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MEMO: PLAZA TIRE OPENS NEW LOCATION IN ROLLA
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Plaza Tire Service, headquartered in Cape Girardeau, recently opened a new facility at Rolla, Mo. The new retail store, 2311 Bishop St. in Rolla, has 6,406 square feet and seven service bays. The Rolla operation is one of 39 Plaza Tire stores located throughout Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky and Arkansas...
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STRICTLY BUSINESS: JANUARY-JUNE TOTALS FOR CONSTRUCTION PERMITS UP
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Along an inside street-level wall of a building at Broadway and Lorimier hangs an old sign: "Harris Motor Car Co." The structure at that location, once owned by the late Cape Girardeau businessman Charlie Harris, has served as many businesses -- Townsend Furniture, Charmin Industries offices, a plastic fabrication company, a wholesale hardware company, and of course Harris Motor Car Co...
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MEMO: SAM'S CLUB IN MARION TO OFFER GAS AT PUMP
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Sam's Club in Marion, Ill., has joined the growing list of Sam's Clubs nationwide offering gasoline for purchase to its members and the general public. Sam's Club at Marion has a dozen pumps at its new service station. Marion is one of 106 Sam's Clubs now serving gasoline...
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MEMO: COSMETOLOGY BOARD BEGINS LICENSE REVIEWS
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
The State Board of Cosmetology has started its biennial review of licenses and will continue until Sept. 30. There area more than 70,000 licenses issued in Missouri. Renewable classifications include cosmetology/all, cosmetology/hairdressing, manicuring, esthetics, instructors, salons and school...
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MEMO: AGRI-BUSINESS TOUR SET FOR WEDNESDAY
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
The annual Jackson Chamber of Commerce Agri-Business Tour, to be held Wednesday, will start at 9 a.m. at the Missouri Extension Center on Jackson Trail. This year's tour will include NLC-Lenco, American Railcar Industries and B&B Door in the morning, and Rubbermaid Closet Organization (LeeRowan) in the afternoon...
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MEMO: PLANNING COMMISSION TO HOLD MEETING
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
The Southeast Missouri Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission will holds its monthly meeting at 2 p.m. Tuesday at 1 West St. Joseph St. in Perryville. H. Weldon Macke is chairman of the group. Other officers include John Singleton, vice chairman; Ernest Sutton Jr., secretary; Craig M. Lindsley, treasurer; and Thomas G. Tucker, executive director...
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MEMO: PERRYVILLE COMPANY AWARDS CORPORATE GRANTS
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
TG Missouri Corporation of Perryville, Mo., has awarded corporate grants totaling $18,900 to seven organizations from Perryville, Cape Girardeau, St. Louis and Chester, Ill. The auto parts maker, which employs more than 1,200 workers, passed out checks to a number of groups recently. TG Missouri contributes about $100,000 annually to numerous organizations and charitable causes...
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PERSONNEL: NEW VICE PRESIDENT JOINS FIRST STAR BANK
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Jonathan Maloyed, of Matthews, Mo., has joined First Star Bank at Sikeston, Mo., as assistant vice president, agricultural lender. Maloyed, a graduate of Purdue University, will be responsible for originating and servicing agriculture loans in Southeast Missouri...
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PERSONNEL: INSURANCE AGENT PASSES SECURITIES EXAMINATION
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Eric Michelsen of the Farmers Insurance Group has passed the securities license exam and can now offer a variety of investment products and services, including mutual funds, variable annuities, and variable universal life insurance. Michelsen has also completed a specialized training program sponsored by the Farmers Financial Solutions, L.L.C., the broker-dealer affiliate of Farmers Insurance Group of Companies, headquartered in Los Angeles...
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PERSONNEL: WOMEN GRADUATE FROM TRUCK DRIVING SCHOOL
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Rose Ann Krumm of Oak Ridge, Mo., and Sherre Wilson of Advance, Mo., recently graduated from a four-week, 192-hour tractor trailing driving course at Malden, Mo., Industrial Park. Terry Harris and Chester Graham, instructors with the Southern Missouri Truck Driving School, taught the course...
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PERSONNEL: STANLEY ATTENDS INSURANCE MEETING
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Sharon A. Stanley of Cape Girardeau recently attended the 2001 Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) annual meeting, held in Toronto, Canada. Stanley, with the Prudential Insurance Company of America, was among more than 7,000 guests from 58 countries at the meeting...
