Out of the past 3/8/14

1989

Cape Girardeau city officials are considering allowing the municipal golf course pro shop to be operated privately under a lease arrangement; at present, the city is directly handling the concessions business at the shop.

The proposed Lexington Street project receives the endorsement of the Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission; the $3.4 million project would provide a badly needed arterial, east-west street from Kingshighway to Highway 177.

1964

Approximately 300 Sunday School teachers from Lutheran churches in the Altenburg-Cape Girardeau circuits take part in the annual Institute of the Lutheran Sunday School Association at Trinity Lutheran School here; Edger Dreyer of Frohna, Mo., presides.

Around 200 fans greet the State College basketball players, sporting cowboy hats, at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport after winning the Southwest NCAA Regional Tournament at Beaumont, Texas; the Indians will next play State College of Iowa Wednesday night in the national tournament at Evansville, Ind.

1939

The Diehlstadt, Mo., high school girls basketball team has an enviable record: county champions five consecutive years; Southeast Missouri champions four out the last five years; 77 consecutive victories, and out of 150 games played in the past five years they've won 145 of them.

The Cape Girardeau Lions Club observes its 17th anniversary, with former Sen. Russel L. Dearmont, first president of the organization, as the speaker; six of the charter members of the club attend the event: G.C. Walther, Oscar Hirsch, Alvin Macke, E.R. Harris, R.L. Beckman and Fred Springer.

1914

Dr. Robert G. Dyer, a student of Vanderbilt University, delivers an address at the Presbyterian Church in the morning on the "Armenian Persecutions"; Dyer and his brother are preparing themselves for missionary work among their own countrymen.

The contract for the new Washington School is scheduled to be let March 25; the building, designed by architect W.E. Parlow, will cost between $15,000 and $18,000; it will be two stories with six classrooms.

-- Sharon K. Sanders