Out of the past 5/12/14

1989

Breaking Cape Girardeau municipal laws could get a little more costly; the City Council is considering a measure that would assess a $2 court cost on each individual found guilty of violating municipal codes.

Bollinger County was found to be in violation of federal labor laws after a meeting this week with an officer from the U.S. Department of Labor; according to laws, the county is required to pay some $23,000 in back pay to sheriff's deputies, who weren't being paid for hours worked over 40 hours a week.

1964

Guidance of law enforcement in Cape Girardeau passes into new hands in the morning, when Irvin E. Beard begins his duties as the city's new chief of police; he is a 22-year veteran of the Highway Patrol.

DEXTER, Mo. -- Two crop-dusting accidents, one yesterday and the other today, kill two pilots, both of Dexter; the crash of a plane on a farm south of Steele, Missouri, at 7:12 a.m. kills 36-year-old Howard W. Miller; Max L. Dean, 42, died Monday of injuries suffered Sunday when his plane crashed and burned in the Hulbert, Arkansas, community.

1939

Wayne Goddard, star performer on the Teachers College football and track squad for four years, announces he has signed a contract to coach football, basketball and track, and teach physical education and hygiene at the Dexter [Missouri High School.

Despite the cool weather, about 2,500 people turn out to watch more than 800 pupils of the grade schools present their annual May Day program at Houck Field Stadium; the colorful event opens with a band concert by the combined junior high bands.

1914

The new steamer Peoria, which has been built for the Eagle Packet Co. of St. Louis at the Howard shipyards in Jeffersonville, Indiana, is scheduled to arrive here this week from Paducah, Kentucky; it will be put into service between St. Louis and Peoria, Illinois, and other Illinois river points.

T.S. Harris, president of the Kettle River Co. of Minneapolis, Minnesota, was here yesterday to confer with the city regarding repairs on the wood block paving along streetcar tracks; the city is threatening to sue the company, if repairs aren't made.

-- Sharon K. Sanders