Out of the past 2/24/14

1989

Former U.S. senator Chic Hecht of Las Vegas, a native of Cape Girardeau, has been appointed ambassador to the Bahamas by President George Bush.

John Mumford has been officially named the new defensive coordinator for Indians' football at Southeast Missouri State University; he replaces Kevin Cosgrove, who elected to take an assistant coaching position at Colorado State.

1964

The Central Junior High School is officially transformed from a building to a school in the morning when classroom work begins there for about 750 seventh- and eighth-grade pupils; before classes begin, the pupils gather outside for a flag-raising ceremony.

In the week before Jackson votes on bonds to finance a new industry, it is announced that delays have been overcome on another industrial project; construction will resume on the Litz Brothers Poultry Processing Plant later this week; construction on the plant began about a year ago, but was halted with only the foundation poured when financing difficulties arose.

1939

Today's session brings The Missourian's 1939 Cooking School to a close, this being the last of four afternoon sessions at the Broadway Theater, with Mrs. Emily M. Lautz as lecturer; among the recipes Lautz demonstrates are sour cream pie, seven-minute icing for a white cake, corn oysters, glazed onions and 12-minute cabbage.

Shreveport, La., interests announce they will begin immediately to take leases on Illinois land from the end of the Mississippi River traffic bridge to and around the vicinity of McClure, Ill., for possible tests for oil.

1914

In a banner advertisement that runs across the top of The Daily Republican's front page, the Opera House advertises "The sensation of the season. Thomas A. Edison's genuine TALKING PICTURES"; presented will be films featuring John J. McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, and "A Deaf Mute," a war drama in two parts; the two-day event starts tomorrow.

G.S. Parsons, formerly a bandmaster at Bonne Terre, Mo., and well known here, has been requested to come here for two days to instruct a class of the young society set in the latest dances; he will arrive tomorrow.

-- Sharon K. Sanders