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BUSINESS MEMO: SUBDIVISION GRAND OPENING
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
The Missouri Division of Holigan Homes will hold a grand opening at the Ashland Courts Subdivisions July 11 through 13. Six homes have been completed in the 180-lot subdivision, which will contain homes in the $108,000 to $180,000 range. Grand opening will be from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. July 11; 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. July 12 and noon to 6 on July 12 in a model display home at the site...
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BUSINESS MEMO: JOBLESS RATES DOWN
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
Unemployment rates continue to drop. Latest figure show that U.S. unemployment for May was 4.8 percent, lowest since 1973. In Missouri, the rate dropped to 3.8 percent in May, down from 4.2 in April. In Illinois, the rate dipped from 4.8 unemployment in April to 4.4 percent in May...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BANK GRAND OPENING
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
Capaha Bank, 3168 William St., will hold its grand opening this week. Visitors to the bank may register for free gifts, including a trip for two to Las Vegas, Monday through Thursday. Capaha Bank, formerly Tamms State Bank, has been in operation 42 years, receiving its state charter in 1955...
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PENDERGRASS ENTERPRISES INC.
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
Karen Lampe packaged sea sponges at Pendergrass Enterprises. Pendergrass Enterprises is operated by, from left, George Pendergrass, Shawn Tanner, Alan Pendergrass and Sue Whitworth. SCOTT CITY -- George W. Pendergrass remembers his first import order...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `GUARDIANS' OF BUSINESS
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
U.S. Sens. John Ashcroft and Christopher Bond have been named "Guardians of Small Business" by the nation's largest small business advocacy organization, the National Federation of Independent Business. Ashcroft's small-business voting record during the 104th Congress, based on 29 recorded votes, was 100 percent and Bond's record was 93 percent...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MOST EXPENSIVE HOMES
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
San Francisco has displaced New York City as the nation's most expensive city for single-family homes, while Oklahoma City remains the most affordable, a survey found. The survey, released last week by Ernst & Young's Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group, compared the cost of buying a four-bedroom home or renting a two-bedroom luxury apartment to median take-home family income in 75 areas...
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BUSINESS MEMO: FAST-GROWING BUSINESSES
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
Home-based businesses are among the fastest-growing sections of the U.S. economy. More than 47 million Americans work in a business operated from the home, and that number is expected to swell to 60 million by the year 2000. A 1996 survey found that 56 percent of home businesses earned net revenue of less than $56,000; 24 percent earned between $50,000 and $99,000, and 20 percent earned more than $100,000...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
Fred Higdon and Jim Ham have joined the staff at Mercantile Bank of Southeast Missouri-Cape Girardeau. Higdon will serve as vice president and commercial lender at the 3060 William St. facility. Higdon had worked in the lending department at the former Boatmen's Bank. He is a member of the Cape Girardeau and Jackson chambers of commerce and had served on the SEMO Fair Board...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: A FACELIFT FOR ULYSSES S. GRANT
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
Ulysses S. Grant is getting a facelift. The $50 bill, which bears a portrait of Grant, will receive a new look to be introduced next fall. The new note is the second in the U.S. currency series to include new and modified security features. A new $100 bill was issued in March 1996...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW COMPANY NAME
(Business ~ 06/30/97)
First American Home Care has a new name -- IHS Home Care-Missouri. "The name has changed but our commitment to care has not," said Terry Bollinger, administrator for IHS Home Care in Cape Girardeau and Marble Hill. "We're still dedicated to providing our patients with the same quality care."...
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A BANG-UP FOURTH: CAPE, JACKSON CELEBRATE INDEPENDENCE DAY
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
Events in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and the region will keep residents busy over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. The Mississippi and Delta Queens will challenge each other again in the Great Steamboat Race. The boats will be docked at Cape Girardeau's Riverfront Park from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday...
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STATLERS, MURPHY ON TAP AT THE FAIR
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
Buffalo Club, Sweethearts of the Rodeo, Statler Brothers The Statler Brothers and David Lee Murphy are two of six country acts who will entertain at the 142nd annual SEMO District Fair, the board announced today. The week-long event will run from Sunday, Sept. 7, through Saturday, Sept. 13, at Arena Park. Tickets for the grandstand shows will go on sale July 23...
