Out of the past 8/15/14

1989

The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board is going to bat for development of a softball complex at Shawnee Park; the board is establishing a citizens committee to explore the feasibility of developing the complex, which could have up to eight fields.

Since its initial meeting April 13, the I-66 Project Inc. has raised $12,173.83 and received another $24,958.55 in firm pledges toward a first-year budget of $250,000; the contributions received are from five cities along the proposed route.

1964

Union picketing at the Jackson School District's new junior high school has been called off, and work is scheduled to resume there Monday; the Southeast Missouri Construction and Building Trades Council, which was picketing the Jackson Excavation Co., reached an agreement Friday with the National Labor Relations Board, ending the picketing.

Cape Girardeau's Babe Ruth League team is in the driver's seat of the Regional Babe Ruth Tournament at Boonville, Missouri; managed by Roger and Jerry Suedekum, the team is in the finals after beating Mulvane, Kansas, 9-2, and Boonville, 3-1, yesterday.

1939

An application to build a 6,900-volt electric transmission line from Cape Girardeau into the rural territory northwest of town to serve farm customers has been filed by the Missouri Utilities Co. with the Public Service Commission.

Dr. S.D. Aubuchon, pastor of Wetzel Memorial Baptist Church at Kirkwood, Missouri, has been elected dean of the Southeast Missouri Baptist Foundation, which is being established as a religious chair of instruction in affiliation with the Teachers College here.

1914

Lucile Douglass of West Liberty, Iowa, will be the next supervisor of music and art in the Cape Girardeau School District; the position pays $75 a month; she is 21 years old.

The price of sugar has nearly doubled since the start of the European war, leaving merchants and consumers alike puzzled by the increase; however, it is explained that Germany, Austria, Russia and France, the nations actively engaged in conflict, are the chief source of Europe's sugar supply, producing 7.5 million tons of beet sugar, more than one-third of the total sugar crop in the world.

-- Sharon K. Sanders