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RETIREMENT SECURITY STARTS WITH THE RETIREE
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
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. George Burns, the cigar-smoking comedian who entertained audiences well into his 90s, had a lot to say about retirement. He once dead panned, "Retirement at 65 is ridiculous. When I was 65, I still had pimples."...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: NEW T-BIRD A LOOK OF THE 1950s
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
There was something different about this particular 1957 T-Bird. It had the small hood scoop and the fins on the rear fenders, but there was a second seat in the trunk area and a couple of youngsters were riding in it. My own little 1955 T-Bird was decidedly different. Just a bit shorter, but with the a V-8 powerhouse under the hood. Both, of course, had the removable hardtop, but I was not aware that a four-passenger rig was available...
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BUSINESS MEMO: SBDC BUSINESS COUNSELING
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
The Small Business Development Center will conduct counseling sessions at Cape Girardeau, Sikeston and Perryville this month. The counselor, Gil Degenhardt, will be available Jan. 20, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce office. The counseling sessions (about one hour) are free. Call 335-3312 for appointment...
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BUSINESS MEMO: 'A DAY AT THE CAPITAL'
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
The Missouri Chamber of Commerce's "Day at the Capital" meetings will be held Feb. 17. The daylong event in Jefferson City will include meetings with Missouri legislators, grass-roots lobbying and a seminar on Missouri's business climate. Additional information is available at the Cape Girardeau Chamber office, 335-3312...
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BUSINESS MEMO: PESTICIDE TRAINING
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
Pesticide training sessions will be held at several sites in Missouri this month. Sponsored by the Missouri Department of Agriculture and the University of Missouri, a training session for dealers and applicators will be held in Cape Girardeau, Columbia, Kansas City, Springfield and St. Louis...
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BUSINESS MEMO: K's MERCHANDISE EXPANDS
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
K's Merchandise has signed a lease on one of the vacated Venture Store buildings in Champaign, Ill. Don Ouellette, K's Merchandise vice president of merchandising, said the 80,000-square-foot building adjacent to Market Place Mall would provide almost triple the selling space and merchandise categories offered at Champaign...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MARKET OUTLOOK MEETING
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
An all-crop market outlook meeting will be held Jan. 29 at the American Legion Hall in Kennett, from 9 to noon. Gene Martin of the Arkansas Farm Bureau will present a special session on cotton. There is no admission charge, but reservation are recommended. Additional information and reservations are available by calling the Dunklin County Farm Bureau, 573-888-3828...
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BUSINESS MEMO: WALGREEN EARNINGS
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
Walgreen Co., the nation's largest drugstore chain, has reported record sales and earnings during the quarter ending Nov. 30. Earnings for the three months were $104 million, or 21 cents a share, up 19.5 percent from $87 million. Sales for the quarter totaled $4 billion, a 15 percent increase from $3.4 billion in the previous year...
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RAPID PROTOTYPING: NEW TECHNOLOGY CAN REDUCE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT TIME
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
The rapid prototyping device melts plastic wire or wax to form the models. Dr. Gary Frey and Damon Dowdy checked the fit of the lid on a product prototype made at the Manufacturing Resource Center at Southeast Missouri State University. The prototyping machine cost $207,000 and is able to produce exact prototypes directly from computer rendering files...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
Dr. Paul D. Thompson has been named president of the Southeast Missouri Hospital medical staff. Others officers are Dr. Gordon L. Haycraft, president-elect, and Dr. Khalid I. Khan, secretary. Thompson, affiliated with Urology Associates, 4 Doctors' Park, will also serve as Southeast's chief of staff. ...
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BUSINESS MEMO: HOBBY LOBBY EXPANSION
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
Hobby Lobby Creative Centers, headquartered in Oklahoma City, has announced plans to open 30 new stores this year. Hobby Lobby, which includes an operation at Cape Girardeau, operates 177 stores in 18 states. The centers range from 45,000 to 60,000 square feet of retail space...
