Out of the past 5/29/14

1989

Retired Brig. Gen. Norval A. Randol tells a Memorial Day crowd at Cape County Park North that a threat still exists with the Soviet Union, and America's military must remain strong in order to meet the new challenge.

Dr. Bill Stacy, Southeast Missouri State University president, is one of five finalists for president of a new university that will be established in North San Diego, California.

1964

Mayor W.E. Davis says he expects to appoint a local commission on street planning within the next two to three months; he hopes the commission will devise a long-range program for the development of Cape Girardeau's street system in respect to traffic patterns.

William E. Towell, director of the State Conservation Commission, says legislation is needed to control the use of pesticides and to license those employing the chemicals; a toxic chemical spray applied from the air to kill army worms is blamed for the large fish kill in Southeast Missouri last week.

1939

In a Memorial Day address Sunday at historic Old Lorimier Cemetery, Judge Oscar A. Knehans paid special tribute to the memory of all Cape Girardeau's war dead; patriotic organizations decorated more than 300 graves of Civil War veterans, including 130 in Old Lorimier.

Delegates of the 38th annual convention of the Missouri State Association of Letter Carriers and Ladies' Auxiliary open their meeting in the afternoon at the Hotel Marquette.

1914

The construction of dozens of silos in Cape Girardeau County recently shows conclusively that the county is fast being transformed from a wheat-raising county into a stock-raising county; one firm at Jackson sold six 75-ton silos in a few days; the purchasers were L.E. Kies, Will Mason, W.A. Sander, August Rieman, Dale Browning and Emily Lowes, all substantial farmers and breeders of livestock.

A car on a tie train running out on the Saline Branch of the Cape Girardeau Northern Railroad jumps the track and turns over near Giboney, in Perry County, Missouri, shortly before noon; M.C. O'Neal and Frank Wolford, brakemen, are bruised and shaken in the mishap.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__