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IN THE CHIPS: SOUTHEAST MISSOURI POTATO GROWERS CASH IN ON DEMAND FOR SNACK
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
When the bottom dropped out of the price Idaho potato farmers got for their crop last year, it didn't affect the potato growers of Southeast Missouri. That's because most of Idaho's potatoes go for making french fries, while most of Southeast Missouri's pototoes go for potato chips. ...
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NEW BUSINESS: 90TH ANNIVERSARY
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Wehrenberg, headquartered in St. Louis, is observing its 90th anniversary this year and has opened or re-opened a number of theaters during its anniversary year, incuding the renovated Westport Cine in St. Louis, a 16-plex at Springfield and a 10-cine in Prescott, Ariz...
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NEW BUSINESS: THEATERS TO OPEN
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Wehrenberg Theatres Inc. will open 10 of its new 14 screens at the 14-cine theater in Cape West Business Park this month. Wehrenberg officials said last week they hope to open 10 of the screens July 25. Details on movies on opening day will be announced later...
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NEW BUSINESS: BERT'S BARBECUE OPENS
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
The Bavarian Haus, featuring Bert's Barbecue Restaurant, has opened near Interstate 55 and Highway 61 at Fruitland. The site is the second for Bert's Barbecue, which also has an operation at 517 N. Silver Springs Road in Cape Girardeau. The new restaurant will be open daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: UNCLE SAM NAMED AFTER SAM WILSON N.Y. PATRIOT
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Samuel Wilson's name DOES appear in most encyclopedias, but not where you'd expect, under "Wilson." Try "Uncle Sam." Samuel Wilson was a businessman, and history tells us it was Wilson who may have been responsible for the "Uncle Sam" designation that symbolizes the United State...
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BUSINESS MEMO: A NEW `VIRTUAL CITY'
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Carbondale, Marion and Herrin have joined forces to form a "Virtual City." The three Southern Illinois communities, located along the Route 13 Growth Corridor recently announced the economic development alliance. A virtual city consists of communities that associate and cooperate with their neighbors -- even their competitors -- to achieve a certain critical mass unattainable on their own...
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BUSINESS MEMO: INDUSTRIAL DONATION
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Noranda Aluminum of New Madrid recently donated $12,200 to the Southeast Missouri State University Foundation for purchase of new equipment for the university's Department of Industrial Technology. The university purchased 10 Allen Bradley Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) trainers and five copies of Rockwell Automation Software...
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BUSINESS MEMO:
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
The Missouri Veterans Home Flag Day Benefit Golf Tournament raised more than $7,000 for the Cape Girardeau Veterans Home Foundation recently. Lt. Gov. Roger Wilson served as honorary chairman and participated in the event, held at Jackson's Bent Creek Country Club...
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BUSINESS MEMO: HOGS ARE EVERYWHERE
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Missouri hog numbers are up. A June 1 inventory of hogs and pigs in Missouri shows an estimated 2.6 million head, up one percent from a year ago and nine percent over the March 1 inventory Market hogs are estimated at 3.1 million head. U.S. inventory of all hogs and pigs on June 1 was 58.2 million head, 2 percent over the count of a year ago. The market hog inventory was at 51.2 million...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SBA COUNSELING SESSIONS
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in four areas this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available July 23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call (314)-335-3312 for appointment...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 07/07/97)
Mike McKinnis has joined McDowell Ford-Pontiac-Buick as a sales associate. McKinnis of Cape Girardeau has more than 12 years of experience in automotive retail sales. He will be at McDowell's Perryville dealership until McDowell South opens along Highway 61 between Cape Girardeau and Jackson in mid-July...
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CITY MAY SEEK MONEY TO BUY LAND THAT FLOODS
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
Bea Poole's home in Red Star sits just a little too high to have qualified for Cape Girardeau's current flood buy-out program. But she was happy to hear that the city may apply to the State Emergency Management Agency for funds to buy out and demolish her home and those of 18 other residents...
