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BUSINESS MEMO: BUSINESS CENTER PLANS COUNSELING SESSIONS
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions in four areas this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Aug. 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...
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BUILDING CAPE: CAPE GIRARDEAU CONTINUES STEADY CONSTRUCTION GROWTH
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
Gary Niswonger secured insulation to the D&K warehouse at 1823 Rust Ave. The building will have 60,000 square feet of space and was being built by Contrend Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau. When Alliance Blue Cross Blue Shield was searching for a place to build its new service center, executives looked at community lifestyles, cost of living, a productive work force and tax incentives...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU BUILDING IN THE '90s
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
Following is a look at building activity in Cape Girardeau through the 1990s. 1996 (January through July) -- 38 new homes, $5.5 million (average, $145,000); 25 apartment structures, 32 units, $1,258,000; commercial projects, $17.8 million; additions, renovations, signs, pools, etc., more than $2 million. Permits, 295, in the amount of $26,997,235...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL: CIRCULATION AWARDS WON BY SOUTHEAST MISSOURIAN
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
The Southeast Missourian Circulation Department recently won three awards at the 1996 Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Marketing Conference. The department was first-place winner in the Circulation Promotion Award/Creative Champion in Sales Promotion with its Independent Contractor Sales Promotion Contest. It also received a top award for a Classified Advertising Subscription Promotion...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Summer Myers has joined Mane Attractions LTD, 431 W. Main, Jackson. Myers of Oak Ridge is a graduate of Stage One The Hair School at Cape Girardeau. She previously worked at the Jackson Family Clinic and Young Thriftway Drugs in Jackson. Linda Lawrence of Jackson has been named cardiac rehabilitation clinical nurse specialist at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MASSEY FERGUSON INTRODUCES TWO TRACTORS
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Massey Ferguson has introduced two new compact tractors to its 12090 series line. The 16.6 horsepower, four-wheel drive MF1205 and 18.2 horsepower MF1215, two-and-four-wheel model, each feature three-cylinder diesel engines, said Ivan Heuer of Heuer Sons Implement Co., a Massey Ferguson dealership in Cape Girardeau...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ERA CAPE REALTY MOVES TO NEW LOCATION WITH OPEN HOUSE
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
ERA Cape Realty recently held a special ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house at its new facility at 1409-A N. Mount Auburn Road. ERA Cape Realty, a member of Electronic Realty Associates L.P., was previously at 2121 Broadway. Cape Realty was founded in March 1958 and was purchased in August 1987 by David S. Glastetter...
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BUSINESS MEMO: UNION PLANTERS EARNINGS UP DURING SECOND QUARTER
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Union Planters Corp. announced record earnings of $40.6 million during the second quarter, up 11.5 percent from the $36.5 million during the same period in 1995. Fully diluted earnings per common share were 80 cents, compared to 73 cents for the same period a year ago. The earnings represent a return on average assets fo 1.45 percent and a return on average common equity of 17.44 percent...
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BUSINESS MEMO: INVESTMENT FIRM SELECTED TO HANDLE SCHOOL BOND SALE
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
A.G. Edwards & Sons investment firm has been selected to handle a school bond sale for a new $8.4 million building for the DuQuoin, Ill., kindergarten-through-eighth grade. Bonds will be sold within the next 30 to 60 days. The interest rate for the 20-year issue will be 5 to 6 percent...
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BUSINESS MEMO: LOCAL COMPANY NOMINATED FOR OUTSTANDING PROJECT
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Heartland Projects with Industry, a program that assists the severely disabled to obtain competitive employment, has been nominated for the "Outstanding Project with Industry for 1996" award. The award is presented annually by the Inter-National Association of Business, Industry and Rehabilitation (I-NABIR)...
