Out of the past 6/28/13

1988

When Air Evac Flight Nurse Kevin Kearnes and his crew members aboard the Air Evac helicopter left Saint Francis Medical Center in the morning, they expected to pick up an ill deckhand from an Ohio River towboat; instead, the crew found itself threatened by a knife-wielding patient while en route back to Cape Girardeau, forcing the pilot to make an unscheduled, emergency landing near McClure, Ill.

Melvin H. Lichtennegger has been given the R.A. Fulenwider Meritorious Community Service Award by the Jackson Chamber of Commerce.

1963

The General Services Administration has completed a survey of federal office needs in Cape Girardeau and has submitted to the Senate Public Works Committee two alternate proposals: Remodeling of the present post office and Federal Building at an estimated cost of $256,000, or construction of a Federal Building with a site to be acquired at an estimated cost of $1,702,000.

Plans are being made to remove the unidentified green plant matter that is growing in the Capaha Park lagoon; the problem has been turned over to a commercial firm.

1938

Construction begins on a one-story brick store building for Joe L. Moseley at the southeast corner of Broadway and Ellis Street, the site of the former Bartels Mercantile Co. building that burned Feb. 4, 1937.

Thanks to the ice men, the threatened shortage of sales tax mills has been averted; ice men delivering their product daily about the city had accumulated an almost unaccountable sum of the metal tokens, principally the one-mill pieces, and so a considerable supply of them had been garnered at the Pure Ice Co. and Riverside Ice & Fuel Co. offices.

1913

S.A. Ruch recently bought out the Disher interest in the hoop mill at Sikeston, Mo., and has made great improvements at the plant.

Two old soldiers who were on their way to Gettysburg to attend the annual reunion of soldiers were in Cape Girardeau on Friday; M.C. Benton, the elder of the two, lives in Brownwood, Mo., and was a Union soldier during the war; the other man, J. Siler, lives at Puxico, Mo., and wore the gray in the great battle; both were wounded at Gettysburg.

-- Sharon K. Sanders