Out of the past 5/11/14

1989

Limited work on U.S. 61 in Jackson will resume tomorrow, following complaints of damage to driveways along the route; but a strike by members of Operating Engineers Local 513 continues.

For the second time in three months, the city Planning and Zoning Commission has refused to endorse a proposed funeral home project; owners of Lorberg Memorial Funeral Chapel want to build a new funeral home on a seven-acre tract stretching from Gordonville Road to Route K.

1964

City and county officials agree that a county collector's office is a necessity for Cape Girardeau, but the location of the office remains in doubt; three city officials meet with the County Court, presenting an argument that the office in Common Pleas Courthouse should be closed.

The first positive step toward construction of a proposed elementary school here -- probably on Hopper Road -- is taken by the school board, when it hires architect John L.E. Boardman of Cape Girardeau to begin drafting plans.

1939

Southeast Missouri ministers, representing 150,000 district Baptists at a meeting at First Baptist Church, vote to establish a Bible Foundation at the Teachers College.

A squad of four district wildlife conservation agents took a cruise down the Missouri side of the Mississippi River yesterday, starting at St. Mary; their trip netted them a bag of 21 fishing nets, all set in the river; the season is now closed for all net fishing.

1914

P.G. Spurgeon of the Allis-Chalmers Co. of Chicago is in town with a crew of four men installing the large turbine engine with which electrical power is to be generated at the new plant of the Missouri Public Utilities Co. in the north end; the turbine is being placed in the addition to the old plant and had to be installed before the roof was placed on the annex.

Homer D. Hughes of Bevier, Missouri, a coal-mining town in the north part of the state, passes through the city; he walked from Bevier to the Missouri towns of Jefferson City, Springfield, Willow Springs and Cape Girardeau in 13 days and is on his way to St. Louis, Hannibal, Missouri, and then home.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__