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MOTEL-HOTEL AMENITIES: HELP WITH FORGOTTEN ITEMS; FREE BREAKFAST AMONG PERKS
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
A Drury Inns Inc. employee checked the layout for the free breakfast provided by the company for all of its Drury properties. You're in a strange city, it's late, the stores have closed and you suddenly realize you didn't pack a razor. Toss in the reality that you have an 8 a.m. appointment with an important client, and you're sweating...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `TOP 10' RECOGNIZED
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
The Orscheln Farm & Home Store at Cape Girardeau has been named one of the "Top 10 of Customer Service" in the chain of 74 stores. Stores were judged on preparing product displays for the spring season and had to earn 90 of 100 points to emerge in the top 10...
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BUSINESS MEMO: LARGE ATTENDANCE
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
More than 90 state and community officials and leaders attended the seventh annual Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission's Elected Officials Conference, held at New Madrid recently. Leon Steinbrueck, executive director of the Bootheel Commission, said planning was already under way for the 1998 Elected Officials Conference...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `SURFING THE NET' SEMINAR
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
A "Surfing the Net" seminar, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Industrial Relations Council and Southeast Missouri State University, will be held April 22 at Robert A. Dempster Hall. The seminar will help "surfers" discover the Internet and how it works...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: HOMES ADD CLOSET RACKS WITH MOTORS, OTHER DEVICES
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
You've seen motorized clothes racks in dry cleaners. How about one in your closet? They're available for homes that have everything, especially spacious closets. The racks "home style," work just like the industrial models found in dry cleaners. At one time, "Closet Carousels" were the rage for only the "rich and famous" set, but can now be obtained in price ranges from $1,500, depending on the size of the closet...
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BUSINESS MEMO: JACKSON CHAMBER MEETING
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
The March general membership meeting of the Jackson Chamber of Commerce will be held at the First National Bank of Jackson today. The bank is sponsoring the meeting during an open house of its new facility. The open house will be from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m...
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BUSINESS MEMO: QUINSTATE CONFERENCE SET
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
"Back to the Basics -- Recreating Your Community," will be the theme of the annual Quinstate Economic Development Conference, to be held at the Best Western Coach House In & Suites in Sikeston, April 10 and 11. The Quinstate Conference, co-sponsored by cooperative extension services from Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee, and local chambers of commerce throughout the region, is held at various sites. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BUSINESS EXPO POSTPONED
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
Business Expo '97, originally scheduled for April, has been postponed and will be rescheduled for fall, probably in September. The two-day Expo will offer businesses a chance to meet consumers, create or expand mailing lists, conduct customer surveys, introduce new products and visit with other businesses...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
The 39th annual Governor's Economic Development Conference will be held at Adam's Mark Hotel in St. Louis May 22 and 23. William Wolman, chief economist for Business Week; Paul Tiffany, associate professor of management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania; and Gary Brown, corporate director of Human-Resources of Springfield ReManufacturing Corp., are among the speakers at the two-day event...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
Jimmie Murrell Akers of Kennett received Southeast Missouri "Older Worker of the Year" honors. Akers, who works with Riggs Building Supply and Home Centers at Kennett, attended the Missouri Older Worker of the Year awards ceremony at Jefferson City where he received a plaque as a regional winner...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: COMMERCIAL PROPERTY
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
Commercial property is available on either side in the 300 block of Broadview for retail, restaurants and office buildings, said Bob Price of ERA Cape Realty, which is marketing the property for DKR Properties, LLC. "We'll sell or lease," said Price. "We'll build to suit a client's needs."...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: HOLDS GRAND OPENING
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
The new Rhodes 101 Service Station-Convenience Store held its grand opening recently. The new facility has been completely remodeled, said Paul Dirnberger of Rhodes 101. The Chaffee station was closed in September for remodeling and reopened in mid-January...
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NEW BUSINESS ON THE STREET: INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES
(Business ~ 03/24/97)
Three large industrial properties are available in the Southeast Missouri-Northern Arkansas area -- the former Purolator Products building at Dexter, a 221,400-square-foot structure; a one-story, 135,000-square-foot building at Caruthersville; and a 130,105-square-foot building at Blytheville, Ark...
