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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: LEARNING CENTER TO OPEN
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
Care Bear Learning Center will open in Cape Girardeau next month. "Our tentative opening date is Dec. 1," said Carrie Peel, a representative for the new center at 624 Commercial. The facility, which will provide a curriculum to prepare children for kindergarten, is owned by Charlotte Wildman. Also involved in the operation are Wildman's daughter, Carrie Peel, and a son, Terry Wildman...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DOWNTOWN MERCHANTS MEET
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
The monthly meeting of the Downtown Merchants Association will be held Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at the Port Cape Girardeau Restaurant. Final arrangements for the Christmas season will be discussed. Big events include the Christmas Parade Sunday and the appearance of the Santa Claus Express train, to stop in downtown Cape Girardeau Dec. 11...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: NEW INVESTMENT OFFICE
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
Robert Thomas Securities Inc., a full-service investment firm, has announced the opening of locally owned and operated independent brokers offices in Cape Girardeau and Columbia. Kevin Stewart, who previously managed Union Planters Bank Investment Center, owns and operates both offices...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TEST FLIGHT OF THE VANTAGE
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
The Vantage had its first test flight recently. America's newest corporate jet, flown by test pilot Doug Shane, vice president of Scaled Composites Inc. (SCI), the company that will manufacture the plane's components, took the Vantage to 10,000 feet over the Mojave Desert in California...
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PROCTER & GAMBLE EXCELLENCE; LOCAL AREA BIG PLAYER IN P&G GROWTH
(Local News ~ 11/25/96)
From time to time, the Missourian reviews and updates a previous winner of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's "Commitment of Excellence," Industry of the Year recipient. This week, Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co. Definition of Big: Procter & Gamble...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MATTEL TO BUY TYCO
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
Mattel Inc., the maker of Barbie dolls, announced last week that it would acquire Tyco Toys Inc., the manufacturer of Matchbox cars, in a $755 million deal. Tyco, which also makes the Sesame Street line of toys and manufacturerster and Maga Doodle brands, is the nation's No. 3 toy manufacturer, behind Mattel and Hasbro, the maker of Monopoly, Mr. Potato Head and G.I. Joe...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BOEING, AIRLINES PACT
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
GRAPEVINE, Texas -- American Airlines signed up Boeing to be its sole supplier of up to 630 jets to refurbish its fleet over the next 20 years. The agreement announced by both companies Thursday commits American to buying 103 jets by 2001 and gives it the right to purchase an additional 527 by 2018. The unprecedented flexibility is aimed at smoothing out the boom and bust cycles that have plagued airlines and aircraft makers...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CAPE WEST GROUP TO MEET
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
Greg Williams, executive director of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association, will be guest speaker at the monthly meeting of the Cape West Merchants Association, to be held Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. at Drury Lodge. Williams will update the group on the proposed Bollinger-Cape Girardeau County lake project,...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: WOMAN PROUD OF HER FAMILY
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
Doris Scnhuck is proud of her family. And rightly so. All six of her children -- five sons and a daughter -- are involved in Schnucks Markets Inc., headquartered in St. Louis. Schnucks is a household word to thousands of consumers over a four-state area...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
Southeast Hospice director Judy Aslin, left and Southeast Missouri Hospital Marketing and Communications Department staff member Maggie Friend are recipients of a 1996 Award of Excellence, presented by National Hospice Organization's (HNO) Excellence in Education Programming Competition...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TO UNVEIL NEW COMPUTER
(Business ~ 11/25/96)
IBM Corp. plans to unveil a more powerful mainframe computer this week. The computer will allow businesses to process more information for a lot less money than existing older models, industry sources said. The new IBM computer is a heartier version of a System 390 model introduced by IBM in September -- processing the same amount of information up to 10 percent faster. The System 390 models are the third generation in a redesigned series International Business Machines Corp. launched in 1994...
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COUPLE HOPES FOR NECESSITIES
(Local News ~ 11/25/96)
Mr. and Mrs. A have worked hard their entire lives. It took them over 60 years to pay for their home, which Mrs. A keeps clean despite the surrounding dirty and deteriorating neighborhood. They are proud. Proud of their home, proud of their accomplishments. They insist they can still do everything themselves, but they need help. They qualify for Medicaid, but they refuse to apply for public assistance unless absolutely necessary...
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MURAL DEPICTS MEDICINE'S RICH HISTORY
(Local News ~ 11/25/96)
When John Hunn started on his History of Medicine Mural, he was in a St. Louis studio staring at a 72-foot-long piece of white canvas. It was more than a little intimidating. But then he picked up a pencil and began to draw. Imhotep, the first physician known by name, quickly appeared. Leonardo da Vinci, Marie Curie and Louis Pasteur followed. Shadows and colors made them come alive...
