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UE STOCK PRICE FLAT OVER PAST YEAR
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
Union Electric Co. provides electricity and natural gas to about 1.3 million customers in Missouri and Illinois. Earnings have been fairly flat for the past year because of relatively mild weather conditions. UE's common stock price has remained flat as well. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (symbol UEP), and it is a member of the S&P 500. UE contributes much to the Heartland, but other electric utility company stocks seem to offer better value...
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BUSINESS MEMO: FARM AND POWER SHOW
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
The St. Louis Farm & Power Show will be held at the Cervantes Convention Center in downtown St. Louis this week. The annual show, sponsored by the Mississippi Valley Equipment Association, will be held Wednesday and Thursday, starting at 9 a.m. each day...
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COOKING ON THE RIVER
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
Above, towboat cook Betty Weber checked her soup to see if it had enough pepper while preparing a lunch for crew members aboard the towboat Harry Waddington while docked at Paducah, Ky. Left, Betty Weber talked with the towboat crew during lunch, from left, Jerry ferguson, captain of the M/V Harry Waddington; and deckhands Brad Patton and Tim Kunz...
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FINANCIAL FOCUS: SAVING FOR RETIREMENT NECESSITY FOR WOMEN
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
This column is prepared by Edward Jones, a stock brokerage firm headquartered in St. Louis. The company has branches throughout Missouri, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Despite much progress in the last decade, American women executives still earn only two-thirds as much as men, according to a new study by the Korn/Ferry International executive search firm and University of California-Los Angeles...
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BUSINESS MEMO: PAY AND BENEFITS SURVEY
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Missouri workers may receive larger pay increases next year, according to Compensation Data-Missouri 1997, a pay and benefits survey conducted by the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Compdata Surveys of Kansas City. Employers participating in the recently published survey reported an average projected pay increase of 4.16 percent for 1998, compared to an average of 4 percent in 1997...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `FIVE-STAR' RATING
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
The Bank of Missouri has received a five-star rating from Bauer Financial Reports Inc., marking the 21st consecutive quarter the bank has received the award. The rating is based on financial data submitted to federal regulators as of June 30. The five-star rating is the highest designation presented by Bauer Financial to banks...
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BUSINESS MEMO: AG EXPO '98
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Dates have been established for the 12th annual Ag Expo '98, to be held at the Bess Activity Center at Three River Community College in Poplar Bluff. The annual free event, sponsored by the Butler County University Outreach and Extension Council and the Ag Club of TRCC, will be held Jan. 30 and 31...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW TRENDS, CROP PRODUCTION
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
"New Trends in Crop Production," one of the area's largest crop production seminars and agriculture exhibitor conference, will be held in January. The daylong program, Jan. 15, at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Jackson, is about a month earlier than past years, when it was held in mid-February...
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BUSINESS MEMO: INVESTMENT FIRM HONORED
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Raymond James & Associates Inc. finished first among 16 investment firms in the quarterly stock picking competition tabulated by Zacks Investment Research Inc., according to the Wall Street Journal. The company had a return of 28.3 percent for the quarter, and 59.5 percent during the trailing 12-month periods ended Sept. 30, said Philip Dame, branch manager of the Robert Thomas Securities, 1320 N. Kingshighway. Robert Thomas Securities is an affiliate of Raymond James...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `BUSINESS OF THE YEAR'
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Lutesville Motor Company Inc. has received the "Business of the Year" award from the Bollinger County Chamber of Commerce. Lutesville Motor was founded as Lutesville Ford in 1935 and was incorporated as Lutesville Motor Co. in 1960. Marc Massengale, chamber president, presented the award to Rick Underwood, Paul David Thomas and Mary Carolyn Underwood Thomas during the recent awards banquet held at the Knights of Columbus Hall in Leopold...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DON'T DRINK AND DRIVE
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
More companies are taking steps to prevent drinking and driving at the annual Christmas party. A survey, conducted by Battalia Winston International, an executive search firm, found that 62 percent of companies will issue tax vouchers for use following company parties. The same companies will be placing "Don't Drink and Drive" signs at all dinner tables...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: WAL-MART UPDATES: JACKSON, PERRYVILLE
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Some Wal-Mart stores close, some new ones open, but the Bentonville, Ark.-headquartered group could reach the 2,000 mark in Wal-Mart stores sometime next year. Three of those new stores will be in the Southeast Missouri/Southern Illinois area, at Anna in Illinois, and Perryville and Jackson in Missouri...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Cliff LaFond has accepted the position of quality assurance manager at Dana Corp., Spicer Axle Division in Cape Girardeau. LaFond comes to Cape Girardeau from the Spicer Driveshaft Division at Atkins, Va., where he served as quality manager. He started with Dana at Spicer Heavy Axle's Morganton, N.C., plant, where he served in a number of capacities, line inspector, receiving inspector, warranty technician and quality supervisor before moving to Atkins in 1995...
