Out of the past 2/17/09

25 years ago: Feb. 17, 1984

Bowing to pressure by students and parents at an ad hoc meeting, the Delta School Board agreed to convene again next week and reconsider the contract of high school principal Jack McIntosh.

The executive director of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority, Charles A. Clodfelter, announced he will retire as soon as a replacement is found.

50 years ago: Feb. 17, 1959

The first major public works project of the current year was implemented by the Cape Girardeau City Council last night when it approved plans, specifications and estimates of cost for a sewer system in the north part of the city near Perryville Road and Cape Rock Drive.

SIKESTON, Mo. — An ordinance calling a special election on a proposal to set up the city manager form of government was tabled at a meeting of the Sikeston City Council last night; the ordinance was introduced by Alderman Ira Keller and given two readings, but an objection by Alderman A.P. Veasman resulted in the measure being tabled.

75 years ago: Feb. 17, 1934

Standing with his back to a heating stove in a filling station he operates in west Jackson shortly before noon, Tony Friedrich is burned on the hands, wrists and back by an explosion; he thinks a dynamite cap or some similar object was carelessly, or as a joke, placed in the stove.

Elam Vangilder, former major league hurler, and last season with the Dallas club of the Texas League, expects to sign a contract with the Dallas club within the next few days; he plans to leave for training camp at Baton Rouge, La., about March 12.

100 years ago: Feb. 17, 1909

The Cape Girardeau County Court, meeting in Jackson in the afternoon, refuses to issue a license for a saloon in the new Flentge hotel on Broadway; for several weeks there has been contention in that block over the saloon proposition, with petitions being circulated asking the court to keep the saloon out.

Ben Bowman, who has had a half interest in the Star barber shop on Broadway near Sprigg Street, has disposed of his holdings and will leave for New Mexico.

— Sharon K. Sanders