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USED-FURNITURE DEALERS IN IT FOR THE LONG HALL
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
One of the hard-to-find items at Ross's Place is a "wall pocket" that can be used to hold a floral arrangement. Used-furniture dealers can find some unusual items, such as this used cash register at Ross Poteete's store. Ross Poteete sat in a barber chair next to a 1931 gas kitchen stove outside his home at 2044 Broadway where he sells used items at Ross's Place...
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PERSONNELGRIESHABER HEADS AMERIFIRST BANK
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
Mark D. Grieshaber recently has been named chairman, president and chief executive officer of AmeriFirst Bank. AmeriFirst Bancorporation Inc., based in Sikeston, merged with Mercantile Bancorporation Inc. this month. Grieshaber, 40, has been employed by Mercantile for 15 years. He recently served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of Mercantile Bank in Perryville. He has also been executive vice president at Mercantile in Farmington...
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AIR EVAC MARKS 10 YEARS
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
Air Evac EMS Inc. is celebrating its 10th anniversary during August. The helicopter ambulance service began in West Plains. Since its first flight in 1985, the service has flown more than 9,000 patients. Air Evac established a base in Cape Girardeau in 1987 and operates out of St. Francis Medical Center. In 1991, another base began operating in Arkansas...
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CAPE TRAVEL AGENCIES WILL MERGE TODAY
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
Perry Travel Center and Destinations Unlimited will merge today, beginning joint operations at 866 N. Kingshighway, the Destinations Unlimited office. Judy Bullock, who purchased Perry Travel in 1988, said she and Destinations owner Mark Hill had been discussing the merge for some time...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE
(Business ~ 08/14/95)
Schlotzsky's Deli opens in Lorimont Place Schlotzsky's Deli opened its first Southeast Missouri location in Cape's Lorimont Place. The restaurant franchise, with more than 400 outlets, serves a variety of deli sandwiches, individual-sized sourdough pizzas, soups and salads...
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PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 08/14/95)
Greg Wilson has just become the Vice President of Commercial Lending at Capital Bank. Wilson has six years experience in commercial, consumer and real estate lending. He attended Murray State University and is currently enrolled in the Graduate School of Banking of the South in Baton Rouge, La...
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MEMO
(Business ~ 08/14/95)
Missouri receives career center grant Gov. Mel Carnahan and U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich announced that the state was awarded a $2 million grant for implementing one-stop career centers. Missouri is one of only seven states to receive the career center implementation grant. ...
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IRS ESTIMATED TAX PAYMENTS DUE NEXT MONTH
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
If you made estimated tax payments for 1995, the third installment payment is due September 15. The Internal Revenue Service is reminding taxpayers that the payment shoudl be sent along with the payment vouchers. To be sure the payment is properly credited to your account, be sure to write your social security numbers and IRS form number on the check...
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ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL SIKESTON RODEO ENDS, PLANS FOR '96 BEGIN
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
SIKESTON -- As members of the Sikeston Jaycees cleaned up the rodeo grounds Sunday after the annual Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo ended, plans already were underway for next year's event. "We're glad it's over," said Dennis Fraser, publicity chairman for the rodeo. "Now we have to get ready for the next one."...
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LAB IS BLIND WOMAN'S COMPANION, AIDE
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
JACKSON -- Unlike the fate that befell folk legend Tom Dooley, Susan Noland's black labrador of the same namesake no longer has a reason to hang down his head and cry. Noland's Tom Dooley has survived an abusive owner and an appointment with a lethal injection...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
The Southeast Missourian asked, "How would underage teen smoking be affected if the Food and Drug Administration were given the power to regulate nicotine as a drug?" Chalanda Brown, Cairo, Ill. "It isn't really going to do anything, because they are going to be out on the street pushing it like they are pushing everything else. Things are still going to be the same."...
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GUARDSMEN TRAIN AT LAKE WAPPAPELLO
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
LAKE WAPPAPELO -- Wappapello Lake isn't only for recreation in Southeast Missouri. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers lake also is home to the Wappapelo Engineering Training Site. The 500-acre WETS, owned by the U.S. Forest Service, is used for training by the Missouri National Guard for a variety of tasks including the annual range or weapons qualification, heavy equipment operation, land navigation, rapelling, communications, reconnaissance, mine sweeping, and nuclear, biological, and chemical warfare training.. ...
