Stories from Tuesday, September 7, 1999

Mary Miller, marketing director of Schott & Van de Ven, Certified Public Accountants, recently attended a two-day, "Marketing for Your Future" sales training seminar, sponsored by Dynamics Software, a mid-market accounting solutions for businesses with $1 million to $10 million in annual sales...

An employment practice course, developed for managers with responsibilities in interviewing, disciplining and discharging employees, will be held at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau next month. The one-day course, "How to Hire, Fire and Discipline Your Employees Effectively and Within the Law in Missouri," will be held here Oct. 6, with registration at 8 a.m. The seminar will end at 4:30 p.m...

Commercial Credit, 3441B William St., has become CitiFinancial. CitiFinancial, a part of the Citigroup family. It is a consumer finance company specializing in personal and home equity loans and has been in business since 1912. It has more than 1,200 offices and 8,000 employees in the United States...

Auto Tire & Parts, which recently observed its 90th anniversary, has been listed in the "Top 100 Auto Parts Stores," by Automotive Marketing Magazine. Auto Tire & Parts, headquartered at 212 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, has stores in 24 Southeast Missouri and Southern Illinois communities, where the company provides employment to more than 125 workers...

Noranda Aluminum Inc., St. Jude Industrial Park at New Madrid, will produce pound number 10 billion later this month. A special observance is planned Sept. 24 to commemorate the 10 billionth pound of aluminum. Noranda, which has produced aluminum at its New Madrid plant since 1971, employs more than 1,150 workers from 40 different communities in five states, with an annual payroll of $40 million...

A part-time job fair for Southeast Missouri State University students will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at the University Center Lobby. The job fair, sponsored by the university's career services and student government, and the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce University Relations Committee, will let businesses employ students with a variety of skills. It marks the second year for the part-time job fair...

The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and Perryville this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Sept. 22, 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...

Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's Business After Hours will be held at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus Sept. 21, at 5 p.m. The event is sponsored by Rust Communications Inc., a family-owned group of newspapers in Southeast Missouri -- including the Southeast Missourian. Rust owns newspapers in Tennessee, Iowa, Idaho, Nebraska and Northeast Arkansas, and also owns Concord Printing Services, a fully equipped service printing facility...

The September First Friday Coffee will be a "Second Friday" event because the first Friday falls on a holiday weekend. The event, sponsored by the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce, will be held Friday at the Show Me Center. Joe Driskell, director of the Missouri Department of Economic Development, will be guest speaker...

Members of the Lee-Rowan finishing department line 8 were winners in a monthlong contest, excelling in teamwork efficiency, safety and quality. The 20-member team's efficiency was 135 percent. Some 24 teams were entered in the competition. Members of the team: Walter Jones, Steve Lucas, Everett Hastings, Laura Lowes, Joy Halsey, Jimmy Seabaugh, Richard Mayfield, Wayne Johnson, Jerry Laxton, Stanley Roth, Tina Mungle, Sheila Evans, Betty Keys, Bruce Nanney, David Steward, Barb Mayfield, Mike Donahue, Joe Kreiger, Steve Edwards and Lee Treadwell.. ...

The Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission will hold its next meeting Sept. 16 at the Aztar Casino Complex in Caruthersville. A buffet will be held in the Diamonds Restaurant, starting at 7 p.m. Dr. Mike Yuan, tourism professor at Southeast Missouri State University, will be guest speaker...

Alto Vineyards near Alto Pass, Ill., captured four gold and four silver medals recently at the Indiana State Fair International Wine Competition. More than 2,300 entries from 14 different countries make the "Indy International" one of the top five largest competitions in the United States...

Regina Stidham King of Chaffee is new post-employment case manager for the Southeast Missouri Private Industry Council (PIC), 760 S. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau. In her new position, King will assist "Welfare-to-Work" clients in finding and keeping jobs in Cape Girardeau County. She will assist in finding transportation for the employees to and from work...

Becky Eftink, community development specialists with USDA-Rural Development, 480 W. Jackson Trails, Jackson, has been honored for outstanding work in the agency. Eftink, who has been employed by USDA for almost 20 years, is involved with a number of community projects...

Pamela A. Davidson and Thomas E. Phillips have joined Image Architects Inc. dba Image Design Inc., 310 Broadway, Suite 7, in Cape Girardeau. Davidson and Phillips will serve clients in the Southeast Missouri area from the new office, which opened recently...

Heidi Stickel has joined ERA Cape Realty, 1409-A N. Mount Auburn Road. David S. Glastetter, broker and owner of ERA Cape Realty, announced Stickel's appointment to the sales staff recently.

