Out of the past 5/10/13

1988

About 100 members of the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce attend a membership campaign kickoff breakfast at Drury Lodge; last year's one-day membership drive netted 125 new members; this year's goal is 126.

The Cape Girardeau Board of Education selects two new principals for city elementary schools; David Giles will be principal at Alma Schrader and James R. Watkins at Washington.

1963

William E. Lamont, principal of Jackson High School since 1950, dies at a Cape Girardeau hospital at age 54; he had been in poor health for some time; Lamont's career in Jackson began in 1930, teaching industrial arts.

Cape Girardeau Mayor Walter H. Ford appoints a biracial committee to study the problem of housing the approximately 76 persons who will be left homeless by the demolition of their residences for construction of a new post office at Bellevue and Frederick streets; virtually all of those 17 families are black.

1938

Three young women were selected as the most attractive in the student body of the Teachers College; Agnes Schmuke of Jackson was picked as queen of the Sagamore, the college yearbook; her attendants are Patsy Lou Fisher and Bessie Schatte, both of Cape Girardeau.

Gene McDonald, athletic coach of the College High Preps, has resigned to accept a similar position at the Herculaneum, Mo., high school for next season; he will coach basketball and track and will be instructor in physical education and mathematics.

1913

Two records of the Southeast Missouri Athletic Association were shattered by athletes in preliminary heats Friday in preparing for today's finals; I. Tucker of Bloomfield, Mo., won his heat in the 100-yard dash in 10 2/5 seconds, and J. Lee of Charleston, Mo., twice threw the discus to break the old record, his farthest throw being 104 feet and 6 inches.

The McConnell evangelical meeting being less than a month off, organizers have scheduled a large number of cottage prayer meetings to be held throughout Cape Girardeau beginning next Tuesday evening.

-- Sharon K. Sanders