Out of the past 7/14/14

1989

Although no significant funding is yet in place, a $250,000 annual budget has been proposed for operation of the Interstate 66 Project Inc., the not-for-profit corporation pushing for development of a new, coast-to-coast interstate highway.

A reorganization of the state public defender system may expand the case load of the Jackson office; in addition to handling cases in Cape Girardeau, Bollinger and Perry counties, the local office also will represent clients in Scott and Mississippi counties.

1964

A consulting engineer on the city's new sewage disposal plant has told the city council chemical wastes and gravel should be prevented from entering the plant when it goes into operation; his position on chemical wastes puts him in conflict with the American White Cross Laboratories here.

The Chaffee (Missouri) City Council last night gave first reading to an ordinance that would require trains operating in Chaffee to carry full crews.

1939

The weatherman is predicting some relief from the extreme heat that is scorching Cape Girardeau and the area; yesterday's high here was 97 degrees, and today's reading promises to match that; at Jackson yesterday, the mercury hit 100 degrees.

Tom K. Smith, president of Boatman's Bank in St. Louis and member of the board of curators for the University of Missouri, and Leslie Cowan of Columbia, Missouri, secretary of the board, were in Cape Girardeau yesterday to inspect Cheney Hall, the new men's dormitory at Teachers College; the university is contemplating construction of a men's dorm.

1914

Mary Irwin McDearmon, a real suffragette "loaded down with bombs and the determination to gain votes for women by throwing them among men who frown on equal suffrage," arrives early in the morning; in McDearmon's case, every smile is a bomb that she casts among those who have the nerve to oppose her; as field secretary of the Equal Suffrage League of St. Louis, she is visiting every county possible and appointing forceful, well-known women to work for the cause.

The hot weather hasn't broken yet; the thermometer at the Normal School shows 98 degrees shortly after noon; yesterday's high was 106.

-- Sharon K. Sanders