Out of the past 11/21/09

Procter and Gamble company officials announce plans to hire about 100 additional permanent employees soon in order to expand to a seven-day production schedule.

Despite voter approval of a measure calling for a special election on the controversial multipurpose building site issue, the Cape Girardeau City Council won't be calling such an election because of a legal technicality; the actual ordinance, drafted by citizens in a petition effort, called for the special election to be held Nov. 6, 1984, a physical impossibility; besides the technicality over the date, some council members contend that such a vote would be non-binding and would only delay or possibly kill the project.

50 years ago: Nov. 21, 1959

Traveling on a special train, members of the big cast of "The Green Pasture," the celebrated Pulitzer prize play, arrives in Cape Girardeau; cast members will present the production at Teachers College Auditorium this evening under auspices of The Southeast Missourian.

Cape Girardeau and district is drenched in the heaviest rain in 12 months; the rain sends streams out of their banks to overflow lowlands and do damage to bottom land crops, eroding country roads and hampering travel; the rainfall at Cape Girardeau is measured at 2.46 inches.

75 years ago: Nov. 21, 1934

Cape Girardeau suspends business, lock, stock and barrel, to turn out a record crowd for the unbeaten State College football team's championship game against the invading Kirksville Teachers at Houck Field Stadium; but the hopes of the town are dashed, as the Indians fall to the visiting Bulldogs, 13-0.

Sen.-elect Harry S. Truman of Independence, Mo., who is in Cape Girardeau to attend a district Masonic Lodge meeting, says not to expect long speeches from him in the U.S. Senate; "I am not a maker of long speeches," he says, "and I intend to go to Washington to work, not to make long talks."

100 years ago: Nov. 21, 1909

Six deacons are ordained at First Baptist Church: E.M. Hobbs, G.S. Summers, J.M. Wilson, Dr. Edwin Moore, J.W. Stausing, and Professor R.S. Douglass; presiding and preaching the sermon at the service is the Rev. J.C. Maple, D.D.; pastor of First Baptist is the Rev. A.M. Ross.

The agricultural station at Columbia, Mo., has sent a man to inoculate the hogs in Cape Girardeau County for cholera, as many have been dying from that disease; he will be headquartered at Jackson.

-- Sharon K. Sanders