Out of the past 3/7/14

1989

A preliminary inspection by the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department indicates no apparent structural damage was done to the Cape Girardeau Mississippi River traffic bridge after a tractor-trailer skidded on ice Monday evening and tore out 80 to 100 feet of protective bridge railing.

The huge flag flying over the war memorial at Cape County Park was a victim of Saturday night's ice storm; the flag became heavy with a buildup of ice, which caused a cable that holds the flag up to snap, bringing the banner down.

1964

E. Ross Young Jr., a Cape Girardeau clothier, filed Friday as a Democratic candidate for county assessor; he is the first member of his party to seek the office so far this year, but the incumbent, Republican Edwin Blumenberg, has filed for re-election.

State College is once more bound for Evansville, Ind., and the national NCAA Small-College Basketball Tournament, after defeating Abilene Christian, 90-87, at Beaumont, Texas.

1939

Dennis M. Scivally, member of a committee representing the Cape County Wildlife Conservation Federation, starts draining the lagoon in Fairground Park where small bass are to be placed about April 1 to be reared during the summer months; the rough fish now in the pond will be removed.

Plans are being formulated to pave Perryville Road from the present concrete northward to Cape Rock Drive; part of the sector is in the city and part lies outside; the road is now graveled.

1914

Howard C. Bradbury, deputy hotel inspector of Missouri, is in town nosing around hotels and rooming houses to see that they provide the proper kind of sheets for comfort and sanitation of guests; the most important parts of the law he enforces relate to the length of sheets -- 99 inches -- and fire escapes on hotels and rooming houses.

The bank examiner having finished his work at First National Bank, it is expected that that institution will reopen soon; it is said the examiner found conditions of the bank much better than first expected and that the losses on poor paper won't run to such a high amount as some had reported.

-- Sharon K. Sanders