RecordsSeptember 8, 2013
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A memorial plaque has been installed at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport honoring Dr. John T. Crowe; the plaque, with a likeness of Crowe etched in bronze, reads: "Dr. John T. Crowe, M.D., Pilot and Friend of Aviation 3-26-18 to 2-25-88." Petitions urging that lighting be installed along Route K are being circulated at West Park Mall businesses, Saint Francis Medical Center, Doctors' Park and Wal-Mart; the petitions request adequate lighting from Kingshighway to Interstate 55...
1988
A memorial plaque has been installed at the Cape Girardeau Municipal Airport honoring Dr. John T. Crowe; the plaque, with a likeness of Crowe etched in bronze, reads: "Dr. John T. Crowe, M.D., Pilot and Friend of Aviation 3-26-18 to 2-25-88."
Petitions urging that lighting be installed along Route K are being circulated at West Park Mall businesses, Saint Francis Medical Center, Doctors' Park and Wal-Mart; the petitions request adequate lighting from Kingshighway to Interstate 55.
1963
The first 15 1/2 miles of Interstate 55 are dedicated and formally opened by Gov. John M. Dalton; the ceremony takes place from a platform erected across the north passage at the Wedekind Park interchange.
Traffic on Broadway and tributary streets are snarled on numerous occasions for varying periods, while automatic traffic signals stay on flashing amber for Broadway traffic and red for cross traffic; further complicating the normal Sunday traffic is the influx of State College students arriving for a new term of school.
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1938
Although concessions, rides and a variety of free acts were in operation yesterday afternoon, the official start of the 19th annual Jackson Homecomers celebration didn't take place until the evening, when bandmaster A.W. Roloff raised his baton for the opening number of a half-hour concert; within an hour, all available space within a block in three directions from the courthouse, and the spacious lawn itself, were filled with a throng estimated from 15,000 to 18,000.
Plans for a race up the Mississippi River between the West Coast's Delta Queen and the City of St. Louis fizzle, when owners of the Queen announce at San Francisco that the craft can't be spared for the event.
1913
Superintendent J.N. Crocker reports that 65 more pupils showed up at the various Cape Girardeau public schools today for instructions; the unusual increase in the number of pupils may reflect the substantial grow the city enjoyed over the summer.
W.E. Parlow, an architect who has been working in Memphis for a number of years, has moved to Cape Girardeau and opened offices in the First National Bank building.
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