Out of the past 9/20/13

1988

One of the world's finest privately-owned collections of rare books and manuscripts by author William Faulkner has been donated to Southeast Missouri State University; the multimillion-dollar gift was made by Louis Daniel Brodsky, a St. Louis-area scholar-businessman, and his father, Saul L. Brodsky, also of St. Louis County.

Lt. Col. Robert Gregory.

Marjorie Gregory, widow of Lt. Col. Robert Gregory, accepted the flag which draped her husband's casket from Senior Master Sgt. Richard Hill, a cousin of her husband, at a graveside service held at Memorial Park in 1988.(Missourian archive photo by Fred Lynch)

Family and friends of Lt. Col. Robert R. Gregory fill a section of Memorial Park as the Vietnam veteran's remains are laid to rest with full military honors; Gregory's aircraft was shot down over North Vietnam in December 1966.

1963

CAIRO, Ill. -- Barge operators report they have begun trimming cargo, as channel depths decrease along the rain-starved Ohio and Mississippi rivers; shallow trouble spots have been reported between Cairo and Cape Girardeau.

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Groundbreaking ceremonies are held in the morning for the new Murray Lane Elementary School here; members of the Scott County School Board, the South Grade School Parent-Teachers Unit, the Ministerial Alliance, city officials and the Citizens Advisory Council for schools attend.

1938

BERTRAND, Mo. -- A truck driver is injured when his gasoline-loaded truck is struck by a Missouri Pacific train at a grade crossing on U.S. 60, a mile northeast of here, shortly before noon; the gasoline ignites as the crash occurs, and a baggage coach and passenger coach of the train and the truck are burned.

MARBLE HILL, Mo. -- A plan to secure a state sanitorium for Bollinger County was explained yesterday at a mass meeting held at the Twin City Theater building; such a hospital would expend about $70,000 per year in the county.

1913

"Sky High" Irving furnished extra thrills at the fair yesterday; the parachute jumper who drops from Roy Francis' airplane made his usual jump before a tremendous crowd at the grandstand, but his parachute failed to open; instead of landing in front of the grandstand, he ends up in the fairground lake, where he swims to safety.

While digging around the front steps of the Methodist Church at Jackson in the morning, workers unearth a murderous looking canister shot; the thing is hollow and seems to be loaded with powder and small leaden balls.