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SEMO SHOW BAND GOES INTO RECORDING STUDIO
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
John Mills, owner of Riverside Recording Studios, set up a microphone for the university's Show Band which includes Cliff Morice, left, and Matt Rhodes. Recording engineer Tim Cagle adjusted sound levels for the Show Band. Southeast Missouri State University's Show Band, whose spirited musicians usually fill the Show Me Center with harmony and rhythm during basketball games, have gathered to play a different venue -- Riverside Recording Studios...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MASTER TREE PROGRAM
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
The Master Tree Farmers program will be held at the University Extension Office in Jackson, starting Feb. 9. Classes focus on forest resources, tree identification, tree uses, lumber volume and marketing among other subjects. "We'll have a number of three-hour sessions," said Gerald Bryan, agronomy specialist and coordinator of the program. "The first class will be held at Jackson, but future classes will be scheduled in other areas."...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NAMED TO ELITE LISTS
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
Edward Jones ranked No. 1 for a fifth consecutive year in a survey of 400 randomly selected brokers representing the leading eight financial-services firms. Fifty brokers from each firm were asked by Registered Representative Magazine to rank their employers on 19 categories, such as overall ethics and freedom of pressure to sell certain products...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BUSINESS COUNSELING SET
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in four areas this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Jan. 28 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: HISTORY FOR SALE: COAL LUMPS FROM TITANIC AVAILABLE
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
"Titanic," the movie continues to draw big crowds. It was the leading movie moneymaker during its first three weeks on the big screens. "Titanic," the Broadway musical, played before large crowds. "Titanic," the exhibition attracted huge crowds during its five-month exhibition at the Memphis, Tenn., Pyramid last year...
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FINANCIAL FOCUS: THE DOW AT 8000
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. On July 16, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above the monumental 8,000-point mark for the first time. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: A `TOP TEN' DELI
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
Deli operations as Schnucks Markets Inc., have been named one of the Top 10 Supermarket "Delis of Distinction" in the United States by Deli Business magazine. Winners were selected from more than 500 industry manufacturers and suppliers. Schnucks operates 85 delis in three states, including Cape Girardeau...
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BUSINESS MEMO: COMMODITY OUTLOOK MEETINGS
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
A series of commodity "market outlook" meetings will be held in Southeast Missouri this month. All commodities, including soybeans, corn, cotton and rice, will be discussed, said LaVal Dunn, regional Missouri Farm Bureau Federation coordinator from Poplar Bluff...
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BUSINESS MEMO: STORES TO CLOSE
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
Heilig-Meyers Furniture Co. will close "about 60 stores," but the Cape Girardeau store and others in the St. Louis Division will remain open, says a division manager. Of the 60 stores slated to close in the next few months, 13 are in the Atlanta area; four are in Cleveland and three and in Milwaukee. Most stores scheduled to close are in larger cities...
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AGGRESSIVE INVESTORS MIGHT CONSIDER STOCK FROM KMART
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
The corporate war cry of the 1970s and 1980s was "diversify, diversify, diversify ..." Many tried it and found the strategy to be disastrous. Kmart, with common stock trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol KM, has "been there, done that." The new plan is "focus, focus, focus..." on the primary business, discount retailing. The plan seems to be in place, and this stock may offer a good opportunity for the coming year...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 01/12/98)
Jeffrey A. Krantz of Cape Girardeau has joined South Hills Health Systems of Pittsburgh as director of planning and marketing. Krantz, who is a certified Diplomate of the American College of Healthcare Executives, served as director of planning at Southeast Missouri Hospital more than 11 years. He is also a candidate for fellowship in the ACHE...
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CASH FLOW HELPS FIGHT COURTROOM SETBACKS; GAMBLING COMPANIES SPEND MONEY FREELY (NEWS ANALYSIS)
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
JEFFERSON CITY -- Missouri's riverboat gambling industry was dealt a losing hand when the state Supreme Court ruled recently that boats floating in artificial moats couldn't legally offer slot machines and other games of chance. But Missouri's casino owners have a track record of spending freely to persuade voters to legalize what the state's highest court declares illegal...
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PROSECUTOR FILES RECORD NUMBER OF CASES IN '97
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
Cape Girardeau County Prosecutors set a new record in 1997 for the number of cases filed. Figures released Friday by Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle show 2,056 felony, misdemeanor and infraction charges filed last year, up slightly from the 1996 figures...
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EVERY QUILT TELLS A STORY
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
Cookie Little's flower baskets commemorate her husband Dan's certification as a master gardener. Judy Robinson's award-winning work is inspired by song titles. Betty Cord memorialized Duchess, the family's beloved Bassett hound, now deceased. Needles, thread and patches of cloth tell many different stories for the members of the River Heritage Quilter's Guild...
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REGULATIONS GOVERN HOME SEWAGE SYSTEMS
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
JACKSON -- Moving to a home in the country for many means beautiful scenery, quiet lanes and room to roam. But for city dwellers, making the move to country homes, brings another, not so romantic, reality. Most homeowners outside of cities operate their own sewage treatment plants...
