Out of the past: April 13

1991

After a decade of home-rule city government, a group that spearheaded the campaign to draft the city charter in 1980 has suggested the document be amended; the most notable of the three amendments proposed by the Cape Girardeau County League of Women Voters is the city's mayor be elected by the city council, rather than by the public at large.

Tony Stephens has been named manager at West Park Mall; Stephens, 41, has been retail coordinator for the mall since last October.

1966

John C. Crites, Cape Girardeau County sheriff, has been recommended to be appointed postmaster in Jackson by the Jackson area Democratic committee; the recommendation will be forwarded to Rep. Paul C. Jones, who in turn will take it to Congress.

Low bids of $2,659,079 for the major enlargement of Kent Library are opened by the State College Board of Regents; the apparent low bidder for the general work is the McCarthy Brothers Construction Co., with a base price of $1,898,400; that St. Louis company is building the two high-rise dormitories on the State College campus.

1941

Easter Sunday. Trumpeters Robert Spencer, Herbert Karr and A.J. Alcorn play "Holy, Holy, Holy" to welcome worshipers at 5:30 a.m. to the Easter sunrise service at Cape Rock Park; delivering the sermon is the Rev. William H. Wolfe, pastor of Grace Methodist Church.

The congregation of the Assembly of God dedicates its new building at South Sprigg and Hickory streets; here for the afternoon dedication service is the district superintendent, the Rev. Ralph M. Riggs of Springfield, Missouri.

1916

Recently, when a railroad car load of chickens consigned to the Goodwin & Jean poultry plant at Delta was opened, it was found the entire cargo of poultry, about 600 chickens, was dead; the loss was estimated at $300 or $350; the birds had smothered to death.

Mrs. John Kochtitzky returns home from Benton and other Southeast Missouri towns, where she has been the past few days; Kochtitzky and Mrs. Mark Salisbury, regent of the Daughters of the American Revolution, made the trip together and attended the dedication services of the boulders that mark the King's Highway in Benton, Sikeston, New Madrid and Caruthersville.

-- Sharon K. Sanders