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BUSINESS MEMO: MOTEL NAME CHANGE
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
The 94-room Drury Inn at Interstate 55 and Missouri 412 at Hayti has a new name. The named was changed to Pear Tree Inn by Drury recently by Drury Inns Inc., which operates more than 85 Drury Inn, Pear Tree Inn by Drury, Thrifty Inn, Hampton Inn, and Holiday Inn Express hotels in 14 states...
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BOTTLED WATER EVERYWHERE: AMERICANS SWITCHING WATER DRINKING HABITS IN RECORD NUMBERS
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Blaine Morton stocked the shelves at Schuncks in Cape Girardeau with bottled water. The store carries about 20 different brands of water. Americans drank more bottled water in 1995 than ever before -- 2.7 billion gallons. Why? The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) believes the national growth can be attributed to three factors: Safety, taste and recognition of bottled water as a beverage in its own right...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ALTERNATIVE LIVESTOCK
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
Representatives of the Greater Missouri Ostrich Association (GMOA) will discuss raising ostriches as alternative livestock during a special workshop at Poplar Bluff Oct. 12. Larry Brewe of Marshasville, Mo., president of the GMOA, will headline the seminar, to be held from 1 to 3 p.m. at the Holiday Inn on Highway 67 in Poplar Bluff...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: TOP EMPLOYERS TO HAVE `NEW CATEGORY' IN '97
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
The Southeast Missourian's "Top 60" industries, based on the number of employees, started as a "Top 25," four years ago, but due to growth, expansions and new industry, the list went to "Top 40 in 1995 and to "Top 60" last year. We're in the process of looking to the 1997 list, which will appear in February of next year, and a couple of new names will be appearing on the list...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: GUITAR EMPORIUM OPENS
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
The Spanish Street Guitar Emporium opened recently at 38 N. Spanish in downtown Cape Girardeau. The new business, owned by Anthony and Susan Miller, will sell, buy, trade guitars and provide a guitar consignment service. "We'll also provide a repair service and provide a number of guitar supplies," said Mrs. Miller...
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BUSINESS MEMO: WAL-MART CREDIT CARD
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
Wal-Mart Stores Inc., headquartered at Bentonville, Ark., is launching a co-branded credit card. The new card, called the Wal-Mart Mastercard from Chase, aligns the world's largest retailer with Chase Manhattan, the nation's largest bank, and MasterCards...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TV, RADIO STATION SWAP
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
Jacor Communications Inc. is trading a Tampa, Fla., television station to Gannett Co. for six Gannett radio stations. Jacor will assume ownership of Gannett's KIIS-AM and FM in Los Angeles, KSDO-AM and KKBH-FM in San Diego, and WUSA-FM and WDAE-AM in Tampa/St. Petersburg. Gannett will get WTSP-TV...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DONATION TO UNC
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
McClatchy Newspapers Inc. has given $200,000 to the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The money will be used to establish the McClatchy Newspapers Center for Newspaper Reporting, a laboratory planned for the school's new home in Carroll Hall on the UNC-CH campus...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TO CEASE PUBLICATION
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
The Savannah (Ga.) Evening Press, an afternoon newspaper for more than a century, will cease publication Oct. 31. In a front-page letter to readers, the newspaper said Sept. 27 the decision will allow its sister paper, the Savannah Morning News, to expand and improve...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DOW JONES NEWS SERVICE
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
The Dow Jones News Service is expanding its hours to eventually run around the clock during the global business week, highlighting the growing demand for 24-hour financial news. The service, owned by Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Co., will phase in the new hours in two parts, according to Robert Prinsky, the news wire's managing editor. The first will come Oct. 7, when its hours will be extended later into the evening...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: NEW BANKING BRANCH
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
First National Bank is looking to a new Southeast Missouri site. First National has made application with the Office of the Comptroller of Currency to open a full-service branch in Jackson. The new branch, expected to open late this year, will be at Highway 61 and Greenway Drive...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
Karen Hendrickson of Cape Girardeau has been elected to a second term as president of the Missouri State Board of Nursing. Hendrickson, assistant administrator and chief nursing officer at Southeast Missouri Hospital, was appointed to the board in 1993 by Gov. Mel Carnahan. She served as secretary in 1994, vice president in 1995, and president of the nine-member board last year...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SO YOU WANT A JOB?