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BUSINESS MEMO: RTS-IM&R CONSOLIDATION
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
Robert Thomas Securities and Investment Management Services, the two independent contractor subsidiaries of Raymond James Financial, have been consolidated into Raymond James Financial Services. The consolidation became effective Jan. 4, according to Daniel J. Loenneke, branch manager of the Cape Girardeau offices at 1440 Kurre Lane in Cape Girardeau...
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NEW BUSINESS: COMPUTER COMPANY OPENS
(Business ~ 01/11/99)
Home Computer Service L.L.C. has opened in Cape Girardeau. The new home-based business will provide a variety of in-home computer services -- sales, repair, upgrades and tutoring. "We'll specialize in home service," said Adrain Bratcher, owner of the new business...
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CHANGES MADE IN CAPE AUTO SCENE
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
Ted Berry, left, general manager at Soskin Cape Toyota, shared a chuckle with sales manager Kamran Sarwar in front of the store. Cape Toyota-Suzuki has become Soskin Cape Toyota-Suzuki, and will observe its grand opening in early March. Wieser Honda Motor Co. has moved into its new full-service facility at 385 Siemers Drive in the Cape West Business Park, west of Interstate 55...
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CAPE NATIVE DOING WELL AT JULLIARD
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
Thomas Harte remembers when he decided to play the bass violin. He was a seventh-grade at L.J. Schultz School. He wanted to play football, so ruled out playing in the band. The orchestra offered four instrument choices, violin, viola, cello and bass...
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INSULT TO INJURY: BLACK VELVET AND LITTLE BOY SMILE: PART ONE -- AMERICA LOVES ELVIS
(Column ~ 01/11/99)
What you first notice when you walk into the little Wright City cafe, 50 miles or so west of downtown St. Louis, is not the dining room off to the left, with its few wobbly tables draped in checkered vinyl cloths. Nor is it the smell of slightly scorched baked beans or deep-fried onion rings billowing from the kitchen and hanging over the place like morning fog over the Mississippi...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 01/11/99)
LINCOLN'S VISION: The following statement was made by Abraham Lincoln. Liberals with socialistic leanings should pay close attention, because it still applies to this day. "You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. ...
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VETERANS CEMETERIES MAY BE DELAYED
(Editorial ~ 01/11/99)
In an effort to provide a greater share of federal money for construction of veterans cemeteries, the federal government has overlooked one important consideration: more money to pay for this largess. It is a situation that needs immediate correction, or cemeteries like the one planned for Bloomfield in Southeast Missouri will face unnecessary delays...
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ORAN FIRE DEPARTMENT KEEPS IMPROVING
(Editorial ~ 01/11/99)
Insurance companies use the rating to determine fire-insurance premiums, and the latest Class 5 rating undoubtedly will lower rates for some property owners. The reasoning behind lowering insurance premiums is that the fire department can more efficiently respond to and extinguish fires...
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LETTERS: ABSOLUTE MORALS AND SUPREME LAW
(Letter to the Editor ~ 01/11/99)
To the editor: Could it be that in the political landscape of America that the Libertarians are winning? In the debate over the future of President Clinton, the White House is reportedly upset by the lack of enthusiastic support from the American people. ...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
The Southeast Missourian asked people about their experience with recent winter weather. James Sechrest, Marble Hill: "We're just trying to stay warm. The drive from Marble Hill to Cape has been slick. The 30-minute drive has been taking about an hour or more to make it in. Quite a few cars were off in a ditch."...
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BOY SCOUTS HONOR THREE VOLUNTEERS
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
Three men received Shawnee District Awards of Merit Friday night at the Boy Scouts of America district's annual volunteer recognition dinner. Recipients were Jerry Siemers, Cub Master Pack 18 chartered to the PTO of Jefferson School; Kenny Beussink, unit commissioner and assistant scoutmaster of Troop 5 chartered to VFW Post 3838; and Rick Knight, unit commissioner, District Camping Committee member and campmaster for the annual Klondike Derby for the past three years...
