Out of the past 7/13/13

1988

The city's park board is recommending turning the tennis courts in Capaha Park into a skateboard facility; on another matter, the board has recommended that the City Council raise cemetery fees in an effort to better cover costs.

Word is received that the low water of the Mississippi River will force the cancellation of a scheduled stop here by the Soviet Peace Cruise.

1963

An expansion program which will more than double newsroom and composing room floor space has been placed underway on the second floor of The Missourian Building; construction was started this week on an addition over the one-story ground floor area occupied by The Missourian Litho and Printing Co. composing room.

Parking meter receipts in Jackson are up in the fiscal year that ended June 30, but tickets and fines are way down; income for 1962-63 was $10,920.35 compared to $9,972.30 collected in 1961-62.

1938

The Ward 6 voting precinct is changed by the City Council during a special meeting from the Coca Cola bottling plant to the Salvation Army hall, 120 S. Spanish St.; the bottling company asked that the polls be changed, since the plant will be particularly busy in August, when the primary election takes place.

There are 100 persons now on the payroll at the Superior Electric Products Corp. plant here, and there will be jobs for 25 more women there the first of next week.

1913

Dr. J. Paul Goode of the University of Chicago arrives in Cape Girardeau to give a course of lectures at the Normal School this week; among other topics, he will speak on his travels through China and Japan.

Dr. D.H. Hope, who has been spending a month in St. Louis amusing himself by operating several times a day on unfortunate people, returns with a tale of woe; while at the medical office last week, his automobile was stolen or borrowed by someone who forgot to bring it back.

-- Sharon K. Sanders