Out of the past 11/22/13

1988

Heavy heat and smoke damage resulted from a fire at Rumors Inc., 26 N. Main St., last night; the heaviest damage was in the stage area, the south wall and the entire south area of the building.

The Scott City City Council last night approved the first reading of a plan-of-intent ordinance; if adopted, the ordinance would enlarge Scott City by at least two square miles to the northwest and extend its city limits northward to Nash Road east of Interstate 55.

1963

DALLAS -- President John F. Kennedy, 36th president of the United States, is shot to death by a hidden assassin armed with a high-powered rifle; Kennedy, 48, lives about an hour after a sniper cuts him down as his limousine leaves downtown Dallas; at about 1:30 p.m. Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the new president.

A black veil falls across a numb and bereaved Cape Girardeau whose residents, in faltering voices, speak a spontaneous eulogy for their fallen president; the rain, which patters mournfully to the streets from the oppressively gray skies, only adds to the sadness of the day.

1938

Last night, the Cape Girardeau City Council paid out around $8,000 in September and October bills, it requiring more than an hour for the council to wade through the six-inch stack of bills that had accumulated; because of a partially depleted treasury, the city had delayed paying bills since September.

The school board of the Fruitland Consolidated School District has called another election, to be Dec. 9, for a $5,000 bond issue to enlarge the present high school building and provide extra rooms for commercial work and other departments; the present grade schools will remain as they are, at Leemon, Sawyer and Dogwood; unlike a previous plan that was defeated, there would be no transportation of pupils to a central school.

1913

The attendance in Cape Girardeau public schools continues to climb; at the close of classes yesterday, the attendance was 1,594; last year at this time, the attendance was 1,287.

The Cape Normal School finally won its first football game of the season; the locals barely edged the Carbondale, Ill., team, 17-13, yesterday, and the visitors went away protesting the results.

-- Sharon K. Sanders