Out of the past 12/5/13

1988

People wait in a long line outside the Missouri Job Service office for an early opportunity to apply for up to 120 full- and part-time positions at the new Central Hardware store, which is due to open here in March; more than 300 applications are handed out by noon; as many as 1,000 applicants are expected today through Wednesday.

Jim Renard, supervisor of security at Saint Francis Medical Center, has been named the hospital's employee of the year.

1963

Sen. Albert M. Spradling Jr. of Cape Girardeau has been appointed to President Lyndon Johnson's Advisory Committee on Intergovernmental Relations.

Workers are razing a frame dwelling on the south side of Broadway, between Henderson and Park avenues; the house, on a site measuring 65 by 300 feet, was recently purchased by Bill Brandt from the estate of the late Gilbert Drum; it was built about 50 years ago and is one of the few remaining old houses on Broadway east of West End Boulevard.

1938

John H. Rouse, 79, founder and until recent years head of the Rouse Construction Co., which pioneered highway and street paving in Southeast Missouri, dies at a local hospital; Rouse constructed the first concrete streets in Cape Girardeau, and he also built the ornamental sea wall along the Mississippi River here.

The 100-foot steel tower erected last week on the Teachers College campus by the U.S. Geodetic Survey for the purpose of taking land measurement, was dismantled Saturday and hauled away in trucks; readings were taken at night from the "crow's nest" at the tower's top by means of light signals flashed in similar towers at Poplar Bluff, Mo., and Ste. Genevieve, Mo.

1913

L.E. Richardson, a foreman of the shoe factory, and wife have taken charge of the Terminal Hotel for the present and will run it until other arrangements are made; it is reported that the Logan people won't come back to take charge of the hotel.

Henry Leher Jr., son of H.A. Leher, the Broadway tinner, was painfully hurt yesterday afternoon, when he fell from a scaffold while working on the new home being built for Ollie Lorberg near Gordonville; the 20-foot fall knocked him unconscious and bruised him badly.

-- Sharon K. Sanders