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BUSINESS MEMO: AMERICANS EATING OUT MORE
(Business ~ 12/08/97)
Americans spent a record $209.5 billion in restaurants last year. Diners spread their patronage about equally between full service and fast food.
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SOUTH SIDE CENTER SOUGHT
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
Organizers are shopping for a place for a community center to serve families on Cape Girardeau's South Side. The Family Resource Center Inc. wants to create a "one-stop shop" of government, recreation and education services for children and adults in South Cape Girardeau, said Edythe Davis, vice president of the group's board of directors...
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MADD COMMEMORATES WOMAN'S DEATH
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
Tracy Holder had just delivered a Christmas present to a friend last Dec. 21, and was headed toward Chaffee when her car was struck head-on. The impact turned her car completely around and it went into a ditch. Police said the driver of the other vehicle, Perry Gregory of Dexter, was legally drunk...
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CAPE STREETS FILLED FOR PARADE; SIGHTS, SOUNDS OF CHRISTMAS ARE ON DISPLAY
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
After being postponed a week because of bad weather, the fifth annual Christmas Parade of Lights got off to a delayed start Sunday when the Mustang convertible carrying parade marshal, Councilman Melvin Gately, had to make a quick stop for gasoline...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: ALL I WANT TO CHRISTMAS IS...TIME TO DO THE SHOPPING
(Column ~ 12/08/97)
At this rate, I should be finished Christmas shopping just in time for the Presidents Day sales. A few days after Thanksgiving, I got a call from my very smug friend Jana. "I'm finished with my Christmas shopping," she announced, obviously bursting with the desire to one-up her less-organized friends...
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HAYTI WOMAN KILLED; FREDERICKTOWN WOMAN DIES WEEK AFTER CRASH
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
HAYTI -- A Hayti woman was killed and two others injured Sunday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident in Pemiscot County, three miles east of Hayti. Iris Merrell, 72, of Hayti was fatally injured when the car she was driving struck a pickup truck driven by Thomas Walker, 30, of Dyersburg, Tenn...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 12/08/97)
IN REGARDS to all these people who are continuously bashing President Clinton on things that they can't possibly have proof: The Bible's very clear on this subject. It says pray for our leaders. THE SIGN said "Long-haired, freaky people need not apply," so I tucked my hair up under my hat and I stepped to ask him why. ...
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MISSOURIANA
(Column ~ 12/08/97)
Times change. When John Ashcroft was governor, he was embarrassed by the lack of revenue to fund essential state services. Gov. Mel Carnahan is embarrassed because the state has too much revenue. Behind every parent of septuplets is a group of grandparents living in dread of the first request for baby sitting...
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JACKSON GOEST TO PARENTS SEEKING ADVICE
(Editorial ~ 12/08/97)
As the Jackson School District studies what to do about school attendance areas, especially for Gordonville and Millersville, many parents and residents of the two communities hope to convince the Board of Education not to close the schools in those communities...
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LABELS WON'T SOLVE THE TRADE DEFICIT
(Editorial ~ 12/08/97)
The Federal Trade Commission's unanimous decision last week that all products containing the "Made in USA" label be "all or virtually all" made in the United States maintains the pride of American workers, but it overlooks the fact that a global economy depends more on satisfied customers than on protectionist labels...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "When will you do your Christmas shopping?" Jamesetter Abraham, Cape Girardeau "I've already done it." Samantha King, Cape Girardeau "I'm going to do it earlier because if I don't I won't have the money to get it. I'll spend it all."...
