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CHRISTIAN RETAILERS HAVE FAITH IN THEIR BUSINESS
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
The Noah's Ark pattern from Louisville Kentucky is a popular item at Living Water Books and Gifts. Precious Moments figurines are popular with customers of The Way Christian Books and Gifts in Jackson. Judy Leist remembers when Christian bookstores sold Bibles and little else...
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CLICK & DOUBLE CLICK: INTERNET OFFERS LAUNDRY BASKET OF PRACTICAL TIPS, BIZARRE SITES
(Column ~ 09/03/96)
Cybertip: All WWW addresses end in three-letters signifying their major Internet division such as: .com, commercial; .org, non-profit organization; .gov, agencies of U.S. government; .mil, agencies of military; .edu, four-year colleges and universities and .net, network service providers...
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PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Janet C. Summers recently was honored with a luncheon at the Port Cape Girardeau restaurant in commemoration of her 30 years of employment by Schott & Van de Ven, certified public accountants. Summers joined Schott & Van de Ven on Aug. 7, 1966, as a file clerk and has advanced to the position of assistant firm administrator. ...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: HUTCHINGS FUNERAL CHAPEL TO OPEN SOON IN MARBLE HILL
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Charles and Marian Seiler Hutchings, together with Joe and Vickie Baker Seiler of Hutchings Family Memorial Group Inc., have purchased the real estate of Baker Funeral Home in Marble Hill. The transaction was finalized Aug. 26. The funeral home will reopen under the name of Hutchings Funeral Chapel. Wilford Brown of Marble Hill will be the managing funeral director. Plans were under way for remodeling and will be completed soon...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: COMING UP
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Friday Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee, 7:30 a.m., Show Me Center. Saturday Jackson Hosiery Mill Reunion, Cape County North Park, Shelter 5, 11 a.m. Sept. 17 Postal Service Classification Reform seminar, Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office, 1267 N. Mount Auburn Road, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. sessions...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: MERCANTILE PLANS MERGER
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Mercantile Bancorporation Inc. has announced plans to strengthen its presence in southwestern Illinois through a merger with Regional Bancshares Inc. Regional is a one-bank holding company that operates the Bank of Alton, a $175 million-asset bank in Madison County, Ill., across the Mississippi River from St. Louis...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: SEMO BANK HAS WEB SITE
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Steve Ketelsen, president of South East Missouri Bank of Cape Girardeau, has announced that his bank has developed a web site on the Internet. "It's another first for us," said Ketelsen. "We were the first area bank to offer free checking, the first to offer no closing cost home equity loans, and now the first to have a home page on the World Wide Web."...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: SPARTECH HAS INCREASED SALES
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Spartech Corp. has announced increased sales and earnings for the third quarter, citing improved production efficiencies and its recent acquisition of Portage Industries as principal reasons for the record results. Net earnings for the third quarter were $5 million, or $.20 per fully diluted share, a 31 percent increase from the $3.8 million, or $.16 per fully diluted share, reported for the same period last year. ...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: PLAZA TIRE OPENS 20TH STORE
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Plaza Tire Service Inc. has opened a new store in Mayfield, Ky. The store is in the Mayfield Plaza Shopping Center. The five-bay store will be the 20th in the chain. Jeff Hopkins of Mayfield will be the manager. The Cape Girardeau-based company has also announced plans for a store in Paragould, Ark., to open Sept. 9. The Paragould store will be the first in Arkansas. Jim Allensworth of Poplar Bluff will be the manager of that store...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: MAGNA-TEL RECEIVES AWARDS
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Magna-Tel Inc. of Cape Girardeau has been named a winner in the 1996 business promotion awards competition sponsored by the Screen printing & Graphic Imaging Association International. Three awards of excellence were received. The entries will be featured in SGIA's monthly newspaper and in a special report. In addition, photos and information about these entries will be displayed at SGIA's 48th annual Convention & Exposition, Oct. 16-19 in Dallas...
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BUSINESS MEMOS: COMPANY CELEBRATES 20TH
(Business ~ 09/03/96)
Cape Starter and Alternator Service has celebrated its 20th anniversary. It opened for business Aug. 16, 1976, with one employee. Today it has three stores and 19 employees, serving a five-state area. The stores are in Jackson, Cape Girardeau and Carbondale, Ill...
