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1988

Progress on the county's mobile communications center has bogged down because of funding shortfalls; about $3,000 is still needed to complete the project.

Damage from last Thursday morning's fire in the Southeast Missouri State University Towers South dormitory was more extensive than initially thought; the estimated cost of repairs and cleanup will exceed $200,000; fire and heat damaged five rooms on the sixth floor and smoke and soot were carried by air circulators throughout the 12-story building before they could be shut down.

1963

Cape Girardeau church bells toll in mourning at 11 a.m., and many residents pay prayerful tribute to the late president, John F. Kennedy, at the hour of his funeral; most local churches conduct memorial services from 11 until noon or 1 p.m.; most businesses and government officers are closed during those hours.

More than 35,000 Cape Girardeau County residents received the Sabin oral vaccine at feeding stations set up throughout the county Sunday; the same vaccine will be available again this coming Sunday, according to the Cape County Medical Society.

1938

The burning of $10,995,233 of bonds, the original finance issues of the Little River Drainage District, will be a feature of the district's annual landowners' meeting Monday at Morehouse, Mo..

Thanksgiving brought Cape Girardeau its first snow of the season, with an accumulation of about a half-inch here; today, the temperature drops to 22 degrees, and patches of ice are seen on the lagoon at Fairgrounds Park.

1913

By a vote of 1,101 to 74, Cape Girardeau voters ratify the new water and light franchise; the vote means that the water and light company must soon make improvements to its central plant, as well as to wires, poles and pipes through the city.

August Heuer Sr., a well-known farmer living at the edge of Cape Girardeau on the Perryville Road, dies; Heuer, a native of Brunswick, Germany, was 82 years, 6 months and 5 days old; he came here with his family when he was a small boy; he is survived by his widow, three sons and four daughters.

-- Sharon K. Sanders