Out of the past: April 10

1991

Saint Francis Medical Center staff performs the hospital's first open-heart surgery, and the patient -- identified only as a male -- is doing well; a second procedure is scheduled for tomorrow.

The Cape Girardeau Recycling Center will move to larger quarters by the end of the month as part of an expansion of public works facilities; the city in February approved purchase of property adjacent to the public works building, 219 N. Kingshighway.

1966

Easter Sunday. Near-perfect spring weather, bright and warm, provides the ideal setting for the annual Easter Parade; Cape Girardeau's churches are filled to capacity as Christians turn out for the faith's greatest day to hear the Easter story related once more.

ALTO PASS, Ill. -- Dr. Albert J. Gurnenz, executive secretary of the Illinois Baptist State Convention and 1965 president of the Illinois Council of Churches in Springfield, Illinois, is guest speaker at the Easter sunrise service atop Bald Knob Mountain near here; a special feature of the service is a 30-member choir from the Piney Woods County Life School of Piney Woods, Illinois.

1941

The federal post office department and the Federal Works Agency in Washington have worked out details of the site trade looking to building the new $430,000 federal building in Courthouse Park, including preparation of deeds on the site and on the old post office building, according to a message to Mayor Hinkle Statler from U.S. Sen. Harry S. Truman; the agreement was merely a formality, the issue having been decided months ago.

Jess Sheppard, 52, of Illmo sustained severe bruises yesterday when he fell off a scaffold at the plant of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co., under construction on West Broadway; Sheppard, a plasterer, was working on the interior of the building when he fell from the scaffold to the floor, a drop of between 6 and 8 feet.

1916

Thomas J. Juden's nomination for postmaster of Cape Girardeau has been sent to the Senate by President Woodrow Wilson for confirmation; it will doubtless be approved without a question, because it has been known that Sens. William J. Stone and James A. Reed favor Juden for the post.

Constable D.M. Scivally sells at public auction the furniture and all other furnishings of the Prescott Hotel to satisfy debts against the place; the hotel had recently been closed by a man named Mitchell, who took it over from A.S. Ritchey, formerly of Chaffee, Missouri; Rudy Huhn had a claim of $130 against the hotel for rent.

-- Sharon K. Sanders