Out of the past 2/12/13

1988

Effective midnight, E.C. Younghouse became a county commissioner; he was appointed by Gov. John Ashcroft to succeed J. Ronald Fischer, who became Cape Girardeau's new city manager after nearly 20 years of service at the county post.

Despite the Cape Girardeau Board of Education's urging to reconsider, two school administrators -- federal projects coordinator Ray Pensel and director of elementary education Vince Raddle -- are sticking with their decisions to retire.

1963

Hassel Looney, president of the Jackson Country Club and Golf Association, announced Monday that the final charter membership shares have been sold; the corporation now has 250 charter members; as soon as weather permits, work will begin on a nine-hole golf course at Jackson; it is hoped the course will be in playing condition by June.

James Q. du Pont, a great-great-grandson of the founder of the Du Pont Co., is guest speaker at the annual Chamber of Commerce and Joint Service Dinner at the Arena Building.

1938

Only two bobcats were seen, and only one killed, during yesterday's massive hunt in two plots of grass- and brush-covered territory south of Dutchtown and southwest of Chaffee, Mo.; the only successful hunter among the 150 who took part in the afternoon session of the hunt was Oscar Lauck of New Hamburg, Mo., who killed a 25 1/2-pound cat near Chaffee.

Indications are that an outbreak of contagious diseases here is on the wane; during January, 270 cases of measles were reported.

1913

Louis Houck, Giboney Houck, John Tlapek, Charles J. Juden, L.G. Phillips -- directors of the Chester, Perryville & Ste. Genevieve Railway -- and other allied interests of the Houck roads are in St. Louis; while no information is obtainable from the Houck offices, it is believed this gathering of directors concerns the transfer of Houck interests to the new syndicate.

Cape Girardeau is losing one of its best families; William M. Stone, who last week was appointed special bank examiner for the St. Louis clearing house, has come back to pack his household effects and will move his family to St. Louis.

-- Sharon K. Sanders