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CHURCH'S DEAF MINISTRY A REAL SALVATION TO SOME
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
JACKSON -- For James Stevens, God speaks through Maxine Brewer's hands. Stevens is deaf and Brewer is an interpreter for the ministry at Calvary United Pentecostal Church in Jackson. Stevens said he has been going to church all his life and this is the first time he has ever taken an interest. "It's like I heard the voice of God," Stevens said through Brewer...
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A TALE OF SIX CITIES: APPROACHES TO PAYING FOR SERVICES VARY
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
Cape Girardeau may charge more than nearby cities for trash collection, water and sewer service, but that is because the city's property tax is low. Jackson residents don't get billed for trash collection on their city utility bills, while Cape Girardeau bills its residents $12.73 a month. But Jackson's property tax is $1.05 per $100 assessed valuation and Cape Girardeau's is 66 cents...
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REGION'S FARMERS HOPE DRY SPELL WILL COME SOON; FI3ELD WORK FOR GRAIN CROPS SHOULD BE UNDER WAY
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
With spring planting approaching, Southeast Missouri farmers are looking to the skies and keeping tabs on weather forecasts these days. "There are some weather concerns out there," said Terry Birk of the Cape Girardeau County Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation Service office at Jackson...
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SUPERFUND SITE: MISSOURI ELECTRIC CLEANUP TO SERVE AS DEMONSTRATION
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
At first glance, it looks like a normal construction site. But behind the green hardhats and plastic safety glasses and beyond a fenced-off area, the work of cleaning up one of the nation's Superfund sites is under way. TerraTherm, an environmental firm based in Houston, Texas, is handling a test cleanup of PCB-contaminated soil at the Missouri Electric Works site in Cape Girardeau...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: SINUS INFECTIONS ARE NOTHING TO SNEEZE AT
(Column ~ 03/24/97)
Forget Fat Boy on the radio. Cape should be known as the Home of Snifflebugs. All right, let's have a show of hands: Is there anyone out there who has NOT been infected with the wheezing-coughing-sneezing-nasal-congestion-head-swollen-to-four-times-its-normal-size-til-the-oxygen-flow's-cut-off virus?...
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2-YEAR-OLD SECOND TO DIE FROM STODDARD CRASH
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
FRISCO -- A 2-year-old passenger in a car involved in an accident Friday died Sunday at Children's Hospital in St. Louis. The passenger, Walter Neeley of Sikeston, was the second fatality of the accident that sent eight other people to area hospitals...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 03/24/97)
THIS IS in response to the caller who thought Vanna White should take time off while she's pregnant. Why should she? She has nothing to be ashamed of, and just because one person has a problem seeing a pregnant woman on TV and sharing the joy she feels doesn't mean anyone else does...
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MISSOURI WATCH: WHAT CAN SUPREME COURT BE THINKING?
(Column ~ 03/24/97)
I'm not sure the honorable justices of the U.S. Supreme Court really thought through their recent decision against the nation's tobacco companies. You may recall the high tribunal recently let stand a Florida law that makes it easier to sue tobacco companies by states seeking to recover Medicaid expenses incurred in treating smoking-related illnesses...
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CAPE POLICE TAKE AIM AT PETTY CROOKS AND THEIR CRIMES
(Editorial ~ 03/24/97)
The Cape Girardeau Police Department's effort to make city streets safer by putting more emphasis on petty crime is getting results: Not only is it putting offenders behind bars, but it is spreading the word that police are cracking down. Shortly after the city's new police chief, Rick Hetzel, came on board, he announced the department would take a tougher approach to misdemeanor crimes. As part of that effort, a program called Operation Safe Streets was instituted. Its results are impressive...
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NEW COMMUNITY CENTER READY TO OPEN
(Editorial ~ 03/24/97)
Cape Girardeau's Osage Community Centre, which will open with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting April 15, promises to be a busy place. The $2.5 million recreation and events center near Kingshighway and Mount Auburn Road will take much of the pressure off of the A.C. ...
