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STRICTLY BUSINESS: PERRYVILLE INDUSTRIAL PARK JUST GOT BIGGER
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
The Perryville Industrial Park just got bigger. The Perryville Development Corp., a non-profit group that developed the industrial park at U.S. 61 and state Highway 51, has purchased additional property for the park. The newest 104-acre tract, inside the city limits, is included in the community's "enterprise zone," a designation that provides tax abatements and other incentives for business...
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NEW HONDA SALES AND SERVICE CENTER UNDER WAY IN CAPE WEST BUSINESS PARK
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
Artist's rendering of new Honda building, which is under construction on Siemers Drive in Cape West Business Park. Dennis Manns, zone manager for American Honda Motor Co., and Adam Spencer, district manager for the Honda Co., were in Cape Girardeau last week for a groundbreaking project for a new full-service Honda facility...
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'MISSOURI MADE': LABELS ON HUNDREDS OF PRODUCTS
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
Two years ago, Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan topped off a traditional opening ceremony at the Missouri State Fair by slicing into a 30-foot pizza, made with Missouri agricultural products. State fairs, district fairs and county fairs are known for showcasing the "Best of the Best" in agriculture...
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BUSINESS MEMO
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
Jim McClelland, area marketing director for SuperValu Holdings, Inc., Scott City Distribution Center, has accepted a position with SuperValu's New England Region at Suffield, Conn., as area marketing director. McClelland started his career in the food industry at a supermarket in Jonesboro, Ark., serving as store manager from 1969 to 1978...
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BUSINESS MEMO: IAAP MEETINGS SET
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
International Association of Administrative Professionals, formerly known as Professional Secretaries International, will meet Tuesday at the Cape Girardeau Drury Lodge. Dr. Keith Russell, professor of accounting, finance and business law at Southeast Missouri State University, will be guest speaker. His topic, "Attitude is Everything," will address the importance of a positive attitude...
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BUSINESS MEMO: HALLMARK ACQUISITION
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
KANSAS CITY -- Hallmark Cards Inc. will buy InterArt Holding Corp. of Bloomington, Ind., maker of Sunrise brand greeting cards and other paper products. Terms of the transaction, announced last week, were not disclosed. InterArt, with 620 employees, had sales of about $53 million in the fiscal year ended March 31. About three-fourths of its annual sales are from greeting cards, with the rest from writing paper, gift packaging, frames and magnets, journals and other products...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
Construction activity in Missouri was down 20 percent in July but is almost even with the 1997 pace through the first seven months. The F.W. Dodge Division of McGraw-Hill, an authority on the construction market, reported total construction for July at $465,736,000, down from the $585,235,000 of the previous July...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NATIONSBANK HONORED
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
NationsBank has been named to the national list of the "10 Best Companies for Working Mothers," by Working Mothers magazine, for a sixth consecutive year. The bank, with its Work and Family program, offers a number of programs: Volunteer time for schools; family leaves for maternity, adoption, and foster care; flexible work schedules, tuition reimbursement programs for college tuition and related expenses; and, child care plus, a program to help eligible associates pay for child care...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SPARTECH DIVIDEND
(Business ~ 09/14/98)
The Spartech Corp.'s board of directors has declared a regular quarterly cash dividend of 6 cents a share, payable Oct. 8, to shareholders of record Sept. 24. Spartech recently reported record third-quarter results of $177.7 million in sales and net earnings of $9 million...
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MUTAL FUNDS OFFER NEW PROSPECTUSES
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments, headquartered in St. Louis. Jones includes branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. Looking for helpful hints about mutual funds? Here's some advice you won't regret: Read the prospectus...
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FAIR OPENING DRAWS CROWD; HORSE SHOW CELEBRATES 10TH ANNIVERSARY
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
Ashley Royer of Fredericktown has been riding horses longer than she has been walking. She first started riding when she was just 3 months old. She turned 2 on Friday. "I rode horses until I was 7 months along," said Ashley Royer's mother, Leslie Royer. "I guess you could say she's been riding since before she was born."...