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FROM THE FARM TO THE DINNER TABLE
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
With many people too busy to garden or unequipped with a "green thumb," farmers markets are popular spots for obtaining summer-fresh vegetables. Cape Girardeau's Farmers Market is no exception. As many as 200 shoppers were going from stand to stand minutes before the farmers market opened Thursday...
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ROSWELL AND PIEDMONT SHARE FAME FROM UFOs
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
UFOs were everywhere during the summer of 1947. They were reported in Roswell, N.M., where the 50th anniversary of the famous "Roswell incident" -- the alleged crash of a UFO and recovery of alien bodies -- is being observed beginning Tuesday with a festival called UFO Encounter '97, and in Washington state. There, pilot Kenneth Arnold told reporters he'd seen objects in the air between Mount Rainier and Mount Adams that acted like saucers skipping across a lake...
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KINDERGARTEN LOTTERY SYSTEM CONTROVERSIAL
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
One of the biggest discussion items at the Cape Girardeau school board's meeting today isn't even listed on the agenda. Superintendent Dr. Dan Tallent anticipates several parents will be on hand to discuss their displeasure with the district's kindergarten lottery system, which will require some students to be bused to a school outside of their neighborhood...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: SO WHICH OF THE DUMMIES WROTE THE ROSWELL REPORT?0
(Column ~ 06/30/97)
We could be surrounded by crash test dummies and not even know it. They're not aliens; they're crash test dummies. That's the Air Force's explanation for the "bodies" witnesses reported seeing hauled away near Roswell, N.M., after SOMETHING crashed there on July 7, 1947...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 06/30/97)
THIS IS for the Limbaugh fans here in Cape. If there was treason committed in spirit, it was done in Rush Limbaugh's June 24 monologue where he was gleeful that the Japanese trade minister had got Clinton good when he mentioned that Japan was withdrawing some of what Limbaugh called financing of our economy. ...
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MISSOURI WATCH: WARNING: KEEPING INFORMED CAN BE FATAL -- CONSIDER F. DANIEL DOOLIE
(Column ~ 06/30/97)
From time to time I like to update a little series called "True Life Stories of Fictitious People." And today I'd like to present the sad true life of Mr. F. Daniel Doolie, a well-informed person by trade. In the halcyon days of the 1930s and 1940s, Mr. ...
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LET POLICE CHIEF CITE RUNDOWN BUILDINGS
(Editorial ~ 06/30/97)
For law enforcement to effectively fight crime, it must have at its disposal every tool available, and that includes laws that make it difficult for criminals to operate. It recently was brought to the Cape Girardeau City Council's attention that the police chief doesn't have the authority to initiate formal complaints concerning rundown property under the city's building maintenance code. ...
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JESS BOLEN ACHIEVES MAJOR COACHING MILESTONE
(Editorial ~ 06/30/97)
Cape Girardeau Kohlfeld Capahas manager Jess Bolen achieved a significant milestone recently when the team won its 1,000th game for their longtime manager. Bolen, 55, is in his 31st season as manager of the baseball team. He played for the Capahas before becoming their manager in his mid-20s, and has made the team a big part of his life...
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INTERNATIONAL BICYCLE RACE PROPOSED THROUGH AREA
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
A Tennessee man leading a regional organization has approached the Missouri governor about developing a world-class bicycle race that could pass through the Cape Girardeau area. Ray Bryant, executive director of the Memphis-based Lower Mississippi Delta Development Center, asked Gov. Mel Carnahan to endorse what Bryant wants to be the successor to the now-defunct Tour Du Pont, the internationally sanctioned U.S. equivalent to the Tour de France...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 06/30/97)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you think the federal government should do to fight teen-age smoking?" Margie Besher, Marble Hill "Raise the prices. Better education. More emphasis on education" Nichole Tillotson, Jackson "You can educate them in schools about it. ...
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CAPE FORD & SONS LEGION DROPS TWIN BILL AT SENATH
(High School Sports ~ 06/30/97)
SENATH -- Cape Girardeau's Ford & Sons American Legion baseball team dropped both ends of a key District 14 doubleheader here Sunday afternoon. Host Senath prevailed 3-1 and 6-4 to improve to 10-0 in district play and 16-2 overall. Cape is 17-9 overall, 7-3 in District 14...
