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PERSONNEL: AUTO INSURANCE SALES AGENTS HONORED
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Jim Burke and Jan Eckert, AAA Auto Club sales agents in the Cape Girardeau AAA offices, have received Gold Seal Awards, for their performances in property and casualty insurance sales and services. Burke, who has been AAA sales agent since 1986, also received the company's President's Club award...
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PERSONNEL: NAMED TO WHO'S WHO OF MANAGEMENT
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Donna Sharley of Fruitland, operations manager of Rhodes 101 Travel Center at the Interstate 55 and Airport Road exit, has been named to the International Who's Who of Professional Management. Sharley, who has more than 15 years experience in the fuel service industry and has completed a number of National Association of Truckstop Operations (NATSO) courses, has met all requirements and criteria for inclusion in the Who's Who directory...
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PERSONNEL: NEW MEDICAL AFFAIRS DIRECTOR AT SOUTHEAST
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Dr. Morris H. Seligman has joined Southeast Missouri Hospital's administrative staff. Seligman started his new duties as director of medical affairs today. His appointment was announced by hospital administrator James W. Wente. Seligman earned his medical degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. ...
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PERSONNEL: PERRYVILLE MAN WINS SHOPPING SPREE
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Larry Welker of Perryville, Mo., was winner of the $5,000 SEMO Homebuilders Association/KGMO Shopping Spree presented at the Home and Garden Show, held last weekend at the Show Me Center on Southeast Missouri State University campus. Welker received his prize from Monica Fluegge, president of the Homebuilders Association...
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PERSONNEL: JOINS ST. FRANCIS MEDICAL CENTER HEART INSTITUTE
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Dr. John Wiggans has joined St. Francis Medical Center as its third cardiothoracic and vascular surgeon at the facility's Heart Institute. Wiggans has extensive experience in vascular surgery and brings new technology, such as abdominal aortic aneurysm stent grafting, to St. Francis...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: BEEF PRICES ARE UP, BUT SO ARE MANY OTHER GROCERY ITEMS
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Beef prices are up about 30 percent over six months ago. American grocery shoppers paid slightly higher prices for ground chuck and sirloin tip roast during the first quarter of this year. Food prices are becoming as unpredictable as gasoline prices for the family car. And I've paid three different prices for gasoline during the past two weeks, all at the same service station...
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PERSONNEL: ATTENDS MASSACHUSETTS INVESTMENT CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Donna Domian, investment representative at the Cape Girardeau office of Edward Jones, recently attended a due diligence conference at world headquarters of Putnam Investments in Boston, Mass. Domian, who has been with Edwards Jones 17 years, attended sessions on estate planning and recent IRS proposals...
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PERSONNEL: GRADUATES FROM MALDEN TRUCK SCHOOL
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Paul Nelson of Jackson , Mo., recently graduated from the Southern Missouri Truck Driving School at Malden, Mo. Nelson completed a four-week, 192-hour tractor-trailer driving course.
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PERSONNEL: PENDLETON MANAGERS TO VISIT TUESDAY
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
David Armentrout, national retail manager for Pendleton's Woolen Mills, will be in Cape Girardeau Tuesday. Armentrout and Julie Strand, district manager, both of Portland, Ore., will be paying their first visit to the local store, at 2117 William, in Heritage Square...
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MEMO: 'STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACADEMY' COFFEE TOPIC
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Cape Girardeau Chief of Police Rick Hetzel will be guest speaker at the Cape Girardeau First Friday Coffee Friday. Hetzel will discuss the chamber's new "Student Leadership Academy," that is completing its first class. Joining Hetzel for the program will be a couple of students who were involved in the program...
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MEMO: GLOBAL GOLF TO REOPEN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS COURSE
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
The Gambit Golf Club of Vienna, Ill., located near the Interstate 24/Route 146 intersection near Vienna in Southern Illinois, will reopen this month under the management of Global Golf, Inc., headquarters in Jackson, Mo. Thomas G. Radetic, managing director and co-owner of Global Golf, and his wife, Jennifer, have assumed control of the Vienna course, and plan to re-open the 18-hole complex in Mid-April...
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MEMO: IHS EXPANDING SERVICES WITH MORE NURSES
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Immediate HealthCare, 1702 N. Kingshighway in Cape Girardeau, is expanding its services. Immediate HealthCare (IHC), which introduced its walk-it doctor's office concept in Cape Girardeau a half-dozen years ago is adding changes to improve its service...
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MEMO: WALGREEN REPORTS RECORD SALES IN SECOND QUARTER
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Walgreen Co. last Monday announced a 24.3 percent jump in its second quarter earnings, setting a record for the quarter and first half of fiscal 2001. Net earnings for the quarter ended Feb. 28 increased to $296.9 million, or 29 cents a share, up from $238.9 million and 23 cents a share a year ago...
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MEMO: MORE JOB CUTS IN AUTO MANUFACTURING
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Citing a soft U.S. auto market, auto parts giant Delphi Automotive Systems Corp. is cutting 11,500 jobs, or 5 percent of its work force. Delphi also warned Thursday its first-quarter results will fall well short of Wall Street's expectations. Nevertheless, investors responded to the news by pushing shares up 4 percent...
