Out of the past 6/3/13

1988

Fishermen will return to the South Lake in Cape County Park on Saturday, after about a two-year absence due to a large fish kill; oxygen depletion at the lake killed an estimated 1,000 fish in August 1986.

State Rep. Mary C. Kasten, speaking to Cape Girardeau Central High School graduates during commencement exercises at Houck Stadium, urges them to list the priorities in their lives, and to keep the list before them as a means of checking their directions.

1963

Union plumbers of Cape Girardeau and other district communities are on strike after the efforts of the union and plumbing contractors to negotiate a new contract failed last week; the strike affects eight union shops and about 28 regular shop plumbers in Cape Girardeau, Jackson, Sikeston, Mo., and the Lead Belt.

Jim Jones of Jackson took first place in the senior division of the Southeast Missouri Teen-Age Tennis Tournament held Saturday in Cape Girardeau; Richard Brooks of Poplar Bluff, Mo., took first in the junior division.

1938

The record enrollment at the summer term of the Teachers College, which has reached 1,210 students, has forced the establishment of library facilities out of doors; there is such a lack of room in the big library reading room, college officials have established a reading room under the trees just north of Academic Hall.

Belated candidates, appearing at the county clerk's office in Jackson shortly before filing time ends, present their names to nearly fill out the Democratic and Republican tickets for the Aug. 2 primary; filing at the "eleventh hour" are Harry Poe, Democrat for circuit clerk; Henry Haman Jr., Republican for Common Pleas Court clerk; Philip H. Steck, Republican for county clerk and J.K. Wells, Republican for county treasurer.

1913

The Cape Girardeau City Council instructed its building committee to have plans made and bids received for the construction of a concrete band stand for Common Pleas Courthouse Park.

Col. Thomas Beckwith of Charleston, Mo., has given to the state Normal School his great collection of Mound Builder relics; Beckwith devoted more than 40 years of his leisure to gathering the Indian artifacts.

-- Sharon K. Sanders