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BARNEY ROGERS
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
OLMSTEAD, Ill. -- Barney W. Rogers, 84, of Olmstead died Sunday, June 29, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 7, 1912, in Golconda, the son of Charles and Grace Trail Rogers. He was a retired carpenter and a member of the Carpenter's Union in Metropolis...
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ANNA KATHERINE GRIMM
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
Anna Katherine Grimm, 97, died Sunday, June 29, 1997, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born April 13, 1900, near Shelbyville, daughter of Henry and Anna Reinheimer Arnold. She and the Rev. Victor H. Grimm were married June 17, 1925, in St. Louis. He preceded her in death...
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KENNETH SOEHL
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
OAK RIDGE -- Kenneth Marvin Soehl, 64, of Oak Ridge died Sunday, June 29, 1997, at his home. He was born June 29, 1933, in Farrar, the son of Ben and Lina Kasten Soehl. On July 21, 1962, he married Shirley Wendel in Jackson. He was a self-employed air-conditioner serviceman...
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ORVILLE HOLCOMB
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
JACKSON -- Orville Holcomb, 93, of Jackson died Sunday, June 29, 1997, in St. Louis. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson.
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ALBERT JONES
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
Albert Jones, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday June 29, 1997, at his home. He was born Feb. 15, 1915, in Whitewater, the son of Monroe Clarence and Mary Proffer Jones. On April 27, 1942, he married Maude Beckette Diamond, and she preceded him in death on Aug. 25, 1975. On Nov. 13, 1981, he married Evelyn Hoover in Jackson...
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ALICE LOUISE THORNE
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
BENTON -- Alice Louise Thorne, 90, of Benton died Sunday, June 29, 1997, at the Miner Nursing Center. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Benton.
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JOHN VINCENZI
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- John Vicenzi, 85, of Anna died Sunday, June 29, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Oct. 29, 1911, in Vulcan, Mich., the son of Peter and Domenica Martini Vicenzi. On Aug. 7, 1939, he married Mildred Paul. He was plant superintendent of the Gazette-Democrat and retired after 35 years...
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CECILE MAE CASPER
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
ANNA, Ill. -- Cecile Mae Casper, 85, of Anna died Saturday, June 28, 1997, at Union County Hospital in Anna She was born Dec. 28, 1911, at Lick Creek, the daughter of Oliver L. and Cynthia Linderman Earnhart. She and Edward E. Casper were married in 1928. He preceded her in death...
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ALMA HOOKER
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
CHAFFEE -- Alma Hooker, 94, of Murray, Ky., and formerly of Chaffee, died Sunday June 29, 1997, at West View Nursing Home in Murray. She was born July 29, 1902, in Zalma, the daughter of Frank and Louise Kirkpatrick Ray. On Dec. 8, 1918, she married Charles R. Hooker in Wardell. He preceded her in death on Sept. 4, 1967...
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THOMAS RYAN JR.
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
SIKESTON -- Thomas Ryan Jr., 74, of Sikeston died Saturday, June 28, 1997, at the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston. He was born April 7, 1923, in Sikeston, son of Thomas Bradford and Ida Mae Williams Ryan. He and Beatrice M. Bollinger of Benton were married on Dec. 2, 1944. She survives...
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MARIE BACON
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
Marie Helen Telle Bacon, 76, of 1764 Pemiscott died Saturday, June 28, 1997, at her home. She was born Nov. 20, 1920, in Gordonville, the daughter of Ernst T. and Elda Simeners Telle. She married Melvin Bacon on Nov. 18, 1945, in Cape Girardeau. She was a homemaker and a volunteer at Southeast Missouri Hospital, Meals on Wheels and the Girl Scouts. ...
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WILMA FERN KIZER
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
JACKSON -- Wilma Fern Kitzer, 89, of Jackson died Sunday, June 29, 1997 at the Jackson Manor Nursing Home. She was born Jan. 16, 1908, in Lacoma, daughter of William Robert and Lucy Marosna Baird Elliott. She was previously married to Oscar Thomas Lee...
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FAY SLAUGHTER
(Obituary ~ 06/30/97)
CHAFFEE -- Fay Slaughter, 84, of Chaffee died Tuesday, June 24, 1997, at her home. She was born Oct. 2, 1912, the daughter of Joseph and Frances Koch Heuschober. On Jan. 2, 1937, she married J.P. Slaughter. He died March 30, 1984. She owned and operated Slaughter Confectionery in Chaffee...
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