Out of the past 6/26/14

1989

Cape Girardeau Autopark Inc., a 10-acre, new- and used-car sales complex on South Kingshighway, will be under new ownership in early August; Jerry Wieser, president of the operation, is selling the business to Christopher G. Auffenberg of Kirkwood, Missouri.

Delays caused by a two-week strike of Operating Engineers and recent heavy rains have pushed back the completion date of the Highway 61 widening project in Jackson; Pace Construction of Overland, Missouri, anticipates a mid-August completion.

1964

Mayor W.E. Davis, with the full accord of the city council, has appointed a new nine-man Planning and Zoning Commission, replacing the one that resigned April 14; two members of the old commission, Thomas L. Meyer and Wayne Rust, were included on the new panel; the others are John R. Walther, Lon J. Maxey, Michael G. McCrate, D.F. Clay, Jon Roberts, Dr. Dudley G. Ruopp and Richard H. Giles.

The Selective Service Board will begin examination and classification of 18-year-old males in July; the exact date when the new program will be initiated hasn't been set by the board's state headquarters in Jefferson City, Missouri.

1939

The Rev. H.W. Wiesmann, associate pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church here, announced yesterday he is being transferred to a pastorate at Hawk Point, Missouri, a community about 65 miles northwest of St. Louis; his successor hasn't been named.

It is reported that someone in Cape Girardeau County is posing as a state wildlife agent; sportsmen say they have been stopped and question about licenses by this poser, with the intent to "shake down" the sportsmen if found in an embarrassing predicament.

1914

In Common Pleas Court in the morning, Judge R.G. Ranney hands down a decision which sustains a demurrer presented by attorney Giboney Houck in the fairgrounds matter; stockholders and directors of the fair had asked for the dissolution of the fair corporation and an order permitting the sale of the grounds; however, Ranney's ruling stops that plan.

The temperature in Cape Girardeau reaches 103 degrees by 3 p.m. at the Normal School; yesterday's high was 100 just before the rain cooled things off.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__