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BUSINESS MEMO: HOLIDAY TRAVELING
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
An estimated 38.5 million Americans will travel 100 miles from home during the Christmas-New Year's holiday, equaling last year's record-setting travel volume, the American Automobile Association reported. Matching last year's record travel volume is even more impressive because this year's holidays fall on Wednesday, limiting holiday getaways for many...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CHAMBER SETS ANNUAL DINNER JAN. 31
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
The Small Business of the Year Award and the Rush H. Limbaugh Award will be presented during the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting-dinner dance Jan. 31 at the Show Me Center. The first Small Business of the Year Award was presented to Advance Business Systems in 1991. Other award winners were: Bluff City Beer Co. (1992), KBSI Fox 23 TV (1993), Ford Groves Motor Co. (1994) and Hutson Furniture Co. (1995)...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: NEW INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS BRANCH
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Kaman Industrial Technologies Corp., based in Bloomfield, Conn., has opened a branch in Cape Girardeau. The new facility, at 807 Enterprise St., is one of more than 160 market sites operated by Kaman Corp. The new operation at Cape Girardeau will provide a wide range of industrial products and technology-based services, said Mike Audette, Kaman operations manager. "We can sell and service any industrial product or need," he said...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: ON CAPE TACO BELL IS MOVING
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
The Taco Bell restaurant at 1740 Broadway will move to 335 N. Kingshighway early next year. "We're hoping to open in the new location in February," said Lori Berner, district manager. David Freeze of St. Louis is the franchise holder for the Broadway Taco Bell...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: CAPE RESTAURANT HAS NEW NAME
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
A Cape Girardeau restaurant has new owners, a new menu and a new name. Dino's Pizza, which was founded more than 25 years ago, has been leased to Robbie and Panos Andronikos. The restaurant, founded and owned by Fotoula Demoupolos in 1970, will continue with its special recipes of Dino's Pizza, chicken and mojos. Demoupolos is retiring after 26 years in the restaurant business...
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BUSINESS MEMO: ILLINOIS UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Illinois unemployment was a seasonally adjusted 5 percent in November, down from October's rate of 5.1 percent, Illinois labor officials said last week. The unemployment rate was the lowest in 20 months, according to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. The rate compares to a 5.4 percent unemployment rate for the nation...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: ANTIQUES AND CRAFTS
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
CARBONDALE, Ill. -- Polly's Antiques and Historic Crafts has opened at 2400 Chautauqua Road in Carbondale. The new business features collectibles and handmade crafts. The store is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW BETTER BUSINESS MANAGER
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Michelle L. Corey of Granite City, Ill., who has been with the Better Business Bureau since 1973, has been appointed manager of the St. Louis office that serves Eastern Missouri and Southern Illinois. Corey, who has served as vice president of the office since 1984, will succeed retiring president James C. Schmitt on Jan. 1...
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BUSINESS MEMO: RICE CONFERENCE
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
More than 520 people from throughout the nation attended the annual USA Rice Outlook Conference in Little Rock, Ark., recently. Programs at the conference included programs on a number of issues -- outlook for United States rice, rice-farming equipment and national and international rice marketing...
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TRUCKING - 101: SHAWNEE COLLEGE PROVIDES UNIQUE TRAINING PROGRAM
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
Student Richard Vaugh of Anna, Ill., practiced shifting the truck at the college during his 10th week in the program. Instructor Jim Boyd watched over the students on the training lot. Boyd drove a truck for 41 years before becoming an instructor. ULLIN, Ill. -- Jack Roberts knows the trucking industry very well...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: THREE OWNERS OF NEW RESTAURANT
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Owners of Cafe Cape, which opened recently in the Crossroads Retail and Professional Center near Kingshighway and Independence, have more than 50 years experience in business. Owners of the new restaurant are Bill Eskew, Emad Salamy and Richard Janna...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: LEARNING CENTER OPENS
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Care Bear Learning Center opened recently at 624 Commercial in Cape Girardeau. The facility, which provides a curriculum to prepare children for kindergarten, is owned by Charlotte Wildman. Also involved in the operation are Wildman's daughter, Carrie Peel, and a son, Terry Wildman...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: NEW ANTIQUE GALLERY
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
SIKESTON -- River Birch Antique Gallery opened recently at Sikeston. The new business is in the River Birch Mall and features antiques and collectible items from more than 40 dealers who lease space in the gallery. Cherie Whitten is manager of the gallery, which is open seven days a week...
