Out of the past 5/19/14

1989

West German manufacturer of plastic packaging materials Mildenberger & Willing announces it will build a $41 million facility here that will employ 200 people at full production by 1991; M&W will construct a 147,000-square-foot plant alongside Highway 177, across the road from the Procter & Gamble Paper Products Co.

Visitors to Cape Girardeau will soon get a "rosy" welcome; four 8-by-12-foot welcome signs with a rose design will be placed at four major entrances to the city, replacing existing city limit signs.

1964

Low-cost housing became a question before the city council yesterday for the third time in the last four weeks, when members of a committee supporting the issue asked the council to appoint commissioners to the Cape Girardeau Housing Authority; Mayor W.E. Davis told the delegation he'd have a decision for them next Monday.

The Southeast Missouri Beagle Club Inc., 10 miles southwest of Delta on Route N, has sold 132 acres of its land to Robert Vines and Avery Dellinger; the club has retained 191 acres, on which it will make improvements.

1939

WPA workers under the supervision of Hillard Brewster, landscape engineer of the State Highway Department, are affecting a charming transformation of Wedekind Park on U.S. 61 west of the county home; about 800 tons of limestone rock are being used in riprapping the sides of the drainage structures, building two stone bridges, constructing three barbecue pits, three picnic tables, seats, retaining walls around trees along the banks and providing other necessary rock protection to the contours of the soil.

Dr. Sherman D. Scruggs, president of Lincoln University at Jefferson School, gave last night's commencement address at John S. Cobb School; five high school students were awarded diplomas.

1914

Contracts for paving short distances on two more Cape Girardeau streets were awarded by the city council Monday evening; Harmon Loeffel secured the paving with concrete on Washington Avenue for two blocks, and T.J. Shorb got two blocks on Jefferson Avenue.

J.J. Estes, general yard foreman at Illmo, says rail freight traffic has begun to pick up again; 2,500 cars have been passing through every 24 hours for the past few days.

-- Sharon K. Sanders