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SUNGLASSES, SPINICH HELP KEEP EYES HEALTHY
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
With summer just a few months away, it might be a good idea to stock up on some essentials like: sun screen, beach towels, sunglasses and -- spinach. Researchers say foods like spinach and kale, which are rich in a nutrient called lutein, can reduce a common eye disease known as age-related macular degeneration...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 03/24/97)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think of the senate proposal to eliminate the vehicle inspection in Missouri? Mary Sloan, Cape Girardeau "I think it's good because it's too much of a hassle to keep going every year." David Kaempfer, Cape Girardeau...
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SEMO BASEBALL TEAM FALLS PART LATE IN LOSS TO TECH
(College Sports ~ 03/24/97)
Sunday afternoon's Ohio Valley Conference baseball game at Capaha Park between Southeast Missouri State University and Tennessee Tech had all the makings of a fantastic pitching duel. But a couple of Indian mistakes in the field turned the duel between the Indians' Jason Swearingen and Tech's Matt Frey into an offensive shootout for the Eagles. Tech scored eight runs with two outs in the eighth inning to pull away for a 10-2 win...
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NOTRE DAME'S ~`CARDIAC KIDS' COME UP SHORT; SKYLINE DEFEATES LADY BULLDOGS 61-45
(High School Sports ~ 03/24/97)
COLUMBIA -- Give them back the 98 seconds, and the "Cardiac Kids" might have worked their magic one last time. After trailing Urbana Skyline High by as many as 15 points in the second quarter of the Class 2A girls championship game at the Hearnes Center late Saturday night, Notre Dame's Rachael Schlosser hit a 10-foot jumper to cut the deficit to nine points, 40-31, with 1:44 left in the third quarter...
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AREA SOFTBALL TEAMS EYE SEASON OPENERS
(High School Sports ~ 03/24/97)
Girls softball enters its second season for some area high school teams and they will be looking to build off their initial seasons. The Notre Dame Lady Bulldogs open action first with a game Tuesday at Sikeston. Scott City's Lady Rams host Portageville on Thursday and Chaffee opens its season March 31 at Meadow Heights...
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LOUISE GRIMSLEY
(Obituary ~ 03/24/97)
MARBLE HILL -- Louise Grimsley, 81, of Marble Hill died Saturday, March 22, 1997, at the St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 23, 1915, in Marble Hill, daughter of Ralph and Della Crader Dewitt. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Marble Hill for more than 70 years. She had served for 12 years as Bollinger County treasurer and was a retired bookkeeper...
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D.F. PENROD
(Obituary ~ 03/24/97)
GREEN VALLEY, Ariz. -- D.F. Penrod, 82, of Green Valley, formerly of Cairo and Springfield, Ill., died Saturday, March 22, 1997, in Green Valley. He was born July 18, 1914, in Thebes, Ill., son of B. Fred and Elsie Penrod. He had been a captain in the U.S. Army and had retired after 40 years as manager and insurance agent with Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. in Springfield...
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EVELYN BASINGER
(Obituary ~ 03/24/97)
SIKESTON -- Five-month-old Evelyn Gene Candace Basinger of Sikeston died Saturday, March 22, 1997, at her home. She was born Sept. 24, 1996, in Sikeston, daughter of Clayton Eugene Basinger and Ruby Haney Elkins. She is survived by her parents; a sister, Emily Francine Genive Basinger of Sikeston; grandparents, Carl Basinger and Iva Browning, both of Sikeston, and Steven Haney of Charleston and Kathy Fowler of Cape Girardeau; and great-grandparents, Sonny and Perline Linhart of Marble Hill and Hurbbet and Genive Haney of near East Prairie.. ...
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WILLIAM BESS
(Obituary ~ 03/24/97)
SIKESTON -- William Bess, 75, of Sikeston died Sunday, March 23, 1997, at his residence. He was born Oct. 25, 1921, in Blodgett to A. Wayne and Mae Caughlin Bess. He graduated from Sikeston High School in 1939 and attended Southeast Missouri State University, the University of Missouri Columbia and Purdue University...
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CARREL J. STEARNS
(Obituary ~ 03/24/97)
PERRYVILLE -- Carrel J. Stearns, 74, of Perryville died Sunday, March 23, 1997, at the Missouri Veteran's Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Young and Sons Funeral Home in Perryville.
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