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NEW ON THE BUSINESS SCENE: CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
SIKESTON -- Williams Christian Book Store recently opened at 120 Front St. in Sikeston. The store, owned by Vector and Margaret Williams, offers Bibles, gospel books, tapes, videos and CDs, and pastor and choir robes. The store is open Tuesday through Saturday...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: GOOD THINGS COULD COME IN DRAB PACKAGES
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Good things would come in plain, brown packages if a nonprofit environmental organization has its way. Never mind that consumers are wild about bright gift-wrapping, Inform Inc. is urging families to do away with those colorful and shiny holiday gift wrappings and package the gifts in recyclable, environmentally friendly brown paper or reusable baskets...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 12/23/96)
Richard Allgood has joined First National Bank as vice president and commercial lender in the Jackson and Cape Girardeau markets. Allgood of Cape Girardeau has more than 31 years experience in the banking industry, including trust operations, investments, commercial and consumer lending development. He previously worked for First National Bank...
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WRECKS CLAIM 3 MORE LIVES
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
Three more area residents were killed Saturday in accidents, bringing to eight the number of fatalities on the road to since Friday. Joda Griggs, 16, of Chaffee was killed when the 1970 Dodge he was driving south on Scott County Route RA was hit head-on by another vehicle as they crested a hill. The accident occurred at 11:05 p.m., one mile east of Chaffee...
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10 PERCENT OF STUDENTS DROP-OUTS (GETTING A DROP ON DROP OUTS: PART 2)
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
The dropout rate in Cape Girardeau schools was more than 10 percent last year. Central High School principal Randie Fidler says there are a number of reasons students are choosing work days or lazy days over school days. "A lot of students are just having a hard time deciding what they want to do," Fidler said. "They are losing their direction, and they wind up dropping out."...
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CAPE'S TECH BUILDING OUTDATED
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
The technology may be first rate but the buildings aren't. The Cape Girardeau Vocational-Technical School was built in 1967. Southeast Missouri State University's technology building dates back to 1906. The two buildings are outdated and inadequate for today's computerized, technical training needs, school and university officials say...
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TAPPING INTO TECHNOLOGY: UNIVERSITY'S CENTER MAY BE IN STATE BUDGET
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
Southeast Missouri State University and the Cape Girardeau School District want to help students and industry tap into new technology. The university plans to do it by building a technology center; the school district by constructing a new vocational-technical school...
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CAPE GIRARDDEAU FATHER AND SON COMPETE ON VINTAGE MOTORCYCLES
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
A Cape Girardeau man and his son are revving up their relationship through a unique form of motorcycle competition. Mike Hyslop has been competing in vintage motorcycle trials for three years. He has won the American Historic Racing Motorcycle Association's national championship in his category twice in that time...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: YOU'VE COME A LONG WAY, TRAILER TRASH BARBIE
(Column ~ 12/23/96)
Barbie's experiencing alternative lifestyles in San Francisco's Castro District. I guess I should consider myself lucky that I didn't have to risk life and limb this Christmas searching for a Tickle Me Elmo. But I did come close to death one Saturday afternoon as I searched through stacks of shirts to find my brother a gift. ...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 12/23/96)
CAPE VOTERS, beware of tax proposals and taxes that are in place already. They will mean your take-home pay will be very small, which you have no control over. You need some things yourself, not all like they this as proposed by the city and school board. The tax will fall on taxpayers and the young too, a lot even in high school to come yet. The younger people will pay for these burdens...
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MISSOURI WATCH: IT'S NOT SUCH A HOT LIFE
(Column ~ 12/23/96)
(With apologies to Frank Capra's "It's A Wonderful Life") William George Clinton-Bailey had never intended to spend his entire life in Hope Falls. He had always dreamed of larger cities, foreign locales, exciting challenges that would make him world famous, and even as a youngster growing up he had seemed destined for greater things. ...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 12/23/96)
Depending on the testimony presented, Hillary Clinton may enter the nation's history books as America's first (unindicted co-conspirator) lady. Besides keeping up with his favorite football, basketball and hockey teams, the Typical American Male Sports Fan has to pick out a nice can opener for his wife's Christmas gift...
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AIRPORT TOWER IS A PLUS, WHETHER FUNDED BY CITY OR OTHERS
(Editorial ~ 12/23/96)
Since the Federal Aviation Administration eliminated funding for the control tower at Cape Girardeau Regional Airport, the city of Cape Girardeau has paid the cost of staffing it with controllers who work for the city. Cape Girardeau, which took over the tower in December 1995, has managed to keep the tower open during the airport's busiest times of day, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m...
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JACKSON TO LOOK INTO COMMUNITY CENTER
(Editorial ~ 12/23/96)
The city of Jackson will kick off the new year by appointing a task force to determine if the city needs a multipurpose community center. Mayor Paul Sander proposed the task force and will name about 30 Jackson residents to it at Board of Aldermen meeting Jan. 6. The board is receptive to the idea...
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LOCAL GOSPEL STAR RELEASES FIRST ALBUM
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
JACKSON -- Robyn Hosp loves angels. The largest Christmas tree in her home is covered with the beautiful creatures. Some flap their wings, others move a few inches from the tree before returning to their original places. Angel figurines sit around the room. Hosp even sports a sparkling angel pin on her lapel...
