BUSINESS MEMO

Stephen C. Del Vecchio, manager of Hillin and Clark, PC, of Cape Girardeau, has been elected chapter president of the 200-member Southeast chapter of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Other officers for the 1992-93 year are Stephen M. Forbis of Berry and Forbis CPAs, PC, of Sikeston, president-elect; Ed Cato, a partner with Riley, Stubbs and Cato in Dexter, vice president; Robert B. Mothershead, an individual practitioner in Benton, secretary; and Mark D. Eads of Daniel R. Coffman CPA in Poplar Bluff, treasurer.

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"How to Handle Conflict and Manage Anger" is the topic of a seminar to be held at the Drury Lodge in Cape Girardeau Aug. 24.

Cost of the one-day seminar, which will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., is $98, which includes workbook, coffee breaks and a certificate for continuing education units.,

Subjects include rules for de-escalating tension, getting past negative emotions, how to deal with conflict between sex, and how to become "unstuck" when caught in a crisis.

Additional information is available by contacting National Seminars Inc., 6901 W. 63rd St., P. O. Box 2949, Shawnee Mission, Kan., or calling 1-800-258-7246,.

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CyberTel Cellular is expanding its phone service into Southeast Missouri with the addition of a cell site at Sikeston.

Sikeston joined Cape Girardeau, Perryville and Poplar Bluff in having cellular service from CyberTel, effective July 16.

Wayne Smith, CyberTel's Southeast Missouri regional manager, said, "As CyberTel continues its expansion, consumers in the Missouri Bootheel region will experience higher quality service, including the use of hand-held cellular phones."

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Procter and Gamble Co. is planning to roll into its new premium-priced Crest Complete Toothbrush this fall, vying for a share of the $414 million toothbrush market in the U.S.

P&G, a leader in the toothpaste market with its Crest and Gleem brands, says the new brush's rippled bristle design cleans teeth better by enabling 37 percent deeper penetration between teeth than flat brushes.

At a suggested retail price of $2.30 to $2.80, the brush is more than twice the price of budget rivals.

Gillette Co.'s Oral-B is the toothbrush market leader with a 30 percent market share and $122 million in sales. Colgate-Palmolive Co. generated $94 million in toothbrush sales, for a 20 percent share last year, and Johnson and Johnson recorded $91 million in sales for 1991.

While the Crest Complete brush marks P&G's entry into the U.S. toothbrush market, the company is the leading vendor of flat toothbrushes in Germany through its Blendax operation.

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New home sales jumped 7.9 percent in June, breaking a string of four consecutive declines, the government said. Sales were pulled up by rebounds in the Northeast and West.

Sales totaled a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 572,000 last month, up from 530,000 in May, said the departments of Commerce and Housing and Urban Development.

Sales had dropped 0.9 percent in May, an improvement over an earlier estimate of a 5.6 percent drop. They fell 3.6 percent in April, 11.5 percent in March, and 6 percent in February. They had risen 15.4 percent in January.

Because of the big increase at the start of the year, sales for the first six months of this year, 314,000, were 18 percent higher than the first half of 1991.

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COLUMBUS, Ky. Construction of a new activities and educational building at Columbus-Belmont State Park will get under way in November, with a completion target date of September 1993.

The 6,200-square-foot building will include a meeting room, park administrative offices, kitchen and caterer's kitchen.

The park features historic earthworks constructed by the Confederate troops during the Civil War in 1861.