RecordsOctober 13, 2013
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With little debate yesterday, the Faculty Senate voted to establish an ad hoc committee to examine political activity on the Southeast Missouri State University campus and to suggest guidelines concerning future partisan political endeavors; the action stems from some faculty members' displeasure with President Ronald Reagan's Sept. 14 visit to the Show Me Center...
1988
With little debate yesterday, the Faculty Senate voted to establish an ad hoc committee to examine political activity on the Southeast Missouri State University campus and to suggest guidelines concerning future partisan political endeavors; the action stems from some faculty members' displeasure with President Ronald Reagan's Sept. 14 visit to the Show Me Center.
Dr. Thomas Harte of Cape Girardeau has been elected chairman of the Missouri Humanities Council, the state-based arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
1963
Among the approximately 10,000 people attending the International Convention of Christian Churches at Miami Beach, Fla., are three Cape Girardeau residents: the Rev. Donald G. Pelsue and Mr. and Mrs. Vern Hopkins; they represent the First Christian Church here.
Teamsters union president James R. Hoffa declared yesterday there will never be a nationwide trucking strike and predicted the union's bid for an industrywide contract will be successful without a strike of any scope; Hoffa was in Cape Girardeau to help dedicate the new Teamsters union building.
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1938
Deeds for property owned by the closed Sturdivant Bank and sold at public auction in July, of which approval has been given in Circuit Court, will be sent the purchasers within a few days, says L. Neal Ellis, attorney for the bank; those sales approved include mostly city property.
Fire sweeps the large Jackson dwelling occupied by the M.M. Kurre family in the morning, destroying the house and most of its contents; Kurre is severely burned when he goes back into the burning home to retrieve money belonging to the Kurre & Putz produce firm and a small savings bank belonging to his wife.
1913
The Cape Girardeau troop of Boy Scouts defeated the Jackson troop before a crowd of about 300 people Saturday at the fairgrounds gridiron by the score of 20-14; it was one of the hardest-fought football games ever seen there; star of the game was Russell McBride, Cape Girardeau fullback.
The Jackson water mains become "be-fritzed" in some manner, and there is no water in the town for a while.
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