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BUSINESS MEMO: KINDER MORGAN
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
James E. Street has been named vice president, human resources and administration of Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. Street has 21 years of human resources experience and holds master's and bachelor's degrees in business administration from the University of Nebraska...
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HITTING THE ROAD: BOOMING TRUCK INDUSTRY MEANS HIGH DEMAND FOR DEPENDABLE DRIVERS
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
It's a driver's market in the trucking industry. Business recruiters said the industry is growing bigger every day, and companies are constantly upping their salary and fringe benefits packages to make sure they keep dependable drivers in their trucks...
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GET RIGHT ADVICE FROM YOUR INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
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. Like most people, you probably have some important goals you want to achieve. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SBC E-MAIL-ONLY
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Southwestern Bell Communications Inc. plans to introduce a simple and affordable e-mail-only communications system, called eMessage, that forgoes the use of a personal computer to send e-mail via the Internet. SBC is the first major telecommunications provider to announce plans to broadly market this innovative technology, which includes a lightweight, 7-by-10-inch keyboard device, with a flip-up display screen that attaches to a standard phone and includes the e-mail service from an SBC Internet company.. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: A.G. EDWARDS
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
For the fifth consecutive quarter, A.G. Edwards received a No. 3 ranking for its asset allocation strategy for last year ending June 30. This makes A.G. Edwards the only major brokerage firm to rank among the top-three-performing firms for five consecutive quarters...
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BUSINESS MEMO: GENERAL MOTORS
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
General Motors has completed a worldwide upgrade of its corporate CAD/CAM and PDM software as part of its ongoing program to dramatically reduce vehicle development process times. This new technology upgrade will provide both GM and its global suppliers the ability to implement a total systems engineering approach to vehicle design, significantly reducing the time needed to complete the entire process...
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BUSINESS MEMO: COMMERCE BANCSHARES
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Commerce Bancshares Inc., a Missouri-based bank-holding company with headquarters in St. Louis and Kansas City, ranked in the top 10 banks within the United States in overall performance according to a recent Salomon Smith Barney study. The study reviewed and rated the top 50 banks in the nation based on performance, productivity, asset-quality and capital measures as of year end 1998...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SBA DISASTER LOANS
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Businesses in Mississippi and New Madrid counties have until Sept. 15 to file applications for low-interest disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration. The SBA's economic injury disaster loans are available for businesses dependent on farmers and ranchers sustaining crop losses due to last year's drought...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SHOPKO
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
ShopKo Stores Inc. announced the addition of John G. Turner, chairman and chief executive officer of ReliaStar Financial Corp., Minneapolis, to its board of directors. He replaces Dr. James Reinersten, who resigned from the ShopKo board of directors due to time constraints related to his position as chief executive officer of CareGroup Healthcare System of Boston...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ABF FREIGHT WEB PAGE
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
ABF Freight System Inc. has announced the release of myABFsm, allowing customers to create personalized Web pages that greatly simplify navigation of its Internet site at www.abfs.com or myabf.com. With myABF customers can manage the wide variety of transportation tools and shipment information available via ABF's eCentersm in combination with other Internet content such as stock quotes, weather reports and links to virtually any Internet destination...
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BUSINESS MEMO: RHODES 101 WINNER
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Throughout the past 13 weeks, Rhodes 101 Stop has given Stop In Win scratch off tickets any time a customer stopped in at any of the 14 Rhodes 101 Stops. Thousands of customers won instant prizes including snacks, soft drinks, merchandise and cash awards. Non-winning tickets could be entered in the $4,000 grand prize drawing...
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BUSINESS MEMO: IDNR/NRCS PROGRAMS
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Illinois Department of Natural Resources director Brent Manning and U.S. Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service state conservationist Bill Gradle signed an agreement strengthening agency ties in providing coordinated services to Illinois farm landowners, enhancing natural resources protection in the state...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Clay Hurst of Marble Hill, representing Farmers Insurance locally through Clay Hurst Insurance Agency Inc., has been honored by Farmers Insurance for his outstanding sales achievements during 1998. He has been invited to attend the 1999 Topper Club convention at New Orleans, the annual meeting of Farmers' top sales producers...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SBC COMMUNICATIONS
(Business ~ 08/23/99)
Southwestern Bell's parent company, SBC Communications, has been selected as one of the top 50 U.S. companies providing the best professional opportunities for Hispanic women by Latina Style magazine. There are more than 5 million Hispanic women in the work force...
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DEMOLITION AT OLD ST. FRANCIS HOSPITAL SITE STILL PLANNED
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
It is a project more than eight years in the making, but there is an end in sight. The city plans to demolish the old St. Francis hospital. Since 1991, the Cape Girardeau City Council has been in the process of condemning the old hospital at 801 Good Hope St...
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PICNIC GREETS STUDENTS; UNIVERSITY DINING SERVICE SHOWS OFF NEW MENU
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
By Sunday afternoon most parents had said farewell to their college student child and another group of Southeast Missouri State University students were ready to sample life on their own. They found plenty of samplings at the annual Back to School picnic at Capaha Park...
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LACK OF CHILD SUPPORT FRUSTRATES MANY
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
Carol Christopher's divorce papers call for her ex-husband to pay $707.44 a month in child support, and she claims he hasn't paid up. That frustrates Christopher who questions why Missouri's Child Support Enforcement agency can't do more to find Douglas Wade Christopher...
