25 years ago: June 18, 1980
Cape Girardeau attorney William S. Rader was overwhelmingly chosen by the county Democratic committeemen last night to succeed Jerry S. Estes as Division III associate circuit judge; his name will now be recommended to Gov. Joseph P. Teasdale for appointment to succeed Estes, who has announced his resignation.
Ted Acord is being replaced by a machine; Acord, 88, has retired as a manual car switch elevator operator at the Himmelberger-Harrison Building, 400 Broadway; an automatic elevator replaced the hand-operated service he performed for 20 years.
It cost $84,446.50 to serve 235,584 meals in Cape Girardeau's public school cafeterias, an average of slightly less than 36 cents per meal including food, labor, supply and equipment expenses, the annual cafeteria report for the 1954-1955 school year shows.
A caravan of approximately 60 automobiles, carrying Missouri Jaycees delegates to the national convention at Atlanta, Ga., leaves from Charleston, Mo., in the afternoon with a Missouri Highway Patrol special escort; the caravan will be escorted all the way to Atlanta and then back to Missouri next Friday.
New round-trip rail rates between Cape Girardeau and St. Louis, averaging 1 1/2 cents per mile and cutting under fares charged by motor buses, will become effective on the Frisco Railroad tomorrow; the new schedule calls for a fare of $3.90 for a round trip ticket from Cape Girardeau to St. Louis, providing the return trip is made within two days after the date of the sale.
Paving of Highway 61 between Williams Creek, seven miles west of Cape Girardeau, and the existing pavement two miles west of Jackson, probably will begin about July 1, says contractor E.L. Markham; grading of the west end of the Byrd Township strip of the road, which is about six miles long, has been nearly completed.
Children's Day is observed at the English Methodist Church, the corner of Sprigg and Themis streets; the singing and recitations of the children is very attractive.
A storm sweeps over Cape Girardeau in the afternoon, doing considerable damage to gardens and trees, but otherwise the damage is slight; a heavy rain falls in this vicinity, but just a few miles north, only a shower falls; seven miles below Cape Girardeau, there is no rain at all.
-- Sharon K. Sanders
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