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Bus Incubator has two new tenants Page 2D CPA seminarpage 3D T-7- i Sunday, September 16, 1990 par' Business Business Center signs two additional tenants Capsule i Stallworth appointed TADA area director JERRY STALLWORTH, owner of btallworth Buick-Pontiac-GMC-Toyota in Marshall, has been in metropolitan areas there'is ample opportunity for business expansion in East Texas," Hart said. "As a matter of fact, individual health insurance, which comprises the majority of our business, is actually more affordable for people who live here than for those who live in Houston or Dallas. philosophy is to provide quality protection that people can afford. We have found that most people have difficulty in dealing MARSHALL An insurance marketing firm and a martial-arts -training center are the fifth and sixth tenants to lease quarters at Marshall Business Development Center, the city's month-old small business incubator, said Manager Charles Fletcher. Hart Marketing, owned and operated by Ben and Tricia Hart, is now open at Suite 213, while fourth-degree black belt kickboxer Charles R.

"Rick" Bell plans to open his Tae Kwon Do Training Center next week at Suites 207-214. appointed area ai-. Automobile Dealers Association. Area directors are the local link with the statewide as with insurance companies, so we provide an extra measure of service by personally filing all the claims Hart, a native of Carthage, has 20 years' experience in insurance' sales, marketing and design. "We specialize in individual health and life insurance, as well as product design for several insurance companies," Hart said.

The Harts relocated to Marshall from Austin. "We feel that while the economy might be a little better for our clients." Rick Bell is a former' police officer and is now a constable, for Harrison County. He sold an earlier martial-arts school in 1986, but this year began a comeback in his kick-boxing career and decided to reopen a training center. "The type of training I emphas-Please see INCUBATOR, 2D sociation, reporting directly to the TADA Board of Directors on all phases of activity relating to the motor vehicle-buying public in their areas. "TADA is a central information link for all new car and truck dealers in Texas," said TADA.

Chairman Bill Pollard, who announced Stallworth's appointment. "Because of the size of our state, the area directors are essential to keeping our members informed and involved." TADA represents more than 1,400 franchised new car and truck dealers in Texas. New administrator KATHY A. COOKS, formerly of Marshall, has been appointed i News Messenger names advertising executive nursing home ad- i mimstrator for. Canterbury Villa in Denver City, I SOFT DRINK OPERATION Production employees Maria Aranda, left, Brenda Mobley and Angelina Solorzano operate bottling equipment for Otter Pop-brand fruit coolers at Merrytime Products' Marshalhrplant.

(By Lee Kelly) Merrytime's sweet treats distributed nationwide Texas, near Lub bock. A Marshall native, she graduated Marshall High School and earned a degree in administration LEE KELLY News Messenger from Wiley College in 1989. She also earned a medical assistant's certificate from Bryan Institute in Arlington, and worked as administrator-in-training at Colonial Park Nursing Home. She is the daughter of.J.C. Cooks and Deloris J.

Cooks, both of Marshall. JANIE ESCOBEDO has been selected Employee of the Month for August by the -staff and manage-ment of Marshall's Morritt Pla79 Mure. MARSHALL Jeffrey A. Powers of Huntsville has been appointed advertising sales manager for The Marshall News Messenger, succeeding Advertising Director David Burr, who vill transfer to another daily newspaper in the Thomson Newspapers Inc. operation.

Powers' appointment is effective Monday. Powers comes to Marshall from The Huntsville Item, where he was advertising sales representative. Prior to joining Thomson, 1 he was an account executive for The Houston Chronicle, where he served a summer internship iri 1987. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Houston in 1988, majoring in speech communication with a minor in journalism. Powers was student advertising manager for The Daily Cougar from Jan.

1987-Aug. 1988. Burr has been promoted advertising director of the Enid Morning News and Eagle, a daily newspaper in Enid, Okla, effective Sept. 24. He joined the News- ing Home.

