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BUSINESS MEMO: `SECOND FRIDAY' COFFEE
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee will be a second Friday event in July, due to the Fourth of July holiday. The event will be held July 10 at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center.
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BUSINESS MEMO: VETS EMPLOYMENT WORKSHOP
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
The Department of Central Management Services will conduct an employment orientation and information workshop at Cairo, Ill., Thursday and Friday. The two-day workshop, at the Cairo National Guard Armory, 410 Washington Ave., is designed to help veterans learn about employment opportunities in state government...
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BUSINESS MEMO: AECI ANNUAL CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. will holds its annual meeting Tuesday and Wednesday as the Marriott Pavilion Hotel in downtown St. Louis. Nearly 600 representatives of AECI's system from six regional generation and transmission cooperatives, including a cooperative at New Madrid, will attend the two-session...
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BUSINESS MEMO: A.G. EDWARDS EARNINGS
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
A.G. Edwards Inc., has reported record revenues and earnings during the quarter ended May 31. Net earnings for the quarter were $76,006,000 on revenues of $570,189,000. Earnings per share were 78 cents diluted and 79 cents basic. The totals were from $54.5 million earnings during the same quarter a year ago on earnings of $439 million...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SPARTECH STOCK SALE
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
Spartech Corp., headquartered in St. Louis, has announced that Vita International Limited, a 33 percent shareholder of Spartech, has agreed to purchase an additional 3 million shares of the company's common stock from the TCW group at a price of $21.25 a share...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BBL FEATURED IN MAGAZINE
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
BBL Building and Components Ltd., an employee-owned company near Perryville, was featured in the June issue of Frame Building News magazine. The article traces the history of the company, from its beginning as Buchheit Buildings Ltd. in 1975 to becoming employee-owned BBL in the 1990s...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: SIKESTON, TOWN IN GROWING PATTERN
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
Sikeston is on the grow. Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream and Atlas Cold Storage will hold grand-opening ceremonies on Thursday for their new facilities in the Sikeston Business and Technology Park. Good Humor-Breyers, which announced a $34 million expansion program more than a year ago, will dedicate its new 200,000-square-foot building...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
Burl Stamp Jr., formerly of Cape Girardeau, has been named president and chief executive officer for the Phoenix Children's Hospital. Stamp, vice president of pediatric services development for BJC Health System in St. Louis, will leave BJC July 3, and report to his new duties at Phoenix Children's Hospital Aug. 3...
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PORT TRYING TO CHASE NEW BUSINESS FOR AREA
(Local News ~ 06/22/98)
Stacked hardwood is ready for processing into wood chips at Missouri Fibre Corp. "We're all trying to chase rabbits," said Dan Overbey, the executive director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority. Overbey, who is in his fifth year with the port authority, spends his time not only keeping the port up-to-date and functioning but working to attract new businesses to the area. The new businesses are the rabbits he's chasing...
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BUSINESS MEMO: INTERNET WORKSHOPS
(Business ~ 06/22/98)
"Internet and Managing the Web" is the title of workshops to be held at the Cape Girardeau County Extension Center, 815 S. Hope St. in Jackson June 29 and 30. The workshop will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Topics will include Internet basics, browser management, commerce on the Internet and Web page construction...
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MARBLE HILL CHURCH STRENGTHENED AFTER FIRE
(Local News ~ 06/22/98)
The basic structure of Lutesville Presbyterian Church has remained intact since its cornerstone was laid near the turn of the century. Parts of the church sanctuary were destroyed in a 1978 fire caused by a gas explosion. MARBLE HILL -- Alpha Ricketts, doesn't remember hearing the blast that ignited a fire at Lutesville Presbyterian Church, but 20 years later she can remember the rescue and cleanup...
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VI KEYS CELEBRATES LIFETIME OF MUSIC, MEMORIES
(Local News ~ 06/22/98)
Vi and the Hi Flyers were based in Kansas City. Vi and the Dude Ranch Boys included from left, Vi Keys, her husband, Eddie, on guitar and Tommy Bollinger on bass. The band played the West in the 1940s. Vi Keys arrived in Cape Girardeau from Kansas City in 1959 to play a one-month booking at the Marquette Hotel. Nearly 40 years later, hardly a musician who grew up in the area doesn't know her...
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COPING WITHOUT COVERAGE: ABSENCE OF RURAL FIRE DISTRICTS COST CITY RESIDENTS
(Local News ~ 06/22/98)
Fire protection isn't always automatic or guaranteed in several sections of rural Southeast Missouri. "It makes you a little more careful," said Gerald Burger of Rockview, an unincorporated community in Scott County that is not part a rural fire district...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: IT'S TIME FOR FAT CHICKS TO TAKE TURN IN THE SPOTLIGHT
(Column ~ 06/22/98)
For fat chicks everywhere, I'm going to audition to be the new fifth Spice Girl, Pudgy. Americans are getting heftier, according to a national survey. Because I haven't noticed my clothes getting any looser, I can't say I'm surprised by the news. According to the survey, more than half -- 55 percent -- of all American adults are overweight or outright obese...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/22/98)
I AM really worried about Gary Rust. In a recent column, he praised both the movie "Bulworth" and U.S. Sen. John Ashcroft. Next thing you know, he'll be paying tribute to Dr. Laura Schlesinger while suggesting Dennis Rodman as a societal role model...
