Out of the past 3/30/13

1988

Cape Girardeau County Associate Circuit Judge William S. Rader has filed for 32nd District circuit judge in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties; a Democrat, Rader will be opposing Republican A.J. Seier, who has filed for a third, six-year term.

Saying he wants to give people a choice on who their next sheriff will be, William C. Stone Sr., filed yesterday as a Democratic candidate for the office.

1963

The Missourian announces that, effective Monday, it will open a full-time news bureau in Jackson in the Jackson Oil Co. building, 112 E. Washington St.; Robert S. Todd, a member of the newspaper's reporting staff, has been assigned to the office.

Cape Girardeau's Capaha Park baseball diamond, which was the most beautiful playing field for a small town in the Midwest, has lost its unique grass infield; because of maintenance problems, the infield has been "skinned" and will be all dirt from now on; the grass infield was constructed when the St. Louis Browns came to Cape Girardeau for spring training in 1943.

1938

Rain drenches a number of communities in Southeast Missouri, but apparently is centered in Sikeston, Mo., which receives 4 1/2 inches; some secondary roads in the district are under water.

Although there's no official word, projected activity at the CCC camp near Delta indicates the drainage rehabilitation camp there will likely be maintained for a long time; the government had tentatively planned to close this camp, along with many others.

1913

W.A. Haynes begins a series of lectures at the Christian Church on "The Bible vs. the Unity of Races"; he will show the fallacy of the old theory that all races have sprung from a single pair of human beings.

Rose Leming returns in the evening from her winter's hibernation in Texas; she remained in St. Louis for three weeks on her way home to visit Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Vandiver.

-- Sharon K. Sanders