Out of the past 3/18/14

1989

Southeast Missouri State captures its sixth South Central Regional basketball championship in eight years, earning a berth in the "Elite Eight" of the NCAA Division II championships at Springfield, Mass.; powered by senior Malcomn Henry, who is voted the tourney's most valuable player, the Indians down MIAA rival Central Missouri State 88-73.

Jennifer Worth, the Southeast Missouri spelling champion, survives an hour and 15 minutes before missing "geochrony" in the St. Louis Regional Spelling Bee; Worth is the 13-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gary Worth of Cape Girardeau.

1964

A campaign goal of $450,000 to help finance a proposed annex to Southeast Missouri Hospital has been set by the hospital's board of trustees; those funds will be added to the $427,492 in federal Hill-Burton money which has been allocated and specifically set aside for the Cape Girardeau project on a matching fund basis.

Regional Science Fair director E. Lawrence Bahn reports an official attendance yesterday of 525 people at the fair in Houck Field House.

1939

Carl Meyer of Cape Girardeau is expected to leave Sunday for Opelousas, La., to join that club's pitching staff in the Evangeline League; Meyer was with Opelousas in about 35 games of the first part of the 1937 season, but he injured his arm and had to come home; in the last three weeks of the 1938 season, he finished out the league with them.

Raymond Hill, a senior at Central High School and a son of the Rev. and Mrs. Walt E. Hill of Third Street Methodist Church, is in Jefferson City, Mo., representing Cape Girardeau County in the "student legislature."

1914

First National Bank reopens its doors in the morning and begins business with a rush, after a suspension of nearly two weeks; in the first half-hour after opening, about 100 people appear at the cashier's window to transact business.

Thomas Harris and his bride, the former Miss Arlys Nelson of Oak Ridge, are now domiciled in the Miller Apartments on West Main Street in Jackson; Harris is in the automobile business.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__