RecordsJuly 26, 2012
Out of the past 7/26/12
Ken Clement of Johannesburg, South Africa, speaks in the morning at the New Life World Outreach Center; Clement has ministered in New Zealand, Australia and many countries in Europe, as well as in South Africa. A 25-barge tow of grain and coal headed for New Orleans breaks up in a heavy, early morning fog after hitting a submerged sandbar in the Mississippi River near Cape Rock; at least two of the barges hit the traffic bridge here but do no apparent damage...
1987
Ken Clement of Johannesburg, South Africa, speaks in the morning at the New Life World Outreach Center; Clement has ministered in New Zealand, Australia and many countries in Europe, as well as in South Africa.
A 25-barge tow of grain and coal headed for New Orleans breaks up in a heavy, early morning fog after hitting a submerged sandbar in the Mississippi River near Cape Rock; at least two of the barges hit the traffic bridge here but do no apparent damage.
1962
Stone riprapping along the outer bank of Capaha Park lagoon is expected to resume in a few days; once the renovation work is completed, the lagoon's plug will be put in and fall rains will fill it; the State Conservation Commission will restock the lake with fish; it will have to be restocked with new ducks as well; most have been killed off this summer, either stoned by children or attacked by dogs.
The R.B. Potashnick Co. of Cape Girardeau is part of an association of construction firms that submitted the low bid for dam construction near Oroville, Calif., on the Feather River, 600 miles south of San Diego; the dam will be the highest in the United States.
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1937
A crowding, pushing, sweating but joyful throng jams the offices and corridors on the second floor of the old Sturdivant Bank building to claim their share of $250,000, representing the first distribution of funds by the defunct bank; in the stifling heat they stand, each depositor waiting to receive his 25 percent payment on the money he had in the bank when it closed its doors five years ago.
Walter Blake and Howard Sechrest, traveling by plane from Jackson, Miss., to Madison, Wis., make a forced landing in a field two miles south of Jackson on Highway 25 in the evening; from a height of 1,500 feet, they succeed in volplaning safely to the ground.
1912
J.F. Anderson, president of the Southeast Undertaking Co., fell from a log wagon yesterday afternoon in the north part of the city, while riding with Charles Grimes; one of the wheels of the wagon passed over his left leg just above the knee, bruising him severely.
Nora Naeter will leave next week for a year's rest in Berlin, Germany; Flora Drusch, who will accompany her, will enter one of the advanced classes at the Klindworth, Scharwenka Conservatory.
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