Out of the past 4/13/14

1989

ST. LOUIS -- The Cape Girardeau Regional Commerce & Growth Association is hosting a meeting in St. Louis to promote a new, coast-to-coast interstate highway the group estimates will cost $10 billion.

The Cape Girardeau Planning and Zoning Commission has given its support to a rezoning request that would clear the way for expansion of an alcohol- and drug-treatment center here; Southeast Missouri Halfway House Inc. wants to expand its treatment center at 341 N. Main St.

1964

Capt. Frederick L. Schneider of the Cape Girardeau Police Department has been appointed acting chief of police to serve until a permanent appointment can be made; he succeeds John L. Wieser, who as police commissioner had served as acting chief since Jan. 1, when Percy R. Little resigned that post.

Strong winds race through Cape Girardeau County shortly after midnight, pushing down a barn, unroofing a house and doing lesser damage; hardest hit was the Millersville area, where the wind took the roof off the home of Manuel O'Dell.

1939

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- The big rat push, a community effort to rid the vicinity of the rodents the 1937 Mississippi-Ohio rivers flood brought into the Missouri spillway, is on here; it will end Saturday, and all the rats killed will be exhibited at the Railroad Park.

A.S. Carey of Cape Girardeau, a native of Bolton, England, recently completed his application for American naturalization and yesterday took the formal oath of allegiance to the United States; he came to America with his parents in 1923.

1914

General manager Thomas M. Williams is busy these days getting things started for the construction of a new plant for the Freeze Threshing Machine Co.; the road into the land secured from the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club in the north end of the city has been built, and a bridge was constructed across the ravine leading to the property.

Although expected for several months, yesterday's announcement that William H. Miller had suddenly died created a pang of sincere sorrow to permeate every corner of Cape Girardeau; Miller was a lawyer, a banker and a prominent resident of Jackson.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__