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BUSINESS MEMO: KINDER MORGAN EXPANDS
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. has entered into an agreement with Blue Circle Cement to construct a multimillion-dollar cement import and distribution plant at Kinder Morgan's Shipyard River Terminal in Charleston, S.C. The project, scheduled for completion in 2000, involves an expansion of the dock to accommodate ships of up to 60,000 tons and construction of storage facilities to be leased to Blue Circle that are capable of storing over 90,000 tons of cement...
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LOWER COST MAKES MUTUAL FUNDS GOOD CHOICE
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
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. Smart investors have always known mutual funds are a good buy. Now there's proof...
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SHOP TILL YOU DROP
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
Hopping from aisle to aisle while shopping for bargains and then filling a shopping cart to the max is a thing of joy for some. For others, it's an impossible task. That's where shopping services come to play. A shopping service shopper will purchase groceries, pick up prescriptions, pick up or deliver dry cleaning and even take a pet to the veterinarian...
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NEW BUSINESS: FAMILY CHIROPRACTIC CLINIC OPENS
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
The Family Chiropractic Clinic has opened at 210 N. Sprigg in Cape Girardeau. Dr. Michael Givens of Cape Girardeau, a graduate of Logan Chiropractic College in Chesterfield, opened the new clinic recently. Givens, a graduate of Cape Central High School, attended Southeast Missouri State University before enrolling at Logan...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ZIMMERS WIN RADIO AWARDS
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
The Zimmer Radio Group's five Cape Girardeau stations received 15 awards -- three firsts and 12 certificates of merits -- from the Missouri Broadcasters Association during the association's annual award dinner. The awards: KZIM: First place for "Morning Newswatch," first place and a certificate of merit for public service announcements, certificate of merit for a commercial...
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BUSINESS MEMO: PROPANE ACQUISITION
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Ferrellgas Partners, L.P., headquartered at Liberty, Mo., has acquired MJR Propane Inc., of Birch River, W. V. The acquisition, the 47th for Ferrellgas since the company went public in 1994, brings Ferrellgas approximately 2,500 customers and adds more than 1.5 million gallons to the company's annual retail sales...
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BUSINESS MEMO: INCREASED PRODUCTION
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
American workers increased their productivity in the first three months of this year at an annual rate of 3.5 percent, the Labor Department reported last week. That figure, in line with analysts' expectations, was slightly lower than the government's initial estimate of 4 percent a month ago and follows a downward revision of the quarter's gross domestic product. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SONG DOWNLOADS
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Online retailer Amazon.com launched a new music service last week, offering free downloads of songs in the controversial MP3 digital format and an industry-preferred format. The Seattle-based leader in online book and video sales hopes to use the digital freebies as a teaser to boost CD sales and set the stage for a pay-per-song future at www.amazon.com...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: VIERS TO NEW POSITION
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Tom Viers has joined Corporate Benefit Strategies. Viers, of Cape Girardeau, has been in the insurance industry the past seven years, three of them as a broker. He was the senior account executive for Southeast Missouri with Alliance Blue Cross Blue Shield the past four years...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: BOARD CERTIFICATION
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Karen L. Honaas, Gwen Hicks and Patty Blaylock have completed the NBC-HIS National Competency Examination, and have received board certification in Hearing Investment Sciences. The certification was by the National Board for Certification in Hearing Instrument Sciences, a certifying agency fully accredited by the National Commission of Certifying Agencies in Washington, D.C...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: INSURANCE AGENT RETIRES
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Robert Myrick of Cape Girardeau has retired from the Country Companies Insurance Group. Myrick joined Country Companies, headquartered in Bloomington, Ill., as an agent in 1971. He earned a number of sales and service honors during his 28-year insurance career, including two All-American and three All-Star awards...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: NAMED TO GTC BOARD
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Dr. Charles G. Stalon, of Cape Girardeau, a former commissioner of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), has been named to the Georgia Transmission Corporation Board of Directors. GTE was one of two companies formed in the 1997 restructuring of Oglethorpe Power Corp...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: CERTIFIED MANAGER
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Thomas Watkins, acting plant manager at the New Madrid Power Plan, has achieved designation as "Certified Manager," from the Institute of Certified Professional Managers (ICPM). Watkins had to pass a series of examinations covering knowledge, skills and core-decision processes...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: A NAPA WINNER
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
Mike Riehn of Jackson was a winner in the "Hooked On NAPA" promotion, conducted by NAPA Auto Parts Stores recently. Riehn received a fishing rod, reel and tackle bag package, valued at more than $125. The NAPA Sweepstakes was conducted during the month of April, with a number of prizes offered nationally, including a bass boat and gift certificates to Bass Pro Shops...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: FIREWORKS SEASON NEAR; USE CAUTION
(Business ~ 06/14/99)
As many as 25 new retail businesses will open in the area this weekend. Fireworks wholesalers and retailers are preparing for the big fireworks season, which officially gets under way in Cape Girardeau and Jackson Sunday. Scott City retailers can join the crowd June 25...