Six Cape Girardeau city employees recently attended a National Electric Code (NEC) seminar. Cape Girardeau City Inspection Services Director Tarryl Booker, Mike Conrad, Rob Roberts, John Creutz and Steve Higgerson, all of inspection services, and Mike Halter, from the city's Parks and Recreation Department, attended the workshop, held at the Osage Community Centre...

Rob Roberts, a building inspector with Cape Girardeau City Inspection Services, has started new duties in the department as a plan review specialist. Roberts is filling the specialist position vacated by Pam Davidson, who resigned recently. As plan review specialist, Roberts is responsible for commercial plan review as well as residential one- and two-family plan reviews...

Tom Watkins has been named plant manager of the New Madrid Power Plant, a 1,200-megawatt, coal-fired generation facility operated by Associated Electric Cooperative Inc. (AECI). Watkins joined AECI in 1988 as a chief mine engineer at Thomas Hill Energy Center Mining Division at Clifton Hill, Mo. ...

Spartech Corp. has announced record sales and earnings for the third quarter that ended July 31, marking the 31st consecutive quarter of improved operating results. Bradley B. Buechler, Spartech president and chief executive officer, reported third-quarter sales at $201.8 million, a record for a three-month period in the company's 30-year history and 14 percent greater than last year's third quarter...

A graphing calculator can teach higher mathematics. The graphing calculators the students are using in Tracy Lohmeier's afternoon math class look intimating with an overload of buttons marked X, Y, Z, T and ALPHA in addition to the numbers you'd expect...

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. First of a two-part series Today, women aren't just making more money than ever before -- they're also investing more...

SCOTT CITY -- Donna Conaway is business-minded. In fact, the Scott City High School business education teacher worked in business for six years before deciding two years ago to become a teacher. "I enjoyed training employees and helping customers with their banking and financial needs," she said. "It was then that I decided to become a teacher."...

Missouri Farm Bureau President Charles Kruse has been appointed to a major advisory committee, providing information and advice related to U.S. agricultural trade policy. Kruse's two-year appointment to the Agricultural Technical Advisory Committee for Trade in Grains, Feed and Oilseeds (ATAC) was announced recently by U.S. Department of Agriculture secretary Dan Glickman, and HJS trade representative Charlene Barshefsky...

So the hard drive in your computer is running out of space and you need a bigger one, but you don't want to reinstall Windows and all those applications, including all your word processing files and other data you have not backed up. Well, there is a quick and cheap way to solve your problem that I have used for the past year with great success. A software program called Ghost from Symantec (BOLD) WWW.SYMANTEC.COM (UNBOLD) will clone your hard drive in less than 10 minutes...

Dana Corp. has been named one of the "World's 100 Best-Managed Companies" for a second straight year by IndustryWeek magazine. Dana was selected after a review process that included an analysis of its financial performance and research into its practices in areas such as decision-making, educaiton, safety and continuous improvement...

People who showed up late to the Labor Day festival in Olive Branch, Ill., went home hungry because the barbecue sold out early. "I can't remember when we had a bigger crowd," said Jean Roberts, secretary for the Horseshoe Lake Chamber of Commerce. "This is the first year we sold out of everything. I guess we will have to buy more food next year."...

Since 1966 Jerry Lewis and a host of celebrities and volunteers have devoted the Labor Day weekend to raising money to find a cure for neuromuscular diseases. The people who help know it isn't just a once a year thing, said Brenda Green, regional coordinating secretary for the Muscular Dystrophy Association...

When area school administrators accepted insurance through a state-sponsored program several years ago, they thought they were making a move that would reduce costs for their employees. Now, a substantial increase in premiums is causing administrators to scramble as they search for other insurance options...

From left: Bill Bradley, Jim Dodd and Steve Trautwein. Crystal City considers Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley its hometown hero. But Bradley also has ties to Cape Girardeau. Growing up in Crystal City, he regularly visited relatives in Cape Girardeau...

When Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley rolls into his hometown of Crystal City Wednesday, he'll see plenty of familiar faces. Among them will be Southeast Missouri State University biology professor Steve Trautwein. Trautwein was a boyhood pal of Bradley's. They both grew up in Crystal City and played together on the high school basketball team...

Monday, Sept. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Council Chambers, 401 Independence Study session, 5 p.m. Public Hearings -- A public hearing to review the past performances in carrying out a 1995 Neighborhood Development Grant under the Community Development Block Grant for rehabilitating 22 houses and other work, completed under the Locust Maple Neighborhood Restoration Project...

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 7. City Hall Public hearings -- Hearing to receive comments concerning the proposed potable water user charge system for the city. -- Hearing to consider the rezoning of property addressed as 2955 E. Jackson Blvd. from R-1 (single family residential) to C-2 (general commercial) as submitted by Narvol Randol Jr...