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BISHOP BLESSES NEW HIGH SCHOOL
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
Bishop John Leibrecht of the Cape Girardeau-Springfield Roman Catholic Diocese told visitors to the Notre Dame High School Sunday afternoon they must not only remember the heritage of the school but must also look to its future. The standing-room-only crowd had come together for the formal dedication of the new Notre Dame Regional High School, which the bishop called "the next wonderful, beautiful step in the life of the church."...
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SURGERY CENTER COULD WITHDRAW APPLICATION
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
The application for construction of a new ambulatory surgery center, scheduled to go before the state for review today, might be withdrawn. Dr. August Ritter III, one of the partners investing in the proposed Mississippi Valley Surgery Center, said the partners were considering withdrawing their application for the center...
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YELL VOLUNTEERS READY TO HIT STREETS
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
Sometimes he gets a little sweaty and sometimes his hands get a little dirty, but Cape Girardeau Circuit Judge William S. Syler doesn't mind. It's YELL. He will be standing at the corner of Broadway and Kingshighway again this year selling special editions of the Southeast Missourian. Proceeds of the event fund literacy efforts in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City...
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MILITARY MARKER: MOTHER WANTS MARKER FOR SON'S GRAVE
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
MARBLE HILL -- Pat Bollinger says her son's grave deserves a military marker. But the federal government says Robert J. Bollinger's Marine Corps service record doesn't qualify him for the bronze marker. For the past dozen years, she has sought help from lawmakers and pleaded with officials with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Washington to grant her request. But so far, she has lost every battle...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: ADDING IT UP: A MIX OF SEX, LIES AND C-SPAN
(Column ~ 09/14/98)
It's a sad day when I'd rather watch baseball than the news. A computer analysis of Ken Starr's official report on Zippergate shows the report refers to sex more than 500 times. Specifically, the word "sex" appears 164 times in the 445-page document, "sexual" shows up 406 times, "sexually" nine times, and "sexy," "sexier" and "sexuality" once each...
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MARBLE HILL MAN WAS PROUD TO BE A MARINE
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
MARBLE HILL -- Even as a young child, Robert Joseph Bollinger wanted to be a Marine. He couldn't wait to enlist. "This was his lifelong dream from the time he was 6 years old," said his mother, Pat Bollinger of Marble Hill. The youngest of six children, Robert J. Bollinger joined the Marines straight out of high school in 1983. "He was so proud to be a Marine," his mother remembered...
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A.S.J. CARNAHAN HONOR IS APPROPRIATE
(Editorial ~ 09/14/98)
It took a $4.4 million renovation to bring it about, but the social science building on the campus of Southeast Missouri State University finally has a name. The university's Board of Regents has decided to call the building A.S.J. Carnahan Hall in honor of Southeast Missouri State graduate Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan. Carnahan, who died March 24, 1968, at the age of 71, is the father of Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan...
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GIVE UNTIL IT FEELS GOOD
(Editorial ~ 09/14/98)
Again, the Area Wide United Way has set an ambitious goal for this year: $625,000, up a significant $75,000 over last year's goal. It will be the 45th consecutive drive of the local United Way, which has raised more than $9 million to help fund agencies in Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Scott City. This year 25 agencies will benefit...
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LETTERS: A REASON FOR OUR BEHAVIOR
(Letter to the Editor ~ 09/14/98)
To the editor: Sometime in our lifetime, we look in the mirror to see who or what is behind our eyes. Eventually we realize that the soul is looking back at us. We can ask, Does the soul drive the body, or does the body drive the soul? We know that there is short-term pleasure in sin. Does the soul drive the same pleasure as the body? Is the soul as depraved as the body?...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
This week the Southeast Missourian asked, "What do you like about the 143rd annual SEMO District Fair?" Connie Sharrock, Scott City "I'd say the people and the animals. I have lots of animals at home but not lots of people." Ashley Kutz, Perryville "The horse show because we show in it. The rides and the demolition derby."...
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VOLUNTEERS CREATE LIBRARY IN MCCLURE
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
McCLURE, Ill. -- Oscar Brown has enjoyed reading for a long time -- more than 85 years. Brown, 92, of McClure is a frequent visitor to the new McClure Library, which recently opened in this small Southern Illinois community. "He likes westerns and detective books," said Myrtle Barrett, Brown's sister, and a volunteer at the library, located in the Baptist Mission building on Market Street in McClure. "And, once in a while, he may read a romance novel."...
