Out of the past 11/2/13

1988

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors has approved the hiring of an economic development director; the board hopes to have the new director hired by the first of the year.

Nearly 100 local National Guardsmen from the 1140th Engineer Battalion, mostly from Charley Company in Sikeston, Mo., boarded a stretch DC-9 jet at the Cape Girardeau airport yesterday on their way to the Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif.; the 1140th is the first National Guard unit from Missouri to participate in the 20-day training exercises which will simulate actual desert wartime situations.

1963

Cape Girardeau native Chester M. Brown, president of Allied Chemical Corp., and his wife, who is originally from Advance, Mo., is in Cape Girardeau visiting friends; Brown, in an interview with The Missourian newspaper, discusses his company's plans for rebuilding the famous Times Building in Times Square, New York City.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Pickets are removed in the morning from the Scott County Milling Co. here; members of Local 108 of the American Federation of Grain Millers have been out on strike since Oct. 7; the dispute is over salary terms.

1938

Junior Gerhardt, a pupil at Central High School, goes to school leading an immense pelican with a small rope attached to its foot; the bird is staked out on the school grounds and poses for sketches by art classes throughout the day; Gerhardt was given the injured bird by two fishermen, who caught it on a sand flat on the Mississippi River.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Paced by George "Torchy" Godwin, the former star of the Cape State College Indians, the Poplar Bluff All-Stars defeat the Sikeston All-Stars here, 7-0, to sweep the two-game football series sponsored by the Jaycees in the two towns.

1913

The Rev. Paul H. Linn, D.D., the president of Central College at Fayette, Mo., preaches in the morning at Centenary Methodist Church; Linn is one of the leaders in the Methodist church.

John Norman Gale dies at his home at the southwest corner of Broadway and Lorimier Street; Gale, 76, had been seriously ill for the last two months; "he had failed to a shadow of his former well preserved condition."

-- Sharon K. Sanders