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BUSINESS PERSONNEL
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
Paul Sander has joined the staff of Mercantile Bank of Southeast Missouri, as branch manager of the new Jackson facility, scheduled to open early next year. Sander, mayor of Jackson since 1992, was a real-estate agent with Heartland Realty, prior to joining Mercantile...
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BUSINESS MEMO: 'FRANCHISE OF THE YEAR'
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
Thomas & King Inc., owners of Applebee's Neighborhood Grill and Bar restaurants in Cape Girardeau and Paducah, Ky., have been recognized as Applebee's "Franchisee of the Year." Thomas & King operates 61 Applebee's restaurants in Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and Arizona...
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BUSINESS MEMO: BOOTHEEL GROUP MEETING
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
The Bootheel Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission will hold it first meeting of 1999 at Sikeston. The commission will meet Jan. 21, at the Ramada Inn. A Dutch treat buffet will start at 6 p.m., with the business meeting to follow at 6:45...
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BUSINESS MEMO: RECRUITING CAREER FAIR
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
An Internship Recruiting Fair and Career Fair will be held on Southeast Missouri State University campus in February, providing businesses an opportunity to meet with students representing all majors and disciplines. The internship fair will be held Feb. 24, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the University Center Lobby. The career fair will be held Feb. 25 at the University Center, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m...
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BUSINESS MEMO: A.G. EDWARDS EARNINGS
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
A.G. Edwards Inc. has announced results for the third quarter and the first nine months, which ended Nov. 30. Revenues. Net earnings were reported at $68 million for the third quarter on revenues of $524 million, or 72 cents per basic share. During the same period a year ago, earnings were $72 million on revenues of $527 million, or 76 cents per basic shares...
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NO Y2K PROBLEMS: MILLENNIUM CALENDAR GOOD THROUGH YEAR 9999
(Local News ~ 12/28/98)
Once you know the secret, it's easy. The "Millennium Calendar" here shows March 13, 1998. There are no Y2K worries about the new Millennium Calendar. At least not until the year 9999. The new calendar, introduced to less than a dozen markets just six months ago, is suddenly a hot item...
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PLAN TO MAKE SOME INVESTING RESOLUTIONS
(Local News ~ 12/28/98)
This "Financial Focus" column is prepared by Edward Jones Investments headquartered in St. Louis. Jones has branches throughout the nation, including Cape Girardeau and Jackson. This is the time of year when magazines and newspapers publish year-end reviews highlighting major news stories of the past 12 months. Destined for this year's list is the midsummer U.S. stock market correction...
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BUSINESS MEMO: FUNDS FOR CHARITIES
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
Withers Broadcasting recently auctioned two Furbies, with proceeds going to charitable groups. Jackie Dover reported that $300 was raised during the auction, with $150 each going to the United Way and the Salvation Army.
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BUSINESS MEMO: DANA COMPLETES PURCHASE
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
Dana Corp. has completed the purchase of the Glacier Vandervell Bearings Group and the AE Clevite North American non-bearing after market engine hard parts business from Federal-Mogul Corp., for $430 million. Sales next year for the businesses are expected to be about $480 million...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: EMPLOYEES SEEK MORE THAN WAGES
(Business ~ 12/28/98)
Salary isn't everything! In fact, 60 percent of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers who participated in a "New Face of Retirement" poll recently, say they would take a job with a lower salary and excellent retirement medical benefits before they would choose a position with a higher salary and poor retirement benefits...
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COUNTY SALES TAX SEES GROWTH
(Local News ~ 12/28/98)
All that Christmas shopping in Cape Girardeau County over the past couple months has helped push sales tax receipts for the year well over last year's totals. The county ends 1998 with a 7.1 percent increase in sales tax from 1997 sales tax collections...
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MEDICAL TEAM PLANS TRIP TO JAMAICA
(Local News ~ 12/28/98)
For five years now, Ranford Hewitt and Jim Caughlan have worked together as ministers, trying to meet the varying needs of their congregations. But they've worked in different countries. Hewitt leads a congregation in St. Mary, Jamaica. Caughlan heads a church in Cape Girardeau...
