Out of the past 9/21/13

1988

A new contract for Cape Girardeau school superintendent, Dr. Arthur Turner, was approved by the board of education last night; the three-year contract includes a one-year salary increase to $72,470, and then a two-year salary freeze.

Plans for development of a skateboard facility in Capaha Park have skidded to a halt amid concern over the city's liability exposure; the city's insurance carrier is recommending that the city not establish a skateboard park.

1963

The Cape Girardeau County Court has asked the State Highway Department to consider the development of roadside parks along Interstate 55, using land of the county farm; the construction of I-55 passed through the county farm, separating 20 to 30 acres on the west from the remainder of the farm near the Highway 61 interchange; the County Court suggested to the state that the county deed the isolated section to the state for a roadside park or a rest area.

Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gomes of University City, Mo., and their daughter, Cheri, have moved to Cape Girardeau, and the couple will serve as managers of the Sands Motel; they succeed John Holdner, who is to teach in University City; the Sands is owned by Louis Bahn.

1938

This scene shows the site, south of and facing Academic Hall at Teachers College, where work preliminary to actual construction on the new $200,000 library and museum building was being done in 1938. Left to right were L.A. Day, construction superintendent for the contractor, McCarthy Construction Co.; V.A. Chapman, superintendent of buildings and grounds at the college; Dr. W.W. Parker, president of the college, and Fred A. Groves, president of the Board of Regents. (Missourian archive photo by G.D. Fronabarger)

Preliminary work for the library and museum building at the Teacher College begins by McCarthy Construction Co.; relocation of the structure, a change from a site previously tentatively agree upon, is found necessary in order to give it a better perspective in comparison to Academic Hall, which it will face; the building will be erected on the site of the tennis courts and football training field between Leming and Albert halls, and will be set back from the steps leading to the courts a distance of about 65 feet.

Agriculture experts are hoping for a heavy frost and cold weather to kill off disease-transmitting flies; three more horses have died as the result of a sleeping sickness spread by flies; three others in the county died a week ago.

1913

The Rev. Ivan Lee Holt, pastor of Centenary Methodist Church, will be the center of interest at the annual conference of the Southern Methodist Church of the St. Louis district this week at Jackson; Holt was sent here two years ago by Bishop Denny, against the protest of the most influential Methodist laymen in St. Louis; the flock of his previous pastorate, University City, near St. Louis, is petitioning the bishop to send him back there at once.

The Rev. W.W. Russell, formerly of this city and who lives in Topeka, Kansas, is here spending a few days with friends; his is pastor of the Third Baptist Church in Topeka.

-- Sharon K. Sanders