Out of the past 4/23/13

1988

Richard Esicar, proprietor of a well-known local smokehouse, is hoping authorities will locate the swine who abducted his prize pig; at large are hog-nappers who stole a large, concrete sow weighing more than 300 pounds from in front of Esicar's Old Hickory Smokehouse.

A $35,000 donation from Noranda Aluminum Inc., of New Madrid, Mo., will be used to establish a National Public Radio station at Southeast Missouri State University.

1963

PARMA, Mo. -- Damage estimated at $50,000 or more is done in the morning, when fire sweeps four rooms of the Central Elementary School at Parma; some other damage is done, especially by smoke.

Employees of International Shoe Co. in Jackson approve a company proposal to accept a pay cut and to increase production by making a new line of women's shoes; the factory had been operating on about a three-and-a-half-day week, but will probably go to a full-time basis shortly after April 29.

1938

LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Unofficially, it is believed Bill McLain, Cape Girardeau Teachers College track star, finished third in the Kansas Relays decathlon behind Dick Kearns of the University of Colorado and Claude Kilday of Occidental.

A.F. Deneke of the Cape Girardeau Highway Commission says the commission is trying to line up right-of-way for Route Z, a farm-to-market road that would extend southwest from a point a mile west of Gordonville, where the road has been improved and graveled, toward Bollinger County; all the land needed for the 3 1/2-mile road, except two plots, have been signed up.

1913

L.H. Langston, the road boss for the Cape Township Special Road District, is doing splendid work already; he hasn't been on the job very long, but his experience in taking care of roads is telling; he has a force of men widening the road leading north from the Cape Girardeau-Jackson gravel road near Cape LaCroix Creek; he also has built concrete wings to a bridge near Hitt's place.

Manager A.M. Tilley is expecting to receive two streetcars tomorrow, the first of four new cars he bought several months ago; the first two are expected to be summer cars.

-- Sharon K. Sanders