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Ye olde owner hath sold one of Springfield's oldest car wash chains. Ye Olde Buggy Bath has new owners in Eddie Fourt and Jim Wehr.
Fourt and Wehr purchased the business Nov. 5. The
One piece of legislation that did not make it through both houses was a bankruptcy reform bill that contained some provisions long sought after by Missouri Sen. Christopher Bond, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business.
One provision was to have made selfemployed individuals able to deduct 100 percent of their health care premiums from their income taxes beginning in 2000. The measure passed the Senate Nov. 9 but did not make it through the
House of Representatives before adjournment, said committee spokesman Craig Orfield.
Another provision, passed in an earlier Congressional session, allows 100 percent deductibility in 2003; this would have made that take effect earlier, Orfield said.
"Though we did not get final passage of the whole bill, we hope...