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1989

Cape Girardeau County Presiding Commissioner Gene Huckstep plans to meet with his Bollinger County counterpart this week to begin selecting a finance committee to review methods of funding a proposed lake in the two counties.

A measure rezoning land for expansion of an alcohol- and drug-treatment center is given first-round approval by the city council; final approval is far from certain, however; the rezoning request of Southeast Missouri Halfway House Inc. gets the nod despite strong opposition from neighborhood residents.

1964

The Cape Girardeau School Board last night officially accepted the results of Tuesday's special levy election and then discussed plans for use of the funds provided by the affirmative vote; the board and school administration agree that with the funds secured, attention can now be given to expanding the vocational education curriculum, possibly in the next school year.

Richard L. Eggimann has bought the Simpson Appliance Co., 525 Broadway, from Tom Simpson.

1939

Scores of leaders in Cape Girardeau and district communities begin last-minute preparations for the big, first Boy Scout Circus to be staged Friday night at Houck Field House by the Southeast Missouri Area Council; around 1,000 Boy Scouts and Cubs from 36 troops and a half-dozen Cub packs will participate in the event.

Fire of unknown origin destroys the Boy Scout cabin belonging to the Knights of Columbus organization in the Schonhoff woods, about a half-mile west of the city on the Gordonville Road; the cabin was built in 1933 by the Knights.

1914

Mayor F.A. Kage has designated Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday of next week as cleanup days for Cape Girardeau; the ladies of the Civic Improvement Association are taking the leading part in seeing that the mayor's instructions are carried out.

I.E. Stillwell, who recently purchased the house at the southwest corner of the lot on which the new Saint Francis Hospital is being built, is having it moved to the site where his house recently burned on Cousin Street.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__