Out of the past 6/23/14

1989

After accepting the resignation of Dr. Bill W. Stacy as president of Southeast Missouri State University, the board of regents selects Dr. Robert W. Foster, university executive vice president, to serve as interim president.

Because of the uncertainty of state funding, the Southeast Missouri State University Board of Regents defers until next month action on a 1990 fiscal budget; the board hopes the state's financial picture will be clearer when it meets again in mid-July.

1964

The proposed $1,702,000 federal building for Cape Girardeau clears a major hurdle in the morning, when the House Public Works Committee approves a resolution authorizing it to be included in General Services Administration appropriations, probably in August or September.

Mrs. H.K. Carter, civil defense director for Cape Girardeau, has been selected to serve on the executive committee of the U.S. Civil Defense Council.

1939

A dozen business and professional men are called into conference by an unnamed downtown businessman to consider the advisability of organizing a Cape Girardeau Free Bridge Organization; it is suggested that the high tolls being charged by the Ozarks Bridge Co., owner of the Cape Girardeau traffic bridge, are being blamed on the town, rather than the company.

Gus Margraf, Cape Girardeau boy who graduated from the law school of Duke University with high honors in the spring, is staying around to take the Missouri Bar examinations before going to New York City to take his place with a big law firm; his college associate, Benson Tomlinson of Fornfelt is staying at Duke also preparing for the Missouri law exams.

1914

The 23,000 signatures necessary to the woman suffrage initiative petitions, outside of St. Louis, have been obtained by the Equal Suffrage League; the petitions will be filed with the secretary of state, and hopefully the question will appear on the November ballot.

Edward F. Regenhardt's term as U.S. marshal for the eastern district of Missouri expired yesterday; his successor hasn't been named, and there is no telling when the appointment will be made; Regenhardt is back in Cape Girardeau superintending construction of the theater building just east of The Republican office.

-- Sharon K. Sanders