Out of the past 1/9/14

1989

Cape Girardeau County's proposed 1989 budget is up about 5 percent over 1988; if past years are an indication, however, only about three-fourths of what has been budgeted will actually be spent; the general revenue portion of the budget is $4.9 million, while the road and bridge portion is at $1.75 million.

A north-south access street from Route K to the shopping development that contains Schnucks, Kmart and other businesses is to be built in conjunction with improvements planned for Kingshighway between William and Independence streets.

1964

Mother Nature surprised Cape Girardeau with a three-inch snowfall in the morning; but large, moist flakes melt quickly in above-freezing temperatures and never pile up to any extent.

Charles H. Maack, a former Cape Girardeau policeman, files his candidacy for city commissioner; Maack, who has been a night watchmen in the Town Plaza area the past three years, also ran for the council in 1960.

1939

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Unless the weather is too severe, a group of sharecroppers plans a demonstration tomorrow protesting what the Rev. Owen H. Whitfield, preacher and farmer, describes as their poor economic status; Whitfield says 372 cotton sharecropper families have pledged to leave their homes and camp with their household belongings along Highway 61.

Judge Jack O. Knehans, the youngest probate judge in Missouri, Saturday officiated at his first wedding ceremony at Jackson, marrying Olivia E. Cozart and Orval Pickering of Harrisburg, Ill.

1914

Seven young ladies have won scholarships to attend the Normal School, having taken top honors in a bread-baking contest; the one-year scholarships, valued at $19, went to Bertha Arnold of Alton, Ill., Mamie E. Pickens of Cape Girardeau, Ouida Goza of Advance, Mo., Martha Jones of Piedmont, Mo., Sophia Ernst of New Haven, Mo., Agnes Siebert of Ste. Genevieve, Mo., and Bessie Briffith of Hillsboro, Mo.

Louis Stein, the Broadway miller, returned here Thursday from a two-month vacation in California and the far West; he brought back the good news that his wife is enjoying life in Berkeley, where she lives with her children for the benefit of her health.

__Sharon K. Sanders__