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BUSINESS MEMO: BANK PURCHASE
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Security State Bancshares Inc., a two-bank holding company headquartered at Charleston, has announced it is purchasing the Bank of Atkins, Ark. SSB owns First Security Bank, a $91.9 million operation in Charleston, and Security Bank of Pemiscot, a $41.7 million operation in Caruthersville...
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NEW BUSINESS: AUTO TIRE IN ANNA
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Auto Tire and Parts Center, headquartered in Cape Girardeau, recently opened its 20th store. The company's newest operation is at Anna, Ill. "This is a significant milestone in the 89-year history of our company," said Greg Stroup, president of the company, a supplier of automotive, truck and agricultural parts...
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HOME BREW: ONE MILLION AMERICANS MAKE BEER
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
Joe Sherinski's home-brewed beer varies in color from light to dark. You know you're a typical home brewer if your basement is filled with buckets, glass jugs, hoses, beer bottles and some malty fumes that seem to filter through the entire house when a batch of beer is being brewed...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Craig E. Wells has joined Bank of Missouri, 1622 N. Kingshighway, as vice president of the Cape Girardeau office. Wells, who has more than 23 years of banking experience, most recently served as community bank president of Mercantile Bank of Southeast Missouri at Cape Girardeau...
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NEW BUSINESS: `BIG LOTS' COMING
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Big Lots is coming to Cape Girardeau. Big Lots, a close-out merchandise retail chain operated by Consolidate Stores Corp., headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, offers big savings on top-quality, name-brand, merchandises. The new store will open near the Silver Springs and William Street in the former Wal Mart building...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CAPA MEETING SET
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
The Cape Area Personnel Association will hold next month's meeting May 20. Some 35 members attended the April meeting. Dr. Robert Briner discussed clinic drug testing in the workforce. CAPA officers are Pat Hagan of Dana Corp., president; Denise Becker of Workforce, secretary; Tim Wheetley of Dana Corp., president-elect; and Joyce Bachmann of Foamex, treasurer...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SPECIAL BANK HONOR
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Union Planters Bank-Cape Girardeau Region, has received special recognition as the top volume lender under Missouri's Preferred Lender in Eastern Missouri for the first six months of fiscal 1998. Participants in the program are designated by the Small Business Administration to make SBA guaranteed loans, under a variety of programs to meet the needs of small businesses...
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BUSINESS MEMO: UNION PLANTERS EARNINGS
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Union Planters Corp. reported record first-quarter net earnings of $74.6 million, up from the $66.4 million during the same period of 1997. Fully diluted earnings per common share for the quarter were 86 cents, up from the 68 cents a share during the same quarter a year ago...
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BUSINESS MEMO: GOLD STAR RATINGS
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Aid Association for Lutherans Branch 1201 of Longtown, Branch 1205 of Uniontown and Branch 1837 of Shawneetown have been awarded a Gold Star rating by the fraternal benefit society in recognition of exemplary volunteer service in the community. To achieve the highest AAL rating, gold or silver stars, branches must annually sponsor at least one benevolent activity or fund-raising event or work project, conduct at least nine meetings, sponsor one educational activity and one member-awareness event and comply with AAL's attendance, voting and reporting requirements.. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ALLSTATE EARNINGS
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
NORTHBROOK, Ill. -- Allstate Corp. earnings far exceeded analysts' expectations in the first quarter as the insurer today posted the best numbers in its history. Income shot up 22 percent to a record $936 million, or $2.20 per diluted share, for the quarter ended March 31, up from $767 million, or $1.73 a share, in the same quarter of 1997...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: DAILY MAIL, A LEARNING EXPERIENCE
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
The title of this column could be "everything you wanted to know about some things you never even thought about." Going through the daily mail in the news room of a newspaper can be a chore, but it can also be a learning experience and provide an enjoyable essence of trivia...
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NEW BUSINESS: AUTO SALES FIRM
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Cache River Auto Sales has opened at 836 S. Kingshighway. More than 25 late-model vehicles, 1993 through 1997 models, will be available at the new company, owned by Donny Holley of Cape Girardeau and Jimmy Allen of Paducah, Ky. Holley and Allen also own Cache River Chevrolet at Ullin, Ill. The two men purchased the former Dickerson Chevrolet in September...
