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PERSONNEL: CVA DESIGNATION
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Debra Beussink Eudy has earned the designation of Certified Valuation Analyst (CVA). Beussink, a partner with the public accounting firm of Beussink, Hey & Roe, P.C., earned her new designation from the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts (NAVCA)...
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PERSONNEL: MSCPA OFFICERS
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Laura Stidham, a Certified Public Accountant at Nordenia U.S.A (formerly M&W) near Jackson, has been installed at president of the Missouri Society of Certified Public Accountants (MSCPA), Southeast Chapter. Other officers of the chapter -- which includes the counties of Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Carter, Dent, Stoddard, Iron, Madison, New Madrid, Perry, Ripley, Scott, Shannon and Wayne -- are Clinton Summers Jr., CPA at Coffman, Eads, Caps & Summers in Poplar Bluff; president-elect; Lana Temples, CPA at KMC Construction/Servicemaster in Sikeston, secretary; and Edward Gauthier, CPA at Major Custom Cable in Jackson.. ...
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PERSONNEL: JOINS TOTAL IMAGE
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Mary Polk has joined Total Image Beauty Salon, 124 S. Main in Cape Girardeau. Polk, who has six years experience in the beauty industry, is a graduate of Stage One The Beauty School in Cape Girardeau. Polk, formerly with Classic Design, is a also licensed esthetican, to give facials...
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PERSONNEL: NEW MAIA PRESIDENT
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Charles R. Scott Jr., of First National Insurance Agency (MAIA), headquartered at Sikeston, has been installed as president of the Missouri Association of Insurance Agents. Scott recently attended the MAIA annual convention at Chateau on the Lake in Branson, where MAIA officers were installed...
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PERSONNEL: JOINES MCDONOUGH
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Mike McKinnis has joined McDonough Mazda, 2611 Auto Park Drive, as salesman. McKinnis of Cape Girardeau has more than 15 years of experience in automotive retail sales.
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PERSONNEL: DANA PROMOTIONS
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
A number of employees at Dana Corp.'s Cape Girardeau facility have received promotions. Kevin Pulliam has been promoted to the position of castings shift coordinator, B Shift. Pulliam joined Dana in 1993, as cell technician in Department 500. He has been serving as cutter grind cell leader since 1996...
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PERSONNEL: HONORED FOR SALES
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
David L. Hahs of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, has received the Emerald Award, during the 120th annual meeting of the Association of Agents, for sales achievements. Hahs is associated with the Network's Hahs District Agency, Cape Girardeau, of the Hempstead General Agency, St. Louis...
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PERSONNEL: ATTEND ZONTA EVENT
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Kim Hagedorn, Dale Humphries, Cheryl Mothes and Jean Schlichter, members of the Cape Girardeau Zonta Club, recently attended the 55th Zonta International Convention, held at Honolulu, Hawaii. Zonta members from 71 countries attended the convention. Kay Cottee, the first woman to sail around the world alone and unassisted, was keynote speaker. Cottee sailed across 22,0-00 nautical miles on a 11.2 yacht, facing high seas and roaring winds...
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PERSONNEL: IN NEW POSITION
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Teresa S. Johnson has joined Three Rivers Healthcare as marketing/public relations associate. Johnson was previously a medical reporter at the Southeast Missourian newspaper in Cape Girardeau. She was lifestyles editor at a Waco, Texas, newspaper 19 years...
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NEW DESIGNS: PUZZLING VENDING MACHINES, SLOTS
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
Those redesigned bills distributed by the U.S. Treasury this summer can't be used to buy stamps, subway and bus passes or items in some vending machines. They also can't be used in the gambling industry's slot machines. The problem? The software in many machines can't read the newly designed bills...
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YOUR MUTUAL FUNDS MIGHT BE GETTING 'TECH-HEAVY' (FINANCIAL FOCUS)
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
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. Do you know what you're investing in? The answer may startle you...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BETTER FUEL ECONOMY
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Ford Motor Co. announced Thursday that it plans to improve the average fuel economy of its sport utility vehicles by 25 percent -- about 5 miles per gallon -- by 2005. The move comes during a summer that has seen gasoline prices reach record high levels in some areas and two months after Ford Chairman William Clay Ford Jr. startled the auto industry by saying SUVs are environmentally unfriendly gas chuggers...
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BUSINESS MEMO: FACTORY ORDERS UP
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Orders to U.S. factories in June rose by the largest amount in nine years, fueling fresh doubts that the long-awaited economic cooling off has arrived. Analysts said the 10 percent jump in orders for durable goods plus other reports showing tight labor markets and wage pressures will keep the Federal Reserve on high inflation alert...
