-
CAPE GIRARDEAU CONSTRUCTION: CURRENT TOTALS FOR '98 COMPARES WITH GOOD YEARS
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
A new duplex under construction at Saxony Village. The 1998 construction year will go down as a "good one" in Cape Girardeau. During the first nine months, more than 440 permits worth more than $34.1 million were recorded by the Cape Girardeau Inspection Services Division...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: AAA APPROVED FACILITIES
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
Two businesses -- Hi-Tech Automotive in Cape Girardeau and Ruppel Auto Service in Jackson -- have been appointed by AAA as approved auto repair facilities. To qualify for AAA approved auto repair status, facilities undergo an on-site inspection by AAA representatives...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: NEW AECI AIR QUALITY
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
New air quality equipment will be installed at Associated Electric Cooperative's New Madrid Power Plant. The selective catalytic reduction system will reduce nitrogen oxides emissions from the plant by 93 percent. The new project will be AECI's cornerstone for achieving compliance with the environmental Protection Agency's Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: CIGAR DINNER
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
Tobacco Lane will sponsor a cigar dinner at Port Cape Restaurant Thursday, with a social hour at 7 p.m. and prime rib dinner at 8. A representative from Arturo Fuente Cigar Co. will attend the dinner. Advanced registration is required. Cost and other information is available by calling (573)-651-3414...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: SBDC COUNSELING SESSIONS
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and Perryville this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Oct. 21, 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 335-3312 for appointment...
-
BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
Dr. Robert C. Kessinger, a specific chiropractor in Cape Girardeau, has been accepted by the National Registry of Who's Who as a life member, in recognition of exemplary service to community and profession. The registry is a recognized biographical publication for professionals...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: CAPA FALL CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
Tim Gard, a comedian and award-winning trainer, will speak at the Cape Girardeau Personnel Association fall conference next month. The one-day conference, which includes vendor exhibits, will be held Nov. 18, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the Drury Lodge...
-
TIMELESS RULES FOR EQUITY INVESTORS
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Investing in the stock market requires a great deal of discipline. It's easy to lose sight of long-term objectives when other investors are taking profits, and experts are predicting a major market correction...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: WESTFIELD ACQUISITION
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
Westfield America Inc., a real estate investment trust, has completed acquisitions of three shopping centers in California. These include: 39.9 interest in Santa Anita Fashion Park in Arcadia and 100 percent interest in Parkway Plaza in El Cajon and Solano Mall at Fairfield...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: MAGNA-TEL RECOGNIZED
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
Magna-Tel Inc. of Cape Girardeau won the 1998 Business Promotions Awards Competition sponsored by Screenprinting & Graphic Imaging Association International. The local company received an award of excellence and an award of merit in the "Telemarketing & Yellow Pages" category, for a CD featuring "Sales on Hold Messages" that are played while callers of Magna-Tel are placed on hold...
-
STRICTLY BUSINESS: NEIGHBORHOOD MARKET NEW ON WAL-MART SCENE
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
There's something new on the Wal-Mart scene -- a "Neighborhood Market." The first Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market opened last week in the company's corporate hometown of Bentonville, Ark. A lot of people were on hand to look at the new concept last Wednesday...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: DISASTER PREPAREDNESS
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
The Associated Industries of Missouri and the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency will sponsor a number of business and community disaster preparedness seminars, including a Nov. 19 meeting at Cape Girardeau. The program is designed to help businesses and communities prepare for a disaster...
-
BUSINESS MEMO: 'WELFARE-TO-WORK'
(Business ~ 10/12/98)
A "Welfare to Work" training class will be held at Mineral Area College, Park Hills, Oct. 28, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. The purpose of the classes is to offer welfare recipients the choice between entry-level jobs with local employers that need employees, or starting a business of their own...
-
CITY WATER PROJECT SET FOR BIDDING; CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FUNDED BY SALES TAX
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
Cape Girardeau city officials hope to let bids next month on a new water storage tank for the city's water treatment plant on Cape Rock Drive. The bidding process for construction of the storage tank is the latest in a series of steps to improve the city's water delivery system and expand Treatment Plant No. 1...
-
FORMER CLASSMATES CELEBRATE 57-YEAR REUNION
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
BENTON -- It's been more than 50 years since they sat behind desks in the classroom at the top of the stairs in St. Denis School in Benton, but the room still looked much the same. Chalkboards still line the wall and the teacher's desk still sits at the front of the room. But some things have changed over time. There are computers. And now the chairs and desks seemed smaller...
-
BLUEGRASS MUSIC LOVERS RETURN TO ROOTS
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
THEBES, Ill. -- Although bass player Zac Caldwell of Tamms, Ill. has listened to and played all kinds of music, from country to rock to blues, he always returns to his first musical love -- bluegrass. "There's something really pure about bluegrass," Caldwell said...
-
VOTERS TO DECIDE PROPERTY TAX HIKE
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
BENTON -- Scott County senior citizens could face a decrease in services if a November property tax initiative is defeated at the polls, senior advocates warn. Voters rejected a similar tax increase in April 1997 by a 11 percent margin. "Soon we're going to have more senior citizens but not any more money than we have now," said Marilyn Schlosser, a senior advocate who is working to get the tax passed...
