Out of the past 8/17/13

1988

Three days of record-breaking heat in Southeast Missouri has resulted in record peak demands for electricity and near record demands for water, according to Union Electric officials.

Southeast Missouri State University physical plant personnel are trying to determine the extend of damage that occurred yesterday to one of the two steam turbine powered electrical generators that provides electricity to the campus; meanwhile, students and staff are literally sweating out the partial power outage that resulted when the generator failed.

1963

The Interstate 55 roadbed from Scott City southward into New Madrid County has taken on its rough form for most of the 24.2-mile section under an excavation and bridge construction project started earlier this year; the southern part of the present work -- from Benton, Mo., to Interstate 57 near Miner, Mo. -- may be completed by winter.

The Cape Girardeau School District would cut into three adjacent school districts, absorbing virtually all of one of them, under the city annexation proposal disclosed yesterday; the districts which would be affected by the annexation, if it is adopted, are Kage, Campster and Nell Holcomb.

1938

A crew of about 15 WPA workers begin to excavate for the new swimming pool just north of the old Sanford mansion on the north part of Jackson; Clarence Crites is the general superintendent of construction, while Ode C. Litzelfelner is in charge of the workers.

Word from Perryville, Mo., is that the Peppers, undaunted by the Capahas' winning record, are doing no "loading up" for Sunday's baseball game here; unofficially, they contend they are strong enough; early reports had been the Peppers were recruiting a southpaw pitcher and some talent from Farmington, Mo.

1913

At the evening worship hour at Centenary Methodist Church, Mrs. Lillian Clarkson West, lecturer for the Anti-White Slave Trade Association, speaks.

Louis Houck, Professor H.L. Roberts and an associate leave for Charleston, Mo.; Roberts will pack up the collection of Indian relics given to the Normal School by the late Col. Thomas Beckwith; Houck is going along to formally introduce Roberts to those in charge of the collection; it will require at least a week to pack and ship the collection, there being hundreds of specimens.

-- Sharon K. Sanders