Out of the past 1/10/15

1990

Southeast Missouri State University's interim president, Dr. Robert W. Foster, expresses disappointment with Gov. John Ashcroft's recommended funding for the school next fiscal year; Ashcroft yesterday recommended $32.4 million in state funding for the university.

The city removed six, old, underground fuel-storage tanks this week rather than pay the cost of installing leak detection equipment as required to meet federal environmental regulations; the city will have to install monitoring wells on 10 other underground tanks, which store fuel for use in city-government vehicles.

1965

The name of Christ United Church of Christ, 33 S. Ellis St., has been changed to Evangelical Church of Christ; the former name has been confusing for a number of years because of a denominational merger in 1957; at that time the United Church of Christ was formed by a merger of the Congregational Christian and the Evangelical Reformed church organizations; the local church had been known as the Christ Evangelical Reformed Church until this change.

Damage estimated at $30,000 is done in the afternoon, when an automobile bumped a gasoline pump and set off a fire at Cliff's Saveway Service Station, at the site of the former ice plant in Scott City; the automobile, a 1963 model, is ruined and the station destroyed; no one is injured in the blaze.

1940

For the first time in a dozen consecutive days, the temperature in Cape Girardeau warms up to the freezing point or above; since Dec. 29, the mercury has remained at sub-freezing points.

Ben Funk, an aviator who has made Cape Girardeau his headquarters for nearly a year and who has given some flying lessons to 16 persons from Cape Girardeau and Jackson, plans to leave this week and to be gone about 60 days; he is making arrangements to return in the spring with a new plane equipped with pontoons for landing on the Mississippi River.

1915

The Rev. T.J. Phillips, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Poplar Bluff, Missouri, preaches the morning and evening sermons at Cape Girardeau's First Baptist Church.

A crowd of at least 100 laborers marched in a body yesterday afternoon to the riverfront, where the big levee work is being done, and demanded that the superintendent for the McMurry Construction Co. discharge the Italian and other non-resident laborers and replace them with local white laborers.

-- Sharon K. Sanders