Out of the past: April 12

1993

Strawberry growers in the Cape Girardeau area say cloudy, cool and wet weather conditions this month are delaying development of strawberry plants and may push back the first picking of berries until mid-to-late-May; meanwhile, area orchardists say the cool, wet weather has also delayed development of blooms on what promises to be an excellent crop of peaches and apples later this year.

Judy Schott of Cape Girardeau has been named development director of the Notre Dame Education Fund Foundation; she replaces Felicia Blanton, who resigned to become the public relations director for the Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri.

1968

The city of Cape Girardeau offers pay raises to all municipal employees -- $75 per month for policemen and firemen and $25 monthly for others -- and proposes to finance the higher salaries with a 3-cents-per-pack city cigarette tax; at the same time, the city accepts the resignations of 31 police officers who had asked for an increase of $150 per month by next Monday.

Cape Girardeau contractor Steinhoff & Kirkwood is awarded more than $600,000 in district highway work, including the major overhaul of the Highway 61-Cape Rock Drive intersection here.

1943

The congregation of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson has called W.T. Palisch, head of the Zion parochial school at Pocahontas, to be principal of the St. Paul School; as such, he will teach the upper grades; August Schwark, who has had charge of the lower grades for two years, will continue in that capacity.

The traffic light at the Good Hope-Sprigg Street intersection is out of commission and may be for some time; it will be necessary to send it to a factory in Connecticut to have repairs made.

1918

To the already efficient Home Guard Company of Cape Girardeau another is to be added, made up of employees of the International Shoe Co.; the men have been secured and have been drilling for several nights; these two companies of Cape Girardeau and one from Jackson will form a nucleus of a regiment for this part of Southeast Missouri.

The Cape County Milling Co. in Jackson has received a letter from the U.S. Food Administration, in which all millers and grain dealers are asked to cooperate with the administration in getting the farmers to market their wheat before May 1; there is a probability that some farmers are holding their wheat for an advance in price, and the government wants the names of those who are hoarding wheat.

-- Sharon K. Sanders