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MEMO: TYSON CALLS OFF DEAL TO BUY IBP
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Tyson Foods Inc., the No. 1 U.S. poultry producer, on Thursday called off a $3.2 billion purchase of IBP Inc. that would have also made it the nation's top beef and pork producer. The decision was announced nine days after IBP said an investigation into its appetizer unit, DFG Foods, uncovered potential manipulation of financial records and product theft, and mismanagement by former unit managers...
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MEMO: TWO PLACE IN CONTEST FOR CORN YIELD
(Business ~ 04/02/01)
Larry Strobel of Bell City, Mo., and Charles Hinkebein of Chaffee, Mo., are winners in the 2000 National Corn Yield Contest, sponsored by the National Corn Growers Association. Strobel placed first in the state in the Irrigated Class, with a yield of 250.1 bushels per acre. The hybrid planted gin the winning field was Pioneer 33VO8...
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SCHOOL TO HAVE COUNSELORS FOR STUDENTS
(Local News ~ 04/02/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Counselors will be available to the students of R.O. Hawkins Junior High School today after a teacher was charged Friday for allegedly having sexual contact with a 13-year-old student. The girl, now 14, was taken into custody by Cape Girardeau County juvenile authorities after she allegedly buried her stillborn baby in the back yard of her mother's Jackson residence March 14. ...
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NINE VIE FOR SCHOOL BOARD SEATS IN CAPE AND JACKSON
(Local News ~ 04/02/01)
Voters in Cape Girardeau and Jackson school districts will decide Board of Education races when they go to the polls Tuesday. Both districts must fill two three-year positions on the school board. Cape Girardeau voters will choose between three candidates. Incumbents Mark Carver and Dr. Ferrell Ervin both are seeking reelection, along with challenger Martha Zlokovich, who had a strong showing in a failed campaign last year...
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GROUPS BOOST EFFORTS TO GET SCHOOL BOND PROPOSALS PASSED
(Local News ~ 04/02/01)
Committees in two area school districts stepped up efforts over the weekend to attract support for funding proposals voters will consider Tuesday. Both Scott City and Oak Ridge school districts seek voter approval of bond proposals that would be used to ease overcrowding. Supporters began telephone and door-to-door campaigns Saturday and will continue through election day in hopes of convincing voters to support the measure, which requires 57.14 percent approval for passage...
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FATHER, SON SEEK JACKSON SEATS
(Local News ~ 04/02/01)
GRPAHIC -- A LIST OF RACES IN CAPE GIRARDEAU COUNTY A father and son are in separate contested races for seats on the Jackson Board of Aldermen in Tuesday's election, while voters in the Village of Allenville and the City of Delta are facing a lack of candidates...
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LEADERSHIP RACES IN THREE ILLINOIS TOWNS IN CONTENTION
(Local News ~ 04/02/01)
EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. -- Joe Aden, who has served as mayor at East Cape Girardeau for 24 years, is seeking another four-year term as mayor of the small Southern Illinois community. Aden, who is retired, will face Alvin Blumenberg in the only contested East Cape race Tuesday...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL AGENDA
(Local News ~ 04/02/01)
Monday, April 2, at 7 p.m. 401 Independence Study session at 5 p.m. Public hearings Consent Ordinances (second and third readings) Resolutions Appointments & One seat on the Board of Appeals set to expire June 4, 2002. Liquor License...
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SEMO KNOCKS OFF MURRAY STATE TWICE
(College Sports ~ 04/02/01)
MURRAY, Ky. -- Southeast Missouri State University's baseball team escaped a major early jam Sunday and wound up winning two important Ohio Valley Conference games against host Murray State. The Indians lost Saturday's opener of a doubleheader 6-5. The squads were then tied 2-2 after seven regulation innings of the nightcap when play was suspended due to darkness...
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SPORTS DIGEST: SEMO SOFTBALL TEAM CLAIMS ROAD VICTORY
(College Sports ~ 04/02/01)
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University's softball team salvaged the finale of a three-game Ohio Valley Conference series by beating host Tennessee Tech 5-2 Sunday. The Otahkians, who were swept in Saturday's doubleheader, improved to 10-14 overall and 4-2 in OVC play. The Golden Eaglettes are 23-14 overall and 2-1 in the league...
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IMOGENE STANLEY
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
Imogene Stanley, 79, of Perkins, Mo., died Sunday, April 1, 2001, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are pending at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Oran, Mo.
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RUTH SCHLUE
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
Ruth Schlue, 80, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, March 30, 2001, at her home. Schlue was born on Aug. 17, 1920, in Cape Girardeau, the daughter of Harry Francis and Elizabeth Bowman Schlue. She worked at the Buckner Ragsdales as head bookkeeper for 45 years...
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BETTE GALEMORE
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Bette Galemore, 62, formerly of Charleston, died Saturday, March 31, 2001, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. She was born July 7, 1938, in Charleston, daughter of W.E. and Beatrice McCracken Frazier, Sr. She had lived in Charleston most of her life, where she was a member of the United Methodist Church...