A staff Licensed Vocational Nurse since The fruit cooler division oper- ates year-round, directed by David Allums, while the more seasonal freezer pop operation produces for 10 months, said division supervisor George Craig. Otter Pop Flavors are identified with a cartoon-like character, a choice that appeals to the products' major consumers children 2 to 12 years old. Fruit-drink flavors are Alexander the Grape, Scarlett O'Cherry, Little Orphan Orange, and-Pancho Punch. Freezer pops are produced in six flavors; the preceding four plus Sir Isaac Lime and Louie-Bloo Raspberry. Merrytime's basic markets are within the southeastern third of the United States, but product is shipped to all 48 continental states as well as to Hawaii and Mexico.

Broadus had been in the ice cream business in downtown Marshall for several years before obtaining the Otter Pop contract in 1982. His first line outside dairy products was the "Popsie" freeze-pop, for which he was a licensee from 1978 to 1982. Pyle joined Broadus in 1982 and the pair opened the present plant on Harris Lake Road that same year. its height in the summer when a second shift is added for May through August. Broadus said 80 percent of the plant's production is marketed through more than 100 Sam's Wholesale Clubs throughout the U.S.

Merrytime joined Sam's, a division of Wal-Mart Stores, when the discount-price outlet started up in the mid-80s. "Our arrangement with Sam's is basically why our business has grown," Broadus said. "That, and because we just make the best product. We have real fruit in our pops and drinks, in the form of apple concentrate, and none of our competition has real fruit juice as an ingredient. "That means our products also have some nutritional value, instead of being just sugared water," he said.

The fruit-cooler and freezer-pop stock is manufactured locally. Flavors are mixed with apple stock, water, and other ingredients in both the fruit drink and freezer pop departments, and the automated plant turns out its products, packaged, cased and wrapped ready for shipment. 1985, she previ MARSHALL Product quality and a top-notch distribution network are ensuring success fta Marshall company with a sweet tooth. Donnie Broadus and Jim Pyle founded Merrytime Products Inc. in 1982 with seven employees.

Today, the firm employs 60 during the peak summer season and expects 1990 sales to top $4 million for its lines of Otter Pop freezer-pop snacks and fruit cooler soft drinks. Annual production has increased, steadily from 600,000 cases in the first year to a current level of 1.5 million cases, Broadus said. That total includes 1 million cases of fruit coolers, packed 24 eight-ounce bottles to the case, and roughly half a million cases of freezer pops in three unit sizes. Merrytime Products holds contracts with the National Pax Corp. of Arcadia, to produce the fruit coolers and pops under the Otter Pop trademark.

Current employment varies between 20 and 60 workers, reaching ously was jnoa" f'Au ployed at Magnol Manor in Jeffer Powers Messenger in January. Accepting the new position "was a very hard decision to make," Burr said. "My wife and I made many friends in Marshall, where we were made to feel very welcome in the true East Texas spirit. I love East Texas and we hope someday to be back in the area." son. The local mart Corp.

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JOHN CHADSEY of Shreveport has joined the staff of Marshall Chiropractic Center, according to clinic owner Dr. Barbara Anderson. Chadsey will be available for patients Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. until noon beginning Sept. 22.

He is a Registered Massage Therapist and a member of the American Massage Therapy Association. He joins RMT Mary Ann Vestal, available at the clime 8 a.m.- 5 p.m. each Wednesday. Both accept clients by appointment only, Dr. Anderson said.

KAREN DENISE BUFORD of Marshall has completed the cosmetology course offered by Panola College Marshall Center. She attained a score of 100 on the State Board of Cosmetology examination given in Austin Sept. 6. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Herman Buford. PANOLA SOIL AND WATER Conservation District Vice Chairman Danny Yates, also a member of the Elysian Fields ISD board of trustees, presented 300 school-book covers to fifth- and sixth-grade students at Elysian Fields Elementary School to help make "area school children aware of the importance of conserving America's valuable soil and water resources." Insured Certificates of Deposit HOUSTON (AP) mart Corp. is closing stores in Hunts-ville, Liberty and Corpus Christi by the end of the year as part of a plan by the retailer to move toward larger stores, company officials say. Jan Potter, a spokeswoman for the Troy, chain, said the stores would shut Dec. 21 and were among about 30 nationwide to be closed.

"We're very sorry to pull out of communities," Ms. Potter said. Company spokeswoman Mary Lorencz told The News Messenger the three stores were the only Texas locations given official notice of closing. At mart Store No. 9604 in Marshall Mall, assistant manager Mrs.

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