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1988

A city-owned, solid-waste transfer station is expected to open in Cape Girardeau by July or August; an exact timetable regarding the opening depends on how long it takes to obtain the necessary operating permit from the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Despite pleadings from colleagues that he stay on until at least a slack-water harbor is dedicated, C.W. "Woody" Rushing follows through with plans to resign as chairman of the Southeast Missouri Regional Port Authority.

1963

Election of new officers for 1964 and the adoption of a slate of resolutions head the business of the Assembly of Delegates of the Southeast Missouri State Teachers Association; Ora E. Robinson of Herculaneum, Mo., is elected first vice president and Grace Williams of Cape Girardeau is elected to the executive committee.

More than 3,000 district educators jam Houck Field House to hear Dr. Harold Taylor, a New York City educator and television personality, discuss America's education crisis as part of the annual teachers meeting.

1938

Jacob Doyle, 93, a native of Cape Girardeau County, for 40 years a schoolteacher in the Pocahontas, Leemon and other communities and a veteran of the Civil War, died last night at the Masonic Home in St. Louis; during the war, he served in the Confederate Army and was said to be the only surviving Confederate veteran in this immediate area.

The board of directors of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce decides it will appoint a committee to negotiate with D.B. Howell over the establishment of a chinaware manufacturing plant here.

1913

The spring term of the Normal School opened this week with the largest enrollment in the history of the school; the total enrollment for the year has already passed the 1,000 mark; there seems little doubt it will surpass 1,200 students.

After waiting patiently for several years since establishing stores in Cape Girardeau and Charleston, Mo., the Buckner-Ragsdale Co., has finally opened a store at Sikeston, Mo.; managing the new enterprise will be Anderson Gibbs, a cousin of Buckner Ragsdale.

-- Sharon K. Sanders