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STRICTLY BUSINESS: STOREY'S PLANS NEW SUPERMARKET FOR CAPE
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
One hundred and counting. Kenneth Storey has been working the grocery market since he was 12, as a sacker, carry-out boy, manager and owner. Today, the Southeast Missouri businessman has 100 markets, with plans to add more. One set of those plans is for Cape Girardeau, where Storey operates Food Giant at 1120 N. Kingshighway...
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KENNETT LOVES SHERYL
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
KENNETT -- To most of the country Sheryl Crow is a rock 'n' roll star. But here in her hometown she's just Sheryl. Saturday night at a benefit concert, Crow looked like she felt right at home as she pranced out on the stage in the center of the Kennett High School football field wearing a majorette's hat and twirling a baton. She had come to her hometown over the objections of her record company to perform in front of 3,000 friends and family -- many of whom had never seen her on stage before...
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CONTROVERSIAL SUBDIVISION AWAITS OK
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
After a few appearances before the Planning and Zoning Commission, Harold Lineberry hopes Wednesday's meeting will be his last. Lineberry works for Holigan Homes, a Dallas-based home-building firm. The company's latest project is Forest Hills Estates, formerly Holigan Estates, a proposed development along the North Sprigg Street extension...
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JOBS ARE PLENTIFUL IN REGION
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
"Job poaching" has become a popular practice in a seven-state area. Poaching -- one company luring workers away from another -- has been used by numerous companies throughout the district, according to the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank District's Beige Book Report. The district covers a seven-state area...
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CONTENTS UNDER PRESSURE: MATCHMAKING, MISMATCHES AND NEAR-MISSES
(Column ~ 07/08/96)
My friend Tina, rendered temporarily insane with love for her latest main squeeze, Pookie, has a mission. She wants to fix me up. Every time she tells me this, I reply that I am not a starter home, and I don't need vinyl siding or thermal windows, thank you very much...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
The Southeast Missourian asked area residents what their most fond Fourth of July memory was: James Slinkard, Jackson: "Quite a few of them stick out. I enjoy the ones with my family watching fireworks. We used to go to a pond, lake or creek and swim."...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
City Hall Wednesday, July 10, 7 p.m. Discussion and Voting -- Request of Charles and Pat Bixler and Barbara E. Schwepker for a special use permit for a bed and breakfast at 1621 Bloomfield in an R-2 district. -- Public hearing and vote on request of Lynnwood Baptist Church for a special use permit for a church on the 2000 block of Cape La Croix Road in an R-1 district...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 07/08/96)
CONCERNING the artificial lake proposal in Cape and Bollinger counties, I reside in the city of Cape Girardeau, but I will vote "no" for a sales-tax increase to make a lake for these reasons: 1. No matter how much revenue it brings in, I will never see a penny of it. ...
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INSURER MANDATES
(Editorial ~ 07/08/96)
Insurers will have to pay for longer stays in the hospital for mothers and newborns and for childhood immunizations under separate bills signed by Gov. Mel Carnahan last week. Both longer stays and immunizations are good ideas that promote health among the very young. ...
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LETTERS: MORE POLITICAL UNKNOWNS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 07/08/96)
To the editor: Reference has been made to the "political unknowns" who remain on the Republican ballot for the 8th Congressional District after the death of Bill Emerson. I am reminded of a similar situation which occurred years ago when I lived in Louisiana. An unknown named Bob Livingston was unexpectedly elected after the indictment of his incumbent opponent during the campaign. Now Rep. Livingston is a well-respected major player in the Republican revolution...
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VERA V. CORLEW
(Obituary ~ 07/08/96)
ESSEX -- Vera Verneta Corlew, 75, of Essex died Saturday, July 6, 1996, at her home. She was born Aug. 30, 1920, in Nimmons, Ark., to Cyrus Edgar and Sylvia Louise Miller Blevins. On May 11, 1940, in Essex, she married Doyle Corlew. Corlew was a member of the Olive Branch General Baptist Church in Essex and a member of the Women's Missionary Society...
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JAYCEES' KIDCARE PHOTO I.D. WILL HELP PARENTS PROTECT KIDS
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
Parents can obtain free photographs of their children at the KidCare Photo I.D. event from noon to 3 p.m. on Sunday at Kmart in Cape Girardeau. The Jaycees regularly sponsor the event as part of a national effort to provide parents with identification of their children in the event of an emergency. The KidCare event was developed to increase awareness about missing children and educate parents about how they can protect them...
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BARBARA J. PROVO
(Obituary ~ 07/08/96)
THEBES, Ill. -- Barbara Jean Provo, 62, of Thebes, formerly of Tamms, Ill., died Sunday, July 7, 1996, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete with Jones Funeral Home in Tamms.
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GEORGE E. VOLZ
(Obituary ~ 07/08/96)
JACKSON -- George Everett Volz, 77, of St. Louis died Sunday, July 7, 1996, at the Jackson Manor Nursing Home. He was born March 10, 1919, in Canalou, the son of George F. and Flora Asher Volz. He married Drucille Thompson on Sept. 6, 1942. Volz had worked for Rust & Martin for a number of years and then established his own upholstery shop on Silver Springs Road in Cape Girardeau, retiring in 1979. He was a charter member of the Shawnee Hills Southern Baptist Church...
