BUSINESS MEMO

Roosevelt Bank has officially opened its new and expanded facility at 211 S. Silver Springs.

Roosevelt, which acquired Farm & Home Savings in 1994, moved to the Silver Springs site in July but has remodeled and expanded the facility, formerly occupied by Farm & Home.

"We added about 20 feet to the building," Roosevelt Branch Manager Bill Ramsey said. "We also added an additional vault and safe-deposit boxes."

Roosevelt Bank is Missouri's third largest financial institution with 181 offices throughout Kansas, Illinois and Missouri.

A fashion show will be presented at the Professional Secretaries International meeting Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau.

Fashions from J.C. Penney Co. Inc. will be presented by Pat Ragland and Marcia Stone.

The secretarial group's meetings are open to the public. Additional information is available by calling Donna Riley, 651-9279, or Betty Sargent, 651-2541.

Perry County Savings Bank, FSB of Perryville, has completed its stock conversion from a mutual to a stock company.

As part of the conversion, its newly formed holding company, Perry County Financial Corp., sold 845,452 shares of common stock at $10 a share in a subscription and community offering. The offering was managed by Capital Resources Inc. a Washington investment banking firm specializing in thrift conversions. Perry County Savings was represented by Silver, Freedman & Taff, L.L.P. of Washington.

"We are pleased with the results of the stock offering," said Leo J. Rozier, the corporation's president and chief executive officer. "We believe the response to the offering is attributable to strong confidence in Perry County Savings Bank and in the communities we serve."

The conversion was consummated Feb. 10.

Perry County's Financial Corp. stock is listed on the NASDAQ Small Cap market, under the symbol, "PCBC," and can be purchased, or sold, through any stockbroker.

Perry County Savings Bank, with assets of $69.9 million, is headquartered in Perryville.

Elmer Fudd will serve as corporate spokesman for White Outdoor Products this year, through a licensing agreement with Warner Brothers Consumer Products.

Fudd, Warner Brothers' cartoon outdoorsman, will be featured in broadcast and print media advertising. Jerry Preyss, president of W.B. Doner & Co., White Outdoors's advertising agency, said the addition of Fudd will make selling White products more fun for dealers.

White products are sold through a national network of dealers. Productss include tractors, mowers, tillers, log splitters, snow blowers and chipper-shredder.

Heuer Sons Implement Co., 533 Morgan Oak in Cape Girardeau, is the local White dealer.

Union Electric has installed a 24-hour telephone service.

Customers in Southeast Missouri can call UE about billing and other routine business 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

"This is an effort to improve our customer service," said Doug Groesbeck, manager of UE's Southeast District.

Groesbeck said the new service was introduced not only to accommodate the diverse work schedules of today's customers, but also to help UE personnel handle customer calls more promptly and efficiently.

Cape Girardeau area customers can reach UE by calling 651-5600. Toll-call customers can reach UE by calling 1-800-55-ASK-UE. UE provides energy to 1.2 million customers in Missouri and Illinois.

Don Tyson, chairman of the world's largest poultry processing company, Tyson Foods of Springdale, Ark., will be luncheon speaker Wednesday at "Missouri Chamber Day at the Capitol."

More than 250 business leaders from throughout Missouri will attend "Missouri Chamber Day," to be held at the Capitol Plaza Hotel in Jefferson City.

The annual event is designed to allow the business community to become more aware of legislative issues to discuss business with their legislators.

The Missouri Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1921 and is the largest statewide general business organization, representing more than 3,000 members.

Chamber Day activities start at 9 a.m. and end following a legislative reception at 6 p.m. Tyson will appear on the program during the luncheon, which starts at 11:30.

Additional information is available by calling Cynthia Bushmann, or Tony Reinhart, (314)-634-3511.