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CAPTURED IN THE WILD: HORSES, BURROS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
Horses became extinct in North America around 8000 B.C., then were reintroduced by Spanish explorers in the 1500s. Some of those Spanish horses inevitably escaped and formed wild horse herds primarily in the western United States. One hundred descendants of those horses will be available for adoption along with 50 burros July 10 and 11 at Flickerwood Arena in Fruitland. (See related stories.) The adoption is being run by the Bureau of Land Management...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU DOCTOR MEETS WITH POPE
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
After meeting the pope in person for the third time last week, Dr. Richard Kies of Cape Girardeau said it is still hard to believe the events were real. "It's almost like meeting someone mythical," said Kies, who was in Poland last week during Pope John Paul's 13-day tour of the country...
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CUTBACKS IN MEDICARE HIT HOSPITALS
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
Fewer jobs, reduced services and higher fees are not in the immediate future for three regional hospitals. However, hospital officials in Dexter and Cape Girardeau said the changes may be inevitable if narrowing financial margins resulting from the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 continue their downward spiral...
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BUSINESS OWNERS HOPE WALNUT CAN BE PAVED
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
No one knows much about the origins of the street, but one thing city officials do know is that Walnut Street is falling apart. Situated between Commercial street and South Kingshighway, a 300-foot stretch of road is causing major problems for two businesses...
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GENTLING A WILD HORSE REQUIRES PATIENCE
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
Tiffiney Kies rode along a lane on Willow, a 5-year-old black mare who was the first mustang Kies adopted and rode. Teaching the children in her special education class at South Elementary School in Jackson is similar to handling mustangs in two important ways, Tiffiney Kies says...
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HOW THE ADOPTIONS WORK
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
One hundred wild horses and 50 burros will be available for adoption July 10 and 11 at Flickerwood Arena. The animals can be viewed from 1 to 5 p.m. July 9 at the arena. Dave Seay, a professional horse gentler and equine educator, will conduct an equine seminar at 4 p.m. July 9...
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SEMO'S KUPCHELLA READIES FOR NORTH DAKOTA POSITION
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
Charles Kupchella insists he will be a hockey fan. It's required when you are going to be president of the University of North Dakota at Grand Forks. The school has an NCAA Division I hockey team. "They are Division I in hockey only, and they tend to be really good at that," said Kupchella...
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DOWNTOWN RETURNS TO NORMAL AFTER RIVERFEST
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
Eight o'clock came pretty early for Cape Girardeau Riverfest board member Melinda Dodd. That is the time she arrived downtown Sunday morning to complete the cleanup detail for the weekend Riverfest celebration. Dodd along with other Riverfest board members had been on hand until almost 3 a.m. Sunday helping escort vendors out, getting stages torn down and hauling trash...
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MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS AWARDED AT SHAWNEE
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- The ninth annual Christy Lynn Schaefer Memorial Scholarships have been awarded at Shawnee High School in Wolf Lake, Ill. Recipients from the 1999 Shawnee High School graduating class are Casey Allen Otten of Wolf Lake and Craig Andrew Smith of McClure. Each recipient received a $1,000 award for further education...
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FOLKLORIST PUTS HISTORY INTO SONG AT BURFORDVILLE; BOB DYER REVIVES STATE HISTORY IN MUSIC
(Local News ~ 06/14/99)
BUFORDVILLE -- Huckleberry Finn, a steamboat called "Jim Johnson," and Jim the Wonder Dog made a historical visit to the Little Ole Opry on Sunday, thanks to Bob Dyer. Dyer has made a career by taking characters from Missouri's history and folklore and setting them to music...
