Out of the past 7/15/13

1988

The Cape Girardeau County Health Department is expected to take over sanitarian duties in the city Sept. 1; under the agreement, the health department will enforce city health codes, with the city paying $21,150 a year for the service.

Dr. Arthur Turner, superintendent of Cape Girardeau Public Schools, has been named an Outstanding Educator in Missouri; the distinction is presented by the Missouri Association of School Administrators.

1963

Don Bukstein, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bukstein of Chaffee, Mo., was confirmed into adult religious responsibilities in the Jewish faith in the traditional bar mitzvah ceremony Saturday at B'nai Israel Synagogue here.

Two juveniles do extensive damage to the parsonage of the Church of God, 100 Bend Road; the house is ransacked, with papers, school records, clothes and equipment scattered over the floor; several valuable items, including a wedding dress, are missing; Mrs. Wesley Farrow of near Cape Girardeau, sees the youths leaving the house as she drives up.

1938

Drilling operations for the deepest test wells, which will reach a depth of about 5,000 feet, in the Illinois oil fields, will begin within three weeks about 25 miles due east of Cape Girardeau, or a mile east of Villa Ridge, Ill.; G.R. McClung has the contract to dig the wells.

A proposal has been made by the Jaycees that Cape Girardeau have a peace officers' meeting or school of instruction, and offers to sponsor such a session or course; Mayor Edward L. Drum says, too, he is making an effort to bring J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to Cape Girardeau for an address.

1913

The American City, a magazine published by an association that encourages the beautification of American towns, has written this newspaper asking for photographs showing the garden plots on vacant lots and other floral embellishments intended to beautify Cape Girardeau.

Beginning Aug. 1, Frank W. White will begin publishing the White Book, a magazine for Southeast Missouri; he will have offices in the Himmelberger-Harrison Building, and the magazine will be edited by Allan Hinchey.

-- Sharon K. Sanders