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1989

Broadway cruisers cooperated with law enforcement officials over the weekend, and there was no disabling traffic congestion as in the past; traffic was light, and those who were cruising apparently extended their trips along Broadway.

On a rainy night, city council members generally voice support for a revised stormwater management ordinance; the ordinance would basically require developers to provide stormwater retention structures for new residential and commercial developments.

1964

A San Diego electronics manufacturing concern will establish a plant on property it will buy from the Municipal Airport Board, announces Allen Robinson, executive vice president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce; the company is Cimron Inc., whose president, Wayne J. Wilkinson, is a former Cape Girardeau and Chaffee, Mo., resident.

Lt. Col. John A. "Shorty" Powers, who handled press relations for the National Aeronautics and Space Agency during the manned Mercury flights, is here to make speaking appearances at the annual chamber of commerce dinner, State College and Central and Notre Dame high schools.

1939

Mrs. George B. Simmons of Marshall, Mo., a farm woman whose "grassroots" convention attack on the New Deal two years ago focused the nation's attention on her, is the guest speaker at the Lincoln Day dinner at Centenary Methodist Church.

Delayed by weather conditions from making an earlier start, Floyd Thompson, skipper of the "Wash Tub Clipper," leaves Wittenberg, Mo., in the morning; with luck, he'll reach Cape Girardeau tonight or early tomorrow on his trip down the Mississippi River; the 27-year-old Thompson is traveling in a No. 2 galvanized wash tub.

1914

More than 200 people braved the snowstorm last night to attend the masked ball given by the Cape Girardeau firefighters at West End Hall; still, the crowd wasn't nearly as large as it would have been had the weather cooperated.

Frisco train 801, from St. Louis to Memphis, Tenn., is a little more than three hours late getting here, owing to the heavy snow north of here; the lateness of this train held up the Gulf, Poplar Bluff and Booster trains about an hour each.

-- Sharon K. Sanders