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STATES SHOULD HEED ADVICE ON GAMBLING
(Editorial ~ 06/14/99)
A federal commission that spent two years studying the impact of gambling will urge a slowdown in new casinos and lotteries nationwide and will call on the states to help control their growth. Among many recommendations that will be made this month by the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, the slowdown in growth of gambling businesses is probably the most significant. ...
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FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION READY TO GO
(Editorial ~ 06/14/99)
Following the possibility of cancellation last year, The American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts have jumped in this year to see to it that there will be a Fourth of July celebration in Cape Girardeau. When it looked like there wasn't much interest in the event last year, many organizations and people came forth to help put together the celebration. ...
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LETTERS: TOURNING OFF MAINSTREAM NEWS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/14/99)
To the editor: Count me as one of those Americans turning off the mainstream media and turning on C-SPAN and other honest information outlets. Thanks to groups like the Media Research Center and its chairman, Brent Bozell, more and more Americans are learning about the hypocrisy of the so-called mainstream media...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/14/99)
I WOULD just like to say that anybody who drives 40 mph in the fast lane is an idiot and anybody who doesn't use turn signals is also an idiot. I WOULD like to make a comment on how the liberals are getting on TV saying the Christian conservatives want to push the agenda. ...
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LETTERS: THANKS FOR HELPING SCHOOL PAPER
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/14/99)
To the editor: As the school year comes to an end, we at St. Vincent de Paul School wish to thank you for another year of collaboration between the Southeast Missourian staff and ours. Our seventh-and-eighth-grade newspaper staff created four newspapers this year called The Bobcat Spirit. ...
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CAPE, CHAFFEE DROWN FOES; RAIN WASHES OUT TITLE GAME
(High School Sports ~ 06/14/99)
Cape Girardeau Ford & Sons and Chaffee Medicap Pharmacy both played well enough to advance to the title game of the second annual Capaha Classic American Legion Baseball Tournament. But the local rivals will have to wait a while to determine the champion...
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A CLASSIC PITCHING CONTEST DECIDES KELSO KLASSIC TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 06/14/99)
KELSO -- As expected, the Meierhoffer fast-pitch softball team from Savannah, won the Kelso Klassic Tournament. But the defending national champions didn't cruise in the championship game Sunday. Kelso, after knocking off defending tournament champ Bonutti 8-0 in the winner's bracket final, squeezed past the same team in a 1-0 thriller for the Klassic championship...
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GEORGE KRAMER
(Obituary ~ 06/14/99)
PERRYVILLE -- George E. Kramer, 90, of Perryville died Sunday, June 13, 1999, at Ste. Genevieve County Hospital. He was born Jan. 27, 1909, at Washington, son of Joseph and Clara Schultz Kramer. He married Nettie B. Williams Jan. 26, 1929. She died Feb. 1, 1984...
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ROSE WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 06/14/99)
JACKSON -- Rose Helm Williams, 78, of Jackson died Sunday, June 13, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born March 30, 1921, at Waynesville, daughter of Daniel and Gertie Ann Fields Helm. She married A. A. "Toots" Williams March 31, 1974, at Jackson...
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ELLEN B. JUDSON
(Obituary ~ 06/14/99)
POPLAR BLUFF -- Ellen Belle Judson, 88, of Poplar Bluff died Saturday, June 12, 1999, at Doctor's Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff. She was born Sept. 10, 1910, in Benton to Martin and Marietta Thurman Garner. She spent most of her childhood and teen-age years in Pratt and Naylor, Mo., where she attended grade school and high school. At age 17, she went to live with an aunt in New Orleans, where she attended business school...
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ALICE M. EGAN
(Obituary ~ 06/14/99)
JACKSON -- Alice M. Egan, 92, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Cairo, Ill., died Sunday, June 13, 1999, at Jackson Manor Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born in Cairo on July 2, 1906, the daughter of William P. and Nell Decker Egan. She worked as an accountant for more than 50 years for the American Abrasive Metals Corp...
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