Out of the past 8/14/14

1989

A threatened strike by 41,000 telephone workers in five states was averted by a tentative agreement yesterday on a contract between Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. and its union; union employees are on the job throughout Southwestern Bell's service area.

About 50 marijuana plants growing in a cornfield between Silver Springs Road and Interstate 55 are destroyed by county and city authorities; the plants were just inside the city limits south of Bloomfield Road.

1964

A National Labor Relations Board investigator from St. Louis is here investigating the union picketing that has shut down work at the Jackson Junior High School; in the morning, 50 junior and senior high school pupils arrive at the school site carrying signs and cards urging the union to withdraw its pickets and allow work to resume.

"Vigilantes" are riding again in Scott City; actually, the vigilantes are members of a new auxiliary police unit, which was organized in early June, to attack what had been called a "grave traffic situation in that town of 2,800;" the auxiliary is helping to curb speeding in the town.

1939

The municipal budget for the 1939-1940 fiscal year, which started July 1, is fixed at $107,750 by the city council at a special meeting; last year's budget was $114,000.

The brick and frame building housing the Cape Rock Dairy Co. ice cream manufacturing plant, 425 S. Middle St., is threatened by fire around 11 p.m.; while the cause isn't known, the fire begins at the northwest corner of a supply room, near some empty cartons and some electric wiring.

1914

Edward F. Regenhardt is in St. Louis to formally turn over the office of U.S. Marshal to John Lynch of Moberly, Missouri, who was recently appointed by President Woodrow Wilson; Regenhardt plans to return to Cape Girardeau this evening as a private citizen and will devote his time to the contracting business.

Two former Cape Girardeau boys are putting in the marble adornments for the new Park Theater building; Oscar Ludwig, who was born and reared here, is in charge of the work; he is one of the best marble men in St. Louis; Walter Vogelsang, a son of Charles Vogelsang, who lives on the Jackson Road, is Ludwig's assistant.

-- Sharon K. Sanders