Out of the past 12/28/14

1989

The latest air-emissions test on Southeast Missouri State University's new fluidized, bubbling-bed boiler show pollutants from the plant are well below allowable amounts; however, the university hasn't yet received official confirmation that the plant passed inspection from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

There's not much ice on the Mississippi River here, but it remains closed to most barge traffic between St. Louis and Cairo, Illinois; while the river may not drop as low as had been predicted, the Coast Guard has banned all nighttime barge traffic between Cairo and the Louisiana border.

1964

Judge S.P. Dalton, 72, formerly of Cape Girardeau, is reported resting comfortably in a Minneapolis hospital after suffering a stroke of paralysis Saturday; he and his wife had gone to Minneapolis to spend the Christmas holidays with their family.

It is learned by the Cape Girardeau School Board that Eugene Oliver of Sikeston, Missouri, who was hired by the board to act as superintendent for the renovation of the old Junior High School building, won't be available to take the job.

1939

The threat of more snow hangs over Cape Girardeau and the district as heavy clouds obscure the sun for the third consecutive day; temperatures dropped overnight to below the freezing point, turning to ice the slush of Wednesday's melting snow.

Ivan V. Faxon, formerly of Whitewater, who is now stationed with Uncle Sam's Army at the Kilauea Military Camp, Permanent Detachment, Hilo, Hawaii, recently mailed his payment for personal property taxes to County Collector W.F. Bergmann: $1.20.

1914

The stage of the river is so low just now, and so much ice has piled up in front of the Frisco's waterfront improvement work, that little work is being done; a crew, however, continued to mix concrete Sunday and pour it into the forms for the big wall; nearly 100 yards of concrete were poured during the day.

After water had been pumped from the river all Sunday night, and a fair supply had been furnished through the main to nearly all parts of Cape Girardeau, the supply suddenly quits this morning, when the river falls suddenly; a sandbar has cut off the current from the end of the water plant's intake pipe.

-- Sharon K. Sanders