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BUSINESS MEMO: RECRUITMENT FUNDS
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
The Cape Girardeau Area Industrial Recruitment Association has received the third check of a Wal-Mart commitment to the association, in the amount of $2,500. The latest pledge completed the Wal-Mart pledge of $7,500 to the industrial recruitment association. Wes Gillespie manager of the Cape Girardeau Wal-Mart Supercenter and Rich Boyd, Jackson Wal-Mart Supercenter manager, presented the final check to Mitch Robinson, executive director of the association, recently...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CATTLE INVENTORY DOWN
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Missouri and United States cattle inventory is down about 1 percent. Cattle and calves on Missouri farms on July 1, 2000, totaled 4.7 million head, down from the July 1, 1999 inventory of 4.75 million. There were 2.22 million cows that had calved by July 1, 2000, unchanged from a year ago. Beef cows totals 2.066 million, compared with 2.062 million a year ago. There were 154,000 milk cows June 1, 2000, down 3 percent from the 158,000 of a year earlier...
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BUSINESS MEMO: JOB FAIR SET
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
A job fair will be held at the Caruthersville, Mo., Recreation Center Tuesday. The fair, sponsored by the Workforce Investment Board (WIB), will be held from 2-7 p.m. About 400 factory jobs are available in Dyersburg, Tenn., across the Mississippi River, said Cleat Stanfield, a WIB member. Representatives for several of those factories will be on hand...
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BUSINESS MEMO: FIFTH ANNIVERSARY
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Mailboxes & Parcel Depot, 2148 Broadway in Cape Girardeau, is observing its fifth anniversary. Mailboxes specializes in shipping packages, via UPS, Federal Express, Airborne, U.S. Mail and freight. The company also offers shipping supplies and other services, including copying, fax services and laminations...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DISTRIBUTION CENTER
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
For the second time in less than two weeks, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has announced the selection of a Missouri site for one of its distribution centers. The company has selected Harrisonville, Mo., as the site for a food distribution center, which will create more than 350 jobs early next year...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NEW L.L. BEAN STORE
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
The famed outdoor wear and camping gear company L.L. Bean opened a 75,000-foot anchor store at the Tysons Corner Center mall in the suburbs of Washington, D.C. last week. It is Bean's first major store outside of Maine, and the first step in its plan to become a brick-and-mortar retail outlet as well as a mail-order and online company...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BUSCH EARNINGS
(Business ~ 07/31/00)
Higher beer sales and increased revenue per barrel made for another strong quarter for Anheuser-Busch Cos., maker of Budweiser, Bud Light and Michelob beers. The world's largest brewery saw second-quarter earnings rise 11 percent to $478 million, or $1.04 per share, from $431 million, or 90 cents per share, in the year-ago quarter...
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CONVICTS CAN REGAIN RIGHT TO VOTE ONCE SENTENCES ARE COMPLETED
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
Missourians who have completed terms for criminal convictions but want to be involved in the political process can cast their vote during general elections in the fall. Voter registration continues through Oct. 11 for the Nov. 7 presidential election...
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135 YEARS IN GORDONVILLE: SOME TRADITIONS CHANGE, BUT OTHERS STAY THE SAME
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
GORDONVILLE, Mo. -- Irma Keller remembers the days when worship at Zion Lutheran Church was segregated by gender, not race. For years, the women and young children of the church sat on opposite sides of the sanctuary than the men. "But we decided that we wanted to sit where our husbands sat," she said of her peers...
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EMERSON COMES UNDER FIRE FROM RIGHT TO WORK GROUP
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
The president of the National Right to Work Committee has accused U.S. Rep. Jo Ann Emerson of casting "a cynical vote against freedom of choice for employees" in voting against a Right to Work amendment dealing with doctors. The president, Reed Larson, said Emerson pledged to oppose compulsory unionism when she ran for Congress in 1996...
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ATTACK OF THE TOMATO KILLERS
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
Tomato growing and tomato eating is a rite of summer. And part of that ritual is dealing with the bumps along the way to growing a plump, red tomato. Between planting and harvesting, the thousands of Americans who annually become tomato growers may encounter some problems:...
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MEN ENTER APARTMENT, DEMAND MONEY AT GUNPOINT
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
Four men entered an apartment on South Lorimier Street Sunday afternoon and demanded money at gunpoint. Cape Girardeau Police are still investigating the incident, which occurred at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. The occupant of the apartment where the alleged crime was committed said four men entered the apartment and one of them demanded money at gunpoint. The men left with money and property before police arrived...
