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1989

About 25 historic-preservation-minded residents met last night at city hall to discuss efforts to save and restore Old Lorimier Cemetery; city Councilman David Barklage told the group that citizen support is the catalyst needed to push city government to become involved in the restoration effort.

Frank Kimes climbed to the top of the 82-foot-tall flagpole at Cape County Park yesterday to replace the ball and the cable, which had snapped during a storm earlier this month, downing Old Glory.

1964

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Dedication festivities for a porcelain-covered, 11-story cross atop Bald Knob, one of Southern Illinois' highest hills, begins in the evening with a battery of spotlights being turned on for the first time; the culmination of the festivities will be the Easter sunrise service tomorrow.

Local residents are anxiously awaiting word from loved ones living in Alaska, where a devastating earthquake struck last night; the quake struck at the heart of Anchorage.

1939

While in Cape Girardeau, P.A. Tate, president of the Anti-Saloon League of Missouri, predicts there will never be open saloons in Missouri on Sunday because there are too many objectors to the desecration of the Sabbath in this matter; at least three bills have been introduced into the Legislature providing for open saloons on Sunday, but Tate believes lawmakers favor tightening liquor laws rather than liberalizing them.

Charles A. Himmelberger, E. J. Bauerle and Barrett C. Cotner have been elected to membership on the board of directors of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce; they will hold those posts for three years.

1914

CHAFFEE, Mo. -- It is rumored that J. Claude Wylie has landed the government plum: postmaster of Chaffee; Wylie is a farmer who lives about a mile south of town.

H.H. Mueller's pork-packing business is one of Jackson's most important industries; the packing season is about over; thousands of choice hams are hanging from the ceiling everywhere at his establishment, and great stacks of bacon are piled up like cord wood.

-- Sharon K. Sanders