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1988

About 3,000 teachers from 75 school districts in Southeast Missouri gather at the Show Me Center for the 112th annual District Teachers Meeting.

Southeast Missouri State University has narrowed down applicants seeking the head football coach job to four finalists: Dave Arslanian, assistant head coach and offensive coordinator at Weber State University Ogden, Utah; Dennis Creehan, linebacker coach at the University of California-Berkeley; Jim Gilstrap, offensive coordinator of the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football League; and Bill Maskill, defensive secondary coach at the University of Oregon.

1963

Two of State College's all-time great basketball stars hung up their uniforms for the last time Saturday night; Carl Ritter, senior guard from Advance, Mo., scored 1,916 points in 91 games for a career average of 21 points, a school and MIAA record; Bill Giessing, a senior from Farmington, Mo., finished with 1,695 points in 87 games for a 19.4 average career mark.

Norman Stallings, proprietor of the Curve Inn, 635 N. Main St., tells the city council the new city ordinance banning minors younger than 17 from taverns will put him out of business.

1938

G.H. Bates, supervisor of the sales tax department in the office of the state auditor, collects 340,000 paper "bottle cap" tax tokens from Girardeans; Bates redeems tokens for $340 in cash; the paper mills will be taken to the city dump and burned.

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The College High Preps rallied in the last four minutes of the game last night against Trenton High for a 26-23 victory; the Preps will play the Neosho, Mo., quintet tonight in the state basketball tournament.

1913

Capt. and Mrs. G.E. Alt depart Cape Girardeau for Cobham, Va., where they expect to make their home; there Capt. Alt will take charge of a large plantation that belongs to a man who is in the diplomatic service of the United States; Cape Girardeau is losing a most worthy family.

The large barn on the farm of Wash Hitt, in the south end of Cape Girardeau County, is destroyed by fire at an early hour, with eight horses, a lot of feed and farm tools being consumed in the blaze.

-- Sharon K. Sanders