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ONE INCUMBENT UNOPPOSED, ONE CHALLENGED IN COUNTY COMMISSION RACES
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
BLOOMFIELD, Mo. -- One Democratic incumbent will ease into the November election while the other faces an Aug. 8 primary battle against three opponents in races for the Stoddard County Commission. In the 1st District, Democrat Frank Sifford is unopposed in the primary. His Republican opponent will be either Elam "Sonny" Newsom, who ran as a Democrat four years ago, or Grady Smith, a semi-retired former insurance man...
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BROCHURE PLUGS SOUTHEAST MISSOURI
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
Visitors to Southeast Missouri have a new road map to its attractions thanks to a new full-color brochure being distributed throughout the region. Among the photos on the cover is one of the St. Louis Iron Mountain & Southern Railway engine chugging through fall foliage. Also pictured are a Native American in traditional clothing, a water park in Farmington, a musician and an actress in the Shakespeare Festival at St. Francois County's Mineral Area College...
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BELLEVUE CLOSURE TO BEGIN TODAY
(Local News ~ 07/31/00)
Part of Bellevue Street will be closed to traffic from today through Wednesday this week as part of city's overlay project. The street will be closed between Pacific and Lorimier streets. Lorimier Street also will be closed between Bellevue and Broadway...
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BRIEFLY: GAYLORD WINS GOLF TOURNEY
(High School Sports ~ 07/31/00)
Kevin Gaylord, one of three first-round co-leaders, shot a 1-over-par 71 on Sunday to win the 3rd annual Park Development Foundation Men's Individual Tournament at Cape Jaycee Municipal Golf Course. Gaylord, who finished with a two-day total of 143, edged Mark Sissom and Mitch Jackson by a stroke. Sissom and Jackson, who shared the lead with Gaylord entering the round, shot 72's for the second straight day...
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CAROLYN TYREE
(Obituary ~ 07/31/00)
JONESBORO, Ark. -- Carolyn Lucy Tyree, 65, of Jonesboro died Saturday, July 29, 2000, at Germantown Methodist Hospital in Germantown, Tenn. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home in Cape Girardeau.
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ROSELLA M. HENNEMANN
(Obituary ~ 07/31/00)
PERRYVILLE, Mo. -- Rosella M. Hennemann, 64, of Perryville died Saturday, July 29, 2000, at her home. She was born Aug. 16, 1935, at Menfro, Mo., daughter of Rueben and Ella Boxdorfer Mehner. She and Kenneth Hennemann were married Jan. 25, 1958, at Crosstown, Mo...
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BETTY J. BEEGLE
(Obituary ~ 07/31/00)
MOUNDS, Ill. -- Betty J. Beegle, 63, of Mounds died Saturday, July 29, 2000, at her home. She was born March 2, 1937, at Cairo, Ill. She and Jim Beegle were married. He survives. She was a member of Mounds Assembly of God Church. Other survivors include three sons, Kevin E. ...
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MARY E. YORK
(Obituary ~ 07/31/00)
Mary E. York, 83, of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, July 29, 2000, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. She was born July 13, 1917, at Fornfelt, Mo., daughter of William and Buna Little Wright. She and Floyd York were married Sept. 3, 1934, at Sikeston, Mo. He died Feb. 9, 1993...
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ST. LOUIS CHARTER EXPERIMENT ATTRACTS MANY PRIVATE-SCHOOL STUDENTS
(Editorial ~ 07/31/00)
When charter schools open in St. Louis for the first time this fall, about 45 percent of students will come from private schools. This statistic surprised just about everybody. In Kansas City, which already has charter schools, only 17 percent of students are from private schools. Nationally the average is closer to 11 percent...
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SCHOOLS FAIL READING TEST BY IGNORING THE LAW
(Editorial ~ 07/31/00)
It's right there in Missouri law: "No public school student shall be promoted to a higher grade level unless that student has a reading ability level at or above one grade level below the student's grade level ... ." This simple section of the state statutes, passed into law in 1999, is clear enough. If a fifth grader, for example, can't read at a fourth grade level, he can't be promoted to sixth grade. -- unless school officials wish to break the law. What a great example to set for students...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: OLD HOTEL BRINGS BACK MEMORIES
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/31/00)
To the editor: The pictures that appear in the Southeast Missourian from time to time of the Marquette Hotel always bring pleasant memories of the once beautiful and much patronized hotel. At one time, Henry Schwab, former manager of the A&P store, and his wife resided there. ...
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