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HAZEL ERVIN
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
Hazel Ervin, 83, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1996, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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JOHN A. DUVALL
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
ST. MARY -- John A. Duvall, 26, of St. Mary died Saturday, Dec. 21, 1996, in Perry County. He was born Jan. 27, 1969, in Perryville, son of Elders and Myrtle Ochs Duvall. He was a 1987 graduate of Perryville High School and a member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church...
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WILMA STALLINGS
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
FLORISSANT -- Wilma Estell Stallings, 86, formerly of Mississippi County, died Saturday, Dec. 21, 1996, at the Florissant Nursing Center. She was born Sept. 14, 1910, in Maynard, Ark., to the late John and Arrnettie Jane McCoun Gilmore. She is survived by two sons, Dale Stallings of Easy, S.C., and Larry Stallings of Palm Bay, Fla.; four daughters, Erma Baker of Florissant, Jane Fillers of Georgetown, Ill., Gladys Vicello of Indianapolis and Charlotte Starkie of Danville, Ill.; 13 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.. ...
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R. FRANK WELKER
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
MARBLE HILL -- R. Frank Welker, 44, of Marble Hill died Saturday, Dec. 21, 1996, near Gordonville. He was born April 23, 1952, near Bessville, to Pete and Wilma Cook Welker. He was employed at the Angelbeck Lumber Co. at Patton. Survivors include his father and stepmother, Bessie Welker of Marble Hill; four stepdaughters, Heather Cook of Sedgewickville, Nickie Nagrady of Patton, and Sadie Davis and Jamie Abernathy, both of Jackson; four brothers, Gary Cook of Virginia, Leon Welker of New Orleans, and Rickey Welker and Don Welker, both of Marble Hill; five sisters, Kathryn Bollinger of Sedgewickville, Eyvon Bailey of Patton, and Kathy Sullivan, Julie Welker and Elizabeth Welker, all of Marble Hill; two stepsisters, Rebecca Garland and Tamrah Bass, both of Marble Hill; three stepbrothers, David Evans Jr. ...
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TRACY HOLDER
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
SCOTT CITY -- Tracy Regina Holder, 29, of Scott City died Saturday, Dec. 21, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born Oct. 13, 1967, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Herbert and Norma Jean LeDure Holder, who survive her. She worked in housekeeping at St. Francis Medical Center...
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JODA GRIGGS
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
CHAFFEE -- Joda Matthew Griggs, 16, of Chaffee died Saturday Dec. 21, 1996, near Chaffee. He was born Nov. 9, 1980, in Cape Girardeau, son of Joda and Beverly Stroup Griggs. He was a sophomore at Chaffee High School and a member of its choir. He also belonged to the First Baptist Church Youth Group...
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DALE HUDSON
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
PERRYVILLE -- Dale F. Hudson, 60, of Perryville died Friday, Dec. 20, 1996, in Jefferson County. He was born Nov. 21, 1936, in Perryville, son of Floyd and Lyndola Schulte Hudson. He had been a carpenter until his retirement this year and a member of the Order of Eagles...
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MARION R. MALONE
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
VILLA RIDGE, Ill. -- Marion R. "Bud" Malone, 79, of Villa Ridge, formerly of Mounds, died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1996, at his home. He was born Feb. 2, 1917, in Jonesboro, son of Edward and Josephine Kimmel Malone. He had retired after 50 years as a manager and salesman with Malone Motors. He attended the Villa Ridge Union Church...
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EDWARD G. BRUMAGIN
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
Edward Dwayne Brumagin, 32, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 21, 1996, in a car accident. He was born Aug. 3, 1964, in St. Louis, to Kathryn June Riggins Brumagin of Montgomery City and the late Roy Edward Brumagin Jr. Brumagin was a member of the Metropolitan Community Church in Cape Girardeau. He made his living as an entertainer...
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MARGIE I. BOREN
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
Margie I. Boren, 76, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1996, at the Lutheran Home. She was born April 11, 1920, in Missouri Valley, Iowa, to Robert F. and Jessie Christina Myers Hutton. On Nov. 10, 1950, she married Ivan L. Boren. He died May 2, 1995...
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OTTO WIBBENMEYER
(Obituary ~ 12/23/96)
APPLE CREEK -- Otto Emile Wibbenmeyer, 85, of Apple Creek died Sunday, Dec. 22, 1996, at the Perry Oaks Healthcare Center. He was born Dec. 12, 1911, in Cape Girardeau, son of Carl and Anna Lappe Wibbenmeyer. He married Clara Ida Schnurbusch on Oct. 4, 1938. She died Nov. 12, 1987...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 12/23/96)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "Do you think Christmas has become too commercialized?" Doug Hileman, Cape Girardeau "Yes, I think Christmas has become too commercialized. I think people have kind of forgotten the true meaning of it. It's always how much money you spend on somebody and not on the true love of the season."...
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