Out of the past 6/20/14

1989

Jackson's city attorney Roger Ellis and city judge Kenneth C. McManaman have been replaced by the Board of Aldermen; the firm of Buerkle, Beeson and Ludwig has been appointed city attorneys for the next two years, while Jackson attorney Pete Statler has been appointed municipal judge.

Secretary of State Roy Blunt, chairman of the Governor's Advisory Council on Literacy, and Robert Bauman, Missouri commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education, heard testimony yesterday during a public hearing at the Show Me Center.

1964

Workers are busy constructing a Federal Aviation Agency control tower at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport in preparation for the national Powder Puff Derby; the women's airplane race will pass through Cape Girardeau in early July.

The city of Cape Girardeau moves its sewer service charge billing and collection base from the county collector's office in the Common Pleas Courthouse and will occupy new quarters at 110 Themis St.; the move evidently settles, at least for now, the question of the disposition of the collector's office, which has embroiled city and county officials in a controversy since April.

1939

Independence Street, seven blocks of which have just been improved by black-topping, will be made a through street the entire distance from Main Street to Highway 61; city officials hope the change will relieve congestion on Broadway.

Dr. and Mrs. L.P. Popp and daughter, Charlotte, have moved from their former residence at 829 Themis St., into their newly built, seven-room, story-and-a-half English-style residence on Cape Rock Drive west of the city; the residence, constructed of Carthage stone, contains 125 tons of the material.

1914

Several members of the Cape Girardeau School Board visited the new school buildings yesterday to see the progress being made; Washington School will soon be under cover,; the addition to Lincoln School is under roof; the foundation for the big central building is finished, and brick-laying there will start Monday.

The steamer Majestic, which was scheduled to run an excursion from this city in the evening, sinks around 1:30 a.m. at the Chain of Rocks, a few miles north of St. Louis.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__