Out of the past 3/17/14

1989

Jackson school superintendent Wayne Maupin has hit the campaign trail, trying to sell voters on a 78-cent tax levy increase that would be used to finance construction of a new elementary building and gymnasium, and renovation of the existing elementary school for use by the high school.

Federal court in Cape Girardeau is one of three in Missouri that could be closed if Congress sees fit; if it closes, the FBI office and U.S. Marshal's Service here also would go; a congressional survey of nonmetropolitan federal courts across the nation is underway.

1964

The products of many of the finest minds in Southeast Missouri go on display in the afternoon, when the Eighth Annual Regional Science Fair opens its doors to the public at State College; the floor of Houck Field House is a maze of cardboard posters and assorted scientific paraphernalia.

The Jackson City Council yesterday learned that the International Shoe Co. factory there will undergo a modernization and expansion program that will cost about $300,000; the planned expansion calls for an additional 20,000 square feet to the present 42,797 square feet in the building; the building will be completely air-conditioned.

1939

Placing of gypsum blocks as the foundation for the tile roof of the library building at the Teachers College was started yesterday, and the roof should be completed in a few days; work will then begin on finishing the interior of the building; at the men's dormitory building, workers are pouring the fourth-floor concrete ceiling; stone work on the dorm should be finished next week.

Teachers College student Eugene Brewer of St. James, Mo., has been quarantined in his room at the L.H. Strunk dwelling, 512 N. West End Blvd., after developing smallpox; around 150 students not previously vaccinated for the disease are summoned from class for immunization.

1914

St. Patrick's Day is being celebrated here by most Irishmen, and many of their "Dutchmen" friends are wearing the green as a token of good fellowship.

The Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad receives three brand new engines from the Baldwin Locomotive Works of Philadelphia.

-- Sharon K. Sanders