Jefferson City, MO (15 May 1982) part of the military award recipients in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol building, Jefferson City, Missouri.
K. Leslie Gillam, 10 years old, wanted to know from his mother (Dorris Gillam) when his father S.F.C. Kermit Gillam was getting his award. The Family is from Potosi, MO.
Crowd gathers at Modern Living Show around Jim Denker of the Cottage Bakery in St. Charles, as he demonstrates the art of icing a cake in the Master Retail bakers booth. Cakes were later auctioned for the benefit of the Cripples Children's Society.
H. E. Wuertenbaecker Jr., vice president, marketing, for Union Electric, presents portable color tv set to Mrs. Marguerite Bauer, 201 Dana dr., Collinsville. Mrs. Bauer, a teacher at Summit Elementary School, Collinsville, won the set in a contest conducted daily at the Union Electric booth at The Globe-Democrat's Modern Living Show.
Lynda Graham of Piedmont Airlines, presents two roundtrip tickets to Charleston, S.C., to Ivan N. Aubuchon. At left is Darwin Wiess, marketing director of The Globe Democrat
Title to the Shell Building changed hands last weeks when Nooney Realty Company, St. Louis owner of the Thirteenth and Locust streets building since 1948, merged with a Boston real estate company known as Fifty Associates. Nooney interests acquired stock in the Eastern company in exchange for the building, will continue to manage it.
Abandonment of Southern Pacific trackage between Quinif, Texas (Milepost 119.7) and Rosebud, Texas (Milepost 133.7) on Southern Pacific's former Cameron to Waco, Texas branch line. This abandonment was authorized by the Interstate Commerce Commission on July 19, 1978.
Winners in Saturday's semi-finals in The Globe-Democrat KTCI Spelling Bee, from left, in front, Donald Mangogna, Mike Markovich, Mark Egley and Roberta Schingech. Second Row, Jean Berger, Peggy Husmann, Teresa Heinze and Maureen Connelley. In back are Fred Bernard and Weldon Cox, moderators.
A $48 million, 31-story office complex in downtown St. Louis, which would be the largest in Missouri, had been delayed again.
The reason: the owners are concerned about rising construction prices.
The office complex would provide hundreds of construction jobs and could be the key to further downtown development.
The building is planned by the First National Bank in St. Louis, International Business Machines Corp. and Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States for two-block area just west of Busch Memorial Stadium.