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1989

A line of severe thunderstorms causes widespread power outages as it moves through Southeast Missouri in the evening; heavy rain also causes some Cape Girardeau streets to be closed as water flows out of creek banks; approximately 3,500 Union Electric customers are affected by the storms, including 700 to 800 in Cape Girardeau.

Final plans for what developer Jack Litzelfelner calls a new, "substantially-over-a-million" dollar golf course are viewed by the Jackson City Council; the 18-hole Bent Creek Golf Course should open in May 1990.

1964

Cape Girardeau voters will decide by ballot Tuesday whether a pension plan for city policemen and firemen will be put into effect; if the retirement plan for the 67 employees of the departments is approved, a tax levy of 15 cents per $100 valuation will be imposed to finance the city's portion of the fund.

A concert by pupils selected from 40 area high schools concludes the annual high school Choral Festival at the State College; the evening concert is held in the auditorium of Academic Hall.

1939

Charles A. Himmelberger, head of Southeast Missouri Lumber Co., is elected president of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce at the reorganization meeting of the new board; other officers named are first vice president, Thomas T. Ferguson; second vice president, Alfred Hirsch; and treasurer, L.W. Simmons.

It's likely to be a long, sad summer for baseball fans in Cape Girardeau; little interest is evidenced at a meeting aimed at reviving the Capahas for Sunday baseball; apparently, aside from the Cape County League games, there will be no Sunday baseball here.

1914

Seven eminent Missourians have been appointed to a special committee to secure a strong delegation to the fourth annual meeting of the National Drainage Congress at Savannah, Ga., April 22 through 25; among those members is J.H. Himmelberger of Cape Girardeau.

The plans for the big central high school building are received from Felt & Co., the Kansas City architects who received the contract to draw the plans; it is probable that a school board meeting will be called Saturday to carefully examine the drawings.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__