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MISSOURI TO LOOK AT DEREGULATION OF ELECTRIC UTILITIES
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
A Missouri Public Service Commission task force and a state legislative committee are studying how best to deregulate the retail electric utility industry. The Public Service Commission has appointed a 38-member task force. The group includes representatives of investor-owned and municipal utilities, as well as rural electric cooperatives, consumer groups, business and labor groups and state agencies...
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FLOOD BUY-OUT LAND TO BECOME COMMUNITY GARDEN
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
In the aftermath of the floods of 1993 and 1995, Cape Girardeau bought 81 properties as part of a federally funded flood buy-out program. For the first time, someone has put some of those properties to use. Americorps has started a community garden on three lots in the 1100 block of Main Street in the Red Star neighborhood...
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PADDLEWHEELER, OUTDOOR MARKET ATTRACT CROWD
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
The riverfront was the place to be in Cape Girardeau Sunday. Hundreds of people strolled the downtown area, attracted by the American Queen paddlewheeler and a special "Tailgate" antique/collectible market. "The collectible show was great," said Evelyn Boardman, a member of the Downtown Merchants Association, which sponsored the event. Twenty-five people displayed their wares, selling from tables, pickup trucks, vans and car trunks on the parking lot at Water and Broadway...
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NEW REASONS TO BUCKLE UP
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
If a tougher seat belt law like the one to take effect next month had existed 10 years ago, Kathy Wolz's sister might still be alive. In 1987, Wolz's 17-year-old only sister, Mary Ellen Anderson, of Cape Girardeau was killed in a traffic accident after being thrown from a pickup truck. Anderson was not wearing her seat belt, and she was not legally obligated to do so...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: PATHFINDER SPURS MEMORIES OF MOON LANDING, `STAR TREK'
(Column ~ 07/07/97)
So, was anyone else hoping we'd actually see little green men when Pathfinder touched down? When the Apollo 11 mission touched down on the moon, I was watching it on TV, right along with the rest of the world. It was 1969 and I was only there because my parents made me stay up late enough to watch history happening right there in our living room...
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MISSOURI WATCH: MISSOURI'S SUMMER BOOK LIST
(Column ~ 07/07/97)
The practice must have been started by some book publisher flack trying to beef up his company's sales during vacation/slow-sales months. Each year at this time, magazines that run the gamut from "Slime" to "U.S. Nudes & World Retort," list new-book releases for summertime reading, each designed to make citizens better informed and/or more entertained and/or more confused than ever...
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SEWER PROJECTS TAKE CARE OF OLD PROBLEM
(Editorial ~ 07/07/97)
Renovation of Cape Girardeau's sewer system may be causing some inconvenience to property owners and motorists, but the annoyances will be well worth it. When finished, sanitary and storm sewer lines in the older parts of town will be separated for the first time...
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BRIDGE LIGHTS WILL BE A GREAT ASSET
(Editorial ~ 07/07/97)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce has its work cut out in its campaign to raise more than $122,000 toward the cost of putting aesthetic lighting on the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge. The lights, which the Missouri Transportation Commission approved for the bridge last month, will cost $432,000. The Federal Highway Administration will provide $310,810, and the chamber is responsible for the rest...
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LETTERS: ASSIST HELPS PREVENT TEEN SMOKING
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/07/97)
To the editor: In response to the question, "What do you think the federal government should do to fight teen-age smoking," in the Southeast Missourian June 30, it appeared many are residents may view peer pressure as a major factor in starting and see education as a major key to reducing teen tobacco use. Today there is not only an increase in teens' use of cigarettes, but also use of snuff and some types of cigars...
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LETTERS: NATURE HAS A SYSTEM OF ITS OWN
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/07/97)
To the editor: Mark Twain once said nearly everyone talks about the weather, but few people do anything about it. There is no question that much has been done to control the weather. Today one can live in air-conditioned comfort and avoid uncomfortable heat and humidity. ...
