Out of the past 10/22/13

1988

Louis Hecht, a former Cape Girardeau business man and active civic leader, dies in Las Vegas, where he had resided since 1947; he was 99 years old; Hecht came to Cape Girardeau in 1916, bought a small business on Main Street and changed its name to Hecht's.

Dr. Holly Atkinson, well-known physician, author and network television medical reporter, is the keynote speaker for the fourth annual Femme Fair at the Southeast Missouri State University Center.

1963

The Cape Girardeau Airport Board has retained the St. Louis engineering firm of Horner and Shifrin to draft a master airport plan and later, if a construction project is carried out, to draw the plans and supervise the work.

Verbal approval has been given by the Cape Girardeau City Council to a subdivision plat, overriding efforts by 57 petitioners and the Planning and Zoning Commission to raise the minimum cost and size standards in the development; the subdivision is Holland Hills, a proposed development of Riverside Lumber Co., west of Cape Rock Drive between Allendale Drive and Peach Tree Street.

1938

Twelve bands, 10 of them from high schools outside Cape Girardeau, brought 466 musicians into a massed concert at Houck Field Stadium last night, just before the kickoff of the homecoming football game for the Teachers College Indians; it was the greatest mass concert ever staged here; they were under the direction of Teachers College professor O.L. Wilcox.

The visiting Kirksville Teachers made a mess of the homecoming celebration of the Cape Girardeau Teachers College Indians on Friday night, defeating the local team 7-3 and ending a 16-game winning streak.

1913

Cape Girardeau's water and light and judiciary committees met with the president of the Missouri Utilities Co. last night and finally reached an agreement regarding terms of the new 20-year franchise under which the company will operate here; first reading of the ordinance before the full council will be Monday.

A.P. Williams and family moved to Jackson this week, as he has employment there; the Williams have lived all their lives on the farm just south of Fruitland, which has rented to Ed Kaiser; the latter has been living on one of Louis Houck's farms south of Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders