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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: ATTENDS WORKSHOPS
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
David M. Plasman, Holly Thomas and Timothy J. Schwent, CPAs with School & Van de Venn Certified Public Accountants, recently attended a continuing education class in federal taxation. Lonnie Lusk, a CPA and Certified Accounting Application Specialist who has been in public accounting since 1991, completed a week-long software training workshop, sponsored by Cougar Mountain Software, at Boise, Idaho...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: COMPLETES COURSE
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Bob Boland of Occupational Medical Services LLC has completed a four-week occupational medicine course at the University of Cincinnati. The full scope of occupational medicine is covered in the course, including such topics as immunology, functional capacity evaluation, toxicology, rehabilitation/sports medicine and many other topics...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: JOINS REALTY ONE
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Doris Jean Arnold has relocated her real estate business to Realty One, 326 S. Broadview in Cape Girardeau. Arnold is a member of the Cape Girardeau County Board of Realtors, the Multiple Listing Services and has received the Missouri Association of Realtors Pinnacle the past several years...
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BUSINESS MEMO: WORKER PRODUCTIVITY
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Workers' productivity, a key to national economic vitality, grew at the fastest rate in seven years in the third quarter. At the same time, companies' labor costs actually declined -- a recipe for keeping inflation at bay. Tuesday's report was good news for investors wary of signs of inflation that could trigger another interest rate increase from the Federal Reserve...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: IN NEW POSITION
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Cheryl S. Eftink, formerly of Oran, has been named director of the U.S. Small Business Administration's Des Moines, Iowa, office. Aida Alvarez, administrator of the SBA, announced Eftink's appointment recently. Eftink has worked at the agency since 1971 and has served in the Des Moines District Office in a number of capacities, including acting district director and deputy district director...
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NEW BUSINESS: PET SITTING BUSINESS
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Home & Pet Guardian has opened in Cape Girardeau. The new business provides a "pet-sitting" service when the owners travel out of town. "The owners have the option of leaving pets at home, but not alone," said Kathy Kinder. Kinder, and Jill Haman are owners of the new business...
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NEW BUSINESS: EXPANDING PRODUCT LINE
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Wolfhole Farms Inc., a farm corporation owned by the Heckemeyer family of Sikeston, is expanding its operation in the Blodgett area. "We're developing a 1,400-acre tract of pine trees to produce pine needles," said Tony Heckemeyer. Pine needles are used as plant bedding, said Heckemeyer. Often called pine straw, the product makes a good plant bedding and is sought by landscapers, vegetable producers, homeowners and contractors...
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BUSINESS MEMO: RAILROAD SAFETY
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
The Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority presented Motive Rail Inc. with plaques recently, recognizing five years of accident-free service on the SEMO Port Railroad.
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BUSINESS MEMO: TREE-FELLING SAFETY
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Tree-felling workshops will be held in a number of Southeast Missouri locations next year. Injury and death from logging related mishaps is above the national average, said Cory Ridenhour, executive director of the Missouri Forest Products Association (MFPA), headquartered in Jefferson City...
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BUSINESS MEMO: AMONG TOP 100
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Kerber, Eck & Braeckel LLP, Certified Public Accountants has been named as one of America's 100 largest public accounting firms by both Bowman's Accounting Report and the Public Accounting Report. Firms are ranked according to U.S. net revenues. Kerber, Eck &I Braeckel LLP has been named in the top 100 eight the past nine years. There are more than 44,000 accounting firms in the United States...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW D&K FACILITY
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
D&K Healthcare Resources Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, has opened a new 12,000-square-foot office and procurement center in Davie, Fla. The new facility will be used to service specialty sales to large warehousing chains and to act as a procurement center servicing D&K's full-line wholesale distribution...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TOP DEALER OF THE YEAR
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Advanced Business Systems, marketer of telecommunications systems and general business products with offices in Cape Girardeau and Dexter, has been recognized as "Top Dealer of the Year" for best overall performances by Lanier Worldwide Inc., one of the largest global providers of document management solutions...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: JOINS FORD GROVES
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Dennis Niswonger has joined the sales team at Ford Groves dealership in Jackson. Niswonger, a native of Cape Girardeau, has more than 22 years of sales experience in the automobile and mobile home market. Niswonger served in the U.S. Marines Corps from 1960-66 and previously worked at Ford Groves when he returned from Vietnam...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SPARTECH EARNINGS
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Spartech Corp. has announced record sales and earnings for its fiscal year, which ended Oct. 31. Sales for fiscal 1999 were $767.9 million, up 17 percent from the $653.9 million, reported in fiscal year 1997. Operating earnings improved to $897.7 million, or 11.4 percent of sales, and net earnings for the fiscal year were $43.1 million, or $1.48 per diluted share, up from the respective totals of $33.7 million land $1.18 of a year ago...
