Published Oct. 9, 1957. A horde of yellowjackets from one of the largest ground nests ever found in this vicinity, routed a Missouri Utilities crew Tuesday while working on power lines on Hopper Road at Dorothy. The crew fled, sans stings, but returned with equipment to quell the tiny desperadoes, then dug the nest from the ground along the shoulder of the street. Robert Huey, at left, and Charles Templeton, show sections of the nest and the ground burrow the insects had used for their fortress. (G.D. Fronabarger, Southeast Missourian archive)
Aug. 17, 1956 Southeast Missourian.
These are youngsters who received courtesy awards for their performance during the recent Little League and Babe Ruth baseball seasons and members of the Breakfast Optimist Club who presented the awards at a meeting Monday. They are, from left to right, front row: John Yuracko, Jerry Jenkins, Charles Vandivort, Charles Reed, Floyd King, Terry Heuer, Jerry Suedekum, Bob Dacus, Richard Ikerman, Jack Smith and Ray Schnurbusch. Second row: Keith Lane, Dennis Herrmann, Gary Stevens, Jack Hawk, David Gaither, Bob Hoffer, Tom Froemsdorf and Rob McBride. Back row, standing, members of the Optimist Breakfast Club: Hugh May, Thomas Cooper, Clifford Hitt, J.J. Russell, Hugo Lang, William Winkler, Jack Kinnnaw, James Reinagel, James F. Miller, Dr. Jo Robert Cochran, Paul Lasater, John Montgomery, Al Hoskin, Dean Butler, Jon Roberts, Robert Cook, Travis Moore, Rolland Schlieve, Dr. Charles P. McGinty, Edgar Bock and T.C. Hill. (G.D. Fronabarger/Southeast Missourian archive)
[Cape Girardeau was celebrating its sesquicentennial at this time. Just six of the 21 men have some sort of facial hair.]