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OTAHKIANS BOUNCE BACK WITH ROMP
(College Sports ~ 09/14/98)
RICHMOND, Ky. -- Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball team bounced back from Saturday's upset loss at Morehead State to rout host Eastern Kentucky Sunday. The Otahkians rolled 15-5, 15-2, 15-5 to improve to 2-4 overall and 1-1 in Ohio Valley Conference play. EKU is 0-7, 0-2 in OVC...
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PAUL J. KELLER SR.
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
Paul Joseph Keller Sr., 71, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center. He was born Sept. 3, 1927, at Dutchtown, son of Louis and Cora Propst Keller. He and Doris Jean Ford were married June 20, 1947, at Piggott, Ark. She died Jan. 27, 1997...
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GLEN COTNER
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
JACKSON -- Glen W. Cotner, 81, of Jackson died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Jan. 2, 1917 near the Leemon community, son of Arthur and Daisy King Cotner. He and Rose Mary Biri were married June 4, 1938. She died Nov. 22, 1993...
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JACOB HOEHN
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
PERRYVILLE -- Jacob Richard Hoehn, infant son of Richard and Jennifer N. Cissell Hoehn, was stillborn Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998. Survivors include his parents of Perryville; two brothers, Dustin and Zack Hoehn of Perryville; maternal grandparents, Bob and Mary Cissell of Perryville; two maternal great-grandmothers, Anna Cissell and Wilma Buchheit, both of Perryville; paternal grandparents, Kenneth and Doris Hoehn of Perryville; paternal great-grandparents, Floyd and Irene Hoehn of Perryville; and a step-great-grandmother, Alma Baudendistel of Perryville.. ...
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JAMES ZIMMERMAN
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
James E. Zimmerman, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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CEVIN SLOVACEK
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
DONGOLA, Ill. -- Cevin Franklin Slovacek, 30, of rural Dongola died Saturday, Sept. 12, 1998, in Cobden. Visitation will be from 1 to 3 p.m. today at Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna. Memorial services will be held later in Zion.
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WILLIAM ARTHUR MILLS
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
LUBBOCK, TEXAS -- William Arthur Mills of Lubbock, Texas, died Thursday, Sept. 10, 1998, at St. Mary's of the Plains Hospital. He was 86. He was born June 1, 1912, in Commerce, son of Arthur and Lillie Mae Haman Mills. He married Dollie Mae Pickett in Commerce in 1935. She died April 26, 1996...
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HERMAN HIRSCH
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
CAIRO, Ill. -- Herman E. Hirsch, 90, of Cairo died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998, at Lake Point Medical Center in Rowlett, Texas. He was born July 31, 1908, son of Louis and Bertha Wendling Hirsch. He was married to Georgia Hirsch. He was the owner of Hirsch Printing and Stationery Co. in Cairo before his retirement...
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ROBERT SEILER
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
SIKESTON -- Robert Eugene "Bobby" Seiler, 38, of Sikeston died Saturday, Sept. 12, 1998, in an automobile accident two miles south of East Prairie. He was born Nov. 4, 1959, at Sikeston, son of Albert and Margaret Schoen Seiler. He and Robin Green were married on March 11, 1979, in Sikeston...
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BON FRICK
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
ANNA, Ill. -- Bon Frick, 65, of Anna died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. Friends may call at Crain Funeral Home in Anna from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Burial will be at Casper Cemetery...
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ALBERT DUNGER
(Obituary ~ 09/14/98)
SCOTT CITY -- Albert Dunger, 80, of Scott City, died Sunday, Sept. 13, 1998, at his home. Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City is in charge of arrangements.
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FAIR PAGEANT WINNERS NAMED
(Local News ~ 09/14/98)
Winners for the 1998 SEMO District Fair Pageant were announced Sunday. Tiny Miss SEMO Fair -- 2-3 year olds Winner -- Tory Frentzel of Old Appleton, winner; Haley Corbett of Portageville, first runner-up and Christen Siebert of Oran, second runner-up...
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