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The management staff of the Show Me Center has been completed with the hiring of Jim Doyle as events coordinator; Doyle, a graduate of the University of South Florida, comes here from the Manatee Civic Center in Palmetto, Fla., where he served as promotions coordinator...
1987
The management staff of the Show Me Center has been completed with the hiring of Jim Doyle as events coordinator; Doyle, a graduate of the University of South Florida, comes here from the Manatee Civic Center in Palmetto, Fla., where he served as promotions coordinator.
Stan Grimm ends his 14 1/2-year career on the circuit court bench in Cape Girardeau and Bollinger counties; he will resign that post Friday, just minutes before he is sworn in as an appeals court judge; Grimm spends his day at the courthouse in Jackson between sessions of court, bidding farewell to county officials and employees.
1962
Cape Girardeau lawyers learn that the government has plans to vacate and abandon the post office building here and with it Federal District Court for this section of Missouri; the General Services Administration has indicated it will vacate the federal building in November, saying the Broadway building is basically sound but in a poor state of repairs.
It's colder in Cape Girardeau in the morning than in Fairbanks, Alaska; the temperature at the municipal airport is 49 degrees, while at Fairbanks the reading is 55.
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1937
Deviating from its time-worn routine of meeting in stuffy banquet halls, the Cape Girardeau Chamber of Commerce is planning to hold its big membership meeting at Dennis Scivally Park on the Outer Drive; this meeting will be the evening of Aug. 5.
The mercury drops to a chilly 54 degrees at Jackson, making it the coolest temperature for this date in five years; at Cape Girardeau, the low is 64 degrees.
1912
John Rouse, who has the contract for paving Independence Street, has the two blocks from Spanish Street west about ready for the concrete; he's waiting until the creosoted planks arrive that will be used in the expansion joints.
Two Cape Girardeau industries -- the Miller ice cream factory and the Wielpuetz bakery -- are doing a good shipping business these days; every train out has a truck load of their products.
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