Week of April 10-16

April 16, 1912

Hundreds of lives lost as Titanic sinks

WORLD'S GREATEST STEAMSHIP GOES DOWN WITH MAJORITY OF MALE PASSENGERS

New York -- April 16 -- The White Star liner, Titanic, the world's greatest steamship, has gone down some 500 miles off Cape Race, with 630 of her 1,300 passengers and her full crew of 860 men on board.

Dispatches state that the Titanic went down at 2:20 o'clock Monday morning.

The collision of the Titanic with an iceberg is now known to have been a head-on crash that occurred while the liner was proceeding at little less than her best speed.

Her forward plates were completely wrecked, a gaping wound opening below her water line and letting the water into her forward compartments.

The lifeboats were manned and into them were placed as many of the women and children as they could hold...

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April 13, 1948

Miss May Greene Dies

Miss May Greene, beloved teacher of thousands of the city's children in her 53 years of teaching in the community and a guiding light in public education from the time the first public school was built, passed away at 12:10 a.m. today at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

Funeral services will probably be held Thursday afternoon at the Episcopal Church.

Miss May began her teaching in the city in 1870 in Old Lorimier School and completed her work in 1932, at which time she was principal of Washington School. Through those 53 years she on the respect and love of the thousands of children who came under her guidance.

Whenever the city had an event concerning the schools, Miss May was called on to participate, even after her retirement...

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April 10, 1991

By E.J. Robert

Staff writer

OAK RIDGE, Mo. -- Space shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to glide to a landing today, carrying back to Earth an astronaut who has brought a modest sense of pride to this small, Cape Girardeau County town.

Linda Godwin of near Oak Ridge and the rest of Atlantis' five-member crew are expected to touch down in the spaceplane at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., at about 10:35 a.m. The landing will cap a five-day mission, the primary goal of which was to deploy a 17 1/2 ton gamma ray observatory satellite four days ago.

Godwin, 38, served as a main player in the satellite's deployment when she used a 50-foot robot arm to carry out the task from the shuttle's crew cabin. The $617 million astronomy satellite's mission will be to study the universe's most violent stars and galaxies...