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PERSONNEL: PHARMACY OPERATORS HONORED BY MEDICAP
(Business ~ 07/23/01)
Keith and Sue Teegarden and Dave Charlier were recently honored at the Medicap Pharmacies Inc. annual meeting. The Teegardens, who operate a Medicap Pharmacy in Chaffee, Mo., and Charlier, who operates a Medicap Pharmacy at Scott City, Mo., were named to the President's Capsule Club for outstanding sales performance during the past year...
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MAN RECOVERRS, PLAYS BALL FROM WHEELCHAIR
(Local News ~ 07/23/01)
SEDGEWICKVILLE, Mo. -- Ben Bollinger felt invincible when he was a paratrooper in the Army's tough-as-nails 82nd Airborne Division. But that all changed shortly after 9 p.m. on Oct. 7, 1999, when his parachute didn't fully open during a training exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C. He plummeted 800 feet to the ground...
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A GROWING WINE INDUSTRY IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS LOOKS FOWARD TO... SOME VERY GOOD YEARS
(Local News ~ 07/23/01)
ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Before Alto Vineyards, the economic impact of the Southern Illinois grape and wine industry was easy to measure. It's easy to measure nothing. Today, more than two decades after Guy Renzaglia, Ted Wichmann and Skip Cosgrove started a vineyard in the hills just north of Alto Pass, the Shawnee Hills Wine Trail has become a tourist destination in Southern Illinois...
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AREA STATE REP FINDS MUCH SUPPORT IN WALK TO CAPITAL
(Local News ~ 07/23/01)
Though he is tired and aching, state Rep. Rod Jetton is encouraged by the amount of support he has gotten from citizens and officials during his walk to Jefferson City. "The attention and help from citizens is better than I ever imagined," he said Sunday while taking a day of rest. "People are coming out from all over the place."...
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CAPAHAS CONTINUE TO SIZZLE
(High School Sports ~ 07/23/01)
Not unlike the sweltering heat wave outside, the Craftsman Union Capahas are on a hot streak of their own. The Capahas' recent tear has sent their winning streak to 10 games with a 6-2 triumph over the Evansville (Ind.) Outlaws at Capaha Field Sunday afternoon...
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CHAFFEE SETS SIGHTS ON FIRST DISTRICT TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 07/23/01)
Chaffee Medicap Pharmacy's American Legion baseball team came ever so close to winning its first District 14 Tournament championship last year, forcing the if-necessary final game against Dunklin County before the Bootheel squad was able to capture its fifth straight tourney title...
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HEARTLAND SQUAD WINS REGIONAL TITLE
(High School Sports ~ 07/23/01)
LAKIN, Kan. -- The Heartland Nationals are once 12-under Babe Ruth Softball Midwest Regional champions. Based in Benton, Mo., the Nationals captured their third straight regional title here Sunday as they routed Eastern Colorado 12-1 in a championship game that was stopped after four innings by the mercy rule. Heartland romped in all three of its tourney games...
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ERVIN WHITE
(Obituary ~ 07/23/01)
CHAFFEE, Mo. -- Ervin James White, 62, of Chaffee, died Saturday, July 21, 2001, at his family home. He was born April 26, 1939, in Randles, Mo., son of Carl James and Loleta Virginia Blue White. He and Clara May Garrison were married Dec. 26, 1959...
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RUDOLF GERLER
(Obituary ~ 07/23/01)
Rudolf A. Gerler, 90, of Cape Girardeau, died Sunday, July 22, 2001, at The Lutheran Nursing Home in Cape Girardeau. He was born Oct. 23, 1910, in Altenburg, Mo., the son of Herman C. and Ottlelie Boehme Gerler. He worked for the river corps of engineers. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church and a member of the American Association of Retired Persons...
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SPEAK OUT
(Speak Out ~ 07/23/01)
AS A former Cape Girardeau police officer, I wholeheartedly concur with the findings of the study on the Cape Girardeau Police Department. There has been a big problem with morale which stems from the poor leadership, lack of communication and failure to give proper equipment to officers. I hope the next chief will be a little more in touch and cooperative than the last two chiefs of police...
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JACKSON NEEDS BYPASS TO HELP RELIEVE TRAFFIC
(Editorial ~ 07/23/01)
While Jackson can look forward to relieving some traffic congestion with the new Interstate 55 interchange with East Main Street, officials of the growing community realize other road improvements are needed as well. The city has formed a Major Street Construction Priority Committee to evaluate traffic problems, and the committee is expected to recommend that a consultant be hired toward that end...
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NEW INTERCHANGE WON'T JUST SERVE JACKSON
(Editorial ~ 07/23/01)
After years of trying to convince the state of the need for a new Interstate 55 interchange with Jackson's East Main Street extension, the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission hasapproved plans for the project as part of its five-year highway plan...
Stories from Monday, July 23, 2001
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