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EMILY FRANKLIN
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
ANNA, Ill. -- Emily Glidewell Franklin, 84, of Anna died Sunday, April 1, 2001, at her home. Franklin was born Dec. 7, 1916, in Gorham, Ill., daughter of James and Judith Clark Glidewell. She married Alva F. "Bill" Franklin on Jan. 8, 1936, in Jonesboro, Ill. He preceded her in death...
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JO ANN DOWNS
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Jo Ann Downs, 75, of Charleston died Saturday, March 31, 2001, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Mo. Downs was born Nov. 1, 1925, in Arkansas, daughter of W.E. and Beatrice McCracken Frazier, Sr. She lived in Charleston most of her life and was a member of the United Methodist Church. She and William A. Downs were married Jan. 15, 1946...
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LETIE WESTRICH
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
JACKSON, Mo. -- Lettie Erma Westrich, 87, of Jackson died Sunday, April 1, 2001, at Jackson Manor. Westrich was born March 26, 1914, in Patton, Mo., daughter of Elisha Elbert and Nannie Viola Slinkard Green. She lived and farmed in the Sedgewickville, Mo., area most of her married life and was later a housekeeper for Southeast Missouri Hospital and Cape LaCroix Manor. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Scott City, Mo., and of the former North Sedgewickville Homemakers Club...
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MATTIE GRUEN
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
Mattie E. Gruen, 81, of Matthews, Mo., died Saturday, March 31, 2001, at her home. Gruen was born Jan. 6, 1920, in Barlow, Ky., daughter of Tom and Dessie Frazier Shepherd. She graduated from Murray State University with a degree in elementary education, and taught fifth grade in Kentucky and Canalou, Mo. ...
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ALENE ROBERTS
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
SIKESTON, Mo. -- Alene M. Roberts, 84, of Sikeston died on Sunday, April 1, 2001 at her home. Roberts was born April 20, 1916, in Essex, Mo., daughter of William Orville and Ethyl Evelyn Rose Tedford. She was a member of the First Baptist Church. She and Oral Roberts were married Jan. 18, 1936, near Bloomfield, Mo. He died Oct. 22, 1985...
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LOUIS MANSKER
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- Louis Mansker, 75, of Bloomfield died Saturday, March 31, 2001, at Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter, Mo. Mansker was born Feb. 18, 1926, in Lutesville, Mo., son of Lewis E. and Edna J. Johnson Mansker. He was retired from the Didion and Sons Foundry. He married Lavella Smith on July 22, 1961...
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ROBERT HAFFLY SR.
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
PULASKI, Ill. -- Robert Lester Haffly, Sr., 79, of Springfield, Ill., and formerly of Pulaski and Cairo, Ill., died Sunday, April 1, 2001, at Blessing Hospital at Quincy, Ill. Haffly was born Jan. 16, 1922, at St. Louis, Mo., son of Joseph and Althea Bennifield Haffly...
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EVELYN PULLIAM
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
ESSEX, Mo. -- Evelyn Lou Pulliam, 76, formerly of Dexter, Mo., died at her home in Essex Saturday, March 31, 2001. She was born Feb. 21, 1925, in Stoddard County, daughter of Jim Daniel and Laura Belle Swinney Wyatt. Pulliam was a member of the Apostolic Pentecostal Church in Essex for 47 years. She and Thomas Pulliam were married June 8, 1940, in Bloomfield, Mo...
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EARL LUTES
(Obituary ~ 04/02/01)
MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- Earl Lee "Minnie" Lutes, 74, of Marble Hill died Sunday, April 1, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Lutes was born Aug. 30, 1926, in Glen Allen, Mo., son of Claude L. and Amelia Schwering Lutes. He was an Air Force veteran of World War II, a retired assistant forester with the Missouri Department of Conservation, a farmer and a member of St. ...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 04/02/01)
My best friend's mother used to have a horrific drinking problem. She was turned on to alcohol by her husband and was hooked. For the last few months she has been miserable, showing up late for work, wearing disheveled clothing and neglecting her son and daughter. ...
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COUNTY'S JAIL INVESTMENT MAKES LOT OF SENSE
(Editorial ~ 04/02/01)
After having spent more than $250,000 a year to house Cape Girardeau County jail prisoners in other counties, Cape County officials can be pleased the new county jail is open. Officials estimate the jail will generate annual income of more than $665,000 from keeping federal and other counties' prisoners. ...
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PERRY WORKSHOP IS ON THE RIGHT TRACK
(Editorial ~ 04/02/01)
What a difference a year has made at the Perry County Sheltered Workshop in Perryville, Mo. The mood at the workshop contrasts sharply to the mood of a year ago when its manager and three supervisors quit in protest of what they called sweatshop conditions for the disabled people who work there...
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LETTERS: JACKSON DISTRICT CLARIFIES CLAIMS MADE IN LETTER
(Letter to the Editor ~ 04/02/01)
To the editor: In order to clarify information that was recently published regarding the Jackson School District: 1. The projected deficit of $954,000 in the operating fund is for the 2004-2005 year and is based on assumptions and information currently available. It is not for the current or next year's budget...
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