Out of the Past 12/4/14

1989

A 15-minute video, produced by the Southeast Missouri State University Department of Mass Communications in cooperation with the Center for Earthquake Studies, will be distributed to school administrators natinowide as a guide to appropriate actions following an earthquake.

The National Weather Service warns that a lack of rain, strong winds and low humidity has pushed the wildfire danger into the high and extreme category; a no-burn order for Cape Girardeau County has been prepared, but not yet implemented.

1964

A new federal building will be built in Cape Girardeau on an expanded site of the present post office building, which will be demolished, the General Services Administration announces; the federal government plans to buy two tracts to the rear of the post office lot to complete the overall site, 125 feet wide from Broadway to Themis Street.

The Missouri Commission on Higher Education's first report issued yesterday includes recommendations for a sizable increase in State College's operating budget for the next biennium and for nearly $3,000,000 in capital appropriations for the college; included in the list of capital improvements is a major addition to Kent Library, costing $2,721,000.

1939

If clear weather holds out for four or five more days so that a 2,000-foot gap in Highway 25, about a mile north of Bloomsdale, Missouri, may be paved, the entire route from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis by way of Ste. Genevieve and Festus, Missouri, will again be open to traffic.

The Missouri Utilities Co. of Cape Girardeau asks the Public Service Commission to approve its purchase of electric power lines from Jackson to Gordonville; the lines would be purchased from Farmers High Line Co. and the Gordonville Light Co.

1914

Clearing has begun on the land owned in the swaps at Delta by Sen. Hunter of Benton, Missouri; it is reported that 800 acres of this land will be cleared of timber between now and May, furnishing work for quite a number of men; the drainage ditches will be cut through this tract before many months.

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Anderson and Olive Bender of Polo, Illinois, arrived here yesterday for a short visit with the family of G.W. Carpenter; they are on their way to California to spend the winter months and will make the trip by auto.

-- Sharon K. Sanders