholas Brucker. He died Sept. 26, 1986...
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