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WHO PAYS? LAB FUNDING MISUNDERSTOOD
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
Misconceptions still exist about how the region's only crime lab is funded, the lab's director said last week. Rising crime rates in area over the past 20 years have increased the number of cases handled by the Southeast Missouri Regional Crime Lab, and also increased the importance of the lab for area law enforcement agencies...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE; THINKING WARM THOUGHTS ABOUT OLD MAN WINTER
(Column ~ 01/12/98)
I am trying to come to terms with winter. Since we are technically in the Midwest and it is January, and I've lived in the Midwest almost all of my life and January, and then February, always roll around, this is something I should have gotten to a long time ago...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/12/98)
I AM more than just a little sick and tired of initials and abbreviations. I think we're going to have to start spelling things out. I just saw on television that an MIR can save you money. I had an MIR in the hospital. It cost me money. Come to find out, this MIR they're talking about is some financial institution. It can be very confusing, not just for old folks but for young folks too...
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RURAL PHONE USERS SEEK OPTIONAL SERVICE
(Editorial ~ 01/12/98)
The Missouri Public Service Commission's reasoning that elimination of community optional telephone service will help stimulate competition in local telephone and intrastate long-distance services holds little weight with people who must make and pay for frequent long-distance calls to places just a few miles from their homes...
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NEW GRAIN FACILITY MOVING TO RIVER PORT
(Editorial ~ 01/12/98)
The Southeast Missouri Regional Port got yet another boost with announcement that a grain-buying and -shipping company will locate there in the spring. Riverport Terminals Inc. will operate out of the Mississippi River port north of Scott City, initially employing 25 to 35 people and shipping 330,000 tons of grain for export annually. Future plans include expansion of its plant and doubling its shipping capacity...
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LETTERS: BAR IS FOR ADULTS -- AND FOR SMOKERS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/12/98)
To the editor: On Jan. 5 there was a Speak Out comment about how one person's whole New Year's Even was ruined by smokers. I am truly sorry that the caller's evening was ruined by all the smoke in the bar. If he didn't go to the bar, he wouldn't be bothered by it...
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MISSOURI WATCH: IN PRAISE OF SKILLFUL NEGLECT
(Column ~ 01/12/98)
A late and still-missed friend, who was also a highly effective healer of mankind's medical miseries, frequently argued that most of the ailments he treated would eventually disappear. He called his somewhat unorthodox method "skillful neglect," and he followed it so religiously that he seldom deviated from his curative agenda...
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LETTERS: ALLIANCE BLUE CROSS WEIGHS OPTIONS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/12/98)
To the editor: The surprise action by MedAmerica HealthNet Inc. in filing for bankruptcy and then voting to dissolve the company has created understandable confusion and concern in the Cape Girardeau area. I want first to reassure our members that they are our primary concern and that Alliance Blue Cross Blue Shield is exploring every option possible to avoid disruption in their health-care coverage...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, What do you think about the Missouri Supreme Court's decision to require gambling boats to be on a river rather than a moat or pond?" Rose Lingle, East Cape Girardeau "I think they should be in a river. Because when you get into these other little alcoves and things I think that puts too much...if you space them out a little more on the river you might not have so much trouble with them."...
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OTAHKIANS TRY TO BREAK THREE-GAME SKID TONIGHT
(College Sports ~ 01/12/98)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball team jumps right from the frying pan into the proverbial fire tonight. The Otahkians, coming off an 89-71 home loss to a strong Middle Tennessee State squad on Saturday night, now must face another of the Ohio Valley Conference's powerhouse teams in Tennessee Tech...
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SCOTT-MISSISSIPPI GIRLS TOURNEY STARTS TODAY
(High School Sports ~ 01/12/98)
CHAFFEE -- Scott City is the top seed for the seven-team Scott-Mississippi Conference girls basketball tournament that opens today at Chaffee High School. Kelly is seeded second, with Scott County Central third, Delta fourth, Chaffee fifth, Oran sixth and East Prairie seventh...
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FOUR INJURED IN ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 01/12/98)
SEDGEWICKVILLE -- Four members of a Perryville family were injured Sunday morning in a one vehicle accident in north Bollinger County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that the westbound vehicle, a 1993 Ford Explorer, failed to negotiate a slick curve on Route KK, five miles north of Sedgewickville at 9 a.m. Sunday morning. The vehicle ran off the road, struck a tree and overturned...
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RUBY GUILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 01/12/98)
ADVANCE -- Ruby A. Gulliams, 52, of Advance died Sunday, Jan. 11, 1997, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home of Advance.
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MARY LOU BIZZELL
(Obituary ~ 01/12/98)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Mary Lou Bizzell, 68, of Dongola died Sunday, Jan. 11, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Jan. 14, 1929, at Cairo, daughter of Samuel W. and Ada L. Rendleman Alexander. She married Jesse Bizzell on Sept. 15, 1950. He died Jan. 26, 1974...
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KERLE SLINKARD
(Obituary ~ 01/12/98)
ST. LOUIS -- Kerle J. Slinkard, 89, of St. Louis died Saturday, Jan. 10, 1998, at St. Luke's Hospital in St. Louis. He was born Jan. 27, 1908, at Zalma, son of Leo and Ida Mae Eaker Slinkard. He married Gwendolyn Nichols on June 5, 1928, at St. Louis...
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LILLIE BLAYLOCK
(Obituary ~ 01/12/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Lillie E. Blaylock, 92, of Perryville died Sunday, Jan. 11, 1997, at Perry County Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 23, 1905, in Perry County, daughter of James Marion and Rosa Byer Myers Shrum. She married Julius Spencer Blaylock on Sept. 1, 1926. He died Nov. 26, 1975...
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