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NEW BUSINESS: THEATER TO OPEN AT PB
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
Kerasotes Showplace 8 Theater is expected to open in mid-May at Poplar Bluff. The new theater complex on U.S. Highway 67 South will double the number of screens operating in Poplar Bluff by Kerasotes. The new complex will offer two large auditoriums and six smaller theaters combining for about 2,000 seats...
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NEW BUSINESS: DOE RUN EXPANDING
(Business ~ 04/27/98)
ASARCO Inc., headquartered in New York, will sell the assets of its Missouri Lead Division to the Doe Ruin Co., a subsidiary of the Renco Group Inc. The sale is subject to negotiation of definitive agreements, regulatory approval and approvals for each company's board of directors...
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REGENTS TO CONSIDER INCREASE FOR ROOM-AND-BOARD CHARGES
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
Southeast Missouri State University students would pay 2.4 to 5.2 percent more to live on campus next school year, under a proposed fee plan. The Board of Regents is scheduled to consider approving the fee plan when it meets Wednesday. Students in the Towers complex and Greek housing would see larger fee increases than those living in the other campus residence halls...
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CONSTRUCTION ANNIVERSARY MARKED
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
In 1938, dance marathons, cot nights and walkathons were in, sometimes lasting up to a month, or two. Henry Ford took a $35 million crack at the Depression, announcing he will manufacture his own tires. The first blackout test was conducted. Sears & Roebuck sent out new "wish-books" with brand new cover designs, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt hoped to pull the nation out of the depression years with programs like the Works Progress Administration...
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EARLY INTERVENTION: PROGRAIM AIDS INFANTS, TODDLERS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
The birth of a child is a time of excitement and pleasure. However, when a problem occurs, parents can become afraid and confused, not knowing where to turn for answers. The Missouri First Steps program was developed 10 years ago to help educate parents of special needs children and get them to the resources they need. ...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: DREAM STATE SHOWS THE WAY TO HEALING PATHS
(Column ~ 04/27/98)
I'm worried about Jana. She e-mailed me the other day that she has been dreaming of her twin, who died of cancer last fall. The dreams are disturbing, Jana says, and she misses Julie more than ever when she wakes up. The two women shared a strong, and sometimes eerie, bond, as twins often do. They finished each others' sentences, had the same dreams...
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CAR ACCIDENT AT SEARS INJURES JACKSON GIRL
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
A 14-year-old Jackson girl was injured Saturday as she walked toward the doors of the Cape Girardeau Sears store. Elizabeth Toole was outside the store when a car knocked her through the glass entrance. The car also went through the doorway, coming to rest inside the store, Cape Girardeau police reported. The accident happened at 2:40 p.m...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, Which teams do you think will be in the NBA Championship?" Luke Richardson, Cape Girardeau "The Bulls and Seattle. The Bulls because they've been there the last four or five years." Dorrie Marshall, Cape Girardeau,...
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LETERS: JUMPING ON SOCIALISM'S BANDWAGON
(Editorial ~ 04/27/98)
To the editor: It seems that everyone is jumping on the bandwagon of socialism. They want socialized medicine, welfare, subsidies and morality, and they even want government to make everyday decisions in their lives -- well, maybe everyone else's life. Very few of these people believe that it would be right to go out and rob a bank at gunpoint, but its OK for a government to go out an rob those who work for a living...
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LETERS: SIZE OF GOVERNMENT NOT A PAY FACTOR
(Editorial ~ 04/27/98)
To the editor: On this page April 17 was published a letter of mine whose purpose was to set a Speak Out caller straight after he had insinuated that my views, which he had mischaracterized as "big-government," were shaped by the fact that I had been a postal employee. This may be considered a short addendum...
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FINALLY, CLOSURE ON A SIEGE OF BREAK-INS
(Editorial ~ 04/27/98)
One of the men who terrorized Cape Girardeau residents in 1996 by breaking into the homes of elderly people, sometimes threatening them with a knife and hitting one man with a board in his efforts to steal money, will spend the next 15 to 20 years of his life where he belongs: in the state penitentiary...
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PERRYVILLE PICNIC HAS HOME IN NEW PARK
(Editorial ~ 04/27/98)
The St. Vincent DePaul Parish Picnic, a summer event that has taken place every year for almost a century on the grounds of St. Mary of the Barrens Seminary in Perryville, will continue to be held on the seminary grounds through a recently announced plan...
