Out of the past 7/11/14

1989

Ty Thompson has been appointed new director of the Cape Girardeau Regional Commerce and Growth Association; Thompson, who was a city planner in Beaumont, Texas, is a native of Cape Girardeau and a graduate of Southeast Missouri State University.

Reacting to opposition of Lexington Avenue-area property owners, the Cape Girardeau City Council last night agreed to consider scaling down the Lexington arterial project; the $3.4 million project involves construction of a 44-foot-wide street from Kingshighway to Highway 177.

1964

Cape Girardeau has been established as the distribution center for all dresses produced by the Lowenbaum Manufacturing Co., which has a plant here; the move will include the installation of new equipment in the factory here and the prospect of 15 to 20 additional employees.

Gary Rust of Cape Girardeau is a delegate to the National Republican Convention at San Francisco; Arizona Sen. Barry Goldwater's name is expected to be placed in nomination later today.

1939

Preliminary plans have been worked out for a police and peace officers' school to be conducted in Cape Girardeau this summer; the Federal Bureau of Investigation will be largely responsible for the training academy, which will be open to officers of the district.

The Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is interested in securing additional industrial plants for the town, but before it makes any definite contracts to take on any new obligations, an effort will first be made to clean up debts on one still standing; about $4,600 must be collected to pay off the contract it made that brought Superior Electric Corp. to the community.

1914

The prospects for weekly band concerts in courthouse park are slim; Dr. C.E. Schuchert says it's been hard trying to get his men together to play; quite a few of the leading musicians are employed at picture shows, and they can't afford to leave their work to play with the band; playing Sunday concerts won't work either, as many of the band boys are also baseball fans and refuse to miss a game.

Al Brinkopf, Jim Englemann and F.N. Kelert leave in the morning by auto for Indian Creek to spend a few days fishing.

__-- Sharon K. Sanders__