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MUSICIANS' CHRISTMAS HOOT THURSDAY AND FRIDAY
(Local News ~ 12/08/97)
A proposed scholarship for Southeast Missouri State University and children with mental health problems will be beneficiaries when the Cape Musicians Guild presents its annual Christmas Hoot Thursday and Friday. Proceeds from the entertainment volunteered by area musicians will go toward establishing a scholarship in the name of Doyle "Whitey" Hendrix and to Cottonwood Residential Treatment Center...
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SEMO WOMEN TAKE ON TENNESSEE STATE TONIGHT
(College Sports ~ 12/08/97)
Southeast Missouri State University's women's basketball squad, picked to finish last in the 10-team Ohio Valley Conference, will shoot for a 2-0 league start tonight when Tennessee State visits the Show Me Center. The Otahkians (2-5 overall, 1-0 OVC) and TSU (3-2, 0-0 OVC) will square off in a 7 p.m. tipoff...
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SIKESTON TOURNAMENT SET FOR 26TH ANNUAL RUN
(High School Sports ~ 12/08/97)
One of the area's top early-season boys basketball tournaments will be played this week in Sikeston. The 26th annual Sikeston Invitational, featuring seven teams, gets under way tonight and runs through Friday. "It's always a great tournament," said Notre Dame coach Chris Janet. "The teams are all usually very good and there really are never any breathers in it."...
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BRIEFLY: OVC NEWCOMER NAMED
(College Sports ~ 12/08/97)
Southeast Missouri State junior guard Kahn Cotton has been named the Ohio Valley Conference Newcomer of the Week. Cotton scored 33 points and had 10 assists during two recent Southeast games, a loss to Tennessee State and win over Austin Peay.
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OPAL THEIS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
ANNA -- Opal Schnaare Theis, 56, of Anna died Sunday, Dec. 7, 1997, at Memorial Hospital in Carbondale. She was born Aug. 1, 1941, at Olmsted, daughter of Emil and Gladys McCluskey Schnaare. She married Raymond Theis on March 3, 1963. She was a member of Wetaug Church of Christ...
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DARLENE ROBERTS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
Darlene K. Roberts, 63, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Dec. 7, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. She was born July 10, 1934, at Cape Girardeau, daughter of Willis and Rena Atchison Tripp. She married Harold Dwayne Roberts on March 8, 1952, in Randolph County, Ark. He died in 1991...
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BRUCE PHILLIPS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
ADVANCE -- Bruce Orin Phillips, 46, of Advance died Saturday, Dec. 6, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Dec. 1, 1951, at Sikeston, son of Orin and Helen McCain Phillips. Phillips was a farmer and a timber worker. He was also a member of the Eagles Aerie of Advance 4154...
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JAMES EDWARD JENKINS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
James Edward Jenkins, 72, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Dec. 6, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Aug. 4, 1925, at Burfordville, son of Archie and Elizabeth Brown Jenkins. Jenkins was a graduate of College High School in Cape Girardeau...
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ADOLPH MILLER SR.
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
SIKESTON -- Adolph Miller Sr., 87, of Sikeston died Saturday, Dec. 6, 1997, at Missouri Delta Hospital. He was born Jan. 7, 1910, in Morehouse, son of Daniel Otis and Orpha Belle Jackson Miller. He married Carrie E. Williams on Dec. 23, 1933, at Malden. She died Dec. 21, 1995...
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JAMES CHARLES
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
JONESBORO, Ill. -- James E. "Cub" Charles, 73, died Saturday, Dec. 6, 1997, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Nov. 25, 1924, at McClure, son of James M. and Bessie Mae Trammel Charles. He married Bonetta Marie Goleaner on June 17, 1942, in Jackson, Mo...
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ERNEST WILLIAMS
(Obituary ~ 12/08/97)
ANNA -- Ernest A. Williams, 82, of Anna died Saturday, Dec. 6, 1997, at his home. He was born Aug. 19, 1915, at Anna, son of Robert and Sarah Poe Williams. He married Dorothy L. Braggs on May 12, 1940, at Jackson, Mo. She died Jan. 2, 1994. Williams worked for the state of Illinois, the I.C. Railroad and Lewis Brothers Bakery. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Anna...
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