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Jump-N-Space, a 4-year-old moonwalk business in Sikeston, is expanding its market to cover the Cape Girardeau area. A moonwalk is an inflatable "room" where children and adults jump and play.

The business caters to birthday and company parties and events. Its inflation motor can be hooked up to a regular, 100-volt electrical outlet.

Owner James Crowe Jr. said he decided to expand to Cape Girardeau after he got several calls from interested people in Cape Girardeau.

The cost of renting the 15-by-15 moonwalk is $30 per hour with a two-hour minimum. The cost doesn't include set-up time. For more information call 472-1820.

Southwestern Bell Mobile Systems has moved from 837 N. Kingshighway to 3363 Gordonville Road, in front of St. Francis Medical Center.

The mobile systems office is the regional sales office and service center covering an area that includes a population of 450,000.

The store will hold its grand opening Sept. 1-10. There will be free giveaways and special rates on mobile phone services. The area manager is Jill Smirl.

Alliance Personal Growth Centers has opened its new office at 1730 N. Kingshighway. The office is managed by Larry Holdman, who has over 20 years of counseling experience in the Cape Girardeau area.

Free psychiatric assessments are offered along with extensive after-care follow-up for patients who have been hospitalized at CPC Spirit of St. Louis Hospital. Treatment for alcoholism and other chemical dependency, depression, sexual and physical abuse and emotional disorders are some of the services offered.

The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission has received 1994 Innovation awards from the National Association of Development Organizations for three programs. The programs that won awards: a "Directory of Manufacturing and Basic Industries in the Southeast Missouri Region," "Statutes Governing Solid Waste and Hazardous Waste in Missouri" and Long-Term Comprehensive Flood Recovery Strategy."

Each year NADO recognizes outstanding economic development and community programs that offer innovative approaches to problem-solving at the regional and local levels.

H&R Block soon will offer its fall tax-return-preparation course at its income tax school. The course, taught by experienced H&R Block tax preparers, is offered at a variety of times.

Classroom instruction focuses on practical application in all major areas of individual income-tax-return preparation and includes federal, state and local returns. Topics cover filing requirements, itemized deductions, retirement plans, farm returns, and rental-property and business returns. Graduates receive certificates of completion and 6.6 continuing education units.

Anyone interested in learning more about the school may contact H&R Block at 1471 N. Kingshighway, or call 334-6215 or 1-800-TAX-2000.

Cotton Exchange Bancshares Inc., parent company of Cotton Exchange Bank in Kennett, and Commerce Bancshares Inc. announced the signing of an agreement for the merger of Cotton Exchange with Commerce Bancshares.

The merger, which will be a stock and cash transaction, is expected to be completed during the first quarter of 1995 after regulatory and shareholder approvals.

Cotton Exchange Bank has approximately $64 million in assets and approximately $57 million in deposits. The bank has two facilities in Kennett.

Commerce Bancshares is a registered bank-holding company with over 170 facilities in Missouri, Illinois and Kansas and $7.8 billion in assets.

Employees of Tip of Illinois Health Services Inc. in Olive Branch, Ill., were winners of a pizza party. Their branch office raised the most money for the Tip of Illinois Hospice Golf Tournament by selling the most raffle tickets.

The Tip of Illinois hospice program is for terminally ill people who want to spend their remaining days being cared for in their home. Money raised at the tournament will benefit hospice patients and their families.

All former employees of the Jackson Hosiery Mill are invited to a reunion at 11 a.m. Sept. 10 at shelter 22 in Cape County Park.

Those attending are asked to bring food, eating utensils, drinks and lawn chairs. A basket dinner will be served at 12:30 p.m.

For information, call Dorothy Palisch, Amy Nell Steck, Marjorie Grindstaff, Hazel Seabaugh or Mary Fronabarger, members of the 1994 planning committee.

The Commission of Informational Technology has scheduled a series of public hearings to discuss Missouri's information infrastructure and to recommend changes necessary to meet future demands.

The Aug. 25 hearing on education will be held at the Harry S. Truman Building in Jefferson City and the Sept. 8 meeting on economic development will be held in the State Office Building, Room 301, in Kansas City. For further information call William Meyer at (314) 526-4193.

Credit Bureau Services of Cape Girardeau announced that the company recently purchased the credit files of Little Egypt Credit Bureau in Marion, Ill. The bureau in Marion will continue to operate as a full-service credit bureau and will add accounts-management and check-recovery services to serve both credit grantors and consumers of Southern Illinois.

Credit Bureau Services is affiliated with Equifax Credit Services of Atlanta, Ga., with 190 million consumer credit files in its database.

The National Association of Retired Federal Employees met recently at the Cape Girardeau Senior Citizens Center. The business meeting included items to be acted upon at the national convention in St. Louis this month.

It was decided that the meetings will be held at 12:45 p.m. the first Wednesday of each month at the Senior Citizens Center. The next meeting will be a picnic at 11 a.m. at South Cape County Park pavilion 20. All members and prospective members are invited. For more information call 334-3950.

The Missouri Department of Economic Development's Division of Job Development and Training recently announced that Missouri is one of 10 states nationwide to receive a $125,000 grant to help employment and training professionals from state agencies better coordinate work-force training efforts.

The Capacity Building Challenge Grant will allow the departments of economic development, labor and industrial relations, elementary and secondary education and the Division of Family Services to examine common training functions and determine methods to decrease duplication.

The educational supply store, 3 R's Plus Supplies, is celebrating its fifth anniversary this week.

The store originally started with about 25 suppliers and now has more than 200. Frank Schaffer and Trend remain the store's largest suppliers. This year The Education Center, Teacher Created Material, US Bourne, Shapes Etc., and Addison Wesley were added to its list of suppliers.

Judy Borgfield is the store owner.

Boatmen's Bancshares Inc. announced it has agreed to acquire Worthen Banking Corp. of Little Rock, Ark., in a stock transaction valued at approximately $595 million.

Boatmen's will exchange one share of its common stock for each share of Worthen's approximately 17.3 million common shares, including shares issued for stock options.

Worthen is the second-largest bank-holding company in Arkansas with approximately $3.5 billion in assets and $3 billion in deposits.