Out of the past 10/19/13

1988

A fair-housing ordinance was given final approval by the Cape Girardeau City Council Monday; the ordinance defines and prohibits unfair housing practices in the city, safeguarding the right of any person to sell, purchase, lease, rent or obtain housing or property regardless of race, color, sex, national origin or ancestry, and religion.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Campaigning for her husband, Vice President George Bush, Barbara Bush visits Sikeston; after greeting a crowd of about 150 people at the Sikeston Airport, Bush goes to the Head Start center and visits a class of 4-year-olds.

1963

How does a typical college sophomore majoring in mathematics spend his vacation? Don Ford of Cape Girardeau spent his as a drummer in a house band in the San Francisco Bay area; the band is under the direction of Bob Sisco, a native Girardean and son of Mr. and Mrs. William D. Sisco.

Work has begun in Arena Park on an ice-skating rink that is expected to be in service by the first cold weather; the rink is located south of the Arena Building and slightly east of the fair midway; it will consist of a clay basin bounded by a concrete lip to contain the water.

1938

Nearly an inch of rain and plummeting temperatures bring an end to a five-week siege of dry and abnormally warm weather in Cape Girardeau and the district; at noon, the temperature falls to 60 degrees, a slump of 23 degrees since 2 a.m.; the rainfall is the first here since Sept. 15.

The sale of two more large farms owned by the closed Sturdivant Bank in Cape Girardeau have been approved in Circuit Court; approved were the sale of the 280-acre Hunter farm, 5 miles southeast of Hunterville, Mo., which went to William A. Heyde for $10,500, and the 376.42 Anderson farm, a half-mile south of Commerce, Mo., which was claimed by Albert V. Goodwin for $12,792.15.

1913

BENTON, Mo. -- The painters are putting the finishing touches to interior decorating and painting of Scott County's monster new courthouse; before too many more days, it will be turned over to the people of the county.

About 30 Cape Girardeau men travel to Poplar Bluff, Mo., to attend the institution of a new chapter of the Knights of Columbus in that city; there are around 300 visiting knights in the town during the day, large numbers attending from throughout Southeast Missouri.

-- Sharon K. Sanders