Wal-Mart reports Monroe City firm sales rise and airport aid
Wal-Mart Stores reports second quarter sales of 115 million and six month sales of 209 million ending July 31 1976 with store to store increases of 24 percent. Net income rose 67 percent to 3.5 million for the quarter and 72 percent to 6.4 million for the first half as LIFO adjustments trimmed earnings. Monroe City airport to gain a north south runway aided by 15 000 donations from Diemakers Inc and Monroe City Diecasting Co to cover engineering costs. Martha Beasley of Farmway Service Cooperative in Columbia earns a SCOPE training certificate.
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Bentonville
Ark
Sam M. Walton
Wal- Mart Stores, Inc
Wal-Mart
Monhoe
CNY
Monroe City
George Spalding
David Kullman
Diemakers Inc
Monroe City Diecasting Co
Morris Bastian
Miss Beasley
Martha’ Beasley
Farmway Service Cooperative
Columbia
Farmland Industries
Farmland Training Center
Scott’s Corner
Fred B. Denmark
Laddonia
Farmway Service
Boyle Attends Bank Institute School for Bank Administration
Frank J. Boyle Jr., cashier at Commerce Bank of Mexico, attended the Bank Administration Institute's School for Bank Administration at the University of Wisconsin Madison. The two week program offers a three year curriculum for those in bank operations and is among about 100 annual BAI events. Over 3,400 executives have graduated. Emerson Electric completes Rosemount merger. Rosemount Inc. makes precision instruments for energy, processing, aviation, and defense with offices in Minneapolis and global operations.
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Frank J. Boyle Jr
Commerce Bank of Mexico
Bank Administration Institute
University of Wisconsin
Madison
BAI
Park Ridge
Ilinois
Rosemount
Emerson ST. Louis
Emerson Electric Co
Rosemount Inc
Emerson
Minneapolis
Minn
U.S
Switzerland
West Germany
England
France
Denmark
Canada
Japan
Utilities Fight PSC Billing Rules
In Jefferson City Missouri utility lawyers challenge the Missouri Public Service Commission billing rules as beyond its legislative authority while the commission and Public Counsel urge testing before nullifying. Judge Byron Kinder delayed the rules, which ban security deposits reserve late charges and weekend disconnections, pending further review by both sides.
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Jefferson City
Missouri Public Service Commission
Cole County
Byron Kinder
Commission
Public Counsel's Office
PSC
Kinder
James C. Swearengen
Empire District Electric Co
Paul Phillips
Phillips
Berry Earns 75 Dollar Award For Suggestion At Chance
Centralia report states Anna Berry a clerk typist in the Chance manufacturing engineering department received a 75 dollar suggestion award for proposing a way to cut drawing copies. Lyle Baker of Centralia and Roy Shelden of Moberly shared a 37.50 award for similar ideas. Don Rusch in Centralia earned a 5 dollar award.
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Centralia
Anna Berry
A.B. Chance Co
Berry
Centralian
Chance Manufacturing Engineering
Lyle Baker
Roy Shelden
Moberly
Don Rusch
Top Club Turner Rogers joins New York Life Top Club
Turner Rogers of CLA 1706 Bennington Mexico has qualified as a member of the 1976 Top Club of New York Life Insurance Co. Membership in the Top Club is based on 1975 76 sales records and reflects outstanding agent performance.
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Turner Rogers
CLA
Bennington
Mexico
New York Life Insurance Co
New York Life
Cable safety law shifts blame for buried lines
Missouri Governor Bond signed the Underground Facility Safety and Damage Act effective August 13. Digging without notifying utilities becomes illegal and violators are liable for damages. Southwestern Bell will publish a contact list for locating buried phone cables within 40 days after the effective date.
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Missouri
Bond
Wilma Sutton
Southwestern Bell
Recorder of Deeds
Tompson elected president of RJR Archer Inc in Winston-Salem
Carroll G. Tompson, a Mexico Mo. native and longtime RJ Reynolds executive, will become president and chief executive officer of RJR Archer Inc effective Sept. 1. He succeeds James Corrigan Jr. and will lead a subsidiary of RJR Industries in Winston-Salem, a maker of flexible packaging, gift wrap, ribbons, bows and related materials.
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Winston-Salem
N.C
Carroll G. Tompson
Mexico
RJR Archer, Inc
Mr. Tompson
Nellie Gray Vaughn Tompson
Moberly
Willard D. Tompson
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
James H. Corrigan Jr
RJR Foods, Inc
R. J. Reynolds Industries, Inc
Tompson
RJR Archer
RJ. Reynolds Tobacco
RJR
Archer
Winston- Salem
Kitty Litter Plant Opens Near Bloomfield
Lowe Inc plans a 2.6 million kitty litter plant in Bloomfield financed by a city revenue bond. Delays from a rainy spring push back production of the Missouri facility, which will mine clay-like material for kitty litter and absorbents. The project aims for a 4.8 million investment and makes Bloomfield a major site with Edward Lowe leading a company with plants in four states and England.
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Bloomfield
Lowe Inc
Glen Ayers
Edward Lowe
Tennessee
Stoddard County
Missouri
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Mexico Women’s Club
Buckner Neate of
Neate Clothing Co
Washington
Yesteryear
Ernest Jenkins
Richard Schmidtke
Richard Vance
Aid
Boyle
Bank Institute
Soda King
Charles
Via
S. Jefferson
Business and
Industry News
C. G. Tompson
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco
William Jewell College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
States
Wal-Mair T
Hunter
Remington
Wal-Marts
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