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EDGAR O. MEYER
(Obituary ~ 07/08/96)
NEW WELLS -- Edgar O. Meyer, 79, of New Wells died Saturday, July 6, 1996, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 20, 1916, in New Wells, the son of Theodore and Bertha Steiner Meyer. He married Meta Kahnert on June 11, 1939...
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DAVID B. BROWN
(Obituary ~ 07/08/96)
MCCLURE, Ill. -- David Bennette Brown, 81, of McClure died Saturday, July 6, 1996, at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 27, 1914, in McClure, the son of Bennette J. and Clara May Harden Brown. He married Gladys Riston on Feb. 10, 1942, in Jackson...
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SMALL-TOWN MEDICAL CLINIC DISPENSES BIG-CITY SERVICES TO PEOPLE IN CHAFFEE
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
Small-town doctors used to carry everything they needed in a small black bag. These days there isn't a bag big enough to accommodate a modern doctor. With technologically-advanced equipment becoming more available, the services that a small medical staff can offer is extensive...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
Linda Eyler has joined Town & Country Realty, 1558 Independence, as a sales associate. Eyler, a graduate from Southeast Missouri State University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and a major in accounting, moved to Jackson from Washington...
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ROOF WASHING COMES TO SIKESTON
(Local News ~ 07/08/96)
SIKESTON -- American Roof-Bright of Southeast Missouri opened at Sikeston recently. Jeff Martin, owner of the new business, specializes in cleaning roofs and ridding them of unsightly stains. Roof-Bright, headquartered at Atlanta, developed the cleaning system more than a quarter-century...
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BUSINESS MEMO: A MAJOR SUPPLY AGREEMENT
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
D&K Wholesale Drug Inc., which will move its Cairo, Ill., distribution center to Cape Girardeau in December, has announced a major supply agreement with Anthem Prescription Management Inc. D&K, headquartered in St. Louis, has been selected as the primary pharmaceutical supplier for the mall service pharmacy program of Anthem, a mall service pharmacy and prescription management company based in Cincinnati...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TAX PREPARATION AGREEMENT
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
H&R Block Inc. has bought Bay Colony Ltd., a tax preparation service based in Richmond, Va., for about $20 million. Bay Colony has 178 offices in Virginia and northeast North Carolina. The company prepared more than 152,000 tax returns in fiscal year 1996, H&R Block said in announcing the deal Monday...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `CELEBRATING AMERICA'
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
Coldwell Banker Hamilton Realty helped "celebrate America" over the Fourth of July holiday, placing more than 1,000 flags in various residential areas. Martha Hamilton, broker/owner, said agents placed the flags at various locations in Cape Girardeau and Jackson as a part of the "Celebrate American With Coldwell Banker" promotion...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CASINO DEVELOPERS FEEL LUCKY
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
The developers of four major riverboat gambling casinos for the St. Louis area are still feeling lucky despite a moratorium on new gaming boats in Missouri. The developers say they applaud the go-slow approach of the Missouri Gaming Commission and its chairman, Robert Wolfson. Each developer is convinced his proposed boat will float once a moratorium is lifted...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BROADCASTER AWARDS
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
KFVS-12 received four first-place awards at the Missouri Broadcasters Association awards held in Kansas City. The award presentations, for television and radio stations, were held last month. The Cape Girardeau television station received first place for Best Promotion for spots promoting Teach Me To Read; Best Children's Programming for Mary-Ann's Heartland Kids series and Best Newscast for Heartland News...
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BUSINESS MEMO: DRURY SUITES AT PADUCAH
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
Drury Suites Hotel has opened at Paducah, Ky. The new six-story, 144-room hotel Interstate 24 and U.S. 60 is the newest Drury hotel owned and developed by Drury Southwest Inc. and operated by Drury Inns Inc. It is the fourth Drury-operated hotel in Paducah. It is at the same intersection where a Drury Inn, Pear Tree Inn by Drury and Hampton Inn are operated by Drury Inns Inc...
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BUSINESS MEMO: `SECOND' FRIDAY COFFEE
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce's First Friday Coffee will be a second Friday event this month, due to the Fourth of July holiday. The event will be held Friday at 7:30 a.m. at the Show Me Center. Dr. Gerald McDougall, dean of the Donald L. Harrison College of Business at Southeast Missouri State University and Dr. Ken Heischmidt, director of the new master's program in business administration, will be guest speakers...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TO EXHIBIT ANGUS CATTLE
(Business ~ 07/08/96)
Two young Jackson cattle raisers will exhibit Angus cattle at the 1996 National Junior Angus Show at the American Royal Complex in Kansas City July 16 through 20. Gregory Meier and Brian Meier, junior members of the American Angus Association, headquartered in St. Joseph, are among the more than 700 young Angus breeders from 34 states who have entered a total of 1,524 cattle in the show, a record number for the 28th annual event...
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