Out of the past 2/4/14

1989

Dr. Bill W. Stacy, president of Southeast Missouri State University, says the school will put together a potential financing package for a $13 million College of Business and Public Administration building through the sale of college savings bonds; in addition, Stacy says the university will seek financial commitments to the building from the state and the university foundation.

Forty-one Southeast Missouri Council Eagle Scouts are told about their future responsibilities by a pioneer of the Boy Scouting movement at the 1988 Court of Honor; in his remarks to the class, Rush Limbaugh stresses the importance of the Scouts doing their part as leaders of the nation and world.

1964

Police have four youths in custody who are suspected of burglarizing and ransacking the Medical Arts Building, 937 Broadway; three of them are arrested in front of the Colony Club, after a high-speed chase across the traffic bridge; found under the front seat of the vehicle are three bank deposit bags with the name "Medical Arts Pharmacy" printed on them.

Petitions are circulating in Jackson for a special election to permit liquor sales by the drink there.

1939

Traffic begins a more normal movement as Southeast Missouri's highways are freed of the 8-inch snow, the heaviest in 21 years; fair skies signal the advent of warmer weather and the promise that the snow will leave after Cape Girardeau shivered in an 11-degree temperature in the wake of the blizzard.

The Cape Girardeau City Council has decided to have a four-room frame dwelling near U.S. 61 on the new park property moved to a site in the southwest corner of the park; it will be used as quarters for a park caretaker.

1914

Robert Riehn and the men of the West Millersville neighborhood are building a pulpit at the Niswonger Chapel; they have purchased a nice hanging lamp for the chapel and expect to finish painting there soon.

The incoming trains from the south show that the weather in the lower counties of Southeast Missouri is worse than in Cape Girardeau; the cars are covered with a heavy coating of ice.

-- Sharon K. Sanders