Out of the past 11/21/13

1988

The Cape Girardeau County Commission's annual budget process is underway for 1989; Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep hopes to begin reviewing individual budget requests the first week of December.

Despite a damp weekend in the Cape Girardeau area, it wasn't all that bad and could have been a lot worse; flash flooding occurred in the Bootheel on Friday night, and up to 7 inches of snow piled up Sunday morning at Rolla, Mo.

1963

A heavy layer of fog blankets the entire Southeast Missouri area in the morning; observers in Perryville, Sikeston, Charleston and Poplar Bluff, as well as Cape Girardeau, report from moderate to "pea-soup" fog.

A legislative subcommittee is in Cape Girardeau to gather information on employment practices involving aging people; members of the state Legislature hear the views of an industrial relations officer with International Shoe Co., George Vandeven and Emmett Roberts of the State Employment Service, and Stephen L. Wasby, a State College teacher and former research analyst with the Oregon State Council on Aging.

1938

Work on the extensive project of landscaping U.S. 61 from Cape Girardeau to Jackson is started in the morning by Hillard Brewster, landscape engineer for the State Highway Commission; the planting of shrubbery will be done by 23 WPA workers.

A new marquee is being installed on the front of Broadway Theater; the new, V-shaped marque is so arranged the large electric signs on it can be read from either east or west on Broadway.

1913

An appeal is made by residents in the west end of the city to Prosecuting Attorney Henry Caruthers for relief from damage threatened by flying missiles from the stone quarry operated by the Matteson paint mill; recently, blasts in the quarry have sent huge stones flying through the air and falling on neighboring houses and in yards where children play.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has ordered the mayor to retain the services of Judge B.F. Davis to look after the legal part of extending Main Street on a straight line from Independence to William streets; it will be necessary for the city to take the matter to Common Pleas Court.

-- Sharon K. Sanders