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`LET MY PEOPLE GO': AUTHOR REMEMBERS DAYS OF CIVIL UNREST IN CAIRO
(Local News ~ 11/25/96)
"The civil rights movement did not destroy the population ... Cairo was already a community in rapid population decline long before the happenings of 1967." -- Preston Ewing Jr. CAIRO, Ill. -- "Effective immediately, all gatherings of people of two or more individuals is prohibited."...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: MAKIN' A LIST AND CHECKIN' IT TWICE FOR OVERSIGHTS
(Column ~ 11/25/96)
It's not even Thanksgiving yet, and I'm past the halfway point on my Christmas shopping. I can't help but gloat. It's like getting your income tax returns mailed in by Jan. 31. You're entitled to feel a certain moral superiority. I ventured into the mall over the weekend, where my favorite department store was having its biggest sale of the year...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 11/25/96)
ACCORDING TO the newspaper, Congressman Richard Gephardt lobbied heavily for McDonnell-Douglas, a large employer of voters in his district, in order to secure a contract for building a new military airplane. Now that McDonell has been eliminated from the bidding process, Gephardt says the plane isn't needed if we're going to balance the budget. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: LEGISLATORS SHOULD PROCEED CAREFULLY ON PAY HIKE, FAIR SUBSIDY
(Column ~ 11/25/96)
Memo to Critics: Secretary of State Bekki Cook has had her critics, but anyone with knowledge of her office's Elections Division is conversant with the speed and efficiency of its employees. Compiling, with any degree of accuracy, voting reports from hundreds of officials is a major undertaking, yet within a very short time after polls are closed, the Elections people can provide remarkably accurate information, even about extremely close contests...
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SUCCESSFUL TEEN CHALLENGE FACES A FUND-RAISING DEADLINE
(Editorial ~ 11/25/96)
For almost 30 years the Mid-America Teen Challenge Center north of Cape Girardeau has helped young men plagued by alcohol and drug addiction learn to live sober lives. The center, like 127 others across the nation and 150 worldwide, has managed to carry out its successful program largely through donations and its own money-making operations that involve Teen Challenge participants. ...
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ORGANIZED EFFORT TARGETS LITTER IN STREETS
(Editorial ~ 11/25/96)
Litter along certain Cape Girardeau streets continues to be a problem, one the city and Chamber of Commerce are attacking with renewed vigor. Things are getting better, but some areas remain covered in food wrappers, cigarette butts and soda cans. In an effort to further improve the situation, the chamber's Beautification Committee met last week with city officials. The committee discovered the Public Works Department already has taken some first steps toward cleaning up the littered areas...
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SOUTHEAST HORTICULTURIST RETIRES
(Local News ~ 11/25/96)
Twenty-six years may not have been enough time for horticulturist Dr. Charles Korns to put down roots in Cape Girardeau. At a retirement dinner at the Drury Lodge Saturday, Korns was honored for his 26 years as an agriculture professor at Southeast and for his active participation in the campus's landscaping and beautification...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 11/25/96)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What Thanksgiving holiday traditions are you planning this year?" Carolyn Clary, Cape Girardeau "I have to work all night long Wednesday night so all the traditions I had are out the door." Gloria Green, Cape Girardeau...
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RUTH SHELTON
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
BLOOMFIELD -- Ruth Shelton, 72, of Bloomfield died Sunday Nov. 24 at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.
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REAGAN D. GRINDSTAFF
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
PATTON -- Reagan D. Grindstaff, 84, of Patton died Saturday, Nov. 23, 1996, at his home. He was born Sept. 29, 1912, in Sedgewickville, son of the late Hezekiah and Rosie Reagan Grindstaff. He married Martha Presnell on Nov. 12, 1938, and she survives...
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BETTY S. PALSGROVE
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
Betty Sue Palsgrove, 74, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Nov. 24, 1996, at her home. She was born Nov. 28, 1921, in Hayti, the daughter of Samuel E. and Pocahontas Proctor Nethery. On Dec. 20, 1942, in Hayti, she married Jack E. Palsgrove, who preceded her in death on Jan. 28, 1990...
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MADGE S. JONES
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
CHAFFEE -- Madge S. Jones, 81, of Chaffee died Sunday Nov. 24, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Chaffee.
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VELMA O. GREGORY
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
ADVANCE -- Velma O. Gregory, 85, of Advance died Saturday, Nov. 23, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Nov. 23, 1911, in Piney, Ark., the daughter of Joseph and Ella Standridge Shelton. She married Lem Gregory on Jan. 4, 1930, in Lurton, Ark., and he survives...
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CLARENCE J. BULLINGER
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
Clarence J. Bullinger, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Nov. 23, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Aug. 18, 1918, in the Perkins area, the son of Albert J. and Louise E. Kirn Bullinger. Clarence served his country in the Navy from 1942-1945 during World War II...
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HELEN KATHERINE MCKEE
(Obituary ~ 11/25/96)
CAPE GIRARDEAU -- Helen Katherine Brinker McKee, 93, of Cape Girardeau died Thursday Nov. 21, 1996, at Chateau Girardeau Health Care Center. She was born June 5, 1903, in Monroe Township, Ind., daughter of the late Frederick and Margretta Aufdemkampe Brinker. She married William H. McKee Jan. 2, 1933, in Aberdeen, Miss., and he preceded her in death...
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