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BUSINESS MEMO: HAVCO WOOD PRODUCTS SELLS FURNACE TO MEXICO COMPANY
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
A large boiler and furnace from the Cape Girardeau area is headed for Mexico. When Havco Wood Products installed new, high-efficiency units at its plant in Scott City's Industrial Park, the existing units were sold to a company in Mexico. Girardeau Stevedors moved the old units, via the Southeast Missouri Port Railroad, from Havco to the port and secured the units for rail movement...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MASSACHUSETTS TO REQUIRE LISTING OF TOBACCO INGREDIENTS
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Massachusetts is about to become the first state to require the tobacco industry to divulge the exact ingredients -- from chocolate to ammonia -- in each brand of cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco. Tobacco lobbyists complain the law is illegal, forcing them to reveal trade secrets to competitors. Besides, they say the industry has already handed over a list of 599 ingredients found in cigarettes...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: MISSOURI FIRST: A LOAN PROGRAM TO CREATE JOBS
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Roger Williams knows the value of the Missouri First Linked Deposit Program for Job Creation. "We used the program when we started here last year," said Williams, general manger of Cardinal Wood Products, which purchased a the former Lutesville Pallet Co. in 1995...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: PET CARE PLUS EXPANDS
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Pet Care Plus, a professional pet-sitting business in Cape Girardeau, designed to provide pet care while owners are away from home, has purchased a similar business, In Home Pet Care of Jackson. Pet Care Plus was founded in late 1995 by Nancy Simminger and Beth Callis, both of Cape Girardeau. In Home Pet Care was established a year earlier, in October 1994, by Pamela Lowery...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: SIGN DESIGN OPENS
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Sign Design has opened at 1749 Independence Square in Cape Girardeau. The new business, which designs signs and banners, provides a number of sign specialties, including instant signs, magnetics, vinyl lettering, business cards and office stationery...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: SHOE CARNIVAL COMING
(Business ~ 08/12/96)
Shoe Carnival is coming to Cape Girardeau. The new 12,000-square-foot store will be in the Cape West Business Park in a retail strip on Siemers Drive, south of the Target Store. Other businesses to be in the strip include Staples Office Supply, 25,000 square feet; Factory Card, 10,800 square feet; and the Dollar Tree, 4,100 square feet...
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VETERANS HOME EMPLOYEES AT ANNA STAGE STRIKE
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
ANNA, Ill. -- About 37 workers at the Veterans Home in Anna staged a demonstration protesting wages that are lower than at any other veterans home in Illinois. Anna Veterans Home administrator Joanne Livengood said eight of the protesters left their jobs Saturday as part of a union strike and have since lost their jobs...
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ADDITIONS DEDICATED AT OAK RIDGE
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
OAK RIDGE -- The community flocked to Oak Ridge High School on Sunday to see the results of their support. About 350 people packed the cafeteria to help dedicate $750,000 in new classrooms and renovations. There were speeches and prayers, but mostly there were thank-yous to voters of the district for making it possible...
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LEGALLY BLIND: SEMO UNIVERSITY EMPLOYEE HANDLES STUDENT PROGRAM
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
The blinds are drawn in Dr. Karen Myers' upstairs office at Southeast Missouri State University. The lights are low. She can see better that way. The 44-year-old Myers is legally blind. But she can see up close. She prefers written material in big type and writes with black Flair pens. She has requested a low-vision reader, a machine that electronically magnifies documents...
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KINDERGARTEN BOUND: ALL-DAY PROGRAMS ON RISE IN REGION
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
Dylan Jacobs already knows his letters and numbers, so kindergarten should be a breeze for him. "I know 10,000 things already," he said. Dylan will attend all-day kindergarten classes in Cape Girardeau this fall. It is the first time the Cape Girardeau School District has offered an all-day program...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: EXISTENCE OF LIFE ON MARS IS NO ALIEN CONCEPT
(Column ~ 08/12/96)
A long time ago on a planet far, far away... Three billion years ago or so, there might have been life on Mars. Nothing spectacular, nothing capable of building malls or starting wars, but something more than barren rock. NASA scientists are speculating that traces of what looks like fossilized bacteria on meteorite bits show microscopic life must have existed on the Red Planet eons ago...
