Out of the past 9/8/14

1989

Gov. John Ashcroft is in Jackson for the dedication and ribbon-cutting ceremonies that open U.S. 61 improvements; a groundbreaking ceremony also initiates construction on the remaining stretch of highway extending to Interstate 55.

With planning for Southeast Missouri State University's fiscal 1991 budget underway, some faculty members are sporting buttons as a reminder that pay increases are to be a priority next year; about 300 buttons saying "Salaries First" were distributed during the second week of classes to faculty members and other university employees who requested them.

1964

Cape Girardeau School District doors swing open in the morning, and 4,823 pupils from kindergarten through the 12th grade rush in to begin the new year.

Vandals on Sunday entered the old junior high school building at 101 S. Pacific St. and broke out about 24 windows in inside doors as well as some overhead lights; police were called to the school by neighbors who saw the front door standing open and could hear breaking glass all the way across the street; the school was empty when police arrived, but two youths were later apprehended.

1939

With the thermometer hovering around the 97-degree mark yesterday afternoon, coach Abe Stuber substituted the regular afternoon football practice of his Teachers College Indians with a session that night under the floodlights; the same schedule will be followed as long as the hot weather continues.

The two-story, seven-room stone residence at 829 Themis St., owned by Dr. and Mrs. L.H. Popp, has been sold to Mr. and Mrs. John Upchurch, 151 S. Spanish St., who will occupy it within a short time; the Popps recently built a home west of the city.

1914

During the electrical storm between 6 and 6:30 this morning, lighting strikes the barn of Al Graves on South Henderson Avenue, and the resulted fire burns it to the ground; Graves had recently bought a little over two tons of alfalfa hay, which he had stored in the barn loft.

Classes begin in the Cape Girardeau School District, including the new Washington School and the expanded Lincoln School; first-day attendance is 1,367.

-- Sharon K. Sanders