Out of the past: April 13

1990

John Cozad, the chairman of the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission, is proposing a 1-cent sales tax to fund the state's highway and bridge needs over the next 12 years.

Walt Wildman, the director of the Regional Commerce and Growth Association here, says a lack of funds is threatening the future of the I-66 Project Inc.; he reports expenditures for the project the past eight months have far exceeded revenue collected from cities along the proposed coast-to-coast highway's corridor.

1965

Twenty-seven years of service on the Cape Girardeau School Board by Walter H. Oberheide were recognized last night with the presentation of a framed scroll.

Jim Glastetter, former Notre Dame High School star, is leading the State College baseball Indians in hitting after three games with a .571 average on four out of seven; Steve Vaughn of Dexter, Missouri, is second in hitting with .555, and Doug Steimle, a Chaffee, Missouri, product who played last year at Missouri University, is batting an even .500.

1940

If the present term of federal court is a true indication, moon-shining may become a lost art in Southeast Missouri; at this session of court, there were only 14 cases involving the illicit manufacture of liquor, whereas in days past there would have been from 75 to 100 cases disposed of at a single term.

One thousand or more pupils are in Cape Girardeau to participate in the annual high-school meet; today's contests, the second day of the meet, feature larger schools competing in singing, individual instrument performances and glee club.

1915

The Water and Light Co. will start work by May 1 on the biggest job of pipe-laying ever known in Cape Girardeau; in accordance with the franchise contract, the company will lay 31,071 feet of water pipe; the new franchise also obligates the water company to build an additional water settling basin.

The local baseball season will start May 2; that was agreed upon yesterday among the representatives of the five teams that make up the Southeast Missouri League: Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Dexter, New Madrid and Caruthersville; for some reason, Chaffee has dropped out of the league, which may open the way for Cairo, Illinois, to join, should the Kitty League fail, as is rumored.

-- Sharon K. Sanders