Out of the past 6/12/14

1989

An electrical storm takes as casualties a phone system and four computer terminals at Concord Publishing House, 430 Broadway; personnel report a sound like a sonic boom at 11:45 a.m.

Members of the Cape County Board of Equalization are asked to consider whether reports of chemical contamination in an area along South Kingshighway should be taken into consideration in determining the assessed value of property; George Bockhorst, who owns Armored Mini Storage at 832 S. Kingshighway, asks whether the values should be lowered because of the Missouri Electric Works study by the Environmental Protection Agency.

1964

Workers are putting the finishing touches on the dam for Lake Girardeau at Crump, which is being built by the State Conservation Commission; the earthwork of the dam has been completed except for filling in around the concrete drop structure.

Concrete for the final section of the river floodwall here is poured, making the wall a solidly continuous barricade from Mississippi floods from the traffic bridge north to the International Shoe Co. plant.

1939

Former county judge John S. Kochtitzky of Cape Girardeau dies in the morning at a local hospital of injuries sustained last night, when his automobile and another car collided on U.S. 61 near Risco, Missouri; his wife, who was accompanying him, was also seriously injured.

Judge L.L. Bowman, speaking on behalf of Bowman Bros. Realty Co., asks the city council to consider suggesting to the Missouri Utilities Co. that a 6-inch water main be laid to the new city park on U.S. 61, so that water may be supplied also to at least a part of the Rodney Vista area.

1914

The new F.W. Woolworth 10-cent store has its formal opening in the afternoon, in the form of an open house; the store won't begin to sell goods until tomorrow morning; F.C. Bair, one of the company's most competent men, has been brought here from Joplin, Missouri, to be the resident manager.

The storm that swept over the city yesterday afternoon was one of the worst this city has suffered for some time; trees by the score were blown over, and several plate glass windows were blown out.

-- Sharon K. Sanders