Out of the past 6/9/14

1989

Preparations are underway for Riverfest ‘89, a two-day festival in downtown Cape Girardeau that will begin this evening; helping to start things off will be a parachute jump into the Mississippi River by Ian Sutherland, an assistant Cape Girardeau County prosecuting attorney, and Dwight Gates, owner of Dwight's Amoco Station.

Efforts are being made to secure additional funding and manpower for restoration of the historic Old Appleton bridge; as part of that effort, a request is being made for assistance from the Missouri National Guard.

1964

Barry Hazen continued his winning ways in archery, as the Cape Girardeau marksman took the top Men's 400 Class on Sunday in a Jefferson County Bowhunters Match at Festus, Missouri; Hazen shot 970 in the competition of 28 field, 14 hunter and 14 animal targets; Bill Glass of Cape Girardeau took third in the top class with 880.

More than 1,500 undergraduates and graduate students are expected to register Thursday and Friday for the eight-week summer session at State College; the summer session will open Monday and run to Aug. 7.

1939

Heavy rainstorms, accompanied by some wind, late yesterday and early this morning fell generally over Cape Girardeau and adjoining counties, causing some anxiety among wheat farmers getting ready to harvest their fast-ripening crop; the storms leveled the grain in several fields, especially in Perry County.

A lightning bolt, striking the dome of Academic Hall, travels down a wire inside the big structure and ends up in the College Co-op, a student store in the basement, where it disables a motor controlling the electric refrigeration equipment in the store; several students seated about the room are slightly shocked, but none is injured.

1914

Slowly but surely the work on the new Saint Francis Hospital is progressing to the point where the finish is in sight; the exterior of the great building has been completed, and another two months' time will be needed to finish the job.

Eugene Munger of Dexter, Missouri, arrives here following a few months' stay in Little Rock, Arkansas; he'll visit with "Uncle Mun" Shy and other friends before returning home.

-- Sharon K. Sanders