BUSINESS MEMO

JACKSON -- Santa Claus will make an early visit to Andrews Chiropractic during an open house Dec. 15, from 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Santa will be talking with both young and old. Free pictures will be taken with Santa and refreshments will be available.

Andrews Chiropractic is on Highway 61 East across from the waterslide.

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Gary and Sharon Ratledge of Benton will open their third Little Caesars Pizza facility in Southeast Missouri Dec. 10 at Poplar Bluff.

The Ratledges own Little Caesars restaurants in Cape Girardeau and Sikeston.

The Poplar Bluff operation will be at 1877 N. Westwood Blvd, and will employ about 35 persons full and part time.

The restaurant will be open at 10:30 a.m. seven days a week.

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The Famous Barr beauty salon at West Park Mall has won the 17th annual MET-Regis Salon Corp.'s President's Award, the highest honor presented by the Minneapolis-based beauty salon company.

More than 3,200 entries from five countries were in the running for the award, which recognizes salons for providing superior customer service while maintaining outstanding sales levels throughout the years.

Famous Barr offers a variety of salon services for men and women as well as a complete line of professional hair-care products.

Lisa Baldwin is manager of the salon.

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Another recycled newspaper product has been introduced.

The forest products firm, Louisiana-Pacific Corp., headquartered in Portland, Ore., has introduced new Nature Guard insulation made from recycled newspaper.

Nature Guard is available locally at Wolohan Lumber Co., 12 N. Kingshighway.

"The new insulation is less expensive than Fiberglas insulation," said Harry A. Merlo, Louisiana-Pacific's chairman and president. "Waste papers represent the largest untapped forest in the world. The more we use of this abundant raw material, the better it is for the world's environment."

Two other big uses for recycled newspapers are bedding for farm animals and mulch.

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Westvaco Corp., a major manufacturer of paper, packaging and chemicals, reported 1991 fiscal-year sales of $2.3 billion, down from the all-time record of $2.4 billion in 1990.

For the year ending Oct. 31, net income reached $137 million, or $2.10 a share, a decline from last year's net income of $188 million, or $2.90 a share.

During the fourth quarter of the fiscal year, Westvaco had sales of $605.4 million and a net income of $47.6 million, almost as much as the $48.3 million during the same period of 1990.

The company has achieved 96 years of uninterrupted quarterly cash dividend payments, one of the longest records of any of the companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

Westvaco, headquartered in New York, has a large paper mill along the Mississippi River near Wickliffe, Ky.

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The Kmart Good News Committee has added another program to its list of spreading holiday cheer to area residents.

"We delivered 23 Thanksgiving baskets Monday," said Jim O'Rear, chairman of the store's Good News Committee. "We decided Monday to provide Thanksgiving baskets, and everybody on the committee lent a helping hand."

O'Rear said the new Shop & Save store provided 23 turkeys and Liberty Baptist Church provided some non-perishable foods.

"We Kmart employees purchased the remainder of the food to make up the baskets," he said. "Employees delivered them Monday."

Kmart, 11 S. Kingshighway, also will continue a tradition of caring for communities through their Good News programs for Christmas.

On Dec. 7, each Kmart store will host about 20 underprivileged children for a Christmas shopping spree. Kmart also will provide a Giving Tree program designed to provide new gifts locally for needy children and residents in nursing homes.