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BUSINESS MEMO: DANA SALES, PROFITS
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Dana Corp. has announced record sales and profits for the third quarter. The most recent financial report shows third-quarter sales of $3 billion, up 3.4 percent from the third quarter of 1997. Net income increased to $98 million, and earnings per share increased to 59 cents, including non-recurring charges of $38 million (23 cents a share) associated with the acquisition of the former Echlin Inc...
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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Donna Kerfes, administrative assistant at Regional Eyecare Center Inc., recently attended the 72nd annual conference of the Medical Group Managements Associates at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver. The conference focused on strategies to achieve excellence in health care, future frontiers of health, issues on group practices in today's competitive marketplace, health promotion and financial management and market analysis...
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NEW AUCTION COMPANY TO OPEN AT CHAFFEE
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
CHAFFEE -- Special K's Auction Co. will open at Chaffee Thursday. "We're moving to Chaffee," said Ken Moore, owner of the company that specializes in all forms of auctions. Auctions will be held Thursdays at the old Dames Lumber building on Highway 77 East...
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MR. K's FOOD CENTER OPENS HERE
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
Bob Schade had company last weekend. Schade's parents, Bill and Connie Schade, a brother, Tim Schade, and his brother's fiance, Andrea Pescaglia, were all on hand for the ribbon cutting of the new Mr. K's Food Center, a family-owned supermarket. Also on hand for the opening of the 60,000-square-foot supermarket were Bob Schade's wife, Windy, and the couple's 22-month-old daughter, Courtney Schade...
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SHOULD YOU CONVERT TO A ROTH IRA?
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
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. (Editor's note: First of a two-part series on the Roth IRA) Most taxpayers know about the tax-advantages of a Roth IRA. What many aren't so sure about is whether it makes sense to convert their existing IRA into a Roth IRA. The short answer is, it depends...
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TECHNO TOTS LEARNING AT ITS BEST
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
Alex Ellis, 3, played with a CDROM painting puzzle game at Little Rascals Daycare near Cape Girardeau. The program teaches colors and promotes hand-eye coordination. A Bugs Bunny mouse pad appeals to youngsters using a computer. Red rover, red rover, send Tommy on over and tag, you're it are games most of us were eager to play when it was time to go outside. Today that isn't the case, however. According to day-care personnel, children would rather stay inside and "play" on the computer...
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BUSINESS MEMO: 'NEW OWNERS CLINIC'
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
More than 50 people attended a "New Owners Clinic" held at Crown Cadillac-Oldsmobile-Nissan dealership recently. A number of subjects, including basic owner maintenance, warrant information and auto technology advancements were discussed. The highlight event of the meeting was the demonstration of an air-bag deployment...
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HIGH TECH CORNER: BILL GATES BATTLES JUSTICE DEPARTMENT
(Column ~ 11/02/98)
The battle continues with Microsoft and the Department of Justice, with Netscape EMAIL showing former Netscape boss Jim Clark inviting Microsoft to "take an equity position" in his firm. The e-mail was six months before the June 1995 meeting in which Microsoft allegedly tried to strong-arm its rival into an anti-competitive agreement. Jim Barksdale, Netscape's exec., said that the message was written "in a moment of weakness. I am sure that Microsoft can make anyone feel weak at the knees...
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BUSINESS MEMO: CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Arrangements have been completed for TYCA Construction to provide services for Midwest construction projects. The Craftsman International Union and TYCA completed arrangement for Craftsman Local 1 to provide workers for construction projects. TYCA officials on hand for the agreement-signing were TYCA chairman Bruce Matthews, a 10-time Pro Bowl guard for the Tennessee Oilers; TYCA president James Ballard; Jim Theodore, executive vice president; and DeWayne Morris, vice president of construction...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BOOTHEEL SPEAKER NAMED
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Allen Kunkel, field services coordinator for the Missouri Department of Economic Development, will be guest speaker for the annual Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission meeting Nov. 19 at the New Madrid High School Cafeteria...