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
A panel of local business representatives will discuss what employees expect of potential employees during the Common Hour program, to be held at Robert A. Dempster Hall Auditorium on Southeast Missouri State University campus Wednesday at 1:15 p.m...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DAM WORK IN PEAK PHASE
(Business ~ 10/07/96)
Construction of the Olmsted Lock and Dam project will be entering its peak work force phase during the final quarter of this year. Over the next two months, an additional 300 workers will be added to the project, said a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers official recently...
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HAZING OFFENDERS SPEAK TO PLEDGES
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Complying with a condition of their sentencing in the 1994 death of Michael Davis, two former members of a banned fraternity spoke about hazing Sunday before an audience of fraternity and sorority pledges. Michael Q. Williams and Issac Sims III, former members of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, told nearly 200 Greek hopefuls at Southeast's Academic Auditorium that to stop hazing requires the efforts of both the victim and the system...
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COMMENTS OF GROUP ON DEBATE COMPILED
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Linda Carder took exacting notes while Dave Starrett sat back with his arms crossed and watched as President Clinton and Republican challenger Bob Dole engaged in their first debate of the 1996 campaign. Both Carder and Starrett were taking part in a presidential debate watch group at Southeast Missouri State University's Demptster Hall Sunday...
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SCHOOLS GETTING GRADED
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Since Missouri is the Show Me State, it seems appropriate for its school districts to show how they are faring. But what exactly does a school report card say about a district? All 524 school districts in Missouri were required to report basic information about attendance, drop-out rates and budgets as part of the Outstanding Schools Act of 1993. The report cards were due last Tuesday...
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TWO CONTROVERSIAL VOTES FACE COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Cape Girardeau city councilmen will decide tonight whether to allow smaller lot sizes in a northside development and whether politically active citizens can put candidates' signs near the street. The first issue will impact landowners near the corner of Bertling and Sprigg streets. Dallas businessman Harold Holigan plans to develop 145 lots in Forest Hills Subdivision, where homes would cost between $95,000 and $135,000...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: SOME THINGS THAT DON'T GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT
(Column ~ 10/07/96)
What's that noise? It's either a monster in the closet or too much garlic in the spaghetti sauce. It was about 4 o'clock the other morning and something woke me out of a sound sleep. Was it the building creaking? A car pulling into the parking lot? An ax murderer hacking down the door of my apartment?...
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MORE GROWTH
(Editorial ~ 10/07/96)
Announcements that a number of new businesses will create more than 600 jobs before the year is out comes as good news to the Cape Girardeau region. It is proof that the local economy is as robust as ever and that Cape Girardeau continues to serve as the retail hub of the area...
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MISSOURI WATCH: ELECTION CAMPAIGN SLOGANS ALONE DON'T CURE SOCIETY'S PROBLEMS
(Column ~ 10/07/96)
It is spiritually ennobling but intellectually troubling to observe citizen trust in the ability of political candidates to resolve society's ills. Despite the permanence of socioeconomic problems that have lifetimes much longer than mere humans, most of us have confidence that if the candidates we have chosen for the offices of president/governor/congressman/legislator are elected, the world will be righted, justice will prevail and solutions are just down the road and around the bend...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 10/07/96)
You can always tell when autumn arrives in Missouri: Farmers are busy harvesting crops, the foliage turns to beautiful colors and the Mizzou Tigers are on their way to another losing season. It's difficult to believe reports that Missourians have become wealthier until you realize those people on the street begging for money are political candidates...
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WILD HORSES GET PROTECTION
(Editorial ~ 10/07/96)
The small band of wild horses in Southeast Missouri that has raised such big controversy in Washington finally will be allowed to continue to roam the Missouri National Scenic Riverways. The herd's future was threatened back in 1990 when the National Park Service sought to relocate the horses because they aren't considered native to the area and might cause damage. ...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "How do you feel about sports fans who tear down goal posts, overturn cars, etc., after their team has won a sporting event?" Michelle Mueller, Cape Girardeau "Sad and disgusted. It's disrespectful ... society's values are falling apart."...
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SEMO TO PARTICIPATE IN NATIONAL TEACHER INITIATIVE IN OCTOBER
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Southeast Missouri State University's College of Education will participate with other schools in a national initiative. The 21st Century Teachers program is designed to help all teachers learn how to use new technology to improve teaching and learning at home and in the classroom...
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ANTI-ABORTION ACTIVIST TO SPEAK AT SEMO OCT. 18
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Penny Lea, a nationally known anti-abortion speaker, will make a presentation at 7 p.m. Oct. 18 in Academic Auditorium. Her visit is being sponsored by the Collegians For Life and by Student Government at Southeast Missouri State University. Admission is free with a Southeast I.D. There is a charge for the general public...
