Out of the past 10/28/14

1989

BENTON, Mo. -- The possible appointment of former state senator Albert M. Spradling Jr., to the Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission has apparently been derailed because Sen. John Dennis is refusing to support him as a Democrat.

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to excavate the 4,050 cubic yards of contaminated soil and sediment from the Kem-Pest site near Cape Girardeau and transport it to an off-site hazardous waste disposal facility; this remedy, one of six considered by the EPA, will cost about $2.6 million.

1964

The development of the southwest corner of Arena Park is expected to begin next week with construction on a new park road; the road will enter the park from Gordonville Road about 600 feet east of the National Guard armory and will make a loop to merge on East Rodney Drive about the same distance north of the armory.

Sen. John G. Tower, R-Texas, speaks at a gathering of about 500 at a luncheon at the Colonial Restaurant; Tower is campaigning on behalf of the GOP national Goldwater-Miller ticket.

1939

Dropping 41 degrees in 14 hours, temperatures hurtle downward in another touch of winter in Cape Girardeau and the district early in the morning, putting an end to a period of unusually mild October weather.

Mrs. William Mezger, head of the Cape Girardeau Public Library, has been elected president of the Missouri Library Association, which is closing its annual convention today at Excelsior Springs, Missouri.

1914

Two large trees in front of the Williams property, just east of the Park Theater building in the 200 block of Broadway, are being removed, as they have grown to be a nuisance; in the future, people will be able to look from the top of Broadway hill down to the river; wooden awnings on buildings should also be taken down, as this is the only town in Southeast Missouri, with one exception, that still tolerates them.

The first of three new bridges of a type never used before in this county -- a steel trussed, concrete floor span -- was finished Saturday; it crosses Cape LaCroix Creek on the Perryville Road, three miles northwest of Cape Girardeau.

-- Sharon K. Sanders