Out of the past: April 14

1993

U.S. District Judge Stephen N. Limbaugh has sided with the former owners of Kem-Pest Laboratories in a dispute with the Environmental Protection Agency over cleanup of the Kem-Pest Superfund site; Limbaugh issued an order Monday to enforce a consent decree reached in 1991 by the EPA and the family of Charles Knote, who owned Kem-Pest; the family had contended that an amendment to the EPA's cleanup plan for the site violated the consent decree.

One week after voters rejected a proposed $25 million bond issue and a building fund levy hike, Cape Girardeau Board of Education members are considering drawing up a new capital improvements funding plan to submit to voters.

1968

Easter Sunday. The Cape Girardeau Ministerial Alliance's annual Easter sunrise service, scheduled to take place at the Municipal Band Shell in Capaha Park, is moved to Grace Methodist Church because of threatening weather; the Rev. Max R. Jenkins, pastor of First Christian Church, and the Rev. James V. Holm, pastor of the West Side Church of God, present a dialogue sermon entitled "The Faith of Straw Men."

The Rev. J.E. Cook of Duncan, Oklahoma, general moderator of the Bible Missionary Church, is the special speaker for dedication service of the Bible Missionary Church; Cook conducted a revival in a store building on North Main in May 1965; at the close of the revival, he organized the church.

1943

M.E. Leming Jr., coordinator of signals for the civilian defense organization, announces that another "wildcat" whistle will be added to the air raid signals; John Kraft of the Southeast Missouri machine shop is making this whistle patterned after the one so successfully used now by the Missouri Utilities Co.

Sgt. John O. Davis, 27, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Davis of Cape Girardeau, who was reported missing in action in Africa on Feb. 28, is now reported to be a prisoner of the Italians in Italy; this information came to the Rev. H.F. Schuermann, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church, in a letter from the Apostolic Delegate's office in Washington, which had made contact with Catholic officials in Italy.

1918

Lucy May Pearson, daughter of police officer J.W. Pearson, arrived in Cape Girardeau yesterday from Clinton, Kentucky, for a visit with her father and siblings; the little girl has made her home with a relative since the death of her mother when she was but 4 months old, but she visits her father several times each year.

One of the first things done by the Will Hirsch administration was the creation of a special park board of nine members; that commission went out of existence Thursday night, when the board turned over its papers, documents and plans to the new commissioner of public property, Louis Wittmor.

-- Sharon K. Sanders