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EVEN GOOD PARENTS CAN RAISE BAD CHILDREN; EXPERTS OFFER WARNING SIGNS
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
As area students head back to school, parents might worry about the incidents of school violence that happened last year, such as the shootings at Columbine High School in Colorado. And while the first worry is probably "I hope such violence isn't aimed at my child," the next might be, "I hope my child would never commit such violent acts."...
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ORDINANCES DESIGNED TO HELP MAINTAIN CITY PROPERTY STANDARDS
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
No one wants to live in a dangerous building or in a neighborhood where property is deteriorating. Some property owners, however, do not maintain their property according to adopted codes, and the city is faced with the dilemma of what to do. Stephen Williams, city housing assistance coordinator, and Kent Bratton, city planner, both say the city's goal is to maintain housing to meet safety and health standards. Achieving that goal means property owners must meet city codes and ordinances...
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SHIVELBINE'S MUSIC STORE MARKS 50 YEARS
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
School band directors from Missouri, Arkansas, Illinois and Kentucky came to pay tribute to the Shivelbine's Music Store for 50 years of service Saturday. "They're just plain nice people and they've got a real understanding of the business," said Mike Hanes, band director at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. "You can tell they love the business and they're not just in it for the business."...
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LEADERSHIP CAPE TEAMS LOOK AT SOLUTIONS
(Editorial ~ 08/23/99)
The latest Leadership Cape Girardeau class carried its work a bit further than other classes by coming up with some great ideas that deserve consideration. The annual leadership groups bring together both new and longstanding residents who are interested in learning more about the problems and decision-making processes in the city. ...
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MAMTC READY TO GIVE ASSISTANCE
(Editorial ~ 08/23/99)
Quickly now: What is MAMTC? If you don't know, don't feel alone. It stands for the Mid-America Manufacturing Technology Center, and the people who run it are the first to admit not enough people know about it. MAMTC officials want to change that by putting the word out that MAMTC is alive and well and ready to help manufacturers any way it can...
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LETTERS: SEND A MESSAGE ON GOVERNOR'S VETO
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/23/99)
To the editor: Just a little more than 200 years ago, when our forefathers found the politics of Great Britain intolerable, they made history by standing up to the tyranny of King George. The citizens of Missouri have been subject to the tyranny of Gov. Mel Carnahan and his outside interests for too long...
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LETTERS: FOLIC-ACID EDUCATION KEY TO PREVENTION
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/23/99)
To the editor: On behalf of the March of Dimes, I would like to expand on U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson's response to the reader who was concerned about the Folic Acid Promotion and Birth Defects Prevention Act of 1999. Emerson did an excellent job of explaining that the bill is intended to be preventative, both economically and medically. Not only will an initial investment in the bill save taxpayers money, the dollars spent on this bill save babies...
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SECONDARY LOOKS GOOD FOR SEMO
(College Sports ~ 08/23/99)
While Southeast Missouri State University's football team suffered heavy graduation losses on defense, the secondary is one area that returned most of its key players. That's why Southeast head coach John Mumford has said that the Indians' secondary is "one of the best I've been around. They really are a good group."...
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CARUTHERSVILLE MAN DIES IN SINGLE-VEHICLE TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
(Local News ~ 08/23/99)
Billy R. Smith, 67, of Caruthersville was pronounced dead at the scene of a one-vehicle accident Sunday on Pemiscot County Road 431, three miles north of Steele. According to the Poplar Bluff state police report, Smith apparently backed into a tree, accelerated forward through a ditch into a cornfield, then crossed the road and struck a tree. He was pronounced dead by the Pemiscot County coroner...
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ALMA LEE BELTZ
(Obituary ~ 08/23/99)
CARTERVILLE, Ill. -- Alma Lee Beltz, 71, formerly of Scott City, died Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999, at her home. She was born June 7, 1928, at Carterville, daughter of Harry and Bessie Rushing Foster. Beltz was employed by the water department for the city of Carterville. She attended Crainville Pentecostal Faith Assembly Church...
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ELLA MAE MATLOCK
(Obituary ~ 08/23/99)
Ella Mae Matlock, 89, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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GENEVIEVE BLANCHARD
(Obituary ~ 08/23/99)
LIMA, Ohio -- Genevieve R. Blanchard, 87, of Lima died Thursday, Aug. 19, 1999, at her home. She was born Nov., 8, 1911, at Lima, daughter of Martin and Kathryn S. McCrate O'Brien. She and Theodore L. Blanchard were married June 20, 1939. He died in 1988...
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LESTER STRANGE
(Obituary ~ 08/23/99)
ANNA, Ill. -- Lester C. Strange, 81, of Anna and formerly of Ava, died Sunday, Aug. 22, 1999, at the Union County Hospital at Anna. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at the De Soto Cemetery. Hileman and Parr Funeral Services is in charge of arrangements...
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CHRISTINA ENDERLE
(Obituary ~ 08/23/99)
CHAFFEE -- Christina Regina Enderle, 86, of Chaffee died Saturday, Aug. 21, 1999, at the Lutheran Home. She was born Dec. 25, 1912, at Benton, daughter of Joseph and Rose Wiedefeld Backfisch. She and Andrew J. Enderle were married Aug. 13, 1938. He survives...
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