Out of the past: April 1

1990

The Cape Girardeau County Commission last week finalized the purchase of property adjacent to the county jail and sheriff's office in Jackson, which could be used for future expansion of the jail; the property, located on Business Highway 61, was purchased for $80,000 from Ray Lankford.

BENTON, Mo. -- Plans are on the board and site work is underway for a new stock car racing track and drag strip complex here; the Missouri International Racepark will be about 2 miles east of the Interstate 55-Benton exchange, just off Highway 77.

1965

The State College Board of Regents has authorized Dr. Mark F. Scully, president of the college, to travel to Fort Worth, Texas, this weekend to look into the possibility of a larger loan for the construction of a new dormitory complex; Fort Worth is the home office of the Federal Housing and Home Finance Agency, the government agency that has authorized a $3,080,000 loan for the construction of two 12-story dormitories and a dining center; the loan is about $700,000 short of what is needed.

Jordan D. Needham, principal of the Parma (Missouri) High School for the past four years, has accepted the position of superintendent of schools at Delta for next year.

1940

ADVANCE, Mo. -- Fire of undetermined origin destroys the plant and equipment of the Stoddard County Milling Co. here with a loss estimated at $100,000; it is the third fire here in recent months, including a blaze at the Frisco depot March 24.

All across the United States, enumerators are hitting the streets counting residents in the 16th decennial census; in Cape Girardeau, 17 workers begin the task of counting the city's population.

1915

A dozen men who read in Wednesday's newspaper that Charles Huebel, janitor for 10 years at the Southeast Missouri Trust Co. apartment, had fallen dead, apply for the position this morning; one man is so anxious to get the job, he appears at the bank's door at 6:30 a.m. to stand watch for the first officer arriving to put in his application.

Wade Anderson comes up from Commerce, Missouri, on business; he is recovering nicely from the kick he received from a mule about two weeks ago, the scar on his nose disappearing rapidly.

-- Sharon K. Sanders