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LINCOLN LOOK-ALIKE
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
In international airports, people who cannot speak English sometimes hold up a penny and start talking to Charles L. Brame. Those who can speak English start talking about the good man who freed the slaves. "And if you don't watch it they will start saying, `Four score...,'" Brame says...
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TOM RAMBO
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
ST. LOUIS -- Tom Rambo, 84, of St. Louis and formerly of Marble Hill, died Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at St. Anthony's Medical Center in St. Louis. He was born April 20, 1912, in Lutesville, the son of Monroe and Cassie Ramsey Rambo. He was a retired timber worker and trader...
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ANNA J. MESSER
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
Anna June Messer, 68, of Bloomfield died Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born Nov. 17, 1927, in Richland, the daughter of Herbert Franklin and Eliza Katheryn Sheeley Goff. She married Donald E. Messer on June 26, 1948, and he preceded her in death on Oct. 29, 1993...
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LLOYD C. SIDES
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
Lloyd C. Sides, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at the Heartland Care Center. He was born Dec. 14, 1918, in Fruitland, the son of Samuel Price and Lula Gordon Sides. Sides was a World War II veteran, serving in the European Theater as a crewman in the light tank division. He was awarded five campaign stars. He worked for the Byrd Township as a heavy equipment operator and was a member of the Althenthal Journs Post 158 in Jackson and the V.F.W. Post in Cape Girardeau...
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JAMES C. STONE
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
MARQUAND -- James Clifford Stone, 76, of Marquand died Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Nov. 22, 1919, at Morley, the son of James Frederick and Anna Sarah Slinkard Stone. He married Iva O. Seabaugh on Sept. 7, 1946, and she survives...
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STELLA M. NOLAND
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
BLOOMFIELD -- Stella Mayberry Noland, 89, of Bloomfield and formerly of Scott City, died Sunday, Oct. 6, 1996, at Dexter Memorial Hospital. She was born Aug. 2, 1907, in Bloomfield, the daughter of Charlie and Sarah Blocker Mayberry. On Sept. 23, 1925, in Jackson, she married Lloyd Noland, who preceded her in death on April 24, 1974...
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COURTNEY M. BURNS
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- Courtney Michelle Burns, infant daughter of Chad and Melissa Pierce Burns of McClure, died at birth on Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Survivors include her parents; her grandparents, Tim and Ilene Pierce of Cairo, Loretta Burns of Cairo and Vince Burns of Makanda; and her great-grandparents, Orland and Pauline Gray of Boaz, Ky., Barbara Hoppe of Urbandale, Jesse Burns of DeSoto and Bernice Pierce of Scott City...
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R. CLIFTON MORRISON
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
MARBLE HILL -- R. Clifton Morrison, 75, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at his home due to an illness. He was born April 29, 1921, in Marble Hill, the son of Chester O. and Maggie H. Sadler Morrison. He married Lillian M. Leadbetter on April 22, 1939...
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HASKELL NEWBERRY
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- Haskell Newberry, 76, of Anna died Sunday, Oct. 6, 1996, at his home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Hileman & Parr Funeral Services in Jonesboro, Ill.
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COURTNEY MICHELLE BURNS
(Obituary ~ 10/07/96)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- Courtney Michelle Burns, daughter of Chad and Melissa Pierce Burns of McClure, died at birth Saturday, Oct. 5, 1996, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. Besides her parents, she is survived by her grandparents, Tim and Ilene Pierce of Cairo, Loretta Burns of Cairo and Vince Burns of Makanda; her great-grandparents, Orland and Pauline Gray of Boaz, Ky., Barbra Hoppe of Urbandale, Jesse Burns of De Soto and Berniece Pierce of Scott City, Mo...
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CARROT TOP'S COMEDY GOES OVER THE TOP (REVIEW)
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Think all a stand-up comedian needs is a microphone, a stool and a glass of water? Not Carrot Top. He brought no fewer than seven trunks full of props, gags and outfits and used them to bring down the house. The Wendy's logo look-alike performed before an audience of 1,200 at the Show Me Center in Cape Girardeau Sunday. From beginning to end, his show was about excess...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 10/07/96)
Cape Girardeau City Council Monday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. Public Hearings -- A public hearing regarding proposed amendments to the zoning ordinance relating to approval of similar uses in C-3 and M-1 districts. -- A public hearing regarding the request of Holigan Family Investments Inc. to rezone Forest Hills Estates from R-1 to R-2...
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