Out of the past 12/20/13

1988

An effort to resolve an annexation dispute between Cape Girardeau and Jackson remains unsettled; while the Cape Girardeau City Council last night approved a proposed agreement, the Jackson Board of Aldermen later in the night approved it with minor modifications.

Only weeks after changing traffic flow at Independence Street and East Rodney Drive by going from a four-way stop to a two-way stop, the Cape Girardeau City Council has elected to go back to a four-way stop.

1963

Reversing an earlier decision, Mayor Walter H. Ford files for re-election; he explains his change of mind was the result of urging of many citizens that he reconsider and the salary increase ordinance recently enacted by the council.

A master plan for the upgrading of the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport is presented at a joint breakfast meeting of the City Airport Board, the Aviation Committee of the chamber of commerce, and a steering committee named by those two bodies; a major feature of the plan is construction of a new, 6,500-foot east-west runway.

1938

Jackson police chief Cleman Slinkard warns he will arrest without warrant anyone who discharges firearms within the city limits; the warning was prompted by an occurrence at noon Sunday, when a stray bullet crashed through the window of Albert Schloss' home in the southern part of the city; it knocked a glass off the dinner table and thudded into a partition door; 10 minutes later, the family would have been sitting at the table.

A young turkey gobbler, no doubt concerned about its Christmas fate, causes a furor in the Good Hope Street business district just before noon, when it escapes from Ruh's Market; the gobbler races from the store and soars to the top of the nearby Orpheum Theater building.

1913

Conveyances were busy last night and at an early hour this morning hauling Normal School teachers and students to the various trains, on their way to spend the Christmas holiday with home folk.

The grand old boat Cape Girardeau makes its last trip of the season and returns to St. Louis in the evening; next week it will go into winter quarters.

-- Sharon K. Sanders