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MISSOURI WATCH: THE REVOLUTION NO ONE NOTICED
(Column ~ 08/12/96)
Maybe we have just been too busy to notice. There are so many distractions in today's world, from tragic plane crashes to exciting athletic contests to political conventions, that we often forget to notice more subtle events that are certain to affect, directly or indirectly, the course of our lives. We take account of these changes only when we begin to feel their effects; sometimes we ignore them for longer periods of time while practicing the art of skillful neglect...
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LETTERS: PRAISE FOR SPECIAL WORK
(Letter to the Editor ~ 08/12/96)
To the editor: It is sometimes difficult for parents to accept the fact that a child is physically handicapped. That is why they are often reluctant in seeking help, think perhaps time will alter the situation. Suzanne Holland's fine work, however, with Easter Seals has altered that attitude among parents. ...
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CHEIF BOYD HAS SERVED WELL
(Editorial ~ 08/12/96)
Cape Girardeau Police Chief Howard H. Boyd Jr. is leaving the police department Aug. 31 after almost three decades of distinguished service, the last eight of which he ran the department in exemplary fashion. "Butch," as everyone calls him, didn't take the top administrative job to settle back behind a desk and await retirement. ...
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WARNINGS BY PAGER
(Editorial ~ 08/12/96)
Perry County's emergency management agency and the Perry County Sheriff's Department have come up with an interesting way of letting people know when severe weather is approaching, and it doesn't cost the county a cent. Perry countians can connect to a severe weather warning system simply by having an electronic pager, a device many people carry with them these days. ...
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PATRICIA RODGERS SPEER
(Obituary ~ 08/12/96)
ADVANCE -- Patricia Rodgers Speer, 46, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 1996, in Oran. She was born on March 24, 1950, in Asherville, daughter of Elizabeth Bess Rodgers and the late Glen E. Rodgers. She had spent most of her life in the Puxico area and lived nine years in Advance. She attended the Christian Life Church and Full Gospel Tabernacle Church in Advance...
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SUSAN ELIZABETH PETRICH
(Obituary ~ 08/12/96)
JACKSON -- Susan Elizabeth Petrich, 37, died Sunday, Aug. 11, 1996, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at McComb's Funeral Home in Jackson.
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MELINDA E. HOPE
(Obituary ~ 08/12/96)
JACKSON -- Melinda E. Hope, 91, of Jackson, died Sunday, Aug. 11, 1996, at the Deal Nursing Home. She was born March 28, 1905, west of Jackson, the daughter of William and Emma Maevers Birk. She first was married to Henry Gale Allen on Jan. 23, 1924. He died in October 1945. She then married Brainard Hope on Nov. 22, 1969. They divorced in 1992...
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JAMES E. "BUDDY" WILSON
(Obituary ~ 08/12/96)
BLOOMFIELD -- James "Buddy" Wilson, 64, died Saturday, Aug. 10, 1996, at his home in Bloomfield. He was born on Jan. 12, 1932, in Bloomfield, son of the late Paul and Cecile Hanner Wilson. He was a lifelong resident of Bloomfield, and a member of Trinity United Methodist Church where he taught an adult Sunday school class. ...
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THELMA E. UMFLEET
(Obituary ~ 08/12/96)
ADVANCE -- Thelma E. Umfleet, 79, of Advance, died Sunday Aug. 11, 1996, at Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Morgan Funeral Home in Advance.
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BERTIE KNIGHT
(Obituary ~ 08/12/96)
GRAY RIDGE -- Bertie Knight, 89, of Gray Ridge, died Sunday Aug. 11, 1996, at her home. She was born on Dec. 22, 1906, in Gray Ridge, the daughter of the late Henry and Sarah E. Harlan Stephens. She was a homemaker and member of the Gray Ridge General Baptist Church. She married Wilburn "Bill" Knight on Dec. 26, 1926. He preceded her in death on Nov. 9, 1965...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 08/12/96)
Do you think the fossil from Mars will prove we aren't alone in the universe, and will humans ever have contact with aliens? Kris Kight, Cape Girardeau "Yes. People always expected there was other life in the universe. I think there will be contact with humans in the near future."...
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