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INCOME INVESTING: MANY OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE (FINANCIAL FOCUS)
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
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. With a record-setting bull market, it's tempting to think that every investor is looking just for capital appreciation. But many people also invest for income. And, if you're one of them, you've got more opportunities than ever before...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: MOST PEOPLE DO NOT FEAR THE Y2K BUG
(Business ~ 12/13/99)
Even with all the hype surrounding the Y2K bug and its potential for creating computer-related chaos come midnight Dec. 31, 1999, or a second after -- 12:00:01, Jan. 1, 2000 -- there are a few Americans out there who are unaware that there may even be a Y2K problem...
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HOT TOYS FOR THE HOLIDAY
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
Pokemon Game Cards "Toy Story 2" Mr. Potato Head It's that time of year again, when frantic parents brave the crowds of other frantic parents in search of toys they hope their children will want to find under the Christmas tree. Pokemon This year's runaway hit is Pokemon...
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DELTA: LITTLE CHANGES MEAN LOT IN SMALL DISTRICT (RATING OUR SCHOOLS; SECOND IN A TEN-PART SERIES)
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
DELTA -- Small shifts in population or enrollment can mean big changes in statistical data when the school district is small. Take, for example, the drop out rate at Delta School District, which has an enrollment of about 340 students. The small district's dropout rate was reduced annually from 10.7 percent during the 1994-1995 school year to 1 percent last year...
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VISIT TO COURT GIVES STUDENTS NEW VIEW ON LIFE
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
JACKSON -- Sixteen-year-old Nathan Watkins saw what the future could be last week when he visited the courthouse. He didn't like it. Watkins and other students from Jackson's alternative school watched court cases involving check fraud, assault and other crimes receive judgments as prisoners from the county jail were herded in and out...
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STUDENT LEARNS TO MEET GOALS
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
JACKSON -- Joshua Pennebaker gets most of his questions in class answered on the first try now. This has made life more pleasant, not only for the 265-pound high school football player, but for his classmates, too. "I'd be in a big class with a lot of students, and I'd try to ask the teacher a question," said Pennebaker, a 17-year-old junior at Jackson High School. "I'd ask three or four times for an explanation, but wouldn't get it. Then I'd get frustrated and get into trouble."...
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YULE CANDLIGHT RITES HELD IN GERMAN CHURCH
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
Even though few people might have understood the words being spoken, they could understand the message being conveyed, said the Rev. Adam Mueller of his sermon in German. Mueller preached Sunday night at the annual German service at Old Hanover Lutheran Church...
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CITY OF CAIRO PURCHASES HISTORIC MANSION, RIVERLORE, BUILT IN 1865
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
CAIRO, Ill. -- They still tell the story here of a young girl who wanted to become an actress. This was during the Civil War, and when her parents built the family home some 134 years ago, a special theater was included in the plans so the young girl could put on her own plays...
