Out of the past 8/12/13

1988

The countdown is on for Notre Dame High School's new principal; with less than two weeks before the start of classes, Sister Mary Ann Fischer, S.S.N.D., is looking forward to the new challenge.

The Southeast Missouri State University Foundation, the fundraising arm of the university, has recorded a record $5.7 million in gifts during the 1988 fiscal year ending June 30; included in the figure is a gift of the Bootheel Education Center, formerly a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant at Malden, Mo., by Harry L. Crisp II of Marion, Ill.

1963

Allan Baker of Cape Girardeau was chosen Key Man of the Quarter at the Missouri Jaycees Summer Board meeting over the weekend at Kirksville, Mo.; Baker was honored for his chairmanship of the 1963 Missouri Jaycee State Convention in Cape Girardeau in May.

A storm front, crackling with electricity and carrying damaging winds and sheets of rain, races through Southeast Missouri in the evening, leaving behind dangling wires, darkened homes and flattened crops.

1938

After the filing of petitions yesterday asking for the city to retain the civil service ordinance, Mayor Edward L. Drum instructs the city clerk to check the 1,641 signatures, name by name, comparing them with the city voter registration books; if there are 1,447 names of qualified voters on the petitions, the council will be required to either retain the merit measure or call an election on the matter.

Although there is no official notice, an Associated Press dispatch from Washington says Charles H. Barnes of Logansport, Ind., submitted a low bid of $42,855 for construction of a new Jackson post office.

1913

Dr. D. Howard Hope of Cape Girardeau, whose automobile recently disappeared while he was working in St. Louis, has been notified by police that it has been located; the three men who stole the car sold it to a dentist at Festus, Mo..

The Chautauqua gives a large crowd a double entertainment in the evening; while the visiting troupe presents its regular entertainment, Dr. C.E. Schuchert's new brass band practices only a block away, interfering with the Chautauqua program.

-- Sharon K. Sanders