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THE TEST OF KILIMANJARO: FATHER AND SON FROM CAPE GIRARDEAU PUSH THEIR LIMITS ON AFRICA'S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN
(Local News ~ 12/28/98)
Dr. Russ Felker and his son, Rob, had been planning their climb up Mount Kilimanjaro for two years. When Rob was diagnosed with Type I diabetes in late August, the arduous ascent of the 19,340-foot mountain seemed ill-advised, both to Rob's doctor in Chicago and to his father, also a physician...
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INSULT TO INJURY: HERE COMES 1999: THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
(Column ~ 12/28/98)
Back in 1968, at the height of the Vietnam War and the onset of my pimple-filled adolescence -- when the youth of the nation at large and my own hormones within raged against what we perceived to be an all-too-restrictive world -- I paused briefly enough from my protest to buy a cheap paperback from the corner Rexall drugstore in my hometown...
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OTHERS FEEL THE LAW'S STING FROM PERJURY
(Editorial ~ 12/28/98)
While President Clinton thus far has managed to escape the consequences of lying under oath, Americans around the country are being found guilty of perjury not only in criminal matters but civil cases as well. A case in point is that of a former Cape Girardeau woman who was found guilty of felonious perjury in a civil matter and was given the maximum sentence...
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ADMISSION OF GUILT IMPERATIVE FOR CENSURE
(Editorial ~ 12/28/98)
As the impeachment proceeding heads to the Senate for trial, Democrats again are talking about censure, something they and President Clinton happily would have accepted from the House instead of the two articles of impeachment the House imposed. Impeachment is the right action, but should the Senate back down and consider censure instead, no motion of censure should be entertained without a requirement that the president admit to perjury before the grand jury and obstruction of justice, the two articles of impeachment passed by the House.. ...
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LETTERS: HE'S GUILTY -- BUT NOT ACCOUNTABLE?
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/28/98)
To the editor: As I watched the proceedings and debate of the House Judiciary Committee and the full House regarding charges against our president, I was astonished with the rhetoric, especially when espoused by the Clintonites. The summation of all their effort is nothing more or less than admitting guilt but clamoring for -- yes, even demanding -- that nothing be done to hold him accountable. ...
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LETTERS: TOBACCO SETTLEMENT IS BIG RIPOFF
(Letter to the Editor ~ 12/28/98)
To the editor: We have just witnessed the second biggest ripoff of the public in American history. The first was the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the national debt of trillions of dollars which will be left for our children and grandchildren to bear. ...
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ON THE STREET
(Local News ~ 12/28/98)
The Southeast Missourian asked people to share memories of Christmas 1998. Dawn Ashcraft, Whitewater: "This year we had more friendship and love between people and things that were made personally for each other. My son made me a calendar with pictures of my children when they were real little."...
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SEMO TO PLAY FROM COMFORT OF DOME; INDIANS FORFEIT HOME-COURT ADVANTAGE TO PLAY IN TWA DOME VS. SIU
(College Sports ~ 12/28/98)
ST. LOUIS -- Southeast Missouri State University's basketball team gave up a home game to play Southern Illinois in St. Louis. The Indians are hoping it will be Dome Sweet Dome for them tonight. Southeast and SIU -- two longtime rivals -- will square off in a 5:15 p.m. tipoff at the Trans World Dome as part of a college basketball doubleheader dubbed the Earth Grains Classic...
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BURL KING
(Obituary ~ 12/28/98)
Burl King, 73, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1998, at the Missouri Veterans Home in Cape Girardeau. Arrangements are pending at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel.
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VIOLA BRANDS
(Obituary ~ 12/28/98)
ORAN -- Viola R. Brands, 90, of Oran died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1998, at Chaffee Nursing Center in Chaffee. She was born Aug. 18, 1908, at New Hamburg, daughter of Frank Andrew and Ida Alvina Scherer Dirnberger. She and Henry L. Brands were married on Nov. 22, 1941...
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WILLIAM PENNEY
(Obituary ~ 12/28/98)
William J. Penney, 68, of Cape Girardeau died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1998, at Southeast Missouri Hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Ford and Sons Funeral Home.
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IRENE GRIFFIN
(Obituary ~ 12/28/98)
CHARLESTON -- Irene Josephine Griffin, 65, of Charleston died Thursday, Dec. 24, 1998, at the Hunter Acres Caring Center in Sikeston. She was born March 22, 1933, at Napanese, Miss., daughter of Homer McGil and Annie Irene Cassell Porter. She and James Griffin Sr. were married on May 9, 1948...
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