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BUSINESS MEMO: `SHOCASE-ON-WHEELS' WILL VISIT CAPE GIRARDEAU
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Southwestern Bell Telephone's "Showcase-on-Wheels" will be in Cape Girardeau Friday. The company is presenting a series of Norstar technology showcases in Southeast Missouri this week. Norstar business communications products, developed by Northern Telecom, are sold and distributed by Southwestern Bell. A Norstar mobile van will be equipped to show small and medium-sized businesses Norstar products...
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ANIMAL KINGDOM COME
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
Dan Byrd fixed up some flowers at one of the graves in the pet cemetery. Tom the Cat lives on, proudly perched on the mantle. In another home, Max the basset hound, stands guard. Tom hasn't meowed in years. Max is silent, too. But they are still very much a part of their owners' homes -- not fur and floppy ears, but lifelike statues made of their ashes and an artisan's clay...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Five Coad Chevy Shopping Center truck salesmen have been honored for sales. They are, from left, Vince Mansell, Shawn Waters, Mike Nance and Mike Miller. Unavailable for the picture was Joe Dirden. Lisa Sheffer, director of nursing at Optioncare of Cape Girardeau, and Crystal Young, a nurse at Optioncare, recently attended the 1995 Optioncare Conference in Phoenix...
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BUSINESS MEMO: KMART SPONSORS HALLOWEEN PARTY SATURDAY FOR CHILDREN
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Kmart, 11 S. Kingshighway, will hold a Halloween Party Saturday. The 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. event will feature a bake walk, games and prizes for children, and a Halloween costume contest. Chuck E. Cheese will appear from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., said Lois Culver of the Kmart Good News group...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CAPITAL BANCORPORATION NET EARNINGS UP MARKEDLY
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Capital Bancorporation's net income for the three months ended Sept. 30, was $2.65 million, up 82 percent from the same quarter in 1994. Earnings per common and common equivalent shares for the three months were 71 cents, compared to 36 cents over third-quarter results of 1994. Assets exceeded $1.1 billion...
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BUSINESS MEMO: KFVS-TV WINS EMMY FOR STORY ABOUT HOUSE FIRE
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
KFVS-TV of Cape Girardeau won an Emmy from the Mid-America Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The award was presented in the "general news" category for KFVS' coverage of a fatal house fire in Carbondale, Ill., in August 1994...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MERCANTILE BANCORPORATION ANNOUNCES RISE IN EARNINGS
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Mercantile Bancorporation Inc. has announced increases in third-quarter earnings. Net income was $56,697,000, up 17.7 percent from the $48.2 million earned during the same quarter last year. Per-share income during the second quarter rose 10.9 percent, to $1.02, from 92 cents in 1994...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SOLAR COMMUNICATIONS OKs NEW CORPORATE NAME
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
A new corporate name of Solar Communications Inc. has been approved, unanimously, by Solar Press Inc. shareholders. The change evolved from the need to better describe the company's abilities beyond printing and future growth plan, said Frank C. Hudetz, chairman and CEO of the Naperville, Ill., company...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CHAMBER PLANS HIGHWAY DINNER NOV. 2 AT DRURY
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Members of the Missouri Highway Commission and Missouri Highway and Transportation Department have been invited to the annual Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Highway Dinner, Nov. 2, at 6 p.m. at the Drury Lodge. Highway Commission Chairman Thomas M. Boland will be keynote speaker...
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NEWSPAPER HONORS CARRIERS
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
Eleven Southeast Missourian newspaper carriers have been honored as "Carriers of the Year." The carriers, who combined to deliver more than 1 million papers during the past year, were cited during a special awards banquet held at the Royal N' Orleans Restaurant...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: SHOPLIFTING: BIG PROBLEM FOR RETAILERS
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
Watching merchandise disappear from shelves is good news for merchants -- unless it's shoplifters who make it disappear. U.S. businessmen lose more than $30 billion to shoplifters each year, and that figure could be higher. National statistics indicate retailers lose a nickel of every dollar in sales from shoplifting...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CHAMBER SPONSORS SEMINAR ON BAD CHECKS, SHOPLIFTING
(Business ~ 10/23/95)
City policeman Kevin Orr, county prosecutor Morley Swingle and QPI security guard Alan Foust are among speakers for a special seminar focusing on bad checks and shoplifting, employee theft and robbery. The seminar, sponsored by the Cape Chamber of Commerce's Small Business Development Committee, will be held Nov. 2, at Bessie's Restaurant, from 8:30 to noon...
