Out of the past 2/10/13

1988

Members of the Cape Girardeau Board of Education hope to reduce the district's costs for operation of the Cape Girardeau Central High School swimming pool; while public schools use the pool just 25 percent of the time during the school year, the city and district have a contract that specifies that neither party pay less than 40 percent of the operating costs.

E.C. Younghouse, who was recommended by the Cape Girardeau County Republican Central Committee to fill a vacancy on the county commission, meets with Gov. John Ashcroft, who will make that appointment.

1963

Percy V. Pennybacker, 68, a nationally-known engineer and the resident engineer during the construction of the Cape Girardeau traffic bridge, died last Tuesday at his home in Austin, Texas; Pennybacker, a field engineer for Waddell and Harrington, lived while the bridge was built.

Carl Ritter, State College's all-time high scoring basketball player and also career scoring record holder of the Missouri Intercollegiate Athletic Association, may have prematurely ended his college career last night, when he suffered a knee injury in a fall during the Maryville game at Houck Field House.

1938

The architectural firm of Jamieson & Sperl of St. Louis has been employed by the Teachers College Board of Regents to draft plans for a new library building to be built on the Cape Girardeau campus this year; selection of the site for the library will be delayed two or three weeks, or until after the architects have presented preliminary sketches.

The elimination of the poll tax assessment of $4 per year, through state law, has left county officials wondering how road and bridge work will be funded; the poll tax annually raised $6,000 for county road work.

1913

Twelve members of the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club brave the bad weather to visit the Jackson Commercial Club in the evening; among county topics discussed are agriculture and better roads.

Benjamin F. Cain has taken up his new duties as assistant Cape Girardeau postmaster, his commission having arrived last week; Cain was a railway mail clerk running out of this city and has a splendid postal record.

-- Sharon K. Sanders