I HAVE a question for the Cape Girardeau Police Department. I want to know why the towing company can tow a car off a street if the car is parked in the wrong direction, then tow it over to Enterprise Street and park it on the street there in the wrong direction. Also, why can the towing company park all its wrecks on Enterprise Street...

There's no such thing as a bad idea, they say in those business seminars where they put you around a table and have you come up with suggestions for better products, better sales and better customer service. So, for the sake of discussion, let's agree that keeping a section of the old Mississippi River bridge as a bit of history and as a way to give local folks and visitors a place to go see the river is an idea that needs to be fully aired before it is either implemented or tossed into the wastebasket.. ...

BRENTWOOD, Tenn. -- Tennessee State's Leon Murray and Ed Sanders were named Ohio Valley Conference players of the week Monday for their parts in a 41-8 victory over Alabama State. Murray, who was OVC offensive player of the year in 1998, was 16-of-29 for 251 yards passing, including three touchdowns, on Sunday. The senior from Shreveport, La., also ran for 40 yards on six carries...

NORMAL, Ill. -- Illinois State posted a convincing 4-0 victory over Southeast in women's soccer Monday. Illinois State outshot Southeast 29 to 1. The Redbirds scored five minutes into the game and led 2-0 at the half. Southeast fell to 0-2.

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Southeast Missouri's volleyball team went winless in the University Park Holiday Inn Classic after dropping its third game of the tournament Sunday to George Washington. Southeast, 0-4 on the season, lost in five sets 11-15, 13-15, 15-13, 15-15, 10-15...

WHITEWATER -- Emil E. Craft, 91, of Whitewater died Monday, Sept. 6, 1999, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Funeral arrangements are pending at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.

ZALMA -- Frank Bryant, 94, of Zalma died Sunday, Sept. 5, 1999, at the Advance Nursing Center. He was born Jan. 13, 1905, at Fredericktown, son of Jack and Ollie Arna Broadfoot Bryant. He and Genevieve Rhyne were married Nov. 2, 1925, at Senath. She died July 27, 1987...

Dorothy Garms, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Sept. 4, 1999, at Barnes Hospital at St. Louis. She was born Sept. 22, 1922, at Barlow, Ky., daughter of John F. and Rosie L. Moore Baker. She and Irvin Garms were married April 13, 1941, at Cape Girardeau...

GRAND CHAIN, Ill. -- Harry William Inman, 96, of Grand Chain died Sunday, Sept. 5, 1999, at Massac Memorial Hospital at Metropolis. He was born, Oct. 21, 1902, at Cypress, son of Harwood and Linnie Dry Inman. He was a member of the First Congregational Church at Grand Chain. He was a retired grain and livestock farmer and had worked as a laborer in the construction of Dam 53 at Olmsted...

BURFORDVILLE -- Alma Susan Howard, 94, of Burfordville died Sunday, Sept. 5, 1999, at the Jackson Manor. She was born Sept. 4, 1905, at Gravel Hill, daughter of Barney and Amanda Allen. She and John F. Howard were married Sept. 25, 1943. He died Jan. 1, 1982...

PERRYVILLE -- Mary Bee Welker, 89, formerly of Perryville died Sunday, Sept. 5, 1999, at St. Clements Hospital at Red Bud, Ill. She was born May 5, 1910, at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Henry and Mary Ann Hahs Wilson. She and Rudy A. Welker were married Nov. 7, 1930. He died March 8, 1994...

PERRYVILLE -- Lonnie W. "Silver" Newell, 59, of Perryville died Monday, Sept. 6, 1999, at his home. He was born March 4, 1940, at Silver Lake, son of Manford R. and Rita Gibbar Ruch Newell. He and Carol A. Berkbuegler were married May 25, 1991. He was a member of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church at Silver Lake and was also a VFW booster and member of the Eagles of Perryville...

EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. -- Robert L. Troester, 80, of Edwardsville and formerly of Pulaski died Saturday, Sept. 4, 1999, at Maryville Manor at Maryville. He was born May 27, 1919, at Pulaski, son of Lindsey and Nannie Thurston Troester. He was married to Phyllis Martin. She died June 17, 1988...

JACKSON -- Louis R. Pensel, 91, of Jackson died Monday, Sept. 6, 1999, at the Jackson Manor Nursing Home where he had resided the past three years. He was born Nov. 1, 1907, in the St. John's community near Fruitland, the son of the late Christian and Caroline Friedrich Pensel. He and Edna Kasten were married July 27, 1930. She died Jan. 2, 1986...