Out of the past 7/7/14

1989

Large dirt-moving equipment is being used to grade the 25-acre plot purchased by the Jackson School District for construction of $5 million worth of new facilities on Orchard Drive; after Potashnick Construction Co. completes dirt work at the site in about 20 days, construction of a new elementary school and gymnasium will begin.

Cape Girardeau city administrative personnel have received pay raises ranging from $1,200 to $2,756 for the just-started 1990 fiscal year; the city council last month approved an overall 6 percent pay increase for city employees, but the department head salaries were only finalized this week.

1964

Most of the lady pilots who stopped at Cape Girardeau's municipal airport overnight leave in the morning on their way toward Atlantic City, New Jersey, in the Powder Puff Derby; one, however, is delayed several hours for a mechanical failure.

A five-part civil defense proposal involving capital improvements, personnel and salaries was submitted to the city council yesterday by Mrs. H.K. Carter, city civil defense director; the council agreed to implement one request and to consider the others; the item approved was for the appointment of the city building inspector and fire inspector to assist Carter in a survey of potential additional public fallout shelters.

1939

A straw poll being taken by The Southeast Missourian shows widespread support for the proposal to prohibit the sale and use of fireworks in Cape Girardeau through adoption of an ordinance by the city council.

In an effort to keep cool during the current heat wave, Girardeans have increased their average daily water consumption by 100,000 gallons, are using 50 percent more ice than normal, and have put into use scores more electric fans; the mercury reaches 94 degrees at 2 p.m., equaling yesterday's high reading.

1914

The committee that was appointed by the Cape Girardeau Commercial Club to solicit the purchase of the $2,000 worth of stock in the Director Development Co. met with considerable good luck in its rounds, there being sufficient stock taken to assure the coming of the big iron pipe plant here.

The thermometer at the Normal School shows 100 degrees by 2 p.m., just a little more than it showed at the same time yesterday.

-- Sharon K. Sanders