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SC CONCERT FEATURES NEW BAND, SOUND
(Local News ~ 12/13/99)
The weather outside was frightful, but the sounds inside delightful at the annual Scott City band and choir Christmas concert Sunday at Scott City High School. "This is the first year for a high school band," said Jim Arnold, who is in his seventh year as band director at the school...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 12/13/99)
I AM a Southeast Missouri State University alumnus, and I think it's a bad move to replace natural grass with a rug. It's bad on the players, and it takes away depth of field. It takes away part of the game. Instead, why don't they replace the Board of Regents with synthetic regents? I'm for that...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 12/13/99)
Members of Congress have returned home to spend the rest of the year with their families and to stand in line with the rest of us trying to get Pokemon toys. The holiday season is filled to overflowing with serious questions, such as how long that turkey will last in the refrigerator before it turns green...
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LOTS OF QUESTIONS BEFORE VOTE ON TOBACCO FUNDS
(Editorial ~ 12/13/99)
A plan by state Sen. Ed Quick that would allow voters to decide how Missouri should spend its $6.7 billion share of a national tobacco settlement sounds like a fair way of deciding the matter, but the Legislature must give it serious thought before putting the question before Missourians...
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OUTSIDE AUDITOR WILL TAKE OVER MODOT FINANCIAL REVIEW IN WAKE OF RECENT REFORMS
(Editorial ~ 12/13/99)
State Auditor Claire McCaskill's office found a few problems in its annual financial audit of the Missouri Department of Transportation, but nothing that appeared to be of any major consequence. MoDOT's director, Henry Hungerbeeler, welcomed the findings and said the department will carefully evaluate and implement the recommendations in an effort to be cost-effective...
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LETTERS: ALTERNATIVE CENTER OFFERS MANY BENEFITS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/13/99)
To the editor: I am writing on behalf of the Alternative Education Center. This is to all of those who criticize this school and think we should not have it. You are wrong. If it wasn't for this school, myself and others would be out on the streets doing nothing with our lives and turning into junkies...
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SE's JOHNSON MAKES ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM
(College Sports ~ 12/13/99)
MISSOULA, Mont. -- Roderick Johnson played well enough over the weekend to make the six-player all-tournament team at the KGVO Coca-Cola Classic. But Southeast Missouri State University's senior forward still couldn't get over how much he struggled from the free-throw line during the Indians' two games...
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CHARLESTON AT TOP OF U-HIGH CHRISTMAS LIST
(High School Sports ~ 12/13/99)
Charleston has been picked to win the University High Christmas Tournament. So what else is new. The Blue Jays, who have won 13 championships, including six in this decade, were seeded first Sunday for the upcoming 16-team Christmas Tournament. The tournament, which is held at the Show Me Center, is the biggest prep basketball tournament in this part of the state...
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JACKSON WRESTLERS TAKE THIRD PLACE IN MISSOURI DUALS TOURNAMENT
(High School Sports ~ 12/13/99)
JEFFERSON CITY -- The Jackson wrestling team took third place in the Missouri Duals Tournament on Saturday with 171 points. The 10-team tournament was divided into gold and blue divisions, with Jackson participating in the blue division. Several Jackson grapplers took first-place honors in their weight divisions: Cyle Huck (135), Adam Wachter (140), James Love (152) and Mark Wade (160)...
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EARL SCOTT
(Obituary ~ 12/13/99)
CANALOU -- Earl Sylvester Scott, 84, of Canalou died Saturday, Dec. 11, 1999, at the St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Feb. 22, 1915, at Piggott, Ark., son of John Ruben and Sophia Esther Stevens Scott. He and Lila Mae Scott were married in January 1988...
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LELIA STOKES
(Obituary ~ 12/13/99)
VANDUSER -- Lelia Geneva Stokes, 75, of Vanduser died Saturday, Dec. 11, 1999, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center at Sikeston. She was born June 2, 1924, at Leora, daughter of Frank Benjamin and Bertha Elzada Williamson Glenn. She was a homemaker and a member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Morley VFW...
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DOLORES BISSELL
(Obituary ~ 12/13/99)
Dolores K. Bissell, 78, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 11, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born April 27, 1921, daughter of Carl and Mary Levitt Bucher. On Feb. 5, 1944, she married Eugene M. Bissell at Cape Girardeau. He died Sept. 14, 1986...
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