Out of the past 8/3/14

1989

Construction work on Kingshighway improvements is about 20 percent complete and should be finished by October; the project involves construction of dual, left-turn lanes at Kingshighway and Broadway and revision of traffic signals.

J. Michael McGannon, the president of financially troubled First Federal Savings and Loan Association, has resigned; he is returning to Mexico, Missouri, to work with a Japanese company he helped bring to that town several years ago.

1964

Yesterday was the 18th consecutive day for 90-plus-degree weather in Cape Girardeau, but the weatherman is predicting hotter days to come; today's high mark is expected to be over 100 degrees.

Fire breaks out in the afternoon shortly before press time in the pressroom of The Southeast Missourian, but firemen extinguish it before any damage is done; the fire, contained in a pit beneath the press on the first floor, is started by sparks from a cutting torch being used in the mailing room.

1939

Designed to eliminate flood threats in the vicinity of McClure, Illinois, a project to rebuild a stretch of inland dike has been started under the direction of the Corps of Engineers area office here; the Badgett Construction Co. has the contract for the five-mile levee.

For a time in the evening, fire threatens the $40,000 Delta consolidated district high school building; the fire is confined to the laboratory on the second floor of the brick structure; a bucket brigade of about 25 men succeeds in extinguishing the blaze.

1914

A dozen or so shoe factory workers, most of them young men around 18 years of age, go on strike in the afternoon, some difficulty about wages causing them to leave their benches.

Professor P.M. Brandt of Columbia, Missouri, instructor in dairy husbandry at the state university, arrives in Jackson in the morning and immediately goes out in the country with farm advisor C.M. McWilliams to look after the building of silos; it's silo week in the county, and Thursday there will be a public demonstration of silo building on the Clippard farm near Oak Ridge.

-- Sharon K. Sanders