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CREWS BEGIN SETTING UP FAIR
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
About 110 volunteers got the 141st SEMO District Fair off to a running start over the weekend, putting preparations for the fair about a half-day ahead of schedule. Pete Poe, SEMO District Fair vice president, said the volunteer crews have two more days of work to do, including raising the tents today, before the fair essentially will be ready to open. Some last-minute work will be completed Saturday in anticipation of Sunday's opening-day events...
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WORK TO BEGIN ON NEW BRIDGE
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
Construction of Cape Girardeau's new Mississippi River bridge is slated to start today. But the initial work won't make a big splash. A coffer dam will be built, which will allow work to proceed on construction of the first of two bridge piers. "It is going to look like it is slow moving because it is down in the hole," said Matt Girard, project manager for the contractor, FlatIron Structures Co. of Longmont, Colo...
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LOCAL MDA TELETHON RAISES OVER $300,000
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
Brian Halter, 14, of Scott City is like most kids. He likes watching television, has friends he likes to play with and he says school is just OK. What distinguishes Brian from most of his friends is that he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy when he was 3. The disease has confined him to a wheelchair for much of his life...
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CITY TO TAKE ANOTHER STEP TOWARD CREATING ETHICS COMMISSION
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
Five months after Cape Girardeau voters approved creation of a city Ethics Commission, the City Council will take its second step toward doing so. The council will meet at 7:30 tonight at City Hall. The Ethics Commission ordinance is on the agenda as a discussion item. If councilmen like the way it is written, the ordinance will be set for its first reading at a future meeting...
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A LIKELY STORY: WHEN INNOCENCE IS LOST, NOTHING IS GAINED
(Column ~ 09/03/96)
While about 30,000 cheered the leader of the free world at Capaha Park Friday, I sat in a mostly empty courtroom listening to a 9-year-old girl describe the circumstances of her rape. My disappointment at not seeing the president was long forgotten. My thoughts instead turned to innocence, or more specifically the loss of it...
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THE TOBACCO WAR
(Editorial ~ 09/03/96)
As a result of several pen strokes by President Clinton, it is now a federal crime to sell tobacco products to minors. This is the capstone in the president's all-out war on smoking among younger Americans. An exceptional amount of energy has gone into the administration's efforts to curb teen-age use of tobacco, and the cost of enforcing the crackdown has yet to be calculated...
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MISSOURI WATCH: RUSSELL WAS RENAISSANCE MAN FOR STATE
(Column ~ 09/03/96)
He was the right man at the right time in the right job. For the past five years Dr. George Russell has led an academic renaissance that revived, restored and reinvigorated our state's premier higher education complex, the four-campus University of Missouri system...
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CITY, SCHOOLS GET TOGETHER
(Editorial ~ 09/03/96)
The Cape Girardeau School Board and the City Council last week held the first of what is likely to be many joint meetings as planning efforts lead both the school district and the city toward major improvements designed to keep up with growth and high-quality services expected by taxpayers...
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JACKSON BOARD OF ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
Tuesday, Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m. Public Hearings -- Hearing to consider the rezoning of Lots 1 through 30 and Lots 38 through 96 on the preliminary plat of Rosewood Estates Third Subdivision from R-1 to R-2 as submitted by Gerald Stoverink. -- Hearing to consider the rezoning of Lots 31 through 37 on the preliminary plat of Rosewood Estates Third Subdivision from C-2 to R-2 as submitted by Gerald Stoverink...
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RHODA A. ALLEN
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
JACKSON -- Rhoda Amanda Allen, 90, of Jackson died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Jackson. She was born Aug. 20, 1906, in Bollinger County, daughter of Henry and Tavie Seabaugh Johnson. She and Ray Allen were married on Sept. 16, 1923. He died Aug. 24, 1966...
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ADOLPH L. KOELLING
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Adolph L. Koelling, 86, of Anna died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996, at the Illinois Veterans Home. He was born June 20, 1910, in Washington County, Ill., the son of Fred and Margaret Ann Weihi Koelling. He married Madeline Cotter on May 18, 1946, in Anna...
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RUSSELL GOEHRING SR.
