Out of the past 11/12/13

1988

Dr. Frances Geyer Crowley is the 1988 recipient of the Otto Dingeldein Award from the Southeast Missouri Council on the Arts; Crowley, a professor of foreign languages at Southeast Missouri State University, also is a writer, editor, publisher and lecturer.

Chaffee, Mo., native Karl "Korky" Von Kessel is one of a number of Air Force pilots who have been flying the radar-evading "Stealth" fighter in night-cloaked secrecy since 1981; Pentagon officials acknowledged the existence of the plane for the first time Thursday.

1963

Construction has begun on the clubhouse for the new Jackson Country Club; located east of Jackson, south of U.S. 61, the clubhouse will feature glass construction with a view of the ninth green; Sebaugh Construction Co. has the contract to finish the building in 80 working days.

Cape Girardeau's mayoral race takes on a new complexion, when Mayor Walter H. Ford discloses he won't be a candidate for re-election next year; his surprise announcement leaves the field for mayor wide open.

1938

Patty Lou Fisher represented Cape Girardeau on Friday as this community's queen at the Ohio River bridge dedication at Cairo, Ill.; she was one of a group of 30 girls from which the queen of the festival was chosen that evening at a ball; Louella Cravens, 18, of New Madrid, Mo., was crowned "Queen of Queens."

V.J. Clemens, Main Street merchant, announces he will move his jewelry store from where it has been 16 years, to 137 N. Main Street, to occupy part of the space of his new building there; the move will be made early in the new year; Stokes drugstore will remain in the Main Street space nearest to Broadway, and Clemens' store will be next door to it.

1913

Mrs. Katherine Doyle died last night of injuries received that morning, when she was run down by a trolley car on South Spanish Street, while on her way to attend early Mass at St. Vincent's Catholic Church; Doyle, 66, was the widow of Leo Doyle; she is survived only by her sister, nieces and nephews.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Naeter and George and Nora Naeter return from Quincy, Ill., where they had taken the remains of their mother, Mrs. Mary Naeter, for burial.

-- Sharon K. Sanders