Published Sunday, February 1, 2009
Ripples
from Wall Street
By TERRY GANEY
of the Tribune’s staff
JEFFERSON CITY — The assets of Missouri’s biggest public employee pension funds plunged by more than $11 billion in 2008, mostly because of the sharp drop in the value of stocks, real estate and other investments.
TRIBUNE COLUMN
Local diners were featured in Showme magazine ads
By WARREN DALTON
A dear friend of mine, Jo Ann Jones, a student at MU in the late 1940s, loaned me several issues of the Missouri Showme magazine from 1949 and 1950. Students started Showme, a somewhat controversial humor magazine, after the war and continued publishing off and on until 1963.
HAPPY TAILS TIPS
Every animal has its own needs, personality
By JIM JOHNSON
The myriad creatures running through our den would make anyone contemplate the origin of the species. Two, in particular, are noticeably opposites on any evolutionary "map."