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SENIOR CENTER HOPES TO PAY OFF DEBT
(Editorial ~ 06/22/98)
From its humble beginning as a nutrition center in the old Sunny Hill Top of the Hill Restaurant almost 25 years ago, the Cape Girardeau Senior Center has become a well-used gathering place that not only continues to offer nutritious meals but a multitude of activities for senior citizens...
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NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL: A GOOD EXAMPLE
(Editorial ~ 06/22/98)
The new Notre Dame High School is an example of how something can be accomplished when everyone pitches in to do whatever is needed to get it done. Ground was broken on the 47-acre tract for the school just two years ago, and the school off Route K will be ready for occupancy at the start of the school year in August. The 114,000-square-foot school, built at a cost of nearly $7 million, will have 30 classrooms that can accommodate 600 students, almost double the school's current enrollment...
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LETTERS: FIRST STEP IS TO REPORT VIOLENCE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/22/98)
To the editor: We are writing in regard to the tragic loss of live June 15 of Kendra Bannister. The violence which transpired has brought about a renewed awareness to an existing epidemic. The Safe House for Women is a battered women and children shelter which offers free and confidential services to victims of domestic violence. ...
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LETTERS: SOME VACCINES COME FROM ABORTIONS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/22/98)
To the editor: Sgt. Todd Parish, serving in the U.S. Air Force, didn't mind when his 1-year-old son was vaccinated against chicken pox a couple of months ago, because he was unaware at the time that the vaccine was made from the cells of aborted children. Similar cells are also used to make vaccine for hepatitis A and rubella...
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LETTERS: SUPERMARKETS CHANGE SHOPPING
(Letter to the Editor ~ 06/22/98)
To the editor: Some men do the grocery shopping, and others have gone with their wives. It is an art, and it can also be a chore. I recall when supermarkets began in Buenos Aires in the 1950s. It was quite a rapid change from the old markets to the new type of shopping and the new type of marketing. ...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 06/22/98)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "Do you think Mark McGwire will break the single season home run record?" Jeff Graviett, Chaffee "I think he will as long as the Cardinals don't get in the race. If they get in the race down the pennant stretch I think he'll have trouble breaking the record. Because I just think the pressure with the pennant and all of that ... but if he can relax at the plate I think he'll have a good chance of breaking it."...
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JOHNNY MAY
(Obituary ~ 06/22/98)
Johnny G. May, 62, of Rockford, Ill., died Friday, June 19, 1998, at his home. He was born Aug. 10, 1935, in Cape Girardeau, son of J.C. and Cleo Dabbs May. He has lived at Rockford since 1963. He married Monett A. Roberts on Nov. 4, 1954, in Cape Girardeau. He was a professional spray painter for Pacific Scientific of Rockford, retiring last August...
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LILLIAN COLLIFLOWER
(Obituary ~ 06/22/98)
MINER -- Lillian V. "Tinch" Colliflower, 88, of Miner, formerly of Diehlstadt, died Saturday, June 20, 1998, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born on July 22, 1909, at Diehlstadt, daughter of William and Clara Watkins Michael. She and Roy G. Colliflower were married Sept. 16, 1934, at Commerce...
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JAKE FLEMING
(Obituary ~ 06/22/98)
SIKESTON -- J.D. "Jake" Fleming, 73, of Sikeston died Sunday, June 21, 1998, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born Jan. 30, 1925, near East Prairie, son of Arch and Rhoda Gore Fleming. He and Laverne Watkins were married on March 17, 1943...
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HAZEL BROWNLEE
(Obituary ~ 06/22/98)
CHARLESTON -- Hazel Ellen Brownlee, 91, of Charleston died Saturday, June 20, 1998, at her home. She was born Dec. 12, 1906, at Enid, Okla., daughter of John Allen and Jennie Smith Lupton. She and Urban Brownlee were married Aug. 26, 1933. He died Jan. 21, 1988...
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JESSIE HANKS
(Obituary ~ 06/22/98)
Jessie M. Hanks, 88, of Cape Girardeau, formerly of Marion, Ill., died Saturday, June 20, 1998, at the Lutheran Home. She was born May 6, 1910, at Texas City, Ill., daughter of William Andrew and Ethel Wilson Fitzgerald. She and Cecil W. Hanks were married on May 6, 1945, at Alton, Ill. He died Aug. 15, 1991...
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