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LETTERS: ONLY ONE VOTE FOR U.N. WITHDRAWAL
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/07/97)
To the editor: Recently a bill was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives to require the United States to withdraw from the United Nations to protect what is left of American sovereignty. According to an area newspaper, only one representative from Missouri voted favorably for America and its citizens. ...
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TIDYING UP CAPE GIRARDEAU'S HISTORIC STORIES
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
Last Christmas, Jim Bequette gave some visiting relatives "the historic tour" of Cape Girardeau. They started at Cape Rock. At the conclusion two hours later, someone suggested he share his knowledge with a wider audience. The result is "Historic Founding of Cape Girardeau Missouri," a self-published booklet that seeks to demythologize some of the stories about the city's origins while providing a chronology that begins "as the Ice Age neared its end."...
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`CALL TRACE' OFFERS PROTECTION AGAINST HARASSING CALLS
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
When Jane D. received a harassing telephone call, she hung up and immediately punched *57 on her touch tone phone. "Call Trace," a safety option which has been added to most residential and small-business phone lines in Missouri, went to work. The telephone number, time and date of Jane D's last received call were recorded...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What did you think about the Tyson/Holyfield fight?" Mick Palmer, Cape Girardeau "I thought the fight was a travesty. I think the last thing boxing needs is a black eye. I also think that Mike Tyson should be barred from boxing forever."...
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HERBERT F. SAGO SR.
(Obituary ~ 07/07/97)
Herbert F. Sago Sr., 79, of Cape Girardeau died Tuesday, July 1, 1997, at the Beverly Health and Rehab Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Sept. 1, 1917, in Pocahontas, Ark. He married Agnes L. Biri. She preceded him in death. Sago was a veteran of U.S. Navy in World War II and the Korean War. He was a machinist...
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HAROLD PENNINGTON
(Obituary ~ 07/07/97)
PUXICO -- Harold J. Pennington, 70, of Puxico died Saturday, July 5, 1997, at his home. He was born Feb. 19, 1927, in St. Louis, the son of Lawrence and Ella Williams Pennington. He married Genevieve Crawford on Dec. 24, 1945, in Piggott, Ark. He was a retired custodian with the Puxico public schools. He attended Life Chapel Assembly of God Church in Puxico. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army...
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CORA M. BORGFIELD
(Obituary ~ 07/07/97)
Cora M. Borgfield, 83, of Jackson died Sunday, July 6, 1997, at the Heritage Gardens Nursing Home in Jackson. She was born Aug. 8, 1913, near Fruitland, daughter of August and Eugenia Puchbauer Borgfield. She moved to Jackson in 1953. She moved to the nursing home in 1994...
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ORA BERRY
(Obituary ~ 07/07/97)
Ora Helen Dunn Berry, 76, of 2852 Independence died Saturday, July 5, 1997, at Beverly Health and Rehabilitation Service in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 26, 1921, in Allenville, the daughter of Jack and Lovey Adams Dunn. She married Carl Berry and he preceded her in death...
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ALICE BOHANNAN
(Obituary ~ 07/07/97)
SCOTT CITY -- Alice Miranda Bohannan, 32, of Scott City died Saturday, July 5, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
(Local News ~ 07/07/97)
Cape Girardeau City Council Agenda Monday July 7, 1997 Public Hearings Regarding the city's performance in its 1995 water project located along Rust Avenue. Regarding amending the zoning ordinance relating to mobile homes. Regarding amending the subdivision regulations relating to sidewalks...
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SISTER FLORENCE GERTRUDE DUENNE
(Obituary ~ 07/07/97)
CHARLESTON -- Sister Florence Gertrude Duenne, 85, formerly of Mississippi County, died Friday, July 4, 1997, at the Mother House in O'Fallon, Mo. She was born Oct. 26, 1911, in the Texas Bend Community of Mississippi County, daughter of Henry and Ann Catherine Bruenderman Duenne...
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