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BUSINESS MEMO: TELECAST SPONSOR
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Bangert Ford Tractor of Jackson is a local sponsor for a special two-hour telecast of the National Finals Rodeo from Las Vegas. The coverage will be broadcast on ESPN in December. The broadcast will feature top Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association athletes competing in bareback bronc riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, calf roping the bull riding...
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BUSINESS MEMO: UNION PLANTERS EARNINGS
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Union Planters Corp. reported net earnings for the third quarter of $17.5 million, down from the $98.3 million during the same period of 1997. Fully diluted earnings per common share for the quarter were 13 cents, down the 76 cents a share during the same quarter a year ago...
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BUSINESS MEMO: PIC RECEIVES AWARD
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
The Southeast Missouri Private Industry Council has won the Special Achievement of Excellence Award in the customer focus and satisfaction category from the Missouri Training and Employment Council. The award was presented to the PIC during the annual Governor's Job Training Conference at Lake of the Ozarks. The award recognizes PIC for excellence in providing employment training services in its 13-county area. This marks the second year PIC has received the award...
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BUSINESS MEMO: NORANDA RECOGNITION
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
The Wellness Committee at Noranda Aluminum plant at New Madrid has received the Governor's Award for Fitness and Health in the business and industry category. Superintendent of Noranda Health Services Kay Keen and Wellness Committee member Mark Hunt accepted the award, presented before the recent Missouri-Oklahoma football game at Columbia...
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BUSINESS MEMO: MERGER AGREEMENT
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
Essex International Inc., a wire and cable business, and Superior Telecom Inc., have entered into a merger agreement. Essex International has a manufacturing facility at 160 Malone Ave. in Sikeston.
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BUSINESS MEMO: AGRICULTURE PROGRAM
(Business ~ 11/02/98)
"Entrepreneurial Agriculture," a program featuring agriculture and business development speakers, will be held at the Arkansas State Convocation Center in Jonesboro on Dec. 1. There is no fee for the special conference, but people interested in participating should contact Delta Enterprise Network (870)-673-6346, or email:jvworstell@futura.net for a complete agenda and registration...
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JACKSON BOARD OF ALDERMEN
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
City Hall 7:30 p.m. Monday, Nov. 2 Action items Power and Light Committee -- Consider a resolution accepting petitions for voluntary annexation of certain properties and setting a public hearing to be held at a special meeting on Monday, Nov. 23, at 7:30 p.m...
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CARDINAL BERNARD LAW RETURNS 'HOME' FOR 25TH ANNIVERSARY
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
For Cardinal Bernard Law, Archbishop of Boston, Sunday's return to Cape Girardeau was a joyous homecoming. The Catholic bishop celebrated Mass at the new Notre Dame High School. More than 700 people crowded into the school's cafetorium to see Law, who once had served as bishop in the Springfield-Cape Girardeau Diocese...
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READY TO REFINANCE?
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
With interest rates dropping, it might be time to refinance your home mortgage. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan says that with money getting cheaper homeowners might want to take a look at their mortgages and make sure it's the best possible loan for their situation...
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AREA DISTRICTS SEARCH FOR SUPERINTENDENTS; SCHOOL LEADERS FOLLOW STATEWIDE TREND
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
Three area school superintendents might be following a statewide trend in their decisions to look for other job opportunities at the end of this school year. Superintendents in the Cape Girardeau, Jackson and Perryville school districts have all announced their resignations within recent weeks...
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ELECTION OFFICIALS HOPE FOR DECENT TURNOUT IN REGION; SECRETARY OF STATE PREDICTS 1.7 MILLION VOTERS AT POLLS
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
About half of Missouri's 3.4 million registered voters won't bother to vote in Tuesday's general election, predicts Secretary of State Bekki Cook. Cook estimated that 1.7 million Missourians will vote on Election Day. In 1994, the last non-presidential general election, more than 1.7 million Missourians cast votes in the U.S. Senate race, an all-time record for an off year in terms of the number of voters who went to the polls...
