Out of the past 9/28/14

1989

Using chain saws and bulldozers, workers yesterday began felling trees for the final stage of the U.S. 61 improvement project at Jackson.

Southeast Missouri Hospital and Saint Francis Medical Center have filed letters of intent with the Missouri Certificate of Need Program to obtain full-time, permanent magnetic resonance imaging units; the two institutions now share the use of a mobile MRI unit.

1964

Cape State College has been fully accredited by a national organization concerned with teacher education; the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education had sent an eight-member inspection team to the campus in February to study the program, interview students and staff members, and gather general data.

Cape Girardeau voters will decided tomorrow whether to authorize the issuance of $795,000 in bonds for the construction of a grade school on Hopper Road and the remodeling of the old Junior High School.

1939

National Guard officers are advised to increase the personnel of their units in Southeast Missouri to full peacetime strength in keeping with a recent presidential order; the Southeast Missouri regiment will be increased by 210 men, from 1,080 to 1,290.

The Navy has announced a field open to college graduates between the ages of 20 and 28 years old, or those who have attained at least half the credits required to graduate and have completed courses in college algebra, trigonometry and physics; these men will be given training in the aviation branch of the Navy and taught to solo an airplane.

1914

Dr. Ivan Lee Holt is returned to Centenary Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau for a fourth year as pastor; the assignment is made officially by Bishop Hendrix at Caruthersville, Missouri.

A visit to the fairgrounds discovers J.T. Nunn, the superintendent, busy with dozens of concessionaires trying to wheedle good locations from him; the superintendent is trying to figure out where to put some 50 booths; among the new attractions at this year's fair will be a "battleship" built in the center of the track for Roy Francis; Francis will drop "bombs" on the ship as he flies over the fairgrounds.

-- Sharon K. Sanders