-
STATISTICAL SPOTLIGHT
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
ROADBLOCKS TO MSA DESIGNATION -- Tese areas are a few of the items that stand in the way of Cape Girardeau being designated a Metropolitan Statistical Area: A county park, a cemetery and an industrial park. The U.S. Census Bureau requires that the "urban fringe" area must consist of continuous territory with a population density of a tleast 1,000 persons per square mile to receive an MSA designation. These areas do not qualify...
-
CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: NASA NEWS SENDS SOME OF US INTO ORBIT
(Column ~ 10/12/98)
John Glenn goes back into orbit on Oct. 29. From space walker to U.S. Senator and back into space, this time at 77. I've long been fascinated by space exploration, and if NASA would have me, I'd sign up in a heartbeat. Somehow I don't think they're looking for short, pudgy, nearsighted astronauts who can't tell a phasar from a quark...
-
JACKSON TAKES HARD LINE ON ROAD PLANS
(Editorial ~ 10/12/98)
The state's proposal to widen a congested stretch of Highway 34-72 in Jackson hasn't exactly been accepted with open arms, and understandably so. The 3 1\2-mile section from Highway 25 westward to where highways 34 and 72 split carries a lot of traffic, particularly during rush hours. It also is the main route to and from Jackson schools, which generate even more traffic in the form of buses and student and staff vehicles...
-
TRYOUT FOR NUISANCE OFFICER IS A GOOD IDEA
(Editorial ~ 10/12/98)
With continued residential growth in Jackson and rural Cape Girardeau County, problems with loose and stray animals, illegal trash dumping and old cars have become more prevalent. In an effort to do something about it, Cape Girardeau County and Jackson officials are considering the joint employment of a nuisance officer to handle those and similar problems...
-
LETTERS: IMPEACHMENT METHOD NEEDS CHANGE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/12/98)
To the editor: The notion of the Senate theoretically being able to remove a president leaves a bad taste in my mouth. The president is unique among federal officials who are liable to impeachment in that his being in office in the first place is due to his having been selected by the widest possible manifestation of public opinion: the universal ballot, even distorted as this manifestation is -- on purpose, I believe -- by the Electoral College. ...
-
LETTERS: NEWSPAPER HELPS MAKE DAY COMPLETE
(Letter to the Editor ~ 10/12/98)
To the editor: I am a person who can become disturbed by certain things that I expect and that I long for early each day. First and foremost is a telephone call from my nephew in Tulsa, Okla, though even for five or 10 minutes. Second is my Southeast Missourian newspaper. Only then is my day complete...
-
ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 10/12/98)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think of the Cape Girardeau Baptist Association's decision to drop First Baptist Church from membership because it ordained women as deacons?" Fred Pennington, Cape Girardeau "My thoughts on the issue itself -- as far as women being ordained -- I just feel like God can use anybody. It's not the messenger it's the message."...
-
CHARLES RENDLEMAN
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
COBDEN -- Charles Rendleman, 87, of Cobden died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at Table Rock Retirement Home in Kimberling City, Mo. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Cobden.
-
BETTY EDSALL
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
SIKESTON -- Betty Childers Edsall, 68, of Sikeston died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born Nov. 24, 1929, at Paducah, Ky., the daughter of Ed and Joy Collins Childers. She married James Theron Edsall Sr. on Aug. 2, 1968...
-
HOUSTON BOUNDS
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
SIKESTON -- Houston Hoyt Bounds, 60, of Sikeston died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born May 5, 1938, at Gobler, the son of Mercus and Halley Hurst Bounds. He and Linda J. Teeters were married June 24, 1967, at Piggot, Ark...
-
PAUL WEBBER
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
JACKSON -- Paul Webber of St. Louis, a former Jackson High School football coach, died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, at Christian Northeast Hospital in St. Louis. McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson is in charge of arrangements.
-
TESSIE BROWN
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
JACKSON -- Tessie Marie Brown of Jackson died at the St. Francis Medical Center on Friday, Oct. 9, 1998. She was born March 24, 1915, at Jackson, daughter of James and Lena Kniebert Taylor. She first married Albert Byerly. He preceded her in death. She then married Cletus Brown. He died Nov. 7, 1996...
-
CALVIN WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
Calvin R. Williams, 72, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, at his home. He was born Feb. 23, 1926, at Summersville, the son of Martin Luther and Eva Jane Barnett Williams. He and Georgia Stokely were married Dec. 7, 1944, at Osceola, Ark...
-
RAY LAMBERT
(Obituary ~ 10/12/98)
SIKESTON -- Ray Lambert, 81, of Sikeston died Saturday, Oct. 10, 1998, at Sikeston Health Care. He was born May 27, 1917, at Brilliant, Ala., the son of Charlie Wheeler and Autie Ethel Nelson Lambert. He and Eileen Smith were married on April 5, 1941, at Charleston...
Stories from Monday, October 12, 1998
Browse other days