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INSULT TO INJURY; EMBRACING THE MALE MIDLIFE CRISIS, LOOKING FOR BEATRICE
(Column ~ 11/02/98)
It starts at a dinner party with a wagging of heads and the slow clicking of tongues against the back of the teeth. Tsk, tsk, tsk. "How could he do it?" a woman asks with a sniff of contempt. "To abandon her like that," another offers. And thus begins the incessant lambasting of that one fortysomething guy everyone knows who surprised his family and friends when he walked away from home and hearth, altering his lifestyle to pursue his evanescent youthful dreams...
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TODAY MARKS DEADLINE FOR ABSENTEE VOTING
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
Tuesday, Missourians will elect a U.S. senator, state auditor, 17 members of the Missouri Senate, 163 members of the Missouri House, judges and county officials. Polls are open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. across the state. Absentee voting is another way to vote for those who will be out of town on Election Day or for some reason will be unable to go to the polls...
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SPEAKOUT
(Speak Out ~ 11/02/98)
I'VE BEEN getting a lot of fliers in the mail telling me to vote for the boats in moats. The gambling interests are telling me if these boats in moats are closed, our schools will lose $92 million a year. They then try to scare me by saying other taxes will have to be raised to make up the difference. ...
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EFFORTS CONTINUE TO RESOLVE HIGHWAY PLANS
(Editorial ~ 11/02/98)
The district engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation recently gave governments in Cape Girardeau County some hope that a couple of highway projects the local governments want done could be accomplished in the not-too-distant future. Jackson would like to extend East Main Street eastward to Interstate 55 and get MoDOT to build an I-55 interchange for the new street. ...
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ANTI-METH LAWS APPEAR TO BE WORKING
(Editorial ~ 11/02/98)
New laws that make it tougher on illegal drug dealers in Missouri haven't been on the books very long, but they appear to be an effective tool in fighting methamphetamine in Missouri. That was the consensus of more than 250 state, federal and local law enforcement people who gathered in Jefferson City last week for the state's second summit on methamphetamine, the nasty drug that has taken the Midwest, particularly Missouri, by storm...
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LETTERS: NO ON BOATS, YES TO BAN COCKFIGHTS
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/98)
To the editor: I guess it's too late for "I told you so." Several years ago, Citizens Against Riverboat Gambling and others told this newspaper that falsehoods were being told by the gambling industry. We said riverboats would turn into land-based casinos and this so-called gaming would impact lives in a negative way. ...
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LETTERS: BOND BACKS SOUND CONSERVATION
(Letter to the Editor ~ 11/02/98)
To the editor: I comes as little surprise that Alan Journet would take the League of Conservation Voters' evaluation and lead us to believe that our U.S. representatives are insensitive on environmental issues. Taking votes out of context to serve a political purpose is typical for an environmental extremist like Journet...
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CAPE GIRARDEAU CITY COUNCIL
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
Tonight Study session at 5 meeting at 7:30 Council Chambers, 401 Independence St. Public hearings -- Request of William R. and Kathryn J. Swan for special-use permit for a communication tower at 1606 N. Kingshighway in a C-2 general business district...
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SCOUTING FOR FOOD BENEFITS LOCAL FOOD BANKS
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
Canned food collected during last year's Scouting for Food drive supplied the pantry at the Gibson Recovery Center for 11 months. The aim this year is to collect enough food to keep the shelves filled for an entire year. The Gibson Recovery Center is one of six local food pantries to receive canned goods from the annual food drive that takes place over two weekends in November...
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OTAHKIANS SHOOT DOWN GOLDSTAR IN EXHIBITION VICTORY
(College Sports ~ 11/02/98)
Nothing was learned that was not already known. The result, however, was favorable. The Southeast Missouri State University women's basketball team defeated St. Louis Goldstar Gym 88-76 in its first exhibition game of the season Sunday at the Show Me Center...