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CITY MIGHT BID OUT CABLE TV OPERATION
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
Cape Girardeau city officials want more control over the operation of the cable television access channel. The City Council plans to seek bids for a producer-programmer to operate the cable access channel. The council is expected to vote on the idea Nov. 6...
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REGULATIONS CAN HELP, HURT CITIES' GROWTH
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
Despite their best efforts to attract industry, every city knows about a state regulation that hurts recruitment. Other state regs help. In Missouri, enterprise zones and tax increment financing assist businesses in getting their feet on the ground...
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CITIES, COUNTIES SHOW DIFFERENT GROWTH
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
The statistics are about the same everywhere. The majority of people in a county live in its largest city, the rest are scattered into smaller incorporated areas or the rural regions. It's the percentages that are different. Those figures may reflect different things. The city may be large with lots of available land, or it may be small and without room for development. Maybe the people feel codes and regulations are too restrictive within the city limits and they want to move elsewhere...
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RELIGIOUS SCHOOLS RELY ON THE BASICS
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
Whether it's French, Mexican or Italian cuisine you eat, the basic nutrients and vitamins in the food essentially are the same. And parochial schools in the area are trying to provide their students with the basics of a vitamin-rich education. "We don't have a variety of courses because we can't afford the smorgasbord, but we do have a menu that's vitamin-rich," said Sister Mary Ann Fischer, SSND, principal at Notre Dame High School...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: SELF IMAGE IS ONLY A MATTER OF INCHES
(Column ~ 10/23/95)
There are certain irrefutable facts about myself that I just know. They are set in stone. My hair is dark brown, and so are my eyes. I'm allergic to mushrooms. And I'm five and a half feet tall. Except I'm not. Facts can be "spun" to suit the situation. Stone erodes. And somewhere along the line, I shrank two inches...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 10/23/95)
I HAVE a comment to make about the buyout of flooded houses in Cape and other towns. I think the government should print the name of the owner, the amount of money they get and the address of the property in the local newspaper. The taxpayers should know where their money is spent...
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MISSOURI WATCH: SOMEWHERE BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE
(Column ~ 10/23/95)
Even if it seems like only yesterday, a small group of men and women gathered years ago in a Jefferson City office to make a decision that would affect the lives of thousands of young boys and girls and their families. It was a decision not made easily or quickly or without a great amount of soul-searching, for it had consequences far beyond the confines of that office and no one involved was unaware of the risks...
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EVEN USING CHALK ON SIDEWALKS CAN TEST FREE SPEECH
(Editorial ~ 10/23/95)
Writing on sidewalks has become an issue, at least at one college campus in Missouri. Students at Stephens College in Columbia who chalked gay-pride messages during National Coming Out Day were peeved when the messages were hosed off later that afternoon...
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A LESSON IN VOTER TURNOUTS
(Editorial ~ 10/23/95)
Note to advocates of large voter turnouts: Look at Iraq. Saddam Hussein, the Iraqi leader the whole world loves to hate, continues to try to define legitimacy for himself in bizarre ways. The latest is the national referendum on his leadership. Look at the results: A full 99.5 percent of the eligible voters went to the polls. But that's not all. Of those who voted, all but 0.04 percent voted for Saddam. Of course, it is worth mentioning that his was the only name on the ballot...
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MARION F. HOBBS
(Obituary ~ 10/23/95)
Marion F. Hobbs, 79, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, at St. Franics Medical Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford & Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.
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JANE ANNE MOXLEY
(Obituary ~ 10/23/95)
WYATT -- Jane Anne Moxley, 50, of Wyatt died Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, at her home. She was born Oct. 15, 1945, at Cairo, Ill., daughter of Prince and Dorothy Mulkey Moxley. Moxley was employed by the Community Sheltered Workshop in Sikeston and was a member of the United Methodist Church in Charleston...
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A.D. BENBOW
(Obituary ~ 10/23/95)
SIKESTON -- Arley D. Denbow, 73, of Sikeston died Sunday, Oct. 22, 1995, at Missouri Delta Medical Center. He was born June 25, 1922, at Matthews, son of Charles E. and Elizabeth Sanders Denbow. He and Helen Stephens were married July 4, 1942, at Fredericktown. She preceded him in death Sept. 17, 1986. He then married Lorice Colvin on April 27, 1987, at Sikeston...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 10/23/95)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think the Million Man March in Washington D.C. accomplished?" Bill Cole, Cape Girardeau "I have a feeling that it kind of helped black men get back to their basics. There is a lot of black females heading black families. ...
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