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JACKSON BOARD OF ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
Joint meeting with Cape Girardeau City Council 7:30 p.m. Monday Jackson City Hall Action items -- A joint resolution of the City Council of the City of Cape Girardeau and the Board of Aldermen of the City of Jackson expressing and reconfirming mutual support for planning and construction of three key highway projects of regional importance by the Missouri Department of Transportation...
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CAPE BOARD OF EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
Special Meeting Monday, Jan. 11, 1999, 7 p.m. Board of Education Office, 61 N. Clark Action Items: -- Consider motion for closed session: Specifications for competitive bidding, Revised Statutes of Missouri, 610.021 (11). -- Announcement of any action taken during the closed session, as appropriate...
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JACKSON BOARD OF EDUCATION
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
Tuesday, Jan. 12, 1999, 7:30 p.m. Board of Education Office, 614 East Adams Action Items: -- Consider amendments to 1998-99 budget. -- Consider change in 1998-99 School Calendar. -- Executive Session -- Employment, Personnel Evaluation, and Real Estate. Authority is Section 610.021, Para. 2, 3 and 13, Revised Statutes of Missouri, as amended...
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OPAL SANDERS
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
SCOTT CITY -- Opal I. Sanders, 89, of Bettendorf, Iowa, formerly of Scott City, died Saturday, Jan. 9, 1999, at Genesis Medical Center, East Campus, in Davenport, Iowa. She was born July 11, 1909, in Como, daughter of Joel and Leona Carter Jennings. She and Revis Stokes were married in August 1924 at Benton. He died July 31, 1931. She and Algie Sanders were married in August 1941 at Benton. He died Oct. 26, 1965...
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JESSE WOODROW MCLAIN
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
Jesse Woodrow McLain, 80, passed away on Wednesday, January 6, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was a longtime city firefighter. He was born on Jan. 28, 1918, in Oriole, the son of Burnis Monroe and Myrtle May (Comer) McLain...
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DORA RISTER
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
CHAFFEE -- Dora Mildred Rister, 85, of Chaffee died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at the Chaffee Nursing Center. She was born Dec. 20, 1913, near Dutchtown, daughter of John C. and Mary Katherine Thomas Stidham. She and Arlie O. Rister Sr. were married on Aug. 6, 1931. He died June 4, 1965...
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THEODORE HARVEY HOFFMAN
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
Theodore Harvey Hoffman JACKSON -- Theodore Harvey Hoffman, 90, of Jackson died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born May 19, 1908, at Harold, Texas, son of Theodore and Ricka Noltensmeyer Hoffman. He and Maggie M. Statler were married on Sept. 3, 1933...
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GENEVIEVE KEUSENKOTHEN
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
KELSO -- Genevieve M. Keusenkothen, 95, of Kelso died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at Alexian Brothers Hospital in St. Louis. Arrangements are incomplete at Amick-Burnett Funeral Chapel in Scott City.
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BERNICE DUNN
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
Bernice A. Dunn, 85, of Cape Girardeau died Saturday, Jan. 9, 1999, at the Lutheran Home in Cape Girardeau. She was born Aug. 5, 1913, at Buchanon, daughter of Elmer E. and Mildred Haddock Dunn. She worked in housekeeping for Mid-America Hotels. She was a member of Centenary United Methodist Church...
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DENVER PERKINS
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
Denver Perkins, 82, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Jan. 10, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Funeral Chapel.
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NO ONE HURT IN APARTMENT FIRE SUNDAY
(Local News ~ 01/11/99)
An electric baseboard heater appears to have been the source of a fire that caused moderate damage to a Cape Girardeau apartment building early Sunday. Firefighters responded to a call shortly before 2:30 a.m. at 121 E. Rodney, Building H. The three-story building houses six apartments...
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JAMES MCCLARD
(Obituary ~ 01/11/99)
James "Jim" McClard, 77, of Cape Girardeau died Friday, Jan. 8, 1999, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. He was born July 20, 1921, at Jackson to Samuel F. and Alma Franck McClard. His foster parents were Frank Proffer, Eugie Freeman and Arnie Proffer, all of Burfordsville...
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