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BRIEFLY: JACKSON VOLLEYBALL SQUAD ELIMINATED IN SECTIONALS
(High School Sports ~ 11/02/98)
HILLSBORO -- Jackson High's best volleyball season in school history ended Saturday with a 15-2, 15-6 loss to powerhouse St. Joseph's Academy in Class 4A sectional action at Jefferson College. The Lady Indians finished the season with a 29-3-2 record...
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BRIEFLY: SEMO VOLLEYBALL TEAM LOSES TO TENNESSEE TECH
(College Sports ~ 11/02/98)
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. -- Southeast Missouri State University's volleyball team, already virtually eliminated from contention for a sixth straight Ohio Valley Conference regular-season title, fell into third place in the OVC Sunday. The Otahkians dropped a 17-15, 8-15, 17-15, 11-15, 15-10 decision to host Tennessee Tech, putting Southeast at 18-9 overall and 10-4 in the league. Tech moved into second place at 10-3. The Golden Eaglettes are 17-5 overall...
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WOMAN HURT AFTER RUNNING INTO CAR'S PATH
(Local News ~ 11/02/98)
ANNISTON -- A Benton woman was injured Sunday after she ran into the path of a car, the Missouri Highway Patrol said. Lelar Blagg, 37, was taken to St. Francis Medical Center emergency room in Cape Girardeau but wasn't admitted. The accident occurred at 9:50 a.m. as Teresa Witherspooon, 38, of Charleston was driving east on Highway 75, two miles west of Anniston. She was crossing a drainage ditch bridge when Blagg ran into the roadway, the patrol said...
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CHARLES ASHBY
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
BERNIE -- Charles Everett Ashby, 92, of Bernie died Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998, at Dexter Memorial Hospital in Dexter. He was born on Jan. 23, 1906, in Illinois, son of Charles Everett and Sarah Ellen Moger Ashby. He was a farmer in the Powe and Bernie area until his retirement...
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ADOLPH TROVILLION
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
TAMMS, Ill. -- Adolph Trovillion, 92, formerly of Tamms, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 1998, at the home of his son in Clio, Mich. Funeral arrangements will be announced later by the Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.
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AZALEA BRENNAN
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
Azalea Brennan, 73, of Creve Coeur, formerly of Cape Girardeau, died Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998, at St. John's Mercy Hospital in Creve Coeur. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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DOROTHY MCBRIDE
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
Dorothy L. McBride, 81, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Nov. 1, 1998, at her home. Funeral arrangements are pending at Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel.
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MINNIE WHEATLEY
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
EAST PRAIRIE -- Minnie Beatrice Wheatley, 49, of East Prairie died Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998, in the Missouri Delta Medical Center at Sikeston. She was born June 29, 1949, at Wolf Island, daughter of Enoch Merryman II and Ethel Irene Carden Merryman. She lived all of her life in Mississippi County where she was a member of the Full Gospel Church in East Prairie...
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THE REV. CHARLES RICE
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
PERRYVILLE -- The Rev. Charles F. Rice, C.M., 82, of Perryville died Saturday, Oct. 31, 1998, at Perry County Memorial Hospital. He was born Sept. 15, 1916, at St. Louis, son of Robert E. and Loretta Sanders Rice. He was ordained Dec. 18, 1943, as a Roman Catholic priest. ...
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BETTY MAY
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
Betty May, 35, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, Nov. 1, 1998, at her home. Funeral arrangements are incomplete at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.
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GEORGE MAXWELL
(Obituary ~ 11/02/98)
BRADENTON, FLA. -- George Maxwell, 83, of Bradenton, formerly of Mounds, Ill., died Friday, Oct. 30, 1998, at Integrated Health Systems in Bradenton. He was retired from Ebasco Services after many years as a materials manager. He was of the Methodist denomination...
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