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
Russell Ernest Goehring Sr., 80, of 1204 S. Sprigg died Sunday, Sept. 1, 1996, at his home. He was born Jan. 12, 1916, in Cape Girardeau, the son of Ernest and Mable Young Goehring. He married Maxine Bollinger on Dec. 24, 1947, in Piggott, Ark. Goehring was a graduate of Cape Central High School and served in the U.S. ...
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HILDA LAPE
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
She was born Oct. 6, 1901, in Dutchtown, daughter of George H. and Sophia Keochig Obermann. She married Albert E. Lape on March 29, 1937, in Cape Girardeau. He preceded her in death on Nov. 6, 1976. Survivors include her son Woodrow W. Obermann of Fredericktown, five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren...
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WILLIAM A. BASS
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
CAIRO, Ill. -- William Alfred Bass, 50, of Cairo died Sunday, Sept. 1, 1996, at his home. He was born Sept. 4, 1945, in Bardwell, Ky., the son of Jesse and Dorothy Dowdy Bass. Bass owned and operated Bass Sales Co. in Cairo. He was a Baptist. Survivors include two sisters, Linda Adams of Cairo and Sara Gibson of Florida, and several nieces and nephews...
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RUTH E. CANN
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
CHARLESTON -- Ruth E. Cann, 55, of Collinsville, Ill., formerly of Charleston died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996, at her home. She was born Oct. 15, 1940, in Charleston, the daughter of Kit and Mildred Medlock Jones. She was married to James Cann. Cann was a member of the Assembly of God Church...
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LEE BOWMAN
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
DONGOLA, ILL. -- Lee Bowman, 80, of Dongola died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996, at his home. He was born Nov. 1, 1915, at Dongola, Ill., son of Benjamin and Agnes Hartline Bowman. He married Helen DeRotha Poole on Jan. 31, 1915. She preceded him in death on April 21, 1995...
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CARROL W. BALL
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
ADVANCE -- Carrol W. Ball, 68, of Advance died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Aug. 10, 1928, in Anderson, Ind., son of Julius Edgar and Audrey Bernice Derstler Ball. Ball was a retired truck driver and a member of Teamsters Union Local #135 in Indianapolis, Ind...
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RITA SOPHIA CHRONISTER
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
BERTRAND -- Rita Sophia Chronister, 87, of Bertrand died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996 in the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born May 23, 1909, at Oak Ridge, daughter of Henry F. and Mary R. Robins Nichols. She married Herbert P. Chronister on Oct. 4, 1927. He preceded her in death on June 19, 1961...
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GABRIEL THOMAS HANNER
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Gabriel Thomas Hanner, infant son of Ronald and Susan Smith Hanner, died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1996, at the Union County Hospital in Anna, Ill. Funeral services will be 1 p.m. today in the chapel of Hileman & Parr Funeral Services with the Rev. Danny Jones officiating. Burial will be in the Anna Cemetery...
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ETHEL EVANS
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
SIKESTON -- Ethel Myrick Evans, 90, died Monday, Sept. 2, 1996, at the Clearview Nursing Center in Sikeston. Arrangements are incomplete with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Sikeston.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
Tuesday, Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m. City Hall Public Hearings -- A public hearing regarding the request of Ruth A. Norman Trust, E&R Leasing Co. and Earl and Ruth Norman to rezone a tract of land on the east side of Interstate 55 between Bloomfield Road and new Highway 74 from C-1 to C-2...
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LOREN E. WELKER
(Obituary ~ 09/03/96)
MARBLE HILL -- Loren E. Welker, 74, of Marble Hill died Sunday, Sept. 1, 1996, at his home. He was born July 28, 1922, in Greenbriar, the son of Naman and Flora Brown Welker. On Nov. 5, 1947, he married Patsy J. Leslie. Welker was a farmer, a World War II veteran and had served for 15 years on the Bollinger County Selective Service Board. He attended Hahn Chapel General Baptist Church...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 09/03/96)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "Do you think Cape Girardeau has a litter problem?" Gerri Dudley, Cape Girardeau "Yes, the city has a big litter problem. There's a lot of places around town that are full of trash. It's on the sides of the street. It's everywhere."...
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