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COUPLE'S CLUB HOSTS DINNER
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
The Heartland Stonecraft Couple's Club will host a casual country dinner party Aug. 24 at the Jackson Knights of Columbus Hall. Dinner will begin at 7 p.m. followed by entertainment. Dinner reservations should be made by Aug. 19. Ray and Jo Leadbetter and Mike Grant will perform country music. Air Force veteran and retired school administrator Murphy Thomas will be the guest speaker...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU BOARD OF EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
Agenda Monday, Aug. 14 6 p.m. Vocational-Technical School, Room 214 Action items Certified, classified and administrative salary schedules Tax rate approval Energy loam Resolution to readopt conflict and ethics policy Reading Recovery Eligibility criteria for free and reduced price meals...
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MISSOURI WATCH: CAMPAIGNS: TRASHING CANDICATES GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE
(Column ~ 08/14/95)
If Missouri voters thought the Republican gubernatorial primary in 1992 was bad, just wait till next year. If citizens grew weary of the television trashing that took place in the last campaign for governor, just wait till the 1996 race gets under way...
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LAKE PROPOSAL FACES LONG ROAD TO GET VOTERS' NOD
(Editorial ~ 08/14/95)
The Cape Girardeau-Bollinger County Lake project has been resuscitated. The project first garnered headlines and public attention a decade ago. In 1990, proponents and opponents come to a standoff that was never resolved. There was no public vote on the proposed 1-cent sales tax to fund the project, because the Bollinger County Commission refused to put the plan on the ballot. As a result, the plan sank...
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FARM PLAN ALLOWS ORDERLY TRANSITION TIME
(Editorial ~ 08/14/95)
"Something old and something new" could well describe the concept that is being floated by several key members of the House Agriculture Committee. "Simple and within federal budget requirements" also should be added to this description. The old is the ideal of decoupling farm program payments from actual crop production. The new is a seven-year farm program contract between participating agricultural crop producers and the federal government...
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PAUL D. YOUNT
(Obituary ~ 08/14/95)
PATTON -- Paul Dayton Yount, 66, of Sedgewickville died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at Fredericktown. He was born Sept. 29, 1928, at Marquand, son of the late Francis Henry and Ellen Susie Fulton Yount. He was a retired assembler for the Keene Saw Company and was a member of the Methodist denomination...
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LAND TRANSFERS
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
First Christian Church to Memorial Funeral Chapel of Cape Girardeau; Wiliam J. Withers Sr. and Victoria G. Withers to Philip R. and Ruth Anne Dame; Edward A. Moore Jr. and Cherie L. Moore to Rebecca J. Myers. Sheila J. Davis to Diane M. Callin and Mark John Gronowski; Dewey and Charlotte Christian to Douglas and Freda Joan James; Anglea K. Ponder and Jerry V. Slindard to Ronald and Rebecca Moore...
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MARTHA HOLDER
(Obituary ~ 08/14/95)
TILDEN, Ill. -- Martha Holder, 91, of Tilden and formerly of Murphysboro, died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at her home. She was born Feb. 20, 1904, at Hammond, Ind., daughter of Rudolph and Margaret Meyrer Schultz. She married Lloyd Holder, who preceded her in death on March 23, 1971...
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IMOGENE RAY
(Obituary ~ 08/14/95)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Imogene Ray, 75, of Anniston died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 31, 1919, daughter of the late I.E. and Burley Pickett Spence. She lived in Mississippi County her entire life...
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HAROLD ADOLPH MATTHEWS
(Obituary ~ 08/14/95)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Harold Adolph Matthews, 72, of Bertrand died Saturday, Aug. 12, 1995, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Oct. 24, 1922, son of the late Lee Roy and Emma Bertice Heath Matthews. He lived in Mississippi County and worked as a cattle farmer for the last 15 years after moving from St. Louis. He attended Dogwood Methodist Church...
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AREA GIRLS COMPETE FOR HOMECOMERS CROWN
(Local News ~ 08/14/95)
JACKSON -- Miss Jackson Homecomers 1994 Amanda Lomax will pass on her crown when 18 teen-agers from across the area vie for the title Saturday at 7:30 p.m. Entertainment will begin at 7 p.m. The evening's theme will be "A Night to Remember." American Legion Post 158 sponsors the annual crowning...
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REHLMEYER WINS SPRINT CAR FEATURE
(High School Sports ~ 08/14/95)
BENTON -- It was a showdown that left few challengers standing. Brad Rehlmeyer became the third and final race leader Saturday to win his first sprint car feature race of the season and $1,000 at Missouri International Racepark. For Rehlmeyer, it was the first feature race win at MIR since October 1...
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