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MISSOURI WATCH: TIME TO CHECK ON FORGOTTEN UMBRELLAS
(Column ~ 04/27/98)
Should any of Missouri's former governors pay a visit to the state's Office of Budget and Planning today, they might conclude that the millennium had already arrived. Some of our former chief executives struggled constantly to match income with spending, and these were not easy battles for several of them were forced to cut back on essential services to maintain a balance in the state treasury...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/27/98)
NEVER DOUBT a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. I WOULD like to voice my opinion on some of the news that I've been reading in your paper about the methamphetamine problem we have. ...
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LETTERS: THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON GOD'S WILL
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/27/98)
To the editor: To see the hope for the future through the eyes of a high school or college student, in my humble opinion, would be either a foolish wish made in vain or a great illusion of deceit, unless that hope was placed in God's word. Consider, if you will, what the world has to offer a young person with a dream and what message it has portrayed in recent years...
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GIRL SCOUTS HONORED AT LUNCHEON
(Local News ~ 04/27/98)
The Otahki Girl Scout Council honored volunteers at the annual Appreciation of Volunteers program Saturday. Carolyn Goodin, president of the Otahki Council, presented the awards. The Thanks Badge, one of the highest awards, honors an adult volunteer who has given at least 10 years of service to the benefit of the entire council...
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INDIANS COMPLETE OVC ROAD SWEEP; SEMO MOVES CLOSER TO HOSTING LEAGUE TOURNEY
(College Sports ~ 04/27/98)
MARTIN, Tenn. -- Not even a change in venue could slow down Southeast Missouri State University's surging baseball team Sunday afternoon. A broken water line which flooded the infield portion of Tennessee-Martin's Skyhawk Field early Sunday forced the final game of a weekend series to be played at the new Martin Recreation Complex...
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MAURICE RITCHEY
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
ANNA, Ill. -- Maurice E. Ritchey, 78, of Anna died Sunday, April 26, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Dec. 10, 1919, at Cypress, son of John L. and Ruby Lee Morgan Ritchey. He and Kathleen M. Hartline were married Oct. 9, 1940...
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ALMA HEBENSTREIT
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
BENTON -- Alma C. Hebenstreit, 94, of Marble Hill, formerly of Benton, died Sunday, April 26, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Oct. 13, 1903, at Benton, daughter of Joe and Mary Walters Scherer. She was married to Ben F. Hebenstreit on Sept. 3, 1928, at Benton. He died Feb. 13, 1975...
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JOAN COOK
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
THEBES, Ill. -- E. Joan Cook, 72, of Thebes died Saturday, April 25, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. She was born Jan. 1, 1926, at Seneedsville, Tenn., daughter of Emory and Ida Elizabeth Wilson Minor. She and Louis Cook were married March 11, 1961, at Chicago...
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EFFIE MAY PARKER
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Effie Mae Parker, 94, of Cairo died Saturday, April 25, 1998, at Daystar Care Center in Cairo. She was born Feb. 10, 1904, in Mississippi County, Mo., daughter of William and Mary Ellen Dexter. She was married to Charles Edgar Stroud. He died in 1938. She also married Paul Parker. He died in 1984...
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DANIEL MCKEON
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
Daniel J. McKeon, 95, of Davenport, Iowa, died Saturday, April 25, 1998, at his home. He was born July 1, 1902, in Centrailia, Iowa, son of James F. and Helena Erschens McKeon. He and Leona M. Slater were married May 3, 1927, at Dubuque. McKeon was a tool and die maker by trade. He worked for the Rock Island Arsenal, Uchtorff Co. and Victor Animanigraph. He retired from Bendix Aviation...
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CLYDE WALLIS
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
Clyde Frank Wallis, 70, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, April 26, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born Aug. 25, 1927, in Cape Girardeau, son Chester Herbert and Clara Dee Brunke Wallis. He married Juanita Ruth O'Daniell on Aug. 25, 1948, at Cape Girardeau. She died Nov. 29, 1990...
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STELLA MARIE BLANK
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
Stella Marie Graden Blank, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, April 24, 1998, at her home. She was born Dec. 28, 1915, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Louis E.T. and Ella A. Haertling Graden. She and Howard W. Blank were married April 26, 1935, at Cape Girardeau. He died June 19, 1995...
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BARBARA FAYE DIEBOLD
(Obituary ~ 04/27/98)
BENTON -- Barbara Faye Diebold, 66, died Sunday, April 26, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton, with rosary at 6:45.. Funeral Mass will be said at 2 p.m. Tuesday at St. Denis Catholic Church in Benton. Burial will be in the church cemetery...
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