Out of the past 1/10/14

1989

The Schultz Feasibility Committee opposes any major additions to the L.J. Schultz building as part of any plan to move sixth-graders to the facility; school administrators have indicated at least four more classrooms would be necessary to combine the district's sixth- and seventh-graders in a middle-school setting.

The Cape Girardeau Parks and Recreation Department is planning to implement an identification card system to better control use of the city hall gymnasium and weight room in the wake of vandalism and thefts.

1964

A lone gunman's attempt to rob The Downtowner Motel, 200 Morgan Oak St., last night proved fruitless when the gunman and the motel manager, Paul C. Palubicki, began scuffling; with Palubicki's wife joining in the fray, the two punched and kicked the would-be robber until he ran from the motel.

Robert Gass, a bonding agent and construction equipment operator, has filed as a candidate for city commissioner; Gass is the 11th candidate to file for city office for the coming election, nine of them for commissioner.

1939

MATTHEWS LANE, Mo. -- More than 1,000 sharecroppers, white and black, set up housekeeping with makeshift equipment along U.S. 61, between Sikeston, Mo., and Caruthersville, Mo.; they say they are obeying what they term a general eviction order, leaving the farm lands where they had picked cotton, and staging a demonstration to "show the public our plight."

As a field trip, 19 members of a kindergarten class of the Training School are taken to Sikeston, Mo., at noon, the children buying their own tickets for passage on a Frisco train; the group is transported from Sikeston to Cape Girardeau by bus.

1914

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- C.A. Johnson, chief detective of the Third Division of the Frisco, says hobos and petty thieves are exceedingly numerous and active in the territory; they are know to jump off a freight train on which they are stealing a ride and strip a farm family's washing from a clothes line; thieves stole the brass ends off three new fire hoses at the railroad shops at Cape Girardeau; overcoats are frequently stolen from passenger trains.

Quite a number of people from the east side of the river are in Cape Girardeau shopping.

__Sharon K. Sanders__